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Ten years ago, I outlined the three fundamental problems facing T&T as: the need for economic modernisation and diversification; deepening social decay spawning myriad generational problems, including horrendous crime; and institutional dysfunction, as the state fails in fundamental obligations and responsibilities to the citizenry.
But the Dr Keith Rowley administration did virtually nothing. For ten years, it was mainly performance politics: grandstanding, posturing, promising. All theatre. Performing in parliament and on political platforms. Who can forget Colm Imbert’s boastful budget speeches or Rowley’s thundering at Piggot’s Corner and elsewhere? All for applause from partisan audiences. Performance politics! While the decline in our economy, society and institutions became entrenched.
Thankfully, the people sent them packing. Since then, under Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, important steps have been made towards economic modernisation and social restoration. The journey has begun. Profound change started.
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