Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Tag: 2025

Media Release: S&P Affirms Trinidad and Tobago’s Investment Grade Rating but Revises Outlook, Highlighting the Need for Reforms

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Today, the rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) affirmed Trinidad and Tobago’s investment grade rating at BBB-, while revising the outlook from stable to negative. S&P’s affirmation of Trinidad and Tobago’s investment grade status reflects the country’s long established democratic institutions, economic stability, favourable external profile and buffers (“This profile includes a strong external creditor…

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Speech by the Minister of Finance in the House of Representatives on Friday 19th September, 2025

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(1)The Miscellaneous Provisions (FATF Compliance) Bill, 2025(2) The Counter-Proliferation Financing Bill, 2025 These two vital Bills provide strong protection against both crime and criminality. With their passage, Trinidad and Tobago will have a robust legislative framework to properly deal with the proceeds of crime including, cross-border activities, and the kind of white-collar crime that has…

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Online Facebook Scams

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The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence urgently alert the public to the continued circulation of fraudulent social media posts falsely claiming that the Honourable Davendranath Tancoo, Minister of Finance and the Ministry are involved in investment schemes. As stated previously by the Ministry of Finance, these claims are…

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Media Release: Response to Colm Imbert’s comments on Credit Card USD spending limit cut

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“Mr Imbert is expressing fake concern for a crisis he caused by failing to create an enabling environment for foreign and domestic investment, economic diversification and to boost non-energy production and exports in particular,” the Finance Minister said.“As a country, we are using more foreign exchange than we are generating, and have been doing so…

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