The Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing as­sis­tance from the pub­lic in pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fy­ing the body of a man which was dis­cov­ered at Paria Bay, Blan­chisseuse.

A Cara­pichaima man, who was charged with pos­ses­sion of a gun and am­mu­ni­tion in 2024, has been charged with mur­der and will re-ap­pear in court next year.

Af­ter the re­lease of the last liv­ing hostages and Pales­tin­ian pris­on­ers and de­tainees, the ten­u­ous cease­fire in Gaza was hold­ing Tues­day while ques­tions re­main over oth­er key parts of a U.S. plan for the re­gion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­scribed the 2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get as “a bud­get for the peo­ple,” de­fend­ing her ad­min­is­tra­tion’s mea­sures aimed at job cre­ation, wage ad­just­ments, and fu­el price re­duc­tions.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has la­belled the 2026 Bud­get “fake and fraud­u­lent,” ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of mis­lead­ing the pop­u­la­tion and con­tin­u­ing its elec­tion cam­paign months af­ter the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

To­ba­go has been giv­en what Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and the To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce are de­scrib­ing as the Is­land’s largest-ever bud­get al­lo­ca­tion of $3.724 bil­lion, or 6.3 per cent of the Bud­get.

As Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo an­nounced the es­tab­lish­ment of a $5 mil­lion Women’s Fund to end pe­ri­od pover­ty, stake­hold­ers said it was a gi­ant leap for the ad­vance­ment and pro­tec­tion of women.

Amid loud ap­plause and cel­e­bra­tions, Pub­lic Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas de­clared vic­to­ry for pub­lic of­fi­cers, mo­ments af­ter Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo an­nounced that he had in­struct­ed the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) to be­gin wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for pub­lic ser­vants for a 10 per cent in­crease.

The T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce is ac­knowl­edg­ing the in­clu­sion of sev­er­al of its key pol­i­cy rec­om­men­da­tions in the 2026 Bud­get, but is em­pha­sis­ing that the fis­cal pack­age’s suc­cess will de­pend on time­ly and trans­par­ent im­ple­men­ta­tion.

The gov­ern­ment is set to mod­ernise class­room learn­ing from Jan­u­ary with an am­bi­tious dig­i­tal ed­u­ca­tion dri­ve cost­ing tens of mil­lions.

With rough­ly $6.4 bil­lion al­lo­cat­ed to the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty in the Bud­get, some stake­hold­ers have ex­pressed cau­tion about the im­pact on key de­part­ments un­der its purview.

The Min­istry of Health has re­ceived its high­est bud­get al­lo­ca­tion in over a decade—$8.214 bil­lion, the sec­ond-largest al­lo­ca­tion af­ter Ed­u­ca­tion in this year’s Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-led Gov­ern­ment Bud­get.