From mid-night October 7 (October 8) consumers paid less for gasoline and more for diesel. The retail price of gasoline dropped from $3.91 BDS per litre to $3.89, a decrease of two cents, or -0.5%. Diesel increased from $3.14 BDS per litre to $3.20, an increase of six cents, or +1.9% (Source: Barbados Government Information…
Read More Barbados Fuel Price Change October 2018Full text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – October 2018 newsletter: There is a Second Opinion on the Health of the Barbadian Economy In November last year I published a diagnosis and prescription for the economy in The Barbados Economy: The Road to Prosperity, which you may…
Read More DeLisle Worrell: Second Opinion on Barbadian EconomyFive Takeaways from the 2019 Trinidad & Tobago Budget 1. Revenue and Expenditure Budget for 2019 at $47.7Bn TTD and $51.7Bn TTD respectively. 2. Super Gasoline price increase from $3.97 TTD to $4.97 TTD per llitre. 3. Economy forecast to grow by 1.9% in 2019. 4. Government will spend $2.6Bn TTD in severance packages for…
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