120 days after being sworn into Office UNC supporter and leader of ITEC Devant Maharaj issued a statement cogratulating the Government on promises that it had kept. Among those promises allegedly made and kept were 'Government ministries must develop strategic plans in first sixty days' and 'Each minister to provide one-year action plan to Cabinet' both of which he listed as emphatically done, yet to date (three hundred days later) we have not seen one such plan laid anywhere.
The question that I want to ask is are these documents available for public consumption?
The Health sector seems to be collapsing on Therese Baptiste-Cornelis' watch and I suggest we take a look at her plan to see if she could use some help, or better still if, based on her plan, we might be inclined to deploy her services elsewhere.
SImilarly the reactionary and mis-named Ministry of the People has not yet delivered on anything that could be considered a national plan for the advancement of the poor, the homeless, the underprivileged, the needy, the orphans, on gender issues, on women's issues, on race relations, all of which are essential in a plural society whose disproportionate allocation of State resources were promised to be addressed by the speakers on the campaign trail, and again I ask, did this Minister really complete his assignment and hand it up?
If so, can this document be made public so as to allow for perusal and comment?
The National Security Ministry is a terrible letdown to the supporters of both the UNC and the COP who adamantly campaigned on having a solution to crime, and, barring the SIA fiasco and the now questionable appointment of Dwayne Gibbs as Commissioner of Police we need to know, did Sandy and Panday complete their Ministry's plans as indicated by Maharaj, and if so, are they available for scrutiny in light of the worsening crime situation?
I would like to have access to all Ministry's 120 day plans, but these three are crucial to the quality of life of the people and would go a long way to supporting the competence of this Government or to guide as to if they should be allowed to remain in Office.
I would like to know where one can go to get copies of these plans, and I am sending this directly to Devant Maharaj in the hopes that he might lend me his.
We are in a state of arrested development under this current regime. They behaved as though they had to invent the wheel when the truth is they met strategic plans in place and being implemented in every ministry. Even their so called advisers and consultants are a pick up side, some of whom have no background or experience in the substantive consulting area.
ReplyDeletePhillip we voted for that,Trinidadians like lies and bacchanal, don't you see?! We have a bunch of drunk bumbling idiots running the country,what does that say about the people who put them there?
ReplyDeleteTalk nah,talk nah!
".....based on her plan..." what plan she has? I working with her, and I haven't seen any plan from her office??? all she does is to sit her office and pose for pictures in children life fund, treating everyone as her students and being wrong-and-strong in all her approach!! what plans you are talking about? as soon as she took office first thing she did was to try to restructure the IT department in ministry and fired all the contract workers; that is the only thing she did
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