Speaking in the debate to extent the State of Emergency by three months the minister acknowledged that there will be an economic fallout.
He also said the emergency itself is not the solution to the crime problem. He added that it is the beginning of the solution to putting Trinidad and Tobago back on track and on the road to economic success.
"We are creating the conditions for this change to take place but changing institutions is not an easy thing.
"We are creating the conditions for this change to take place but changing institutions is not an easy thing.
"In fact, for those who have been looking at the issues of failed States, recognise that there are three things that have to be corrected: communal strife, violence that cannot be controlled and institutions that cannot perform.
"We have inherited the beginnings of the failed State and we shall turn that into a success State in the years to come," Dookeran stated.
Dookeran justified the emergency measure by saying that said restoration of the value of life is the first step in restoring Trinidad and Tobago.
"Life has become too meaningless and that has created a whole atmosphere where many of our people have succumbed to that. The value of life is at the heart of the civil liberty argument.
Dookeran justified the emergency measure by saying that said restoration of the value of life is the first step in restoring Trinidad and Tobago.
"Life has become too meaningless and that has created a whole atmosphere where many of our people have succumbed to that. The value of life is at the heart of the civil liberty argument.
"You can have all the laws of civil liberty but you cannot, in fact, live those laws, if you are not alive.
"Therefore this is the time to make some choices and the choice is clearly, let us put back on the national front burner, the whole concept of the value of life," Dookeran said.
He added, "There are some who wish to surrender to terrorism inside or outside the country and by the action this Government has taken, it is very clear that this Government will never surrender to terrorism inside or inspired by outside."
Dookeran disagreed with opposition claims that economic activity in Trinidad and Tobago has fallen by between 25 per cent and 30 per cent since the State of Emergency began.
"When you can deal with the issue of the underground economy, when we can clean up the underground economy, or start that process, rather than have an erosion of public confidence, you will have, in fact, a sustaining of that public confidence," he stated.
Minister Dookeran gave the assurance that all Government Ministers are developing a post emergency social plan to be implemented in communities across the country after the emergency ends.
He added, "There are some who wish to surrender to terrorism inside or outside the country and by the action this Government has taken, it is very clear that this Government will never surrender to terrorism inside or inspired by outside."
Dookeran disagreed with opposition claims that economic activity in Trinidad and Tobago has fallen by between 25 per cent and 30 per cent since the State of Emergency began.
"When you can deal with the issue of the underground economy, when we can clean up the underground economy, or start that process, rather than have an erosion of public confidence, you will have, in fact, a sustaining of that public confidence," he stated.
Minister Dookeran gave the assurance that all Government Ministers are developing a post emergency social plan to be implemented in communities across the country after the emergency ends.
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