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Dear Editor,
Reduce Value Added Tax (VAT). Raise the minimum wage to $25 as previously called for and as it’s mostly the young people on it.
Raise in pay for our young national athletes who often make us proud as their career span already is shorter than in most other fields.
More stadiums and facilities to boost sports and reduce idle hands thus decreasing crime.
More lighting in grounds needed especially for our youths to be able to practice longer to better themselves.
Increase wages for the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) and the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP).
Increase jobs announce what creations and ideas arise since general election win as now young graduates cannot find jobs to repay their schooling.
About two billion should suffice for Tobago. Increase vacation room stock, the government needs to court and partner with more multi-national hotel brands to boost both our local and international tourism.
Update and upgrade roads in Trinidad and Tobago. Introduce more road projects to ease traffic. State whether the brilliant plans of the past Rowley, Young, Rohan, Sookhai administration to fix traffic particularly in Central namely the Munroe Road roundabout, both Endeavour and Edinburgh overpass projects and the completion of the Endeavour roundabout.
Will there be continued commitment for a causeway to Chaguaramas as previously announced in the first Persad-Bissessar-led Government incarnation and would we have to pay to use it?
No to toll roads, we especially youths who can barely afford a first used car must pay to then drive on my, our country’s roadways? Expand highways thus allowing for more investment and business through the creation of and quicker access to commercial spaces.
I call for the widening and addition of lanes particularly on what is referred to as the “Caroni stretch” in between the farmlands from Warrenville and from the roundabout near Vishnu Boys Hindu College towards Kelly Village and Saint Helena.
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A sole dedicated lane for heading to Champs Fleur from the East will alleviate traffic as there is currently only one single lane that facilitates heading Central and South and Champs Fleur from the East. I call on politicians to revisit the plan, revisit the idea of traffic heading towards Champs Fleur because every single morning and evening and sometimes the entire day, Champs Fleurs is ridden with traffic thus hampering and losing both FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) and local investment opportunities.
What does Champs Fleurs have – many businesses, schools, housing and the Mount Hope Hospital. The Mount Hope Hospital car park is always full. Relocate the hospital with bigger and updated facilities more easterly to reach and serve more people.
Trinidad needs new buses and more routes in an on-time manner free for our elderly and children, I am fed up of sweating and melting in this heat while utilising PTSC.
Bring back the trains! Will the vehicle import age be increased resulting in cheaper imported lower quality foreign used cars with useless features to our climate and unsuitable for our roads? This will increase traffic because of more cars to our already burdensome road networks. Can we handle that? Why as Trinidad was already going through somewhat of an economic boom under the past Rowley-led administration, car prices and loans became very accessible. More trade, services and hospitality schools please.
Why is the University of the West Indies located in St Augustine? Relocate UWI to a central location. Widen the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) Programme, remove the shameful means test and increase scholarships.
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Would laptops be given willy-nilly and if so state who is getting the contracts? State agencies spending on friends and racking up debt must not be forgiven by GORTT (Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago) but to sought out the funds to pay off their debts themselves.
Decrease the national debt. Shift some focus to and diversify the economy with agriculture to decrease food costs and import bill. Zero-rate food items especially in this time of religious fasting for my Hindu brothers and sisters, decrease the prices of items used in the making of their cultural food like ghee etc.
Allocate emergency funding immediately towards the spraying for mosquitoes spreading diseases and causing deaths. Let the Ministry of Health hold that responsibility rather than the local Government Borough Corporations that insist on choosing to play politics year after year and fail in their duties. Allocate the largest chunk towards National Security, let us get serious, bring back the blimp.
Increase the fuel subsidy as we now cannot afford gas. Increase grants. Decrease taxes and duties. I am warning this new government, in this post-covid world to do not introduce new additional taxes and refund the paid scrapped property taxes. Increase personal and passenger duty-free allowance as this solely implies the small man. More access to foreign exchange for the little man on the street to open a small business to survive and travel freely.
Update Caribbean Airlines and widen destinations with more competitive prices to attractive customers and if not CAL cannot continue to incur loses, scrap or sell. Raise in pension as entire families go to school and survive on it.
Ishmael Tarouba
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