What action is the PM going to take? Will there be an independent investigation? Is it because chairman Cliff Hamilton says all is okay, the population will have to suffice with that? Isn’t $1.7 million of taxpayers’ money enough to justify a proper account? If there is nothing to hide, then be open with the country. According to the newspaper, even board members were in the dark about the deal. The stillborn Trinidad Tourism Ltd is facing a $1.7 million scandal, as reported in the Sunday Express of July 2. While all of this is going on, the diversification effort flounders. With that gone, we are now faced with looming property taxes, higher gas prices, and T&TEC and WASA rates. The refinery actually contributed over $20 billion in tax revenues between 20. While the PNM administration is denying that the decision to shut down the refinery was an ill-conceived, retrograde one, the evidence shows otherwise. TT is now forced to import products that were once manufactured by Petrotrin. No clearer proof of his aversion to facts can be found than in Dr Rowley’s handling of Petrotrin.Īccording to UWI economist Dr Marlene Attzs, Petrotrin's annual gross earnings was US$350 million from refined products, but the operations of Paria, its successor, has net annual outflows of US$250 million. The Prime Minister is advocating for UWI to conduct economic research, yet he attacks empirical data UWI provides on the economy.

And anyone who speaks out against its economic mismanagement becomes an enemy of the PM. The truth is that the PNM government has mismanaged the economy and used the covid19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine as excuses for its lack of economic planning. IN THE FACE of evidence of economic mismanagement from economic experts at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Prime Minister Rowley attacked the institution. Commentary Stubborn facts and a stubborn PM

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