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1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Raphael John-Lall

   Ramnarine: T&T could be regional energy hub in decade (opens the original)

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   For­mer min­is­ter of en­er­gy Min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine is fore­cast­ing that T&T could emerge as a ma­jor re­gion­al oil and gas pro­cess­ing hub over the next decade—an “in­dus­tri­al utopia” de­pen­dent on the suc­cess­ful de­vel­op­ment of deep­wa­ter re­sources and Venezue­lan gas. Ram­nar­ine spoke last Fri­day at a we­bi­nar host­ed by the Trade and Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment Unit of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI). The we­bi­nar was en­ti­tled “An­tic­i­pat­ed Macro­eco­no

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2. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Raphael John-Lall

   Analyst: Venezuela gas could benefit BP and Shell more than Point Lisas (opens the original)

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   T&T may not reap the eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits ex­pect­ed from the re­cent­ly ne­go­ti­at­ed Venezue­lan nat­ur­al gas agree­ments, as the com­mer­cial in­cen­tives of­fered to Shell and BP could ul­ti­mate­ly en­cour­age the com­pa­nies to di­rect gas to­wards lu­cra­tive Eu­ro­pean and Asian LNG mar­kets, rather than the coun­try’s strug­gling petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor. That is the warn­ing from Venezue­lan pe­tro­le­um en­gi­neer and en­er­gy an­a­lyst Dr Ein­stein Mil­lán Ar­cia, who in an in­ter

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3. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Raphael John-Lall

   Industrial revival requires skills training, economists say (opens the original)

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   Econ­o­mists all agree that the Gov­ern­ment must roll out an ef­fec­tive in­dus­tri­al pol­i­cy if it is to cre­ate sus­tain­able jobs and a grow­ing econ­o­my. Fol­low­ing the Ibis Steel Com­pa­ny’s launch last week and the promise of al­most 1,000 jobs if the com­pa­ny agrees to an ex­pan­sion, econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James told the Sun­day Busi­ness Guardian it is not a “mat­ter of op­ti­mism or pes­simism,” but the his­to­ry of T&T’s in­dus­tri­al de­vel­op­ment shows that pre­vi­ous gov­ern­m

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4. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Raphael John-Lall

   T&T downstream plants uneconomic, says Venezuela analyst (opens the original)

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   Methanex Cor­po­ra­tion hav­ing to idle its methanol plant in T&T is the lat­est ex­am­ple of the de­cline of T&T’s en­er­gy in­dus­try. This is the view of Dr Ein­stein Mil­lán Ar­cia, whose con­sul­tan­cy is based in the Unit­ed States and is a Venezue­lan en­er­gy an­a­lyst, con­sul­tant and for­mer high-rank­ing man­ag­er at the state-owned oil com­pa­ny, PDVSA. At the end of June, Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed that Methanex Cor­po­ra­tion an­nounced that it will in­def­i­nite­ly idle its Ti­ta

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5. Article · Jul 5, 2026 · Raphael John-Lall

   Farrell: Consider term limits for Chief Justice (opens the original)

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   When pub­lic sec­tor com­pa­nies and in­sti­tu­tions fail, they not on­ly af­fect economies but so­ci­eties in gen­er­al. This is the view of econ­o­mist and at­tor­ney-at-law Dr Ter­rence Far­rell who spoke last Wednes­day dur­ing the Caribbean Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance In­sti­tute’s (CC­GI) gov­er­nance week which was held vir­tu­al­ly. “I want to make the point that the gov­er­nance prin­ci­ples ap­ply to en­ti­ties that have sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on our so­ci­eties, on our economies, on our

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