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Ramona Ramdial
Our United National Congress (UNC) Government has gone past its first 100 days in office. This was the period to set a clear vision and start walking the talk. One of the UNC’s biggest campaign promises was mass job creation, so the mass CEPEP, URP, and Reafforestation Programme firings appear immediately inconsistent. Some considered the move uncharacteristically callous for a Kamla Persad-Bissessar administration.
The calling of the State of Emergency early in the new Government’s “honeymoon” reminded the citizenry of the previous one called by the last People’s National Movement government, which seems to confirm that our protective services are a “one-trick pony.” Still, the Government scored some quick wins with the repeal of the T&T Revenue Authority, the expansion of the Children’s Life Fund, the scrapping of the property tax and the demerit points system, the “stand-your-ground” consultations, the extra week of school vacation, and the T&TEC rate freeze.
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