ABOUD TELLS GOVT, STEP ASIDE

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President of the Downtown Owners and Merchants Association, Gregory Aboud says a greater effort has to be made towards investor exuberance and smoother implementation in Trinidad and Tobago.  He is calling on Prime Minister Stuart Young to prioritise the private sector and lessen the bureaucracy hindering the process of doing business.   Nicole M Romany has the story

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00:00I don't want to seem ungrateful or offensive, but the business community is not really asking

00:06the government for help. What we are doing is asking the government to get out of the

00:10way and to not be such an obstruction to the ruling out of investment ideas and investment

00:18plans.

00:19He noted Prime Minister Yang's announcement of a Ministry of Implementation and Efficiency

00:25come April 29th if his PNM party is triumphant at the polls.

00:31Abood says he was pleased to see the new Prime Minister acknowledge the issue of implementation,

00:37noting that it is an issue for the business community as well.

00:41We welcome the idea of Prime Minister Yang mentioning implementation as an issue for

00:47the government. Please, Prime Minister Yang, make it an issue for the private sector too.

00:52Please would you ask or find a way to ask that new models of management be put in place

00:59in the public service to assist or to allow the private sector to get on with its business

01:07and to give them some sense of encouragement.

01:10He notes the contentious UK visa restriction on Trinidad and Tobago nationals wishing to

01:16travel to Europe.

01:18Abood tells the TV6 Morning Edition, crime levels are high and detection is dismally

01:24low.

01:25Abood says foreign governments are taking notes, but he does not believe it is a problem

01:30of asylum seekers, but rather criminal elements.

01:34I also want to say that I find that the visa cost is prohibitive. In itself, it is a signal

01:41that we are not welcome in the UK. But I do also understand why the UK has done this

01:47and I accept that we have to work very hard to try and improve the reputation and the

01:52image of Trinidad and Tobago.

01:54Nicole M Romany, TV6 News.

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