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  • 8 months ago
One Economist is calling on the Former government to account for the current State of the country.

Professor Roger Hosein tells the Tv6 Morning Edition, he's very disappointed at the current State of affairs.

Nicole M Romany has more.
Transcript
00:00We have one of the worst performance in the Caribbean on remittances.
00:04Very little attention was put, although we knew that gas production was going on.
00:09Somebody should have to answer to that.
00:11Our tourism inflows is 14% lower today than it was in 2019, if I remember the numbers correctly.
00:20Somebody should have to answer to that.
00:22He tells us the homicide rate was also at its worst under the former administration.
00:28Professor Hosein says the experts saw the approaching disasters in crime, forex and the energy sector
00:36and continuously warned the government.
00:40But, he says, persons in authority would become aggressive and dismissive
00:44and did very little to address the situation.
00:47We at the university continuously spoke out.
00:51We were abused and insulted and told we are naysayers and idiots and nobody took us on.
00:57And so, we are where we are today and this decline has to rest on the hands of the politicians
01:04and they must carry some of the responsibility.
01:08The Economist tells TV6, the new Kamala-Pasad-Bissessa-led administration has a very challenging task ahead
01:15and he is imploring them to heed advice.
01:19They will have to bring on board the best technical teams in various spheres
01:24so that we focus on reducing the non-energy fiscal balance from about 28 billion now
01:30to improving the stock of reserves, to lowering the external debt,
01:34to getting economic growth restarted and to replace the 50,000 to 60,000 jobs
01:38that was lost in the last 10 years.
01:41Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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