UNC rights off Govt’s foreign-used plan

The UNC, which de-regulated the auto industry while in government, claims the plan is “not well-considered or properly grounded, except for the ambivalent theory that it would reduce the traffic nightmare on the nation’s roads.”

In a statement, the party described the plan, in which Government will consider reducing the age limit on foreign-used cars, as an unjust attack on the working class.

“The UNC calls on the Government to implement fair, appropriate and practical arrangements to effectively curb the horrendous traffic situation.”

“With immediate effect, Government should decentralise the offices of certain ministries and agencies. During its term in office, the UNC government had begun the decentralisation process, to the extent that a minister had shifted his office to San Fernando. The UNC wonders why, for example, the Ministry of Agriculture is based in the capital city.”

The Opposition party is also demanding that Government revisit plans to construct major buildings in Port-of-Spain.

The party advised Government to be guided by the mass transit plan which it has commissioned at great cost to taxpayers.

Criticising Government’s tardy construction and expansion of roadways and ancillary structures, the UNC noted that the Churchill Roosevelt and Uriah Butler highways’ overpass has been in the works for more than four years.