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Sunday, March 16, 2025

UNC accuses PM of misbehaviour in public office

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Shaliza Hassanali
1224 days ago
20211107
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has been described as a doctor delivering the death announcement of Atlantic LGN Train 1.  UNC senator Wade Mark called on the PM and his entire Cabinet to take full responsibility for what he described as a debacle.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has been described as a doctor delivering the death announcement of Atlantic LGN Train 1. UNC senator Wade Mark called on the PM and his entire Cabinet to take full responsibility for what he described as a debacle.

OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has been de­scribed as a doc­tor de­liv­er­ing the death an­nounce­ment of At­lantic LGN Train 1.

At a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Wade Mark al­so called on the PM and his en­tire Cab­i­net to take full re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for what he de­scribed as a de­ba­cle.

Fur­ther, Mark warned Row­ley not to jus­ti­fy the bad de­ci­sions NGC had made by propos­ing to in­dem­ni­fy those ful­ly re­spon­si­ble for its death.

Train 1 is owned by At­lantic Trinidad Lim­it­ed (At­lantic) which al­so owns the en­tire fa­cil­i­ty at Point Fortin where all 4 trains op­er­ate.

“I al­so want to talk about the death an­nounce­ment made by the Prime Min­is­ter of Train 1 last evening when he ar­rived from Glas­gow Scot­land,” Mark told re­porters.

Mark said the PM was aware since De­cem­ber 2019/2020 through a let­ter sent to him by BPTT “that Train 1 could not be sup­plied with gas from ei­ther BPTT or by Shell.”

As head of the Cab­i­net, Mark said Row­ley along with En­er­gy Min­is­ter pro­ceed­ed on the ad­vice of the pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny Mark Lo­quan and its chair­man Con­rad Enil “to pump over $650 mil­lion or there­about in­to this projects...say­ing they were up­grad­ing this project....Train 1 know­ing ful­ly well there was no gas.”

Mark said Row­ley had to go to Eng­land to talk to Shell to re­turn home “to tell Trinidad and To­ba­go that the doc­tor has put on his clothes...his jack­et to pro­nounce the death of Train 1.”

The Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor said while the PNM Gov­ern­ment has been call­ing on cit­i­zens to pay prop­er­ty tax at a bit­ter and dif­fi­cult pe­ri­od in our na­tion’s his­to­ry and “your Gov­ern­ment has wast­ed some $650 mil­lion. Well, Mr Prime Min­is­ter, you are crim­i­nal­ly li­able and re­spon­si­ble and you must be held ac­count­able for that $650 mil­lion or there­about that has gone down the drain...and I think this is mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.”

Mark said Row­ley and his en­tire Cab­i­net must not on­ly take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for this fi­as­co.

“But we call on you to get rid of Mark Lo­quan and that en­tire board....along with your­self (Row­ley) and your Cab­i­net be­cause you all are re­spon­si­ble for this de­ba­cle that has vis­it­ed our coun­try.”

Mark said the Gov­ern­ment lied to the peo­ple about the project hav­ing com­plex­i­ty, dif­fi­cul­ties and tech­ni­cal­i­ties and lit­tle or no in­for­ma­tion was giv­en to the na­tion.

“All lies. Know­ing ful­ly well that Train 1 was be­ing moth­balled. Train 1 was not go­ing any­where. Train 1 was off the track...Train 1 was de­railed. You knew that since De­cem­ber of last year, yet you pumped in­to that wreck­age some $650 mil­lion in this gua­va sea­son.”

Mark said now Row­ley was ask­ing “us for par­don. And this thing call in­dem­ni­ty...don’t take God out of your thoughts and grant any in­dem­ni­ty to Mark Lo­quan, and Enil and that board of NGC along with NGC/LNG. No! this is crim­i­nal con­duct...mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.”


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