Focus Must Be on Delivering Inclusive Wealth – Keith Duncan

Having achieved macroeconomic stability and developed the supporting institutional framework, businessman Keith Duncan says the Government must now focus on delivering inclusive wealth to the Jamaican people.

“We now need to chart the way forward for growth… inclusive wealth of the Jamaican people,” Mr. Duncan pointed out.

“Therefore, we’ll have to invest in our human capital. We’ll have to invest in education, we’ll have to invest in our people, we’ll have to invest in skills development… because if we’re going to grow, we need value-added growth, and that needs to be driven by skills and development of our people,” he added.

The JMMB’s Group Chief Executive Officer, who chairs the Fiscal Commission Advisory Committee, was speaking with JIS News, following the installation of Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, as head of Government, at King’s House on Tuesday (September 16).

He is one of 13 Senators appointed by the Prime Minister to serve in the Upper House.

Noting that Jamaica is at a pivotal point in its history, Mr. Duncan, who is a former president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), noted that the Government must work to improve the nation’s health services, road infrastructure and access to water.

“Public services need to be delivered to the Jamaican people, and we need to work to do so. We are at a place where our debt-to-GDP ratios have come down really nicely. Now, we need to make sure the people of Jamaica feel the dividends of the sacrifice that they have put in to get Jamaica to where it is today,” Mr. Duncan said.