78 January 2016 - Business View Caribbean
some form of crisis – sugar and rice; and we promised
to link the hinterland with the coast because a signifi-
cant number of people live on the coast but it is in
the hinterland where the wealth exists. Some of these
promises were made in the context of a hundred days
and some of the promises were made in the context of
our five-year life.”
Jordan further outlines some of his Ministry’s most
pressing initiatives, as he attempts to put those elec-
toral promises into action: “The last government used
a set of offline accounts to skim from those accounts,
so we are closing those accounts and transferring the
revenues to a main bank account which is our consoli-
dated fund. We have set up a State Assets Recovery
Unit and this unit is meant to go after state assets that
have been stolen or given away, whether for free or
for a pittance, to various people. So we are looking for
support from the United States and other agencies to
trace and track down these assets. We are looking to
strengthen our accounting and other systems; we’re
looking to strengthen constitutional and oversight
