Last week, a What­sApp mes­sage was sent to me out­lin­ing that a pay­ment ser­vice provider named Sure­Pay had an­nounced that it was ter­mi­nat­ing its ser­vice in Trinidad and To­ba­go ef­fec­tive March 15, 2025.

The busi­ness of main­tain­ing a steel or­ches­tra whether it be small, medi­um, or large is not an easy task and the over­head ex­pens­es can range from $1 mil­lion to $6 mil­lion a year.

Term Fi­nance, a dig­i­tal lender in the Caribbean, has en­tered in­to a nov­el arrange­ment with Ax­cel Fi­nance, a con­sumer cred­it provider op­er­at­ing in Bar­ba­dos, An­tigua, St. Lu­cia, and Grena­da.  

A $15 mil­lion dol­lar in­vest­ment in its yo­gurt line con­tin­ues to reap healthy re­wards for Cream­ery Nov­el­fties Ltd. So much so, that the com­pa­ny is ol­low­ing sev­er­al lu­cra­tive leads for ex­port.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) yes­ter­day re­port­ed that the rate of in­fla­tion in T&T for Jan­u­ary 2025 was 0.7 per cent.

The work­force in the en­er­gy sec­tor re­mains male dom­i­nat­ed, es­pe­cial­ly in front­line po­si­tions in ac­tiv­i­ties like op­er­a­tions, main­te­nance, drilling and con­struc­tion.

The JMMB Group Lim­it­ed has re­port­ed a net prof­it of J$1.83 bil­lion ($78.5 mil­lion or US$11.5 mil­lion) for the nine-month pe­ri­od end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024.

Bmo­bile has been named Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fastest and best mo­bile net­work by Ook­la® for Q3 and Q4 2024.

Ad­ven­sus, a Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic con­tact cen­tre and busi­ness process out­sourc­ing (BPO) ser­vices com­pa­ny, yes­ter­day an­nounced the launch of its US$6 mil­lion de­liv­ery fa­cil­i­ty in Long­denville, Ch­agua­nas.  

De­spite the chal­lenges that mi­grants are fac­ing in the Unit­ed States, Na­tal­ie Lam­ming, who was born in T&T and owns busi­ness­es in Brook­lyn, New York en­cour­ages T&T na­tion­als at home and those abroad to nev­er give up on their dreams of open­ing a busi­ness.

De­spite three years of de­cline in the lo­cal stock mar­ket, there is sup­port for the state­ment made by CEO of the T&T Stock Ex­change Eva Mitchell that the time to in­vest in the mar­ket is now.

Two lead­ing econ­o­mists agree with the 2024 re­port from the T&T Ex­trac­tive In­dus­tries Trans­paren­cy Ini­tia­tive (TTEITI) that it is time to take a deep look at the Her­itage and Sta­bil­i­sa­tion Fund (HSF) to make it more vi­able.