Leader of Government Business, Dr Roodal Moonilal, announced that arrangements are being made to complete preparations for the move of Parliament from the Red House to the Waterfront Complex to allow contractors to finish the restoration of the historic Parliament building.
“We have adjourned to a date to be fixed because we would really want to fast track the movement from the Red House to Tower D,” he added.
Moonilal said if there is an emergency while the transition is taking place, the Parliament would convene at the Red House. He added that he expcts sittings to resume by about the middle of September.
The President of The Republic, Max Richards, addressed legislators and urged them to stop the blaming and get on with the future. Focus on the next generation, he said, not the next election.
Richards urged the Government and Opposition to use that as their guideline for the work in the new session of Parliament.
Richards stressed the need for equal opportunity and called for policy decisions to ensure even-handedness, equality of opportunity and transparency.
Richards said: “We keep hearing that T&T belongs to all of us, yet the evidence does not indicate we have come away from the tendency to seek to promote ‘our own’.
“Our policies and practices must reflect a determination to ensure equal opportunity for all citizens, regardless of political affiliation or any other subjective consideration.”
He said the individual must become more important than the country, adding that partisan interests must not be the guide for legislators.
“Opportunity for all, enhanced productive capacity and productivity must be at the centre of our thoughts to move T&T from where we are to where we ought to be...
“With this in mind managers must be committed to proper management and time must be devoted by supervisors to training those under their charge so there is more knowledge of what is required rather than learning from mistakes."
“With this in mind managers must be committed to proper management and time must be devoted by supervisors to training those under their charge so there is more knowledge of what is required rather than learning from mistakes."
Richards said if such leadership is absent the best policies will fail. Richards added that the past year was one of "enthusiasm at almost fever pitch, expectations have been high...we have seen positive movement in some areas.”
He said the positives included continuing recognition of tertiary education and expansion of the GATE and similar programmes, which he described as “a necessary stepping stone upwards from poverty.”
He noted the emphasis on infrastructure development and the new enthusiasm in agriculture.
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