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
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:42:03 +0000
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