State-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) has been in­voiced al­most half a mil­lion dol­lars for a three-day re­treat in To­ba­go for act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive Keino Cox and 10 of its ex­ec­u­tives.

The all-in­clu­sive re­treat, which was held from Jan­u­ary 16 to 18 this year in To­ba­go, is set to cost the com­pa­ny $436,081.78, at a time when the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider re­port­ed a loss of $82.2 mil­lion in its fi­nan­cial state­ment for the year end­ed March 31, 2025.

The cost of the re­treat was dis­cov­ered in a bun­dle of in­voic­es ob­tained by the Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk.