Business View Caribbean | October 2019

45 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2019 THE GOVERNMENT OF ST . V INCENT AND THE GRENADINES Vincent have received licenses. Economically, we are trying a lot of things.” BVC: Looking to the future, what do see ahead for St. Vincent and the Grenadines? Prime Minister: “All the statistics will show that when we arrived here in 2001, indigence was 26 percent of the population; now it’s about three percent. Undernourishment percentages have dropped considerably. Immense changes have taken place in the area of poverty reduction. And we’re expanding health facilities, port facilities, collegial facilities, our foreign policy is more active. We have recently become the smallest country ever to sit on the Security Council of the United Nations (Jan 1, 2020 to Dec 31, 2021). Meanwhile, we continue to deepen our democracy and good governance. “Looking ahead, we want to reduce poverty and hunger. We have a ‘Zero Hunger’ program, which is trying to deal with some intractable elements of pockets of poverty. We have to generate more jobs in agriculture (including medical cannabis),