Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young said yes­ter­day that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has de­liv­ered tan­gi­ble en­er­gy sec­tor re­sults, while ac­cus­ing the for­mer UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion caused cost­ly fail­ures.

Young, who is al­so the Min­is­ter of En­er­gy, de­fend­ed the PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion’s track record in the sec­tor in a Face­book post yes­ter­day.

He said the PNM gov­ern­ment had suc­cess­ful­ly ne­go­ti­at­ed a slate of en­er­gy projects that are ei­ther al­ready gen­er­at­ing rev­enue or are ex­pect­ed to do so in the near fu­ture.

“This is a true and ac­cu­rate re­flec­tion of the work that has been done by the PNM Gov­ern­ment in the en­er­gy sec­tor,” he wrote, re­fer­ring to re­cent an­nounce­ments about gas sup­ply projects.

He com­pared this with a “com­plete lack of gas sup­ply con­tract ne­go­ti­a­tions” dur­ing the UNC’s 2010–2015 term in of­fice.

“Not a sin­gle gas sup­ply con­tract was ne­go­ti­at­ed be­tween 2010 and 2015,” Young said.

“Worse, the UNC im­ple­ment­ed an in­cen­tive pol­i­cy that meant no rev­enue for gas from the largest gas sup­pli­er for the pe­ri­od 2015 to 2025.”

He added: “You will de­cide who you want to man­age Trinidad and To­ba­go on April 28, 2025. You will de­cide who will look af­ter, and fight for, the fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go af­ter April 28, 2025.”

Young’s com­ments were his lat­est de­fence of the PNM’s man­age­ment of the en­er­gy sec­tor af­ter the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment an­nounced it would not be re­new­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s li­cence to de­vel­op the Drag­on Gas Field in part­ner­ship with Venezuela.