By the end of 2025, pas­sen­ger traf­fic in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean is ex­pect­ed to reach 789 mil­lion. And at a pro­ject­ed pas­sen­ger com­pound an­nu­al growth rate of 2.9%, the same rate as the glob­al av­er­age, one bil­lion pas­sen­gers are ex­pect­ed to trav­el through the re­gion’s air­ports by 2032.

The Prime Min­is­ter is blam­ing “leaked in­fo” for the con­fu­sion last evening over the bud­get date.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CCIC) has wel­comed the an­nounce­ment that the Na­tion­al Bud­get 2025/2026 will be pre­sent­ed on Mon­day, Oc­to­ber 13.

Ikeisha Wild­man, al­so known as Free­da, of There­sa Street, Mara­bel­la, suc­cumbed to her in­juries at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo will present the 2025/2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get in Par­lia­ment on Mon­day 13th Oc­to­ber at 1:30 p.m.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called out Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, urg­ing her to ex­plain the mis­man­age­ment of the 2026 Bud­get date. Beck­les is al­so warn­ing again that if the Bud­get isn't passed be­fore Oc­to­ber 31, the Pub­lic Ser­vice will be forced to cease op­er­a­tions from No­vem­ber 1st.

The 2025/2026 Bud­get is tipped to be de­liv­ered on Mon­day (Oc­to­ber 13), say Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

For­eign in­flu­ences are slow­ly erod­ing and cor­rupt­ing T&T’s cul­tur­al foun­da­tions. This con­cern was high­light­ed by Pun­dit Kuldeep Gan­ga Per­sad, ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber of the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC), as it re­cent­ly con­clud­ed 38 Ra­mayan cel­e­bra­tions.

With over 600 re­port­ed drone sight­ings near prison fa­cil­i­ties be­tween April and last month, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says ef­forts are un­der­way to pro­cure an­ti-drone tech­nol­o­gy to quell the smug­gling and sur­veil­lance ac­tiv­i­ties by crim­i­nals.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is promis­ing a ma­jor over­haul and re­form of the prison sys­tem, in­clud­ing send­ing in the De­fence Force to mon­i­tor ac­tiv­i­ty in­side and out­side the coun­try’s pris­ons.

While the Prime Min­is­ter is yet to com­ment on her re­cent re­as­sign­ment of min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, Min­is­ter in the Hous­ing Min­istry Anil Roberts says the move fol­lowed rec­om­men­da­tions from with­in the Cab­i­net, which took place weeks ago. He is dis­miss­ing any no­tion that it was a sur­prise shake-up.

Plac­ing the Na­tion­al Self Help Com­mis­sion (NSHC) un­der the Prime Min­is­ter’s au­thor­i­ty en­sures that ur­gent fi­nan­cial, le­gal, and op­er­a­tional mat­ters—stem­ming from grave mil­lion-dol­lar chal­lenges found at the NSHC—are ad­dressed speed­i­ly.