The difference between aspiring and achieving.

The Patrick Manning administration is hellbent on taking Trinbago --even if it has to be dragged-- into Developed World status by the dawn of 2020. (http://www.vision2020.info.tt/) The here intent is not to query the motives for, or the method of implementation of such intentions, rather, to signal that, along that journey --as with any-- certain steps would be taken, which, when reviewed, would provide clear and reliable evidence of what progress is being made, the better to gauge whether what has been aspired to be achieved is being, or can be.

In short, tangible actions must be taken, as time advances, the cumulative effect of which will get this country, on time, to the desired journey's end.

One such interim stride must be the unshuttering of the process of appointing persons to public office. It's a step which, though lofty, does not require the intervention of any rocket scientist, merely a tweaking of official policy and which the President and Prime Minister can initiate by putting into the public domain, at least one month in advance, the name(s) of the person(s) shortlisted, or intended to be appointed, to public posts, especially where any such post is of the managerial class.

Thus would a wary public --directly and through both the Fourth Estate and Loyal Opposition-- be able thoroughly to vet such prospects, then pronounce on their seaworthiness. The current case of POTUS Obama's selection of Justice Sonia Sotomayor for US Supreme Court duty refers (http://tinyurl.com/mttyk7)

To close and repeat, a rocket scientist is not needed to get cracking on the above...especially since Trinbago already has a leader professionally-trained to resolve palpable obduracy.