# Thursday 16th

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#### <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Articles on 2025 Budget for Sport – Monday 13<sup>th</sup> October – Thursday 16<sup>th</sup> October  
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>**Prepared by: Comms Unit**</span>

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Monday 13<sup>th</sup> October, 2025</span>

</td><td style="width: 165.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="221">**<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Despite economic challenges,  
more resources for sports – NGBs   
Use sports as an income generator</span>**

</td><td style="width: 248.2pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="331"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">NGBs view sport as an income generator and hoping for a decent allocation to go towards sport in the national budget. Comments from TTFA’s Kieron Edwards, Badminton’s Chandrika Ramsubhag, Boxing Association’s Cecil Forde, and Tennis TT’s Hayden Mitchell.</span>

</td><td style="width: 126.1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="168">[<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">https://www.guardian.co.tt/sports/despite-economic-challenges-more-resources-for-sports-ngbs-6.2.2422724.b0215bb735</span>](https://www.guardian.co.tt/sports/despite-economic-challenges-more-resources-for-sports-ngbs-6.2.2422724.b0215bb735)

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Monday 13<sup>th</sup> October, 2025</span>

</td><td style="width: 165.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="221">**<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">‘Youth, Sport, and Communities At Core of 2026 Budget’</span>**

</td><td style="width: 248.2pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="331"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; background: white;">Finance Minister Davendranath Tancoo has placed sport, youth development, and community infrastructure at the heart of Trinidad and Tobago’s 2026 fiscal agenda, unveiling upgrades across the country and a new push to leverage sport as an economic driver — particularly in Tobago.</span>

</td><td style="width: 126.1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="168">[<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">https://www.ttt.live/youth-sport-and-communities-at-core-of-2026-budget/</span>](https://www.ttt.live/youth-sport-and-communities-at-core-of-2026-budget/)

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> October, 2025</span>

</td><td style="width: 165.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="221">**<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">‘Tancoo: Sport a budget priority… pools, gyms, grassroots programmes funded for fiscal 2025-26’</span>**

</td><td style="width: 248.2pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="331"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; background: #FCF8F9;">In his presentation of the Appropriation (Financial Year 2025–2026) the Minister of Finance, Davendranath Tancoo, signalled a clear focus on sport—describing it as a driver of “unity and national pride” and promising a string of facility upgrades and development programmes.</span>

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Minister Tancoo outlined a package of projects and partnerships intended to boost participation, performance and coaching across Trinidad and Tobago:  
• Pool rehabilitation  
• National stadia upgrades  
• Community grounds and centres  
• Elite training provision  
• Scholarships and capacity building  
• Grassroots programming</span>

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</td><td style="width: 126.1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="168">[<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">https://trinidadexpress.com/sports/local/tancoo-sport-a-budget-priority/article\_d2c23dbf-be1a-4e5e-b5fd-40586ce4f18f.html</span>](https://trinidadexpress.com/sports/local/tancoo-sport-a-budget-priority/article_d2c23dbf-be1a-4e5e-b5fd-40586ce4f18f.html)

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</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 81.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="109">**<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Sport Division</span>**

</td><td style="width: 75.3pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Trinidad and Tobago Newsday</span>

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> October, 2025</span>

</td><td style="width: 165.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="221">**<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">‘Tancoo: Sport, tourism to go hand-in-hand’</span>**

</td><td style="width: 248.2pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="331"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; background: white;">The government proposes to open ten new community centres for fiscal 2026, as announced by Finance Minister Davendranath Tancoo during his 2025/26 national budget presentation at the Red House on October 13.</span>

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">During his presentation, Minister Tancoo touched on the role sports could play in boosting the tourism sector.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">"Tourism remains a hybrid sector. We will develop new products in the medical, sport and cultural tourism sectors and facilitate the completion of hotels," he said.</span>

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; background: white;">Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Phillip Watts said the allocation and the finer details and plans under his ministry will be revealed during the budget debate on October 17.</span>

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</td><td style="width: 126.1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="168">[<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">https://newsday.co.tt/2025/10/14/tancoo-sport-tourism-to-go-hand-in-hand/</span>](https://newsday.co.tt/2025/10/14/tancoo-sport-tourism-to-go-hand-in-hand/)

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</td><td style="width: 75.3pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Trinidad and Tobago Guardian</span>

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> October, 2025</span>

</td><td style="width: 165.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="221">**<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">‘$328M handed to sport in National Budget’</span>**

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</td><td style="width: 248.2pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height: 142.55pt;" valign="top" width="331"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs (MSYA) will receive $328,652,400 for recurrent spending in 2025-2026. However, the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SporTT) will see its allocation raised by $27 million to $147 million.</span>

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Among other areas to be funded from the 2025-2026 allocation are: </span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Brian Lara Cricket Academy - **$1,000,000**</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Indoor arenas and the National Racquet Centre (Tacarigua) - **$1,300,000**</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Capital injection for development programmes - **$38,000,000**</span>

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Minister Tancoo declared that sports are a driver of unity and national pride. As well as stating plans for continued rehabilitation works at community swimming pools alongside national stadia. </span>

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