Bigger, better, Basseterre businesses beckon
MINISTER SAMAL DUGGINS FORESEES A BIGGER, better, and more efficient business sector emerging in St Kitts and Nevis he told a press conference last week.
Duggins told reporters that the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Ministry has heads plans engineering the transforming the economic landscape of the twin-island Federation through creation of more businesses and backing business owners.
For minister Duggins, it’s on the horizon too.
“It is a future where all entrepreneurs have a space to thrive, where a small business of today becomes a big business of tomorrow. (I do not foresee) a society where small businesses stay small. If we are truly talking about growth, then we must recognise that growth means getting bigger, getting better, and becoming more efficient,” Duggins said.
The ministers’ vision is global too.
Why can’t we have a multi-national company that was started here in St. Kitts and Nevis and developed throughout the region and expanded across the world?”
“What is stopping us from doing that? the minister queried rhetorically.
“In my vision, there is absolutely nothing but time. And I say that because the efforts we are putting in now should certainly yield such fruits,” he said.
The St Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) government plans focusing during its term in office on diversifying the local economy in an effort to boost local production by maximising the potential of the local population to build a sustainable island state which needs local producers with the wherewithal to manipulate advanced modern technology to fulfil the needs of St Kitts and Nevis to make her more competitive in the fierce international market.
“We recognise the challenges, and we are doing everything in our power to address those challenges…leaving no one behind. We are spreading our wings to empower everyone and taking everyone forward on this transformational journey, because my commitment here is that St. Kitts and Nevis will be the talk (of the region and the globe) when it comes to entrepreneurship and business development as well as food security,” he boasted.
“There are some exciting plans for our food-based entrepreneurs; just know that we are committed to making the Federation the food ‘Mecca of the Caribbean’”.
“I stand committed to that. Commitment made and commitment will be kept. We are leaving no one behind,” Minister Duggins assured.
