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Bank fee hikes
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Bank fee hikes pose a challenge
With Republic Bank Ltd set to increase some of its fees tomorrow, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI), Dianne Joseph, says her goal is to ensure her members don't have to choose between financial compliance and business survival.
Rodríguez: Venezuela will continue to defend its claim to ownership of the disputed Essequibo region in Guyana
T&T stock market decline deepens for fourth consecutive year
The Central Bank said that in 2025, declines in the Composite Price Index (CPI) deepened, falling 11.8%, driven by a 13.2% drop in the All T&T Index (ATI) and a 7.3% contraction in the Cross Listed Index (CLI).
Positive trajectory for B'dos
Oil Prices Reach Highest Since 2022
Energy prices have been rising this week amid as peace talks appear to have stalled, with the key Strait of Hormuz waterway still effectively closed.
Region still suffering from COVID impact, says OECD, IDB report
Below-average labour productivity, increasing debt ratios following the COVID-19 pandemic and limited foreign direct investment have severely impacted growth in the Caribbean.
Natuc hails revised retrenchment laws
THE National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (Natuc) has welcomed the Retrenchment and Severance Benefits (Amendment) Bill, 2026, describing it as a long-overdue overhaul of one of the country's most critical labour laws.
Murder in Savannah: Gunman kills dad waiting on child
A 49-year-old Ministry of Health driver was shot and killed this afternoon in the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, in what is being described as a brazen daytime attack in one of the capital's most heavily secured areas.
Man haunted by highway death, killed crossing same road
He believed that his brother, who earned a living through hustling, had gone to Bamboo Settlement No. 1 on Monday to collect pieces of iron to sell.
"When that incident happened, he went across to Bamboo No. 1, and was crossing from the western side of the highway to the eastern side to come back home," he said.
"He was almost on the other side. One more leap and he would have been clear," he continued.
Murder trial collapses after 16 years in prison
Sheldon Fraser, also known as "Malcolm James" and "Arnold," walked free from the Port of Spain High Court after Justice Devan Rampersad upheld a no-case submission following the State's failure to produce evidence linking him to the 2009 killing of Sunil Sookdeo.
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