David Robin­son has re­signed as a di­rec­tor of ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Ltd (NEL).

In the heart of Wright­son Road, the rhyth­mic hum of the Na­tion­al Flour Mills Ltd (NFM) fa­cil­i­ty serves as a con­stant pulse for the na­tion’s food se­cu­ri­ty.

Op­po­si­tion MP and for­mer min­is­ter of en­er­gy, Stu­art Young, has hit back at claims made by Min­is­ter of En­er­gy, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, that the cur­rent im­passe be­tween the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and Cana­di­an com­pa­ny, Nu­trien, was re­lat­ed to de­ci­sions made by the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Just over a week af­ter ac­knowl­edg­ing mil­lions of US dol­lars could be added to the lo­cal econ­o­my through the fast track­ing of ap­provals in the En­er­gy Sec­tor, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has con­firmed Cab­i­net’s de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish an over­sight com­mit­tee called the En­er­gy Ac­cel­er­a­tor Hub.

ANSA McAL yes­ter­day an­nounced the com­ple­tion of the sale of Stan­dard Dis­trib­u­tors and its whol­ly owned sub­sidiary, Stan­dard Dis­tri­b­u­tion and Sales Bar­ba­dos, to Term Fi­nance Hold­ings. The trans­ac­tion for­mal­ly closed on De­cem­ber 31, 2025.

Ho­tel can­cel­la­tions are af­fect­ing To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor as the is­land finds it­self on the front lines of a deep­en­ing re­gion­al cri­sis.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dra­dath Tan­coo, said yes­ter­day the Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing ahead with its plan to re­move tax­es on pri­vate pen­sions as ini­tial­ly promised by the Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar dur­ing the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny has an­nounced the ac­qui­si­tion of Trinidad Re­gion On­shore Com­pres­sor (TROC) from bp Trinidad and To­ba­go (bpTT).

From Sep­tem­ber 2, 2025—which was the day of the first US strike on ves­sels in the South­ern Caribbean that were al­leged to be car­ry­ing il­le­gal drugs and nar­co­traf­fick­ers—T&T Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar em­braced the new Amer­i­can pol­i­cy of deal­ing with mar­itime craft in this re­gion.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s plan to take con­trol of Venezuela’s oil in­dus­try and ask Amer­i­can com­pa­nies to re­vi­tal­ize it af­ter cap­tur­ing Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro in a raid isn’t like­ly to have a sig­nif­i­cant im­me­di­ate im­pact on oil prices.

Sea­son­al sales are not of­ten seen as slow or stag­nant, but the re­cent weeks have seen these words used as the de­scrip­tor across var­i­ous sec­tors in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Guardian Me­dia has con­firmed that the man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC), Jay­selle Mc­Far­lane, has ten­dered her res­ig­na­tion af­ter al­most five years of ser­vice.