Michelle Loubon

?British Gas of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BGTT) Lim­it­ed Pres­i­dent Derek Hud­son came in for ku­dos from Port-of-Spain May­or Murchi­son Brown for vol­un­tar­i­ly pro­vid­ing ser­vice, which aid­ed the city's beau­ti­fi­ca­tion and clean­li­ness. He al­so said due to Hud­son's stew­ard­ship in the pe­tro­le­um in­dus­try about US$3 bil­lion was in­vest­ed in T&T. Brown made these com­ments be­fore pre­sent­ing a plaque to Hud­son at City Hall, Keate Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day. The oc­ca­sion was the statu­to­ry meet­ing of the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion.

Fond­ly de­scrib­ing him as one of "our boys," Brown said, "Twen­ty years ago, he played a sig­nif­i­cant role in the de­vel­op­ment of the en­er­gy sec­tor. When the Bel­mont Park was be­ing re­fur­bished, he made a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to its restora­tion. Al­so, lit­ter carts (30) were spon­sored by BGTT." Dur­ing Brown's vis­it to Ba­hamas, he said the Cab­i­net was tak­en aback that cor­po­rate cit­i­zens vol­un­teer their monies and ser­vices to the cities. "They were stunned...that peo­ple come for­ward and say. What can we do to help?" ML