Business View Caribbean | October 2019

41 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2019 insights about St. Vincent and the Grenadines from the perspectives of tourism, infrastructure, employment, social issues, and environmental challenges, along with his candid outlook for the future of this remarkable country. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation. BVC: Congratulations on your country’s 40th anniversary of independence. How is the Government marking this special milestone? Prime Minister: “There are two initiatives, one is called “Renewal at 40” and the second is “Sports Against Crime.” The theme Renewal at 40 is basically for us to take a fresh guard: to see what new initiatives we can take; and the things which we have been doing, how we can do them better in all dimensions of life, living, and production. Renewal at 40 is across all the Ministries – Finance, Agriculture, Tourism, Fisheries, all the production Ministries, and of course Education, Culture, and Sports; as well as the general issue from our own history, what lessons we can learn to help uplift further the Caribbean civilization and THE GOVERNMENT OF ST . V INCENT AND THE GRENADINES