Ahead of the Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view, T&T’s pri­vate sec­tor is is­su­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed call for the Gov­ern­ment to move be­yond pol­i­cy in­ten­tions and de­liv­er mea­sur­able re­sults, as con­cerns grow over slug­gish eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty, per­sis­tent struc­tur­al bot­tle­necks and de­clin­ing busi­ness con­fi­dence.

The Greater Tu­na­puna Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (GT­CIC), the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers (CR­BC), rep­re­sent­ed by chief strat­e­gy of­fi­cer Ang­ie Jairam, the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, and To­ba­go busi­ness­woman Di­ane Hadad have all iden­ti­fied ur­gent pri­or­i­ty ar­eas.

Lead­ing the call on di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion, Hadad warned that the coun­try can no longer af­ford to de­lay a shift away from en­er­gy de­pen­dence, urg­ing tan­gi­ble com­mit­ments backed by fund­ing.