Business View Caribbean | October 2019

42 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2019 this magnificent Vincentian complement. That’s really Renewal of 40 in a broad, conceptual sense. “Sports Against Crime seeks to build on an initiative, which is now a few years old, called “Pan Against Crime” where we have 20-odd steel pan sides attached to community pan sides and schools and the like. We want to use all the mechanisms and institutions of the state apparatus in relation to security to work with the Ministry of Sports to touch young people and others in the communities through sports to see how we can have a reduction of crime, particularly serious crimes. This year, we have seen a significant reduction in crime, especially homicides, and that is very encouraging. Those are the two initiatives we are using, in a sense, to mark and uplift and enhance much of what we have been doing in the last 18½ years in government.” BVC: What other goals is the administration hoping to accomplish? Prime Minister: “We have achieved quite a lot, Prime Minister Gonsalves