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"We believe that there is a firm place for the manufacturing sector, not just as a source for jobs but income earning for the country and I give my assurance that we will set up a system which will change the landscape where the sector is concerned," he said.
Dr. Phillips did not elaborate on the programme of assistance as he spoke at an American Chamber of Commerce economic breakfast forum entitled The way forward at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston on Thursday.
However, he said that "going forward we intend to make provision for the sector to access new technology to retool and modernise their facilities so as to remain competitive."
Dr. Phillips used the occasion to appeal to stakeholders in all sectors of the economy to combine their energies in creating a new economic order that can foster growth and development.
"A difficult area of the new dispensation, but most necessary, is to focus on is how to achieve a new productive environment, see how we can combine our energies together rather than complain about what each element of society is not doing, because the kind of challenge we require now, more than ever before, is a unified national effort to chart the new future and I am confident that we can do it," he said.
"Just as we can demonstrate that we can produce the fastest runners, produce the best food and products, that we have people with the capacity to produce the best music, we can achieve the same level of excellence in organising our economy and prosperity. We just need to get it done," he said.
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