With a 50 per cent increase in our nergy costs, energy ¡easures nave been pul into errect, esulting in a decrease in consumption y private motorists but a 20 per cent crease in state consumption (mainly • the operation of equipment) on acpunt or mercascu developmental acvity. Several major infrastructural imrovements have been undertaken: a airport. evelopment of the east coast, the conruction and opening up of 67 miles of gricultural feeder roads, improvement {electricity services, vastly increased clephone . eI supply, service, major forestry real, ano conservation.
The revolution, with the active parcipation of our people, has brought conservation stracuon or community centres, in their community work brigades.
In education highway education free cent increase in developpoorest sectors of the population for house repair, and a Ministry of Housing with responsibility for a national housing programme has been created. Conditions of life in the villages are being progressively improved by the conand laundry facilities, and post offices by the voluntary labour of our people initiatives revolution made important gains: the establishment of a national literacy and adult the Centre for Popular Education, the institution of secondary eaucation, a suv pel the number of university-level scholarships, the crea- more ton or a national in-service teacher programme for the professionalisation of all our primary school teachers....
As in the vital areas of housing, The transformation of the national begun since the people's guided by Icvolutull. las beel same basic conception of an economy al tne service or working people and freed from external domination control which we proposed since 1973.
It is worthy of note that the vast majority of the new programmes and bold embarked UDUI by revolution are not bright ideas spontaneously conceived in some moment of inspiration, but the product of collective discussion and analysis within our partv and among the broad section of our people of needs, problems, and long-term goals....
But more important, comrades, significant than all the other achievements of the Grenada revolution, because it is the means whereby move to achieve even more social and economic benefits as this process unthe the being taken to the people tional budget will shaped not by a handful of men sitting in an exclusive 'parliament' but by our organised people in their thousands, in councils, their parish councils.
our nabe debated people groups, their zonal required.
listen Maurice Bishop speaking in London just before his death must answer the questions of the people on those issues which affect their lives.
The leadership is responsibile to the because it must take action where the people indicate that action is In Grenada the people do not only passively to their leaders, they