To­ba­go’s two seats—To­ba­go East and To­ba­go West—can po­ten­tial­ly have a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on the out­come of the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion.

With the ma­jor par­ties—the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) pre­sent­ing their re­spec­tive man­i­festos to per­suade the pop­u­lace, econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James be­lieves that the ap­pro­pri­ate place to ex­am­ine these 2025 elec­tion man­i­festos starts with the record of per­for­mance of the in­cum­bents dur­ing their tenure.

He said this was best done us­ing the re­al GDP per capi­ta be­cause it de­fined the stan­dard of liv­ing cre­at­ed by the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of the econ­o­my achieved on their watch.