John Briceno, Prime Minister
"In January, we will hold another GST-free weekend on the 23rd and 24th of January 2027. We hope that this will bring some relief to households at the start of the new year. And if you notice, this helps everybody that goes to the store to buy, and all our people need to go and buy at the store. We've also recognizedâ€"and it's the senior minister that has brought it to our attentionâ€"the food basket we have, it's about 40 products, right? We need to review that basket. Some of the products in there are probably not the healthiest of food, so we need to look if there are healthier foods that we can put in that basket and maybe remove those that are not healthy. And we have to expand it a little bit more; we plan to do so."