To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has reg­is­tered strong dis­agree­ment with the bud­getary al­lo­ca­tion grant­ed to the is­land in the 2027 Na­tion­al Bud­get, say­ing he felt “gut­ted” by cuts to cap­i­tal de­vel­op­ment and a re­duc­tion in To­ba­go’s over­all per­cent­age of the na­tion­al purse.

The 2026 fis­cal year was an aw­ful pe­ri­od for the down­stream petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor in Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T). Con­tract ne­go­ti­a­tions for new gas con­tracts led to the idling of the Nu­trien fa­cil­i­ties, which was fol­lowed by the idling of the Methanex Ti­tan fa­cil­i­ty. Re­cent­ly, Pro­man took the dif­fi­cult de­ci­sion to re­struc­ture its busi­ness to ad­dress the re­al­i­ty of the nat­ur­al gas sup­ply sit­u­a­tion. Over the last year, the petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor shed more than 450 di­rect jobs and like­ly close to 450 in­di­rect jobs. This doesn’t in­clude any job loss from the Pro­man re­struc­tur­ing. The sit­u­a­tion al­so had a tremen­dous neg­a­tive im­pact on en­er­gy ser­vices con­trac­tors, as op­er­a­tors ad­just­ed their main­te­nance pro­grammes in re­sponse to their ex­is­ten­tial sit­u­a­tion.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica — For­mer Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent Dave Cameron has urged the re­gion­al gov­ern­ing body to con­sid­er pulling out of in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et if its fi­nan­cial strug­gles con­tin­ue, say­ing such a move may be nec­es­sary to force the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil to take no­tice.

Com­e­dy has al­ways been Cindy-Ann Bois­son’s safe space. Mil­len­ni­als may recog­nise her as the woman be­hind the icon­ic lo­cal Pow­er­mint ad where she fa­mous­ly said, “Af­ter a din­ner of bake and smoke her­ring I suck two pow­er­mints in prepa­ra­tion for oth­er things with my male com­pan­ion.” And if there was ever a time that it came in handy for the now 54-year-old, it was in Sep­tem­ber 2025, when she was di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer.

Last Fri­day, the UK gov­ern­ment pub­lished an “In­de­pen­dent re­view in­to men­tal health con­di­tions, At­ten­tion Deficit Hy­per­ac­tive Dis­or­der (AD­HD) and Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der” (ASD).