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prudent in the implementation of our ambitious growth
agenda, doing so in a manner that will ensure that the annual
deficit is steadily reduced and eliminated, thereby gradually
returning the burden of debt to lower and more desirable
levels. Accordingly, the five-year policy platform of our
Government is being implemented in a phased and reasoned
way, within the budgetary limitations that we face.
I will now turn to a brief discussion of what the
Government has achieved to date during its first full fiscal
year in office and our action plans for the coming year and
beyond.
II. Implementing the Government’s Policy Agenda
i. Promoting Fiscal Responsibility
Our Government made a commitment to the
Bahamian people that we would enshrine fiscal discipline as
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