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The leadership of the Democratic National Alliance has described 2018 as a disastrous year for the majority of residents.<\/p>

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In her New Year’s Day Joanne Massiah said notwithstanding the government\u2019s repeated boasting of economic growth and low unemployment, people have become more “anxious, stressed, tense and fearful as a result of the moribund economy, escalating cost of living, rising unemployment, deteriorating infrastructure and corresponding social dislocations and disempowerment of the most vulnerable in our society.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said it has become more evident that the government<\/g> is operating without either chart or compass but appears to be content to continue to “meander aimlessly without policies or prescriptions to reactivate those sectors which are poised to contribute more meaningfully to our economic growth.”<\/p>

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She described the government’s approach to development as “hit and miss” arguing that it must be rejected by the population “along with the tyrannical, autocratic and dictatorial behaviour<\/g> which sadly, has come to characterize the preferred method of governance of the Gaston Browne administration.”<\/p>

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The DNA called on the Gaston Browne administration to re-order its priorities and to begin to put systems in place to address critical issues – foremost among them being comprehensive constitutional reform, reduction in the cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The party also called for “diversifying<\/g> our economy to facilitate the growth of new and emerging disciplines, investment in technology and innovation, strategies to curb unemployment, redress of outstanding issues burdening our civil servants, reform of our judicial and penal systems, strategies to control the escalation of crime and violence in our society and an immediate end to the nepotism and corruption so rampant in our society.” <\/p>

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