Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has said Keith Rowley has provided her government an opportunity to speak about what it did for citizens in its 20 months in office. The achievements include:
- raised the old age pension to $3,000
- established the Children’s Life Fund
- increased pharmaceutical, domestic and household grants
- increased the minimum wage
- increased national insurance benefits
- built 350 water-retention ponds
- constructed news agricultural access roads
- provided free travel on the buses and ferries for pensioners
- built schools
- distributed certificates of comfort;
- provided leases to 4,000 acres of agricultural lands
- refurbished fishing ports
- distributed 39,000 laptops to secondary school pupils
- built the Couva Interchange
- started work on the highway to Point Fortin
- constructed 4,500 houses
- revolutionalised tertiary education with new campuses at Sangre Grande and Tobago
- started work on the Debe campus of the University of the West Indies
- reduced crime significantly
- stimulated the economy with projections for positive growth
- opened up Trinidad & Tobago on the global stage
- developed tourism, focus on Tobago
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