INIan Narine

1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Ian Narine

   Interest rate and exchange rate moves (opens the original)

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   In­ter­est rates in the Unit­ed States are mov­ing up. On Fri­day Sep­tem­ber 11, the yield on the US 10-year Trea­sury bond closed at 4.96 per cent while the 30-year bond yield­ed 5.35 per cent. At the start of Jan­u­ary those yields were 4.19 per cent and 4.86 per cent re­spec­tive­ly. These are huge moves in in­ter­est rates and it means that the US Gov­ern­ment is now pay­ing close to 5 per cent to bor­row mon­ey for 10 years and more than 5 per cent to bor­row for 30. This may seem like an

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2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Ian Narine

   A country beyond Port-of-Spain (opens the original)

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   For my 2024 In­de­pen­dence col­umn, I did some­thing un­usu­al. I hand­ed most of it over to an ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence chat­bot and then pub­lished its out­put with ap­pro­pri­ate dis­clo­sures. At the time, there was a na­tion­al dis­cus­sion around colo­nial sym­bols and the coat of arms and I want­ed to look be­yond sym­bol­ism to the sys­tems that sur­vived colo­nial­ism. I there­fore gave the AI the fol­low­ing prompt: “As­sume that a coun­try was ful­ly self gov­erned, but the ‘sha

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3. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Ian Narine

   Underestimating ourselves (opens the original)

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   As Trinidad and To­ba­go ap­proach­es the 64th an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence, the na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tion of­ten seems more com­fort­able cat­a­logu­ing our fail­ures than mea­sur­ing our achieve­ments. We cur­rent­ly face a num­ber of chal­lenges as nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion has fall­en, parts of Point Lisas are idle, house­holds re­main on wa­ter sched­ules, roads are in a state of dis­re­pair and too many pub­lic in­vest­ments have failed to de­liv­er what was promised. There is a time

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4. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Ian Narine

   Allocating natural gas (opens the original)

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   Last week, I sug­gest­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go re­vis­it its Nat­ur­al Gas Mas­ter Plan. There were two rea­sons for this. The first is that the doc­u­ment it­self is past the plan­ning hori­zon of 2014-2024 and the sec­ond is that the as­sump­tions made back then no longer re­sem­ble our cur­rent re­al­i­ty. As men­tioned last week there is a dis­tinc­tion be­tween re­serves and de­liv­er­abil­i­ty. Over the past decade, we were un­able to move suf­fi­cient quan­ti­ties of gas from be­neat

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5. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Ian Narine

   Revisiting the gas master plan (opens the original)

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   Last Thurs­day, BP an­nounced that it had agreed to ac­quire Wood­side En­er­gy’s 70 per cent in­ter­est in Block TTDAA 14. Once com­plet­ed, the trans­ac­tion will take BP’s own­er­ship of the Ca­lyp­so gas project to 100 per cent and give it op­er­a­tor­ship of one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s largest un­de­vel­oped nat­ur­al gas re­sources. This is an ex­treme­ly pos­i­tive de­vel­op­ment. Ca­lyp­so is es­ti­mat­ed to con­tain ap­prox­i­mate­ly 3.5 tril­lion cu­bic feet of gas. It was dis­cov­e

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