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The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2018: Health and Education
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In a show of commitment to the well-being of citizens, the government allocated TT$6.03bn ($894.4m) to the health sector in the FY 2018 budget, placing it in the top-three publicly funded areas of the economy behind education and national security. While this figure represents a decline from FY 2017, when the allocation was TT$6.25bn ($927m), health funding has risen since 2010. Meanwhile, the human…

Interview

Brian Copeland, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, The University of the West Indies (UWI): Interview
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Interview:Brian Copeland How would you assess the recent changes implemented to the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses Programme (GATE)? BRIAN COPELAND: The changes to GATE were necessary given the economic and financial circumstances of Trinidad and Tobago. Through this government assistance programme, participation in higher education has widened and classes have swollen in size,…

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Trinidad and Tobago health sector tackles communicable and lifestyle-related diseases
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Like much of the English-speaking Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago’s health care system takes inspiration from the UK’s National Health Service. Funded by the national budget, the system provides universal coverage at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, with the Ministry of Health (MoH) responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluating the system and allocating resources to the country’s…

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Trinidad and Tobago helps prepare students for the job market with tertiary-level grant system reforms
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Successive governments in Trinidad and Tobago have placed a high emphasis on education, and many of the profits derived from the country’s flourishing hydrocarbons sector have been channelled towards the development of schools and funding of tertiary education. The education system, despite at times eliciting criticism for its competitive examination culture, has allowed generations of T&T…

Country Report

The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2017
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The oil and gas industry has historically been Trinidad and Tobago’s primary economic engine, but it has faced challenges in the low-price environment of 2014-16. Strategic decisions are now required across the entire value chain, from incentivising upstream production to improving refinery profitability in the mid-stream and boosting capacity utilisation downstream. After facing pressing short-

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The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2017: Health & Education
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While Trinidad and Tobago’s health care system has displayed strong results when dealing with existing communicable diseases, such as HIV and Zika, work is still urgently needed to develop a long-term strategy to deal with rising non-communicable diseases in the nation. The switch to a national health care insurance system – with increased focus on portability of services, record-keeping and primary…

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The new government of Trinidad and Tobago is set to roll out a new national insurance system
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A push for comprehensive health care reform in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) could see the country’s health care sector undergo significant changes in the medium term. Elected in September 2015, the People’s National Movement (PNM) government, led by Keith Rowley, has pledged to lead the country’s transition to a comprehensive national insurance system by 2018. The move comes at a time when T&T’s…

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Trinidad and Tobago's education system adapts to changing conditions
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In the context of declining public revenues, following the sharp fall in oil and gas prices since mid-2014, Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is looking to reassess the state of its education system to ensure it is in line with broader development goals. Buoyed by steady hydrocarbons revenues for the past decade, T&T’s education system is one of the great strengths of the twin-islands’ economy.…

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The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2016
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In its March 2016 Economic Bulletin, the Central Bank of T&T stated that after negative growth of 1% in 2014, T&T’s economy contracted by a further 2.1% in 2015, as per provisional data. Meanwhile, government revenue fell by 6.2% in FY 2014/15, with a 35% decline in energy collections outstripping increases in non-energy and capital receipts. Nonetheless, the recessionary environment is

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The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2016: Education & Health
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While education remains one of the great strengths of Trinidad and Tobago’s economy, a scenario of negative growth is raising questions of quality, cost effectiveness, efficiency, and the relevance of higher education and skills training for the country’s changing labor market and broader macroeconomic environment. To assess the state of the education system, the newly elected government launched…

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