Patriotic s bid for Petrotrin refinery rejected again
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curtis.williams@guardian.co.tt
One and a half months after a Cabinet-appointed committee was asked to review the proposal from the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union’s Patriotic Energies Company Limited for the acquisition of Petrotrin’s Point-a-Pierre refinery, Government will today announce its back to the drawing board after rejecting the offer.
Well placed sources have told Guardian Media that the committee was of the view the proposal did not meet the minimum requirements and it was in the country’s best interest to go out and seek to engage another company to take control of the 100-year-old refinery.
THA spends $2.5m on tourism project, Auditor General finds only rope
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Joel Julien
Two and a half million dollars. That is how much the Tobago House of Asembly’s Division of Tourism, led by Tracy Davidson-Celestine, spent on a High Angle Canopy Course project for Main Ridge. However, all the Auditor General’s Department could subsequently find for the money spent on the project was some rope in a store room.
The findings are contained in the Auditor General’s Report on the operations of the THA for the financial year ended September 30, 2016, which is riddled with questions about the operation of the Assembly.