The first resolution laid before the House of Parliament today was on the borrowing of USD10 million. The Prime Minister, Hon. Philip J. Pierre explains the borrowing as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– EC $500,000 – craft and seamoss subsectors<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– EC $7.2million – youth economy program<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– EC $200,000 \u2013 National Competitiveness Agenda \u2013 seed money to get our country more competitive and be able to compete in the global world<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– EC $4 million \u2013 West Coast road project<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– $3.4 million – Street lighting replacement project (energy saving; lower carbon footprint) – we will change sodium lights into LED lights<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do note that these are average figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first resolution laid before the House of Parliament today was on the borrowing of USD10 million. The Prime Minister, Hon. Philip J. Pierre explains the borrowing as follows: – EC $500,000 – craft and seamoss subsectors – EC $7.2million – youth economy program – EC $200,000 \u2013 National Competitiveness Agenda \u2013 seed money to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n