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OPPOSITION Leader Pennelope Beckles will begin debate on the $59.2 billion 2025/2026 budget when the House of Representatives sits at the Red House, Port of Spain, on October 17 from 10 am.

Finance Minister Davendranath Tancoo presented the budget in the House on October 13. His presentation was three and a half hours long.

Under the House's standing orders, the first responder to the budget is entitled to speak for the same length of time as the budget's presenter.