The state blames citizens for the country's money troubles when it's the state's fixation with doing mega projects that is drowning us in debt.
In the last oil boom the PNM was urged to save rather than spend. But they were crazily fixated on their vision 2020 nonsense so they spent like there was no tomorrow.
And here we are in tomorrow facing national bankruptcy under the PNM on the tail end of foolish PNM spending throughout the last energy boom. PNM could have saved the country a cool billion by not building the white elephant Tarouba Lara cricket complex and UNC could have saved us another cool billion by not trying to fix or finish it.
Half the country's transport issues would end if government put a ten-year moratorium on stacking businesses and critical public services in the cramped city. And in addition to this, move afoot to relocate 25 per cent of businesses and government offices to other more accessible parts of the country.
It makes more sense to move businesses and government services in Port-of-Spain closer to residential communities, than to go along with lofty costly plans of the PNM and the International Development Bank (IDB) to break down thousands of homes and small businesses to make way for a rapid rail system.
Are PNM and the IDB thinking of building 34 kilometres of flyover for trains to run above the bus route? Is that cost effective, logical, practical or safe? I want government to show us either a scaled down model of this project or an animated computer-generated model of the full project.
B Joseph