T&T’s con­fronta­tion with es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lent crime has sharp­ened the na­tion­al de­bate over whether a state of emer­gency should be deep­ened with the in­tro­duc­tion of a cur­few.

On De­cem­ber 5, 2025, the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) is­sued a state­ment in which it com­ment­ed on its re­ceipt of the In­ter­im Re­port of the Re­fin­ery Restart Com­mit­tee, which was chaired by for­mer Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Mr. Kevin Ram­nar­ine.

Con­struc­tion on a new in­ter­na­tion­al­ly brand­ed ho­tel in South Trinidad is ex­pect­ed to be­gin with­in the next 60 days, bring­ing an es­ti­mat­ed 400 jobs dur­ing the build­ing phase and a fur­ther 150 per­ma­nent po­si­tions up­on com­ple­tion.

Guyana’s tem­po­rary fu­el short­age this month was a re­minder that oil pro­duc­tion and fu­el se­cu­ri­ty are not the same thing.

To­ba­go’s con­struc­tion and quar­ry­ing sub-sec­tor record­ed a sharp con­trac­tion in 2025, with ce­ment sales plung­ing by 41.4 per cent year-on-year, sig­nalling a sig­nif­i­cant slow­down in build­ing ac­tiv­i­ty and do­mes­tic in­vest­ment, ac­cord­ing to the Cen­tral Bank’s An­nu­al Eco­nom­ic Sur­vey 2025 re­leased on Tues­day.

A lead­er­ship shake-up has tak­en place at Am­plia Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lim­it­ed, with Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Shawn Clarke out and a new act­ing head now in place.

The Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Ltd (Cari­CRIS) has reaf­firmed “high cred­it­wor­thi­ness” rat­ings for the T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (TTUTC).

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor must place work­er safe­ty above all com­mer­cial in­ter­ests, with Gov­ern­ment com­mit­ting to stronger over­sight and in­dus­try-wide align­ment of safe­ty sys­tems.

Trinidad and To­ba­go record­ed a mod­est rise in in­fla­tion in 2025, dri­ven large­ly by high­er in­ter­na­tion­al food prices, even as im­proved en­er­gy rev­enues helped nar­row the coun­try’s fis­cal deficit, the Cen­tral Bank has re­port­ed.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has raised con­cerns that the pro­posed land­lord busi­ness sur­charge could cre­ate se­ri­ous se­cu­ri­ty risks and re­sult in po­ten­tial dou­ble tax­a­tion for prop­er­ty own­ers in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

To­ba­go is tar­get­ing Latin Amer­i­ca as a new source mar­ket for vis­i­tor growth, as the To­ba­go Tourism Agency Ltd (TTAL) in­ten­si­fies ef­forts to di­ver­si­fy ar­rivals amid shift­ing glob­al trav­el pat­terns.

The Unit­ed States has an­nounced plans to pro­vide $10 mil­lion in pro­gram­ming to sup­port re­silient port in­fra­struc­ture across the Caribbean, as part of ef­forts to deep­en eco­nom­ic en­gage­ment and safe­guard crit­i­cal re­gion­al as­sets.