ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE’S PARTNERSHIP GOVERNMENT • Settled 78 outstanding wage negotiations 75 which left by the PNM • Settled $20 billion CLICO Crisis • Turn around a recession economy from negative 3.5% to positive 1.7% growth • Completed Tobago hospital • Turn around the agriculture sector from negative to positive growth • Created the Children life fund • Reduced poverty by 7% • Created the Single Electronic Window for ease of doing business • Built the Couva Interchange • Converted Chancery Lane office complex into a teaching hospital • Replaced the Navet South Trunk Main which improved water supply to over 250,000 households • Paid $1.5 billion owed to contractors by the PNM • Completed the Aranguez Overpass • Constructed the St. Helena Delta Bridge connecting Kelly Village to Piarco • Completed the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway Extension • Constructed a Third Lane to Uriah Butler Highway • Rehabilitated the Tarouba Link Road. • Construction of the Solomon Hochoy Highway Extension from Golconda to Debe • Completion of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway/Uriah Butler Highway Interchange • Built 72 new schools • Built 8 new police stations in Trinidad • Provided 500 new vehicles to the Police Service with GPS • Created over 40 New Bus routes • Processed more than 1,000 Certificates of Comfort (COCs). • Commissioned 12 community centres at Gulf View, Marac, Waterloo, Union Claxton Bay, Malabar Phase IV, La Gloria, Hindustan, Bon Air West, Ste. Madeleine, Sisters’ Road, Second Caledonia, Duranta • Built over 30 Bridges • Ministry of Local Gov’t paved 1150 local roads in fiscal year 2012/13 • FOREIGN direct investment increased by over 400% since 2010 from $3.5 billion to almost $16.1 billion. • Given out 75,000 Laptops to Form one Students • Reduced Inflation from 16% in 2010 to 4% in 2014 • Reopened Marper Farm to boost food production • Motor Vehicle Authority to be completed by September • Technology centres in Diego Martin and Penal • Increasing Tobago’s 24/7 pipe water rate which will be at 100% by end of year •Cove Industrial Park opened • Creating a Tobago Development ministry • Roxborough gas station •Tobago UWI Open Campus • Magdalena resort upgraded to bring in tourists • ANR Robinson Airport opened 24/7 attracting more airlines • $150m Upgrade to ANR Robinson Airport terminal • Several govt departments given offices in Tobago so that Tobagonians do not have to travel to POS to access services • PTSC buses added to the national fleet; rural routes expanded • Two new police stations for Tobago • Blackrock fire station • $82m new Met. Office for Tobago • A marina is in the works for Tobago • Couva Children’s Hospital • San Fernando Teaching Hospital • Point Fortin highway • UWI South Campus • National Oncology Centre • El Dorado Training Centre for nurses • Aranguez interchange completed early and under-budget • Laptops for school children • Children’s life fund • Free bus rides for school children • Free bus and ferry rides for the elderly • Raising old age pension to $3000 • 31% increase in pipe-borne water • Merging security agencies into NSOC allowing information sharing • A new upgraded police rapid response unit • 8 new police stations • Motor Vehicle Authority under construction in Caroni to replace the licensing office • Leases for ex-Caroni workers • Completed 66 out of 75 unresolved wage negations left by the former govt • Two year ban on hunting to preserve wild life • Restocking of conch and cascadura in Caroni River • Setting up a tilapia farm • Reduction in the time it takes to register a business from 120 days to 90 days • Winning a $1.4 billion settlement from BAE due to flawed OPV’s and contract breaches • Calling local government elections when due instead of a 4 year postponement • Paving hundreds of KM’s of roads What does the PNM have to show for their 40 years in government? Empty skyscrapers in Port of Spain, extreme poverty and social unrest in all their stronghold seats, and a history of vote rigging, corruption, and nepotism.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:59:15 +0000
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