KAY-MARIE FLETCH­ER

Se­nior Re­porter

kay-marie.fletch­er@guardian.co.tt

State-owned Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Ltd says it is still await­ing a re­sponse from the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) as the reg­u­la­tor con­tin­ues its re­view of the pro­cure­ment process for the com­pa­ny’s pro­posed $100 mil­lion Al­lam­by Res­i­den­tial De­vel­op­ment project in Corinth, San Fer­nan­do.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia via tele­phone yes­ter­day, Land­mark­TT’s chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) Nis­chall Shane Poona said the com­pa­ny had com­plied with all re­quests made by the reg­u­la­tor and is now await­ing a re­sponse.

A time­line for the re­sponse was not pro­vid­ed.

The up­date comes weeks af­ter the OPR con­firmed it was ex­am­in­ing com­plaints re­gard­ing the pro­cure­ment ex­er­cise un­der­tak­en by the re­cent­ly es­tab­lished state en­ter­prise.

In a let­ter dat­ed April 20 to Land­mark­TT, the OPR said it re­ceived com­plaints al­leg­ing the state com­pa­ny used a se­lec­tive ten­der­ing process rather than open bid­ding, po­ten­tial­ly breach­ing the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act.

The OPR al­so di­rect­ed Land­mark­TT to pro­vide, with­in sev­en work­ing days, a copy of the pro­cure­ment records for the Al­lam­by project, a list of all con­tract awards and frame­work agree­ments from Feb­ru­ary 2026 to present, de­tails of its com­pli­ance with pub­li­ca­tion re­quire­ments and ex­pla­na­tions for any fail­ure to prompt­ly pub­lish no­tices of award.

The reg­u­la­tor al­so warned Land­mark­TT that un­der the Act, “a pub­lic body or per­son who, with­out rea­son­able jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, fails to com­ply with a di­rec­tion is­sued un­der this Act com­mits an of­fence and is li­able on sum­ma­ry con­vic­tion to a fine of one hun­dred thou­sand dol­lars.”

In ad­di­tion to sub­mit­ting all re­quest­ed in­for­ma­tion, Poona said Land­mark­TT re­ceived no in­struc­tion to halt any as­pect of its op­er­a­tions or projects.

Poona al­so main­tained that the OPR was con­duct­ing a re­view of the pro­cure­ment process rather than an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the com­pa­ny.

He em­pha­sised that there was a dis­tinc­tion be­tween a re­view and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion, not­ing that an in­ves­ti­ga­tion would im­ply con­cerns about wrong­do­ing or im­pro­pri­ety, while the cur­rent ex­er­cise was fo­cused on as­sess­ing com­pli­ance with pro­cure­ment laws.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to con­duct its busi­ness as nor­mal, and has not been no­ti­fied of any oth­er com­plaints be­ing made to OPR.

Asked whether the com­pa­ny had con­cerns about the out­come of the reg­u­la­tor’s re­view, Poona in­di­cat­ed that it did not, point­ing to the ab­sence of any di­rec­tive sus­pend­ing the pro­cure­ment ex­er­cise or project ac­tiv­i­ties.

Asked for an up­date on the Al­lam­by project, Poona de­clined to dis­close the project’s cur­rent sta­tus, stat­ing in­stead that de­tails would be made pub­lic at a lat­er date.

The OPR has not pub­licly in­di­cat­ed when its re­view will be com­plet­ed.

At­tempts to con­tact Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor Bev­er­ly Khan and Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein for com­ment on the sta­tus of the re­view were un­suc­cess­ful up to press time.