Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein has slammed the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), al­leg­ing that more than $1 bil­lion in le­gal fees in the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice was fun­nelled to friends, fi­nanciers and po­lit­i­cal al­lies of for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s par­ty over their near­ly 10 years in of­fice.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon says Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is fac­ing a del­i­cate bal­anc­ing act fol­low­ing his pre­sen­ta­tion dur­ing the Mid-year Bud­get Re­view.

With Gov­ern­ment abol­ish­ing the Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA), promis­ing to elim­i­nate prop­er­ty tax, re­duce cor­po­ra­tion tax­es, and spend on cam­paign promis­es, for­mer Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert yes­ter­day warned of a dark and dis­mal rev­enue out­look for T&T.

A Min­istry of En­er­gy in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dead­ly June 2023 fire at Ni­Quan Gas to Liq­uids plant, which a High Court judge or­dered be made pub­lic, found “in­ad­e­quate lead­er­ship and su­per­vi­sion” led to the in­ci­dent.