Politics
Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell vows to spur economy and ‘engage the world’
Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell
Grenada’s newly elected Prime Minister Keith Mitchell put his cabinet on alert after taking office – telling them that the government will not be business as usual.
“Grenada is ready to engage the world,” Mitchell said to regional leaders and Grenadians, who came out in their numbers to witness the inauguration of his ministers on Sunday.
Getting the economic engine running, the Grenadian leader promised to implement fresh initiatives to encourage investors and investment while warning the nation that this is not the time to assassinate the characters of what he called “good investors” to the country.
The government is looking to tighten its relationship with countries that already have partnered with the tri-island state and will be seeking to expand its relations to Africa, Asia, South and Central America, Chile and other countries where a bipartisan relationship can be especially economically beneficial to Grenada.
Confident about his newly appointed cabinet, Mitchell said they are well able to take Grenada forward and reminded them that their role was to protect jobs already secured by the Grenadian people and to help in creating an environment that will see a lot more people employed.
Bringing the employment figure down is crucial to the New National Party (NNP) government as that was one of the main pillars that crumbled under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Administration, taking the NDC government down with it at the February19 polls.
Mitchell chided the former NDC administration for what he saw as their inaction towards a broken economy. He called it “government insensitivity” and told his cabinet members he wanted all of them to be pure agents of service.
