As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment cel­e­brat­ed its one-year an­niver­sary on Tues­day, busi­ness lead­ers in south Trinidad re­main op­ti­mistic about the per­for­mance of the Gov­ern­ment.

Some of the is­sues that south­ern Trinidad faces in­clude un­em­ploy­ment, the clo­sure of state-owned Petrotrin and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of it re­open­ing, the open­ing of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) South Cam­pus and the ease of do­ing busi­ness and crime among oth­er is­sues.

Pres­i­dent of the Greater San Fer­nan­do Area Cham­ber of Com­merce Ki­ran Singh told the Busi­ness Guardian that he ac­knowl­edges that it has on­ly been one year since the UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion as­sumed of­fice, and with­in this rel­a­tive­ly short pe­ri­od, there have been “en­cour­ag­ing signs” of re­newed fo­cus, en­gage­ment and di­rec­tion for the na­tion­al econ­o­my.