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Monday, February 24, 2025

Hart flies out again

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For­mer ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) Calder Hart yes­ter­day flew out of T&T again, sources said. Hart, who had re­turned to Trinidad on April 10, spent four nights in Trinidad be­fore fly­ing out on flight AA 1668. Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from his at­tor­neys, De­vesh Ma­haraj & As­so­ciates, a search war­rant was ex­e­cut­ed at his home in Cas­cade by the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tion Bu­reau (ACIB). The state­ment added: "He has since re­turned to his wife and child in Fort Laud­erdale, Flori­da.

"Pri­or to his de­par­ture, Mr Hart con­firmed to the ACIB and to the Ho­n­ourable At­tor­ney Gen­er­al his will­ing­ness to re­turn to T&T at short no­tice should his pres­ence be re­quired by the au­thor­i­ties." On Tues­day, Hart was in­ter­viewed by mem­bers of the ACIB, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice James Philbert con­firmed yes­ter­day. Philbert said: "He was vis­it­ed yes­ter­day (Tues­day) by of­fi­cers. I be­lieve a search was car­ried out at his home, and they did an in­ter­view with him yes­ter­day (Tues­day)." He could not say how long the po­lice ques­tioned Hart. Philbert was speak­ing to re­porters af­ter the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce's (TTCIC) an­nu­al meet­ing and lun­cheon at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain.

On April 11, the Sun­day Guardian ex­clu­sive­ly re­port­ed Hart had re­turned to T&T on flight AA 1819. For­mer vice-chair­man of the Ude­cott, Kr­ish­na Ba­hadoors­ingh, sat next to him on the flight, it was re­port­ed. Hart of­fi­cial­ly re­signed as ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of Ude­cott on March 6 and left T&T the same day. He al­so had re­signed im­me­di­ate­ly from four state boards, the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board, T&T Mort­gage Fi­nance Com­pa­ny, the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Prop­er­ty De­vel­op­ment Ltd and the Home Mort­gage Bank. Af­ter he left T&T, mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion and sec­tions of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty were con­cerned he would not re­turn. Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning has re­peat­ed­ly and pub­licly praised Hart for achiev­ing sev­er­al of Gov­ern­ment's key in­fra­struc­tur­al projects, in­clud­ing the Wa­ter­front Project and the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA).

Hart, who had oc­cu­pied a front row seat at the De­cem­ber 19, 2009, con­ven­tion of the rul­ing Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at Ch­aguara­mas, and in whom Man­ning has en­trust­ed great con­fi­dence, made no pub­lic ap­pear­ances when he re­turned to Trinidad. He al­so was not present at the PNM's launch of its 2010 po­lit­i­cal cam­paign in St Au­gus­tine last Mon­day night.


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