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Govt seeks $2.93b
Posted: Saturday, June 6, 2026
Govt seeks $2.93b wage boost
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday that Government will seek an additional $2.93 billion in supplementary appropriation to cover increased wages for more than 62,000 workers.
Imbert: More fines in Finance Bill
...warns of up to 400% increase in penalties
Finance Bill proposes tax relief, tougher penalties
UNDP Representative sounds alarm over T&T’s growing waste problem
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.
Protecting nature’s blessings
PM, Beckles spar over T&T’s UN Security Council seat
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has hailed Trinidad and Tobago’s achievement of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat as a vote of confidence in T&T’s leadership, credibility and growing influence within the international community. However, Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles has pointed out that T&T was also on the UNSC in 1985 due to the People’s National Movement government’s work.
ROSE picked
New Opposition senator replaces John-Bates
Attorney Margaret Rose replaces John-Bates in Senate
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."
Double shooting leaves Chaguanas family seeking answers
Residents of Longdenville Road, Chaguanas, are trying to come to terms with a deadly shooting that claimed the lives of two siblings, after a masked gunman stormed the house where they lived.
Death toll climbs to 3 in Malick
Police have launched a triple murder investigation after three men were killed and three other people injured in a brazen daylight shooting in Malick on Friday afternoon.
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