Tag Archives: T&T Business

What gains did agriculture make with $1b

Business Ria Chaitram 16 Hrs Ago A farmer tends to a lettuce crop in Bon Air West in the Bon Air/Lopinot constituency. The agriculture ministry has a series of free training programmes in crop production and management. – File photo/Sureash Cholai IT is without a doubt that agriculture is critical to food security and sustainability, especially now that countries worldwide […]

Venezuela brings My Perfect Shape to Trinidad

Business Grevic Alvarado 8 Hrs Ago Father and daughter Luis Jose and Diane Botero at Pasarela apparel store in Port of Spain. The Venezuelan-Colombian family also owns several stores under the My Perfect Shape name. – PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB Women masqueraders in two-piece costumes during Carnival gave Diana Botero the idea that an intimate-apparel […]

Data, key to Trinidad and Tobago’s economic growth

Business Ryan Hamilton-Davis 41 Minutes Ago An aerial view of Port of Spain. Data is key to economic planning. – Photo by Jeff K Mayers It took a pandemic for Trinidad and Tobago to realise the disparity in the number of children who needed to access online classes and children without access to digital devices. […]

Invest TT and CEDA to collaborate for global investment forum

Business Ryan Hamilton-Davis 4 Hrs Ago InvesTT president Sekou Alleyne. – Investment promotion agency InvesTT and the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA) are set to host a global investment forum which is expected to attract more than 350 international businesses. An InvesTT release said the forum is expected to be held from November 2 to […]

BPTT’s Matapal project achieves first gas

Business Ryan Hamilton-Davis 6 Hrs Ago BPTT Matapal Photo courtesy BPTT – BPTT, the largest hydrocarbon content producer in TT, has achieved first gas in its Matapal project, which first began drilling in 2017. The project, BPTT said in a tweet, is about 80 kilometres off the southeast coast of Trinidad and about 8 kilometres […]

20 years of petroleum geoscience at UWI

Business Newsday Youth Lens and Opinions Education Project 3 Days Ago The Atlantic LNG facility in Point Fortin. In 1999, the launch of the plant birthed a need for local experts in petroleum geoscience. – Photo by Jeff K Mayers Geological Society of TT September marks 20 years since the first cohort of students enrolled […]

Driving data-driven policy with the National Statistical Institute

Business Newsday 3 Days Ago Students leave Valencia Government Primary School with their SEA results which they collected on September 9. There is a need for statistics to analyse the implications of the exam, which the National Statistical Institute can play a role in once it is implemented. – PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB NAME a […]

Franka Costelloe new head of InvesTT board

Business Ria Chaitram 4 Hrs Ago InvestTT board chairman Franka Costelloe. – File photo InvestTT has a new board of directors headed by Franka Costelloe. The board was appointed on September 16 at the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s head office in Port of Spain. Costelloe, is a director of Lifetime Roofing Ltd and served […]

Lifebuoy partners with 2021 Caribbean Premier League

Business Ria Chaitram An Hour Ago – Lifebuoy partnered with 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL T20) as the official hygiene sponsor, to promote good hygiene habits. It is the second time in a row both entities have come together, and Lifebuoy has been working with the players and staff by providing them with Lifebuoy […]

Why we need to take our share of the Loot

Business Kiran Mathur Mohammed 2 Days Ago The way Loot works is that you can spend money to create a list of items that you own. You can own and trade these items for real money. – The launch of the world’s first decentralised, community owned gaming platform, called Loot on August 27 has the […]