Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo has ac­knowl­edged that the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) will be pay­ing close at­ten­tion to Gov­ern­ment's pro­ject­ed time frames for its poli­cies - but he says the ad­min­is­tra­tion is con­fi­dent in its abil­i­ty and that its plans will bear fruit in broad-based na­tion­al growth and de­vel­op­ment.

Tan­coo made that clear yes­ter­day in a brief re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia queries re­gard­ing the IMF's con­clud­ing state­ment on T&T. That was de­liv­ered on Tues­day, fol­low­ing the IMF team’s vis­it from Jan­u­ary 27-Feb­ru­ary 9 to con­duct its an­nu­al Ar­ti­cle IV mis­sion.