Manning
vows to push ahead with another industrial revolution
By Rohandra John
Trinidad Express
Port
Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
04 08 07
Prime Minister Patrick Manning says while he is mindful that some people do
not support his Government's industrialisation policy, it will press on with
plans to develop and revolutionise the country.
He added that the Government is determined to
lead the country into a second industrial revolution.
Manning made the comment while addressing a gathering
during a function at the Tamana Intech Park in
Wallerfield, which marked the beginning of construction
work on phase one of the Flagship Complex building
yesterday.
He
said some people "have never understood
the Government's industrialisation policy since
1976. Some either ostensibly or otherwise appear
unwilling to relate positively to any aspect of
what we have achieved and are seeking to do".
He
noted that this was also the case when years
ago, Government moved to develop the Pt Lisas
Industrial
Estate "which has since taken us into natural
gas, iron, steel, ammonia and methanol".
Manning,
who praised Evolving TecKnologies (eTecK) Ltd
for its role in developing the Tamana Intech
Park, said, "Pt Lisas constituted our first
industrial revolution and let us make no mistake
about what is happening today. We are today taking
the industrial development and transformation of
Trinidad and Tobago into a whole new realm, into
our second industrial revolution.
"This will see the realisation of our industrial
revolution in terms of the non-oil sector and non-oil
industries which are going to be developed," he
said.
He
also said that the Tamana Intech Park, once established
in Wallerfield, would "provide
a range of business enabling services", and
would form "the core of the new industrial
sector of Trinidad and Tobago and all aspects of
the development of the non-energy sector which
have now been placed in the hands of eTecK".
Prof Kenneth Julien, chairman of eTecK Ltd, who
also spoke at the function, said the Flagship Complex
is expected to be completed within the next 12
to 18 months.
Trinidad
Express
Tuesday, April 3rd 2007
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