As increasing numbers of businesses and government entities move towards storing their data in the cloud, demand for data centres is rising around the world. In Trinidad and Tobago a preference to keep sensitive data inside territorial borders has led to a number of new projects. However, unless data providers can convince companies of the...
In the past decade the Trinidad and Tobago telecoms and broadcasting industry has expanded into a dynamic sector of the economy. Until 2004 majority state-owned company Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT) had an almost complete monopoly on the sector, holding the country’s only fixed and mobile operating licences and competing with...
As a small country with a large diaspora, Trinidad and Tobago has been a rapid adopter of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) to communicate with overseas friends and family. VoIP is just one form of over-the-top (OTT) content that includes audio, video or other media delivered over the internet without involvement from the network operator....
From 2010 to 2015 the construction sector regularly accounted for around 5% of Trinidad and Tobago’s GDP, fluctuating from 5.4% in 2010 to 4.7% in 2012. In the Ministry of Finance’s “Review of the Economy 2015” the sector was forecast to have a strong 2015, growing 3.4% and accounting for 5.3% of GDP. In the fourth quarter of 2015 the sector...
Much of the April 2016 mid-year budget review by Trinidad and Tobago’s finance minister, Colm Imbert, focused on the importance of austerity and fiscal prudence, but one project was of particular investment potential.
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