On Ju­ly 10, Gov­er­nor of the Cen­tral Bank of T&T, Lar­ry Howai—ac­com­pa­nied by Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh and Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal—met with key stake­hold­ers in the lo­cal en­er­gy sec­tor. The meet­ing, ac­cord­ing to a news re­lease from the Cen­tral Bank on the same day, “cen­tred on mea­sures to ad­dress on­go­ing for­eign ex­change (forex) chal­lenges. The meet­ing was con­struc­tive and col­lab­o­ra­tive, with par­tic­i­pants ex­press­ing sup­port for a se­ries of near-term ini­tia­tives to im­prove for­eign ex­change avail­abil­i­ty and dis­tri­b­u­tion.”

It is 10:20 on a week­day morn­ing. A small busi­ness own­er has al­ready lost half a day. One of­fice re­quests a doc­u­ment that an­oth­er of­fice is­sued. The on­line por­tal is un­avail­able. Pay­ment must be made else­where. An em­ploy­ee is trapped in traf­fic, a cus­tomer awaits an an­swer and a ten o’clock meet­ing starts twen­ty min­utes late.

The Na­tion­al In­sur­ance sys­tem was es­tab­lished by The Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Act, No. 35 of 1971, which came in­to ef­fect on April 10, 1972. The na­tion­al in­sur­ance sys­tem (NIS) is a manda­to­ry sys­tem, based on:

The con­ver­sa­tion around ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence da­ta cen­tres in Trinidad and To­ba­go has been amus­ing, to say the least. It is amus­ing be­cause much of the pop­u­la­tion has jumped straight to the end of the sto­ry with­out pay­ing at­ten­tion to the process re­quired to get there. De­pend­ing on who you lis­ten to, this coun­try is ei­ther about to be­come a cen­tre for ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence or is prepar­ing to sur­ren­der its elec­tric­i­ty, wa­ter, land and eco­nom­ic fu­ture to for­eign in­ter­ests. Nei­ther con­clu­sion is sup­port­ed by where the pro­posed projects cur­rent­ly stand.

This is the time of the year when work­ing par­ents source the best camps to send their chil­dren; fa­cil­i­ties at which they know their off­spring will be safe and will learn some type of use­ful skill.

Af­ter over a year with­out one, Tourism Trinidad Lim­it­ed (TTL) fi­nal­ly has a board of di­rec­tors.

Busi­ness­es in Ari­ma are hop­ing to out­last what has been de­scribed as a re­ces­sion-type pe­ri­od in Trinidad’s most east­ern bor­ough.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) says in­vestor con­fi­dence is strength­en­ing and trad­ing ac­tiv­i­ty is gath­er­ing pace as it wel­comed West In­di­an Traders as the fifth com­pa­ny to list on its Small and Medi­um En­ter­prise (SME) Mar­ket.

De­spite a con­tin­ued de­cline in sales, con­sol­i­dat­ing The Home Store’s op­er­a­tions has helped LJ Williams min­imise loss­es for the first quar­ter of fi­nan­cial year 2026.

Jake Gillette, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor at West In­di­an Traders Ltd is op­ti­mistic that the po­ten­tial sale of Nes­tle’s lo­cal op­er­a­tions will not af­fect its busi­ness re­la­tion­ship with the brand.

Tra­di­tion­al­ly, en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty has been as­so­ci­at­ed with the avail­abil­i­ty of nat­ur­al gas re­sources and the re­li­a­bil­i­ty of sup­ply. The Gas Ex­port­ing Coun­tries Fo­rum (GECF) says re­cent geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions have brought an­oth­er fac­tor in­to sharp­er fo­cus: the se­cu­ri­ty of LNG ship­ping routes that con­nect ex­porters with buy­ers around the world.

Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) must ag­gres­sive­ly pur­sue high-val­ue for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment (FDI) to di­ver­si­fy its econ­o­my and stim­u­late growth. The surg­ing glob­al de­mand for da­ta cen­tre in­fra­struc­ture presents a vi­able op­por­tu­ni­ty for T&T to com­pete for in­ter­na­tion­al cap­i­tal. How­ev­er, to en­sure this in­vest­ment de­liv­ers net-pos­i­tive eco­nom­ic val­ue rather than struc­tur­al deficits, the state must es­tab­lish strict, non-ne­go­tiable op­er­a­tional bound­aries. This frame­work out­lines the fis­cal ben­e­fits of host­ing a da­ta cen­tre and de­tails the nec­es­sary pol­i­cy guardrails for a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MoU).