Give CSO greater role in budget affairs - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Give CSO greater role in budget affairs - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

THE CENTRAL Statistical Office (CSO) on October 16 announced inflation had fallen to one per cent in the prior month. That’s great. But what was the use of the country learning this four days after Minister of Finance Davendranath Tancoo presented a budget that contained fiscal measures that had a direct bearing on prices, such as the drop in super gasoline and the doubling of duties on rum, beer, spirits and cigarettes? Shouldn’t the CSO, which…