{"id":11083,"date":"2018-05-11T01:13:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T05:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2018-05-11T01:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T05:13:38","slug":"imbert-paints-brighter-mid-year-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11083","title":{"rendered":"Imbert paints brighter mid-year picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BIG><B>Economy turning around<\/B><\/BIG><\/p>\n<p><em>By Gail Alexander<br \/>\nMay 11, 2018 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2018-05-10\/economy-turning-around\">guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=colm-imbert\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/cimbert.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' title='Colm Imbert' alt='Colm Imbert' \/><\/a>After two and a half years of financial adjustment, Government\u2019s now seeing its way.<\/p>\n<p>The economy is turning around, revenue collection is up, the energy sector\u2019s booming and the non-oil sector is also growing, Finance Minister Colm Imbert announced yesterday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cFrom all indicators, we\u2019re on the road to economic revival. In the words of Johnny Nash: \u2018I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m allowed some artistic license: \u201cUnder this PNM Government, it\u2019s going to be a bright sun-shining (sic) day\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imbert painted a glowing picture of an economic turnaround as the highlight of his mid-year review of the 2018 Budget in Parliament.<br \/>\n<I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2018-05-10\/economy-turning-around\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/local\/finance-minister-boasts-economic-gloom-over-for-t-t-during\/article_3bf318d4-54c3-11e8-8e36-27c1eb4aa2b2.html\">Finance Minister boasts economic gloom over for T&#038;T during mid-year budget review<\/A><br \/>\n\u201cI CAN see clearly now, the rain has gone,\u201d Finance Minister Colm Imbert chirped yesterday, as he quoted \u201cthe words of Johnny Nash, later made famous by Jimmy Cliff\u201d to signal the end of the gloom and doom and the dawn of Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s \u00adeconomic revival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economy turning around By Gail Alexander May 11, 2018 &#8211; guardian.co.tt After two and a half years of financial adjustment, Government\u2019s now seeing its way. The economy is turning around, revenue collection is up, the energy sector\u2019s booming and the non-oil sector is also growing, Finance Minister Colm Imbert announced yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,217,30,7,1102],"tags":[253,834,49],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-finance","category-parliament","category-pnm","category-politics","category-recession","tag-colm-imbert","tag-guardian","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11084,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions\/11084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}