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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Johan-Boodram: I forgot to inform him

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Tourism PS Ju­liana Jo­han-Boodram said she "for­got" to in­form Pub­lic Ser­vice/PS to the Prime Min­is­ter Reynold Coop­er that she was leav­ing the coun­try for a four-day jaunt to Ar­genti­na to watch the T&T vs Ar­genti­na foot­ball game.Jo­han-Boodram left on a char­tered flight on Sun­day and re­turned to the coun­try on Thurs­day night.She said the trip was not paid for by the Gov­ern­ment or the Min­istry of Tourism and as such was "not a big deal."

"I left un­der the del­e­gat­ed au­thor­i­ty of the min­is­ter, that does not need to go to Cab­i­net for ap­proval," Jo­han-Boodram said, in a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day.She said out of "cour­tesy" she would cus­tom­ar­i­ly in­form both Coop­er and the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion that she was leav­ing."I don't re­mem­ber the ex­act reg­u­la­tions, but once the min­istry is not pay­ing and an­oth­er en­ti­ty is pay­ing I do not have to go to him," she said.

As ac­count­ing of­fi­cer at the min­istry, Jo­han-Boodram is not al­lowed to re­ceive gifts in ex­cess of $5,000, but she said this trip, paid for by the T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion and the Min­istry of Sport, does not fall in­to that cat­e­go­ry.Jo­han-Boodram said she was in Ar­genti­na for the four days as part of the "mar­ket­ing and pro­mo­tion" of T&T."It was a great mar­ket­ing and brand­ing op­por­tu­ni­ty for the coun­try and we seized the op­por­tu­ni­ty," she said.

Jo­han-Boodram said mar­ket­ing and brand­ing of the coun­try falls un­der the re­mit of the PS of Tourism. "Yes, it is, and I do a lot of work with mar­ket­ing and pro­mo­tion," she said.


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