SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

It’s Bud­get Day and every year like clock­work, mo­torists flood gas sta­tions, in an­tic­i­pa­tion of an in­crease in fu­el prices.

How­ev­er, it seems as though that rush has not yet start­ed.

Guardian Me­dia’s pho­to­graph­ic team vis­it­ed sev­er­al gas sta­tions in South and North Trinidad around 1 pm, ahead of the 2021/2022 fis­cal pack­age be­ing laid in Par­lia­ment by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert.

At sev­er­al gas sta­tions, there were on­ly a few ve­hi­cles, while some were emp­ty.

Par­lia­ment con­vened at 1.30 pm to­day, with the Fi­nance Min­is­ter be­gin­ning his Bud­get Pre­sen­ta­tion af­ter Mem­bers of the House re­mem­bered their late col­league, for­mer La Brea MP, Fitzger­ald Jef­frey.