The fu­ture of Methanex Corp’s Trinidad op­er­a­tions has gone fur­ther in­to lim­bo af­ter the com­pa­ny re­port­ed load­ing its fi­nal methanol car­go aboard the Lumphi­ni Park ves­sel on Mon­day, Au­gust 17.

The Cen­tral Bank said it has im­ple­ment­ed tar­get­ed ini­tia­tives aimed at im­prov­ing the ef­fi­cien­cy, trans­paren­cy and dis­tri­b­u­tion of for­eign ex­change in the lo­cal mar­ket over the past two months.

For­mer min­is­ter of en­er­gy and en­er­gy in­dus­tries Stu­art Young has de­fend­ed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) man­age­ment of the do­mes­tic en­er­gy sec­tor, as­sert­ing that the cur­rent surge in state rev­enues is the di­rect re­sult of a land­mark re­struc­tur­ing of At­lantic LNG ex­e­cut­ed dur­ing his tenure.

Gov­ern­ment ex­pects an­oth­er dif­fi­cult year ahead as it con­tin­ues to as­sess the full ex­tent of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fi­nan­cial oblig­a­tions while try­ing to cre­ate room for eco­nom­ic re­cov­ery.

Econ­o­mists all agree that the Gov­ern­ment must roll out an ef­fec­tive in­dus­tri­al pol­i­cy if it is to cre­ate sus­tain­able jobs and a grow­ing econ­o­my.

For years Michelle Low Chew Tung has worked with Caribbean MSMEs to help strength­en their com­pet­i­tive­ness and cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties for them to en­ter re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.

We may nev­er have thought about be­com­ing an en­tre­pre­neur. Or you felt that it was for in­cred­i­bly spe­cial peo­ple. They were born that way, you pon­dered. Then one day a spark hap­pened. An op­por­tu­ni­ty came to you, and you thought you could do it. It was a side hus­tle, but you liked not just the few dol­lars, but the thrill of start­ing your own.

The cur­rent sta­tus of the Brechin Cas­tle So­lar Farm project is be­ing used as a cau­tion­ary tale in a re­gion­al re­port that is urg­ing proac­tive pol­i­cy and ac­tion re­gard­ing re­new­able en­er­gy in the Caribbean.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion av­er­aged 2,541 MM­scf/d in 2025, a slight im­prove­ment from 2,539 MM­scf/d in 2024, ac­cord­ing to da­ta com­piled from the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ Con­sol­i­dat­ed Month­ly Bul­letins.

Busi­ness­es in Mar­aval, St James com­plain about dis­pos­able in­come, forex and eco­nom­ic un­cer­tain­ty

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, we all know that ac­cess to for­eign ex­change has be­come in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult. Whether you need for­eign cur­ren­cy for trav­el, ed­u­ca­tion, on­line shop­ping, soft­ware, busi­ness ex­pens­es or life abroad, ac­cess­ing your own mon­ey can feel like an un­nec­es­sary bat­tle.

The World Bank Group has ap­point­ed Juan Car­los Al­varez as the new coun­try man­ag­er for Trinidad and To­ba­go, uni­fy­ing coun­try-lev­el lead­er­ship across the in­sti­tu­tion to en­hance its de­vel­op­ment im­pact in sup­port of job cre­ation and T&T’s pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor pri­or­i­ties.