In Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T), about 512,000 peo­ple, or rough­ly 36.8 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion, can­not af­ford a healthy di­et.

Port-of-Spain May­or, Chin­ua Al­leyne, said June salaries for cor­po­ra­tion work­ers will de­pend on Fi­nance Min­is­ter, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo’s Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view on June 15.

As Gov­ern­ment moves to in­crease penal­ties through the Fi­nance Bill 2026, econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James says the mea­sures re­flect a search for ad­di­tion­al rev­enue, while busi­ness rep­re­sen­ta­tives are ques­tion­ing the lack of con­sul­ta­tion.

A 23-year-old man from Princes Town has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody af­ter be­ing charged in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion that left a 24-year-old res­i­dent in­jured dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day, May 30.

AM­CHAM T&T Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Ni­rad Tewarie has en­gaged in high-lev­el dis­cus­sions with Un­der Sec­re­tary for Trade and For­eign Agri­cul­tur­al Af­fairs at the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Agri­cul­ture (US­DA), Luke Lind­berg, on the is­sue of tar­iffs im­posed on petro­chem­i­cal ex­ports from Trinidad and To­ba­go to the Unit­ed States.

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­cov­ered two stolen ve­hi­cles dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the San­gre Grande Dis­trict last Fri­day.

A 23-year-old man from Princes Town has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the court last Fri­day on charges re­lat­ed to a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion.

Gov­ern­ment will next week add $2.93 bil­lion in sup­ple­men­tal funds to the 2026 Bud­get, main­ly to pay for salary in­creas­es for 62,050 unionised work­ers - and the mid-year re­view of the Bud­get will sub­se­quent­ly be de­liv­ered on June 15.

Fi­nance Sec­re­tary Petal-Ann Roberts an­nounced the date yes­ter­day, adding that the bud­get de­bate will be held on June 25.

The Gov­ern­ment is propos­ing sweep­ing in­creas­es to fines con­tained across dozens of laws, with some of the most eye-catch­ing changes tar­get­ing of­fences in­volv­ing the pro­duc­tion of vine­gar and co­conut prod­ucts.

Trinidad and To­ba­go gen­er­ates more waste per per­son than any oth­er coun­try in the Caribbean, ac­cord­ing to Ugo Blan­co, Res­i­dent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP) Mul­ti-Coun­try Of­fice.

At­tor­ney and pro­cure­ment ex­pert Dr Mar­garet Satya Rose has re­placed Janelle John-Bates on the Op­po­si­tion bench, but Faris Al-Rawi has sur­vived Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les’ “ro­ta­tion.”