Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced a 10 per cent pay in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to set­tle long-out­stand­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced that the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to end state fund­ing of crim­i­nal gangs by phas­ing out the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced a $1 re­duc­tion in the price of Su­per gaso­line, ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly.

The body of 44-year-old nurse Mar­i­an Bac­chus was found in her Vista­bel­la apart­ment on Sun­day night.

A 22-year-old woman was killed af­ter two ve­hi­cles col­lid­ed near De­onar­ine Junc­tion in Cou­va on Sun­day.

Caribbean Air­lines Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Garvin Med­era has re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, end­ing an eight-year tenure that made him the longest-serv­ing CEO in the state-owned car­ri­er’s his­to­ry.

An in­quest has been or­dered in­to the death of 27-year-old Michael An­ge­lo Fran­cis, who was fa­tal­ly stabbed in Port of Spain ear­li­er this month.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s im­port cov­er has fall­en to its low­est lev­el in decades, de­clin­ing steadi­ly from over eight months cov­er in mid-2023 to just 5.4 months cov­er in Au­gust 2025.

A Unit­ed Na­tions-backed in­dex mea­sur­ing hunger and mal­nu­tri­tion in glob­al hotspots has warned that 5.7 mil­lion Haitians are fac­ing a de­te­ri­o­rat­ing food se­cu­ri­ty sit­u­a­tion, as armed groups con­tin­ue to ex­pand their ter­ri­to­r­i­al con­trol around the French-speak­ing Caribbean coun­try.

Hamas re­leased all 20 of the last liv­ing hostages on Mon­day, the Is­raeli mil­i­tary said. It is part of a break­through cease­fire af­ter two years of war be­tween Is­rael and Hamas in the dev­as­tat­ed Gaza Strip.

That’s what Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo says the 2026 Bud­get will be and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar has promised that Gov­ern­ment will try to make every­body hap­py.

With the na­tion­al spot­light on to­day’s Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ac­knowl­edg­ing that they “can­not give every­body every­thing.”