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.

A po­lice of­fi­cer has sued the State, al­leg­ing that he was ma­li­cious­ly pros­e­cut­ed for dri­ving a po­lice ve­hi­cle dan­ger­ous­ly lead­ing to a car ac­ci­dent in 2018.

Mo­torists trav­el­ling to and from the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go are be­ing ad­vised to ex­pect tem­po­rary traf­fic changes to­mor­row for the of­fi­cial open­ing of the air­port’s new East­ern Ter­mi­nal.

The fol­low­ing are 20 pro­posed mea­sures in the 2027 Bud­get pre­sent­ed by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has pre­sent­ed a $63.368 bil­lion na­tion­al bud­get for fis­cal year 2027 to­day, an­chor­ing the pack­age with across-the-board in­creas­es in so­cial wel­fare grants, an al­lo­ca­tion of near­ly $2.5 bil­lion for pub­lic sec­tor wage ar­rears, and tar­get­ed tax mea­sures aimed at re­mote dig­i­tal ser­vices, cor­po­rate loss­es, and high-us­age elec­tric­i­ty con­sumers.

Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gy Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (PESL) has en­dorsed the Gov­ern­ment’s phased ap­proach to restart­ing the Guaracara Re­fin­ery, de­scrib­ing it as a prac­ti­cal way to achieve a faster and more ef­fec­tive restart.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced a five-cent-per-kilo­watt-hour sur­charge on res­i­den­tial elec­tric­i­ty con­sump­tion above 3,000 kilo­watt-hours per billing pe­ri­od, a mea­sure ex­pect­ed to gen­er­ate $17.8 mil­lion in ad­di­tion­al rev­enue.

While ed­u­ca­tion and skills train­ing re­ceived the sec­ond largest al­lo­ca­tion in the na­tion­al bud­get, fund­ing for the sec­tor has dipped com­pared with the pre­vi­ous fis­cal year.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has pro­ject­ed Gov­ern­ment ex­pen­di­ture of $63.368 bil­lion for fis­cal 2027, with rev­enue es­ti­mat­ed at $59.729 bil­lion, leav­ing a deficit of $3.639 bil­lion.

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.