Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar wrapped up her more than 3-hour bud­get re­sponse in the Par­lia­ment this af­ter­noon, where she promised to cre­ate 50, 000 jobs and shared the UNC's vi­sion to take Trinidad and To­ba­go on the road to eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she ded­i­cat­ed her pre­sen­ta­tion "to the men and women who lost their jobs over the last four years, I ded­i­cate it to the poor and vul­ner­a­ble, and I to the next gen­er­a­tion of lead­ers that we will soon bring for­ward."

As she shared what she termed as the op­po­si­tion's com­pre­hen­sive plans for the trans­for­ma­tion of the na­tion, she said

" We will get the job done be­cause the PNM talks, but we have the vi­sion to trans­form T&T so each cit­i­zen can en­joy a bet­ter qual­i­ty of life by get­ting sus­tain­able jobs, greater safe­ty, im­proved ac­cess to qual­i­ty health­care, af­ford­able hous­ing and equal op­por­tu­ni­ties for all."

The Op­po­si­tion Leader added, "The core phi­los­o­phy of the UNC is that our na­tion’s great­est re­source is our peo­ple. Build up our peo­ple, and we will build our na­tion.

A new UNC govt will be ded­i­cat­ed to cre­at­ing jobs and get­ting peo­ple back to work, safe­guard­ing so­cial eq­ui­ty and jus­tice and pro­tect­ing peo­ple’s rights."

She con­tin­ued, "A new UNC govt will fo­cus on tack­ling crime, re­mov­ing ob­sta­cles to busi­ness growth, and at­tract­ing lo­cal and for­eign in­vest­ments by pro­vid­ing an en­abling en­vi­ron­ment and nec­es­sary in­cen­tives."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so promised, "to make agri­cul­ture more at­trac­tive and com­mer­cial­ly vi­able by im­ple­ment­ing the right poli­cies and in­sti­tu­tions and en­sur­ing the bud­getary re­sources and land are avail­able."

The op­po­si­tion end­ed her bud­get re­sponse by send­ing a mes­sage to the cit­i­zens of the coun­try.

She said, "To every cit­i­zen I say, we can still save our coun­try. I is­sue a call for na­tion­al ac­tion.

To­day we in­au­gu­rate a new po­lit­i­cal cul­ture in this coun­try, when one whole year be­fore the elec­tions, we tell you what we are go­ing to do and ask you to judge us, not on promis­es but on sub­stance and our proven track record of de­liv­ery. With dili­gence, re­solve and a shared vi­sion, we can trans­form our beloved na­tion, and en­sure a brighter fu­ture for every sin­gle cit­i­zen of our coun­try."