JUST A REMINDER (Just imagine the PNM does want to play saint) So if you have any doubt as to whether or not the PNM is best for this nation take a look at the following: Here is the MESS the PNM left and what was done to clean it up. ____________________________________________________________ The PNM MESS List 1. A Failed Health Sector 2. Runaway Crime Spree 3. Pothole riddle Roads 4. Water Shortage 5. Massive Flooding 6. A Recession Economy 7. Out of Control Inflation Rate 8. A withered Agriculture Sector 9. $20 billion CLICO Crisis 10. $1.5 billion Contractors debt 11. The Scandalous Tobago Hospital rip-off 12. Traffic Jams galore 13. 75 Unsettled wage negotiations 14. Maco Manning SIA 15. A Rundown outdated Police Service 16. 9,000 former Caroni Workers waiting on land 17. 6,000 Cane Farmers waiting on compensation 18. HCU Crisis 19. $7 billion budget deficit 20. $4 billion WASA debt 21. $1 billion incomplete Tarouba Tsunami shelter 22. $650 million incomplete Legal Affairs Tower 23. $700 million incomplete Chancery Lane Complex 24. $500 million incomplete South Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA) 25. $30 million mystery church 26. UdeCOTT / Calder Hart Scandal 27. President House collapse 28. Emperor’s Palace for Mannings 29. Dustbin Terrorist still at large 30. Bombardier jet joke 31. $576Million Rapid Rail feasibility study scandal 32. A condo for the Profitess/Prophetess at UTT 33. Deadly Cancerous Smelter 34. Su the $50 million boat that can’t float 35. PNM Property Tax 36. $100 million to fix shoddy work done EMBD with Water pipes and Electricity together 37. INHERITED OVER $21BN DEBT FROM PNM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And these are SOME of the things done to clean up the MESS. • Settled 73 out of 75 outstanding wage negotiations 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 • Created the Children life fund • Reduced poverty by 4% • 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 • Provided 500 new vehicles to the Police Service • 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 and the list goes on...
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:04:04 +0000