Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is stand­ing by his de­ci­sion to amend the Liquor Li­cences Act to up­date the gam­ing tax fee and re­vise du­ties payable for liquor li­cences un­der the Sec­ond Sched­ule.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced that the Board of In­land Rev­enue will be re­con­sti­tut­ed and ex­pand­ed to nine com­mis­sion­ers as part of amend­ments to the In­come Tax Act.

Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials have sig­nalled a stronger push to curb su­per­mar­ket price goug­ing, amid mount­ing pub­lic frus­tra­tion that of­fi­cial in­fla­tion fig­ures do not match what con­sumers face at the check­out counter.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­ba­go has a rep­u­ta­tion prob­lem and the is­land must fix it.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the con­tin­ued at­tack by the Prime Min­is­ter against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is mak­ing her se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­er her le­gal op­tions.

Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion de­bat­ed the elec­tric­i­ty sur­charge and the new land­lord busi­ness tax in the Fi­nance Bill, 2025, with both sides bat­tling over whether busi­ness­es or the gen­er­al pub­lic will ul­ti­mate­ly foot the new bills.

A 40-year-old Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer has been grant­ed $150,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court along­side a col­league for al­leged­ly steal­ing $14,000 in pow­er tools from a stolen ve­hi­cle they re­cov­ered. 

A pair of sib­lings from south Trinidad are set to re­ceive over $10 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion from the State over the un­law­ful sus­pen­sion of their li­cences for their gas sta­tions in 2012. 

What start­ed off as a birth­day cel­e­bra­tion end­ed in tragedy af­ter a 26-year-old man was killed and his friends in­jured in an ac­ci­dent near Ch­agua­nas, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A shoot­ing in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on Thurs­day night has claimed the life of a man and in­jured a woman.

Down­town Port-of-Spain is start­ing to feel the ef­fects of a long-await­ed crack­down on il­le­gal park­ing, with 133 ve­hi­cles re­moved in the first week since the city’s en­force­ment ini­tia­tive was re­sumed.

A 26-year-old To­ba­go man has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody for the mur­der of US cit­i­zen Christo­pher Brown.