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$44.3b budget on US$55 oil price
Posted: Tuesday, September 8, 2009
T&T's 2009 – 2010 Budget Statement
The text of the 2009-2010 Budget Statement as was presented in the House of Representatives on Monday, September 08, 2009, by the Minister of Finance the Honourable Karen Nunez-Tesheira.
Uff calls commission to an end
"This is the end of the Commission's proceedings one way or the other," said the Enquiry's chairman Prof John Uff QC, yesterday.
'Udecott inquiry legal'
CHAIRMAN of the Commission of Inquiry into Udecott and the construction sector Professor John Uff yesterday vowed to complete his report as he declared the inquiry proceedings to be legal under the common-law, notwithstanding a legal glitch over its non-publication in the Gazette. Uff made this declaration even as he announced the axing of the hearings on the Cleaver Heights housing project which had been carded for this week.
Cleaver Heights probe dead
The probe into the controversial Cleaver Heights housing project by the John Uff Commission of Enquiry is now dead. It can be resurrected, but it will not be done by the Uff Enquiry.
PM baffled over probe collapse
Prime Minister Patrick Manning is promising a probe into the collapse of the Uff Commission of Enquiry into the Construction Sector.
Rowley wants probe by law enforcement
Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley says no matter what happens with the Commission of Enquiry into the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) and the construction sector, enough evidence has been raised during its proceedings to warrant an investigation by law enforcement.
AG: A basic error
Jeremie seeks solution to blunder
ATTORNEY General John Jeremie yesterday described moves by his Office to find a solution to the legal blunder that has hit the Uff Commission of Inquiry as "a high priority" as he described the blunder as embarrassing. He warned it "will never happen again."
Keep Babies, and Toddlers Safe
Government yesterday launched a major crackdown against traffic offenders by imposing a range of hefty new penalties against them in its $44 billion Budget for 2010.
Big Fines for Drivers
$44.3b budget on US$55 oil price
Tint fines for Govt drivers
Drivers of heavily tinted National Security vehicles may also face the new fine of $2000 introduced in the 2010 Budget, Finance Minister, Karen Nunez-Tesheira said after her presentation yesterday.
Inshan: Transfer tax issue no big deal
President of the pre-owned Automobile Dealers' Association, Inshan Ishmael, says the 50 per cent increase in motor vehicle transfer tax, announced during the 2009/2010 budget, will not affect motorists in any way.
Budget on board
FINANCE Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira in her Budget speech yesterday announced several tough measures to try to curb recklessness by errant motorists. We were particularly heartened by her promise to bring a new law for the protection of young children travelling in motor vehicles. She vowed, "The Government will bring legislation to this honourable House to make the use of child restraints mandatory for children five years of age and under."
Economist: US$2.75 gas price too high
THA's London pleased with $2.7b
...Tobago pleased with $2.2b
PM happy with fiscal package
Sport gets $3.88 billion
Kamla sees no hope for citizens
Bankruptcy says Dookeran
Leader of the Congress of the People Winston Dookeran is describing the 2009/2010 budget as one of bankruptcy.
There was a lot of fluff, says Dookeran
Panday: Budget is shameful
Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday yesterday described the 2009/2010 fiscal package for the country as the most shameless budget he had ever heard.
Panday: Things will get worse
Chamber: Just a continuation
The Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce has described yesterday's 2009/2010 budget as a "continuation of previous budgets".
Another promise of NCEC start
Since the demolishing of the Grand Stand in the Queen's Park Savannah in 2006, construction work on a National Carnival and Entertainment Centre (NCEC) has been promised to commence each year.
National Security gets $4.1 billion
THE National Security Ministry was allocated $4.1 billion in the 2009/2010 Budget, an increase of $263 million as announced yesterday by Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira.
Booze, smokes go up
More taxes on alcohol, tobacco
Smokers, drinkers blue mad
THE announcement of a 15 percent increase in cigarettes, tobacco and alcohol has come under heavy fire and criticism from citizens in Port-of-Spain shortly after Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira completed her three-hour 2009/2010 Budget presentation.
Karen: Fiscal plan to boost economy
Budget lacks direction
Transferred cop held for guns, drugs
A POLICEMAN who was recently transferred from St Joseph Police Station, in light of the discovery of arms, ammunition and drugs at that station, was detained yesterday.
Policeman's bail reduced from $600,00 to $100,000
A POLICEMAN had his $600,000 bail - to cover nine charges of misbehaviour in public office - granted by a Justice of the Peace, slashed to $100,000 yesterday by an Arima magistrate before whom he appeared to answer the charges.
Car thief shot dead
POLICE fatally shot a car thief and held two of his accomplices in Aranjuez yesterday.
Woman pleads guilty to trying to mail cocaine
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