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Prime Minister Stuart Young is promising a brand-new Ministry that can cut through bureaucratic systems and delivers projects and plans in quick time, if voted into office on April 28th.

Prime Minister Young believes he has been able to do a lot for the country as Minister of Energy and says he can do even more at the helm, if he has this ministry up and running.

He was speaking at the opening of the La Brea community Centre, in La Brea today, our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh was there.
Transcript
00:00Let me tell you all what my government on April 29th of this year will have.
00:11I am going to introduce for the first time a Ministry of Implementation and Efficiency
00:19in the government of Trinidad and Tobago out of the office of the Prime Minister.
00:24Prime Minister Stuart Young says far too many times the population hears of projects over
00:29and over and years and years pass before they see any sign of commencement if at all.
00:35Having been given the position of Head of Government recently in the PNM's 10th consecutive
00:40year in office, Young says a ministry to target certain inefficiencies is the answer.
00:47Because for too long things get lost in abeyance and that ministry will have the ability when
00:55I as Prime Minister say, hey, you see that deep water harbour? I need that done. When
00:59I need this done and I need that done, that ministry will have the ability to go in,
01:04to get the inefficiencies done across the system, to break the bureaucracy within the
01:10confines of the law, but to get things done because Trinidad and Tobago deserves better.
01:16Speaking at the opening of the Labre Community Centre on Friday morning, Prime Minister Young
01:22told the community that the deep water Panamax dry docking facility that has been in conversation
01:28for many years is still on their agenda and it's one such project this new ministry could
01:34help get off the ground.
01:42We are doing the work. It is the environmental laws that we have that say, well, you have
01:49to see how the ocean go in and you have to see how it's going to affect the seabed and
01:53you have to see how it's going to affect the environment, et cetera. I keep saying, well,
01:58boy, those are academic conversations. We'll protect the environment. I am told that we
02:04are in the process of getting the CEC from the EMA. It's taken too long in my view, so
02:11that's another thing I'm going to be looking at as a lawyer. How do we review and amend
02:17the law to protect the environment but to allow progress to take place? Because Labre
02:22deserves that facility.
02:25On Friday, Prime Minister Young lobbied for the support of Labre as he opened one project
02:31and promised three more. Having been given the reins of government by his party, he's
02:36hoping the population follows suit.
02:39It's a new chapter. It's a new chapter where once again we have broken glass ceilings that
02:46shouldn't exist. No one can change the past. We're all in charge of our present and then
02:53we can all dream and have hope for the future.
02:57Cindy Raghuban Tikasingh, TV6 News.
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