UWP President Senator Isaac Baptiste has made it clear that none of the UWP candidates were offered payment to join team Dominica. Baptiste stated that “Members of the UWP Team know that the work will be tremendous “but we have discipline, experience, competence, commitment and we are ‘specialization’ prepared”.
He said, furthermore, the party has a vision for development of every sector in the Nature Island, and promised to commence translating that vision into action, on the very first day the UWP takes up office. Baptiste said, “For most part, the development areas for immediate attention are, governance and public service, finance, state security, agriculture, tourism, education, health, industry, economic infrastructure, housing & human settlements & conservation”. He said UWP Team Dominica, under the leadership of honorable Lennox Linton, MP for the Marigot Constituency, will persevere, & strive to make Dominica the best place to work, the best place to live and to enjoy life. Major initiatives to be implemented by Team Dominica, are meant to improve the quality of life of the people, and to create 12,000 new jobs in Dominica by 2025. Meantime, Baptiste reveals that the UWP will also provide fiscal and other incentives to existing and new players in the passenger ferry industry for guaranteed regular, fast and safe reliable Ferry Service to Dominica from St Lucia in the south to Antigua in the north. He said, “UWP Team Dominica will immediately commission a feasibility study to inform expansion of commercial port facilities at Woodbridge Bay and at Long House Glanvillia”. He added that new and improved berthing facilities will be placed at Donkey Beach and Cabrits, Portsmouth yacht marinas, and Prince Rupert Bay, Lalay Coco and a Fresh Water Marina in the vicinity of the Layou River mouth. He said implementation of these projects will be informed by detailed environmental impact studies. He further noted that “Timely Completion of these projects will greatly improve performance of the tourism and agriculture sectors and the international trade industry, resulting in the creation of hundreds of jobs”.
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