00:00We have one of the worst performance in the Caribbean on remittances.
00:04Very little attention was put, although we knew that gas production was going on.
00:09Somebody should have to answer to that.
00:11Our tourism inflows is 14% lower today than it was in 2019, if I remember the numbers correctly.
00:20Somebody should have to answer to that.
00:22He tells us the homicide rate was also at its worst under the former administration.
00:28Professor Hosein says the experts saw the approaching disasters in crime, forex and the energy sector
00:36and continuously warned the government.
00:40But, he says, persons in authority would become aggressive and dismissive
00:44and did very little to address the situation.
00:47We at the university continuously spoke out.
00:51We were abused and insulted and told we are naysayers and idiots and nobody took us on.
00:57And so, we are where we are today and this decline has to rest on the hands of the politicians
01:04and they must carry some of the responsibility.
01:08The Economist tells TV6, the new Kamala-Pasad-Bissessa-led administration has a very challenging task ahead
01:15and he is imploring them to heed advice.
01:19They will have to bring on board the best technical teams in various spheres
01:24so that we focus on reducing the non-energy fiscal balance from about 28 billion now
01:30to improving the stock of reserves, to lowering the external debt,
01:34to getting economic growth restarted and to replace the 50,000 to 60,000 jobs
01:38that was lost in the last 10 years.
01:41Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
