T&T’s con­fronta­tion with es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lent crime has sharp­ened the na­tion­al de­bate over whether a state of emer­gency should be deep­ened with the in­tro­duc­tion of a cur­few.

A lead­er­ship shake-up has tak­en place at Am­plia Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lim­it­ed, with Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Shawn Clarke out and a new act­ing head now in place.

On De­cem­ber 5, 2025, the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) is­sued a state­ment in which it com­ment­ed on its re­ceipt of the In­ter­im Re­port of the Re­fin­ery Restart Com­mit­tee, which was chaired by for­mer Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Mr. Kevin Ram­nar­ine.

The Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Ltd (Cari­CRIS) has reaf­firmed “high cred­it­wor­thi­ness” rat­ings for the T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (TTUTC).

Trinidad and To­ba­go record­ed a mod­est rise in in­fla­tion in 2025, dri­ven large­ly by high­er in­ter­na­tion­al food prices, even as im­proved en­er­gy rev­enues helped nar­row the coun­try’s fis­cal deficit, the Cen­tral Bank has re­port­ed.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor must place work­er safe­ty above all com­mer­cial in­ter­ests, with Gov­ern­ment com­mit­ting to stronger over­sight and in­dus­try-wide align­ment of safe­ty sys­tems.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has raised con­cerns that the pro­posed land­lord busi­ness sur­charge could cre­ate se­ri­ous se­cu­ri­ty risks and re­sult in po­ten­tial dou­ble tax­a­tion for prop­er­ty own­ers in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) have signed a col­lec­tive agree­ment cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od Sep­tem­ber 1, 2020, to Au­gust 31, 2023, bring­ing clo­sure to pro­longed ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the par­ties and mark­ing a sig­nif­i­cant step in sta­bil­is­ing in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions at the na­tion­al car­ri­er.

The Unit­ed States has an­nounced plans to pro­vide $10 mil­lion in pro­gram­ming to sup­port re­silient port in­fra­struc­ture across the Caribbean, as part of ef­forts to deep­en eco­nom­ic en­gage­ment and safe­guard crit­i­cal re­gion­al as­sets.

To­ba­go is tar­get­ing Latin Amer­i­ca as a new source mar­ket for vis­i­tor growth, as the To­ba­go Tourism Agency Ltd (TTAL) in­ten­si­fies ef­forts to di­ver­si­fy ar­rivals amid shift­ing glob­al trav­el pat­terns.

A steady stream of Trinida­di­an in­vestors is look­ing north to Bar­ba­dos, not just for sec­ond homes, but for stronger re­turns, US-dol­lar in­come and a re­al es­tate prod­uct they say is in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to find at home.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s push to un­lock long-stalled cross-bor­der en­er­gy projects with Venezuela faces sig­nif­i­cant geopo­lit­i­cal and com­mer­cial hur­dles, de­spite re­newed diplo­mat­ic en­gage­ment be­tween the two coun­tries.