Government of Trinidad and Tobago Reports Better Than Expected Revenues

 

• Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday the Government received 13 percent more revenue than it had projected in the first quarter of the 2019 fiscal year, mainly as a result of higher natural gas prices.

 

• Speaking at a news conference at the Ministry of Finance, an upbeat Imbert said the Government had projected to receive $10 billion in the first quarter of the 2019 fiscal year, from October 1, 2018, to December 31, 2018.

 

• He said the actual total revenue for the period was $11.3 billion.

 

(Source: Trinidad Express)