Tag Archives: budget 2024

“[…] National budgets are critical moments for shaping a country’s future. Instead of addressing the actual content of the budget, this article reduces the coverage to petty complaints about time. “CNC3 should aim to deliver coverage that explains how budgetary measures will affect the economy, jobs, healthcare, education, and more…” …

Finance Minister Colm Imbert delivered his version of Black Stalin’s Wait Dorothy Wait. His budget was the reverse of Stalin’s lyrics: That oil money come, and oil money go, and poor people remain on the pavement and ghetto, aah when Mr Divider start to divide the bread equally, I go …

In the aftermath of the annual ritual of the presentation of the Budget, three of Trinidad and Tobago’s most credible and authentic practitioners in the arts and culture were reported in the Trinidad Express newspaper, last week, as expressing reservations about what is passed off as Government support for culture …

“There is no avoiding the fact that public confidence in the Police and police legitimacy is essential. We recognise that, in many cases, the lack of trust between the Police and the community constrains effective crime intervention. “We are aiming at improving police accountability, re-establishing trust and credibility between the …

“[…] Why do we have to partner with the GC Foster College (of Jamaica) when we have the Sport and Physical Education Centre /SPEC at UWI? Under the leadership of Dr Iva Gloudon, dozens of physical education teachers and coaches generally benefited from accredited diploma courses leading to full degrees. …

Budget Day. As usual, many citizens are waiting to hear what goodies are coming their way this year. Most are focused on Finance Minister Colm Imbert. What, they are asking, will the Finance Minister deliver today? But some others, not so much. What ball, we untypical Trini cricket fans are …

What do the deaths of the siblings Faith Peterkin, 10; Arianna Peterkin, 14; Shane Peterkin, 17; and Tiffany Peterkin, 19, have to do with our national budget? Does the death of Shazade Simon, the three-year-old who suffered burns in a cooking-related accident, have any relevance to our budget discussions? What about …

“The real problem is that oil dollars have reduced us all to ‘petro-jumbies’, a people who have never explored our creativity, our talents, our potential. “For generations, we have been lazy slobs, knowing that the oil dollar, down today but up tomorrow, will rescue us from ruin, cushion fuel prices, …