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General T&T, Opposition Party, Politics, Recession

Go softly on utility rates

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By Raffique Shah
February 20, 2023

Raffique ShahAs someone who has long advocated the dismantling of over-generous subsidies for a number of goods and services, many readers may find my change in position opportunistic, and proceed to lump me with politicians who thrive on hollow rhetoric such as “freedom for the masses”, even the more vacuous slogan, “freeness for the masses”.

These are flights of fancy that the younger among my generation when our larger-than-life giants like Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Patrice Lumumba and Malcolm X walked among us, preaching revolution through which we would establish an egalitarian world.
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General T&T, Media, Parliament

Shocking TTEC $612M loss

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Newsday Editorial
November 24, 2015 – newsday.co.tt

T&TECTHREE years after the fact, Parliament has only this month received the annual report of the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) for 2013.

That alone would be unsatisfactory were it not for the fact that the picture painted in the report is — to use an appropriate word — shocking.
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corruption, Crime in T&T, Finance, General T&T, Law, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics

Corruption at T&TEC

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T&TECAG to advise Govt on TTEC
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan will report to Cabinet in two weeks and recommend what “further action” should be taken on the findings of a report on breaches in tendering procedures by the TT Electricity Commission (TTEC) in relation to jobs under the Street Lighting Implementation Unit, which implemented the street lighting programme (SLP).
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Complaints, General T&T

Coping with a Quadrupling T&TEC Bill

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By Stephen Kangal
March 05, 2009

T&TECDuring the RIC hearings that subsequently resulted in the current electricity rate hike I made it abundantly clear that the net effect of the proposed unit rate increase from 15 cents to 35 cents per unit would result in a 45% hike in electricity bills. T&TEC and the RIC under Professor Dennis Pantin used every statistical trick in the book to deny and discredit this percentage increase.
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