00:00Our food and port bill right now is currently 1 billion US dollars.
00:06If we were to be able to just set that target and then look at the agriculture and our processing
00:14and see where we need to support in order to be able to do that, we could be well on our way.
00:20In this instance, not necessarily earning foreign exchange, but saving our scarce foreign exchange.
00:25She also notes plans by the Prime Minister to look into oil and gas exploration with Grenada
00:32and the warnings from former Energy Minister Stuart Young.
00:36According to Dr. Sajuan, the previous administration was all about Dragon Gas
00:42and now Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa has every right to explore the possibilities with regional partners.
00:49The economist further suggests that priority be given to the non-energy sector.
00:55I'm a broken record on the issue of non-energy diversification and while it cannot by any means
01:03in a very short space of time bring us the kind of revenue we have lost from the energy sector,
01:10its potential to generate employment, foreign exchange, forex is significantly high.
01:19On the issue of the 10% offered by Mrs. Passat-Bissessa to trade unions,
01:24some have speculated that it was empty words and others remain hopeful it bears fruit.
01:31However, Dr. Sajuan says now that the union is part of government,
01:36the perspective on such matters should be different.
01:39The union is at the table, the union is part of this government
01:43and if you are part of the government, then you cannot behave in the same way
01:48that you would behave if you're on the outside.
01:51So the decision-making by the union has to be now from a governance perspective,
01:58not from an agitator.
02:00Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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