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CONCLUSION
Mr Speaker, in this presentation, I have demonstrated conclusively that
passing the IMF tests under the 4-year programme, is necessary but not
sufficient to achieve the desired results of nation building.
We have to go far and beyond passing these tests if we are to pass the
people’s test.
We have failed the test of price stability for workers of modest and
frozen incomes.
We have failed the test of managing down the national debt which is
several hundreds of millions of dollars higher today than 3 years ago,
which is the same the debt to GDP ratio as when the JLP demitted
office
We have failed the test of economic growth, job creation and growth
of personal and family incomes, which is the basis for the creation of
national wealth
We have failed the test of being a kinder and gentler nation in which
our children and women are protected from predators and
murderers
We have presented a credible growth plan as an alternative to this ruinous path
on which the government is embarked.