Pan-Amer­i­can Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny of T&T Ltd (PAL­ICTT) has ex­pand­ed its agency net­work with the ad­di­tion of the Dale McLeod Agency, a move the com­pa­ny says will strength­en its pres­ence in the lo­cal in­sur­ance mar­ket and sup­port its agent-led growth strat­e­gy.

Work­ers at Nestlé Trinidad and To­ba­go have been ad­vised to pre­pare for every pos­si­ble out­come, as un­cer­tain­ty con­tin­ues over the fu­ture of the com­pa­ny’s dairy and juices busi­ness.

The Caribbean has a very pow­er­ful cul­tur­al prod­uct, which is not be­ing ful­ly mon­e­tised to the re­gion’s ben­e­fit. Reg­gae mu­sic is in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned, while Trinidad’s Car­ni­val has been ex­port­ed around the world.

When pub­lic sec­tor com­pa­nies and in­sti­tu­tions fail, they not on­ly af­fect economies but so­ci­eties in gen­er­al.

The dis­pute be­tween the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and Methanex over the in­def­i­nite idling of the Ti­tan methanol plant has re­newed de­bate over whether nat­ur­al gas prices from state-owned com­pa­nies should re­main con­fi­den­tial even af­ter gas sup­ply con­tract ne­go­ti­a­tions have end­ed.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Gov­ern­ment will move to en­gage Nestlé of­fi­cials, fol­low­ing the multi­na­tion­al com­pa­ny an­nounc­ing this week that it is re­view­ing its op­er­a­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go as part of a wider glob­al re­struc­tur­ing.

In­creased sup­pli­er costs, NIS con­tri­bu­tions as well as for­eign ex­change con­straints took a ma­jor bite in Pres­tige Hold­ings prof­its for the six-month pe­ri­od end­ed May 31, 2026.

NCB Mer­chant Bank (T&T) said yes­ter­day the US$2 mil­lion that was seized by T&T Cus­toms and Ex­cise of­fi­cials last month is the prop­er­ty of the bank and “re­lates to a trans­ac­tion con­duct­ed in the or­di­nary course of busi­ness with an­oth­er reg­u­lat­ed fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion.”

The Gov­er­nor of the Cen­tral Bank of T&T, Mr. Lar­ry Howai, has sug­gest­ed that the idling of Methanex’s Ti­tan methanol plant need not re­sult in a net loss of for­eign ex­change to this coun­try; that gas freed by the shut­down could be di­vert­ed to LNG or oth­er petro­chem­i­cal fa­cil­i­ties, po­ten­tial­ly gen­er­at­ing equal or greater earn­ings for whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny(NGC) and the coun­try. With re­spect to Mr. Howai, this view, while not with­out the­o­ret­i­cal ba­sis, rep­re­sents the most op­ti­mistic of sev­er­al pos­si­ble out­comes and rests on mar­ket con­di­tions and com­mer­cial choic­es that are by no means guar­an­teed to ma­te­ri­alise.

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

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.