On a Donald Ramotar
presidential agenda
Donald Ramotar cannot be separated from the PPP and the PPP/C Government. Donald Ramotar has been at the core of the Party and the formation of its manifesto which informs what the government does, even moreso, because I am General Secretary of the Party. A lot of the things that we have done over the years have had my participation as a leader of the Party. I think that we have reached a stage in our country where the PPP/CIVIC Government can take it to another level of development. We have repaired the infrastructure; we have improved the economy; we have gone a far way as far as political reforms and democracy are concerned. What we now need to do is to raise the bar and take our country to an even higher level because the foundation has now been laid. We strongly believe that the most important factor in our country is people…education, health, these are things that we will continue to do and to try to make our university and our school system stronger. There are also other important infrastructural elements like power, cheap power. This is where our hydroelectricity becomes really important. We are surrounded by countries that have cheap energy and that is one of the things that we have to compete with. We have to look at all aspects of cheap energy…hydro power, solar power, cogeneration even ethanol.
Secondly, we have to look at food security. We have to look at how we can take advantage of the international food crisis to make that a positive for us so that we can export more and look at more large scale agriculture,
