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Port-of-Spain has record­ed the most sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in in­fla­tion in Trinidad at the start of 2026, with its rate dou­bling from 0.6 per cent in De­cem­ber 2025 to 1.2 per cent in Jan­u­ary 2026.

This was de­tailed in the Cen­tral Bank’s In­fla­tion Re­port (Jan­u­ary 2026) which was ob­tained by the Busi­ness Guardian.

Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai stat­ed the bank is still in­ves­ti­gat­ing the spe­cif­ic caus­es, stat­ing, “That we are try­ing to fig­ure out our­selves.”