They’ve called this a journey. But for most citizens, the last 10+ years have felt like a slow erosion of hope. This manifesto captures — chapter by chapter — the most defining failures and contradictions of a government that asked for loyalty and returned hardship.
🍚 Essential food prices up by 45% — rice, flour, and basic goods now cost nearly twice as much as they did a few years ago.
⛽ Fuel subsidies eliminated entirely — with no matching income adjustment for commuters or transport workers.
📉 Real wage value down 17% — even when salaries stay flat, inflation eats away at purchasing power every year.
🏘️ 0% national stimulus for MSMEs — no scalable programs or grants to support small businesses or local entrepreneurs.
📦 Middle class shrunk by over 20% — once-stable families are now one emergency away from poverty.
🧾 Cost of living index rose 32% — without any corresponding wage policy or social cushion.
The middle class in Trinidad and Tobago is shrinking. Working people are taking home less, spending more, and saving nothing. In the last decade:
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Public servants wait. Ministers evacuate. It’s the kind of inequality that breaks trust and fractures nations:
🏥 Over 60% of high-ranking officials received offshore medical care
📉 National health institutions underfunded for 8+ years
⏱️ Citizens wait an average of 8 hours in ERs
🚑 Ambulance shortage while top officials charter jets
Transparency has become optional. Oversight is invisible. Billions in taxpayer funds vanish into projects with no result
Tobago has become a case study in national neglect. Infrastructure plans announced but never launched. Tourism opportunities squandered. And public frustration boiling
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