Vision 2030 laid in Parliament

She made this declaration as she laid the Vision 2030 document of the Dr Keith Rowley administration in the House of Representatives yesterday.

Informing MPs that this document involved hundreds of hours of consultation with key stakeholders and Caroni Central MP Dr Bhoe Tewarie was one of the persons who took part in those consultations, Robinson-Regis stated, “The document that emerged thereafter was not a PNM document, it was a TT document because it represented the hopes and aspirations of all the citizens of TT.

She explained that no country could hope to achieve sustainable progress, “if successive governments, without good reason and alternatives, abandon the carefully and collaboratively constructed vision of their predecessors.” Praising the “true patriots” in her ministry who prevented the PP from destroying all of the Vision 2020 documents, Robinson- Regis said the draft national development strategy outlined in Vision 2030 will be subjected to the scrutiny of a parliamentary joint select committee (JSC).

She said the House will debate the document once the JSC completes its deliberations on it. Robinson- Regis was confident that once this exercise is done, it will “mitigate against the prospects of any succeeding government abandoning the country’s developmental process.” She was hopeful that Vision 2030, “will be the blueprint for national growth, irrespective of which administration occupies the seat of Government.”