$6000 for poor babies

[pioneer]

Poor babies to get support for a year



Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday gave a sneak peek at the national budget which is expected to be read by Finance Minister Larry Howai tomorrow.

With the budget statement in her hand as she addressed the Congress of the People’s inter-faith service yesterday in Montrose, Persad-Bissessar announced a new $500-a-month allocation for babies born to the most vulnerable families. That allocation will continue for the first year of the child’s life, Persad-Bissessar said. It takes effect from October.

She also announced that the rainy day Heritage and Stabilization Fund would receive a boost, and spoke of plans to promote the manufacturing sector. The PM said plans for the manufacturing sector were part of the move toward diversification of the economy. Persad-Bissessar also revisited the contentious Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2014 which passed after amendments were made last month.

She said she “did not care” if it spelled political suicide for her and her Government as long as she did what was right. She promised to call the election when it was constitutionally due next year, warning that it was not due until September 2015. While Howai is keeping the final figure for the 2014-2015 budget close to his chest, he has revealed that, just like last year, the education sector will get the biggest slab of the multibillion-dollar pie.

In a one-on-one interview with the Sunday Guardian, Howai said that in tomorrow’s budget presentation, education would receive 12 per cent of the entire budget figure. Persad-Bissessar was reported as pegging this year’s budget at “more or less” than $60 billion. This Government has steadily produced some of the biggest budgets this country has ever had.

Last year’s budget allocated $9.8 billion to education, $6.5 billion to national security and $5 billion to the health sector. Public utilities were allocated $3.8 billion, while housing received $2.7 billion and local government $2.4 billion. Works, which now falls under local government, received $2.4 billion last year with agriculture being given the least at $1.3 billion.

National security, which usually takes the second largest chunk of the budget, is not expected to receive any major increase in this 2014-2015 budget, leaving it with almost the same allocation it had last year. Since Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal has said his ministry needs $6 billion in allocation for the next financial year, housing’s allocation could surpass that of national security in the 2014-2015 budget.

If Moonilal is granted that massive allocation, the 2014-2015 budget would see his ministry doubling its multibillion-dollar allocation in one year. Last year’s budget was calibrated on oil prices pegged at US$80 per barrel and gas prices estimated at US$2.75 million metric British Thermal Units (mmBtu). The 2013-2014 budget also pegged T&T’s total revenue at $55.041 billion, with revenue from oil of $23.374 billion and non-oil revenue of $32.667 billion.

Howai last year predicted a fiscal deficit of $6.357 billion or 3.6 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), down from the 4.6 per cent in the 2013 budget. Tobago last year was expected to receive $3.309 billion or the equivalent of 5.39 per cent of the national budget.

[hustla_ambition101]

They should be giving these "poor" people family planning advice and condoms instead of encouraging them to have children. What happens after year 1?

[K74T]

Steups

[Xplode]

So she encouraging baby making , look how uml & zoom go make pnm areas a major part of this .

[j.o.e]

They should be giving these "poor" people family planning advice and condoms instead of encouraging them to have children. What happens after year 1?

This
After year one, another one on the way already

[pioneer]

Yepp so those people guaranteed that allowance once they push out a pickney each year.

When would we ever be a capitalist state?

[1UZFE]

They should be giving these "poor" people family planning advice and condoms instead of encouraging them to have children. What happens after year 1?

This
After year one, another one on the way already

Not really . There is an overwhelming amt of free programs where condom n family planning is given. These ppl jus ignore it.
This is a poor attempt to win face kbp.
When dey skin out dey legs dey no wat dey doin and off course its a cycle.

[src1983]

Yepp so those people guaranteed that allowance once they push out a pickney each year.

When would we ever be a capitalist state?

This.

Socialism kills the economy

[ismithx]

this is a bad idea. people will make baby just to get money.

[pioneer]

Make ah baby, eatta food.


I love my pm kpb

[pugboy]

you mean make more

this is a bad idea. people will make baby just to get money.

[88sins]

ooohhhh goooorrrrrmm
dis friggin dotish woman doin more shite again.

what these ppl need is family planning advice & incentives, & some chemical sterilization, a jail cell & strokes from the birch fuh makin a setta chirren when they know dam well they can't afford to take care of them.

[K74T]

*Awaits the sheep's justification for this

[nismoid]

*Awaits the sheep's justification for this

Me too

[nervewrecker]

She should define poor first...cuz 'poor' ppl wearing big gold chain, earring and teeth now eh...

jus cuz you may have a leaking latrine, house dilapidated, unemployed etc..it doh mean yuh poor again eh..it just means yuh stink, lazy and unambitious..

I seeing new vehicles under or in front some of these houses. And by new I mean from the firm, not roro.

[Moorg Life]

Typical woman playing Mother Theresa role with other ppl money

[ras_elmo]

She should define poor first...cuz 'poor' ppl wearing big gold chain, earring and teeth now eh...

jus cuz you may have a leaking latrine, house dilapidated, unemployed etc..it doh mean yuh poor again eh..it just means yuh stink, lazy and unambitious..

So accurate is a shame....works nowhere...living in filth....boat ride/concert every weekend....Jordans n Air max in abundance

[DVSTT]

They should be giving these "poor" people family planning advice and condoms instead of encouraging them to have children. What happens after year 1?

Exactly. If you require government assistance to take care of your child, you should be legally required to "have your tubes tied" before you have access to the fund. That way you get away from the usual 10 children single mother that we see on local media articles begging for assistance.

[TriP]

They should be giving these "poor" people family planning advice and condoms instead of encouraging them to have children. What happens after year 1?

TnT baby boom..man looking to cash in after 9 months

[pugboy]

tough for Rowley to respond to this

[fouljuice]

500 bull pistle per month for the first year for the parents, would be have been more appropriate.

[SR]

If yuh cant feed dont breed.........

[sonygoup]

Sigh pp gonna rape we this budget

[src1983]

Election budget, no income, real spending

Different party same poop

[hindian]

This woman is an idiot....

[javishm]

D phoq I just read dey

[hustla_ambition101]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1540049 ... tif_t=like

PEA is a worse buttlicker than UML, defending this "initiative" til death, talking sheit about humanitarian

[Good nature]

They should be giving these "poor" people family planning advice and condoms instead of encouraging them to have children. What happens after year 1?

Exactly. If you require government assistance to take care of your child, you should be legally required to "have your tubes tied" before you have access to the fund. That way you get away from the usual 10 children single mother that we see on local media articles begging for assistance.

Slave / slave driver mentality needs to go

[Crackpot]

I luv this PM, allyuh cyah beatback skinout insurance

[Casper23]

And it so begins ....more wastage of public funds. For those of you who believe this will beneficial look at the tt food card...how many *needy* persons are actually involved within such program?