$35b to transform T&T
in 8 years
The Trinidad Guardian
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04 06 08
PRIME
MINISTER Patrick Manning hit back at his detractors
who continue to question the PNM administration’s “rapid” pace
of development in T&T which had caused the
economy to “overheat.”
Speaking
during Friday’s official launch
of the five-star Hyatt Regency Hotel on Dock Road
in Port-of-Spain, Manning said Government had no
intention of slowing down this country’s
progress.
Government
planned to spend $35 billion to transform T&T
during the next eight years.
Manning said there was no sod-turning ceremony
to start work on the Hyatt Regency Hotel, because
of national skepticism.
He then turned his attention the old Breakfast
Shed, which has been transformed to the Femme de
Chalet.
While
the Government’s Campus Plaza and
the Performing Arts Centre on the Princes Building
ground were yet to be completed, Manning said:
“We have a series of projects amounting
to $25 billion we hope to construct over the next
eight years—all simultaneously.”
He
added that they intended to spend “ten
billion dollars on five or six desalination plants
over the next seven years.”
Story
by Sean Nero from The Trinidad Guardian
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Trinidad Guardian
Sunday 6th April, 2008
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