00:00Tobago is the only place you could get good coconut oil. I don't know for Grenada and those other places,
00:05but I'm going to talk about what I know about. So I don't know what it will be. And then
00:11with my sugar cakes and my drops and my coconut tart, which is a very fast seller, I don't know
00:18what they'll be doing about it.
00:19Ms. Jean, as she is popularly known in Tobago, is from Mason Hall and has been in the business of
00:26manufacturing sweets for the past 70 years.
00:30I started at the age of 12 when I passed my school even and I was going in for a
00:34pupil teacher. Then due to little difficulties with my glasses and so on, my mother put me to sell my
00:43little products to buy back my glasses. So I started it up and it was a success and I never
00:48gave it up.
00:49The finance bill, under which governs the manufacturing of vinegar and copper, was passed on Wednesday in the parliament. Finance
00:57Minister Devindranath Tanku said no new taxes were a part of the bill.
01:03Well, what about the sugar cakes and the cakes? Everything is coconut. You're cooking coconut stew. You're making kalaloo. What
01:10are you going to be doing? That is foolishness. Coconut water. Everything will be coconut.
01:16So I don't think that is an idea. If that is only thought they want to get at or to
01:20demolish somebody's living or their preference of getting something, I think that is a foolish idea.
01:26Ms. Roberts said the bill sets to target small business owners in Tobago.
01:31We'll do something about the flour. What's making the flour of the cassava? Why you have to choose the coconut
01:36oil to give you everything, the oil, everything.
01:38Mets making with coconut oil, everything. What are you doing that for? I don't see the census there.
01:44The bill now heads to the Standing Finance Committee. Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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