Analysis and commentary on the bigger questions about Trinidad and Tobago's governance, culture, and direction.
Budget 2026 allocates $30 million for flood mitigation. The same communities flooded last year. And the year before. The drain workers are gone.
Read the analysisGDP per capita fell 10.8%. Reserves dropped 54%. Moody's downgraded to junk. No HSF deposits in a decade.
Read the analysisShell signed new agreements in Caracas in March 2026 with US officials watching. But the Dragon gas project has survived this moment before - only to collapse. What makes this time different, and what does Trinidad and Tobago actually control?
Read the analysisBrent crude past US$119. LNG benchmarks up 70%. Ammonia, urea, and methanol at multi-year highs. But gas production is falling, a major plant is shut, Atlantic LNG trains are offline, and the windfall is arriving in an economy structurally unable to absorb it.
Read the analysisTrinidad and Tobago's expanded Migrant Registration Framework closed with nearly 30,000 applications - more than 16,000 of them children. The $700-per-person exercise produced a database, not a policy. And the cards expire on December 31.
Read the analysisTrinidad and Tobago lost one of three daily newspapers. The same month, Guyana lost one too. The Caribbean media landscape is shrinking at the worst possible time.
Read the analysisThe PM says CARICOM has been failing for 52 years. The country is applying for Mercosur membership. Nobody in Trinidad and Tobago is debating what either move means.
Read the analysisThe Senate rejected ZOSO because it lacked safeguards. Five weeks later, the government declared a State of Emergency with even broader powers. If the SoE exceeds what ZOSO offered, what was the bill for?
Read the analysisThe Tobago People's Party won every seat. Chief Secretary Augustine made autonomy his first priority. A narrow amendment passed 38-0. The constitutional bill failed. Now the real question is whether Port of Spain will ever let Tobago govern itself.
Read the analysisA former T&T Energy Ministry director wrote to Guyana's press warning them to learn from Trinidad and Tobago's mistakes. No T&T outlet covered it.
Read the analysisThe NCC has produced just eight audited reports since 1991. Carnival 2025 left $178 million in unpaid stakeholder debts. Now $137 million more has been spent - and the public still has no line-item accounting of where the money goes.
Read the analysisAt least 163 people have been killed in US boat strikes since September 2025. Two of them were Trinbagonian fishermen heading home to Las Cuevas. Their families are suing in federal court - but nobody's strategy includes keeping the people who fish these waters safe.
Read the analysisTrinidad and Tobago was removed from the EU's non-cooperative tax list in February 2026 - after eight years. The delisting was a genuine win. But the damage from years on the list - eroded banking relationships, higher transaction costs, lost investment - does not reverse overnight. And the reforms that got the country off could have happened years earlier.
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