Gail Alexan­der

A probe in­to TTEC's street-light­ing project and in many oth­er projects has in­di­cat­ed there are grounds that sug­gests mis­con­duct in pub­lic of­fice, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan has said. Re­ply­ing to an Op­po­si­tion ques­tion in the Low­er House yes­ter­day. Ram­lo­gan said Gov­ern­ment paid $34.6 mil­lion to sev­en lo­cal, UK and Cana­di­an ex­perts to un­der­take eight probes con­cern­ing State agen­cies. Those in­clud­ed T&TEC, the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T, Petrotrin, Nid­co, E-tech, UTT and the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal, he said. He said HDC was not in­ves­ti­gat­ed at that time.

Ram­lo­gan said the T&TEC probe came on the heels of an au­dit done un­der the PNM's tenure. He said it was re­vealed that in T&TEC's street-light­ing project and in many oth­er projects un­der­tak­en, there were grounds that sug­gest­ed mis­con­duct and malfea­sance in pub­lic of­fice. The T&TEC probe would be com­plet­ed next March as would be a probe in­to the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal, the AG said. Ram­lo­gan said the Nid­co probe in­to the pur­chase of the mv Su was com­plet­ed and the Sport­Co and UTT probes al­so were com­plet­ed. The Petrotrin probe on the gas to liq­uid plant al­so was done, he said.