The Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said yes­ter­day that while she has no ob­jec­tion to the sale of the re­fin­ery to lo­cals, there are sev­er­al ques­tions the Gov­ern­ment must an­swer.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert needs to ex­plain how a com­pa­ny in­cor­po­rat­ed on De­cem­ber 4, 2018, just about ten months ago, would be able to pro­vide fi­nance and ex­per­tise to se­cure a mul­ti-bil­lion-dol­lar in­dus­tri­al as­set.

In ad­di­tion, the Op­po­si­tion Leader called on the min­is­ter to re­veal “any and all for­eign part­ners as­so­ci­at­ed with the pre­ferred com­pa­ny, the Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed owned by the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union.”

An­oth­er ques­tion she wants an­swered is for the Gov­ern­ment to ex­plain “what cir­cum­stances they have tak­en a de­ci­sion to give away a multi­bil­lion-dol­lar as­set, with­out the pay­ment of a sin­gle dol­lar to a com­pa­ny that is less than one year old”.