The Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day in­di­cat­ed that it is seek­ing to bor­row up to US$750 mil­lion ($5.09 bil­lion) on the the in­ter­na­tion­al cap­i­tal mar­ket for "the fi­nanc­ing of gen­er­al de­vel­op­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go or of re­pay­ing bor­row­ings ef­fect­ed for the gen­er­al de­vel­op­ment."

Nestlé has be­gun a strate­gic re­view of its Trinidad and To­ba­go op­er­a­tions as part of a wider glob­al re­struc­tur­ing, with lo­cal em­ploy­ees be­ing told yes­ter­day the com­pa­ny is ex­plor­ing the pos­si­ble sale of its dairy and juices busi­ness .

Lo­cal re­tail chain Presto has reaf­firmed its con­fi­dence in T&T's busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment, as it de­clined to com­ment on the ar­rest of Blue Wa­ters founder Do­minic Hadeed, 52, his wife Genevieve Hadeed, 42, and her aunt Star Sab­ga, 69.

Courts Op­ti­cal has en­tered in­to a char­i­ta­ble col­lab­o­ra­tion with Unit­ed Way Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd (TCL) has en­tered in­to a $100m re­volv­ing loan agree­ment with Sco­tia­bank T&T.

There is a myth in en­tre­pre­neur­ship, sup­port­ed by sto­ries about how younger peo­ple start ven­tures. Mark Zucker­berg was 19 when he start­ed Face­book. Bill Gates was 21 when he start­ed Mi­crosoft; co-founder Paul Allen was 23. Steve Jobs was 21 when he co-found­ed Ap­ple. Yet they’re ex­cep­tions, not the rule.

Glob­al off­shore drilling ac­tiv­i­ty eased in 2025 and re­mained broad­ly sta­ble dur­ing the first five months of 2026, fol­low­ing a strong in­crease in 2024.

There are num­bers that look small and be­have large. If you want to be good with mon­ey and to be on top of your per­son­al fi­nances you should take the time to un­der­stand this re­al­i­ty.

Com­mer­cial re­al es­tate com­pa­ny, En­deav­our Hold­ings Ltd (EHL), yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $22.93 mil­lion for its fi­nan­cial year end­ed April 30.

Why have ma­jor com­pa­nies such as Carib Brew­ery, Agos­ti­ni Lim­it­ed and Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors re­cent­ly es­tab­lished in­no­va­tion de­part­ments?

CEO of the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce Dr Vashti Guyadeen is warn­ing di­rec­tors of boards that they must pre­pare their busi­ness­es and or­gan­i­sa­tions for the un­cer­tain­ties of a “volatile” world.

For gen­er­a­tions, young peo­ple have been giv­en the same ca­reer ad­vice—“Study hard. Get a de­gree. Find a good job”. A dis­cus­sion among our mem­bers has point­ed to what some say: For many of our par­ents, that ad­vice worked. A uni­ver­si­ty qual­i­fi­ca­tion of­ten led di­rect­ly to sta­ble em­ploy­ment, long-term ca­reer pro­gres­sion and fi­nan­cial se­cu­ri­ty, but the econ­o­my has changed.