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By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Carmen Berkley, a strategist with a Seattle-based foundation advocating equity and racial justice, remembers meeting Harry Belafonte a decade ago when she […]
Imbert said the government will adjust the criteria for accessing GATE. He said students with good standing, enrolled in accredited institutions and programmes will qualify if they completed an initial programme of study.#ttbudget2023
— T&T Newsday (@Newsday_TT) September 26, 2022
3 GOVT GUARANTEED LOANS FOR THE HDC totaling to $1.5 billion.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said $500 million will be used for stalled or existing projects, $500 mil for debt owed to contractors and $500 mil for the construction of new housing units. @Newsday_TT
— Narissa Fraser (@rhopico) September 26, 2022
He said the difference in revenue would be better spent in social grants, where $5.4 billion is spent per year, food support, on which $175 million is utilised, disability grants at $630 million, and social assistance grants, which cost $355 million.https://t.co/9lsgAsolSF
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said the government has allocated $300m for agricultural incentives, infrastructure and programmes.#ttbudget2023
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says that right now, the 4 % proposed increase in wages to public sector workers is the best the government can do.#Budget2023 @Newsday_TT
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says that right now, the 4 % proposed
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ALTHOUGH Tobago received $185 million more than it did last year, Chief Secretary Farley Augustine said the THA could have done with more. Tobago was allocated $2.521 billion or 4.3 per cent of the total 2023 national budget.
In his June presentation, Augustine presented a $3.97 billion budget package for Tobago, but was left with a 38.4 per cent shortfall.
Speaking at a press conference after the presentation, Augustine said his team predicted the nation budget would be around $57.4 billion which was close to the actual number of $57.685.
'That speaks to the accuracy with which we in Tobago actually do our budgetary preparation. You would also appreciate that this request (of 3.97 billion) was ... THA's smallest request for some time, and yet it was not completely fulfilled.'
He pointed out that Finance Minister Imbert said the THA budget was excellent, good for economic development and growth, yet the minister chose not to give the THA the allocation that would have allowed for the development of Tobago.
Augustine rejected Imbert's suggestion that the THA would have received 6.8 per cent of the national budget if the 2021 Tobago Island Government Bill was passed to provide the island with greater autonomy.
'In 2001, this Parliament, in this place, accepted the Dispute Resolution Commission's recommendations and Parliament unanimously accepted those recommendations, which is, in fact, the guiding regulations for budgetary allocations to Tobago.
'In that recommendation it says that Tobago, the THA, should be funded to the tune of between 4.03 per cent and 6.9 per cent.'
As such, he said, the Bill did not need to pass for the THA to get 6.8 per cent.
He said Imbert encouraged the THA in his presentation to engage state enterprises and agencies in raising revenue. Augustine agreed and hoped the central government would expedite the granting of an export license to the THA so Tobago could attract foreign exchange so the Assembly could meet the billion-dollar shortfall.
He added that the air- and sea-bridge was an important part of the island's public transportation infrastructure but accessibility in its service-driven economy was a challenge. He said Tobagonians travelled to Trinidad for medical, education, services not available in Tobago and other critical reasons.
'The first thing the minister should have treated with has to do with the efficiency of the air and sea bridge to allow for the transiting of people to and from Tobago.'
The post Farley: Tobago should have gotten more appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
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Ayodele Nigerian Prophet Primate Elijah Ayodele has warned President Lazarus Chakwera of corruption and that people in his party and those around the president will betray him. Primate Ayodele has sent prophetic warnings to o eight African countries including Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome, Malawi, Mali, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Central African Republic (CAR). In […]
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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said a plan submitted to Texas environmental regulators to remediate legacy rail yard contamination in a north Houston neighborhood won’t be sufficient after the city’s health […]
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Energy prices have changed so the Government had to make adjustments, was how the Prime Minister explained the increase in fuel prices during the 2023 budget.
On Monday, during the budget presentation at the Red House, the Finance Minister, Colm Imbert, announced the prices of premium, super and kerosene increased by $1 while diesel increased by 50 cents.
He said while other countries taxed fuel, TT subsidised it, so the country's response to the energy crisis would be different. The reason the Government did not further increase the diesel prices, he said, was because it would have caused major price increases in other sectors.
At the same time, those on the lower income scale were eligible for a one-off $1,000 transportation grant to ease the burden. He added that the Government did not remove subsidies on LPG, deciding to keep the $300 million in subsidies for the benefit of lower income households.
Dr Rowley said fuel subsidies were decreased because the Government decided not to use all of the unexpected $8 billion revenue caused by the unexpected increase in fuel prices to only subsidise fuel. He said he expected some 'push back' but it was best for the country.
He said of the $8.2 billion of increased revenue, about $2.6 billion was spent in the mid-year review, $1 billion was placed in the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund, $2.5 billion went to public servants, about $2 billion in fuel subsidy, and the remaining was used on other things that needed to be done.
'If we had not interfered with the fuel price at all, $7 billion worth of subsidies would have been required and the $8 billion that we would have got from the increased market arrangements would have gone straight to that.
'It means we could have done nothing else for the country, including the people who would have benefited from that.'
He suggested people could reduce personal fuel cost by buying vehicles that used less fuel, not driving during peak traffic hours, carpooling, and taking public transport.
He said the Government was not prepared to have public servants work from home to help reduce personal fuel costs as the arrangement would take a certain amount of infrastructure and discipline he did not think the people of the country had.
'Let us not misbehave here over the changes that were forced upon us. This change in fuel price is not the Government's doing. It's the Government responding to a product which is priced internationally. And we, fortunately, are in a position to do something about it.'
Imbert interjected that the Government could have increased the personal income tax exemption from $84,000 to $90,000 a year was because of the reduction in the fuel subsidy. 'It's a trade off.'
Addressing the $25 to $50 price increase in travel to and from Tobago, Rowley said it was an expensive service. He said the two ferries on the sea bridge cost $1 billion and the Government was still paying off the loan. And even with the increase, the ferry rides were still being subsidised for about $170 million, which was pai
The University of California (UC) system is channeling Aaliyah and telling rejected applicants, “Dust yourself off and try again.” UC higher-ups recently unveiled a new plan to help improve admission access: giving select high schoolers who were rejected a second chance.
The woman who alleged rapper Mystika sexually assaulted her gave details about the alleged incident that could put him behind bars for life.
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell seeks four new members to serve on the Pike Place Market Historical Commission. The open positions are: 1) One architect, 2) One merchant of the Market, and 3+4) Two residents of the Historical District.
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Authorities in Florida have brought several child sex crime charges against a pastor who also owns and runs a kung fu training academy. According to WESH, Palm Bay police said Roberson Douge - a pastor at Apostolic Church of Christ - was taken into custody on September 21 after two of the victims he allegedly...
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Finance Minister Colm Imbert has said the International Monetary Fund's forecast for global growth is 3.2 per cent in 2022 and 2.9 per cent in 2023, significantly less than the 6.1 per cent in 2021.
He made the statement during the reading of the Estimates of Expenditure for Fiscal 2023 in the budget reading in Parliament on Monday.
Imbert said this would be exacerbated by expected recessions in the US and Europe.
\"A US recession may be induced by an aggressive monetary-policy tightening in response to elevated inflation, and a recession in Europe will reflect surging energy prices and rationing.
\"China may escape recession, but is expected to experience weaker than usual growth in 2022 due to repeated lockdowns, a housing correction and weakening external growth, and they are expected to see only a modest recovery in 2023.\"
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The COVID-era universal free lunch program will no longer offer free or reduced meals the 2022-2023 school year. For the last two years, the federal government made school lunches free […]
