The Gov­ern­ment will al­lo­cate $200 mil­lion for the con­struc­tion of a ter­mi­nal and as­so­ci­at­ed fa­cil­i­ties of the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in fis­cal 2023.

Stu­dents and teach­ers of ten schools in Port of Spain met with ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly to­day as the na­tion­al school vis­i­ta­tion dri­ve made its sec­ond tour this year. The team pro­vid­ed in­sight in­to planned up­grades, where ap­plic­a­ble, and ad­vised on oth­er op­er­a­tional mat­ters raised by teach­ers and prin­ci­pals.  

The fol­low­ing is a bul­letin is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS):

An over­all al­lo­ca­tion of $143.3 mil­lion will be pro­vid­ed in fis­cal year 2023 to as­sist the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to im­ple­ment its pro­gramme of works and out of that $88.7 mil­lion will be al­lo­cat­ed for crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­tur­al works in­clud­ing roof re­pairs, elec­tri­cal up­grades, plumb­ing im­prove­ments, In­for­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy up­grades and ex­pan­sion of fa­cil­i­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is ap­peal­ing to the pri­vate sec­tor to col­lab­o­rate with the gov­ern­ment in more pri­vate-pub­lic part­ner­ships (PPP) to pro­vide af­ford­able homes to cit­i­zens of T&T. 

The Min­istry of Health will spend over $100 mil­lion on the up­grade of hos­pi­tals and health fa­cil­i­ties across the coun­try and on the pur­chase of equip­ment.

Dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise, two men were ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion seized on Tues­day 27 Sep­tem­ber 2022.

Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley is tak­ing a lot of heat on­line for say­ing the coun­try’s pub­lic ser­vice didn’t have the in­fra­struc­ture or the dis­ci­pline to work from home. He was speak­ing at a post bud­get press con­fer­ence in the Par­lia­ment on Mon­day. 

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CATT) will be giv­en $9.4 mil­lion for the im­ple­men­ta­tion of var­i­ous ini­tia­tives aimed at en­sur­ing the care and pro­tec­tion of the na­tion’s chil­dren in 2023.

The Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MS­DFS) will al­lo­cate $5 mil­lion for the first phase of con­struc­tion of a home­less fa­cil­i­ty in Port-of-Spain, that will host 180 peo­ple.

The In­dus­tri­al Court has to­day dis­missed a com­plaint of an In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions Of­fence brought by the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion against the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) which sought to pre­vent WASA from en­gag­ing in a re­struc­tur­ing ex­er­cise.

The Gov­ern­ment will spend $7 mil­lion in 2023 on a pro­gramme to up­grade Ari­api­ta Av­enue in Port-of-Spain, as part of the al­lo­ca­tion for Tourism.