Brent 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 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 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.
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