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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Al Rawi: PNM had to beat it out of Govt

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A senior science and technology delegation from India will visit T&T next month to offer its expertise in the field of space technology and renewable energy. 
The team wIll also focus on solar, wind and ocean development and conduct a survey on the ocean's seabed for potential minerals.
The announcement was made by Indian High Commissioner Shri Malay Mishra during the launch of a new India/T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce (ITTIC). 
It was held on Thursday at the offices of the Indian High Commission Victoria Avenue, Port-of-Spain.
Mishra said T&T was a suitable country to set up a centre for advance technology for meteorological purposes. 
He said it would assist in preventing disasters.
At the event, chairman of India/T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce Deo Gosine said the chamber was initiated because they saw the need to institutionalised the relationship between Trinidad and Tobago India and to improve the trade relations. 
He added the organisation would seek to promote trade and commerce and foster

A senior science and technology delegation from India will visit T&T next month to offer its expertise in the field of space technology and renewable energy. The team wIll also focus on solar, wind and ocean development and conduct a survey on the ocean's seabed for potential minerals. The announcement was made by Indian High Commissioner Shri Malay Mishra during the launch of a new India/T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce (ITTIC). It was held on Thursday at the offices of the Indian High Commission Victoria Avenue, Port-of-Spain. Mishra said T&T was a suitable country to set up a centre for advance technology for meteorological purposes. He said it would assist in preventing disasters. At the event, chairman of India/T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce Deo Gosine said the chamber was initiated because they saw the need to institutionalised the relationship between Trinidad and Tobago India and to improve the trade relations. He added the organisation would seek to promote trade and commerce and foster

The Op­po­si­tion PNM had to "beat" the Gov­ern­ment in­to yield­ing up an­swers on the Tu­na­puna house and the NP con­tract, PNM sen­a­tor Faris Al Rawi said yes­ter­day.Speak­ing in the Sen­ate on a re­port con­cern­ing pro­cure­ment, Al Rawi said it was con­spic­u­ous that Leader of House Busi­ness Roodal Mooni­lal-who sits next to the Prime Min­is­ter in the House-had come to the Sen­ate to an­swer a ques­tion on the Tu­na­puna house.Al Rawi said there had been com­men­tary re­cent­ly about the pur­port­ed award of the con­tract to some­one "who was stat­ed a short while ago to be a close ac­quain­tance of the Prime Min­is­ter."Al Rawi not­ed the ques­tion on the Tu­na­puna house had been asked of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter John Sandy. The lat­ter was over­seas.Al Rawi not­ed that Min­is­ter in Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sub­has Pan­day-who was present-did not de­liv­er the re­ply.

He said the ques­tion had been asked many times."It was on­ly af­ter drilling and beat­ing by PNM sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds the is­sue was even­tu­al­ly an­swered by a high- rank­ing of­fi­cial such as the Leader of House Gov­ern­ment busi­ness," Al Rawi said."I'm grate­ful he (Mooni­lal) an­swered on the re­al is­sue for which we had to beat him for." He said the is­sue was re­al­ly whether some­one with as lit­tle track record as al­leged in the con­tract is­sue should be the ben­e­fi­cia­ry of a con­tract.

"I don't sup­port the fact that every­one who knows a per­son in high pow­er should be au­to­mat­i­caly ex­clud­ed from work, but we must al­low for prop­er pro­ce­dures to ap­ply," Al Rawi said.He added that Gov­ern­ment had no pol­i­cy on pub­lic pro­cure­ment.Al Rawi said the Gov­ern­ment could not preach fair­ness and trans­paren­cy and ex­clude peo­ple.He com­pli­ment­ed CAL chair­man George Nicholas for re­cus­ing him­self from a re­cent process, but said peo­ple could not be ex­clud­ed for be­ing per­ceived as PNM, for in­stance. (GA)


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