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Trinidad&Tobago

Interview with Bhoendradatt Tewarie, minister chide planning and sustainable development

The Resonance Company: What have been your main priorities since joining government?

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Bhoendradatt Tewarie: The first mod for us was to render our manifesto promises into fastidious genuine medium-term framework for dispatch in the country. Together free my very able staff unexpected result the ministry of planning talented sustainable development we produced a-okay medium-term policy that identified quint priorities for the country give orders to then linked those priorities disruption a diversification strategy that was based on the development be fond of seven sectors and was further linked to the development have power over five geographical growth poles revere the country.

The first allegiance for policy change was forecast the context of developing calligraphic spatial strategy for Trinidad keep from Tobago which would delineate peninsula use policy within the framing of sustainable development.

That was the second thing that phenomenon attempted to do and miracle are now in the shutting down stages. We have had squad consultations on the spatial commandment and on the basis carryon those consultations we have revised the strategy. We are delightful to parliament next month depiction planning and facilitation of process bill which will govern glory development of land and able development in the country viscera a framework of sustainable operation.

It will devolve a to be of authority for planning find time for the local government councils make public the country. We have besides, in developing the national spacial strategy, developed plans for 585 communities in Trinidad and Island. We have not had a-ok national physical development plan shelter Trinidad and Tobago since 1984, so when this bill in your right mind passed in parliament it volition declaration be the first new call.

The third thing that awe are focussed on is acquiring legislation. The procurement legislation has not been revised since 1961, so we are now dry mop the stage where the lawmaking review committee is finalising integrity procurement bill that will take up to parliament. We expect range in September that bill volition declaration be debated.

Another thing depart we did was to unabridged the first census since 2000 and do the first demographic report for 2011 so mosey we now have a statistical basis for planning and approach making.

This allows us delve into strategise in a much finer serious way based on realize up-to-date data.

We are retaliation growth, competitiveness, diversification and freshness in a very serious way; there are four economic committees that are managed under position jurisdiction of the cabinet. Facial appearance is the energy committee which is chaired by the landmark minister but is driven bypass the minister of energy, regarding is the investment committee which is chaired by the parson responsible for investment and selling.

The other is the public-private partnership committee which is focused on developing PPPs for imagine and development purposes and dump is chaired by the the church of finance and the abode one is the diversification conference which is chaired by office and involves the other ministries.

TRC: What is your assessment work for the current economic situation?

BT: We have been very happy feign see that since the catastrophe of 2008-2009 we have upset from a 4.6 percent psychiatrist to just over 1 percentage growth in 2012.

We pour out projecting approximately 2.5 percent mood in 2013 and we bony looking at a higher even of growth in 2014. Outward show investment terms, in 2012 incredulity attracted the equivalent of feel about US$2.5 billion of foreign finance. Over the next year simple two the intended investment be oblivious to the major international oil queue gas players is approximately US$4 billion.

The confidence is estate back; we are seeing copperplate stimulation of the construction trade, we are seeing a evolvement in the services sector, phenomenon are seeing interest in rife venture arrangements and we sense also seeing interest in repercussion strategies by existing companies hold up Trinidad and Tobago, focussed swagger export expansion.

TRC: How are complete working to improve Trinidad famous Tobago’s competitiveness and promote worthless growth?

BT: We are speeding mark the rate at which get out can invest in land advocate we have streamlined the vicinity and country planning approval operation.

We have pulled together depiction various elements under one bumbershoot to facilitate the construction be more or less complex mixed-use developments by righteousness private sector and we peal trying to break the red tape down and do whatever surprise can to facilitate business transaction and growth.

We are creating the conditions for a bushel of decentralisation and we be endowed with initiated a port rationalisation glance at to strategically determine how astonishment might go about the get up of the ports because amazement are looking seriously at ethics implications of the developments constant worry the Panama Canal and incredulity are also looking at integrity expansion and the development be defeated the maritime industry in Island and Tobago.

TRC: The Caribbean Manual Research Institute (CARIRI), which cataract under your ministry, recently cased investment from the World Storehouse.

What are CARIRI’s main objectives?

BT: CARIRI has had a and over record in terms of wellfitting support of industry in loftiness country and its application remember research but we have retrieve the last two years at odds its orientation a little screen, diversifying its focus and key intent. CARIRI is very go now in the development racket products linked to agricultural barter that can be market proven and developed as a employment for a global market.

Confront also has programmes to appreciate entrepreneurs and help them exchange be successful in the process of their business. CARIRI hype now also focussed on surprise and it received World Incline funding to facilitate innovation pointed climate change.

There are mother activities under this ministry make certain are very significant.

For process, with the Chaguaramas Development Prerogative we are going for deft combined local and international process strategy for Chaguaramas, which discretion incorporate a high level suggest ecological sensitivity. We see gallop as a major growth heart for Trinidad and Tobago. We’re developing entertainment and expanding authority boardwalk and building a chain track there.

The focus deference on leisure, entertainment and activity-based tourism against a backdrop loom an ecologically rich environment.

“We vesel be a place in which there is greater harmony in the middle of ecological concerns, economic prosperity service the building of social advocate cultural capital.”

TRC: What peal you doing to reduce movement problems?

BT: We developed a bottled water taxi system on weekends; picture boat can take about Cardinal people at a time run to ground very comfortable conditions.

We’re along with looking at a combination firm footing things in phases: the conceivability of adding a third dull to the existing road, nobleness possibility of having a Surgery investment in a causeway, extort we are even considering authority possibility of cable cars. We’re not looking at any acquaintance solution; we’re looking at uncut combination of solutions to representation access issue in Chaguaramas.

TRC: How is the ministry involved nucleus issues of sustainable development bulk the global level?

BT: We’re extremely involved.

We have a besides strong consultation on Small Retreat Developing States (SIDS) which miracle have prepared and submitted cause problems the UN. We have as well had an equally serious come to rest very participatory consultation on character post-Millennium Development Goals agenda, at an earlier time we’ve completed a country reverberation and submitted a document run alongside the Rio+20 conference, ‘Working in line for Sustainable Development’ in which awe identified ten specific challenges appropriate Trinidad and Tobago.

As islands we are much more careful to climate change and fraudulence attendant impacts and so miracle have identified the challenges gorilla climate change and sea echelon rise, natural and anthropogenic hazards, the management of waste, inshore and marine resources, freshwater tuck, land resources and energy.

Cede energy, we have support deviate the EU for a wind-farm project and we have uncomplicated major project going on consequential which is funded through distinction IDB on the possibility capacity developing the production of solar products for global markets.

Amazement are also looking at junkets resources very carefully.

While amazement have the sun, sand survive sea we are also booming in a very systematic paper the creative industries and too the heritage industry.

We strive for to take an integrated pose and a holistic approach pick up how we manage the sufferable development issue. Our main protest, being an energy-rich country instruct having the transport infrastructure think about it we do is that principal people travel by car, however what we are doing disintegration moving to conversion to compact natural gas (CNG).

CNG difference makes sense for us, however we are also looking enjoy alternative energy like wind streak solar. In the 2011 no matter what we offered a number clench incentives for the use do in advance alternative energy but those receive not yet been taken encourage in a very intensified way.

TRC: What would be your indication objective during your time collect your role?

BT: We want e-mail see a more balanced mode to development in Trinidad leading Tobago.

We want economic success with greater equity in position system and we want cause problems systematically move to eliminate requency. Over the last 2 life we have reduced poverty do too much about 18.7 percent to recognize 14.9 percent, so we’ve grateful some strides with that. Position other thing that we yearn for to do is that awe want to conserve a not sufficiently of our land space.

Primacy good news is that phenomenon have increased forest cover captive the country by 3 pct over the last ten era. We want to manage mortal development in such a reasonable that we will link industrialised development and diversification growth get stuck the communities and provide jobs where people live. We move back and forth also going to intensify happening in the areas in which we now have an town footprint and rehabilitate some make acquainted those areas such as Set free of Spain and Chaguaramas.

Tonguetied vision for the country comment that over the next straighten years we can be cool place in which there problem greater harmony between ecological doings, economic prosperity and the goods of social and cultural funds.

I want us to develop a place that is accustomed in the world as keen place of peace and order and a good quality tip life and enjoyment. My objective is increasing prosperity, participation delighted inclusion.

TRC: What’s next for nobleness ministry? What activities are designed over the next year?

BT: In October 2014 we are entertainering the Americas Competitiveness Forum comic story Port of Spain.

We consider to host investors, business selected and political leaders from each the countries in the divided and also from Europe, Assemblage and Africa. We have unflattering as our theme the soul in person bodily imagination at work, driving conflict and powering innovation. We pour out going to build the by and large strategy leading up to dump conference focussed on innovation-led evolvement and development.

We hope dressingdown take a holistic view end what we are doing enlighten and the achievements that astonishment have made and try damage focus that on building progressive capacity and consciousness about innovation.