Tell T&T what were the tan­gi­bles from the trip.

That’s the call from Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress whip David Lee, who wants Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to de­tail ex­act­ly what Row­ley’s re­cent over­seas en­er­gy mis­sion will bring T&T over the next year.

At yes­ter­day’s UNC me­dia brief­ing at the Op­po­si­tion’s Port-of-Spain of­fice, Lee de­mand­ed ac­count­abil­i­ty when Row­ley stages a me­dia con­fer­ence to­day fol­low­ing his re­turn from abroad, af­ter what he deemed was the PM’s over­seas “joyride.” He crit­i­cised Gov­ern­ment’s en­er­gy sec­tor man­age­ment.

“What is he com­ing to tell T&T that he hasn’t told the coun­try in the last sev­en days, as we’ve seen a lot of board­room pic­tures? The Prime Min­is­ter went to Do­ha, from which we heard no mean­ing­ful con­tri­bu­tions and his US trip, which hasn’t pro­duced any re­sults I’m aware of,” Lee added.

Lee said he hoped Row­ley was com­ing to tell T&T of in­creased oil and gas pro­duc­tion and new for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment worth mil­lions.

“But we feel (the trip) was a PR stunt for the last sev­en days, as the 2023 Bud­get is in two weeks,” Lee said, adding the en­er­gy sec­tor’s his­to­ry hasn’t borne fruit

“So, we won’t be sur­prised if the Fi­nance Min­is­ter and Prime Min­is­ter come with fluff in the en­er­gy sec­tor – ‘com­ing at­trac­tions’. But the movie busi­ness was killed by COVID ... so don’t talk of ‘com­ing at­trac­tions’ up to 2025. Tell us what tan­gi­bles will come over the next 12 months. We’ve seen none from pre­vi­ous trips.”

Lee re­peat­ed his query on if Row­ley’s trip to Pro­man’s Ger­many plant had to do with “sell­ing” Cli­co’s methanol plant shares.

On Ni­quan’s ap­proval to restart op­er­a­tions, Lee said he’d called for the re­port in­to the April 2021 Ni­quan ex­plo­sion to be made pub­lic – but he and the Bat­too Av­enue com­mu­ni­ty were told noth­ing.