00:00Dozens of civil society and citizens group across the country gathered over
00:04the past few months to generate a crime plan and presentations are going to be
00:09made this Thursday on media at a media law a media launch of the report and a
00:17walkabout where we'll be going to each one of these ministries and dropping off
00:21some of those offices include the Office of the Prime Minister the Ministries of
00:26National Security, Finance, Education, Sport, the Chief Justice and the Police
00:32Commissioner. The document contains the requests of the people for example
00:37pausing the state's thrust on so-called luxury projects. Luxury apartment
00:43complexes and all those kinds of things all on state lands with you know major
00:47financing and those kinds of things is multi multi hundreds of millions of
00:51dollars right. We're saying that stop or pause some of those projects, stagger
01:00those projects and instead prioritize community-based development projects.
01:05There are other nation building projects which deserve finances and attention. The
01:12Holy Trinity of Pan Mas and Calypso midwife by East Port of Spain there are
01:18300 plus Trinidad style carnivals all over the world that are worth over 15
01:23billion dollars annually. The Trinidad and Tobago carnival is worth 1.5 billion
01:29dollars to this economy. Victor says investing in young people is in itself a
01:34major crime prevention mechanism. We're asking for schools to remain open until
01:40five or six o'clock we could debate that and that kind of stuff all schools so
01:46that children could remain in schools during that period and during that
01:51period is a period of mentorship where they will be dealing with sports, the
01:58arts, crafts and other kinds of skills and those kinds of things. Growing the
02:03local creative industry involves one simple policy position. We need to
02:08legalize 50% local content for on radio and television. Local content is
02:16the basis for all the health of every single broadcast industry, radio, film,
02:22television industry on planet earth. There is no successful radio, film,
02:27television industry without local content quotas. Several other initiatives
02:32were proposed like campaign finance reform, curriculum reform and reinstating
02:37technical vocational programs back in schools.
02:41Rishi Tiwari, Rub Narayan, TV6 News.
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