PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has promised the country "a very good budget", replying to reporters' questions at a function to honour athletes Keshorn Walcott and Jereem Richards plus the Trinidad Knight Riders cricket team at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann's, on September 23. The budget is expected to be presented in early October.

"With respect to recurrent expenditure, today I shared with ministers the first draft of the recurrent expenditure for them to look to see where they want to put the priority, in which areas to put priority, in which areas to move/shift, as the case may be."

The PM said her government was now very hard at work with the budget.