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Thursday, July 24, 2025

PNM to surround Parliament today

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PNM sup­port­ers are ex­pect­ed to as­sem­ble out­side Par­lia­ment this af­ter­noon to protest the Gov­ern­ment's award of a $1.6 bil­lion con­tract to con­struct the Beetham Waste Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant, be­ing man­aged by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) on be­half of WASA.Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley is­sued the call at a par­ty meet­ing in Bon Air on Tues­day.He said PNM sup­port­ers, wear­ing their red par­ty jer­seys should hold hands in a line around Tow­er D, Wa­ter­front Com­plex, Wright­son Road, as he presents a pri­vate mo­tion.

His mo­tion reads in part: "Be it re­solved that this House take note of these de­vel­op­ments and call up­on the Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to im­me­di­ate­ly stop this award and re­view the over­all cir­cum­stances to en­sure the pub­lic in­ter­est is pro­tect­ed and state re­sources are not stolen or wast­ed in the said project."Al­so in the House, Fi­nance and the Econ­o­my Min­is­ter Lar­ry Howai is ex­pect­ed to tell leg­is­la­tors whether an over­draft fa­cil­i­ty had been es­tab­lished for Caribbean Air­lines with First Cit­i­zens Bank.Op­po­si­tion MP Ali­cia Hospedales is al­so ask­ing the min­is­ter to say when the fa­cil­i­ty was es­tab­lished and the name of the of­fi­cer who was au­tho­rised to sign on be­half of CAL.The sit­ting starts at 1.30 pm.


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