Budget day: Wednesday, March 20

Prime Minister Mia Mottley will deliver her first Budget on March 20.

She made the announcement while delivering the feature address this afternoon at the official opening ceremony of the St Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway.

“Suffice to say that next Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. I will deliver the annual Budget of the country and will do so as we for the first time, take the second reading of the annual Appropriations Bill, bringing together a process that was hitherto separated for all of our previous experience.

“And the reason for it is this: numbers make no sense unless I can show the country and we can agree as a country where we are going with respect to taking the country both economically and socially as a society,” she said.