Budget Address 2018-2019

Budget address for FY2018/19 (52 pages, after Hurricane Maria): recovery, sectors, housing, 2018/19 estimates (recurrent revenue Table 1 with non-tax revenue; budgeted CBI revenue EC$406.6m, already recorded), expenditure tables, tax and social measures. Programme content: CBI-funded hotel projects (pp. 21-22: Kempinski 161 rooms and some 450 construction workers; Jungle Bay 60 villas/120 rooms, 100 permanent jobs; Anichi/Marriott 128 rooms, up to 280 jobs; Tranquillity Beach; room counts and employment recorded); CBI-built housing by Montreal Management Consultants (p. 24: residential units by site - 68, 66 x5, 68 x3, 135 at Roseau City Square - plus 341 under construction at Bellevue Chopin, 91 to be handed over on 31 Aug 2018, 369 to be completed in the year; all recorded under the proposed indicator cbi_funded_housing_units); EC$108.0m World Bank housing and 155 Venezuela-funded homes (p. 25, not CBI); 3,853 homes contracted and housing financed "exclusively from the CBI" (p. 25, event already recorded); CBI administrative expenses EC$101.7m in the 2018/19 estimates (p. 34, recorded); EC$5m of CBI proceeds to the National Health Insurance pilot (p. 46, recorded). Non-tax revenue totals and other tables are not CBI-specific.