Rais­ing food pro­duc­tion and low­er­ing the food im­port bill must be one of the main goals of the next gov­ern­ment, ad­vis­es agribusi­ness con­sul­tant Riyadh Mo­hammed.

With trade be­ing at the fore­front of T&T’s di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion agen­da, the gov­ern­ment has launched Glob­al T&T to fo­cus on op­ti­mis­ing the coun­try’s re­sources and align­ing ex­per­tise and ef­forts un­der a sin­gle, fo­cused agency, to de­liv­er more im­pact­ful re­sults for the coun­try.

As the gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign reach­es its cli­max, and as po­lit­i­cal par­ties dish out promis­es, the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty of T&T is con­cerned they are not hear­ing enough about par­ties’ plans for the econ­o­my.

This did not make her im­mune from the fi­nan­cial land­mines many en­counter and hav­ing been vic­tim to such, she is hop­ing to help oth­ers avoid such mis­takes as the Founder and CEO of The Ac­count­abil­i­ty Play­book, a fi­nan­cial coach­ing and ed­u­ca­tion com­pa­ny.

T&T and Nige­ria are now di­rect­ly con­nect­ed by air, at least on pa­per, af­ter the Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day signed a Bi­lat­er­al Air Ser­vices Agree­ment (BASA) with Nige­ria at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Ltd (Cari­cris) has reaf­firmed ‘high cred­it­wor­thi­ness’ rat­ings for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC).

He was con­sid­ered by many of his peers as larg­er than life and a gi­ant among men, and one who skil­ful­ly and pur­pose­ful­ly shaped T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor while sit­ting on sev­er­al boards mak­ing strate­gic de­ci­sions.

An­tho­ny Smart has been re-elect­ed as chair­man of the First Cit­i­zens Group Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (FCGFH) board.

Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd (PPG­PL) end­ed 2024 with a strong fi­nan­cial per­for­mance of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 136 per cent growth in prof­it af­ter tax from 2023.  

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has said this coun­try is ex­pect­ed to rake in bil­lions in for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment (FDI) in the en­er­gy sec­tor in the next three years.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce Son­ji Pierre-Chase gave her in­au­gur­al speech at the cham­ber’s an­nu­al busi­ness meet­ing and cock­tail re­cep­tion held on April 2 at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain.

Guardian Hold­ings Ltd (GHL) record­ed prof­it at­trib­ut­able to its share­hold­ers of $850.14 mil­lion in its fi­nan­cial year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024, an in­crease of 31.77 per cent com­pared to the $645.43 mil­lion the group earned in 2023.