For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of dis­hon­est­ly tak­ing cred­it for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s im­proved Moody’s out­look from a neg­a­tive to sta­ble sta­tus, ar­gu­ing that the in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency’s de­ci­sion was dri­ven by high­er oil and gas prices linked to con­flict in the Mid­dle East, rather than Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of the econ­o­my.

Con­tribut­ing to the de­bate im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo’s Mid-Year Re­view in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, Im­bert re­butted claims that there was an im­prove­ment thanks to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

He said T&T al­ready held a sta­ble out­look be­fore it was re­vised to neg­a­tive in De­cem­ber 2025, ar­gu­ing that the lat­est ad­just­ment re­turned the coun­try to its ear­li­er po­si­tion.