00:00We're not promising the moon with no way to get there.
00:03What we're doing is making better use of what we already have.
00:07And by that I mean Trinidad and Tobago currently operates,
00:09I think it is, help me on it, probably 59, 59, 60, 59.7 billion budget.
00:16And we are saying in the patriotic front that we can reallocate just 4.2% of that.
00:22That would be approximately 2.8 billion.
00:26She says her plan for achieving this is through procurement reform,
00:32noting concerns with corruption and waste management.
00:35We have all seen contracts and we know about it that are overpriced, mismanaged, never completed.
00:42We hear about ghost gangs and all kinds of things.
00:45And the people of Trinidad and Tobago themselves are able to see physically what is going on.
00:52She says the procurement system will essentially protect taxpayers and deliver results.
00:58Also speaking on the TV6 Morning Edition was the party's candidate for Port of Spain's South,
01:04Dr. Winsey Adams, who says one needs only to look around at the capital city and environs
01:11to see that the people need more.
01:13We can see the level of neglect and almost not recognising that these are real people on the ground
01:24who need real solutions.
01:26Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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