Consultations for a revision to the National Economic and Social Development Plan for St Vincent and the Grenadines will start on January 22, 2007.

Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves said that the Central Planning Division and the National Economic and Social Development Council will be leading the process to create a plan which he called “the runway for our advanced economic take-off, socio-economic strengthening and further enhanced good governance”.{{more}}

The plans will become the blue print for development between 2008 to 2020 and will cover the sectors of education, poverty eradication, health, housing, agriculture, fisheries, tourism, manufacturing, physical infrastructure, sports and culture, investment promotion, international financial services, export marketing, fiscal development, rural transformation and urban development.

Civil society organisations, the private sector, public officials and regional and international organisations will be among those consulted.