Ascensos expects to grow to 300 seats in its Port of Spain operations.

KBR will analyze strategies for maximizing opportunities to establish a green hydrogen economy in Trinidad and Tobago

The GTL Plant is a production facility that takes natural gas and turns it into diesel fuel and naptha using the Low Temperature Fischer-Tropsch (LTFT) technology in a fixed bed system. NiQuan says the Trinidad facility is unique in the Americas and 1 of only 5 globally.

Atlas Ocean Voyages today announced that the Luxe-Adventure Expedition Cruise brand is augmenting its inaugural-year offerings with four new Transatlantic, Caribbean and South America itineraries in October and November 2021.

With travel restrictions in place due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, Copa Airlines issued a filing indicating that the company will reduce capacity by 80% but may shut down completely.

BP Trinidad & Tobago (BPTT) today announced that it has made a gas discovery with the Ginger exploration well, offshore Trinidad.  The well is expected to be completed by the end of November, 2019. The results of the Ginger well ...

PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSMT) today announced that on August 21, 2019, it acquired approximately 111,000 square feet of land in the far north of the capital city, Bogotá upon which the company plans to construct its 47th warehouse club.  This club will ...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are a major tool for increasing the effectiveness of productive economic sectors in over 30 Caribbean markets. In addition to shortening processing times and handling citizens’ documentation requests by using an eGovernment platform, ICTs are ...

On April 19 the World Bank revised its forecast from earlier in the month, which had predicted that Trinidad &Tobago would slip into a recession. In a press release, the international lender said the twin-island nation was expected to post real ...

"In terms of customer data and financial records — because of the laws that exist around the world — everybody wants to keep their data local," says Paul Mayne of TSTT.

The Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) held the Outsource To The Caribbean 2017 conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica in December. The event brought together Caribbean basin Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) from around the region, from Belize all the ...

In November, a class of 50 students graduated from the business process outsourcing (BPO) training program of the Trinidad and Tobago International Financial Centre.

TTIFC says this improvement "solidifies T&T's rising international status as a competitive and ideal location for finance and accounting BPO."

Finance Minister Colm Imbert: "Over 1,500 employees are expected to be engaged. Hundreds more will be employed in indirect activities."

Some places in the world tend to be hotspots for certain types of talent. Silicon valley gives the world lots of innovative startups. Kenya is known for its marathon runners. And while Trinidad & Tobago is already famous for its ...

Top-tier global banks like Scotiabank have a presence in multiple markets, and as large employers, they can also write their own ticket when it comes to site selection. Scotiabank chose Trinidad & Tobago as the location for their Caribbean regional ...

According to an article in Nearshore Americas that the author did after speaking with Scotiabank director Anya Schnoor, Scotiabank has been very happy with their decision to locate a 68,000 square foot operations center in Chaguanas, Trinidad. From the modern ...

Trinidad & Tobago’s Daily Express reported on RBC Financial’s  $35 million back office processing center servicing the bank’s Southern Caribbean region. Now open three years, the operations center handles credit operations and processing for 20 countries, including Suriname in South ...

“For us, T&T plays a key role even beyond its borders, operating a processing hub to service numerous countries in our Caribbean footprint,” said Scotiabank executive Dieter Jentsch at an event celebrating Scotiabank’s 60+ years in Trinidad & Tobago. In ...

Silvestre Melo is an outsourcing professional with a career spanning over 20 years in the US and Latin America, leading teams from Nortel, PwC, Pepsico, and others, from Brazil to the USA and destinations in between. After recently visiting Trinidad ...

OLDWICK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of Trinidad & Tobago Insurance Limited, in the country of Trinidad & Tobago. The outlook for each rating is stable. The ratings ...

The global landscape for service delivery, whether Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) or in-house shared services is never static. Global executives in the process of short-listing locations are unwise to simply return to the default choices of a decade ago. Things ...

Global express shipping services provider DHL has announced the launch of Express Easy, a new service that brings simple, all-inclusive rates to international shipping in Trinidad & Tobago. The service, which is geared towards individuals and SMEs (Small & Medium-sized ...

Move over Mardi Gras, step aside Rio Carnaval, Trinidad & Tobago has the greatest pre-Lenten celebration in the world. Each year, over 40,000 visitors join 780,000 locals to jump, dance and wave to the beat of pulsating soca rhythms during ...

Enterprise Holdings Inc. announced last week that it is expanding the Enterprise Rent-A-Car brand’s presence in Trinidad & Tobago, as part of a general expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean with the opening of 22 new locations throughout the region, in total. The auto rental ...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $25 million loan to Trinidad and Tobago to help the Caribbean nation improve its trade facilitation processes, part of an effort to boost and diversify the economy. The loan will help strengthen the country’s ...