PORT OF SDPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government will present the 2013-14 national budget on September 3 and dismissed suggestions that the announcement late Sunday night was aimed at a distraction from the upcoming Local Government elections. A brief statement from the Office of the Prime Minister said that the date for presenting the fiscal package had been finalised after Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar held consultations with Finance Minister Larry Howai. Howai in 2012 presented a TT$58.4 billion (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) compared to the previous year figure of TT$54.6 billion.
