It seems like yes­ter­day that Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship al­lies were chastis­ing Calder Hart and the Patrick Man­ning ad­min­is­tra­tion for util­is­ing the skills of for­eign con­trac­tors and com­pa­nies. Man­ning and Hart stood be­hind their rea­son­ing of rais­ing T&T to in­ter­na­tion­al build­ing stan­dards by bring­ing in these com­pa­nies and con­trac­tors. Us­ing for­eign con­trac­tors would have an added ben­e­fit-their knowl­edge of su­pe­ri­or and more ef­fi­cient build­ing prac­tices would be in­ad­ver­tent­ly im­part­ed to lo­cals dur­ing the con­struc­tion process, mak­ing Trinidad more com­pet­i­tive in the long run. De­spite this log­ic, the PP cam­paign did a de­cent job of mak­ing Man­ning and Hart seem like they had no in­ter­est in bet­ter­ing T&T nor had any faith in lo­cal con­trac­tors to get the job done. Now the PP Gov­ern­ment is do­ing ex­act­ly what it chas­tised Man­ning and Hart for-it is bring­ing in for­eign com­pa­nies to de­vel­op Trinidad. This shows how much hypocrisy ex­ists in pol­i­tics and that the cam­paign ac­cu­sa­tions were noth­ing more than a tool to get the PP in­to of­fice.

D Ali

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