Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced a to­tal al­lo­ca­tion of $3.473 bil­lion for To­ba­go in fis­cal 2027, rep­re­sent­ing 5.48 per cent of the Na­tion­al Bud­get.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says the Gov­ern­ment has al­lo­cat­ed fund­ing in the 2027 Bud­get to pay 40 per cent of out­stand­ing ar­rears owed to Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) mem­bers in cash, de­spite the union’s re­jec­tion of the pro­pos­al.

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go has con­firmed that the 13-year-old girl who was re­cent­ly re­cov­ered af­ter be­ing re­port­ed miss­ing for 26 days is in its care.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced a $250 in­crease in the se­nior cit­i­zens’ pen­sion, pub­lic as­sis­tance grants and dis­abil­i­ty as­sis­tance grants, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2027.

A 70-year-old re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer was found dead in­side his Princes Town home on Sun­day, with his hands and feet bound to­geth­er.

Hazel Man­ning will be seek­ing the post of chair­man when the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy stages its ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions this evening.

The new East Ter­mi­nal at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go will be­gin flight op­er­a­tions on Wednes­day, Oc­to­ber 14, a day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of­fi­cial­ly opens the fa­cil­i­ty.

While some cit­i­zens took the pre­cau­tion of top­ping up their gas tanks yes­ter­day, Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials say no fu­el price hike is ex­pect­ed in to­day’s 2027 Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned that no mat­ter what is said in to­day’s Bud­get, some cit­i­zens who have a poor work eth­ic, dis­hon­est be­hav­iour, bad habits and neg­a­tive at­ti­tudes will con­tin­ue to strug­gle.

The Op­po­si­tion is ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment of prepar­ing to de­liv­er an­oth­er Bud­get filled with lies and un­ful­filled promis­es, with its se­nior mem­bers warn­ing that to­day’s pre­sen­ta­tion will be an ex­er­cise in de­cep­tion rather than an hon­est ac­count of the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic cir­cum­stances.

Four months in­to mar­ried life, banker Sha­keem Williams, 26, al­ready runs his house­hold like a bal­ance sheet. Ra­tions for two cost him at least $3,000 a month, a bill he finds steep. And he knows what comes next: each child, he spec­u­lates, will add at least $2,000 on top.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to un­veil its 2027 Bud­get to­day, un­em­ployed youths, en­tre­pre­neurs and trade union­ists are call­ing for more im­me­di­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties to earn a liv­ing, gain work ex­pe­ri­ence and build skills, even as the coun­try pur­sues eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion through aqua­cul­ture, agro-pro­cess­ing and da­ta cen­tres.