Sunday, June 15, 2025

"Consultations larges” on the BRP

Damry and his team(including EDB) finn asé fané; to remedy the situation, Please, pa les zot fer enn lot gaff!
Ena azordi pé sorți de zot hibernations pou vin dir LePep ki "Le système de pension n'est plus soutenable économiquement !"
Ki fer zot pa ti fer sa déklarasyon la avan eleksyons !
Ler la osi li pa ti soutenable ! Ban actuaires ti déja warn nou !
S'il vous plait, pa continué enmerde dimoun ! Dimoun dejà enkoler !
Rezistans ek Altermativ (ReA) is right !
We need “des consultations larges car la question de la pension a la retraite concerne invariablement chaque mauricien” . ReA estime qu’il est "primordial que les mauriciens se mobilisent et se fassent entendre sur les questions qui touchent fondamentalement à leurs acquis et les sujets de fond de notre société. La réfome du BRP est une décision qui impactera le quotidien de milliers de citoyennes dans les années à venir. ReA est d'avis que des consultations larges auraient dů avoir lieu sur un sujet aussi structurant .“
We have always maintained that the authorities should have communicated effectively and engaged in discussions with Lepep on the different pension reform options and the needed fiscal adjustment efforts continuously over the past seven months, perhaps we would have had a better chance of success.
Govt should revive the National Economic and Social Council (NESC),a permanent forum aimed at building a strong national consensus on the pursuit of economic and social policies for sounder and faster development.
NESC should include a wide range of civil society representatives , the opinion leaders, the NGOs, relating to the environment, consumer protection, etc, which would raise the NESC’s profile and strengthen its reach to the wider population.
In Jamaica, the National Partnership Council (NPC), was launched in 2011, a social dialogue collaboration among a total of 23 representatives of the Government of Jamaica (7) and the trade union movement (4), the Opposition (1), private sector (4), and representatives from the Church (1), women (1), youth (1), environment (1) and academic groups (3), to address national economic and social issues. Chaired by the Prime Minister, its reports are shared on issues relating to justice, safety, security, public order, anti-corruption, adherence to environmental and planning laws and other things. The NPC facilitates the engagement of respectful, constructive and sustained dialogue on issues of national importance.
Over the past dozen years, across administrations, Jamaica has made significant strides in macroeconomic stability. By running primary fiscal surpluses, and reining in unnecessary Govt spending and wastage, Jamaica has halved its debt as a proportion of GDP, to the current 72 per cent. That ratio is projected to fall further, to the national target of 60 per cent of GDP in 2026/27. Additionally, the island’s current account deficit has declined from double digits to record a small surplus recently.
The National Partnership Council was largely instrumental in developing a national consensus on corrective fiscal and other economic policies to achieve such major progress. To ensure the success of fiscal reform, an associated broad-based group – called the Economic Partnership Oversight Committee (EPOC), contributed to monitor and keep fiscal targets on track. EPOC has now evolved into a formal institution, namely, the Independent Fiscal Commission.
The Ministry of Social Security or /and the Ministry of Planning should be driving force behind the setting up of such a forum to engage Lepep on issues of national importance and formulating appropriate policy recommendations.
( Jyoti Jeetun dir nou ki li "une femme d'action pas une femme de parole."...ayo ! dépi Janvier ou ti bizin fini kréer sa NESC la ...kumans diskisyons lor ban réforms, ki ou fin fer , tourn pouce, Nahi Ho Gal Ba !)