Brent Zephyrine

He be­lieved that in or­der to fa­cil­i­tate a pro­gres­sive fu­ture for the peo­ple of T&T, there must be an in­crease in pro­duc­tiv­i­ty amongst cit­i­zens will­ing to see the "big­ger" pic­ture.He added: "This high­way will not on­ly ease con­ges­tion but in­crease pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. "If we cut traf­fic down from two hours to one hour, that will in­crease the pro­duc­tive ca­pac­i­ty by over 400,000 peo­ple which can ben­e­fit us to the tune of $12 bil­lion over a year," Roberts said. "Fur­ther­more, by open­ing these high­ways, we open more ar­eas for in­vest­ment for both our pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tors which will cre­ate more jobs and an in­creased tax rev­enue for the state, so we will be able to pay the Pub­lic Ser­vants As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA), po­lice, fire and whoso­ev­er wants more mon­ey," he said.The min­is­ter, in laud­ing the suc­cess­es of Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er in this ini­tia­tive, re­it­er­at­ed that T&T need­ed more peo­ple who were "a lit­tle more self­less and a lit­tle less self­ish."