00:00The budget focuses actually on 10 sectors, 10 priority areas, and those remain the same.
00:06We want to focus on greater constitutional autonomy for Tobago.
00:09Tobago must be a more inclusive society, so everything that we do, all that we do,
00:15in terms of public infrastructure, employment, we want to ensure that the vulnerable,
00:22both socially, mentally, physically vulnerable persons in this space have the same opportunities.
00:30As what we want to call the normal persons in society.
00:35Speaking on Friday during a media conference on the financial state of the THA and recent trade missions,
00:42it was revealed over $2 billion was received from central government.
00:46We have moved $304.4 million from recurrent to supplement the development program expenditure.
00:56I wish to also report that we have since received $2,605,340,409 from the central government for our
01:11releases.
01:13And we have collected, in terms of revenue, because we have an offsetting arrangement,
01:19we have collected for the fiscal year so far, $203,300,737.
01:27Mrs. Roberts said the unspent balances of the THA was used to pay CPEP and URP.
01:34URP so far, $67 million, CPEP approximately $22 million.
01:42Now, I had to verify CPEP because we did a final release, and I'm not sure if that $22 included
01:49that final release.
01:51Right?
01:52Other projects that we used the unspent balances for was the accelerated road improvement program.
02:03You have been seeing the road paving and road improvement project, and the payment of contractors.
02:09She said URP and CPEP would not be closed down.
02:14We are not closing down CPEP, we are not closing down URP, I have ensured that we were able to
02:19cater for these projects in this fiscal from the unspent balances account.
02:25Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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