Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo en­ters to­day’s Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view fac­ing de­mands from unions, busi­ness groups, po­lice of­fi­cers and the Op­po­si­tion, all seek­ing an­swers on jobs, wages, eco­nom­ic growth and Gov­ern­ment spend­ing as Par­lia­ment pre­pares to ab­sorb an ad­di­tion­al $2.93 bil­lion in ex­pen­di­ture.

The sup­ple­men­tal al­lo­ca­tion ap­proved last week will in­crease the 2026 Bud­get from $59.232 bil­lion to ap­prox­i­mate­ly $62.162 bil­lion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Tan­coo told Par­lia­ment the ad­di­tion­al fund­ing is large­ly in­tend­ed to fa­cil­i­tate salary in­creas­es and set­tle­ments in­volv­ing 62,050 unionised work­ers. Ahead of the re­view, stake­hold­ers out­lined a grow­ing list of ex­pec­ta­tions for the Fi­nance Min­is­ter.