Ke­jan Haynes

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has an­nounced plans to cre­ate a Min­istry of Im­ple­men­ta­tion and Ef­fi­cien­cy, which will op­er­ate out of the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter if he wins the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion. Speak­ing at the open­ing of the La Brea Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, Young said the min­istry will fo­cus on cut­ting through gov­ern­ment bu­reau­cra­cy and en­sur­ing projects move for­ward with­out de­lays.

“I am go­ing to in­tro­duce, for the first time, a Min­istry of Im­ple­men­ta­tion and Ef­fi­cien­cy in the gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go out of the of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter,” he said. “Be­cause for too long, things get lost in abeyance.”

The min­istry will be tasked with ad­dress­ing ad­min­is­tra­tive bot­tle­necks, ex­pe­dit­ing project com­ple­tion with­in le­gal bound­aries, and pro­vid­ing di­rect over­sight of crit­i­cal na­tion­al ini­tia­tives. Young point­ed to the deep wa­ter har­bour project in La Brea as an ex­am­ple of a de­vel­op­ment that could ben­e­fit from faster ex­e­cu­tion and di­rect in­ter­ven­tion.

“When I as prime min­is­ter say, Hey, you see that deep wa­ter har­bour, I need that done... that min­istry will have the abil­i­ty to go in to get the in­ef­fi­cien­cies done across the sys­tem, to break the bu­reau­cra­cy with­in the con­fines of the law, but to get things done,” he said.

Young added, “Trinidad and To­ba­go de­serves bet­ter, and if the op­po­si­tion, who will still be the op­po­si­tion, try to stand in the way of con­sti­tu­tion­al re­form, etcetera, fine — that Min­istry of Im­ple­men­ta­tion and Ef­fi­cien­cy out of the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, with me rid­ing them and them rid­ing every­body else, will get a lot done in that pe­ri­od.”