Tuesday February 9th, 2010
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Costly error says ‘Transparency’ head
Published: 7 Sep 2009
Victor Hart
Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute Victor Hart says the failure by the Government “to gazette” the Commission of Enquiry into the Construction Sector “shows up our country as being very Third World.” In a statement yesterday, Hart said he was surprised because the legal requirement to gazette a commission of enquiry was well known. “This is very elementary...I am surprised that it was overlooked,” he said. He said the public should be told who was responsible for this “costly error and the guilty person should be held accountable.”
Hart said millions of taxpayers’ money had so far been spent on the inquiry and more would be spent because of the delay. “If the inquiry is aborted as a result, millions of dollars will have gone down the drain,” he added. He said publishing the inquiry in the Gazette immediately and approval of retroactive legislation must be done to correct the error. Hart said if the inquiry were to be aborted the country would lose the benefit of the commissioners’ recommendations on public sector procurement reform and the reorganisation of the construction sector.
And chairman of construction firm NH International (Caribbean) Ltd, Emile Elias, said he hoped that “the failure to publish in the Gazette, as required by law, the Commission of Enquiry, is not a fatal error.” He said the problem could be resolved “by the immediate publication of the enquiry as soon as possible in the Gazette, retroactively.” President of the Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry Winston Riley said: “It is clear that we are living in a place akin to an asylum. In an asylum there is always someone who is laughing. I am the one who is laughing now.”
Costly error. No sir, the
Costly error.
No sir, the only one who is laughing is the mad man, Patos.
All of us are in the mad house for it is only in TnT that all that came out so far about Calder Hart can evoke a Patos response.."he is the greatest".
So we would vote them back with loyalty only to a party... not to ourselves, nor our spouses and more so, no caring about our children and grand children.
Costly error. No sir, the
Costly error.
No sir, the only one who is laughing is the mad man, Patos.
All of us are in the mad house for it is only in TnT that all that came out so far about Calder Hart can evoke a Patos response.."he is the greatest".
So we would vote them back with loyalty only to a party... not to ourselves, nor our spouses and more so, no caring about our children and grand children.
Way allyou worried about?
Way allyou worried about? This is not uncommon in Trnidad and Tobago. A school was built in Biche and was abandoned because someone said there was gas beneath its foundation; Scarbourough Hospital, money wasted on earlier foundation works; The Ringbang (remember that one, Mr Hochoy Charles) money gone into some smartman hand in America; criminals get away because the police complainant didn't have a JP present when he got a confession or forgot to feed the fella before taking a confession; or witnesses (including a sitting Chief Magistrate) refuse to give evidence when summoned; top PNM financiers take a holiday conveniently, when they believe they may have had to answer questions in an inquiry; a ten million missing here and a hundred there because of cost overruns; gov. bring a man here from N.A. and he doing what he want with Nipdec and NIB money and cyah answer simple questions; Man, what allyou really worried about? Consider the Prof's visit here as a nice tropical vacation, and 'call that george'.
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