Cabinet must stop hiding behind excuses and confront the hard truth: while Mohamed Irfaan Ali is using oil wealth to aggressively build infrastructure, expand agriculture, and lower the cost of living, Trinidad and Tobago is stuck in a cycle of delay, indecision, and policy drift after squandering years of energy revenue with little to show in diversification or productivity.
Resource wealth was never the problem poor, inconsistent decision making was. Guyana is taking risks to transform its economy; Trinidad and Tobago is taking none and paying the price through stagnation, rising costs, and declining competitiveness.
Enough talk, commission a full, independent 20-year audit of economic management, identify exactly where and why policies failed, and implement decisive reforms now, because every year of inaction is another year of missed opportunity that the country can no longer afford.
Gordon Laughlin,
Westmoorings
