Akash Sama­roo

As the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) pre­pares for To­ba­go’s bud­get day on June 23, its Sec­re­tary of Fi­nance, Trade and the Econ­o­my has re­vealed a sig­nif­i­cant shift and new ap­proach in how the fis­cal pri­or­i­ties and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties will be pre­sent­ed.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Sec­re­tary Petal-Ann Roberts said that pre­vi­ous­ly the THA’s bud­get­ing process in­volved a pre­sen­ta­tion usu­al­ly in June of a com­pre­hen­sive bud­get, fol­lowed by a re­cal­i­brat­ed pre­sen­ta­tion post the na­tion­al bud­get read by the Fi­nance Min­is­ter lat­er that year.