The Min­istry of Fi­nance and the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit of T&T (FI­UTT) yes­ter­day is­sued an ur­gent pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of a fraud­u­lent iden­ti­fi­ca­tion scheme ac­tive­ly tar­get­ing cit­i­zens and busi­ness­es.

Econ­o­mist Roger Ho­sein is urg­ing cau­tion as Gov­ern­ment moves to ac­cess an es­ti­mat­ed $3 bil­lion in ad­di­tion­al fi­nanc­ing, warn­ing that while the re­quest could sup­port jobs and eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty, its long-term val­ue will de­pend on how ef­fec­tive­ly the funds are used and whether en­er­gy rev­enues ma­te­ri­alise as ex­pect­ed.

The Caribbean’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in Chi­na’s Blue Silk Road ini­tia­tive may be the key to un­lock­ing new as­pects of tourism, trade, and cli­mate-change re­silience.

While T&T’s Gov­ern­ment is con­fi­dent that its role as a non-per­ma­nent mem­ber on the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC) from 2027 to 2028 will have a pos­i­tive eco­nom­ic and de­vel­op­men­tal im­pact on the coun­try, lo­cal econ­o­mists are not sure what the di­rect ben­e­fits will be.

As some­one whose fam­i­ly and busi­ness have been in­vest­ed in To­ba­go for gen­er­a­tions, I have watched with con­cern the grow­ing ten­den­cy to op­pose al­most every sig­nif­i­cant de­vel­op­ment pro­posed for our is­land.

For decades, Ch­aguara­mas has mar­ket­ed it­self as the Caribbean’s pre­mier yacht re­pair and main­te­nance hub. Its skilled crafts­men, ma­rine ser­vice com­pa­nies, and lo­ca­tion out­side the hur­ri­cane belt have long been its sell­ing points. Yet in­dus­try play­ers ar­gue that one ob­sta­cle con­sis­tent­ly un­der­mines those ad­van­tages, an out­dat­ed and cum­ber­some ves­sel clear­ance process.

Rat­tan Boodram has been sep­a­rat­ed from his po­si­tion as vice pres­i­dent of tech­nol­o­gy from TSTT, trig­ger­ing a reshuf­fle at the ex­ec­u­tive lev­el as the state-con­trolled telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider con­tin­ues its trans­for­ma­tion dri­ve.

With the Foot­ball World Cup kick­ing off next week, fever for the world’s most pop­u­lar game is grip­ping T&T and the en­er­gy is spilling far be­yond the field.

Con­ve­nience Pay Tech­nolo­gies has re­ceived pro­vi­sion­al ap­proval from the Cen­tral Bank to is­sue elec­tron­ic mon­ey (e-mon­ey), mark­ing an­oth­er step in the coun­try’s push to­wards dig­i­tal pay­ments and fi­nan­cial tech­nol­o­gy in­no­va­tion.

T&T’s decades-long com­mit­ment to Cari­com as a ve­hi­cle for eco­nom­ic growth is be­ing sharply re­assessed by econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James, who says the coun­try’s in­te­gra­tion strat­e­gy—built on ex­pand­ing re­gion­al mar­kets for man­u­fac­tur­ing—has not de­liv­ered the ex­pect­ed re­sults and now re­quires ur­gent re­think­ing.

T&T’s suc­cess­ful elec­tion to a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil is be­ing hailed as both a diplo­mat­ic break­through and a po­ten­tial eco­nom­ic turn­ing point, with Gov­ern­ment and Am­cham T&T point­ing to new op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­vest­ment, trade and in­ter­na­tion­al in­flu­ence.

The board of Massy Hold­ings Ltd an­nounced yes­ter­day the ap­point­ment of Ja­maican fi­nan­cial ex­ec­u­tive, Patrick Hyl­ton, as chair­man des­ig­nate of the group, ef­fec­tive June 1, 2026.