Trinidad & Tobago

As of mid-2014, there were four class A office buildings under construction in Port of Spain, with a total of 250,000 sq feet of usable space, according to Terra Caribbean, a leading real estate agency. At the time, Terra Caribbean argued that this was a positive development, given a shortage of high-quality office space in the city. The shortage was the result of the...

The broadly defined real estate sector of Trinidad and Tobago is dominated by three aspects. First, land is scarce, and perhaps of equal importance is that the perception of scarcity is ever-present. Trinidad has an area of around 4800 sq km and most of the country’s population of 1.34m is concentrated on the western side of the island, from Chaguaramas to Point Fortin...

An important contributor to Trinidad and Tobago’s economy, the construction industry was estimated to account for 5.2% of GDP in 2014. There are 12 locally based companies with a turnover of TT$25m ($3.85m) or more, 200 firms with turnover in the TT$5m-25m ($771,00-3.85m) range and a larger number of smaller companies below that, many of them operating informally. The...

The small but relatively important mining and quarrying sector makes a significant contribution to the economy. In terms of estimated recoverable reserves the largest deposits are of sand and gravel, blue limestone, plastering sand, yellow limestone, clay, porcelanite and andesite (a form of volcanic rock). In 2013 reserves were estimated at 467.1m tonnes, distributed...

Although an important part of the Trinidad and Tobago economy, the manufacturing sector’s performance has been disappointing in recent years. According to the T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA), the value of manufacturing output declined at an average annual rate of 4.3% from 2010 to 2014.