Beckles slams Govt’s ‘bikini budget’ over lack of substance and vision

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has slammed the Gov­ern­ment’s 2027 Bud­get as a “biki­ni bud­get” lack­ing sub­stance, da­ta and a clear vi­sion for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s eco­nom­ic fu­ture.

Speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo’s pre­sen­ta­tion in the Red House yes­ter­day, Beck­les ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of fail­ing to out­line spe­cif­ic plans and ini­tia­tives to stim­u­late eco­nom­ic growth, cre­ate jobs and de­liv­er on its elec­tion promis­es.

Beck­les said, “This is a bud­get al­most like a short skirt. Ab­solute­ly no da­ta. Not a sin­gle piece of da­ta. A biki­ni bud­get that’s what it is... This is a lazy bud­get.”