The Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh, is en­cour­ag­ing land­lords across Trinidad and To­ba­go to com­plete the re­cent­ly rolled out on­line Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge reg­is­tra­tion with­in the stip­u­lat­ed time frame.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Swarats­ingh said that while the ini­tia­tive is still in its ear­ly stages, there has been a grad­ual re­sponse from prop­er­ty own­ers since the process opened on Sun­day.

“I don’t have the ex­act num­bers as of now, but the on­ly in­for­ma­tion I got this morn­ing...we have had slow and steady per­sons ap­ply­ing, but per­sons have been avail­ing them­selves from 8 am this morn­ing...it’s just been slow and steady as the day pro­gressed,” Swarats­ingh said.