Re-in­stalled Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Am­cham T&T) pres­i­dent An­na Hen­der­son says white-col­lar crime must be ad­dressed, but sin­gling out one par­tic­u­lar com­mu­ni­ty may not be in the coun­try’s in­ter­est.

West In­di­an Traders Ltd (WIT) has ex­tend­ed its Ini­tial Pub­lic Of­fer­ing (IPO) to June 22, 2026.

Pres­i­dent of the Agri­cul­tur­al So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Daryl Ram­per­sad is warn­ing that if the ease of do­ing busi­ness is not im­proved in T&T, farm­ers across the coun­try will con­tin­ue to face se­ri­ous fi­nan­cial chal­lenges.

For thou­sands of cit­i­zens in T&T, board­ing an un­reg­u­lat­ed PH (pri­vate hire) taxi is a dai­ly, des­per­ate ne­ces­si­ty.

Small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es in T&T are gain­ing a pow­er­ful tool to break in­to for­eign mar­kets as the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) and the Ex­port-Im­port Bank (Ex­im­bank) pre­pare to launch Co­hort 3 of its Ex­port Ac­tion Pro­gramme (EAP).

The Pri­vate Sec­tor Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PSOTT) says the mod­erni­sa­tion mea­sures in­tro­duced in the Fi­nance Bill would be un­der­cut if the ap­provals process con­tin­ues to stall.

Last Thurs­day, in this space un­der the head­line, “Who will ben­e­fit from the Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion projects?” ques­tions were raised about the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion’s use of a se­lec­tive, com­pet­i­tive pro­cure­ment method to choose con­trac­tors for ma­jor hous­ing projects in Trinidad:

In to­day’s fast-paced and ever-evolv­ing busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment, ad­min­is­tra­tive pro­fes­sion­als are no longer con­fined to tra­di­tion­al roles of sched­ul­ing and cor­re­spon­dence. They are strate­gic part­ners, prob­lem-solvers, and of­ten the steady force that keeps or­gan­i­sa­tions func­tion­ing ef­fi­cient­ly. With in­creas­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, tighter dead­lines, and the ex­pec­ta­tion to adapt quick­ly to change, re­silience has be­come an es­sen­tial skill for the mod­ern ad­min­is­tra­tive pro­fes­sion­al.

CIBC Caribbean Bank LTD has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of a new di­rec­tor to its board, as the re­gion­al fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion con­tin­ues ef­forts to strength­en its gov­er­nance and strate­gic lead­er­ship.

An­nie Phillip is a full-time florist by pro­fes­sion, and an on-the-job trainee at Flavours by Di­a­mond’s Cre­ative Hands; her own small busi­ness that pro­duces pep­per sauces and de­hy­drat­ed spices.

Fol­low­ing the mur­der of a young child in Erin, the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in south Trinidad is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to take stronger ac­tion to halt ris­ing crime or else busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty would con­tin­ue to de­te­ri­o­rate.

A del­e­ga­tion from Brazil's Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture vis­it­ed the head­quar­ters of the Caribbean Agri­cul­tur­al Re­search and De­vel­op­ment In­sti­tute (Car­di) in St. Au­gus­tine to dis­cuss strate­gies aimed at deep­en­ing agri­cul­tur­al in­no­va­tion and re­gion­al food se­cu­ri­ty.