Sev­er­al To­bag­o­ni­ans be­lieve the 2026 Bud­get could ease fi­nan­cial strain, but many re­main cau­tious about whether the promis­es will tru­ly reach the peo­ple.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young says while the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­duce the cost of Su­per gaso­line by $1 is a good mea­sure, the Bud­get did not pro­vide mon­ey for any 10 per cent wage in­crease and the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s fir­ing of CEPEP and URP work­ers seems to have racial un­der­tones.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) says it wel­comes sev­er­al jus­tice-re­lat­ed mea­sures an­nounced in the 2025/2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get, de­scrib­ing them as pos­i­tive steps to­ward im­prov­ing ac­cess to jus­tice.

Cana­di­an YouTube blog­ger Christo­pher Hugh­es, al­so called Chris Must List, who has been charged with mak­ing a sedi­tious pub­li­ca­tion here in T&T, has re­ject­ed the lat­est of­fer to plead guilty de­spite an as­sur­ance that he will be al­lowed to walk free.

A Cara­pichaima man who was charged with pos­ses­sion of a gun and am­mu­ni­tion last year, has been charged with mur­der and will reap­pear in court next year.

Just three weeks af­ter a woman died from in­juries caused by a gas cylin­der ex­plod­ing, a 28-year-old Pe­nal labour­er is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter a sim­i­lar ac­ci­dent.

The man who was killed in a shoot­ing on Pin­to Main Road, San­ta Rosa, Ari­ma, on Mon­day has been iden­ti­fied as Ker­lon Joseph.

Po­lice are once again call­ing on the pub­lic to come for­ward to help iden­ti­fy the de­com­pos­ing body of a man, which was re­trieved from the Paria Bay Wa­ter­fall in Blan­chisseuse on Oc­to­ber 6.

The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) has wel­comed many of the 2026 Bud­get’s re­form mea­sures but cau­tioned that the pro­posed 0.25 per cent levy on com­mer­cial banks’ as­sets could damp­en ex­pan­sion and af­fect fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty if not care­ful­ly struc­tured.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has wel­comed sev­er­al mea­sures in the 2025/2026 na­tion­al bud­get aimed at strength­en­ing the jus­tice sys­tem.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Med­ical As­so­ci­a­tion (T&TMA) has wel­comed the $8.214 bil­lion bud­get al­lo­ca­tion to the Min­istry of Health—the high­est in over a decade and the sec­ond-largest al­lo­ca­tion af­ter Ed­u­ca­tion.

Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al of the Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union (CGW­TU), Er­mine De Bique-Meade, hopes if the oth­er unions now get­ting the op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­turn to the draw­ing board with Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al are grant­ed a Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA), that her mem­bers will re­ceive it as well.