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Monday, July 14, 2025

UNC defends filing legal action

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The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) yes­ter­day de­fend­ed its de­ci­sion to ini­ti­ate le­gal pro­ceed­ings against for­mer Petrotrin ex­ec­u­tive pres­i­dent Mal­colm Jones for the com­pa­ny's failed gas to liq­uid plant.

In a press re­lease yes­ter­day evening in re­sponse to a press con­fer­ence held by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi ear­li­er, the par­ty stat­ed its de­ci­sion was based on "sound, clear and com­pe­tent le­gal ad­vice" from a Ja­maican Queen's Coun­sel and lo­cal Se­nior Coun­sel.

"We were ad­vised that there was a vi­able case to pur­sue against Mr Jones for the loss of over $1.2 bil­lion as a re­sult of the failed GTL project.

"The loss there­by sus­tained paral­ysed Petrotrin and crip­pled its busi­ness de­vel­op­ment projects, leav­ing a gap­ing hole in its bal­ance sheet. Petrotrin was even­tu­al­ly forced to sell the plant as scrap-iron with­out a sin­gle cent re­turned on its in­vest­ment," the re­lease stat­ed.

The Op­po­si­tion par­ty al­so called on Al-Rawi to dis­close his po­si­tion in all oth­er cor­rup­tion cas­es be­fore the court.

"Al-Rawi should al­so come clean and tell the na­tion whether he in­tends to adopt a sim­i­lar course in the re­main­ing cas­es against Calder Hart and the Ken Julien-led board of E-Teck.

"The E-Teck case is in fact be­fore the Privy Coun­cil af­ter the PP Gov­ern­ment won the mat­ter in both the High Court and Court of Ap­peal," the re­lease added.


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