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Sunday, May 4, 2025

PNM launches campaign manifesto

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Jesse Ramdeo
17 days ago
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Less than two weeks be­fore the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has un­veiled its man­i­festo, promis­ing a “bold, new chap­ter” of na­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion.

A snap­shot of the man­i­festo’s con­tents was re­vealed by Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young a short while ago at Bal­isi­er House in Port of Spain.

Prime Min­is­ter Young ac­knowl­edged the var­i­ous hur­dles the gov­ern­ment has had to over­come, as well as new chal­lenges—such as geopo­lit­i­cal shifts—that have shaped the blue­print.

He out­lined six strate­gic pri­or­i­ties aimed at mod­ern­iz­ing gov­er­nance, en­hanc­ing safe­ty, and build­ing a more in­clu­sive and pros­per­ous econ­o­my.

Key among these is the es­tab­lish­ment of a mod­ern­ized gov­ern­ment through dig­i­ti­za­tion, de­cen­tral­iza­tion, and im­proved co­or­di­na­tion. Young an­nounced the cre­ation of a Min­istry of Im­ple­men­ta­tion and Ef­fi­cien­cy, tasked with im­prov­ing pub­lic ser­vice de­liv­ery, en­hanc­ing trans­paren­cy, and stream­lin­ing process­es like pen­sion ap­pli­ca­tions.

On crime and safe­ty, the Prime Min­is­ter em­pha­sized ef­forts to cre­ate safer com­mu­ni­ties and a more se­cure na­tion through en­hanced polic­ing with ad­vanced tech­nol­o­gy (e.g., sur­veil­lance sys­tems, cy­ber­crime units), the for­ma­tion of elite se­cu­ri­ty units, and im­proved in­ter-agency co­or­di­na­tion.

He al­so point­ed to plans for a more di­verse and dy­nam­ic econ­o­my, shaped by glob­al eco­nom­ic trends and ex­ter­nal fac­tors.

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