{"id":3814,"date":"2010-06-18T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2015-11-24T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:43:30","slug":"streetlighting-project-corruption-at-ttec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Corruption at T&#038;TEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?s=TTEC\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/ttec.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='T&#038;TEC' \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/politics\/0,122640.html\">AG to advise Govt on TTEC<\/a><br \/>\nAttorney General Anand Ramlogan will report to Cabinet in two weeks and recommend what \u201cfurther action\u201d 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).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/business\/business\/2010\/06\/18\/minister-george-nuts-bolts-ttec-cost-59m\">Minister George: Nuts, bolts for T&#038;TEC cost $5.9m<\/a><br \/>\nThe findings of the audit report into the streetlighting project of the T&#038;T Electricity Commission (T&#038;TEC) may not have been handed over to the Attorney General (AG) as was stated by Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, former Public Utilities minister in 2009. Abdul-Hamid had said in October 2009 that the report was referred to the AG \u201cfor his attention, consideration and action.\u201d Speaking at yesterday\u2019s post-Cabinet press conference, Public Utilities Minister Emmanuel George said, \u201cThe then minister indicated he had sent the report to the AG, however, we have not been able to find no correspondence in the ministry via which that report was conveyed to the AG,\u201d George said.<\/p>\n<p><big><b>Flashback:<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/general\/2010\/04\/15\/roget-sheds-light-ttec-dpp\">Roget \u2018sheds light\u2019 on T&#038;TEC with DPP<\/a> &#8211; April 15, 2010<br \/>\nThe Oilfields Workers\u2019 Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget has submitted to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard a \u201cstack of evidence\u201d pointing to alleged corruption in the T&#038;T Electricity Commission (T&#038;TEC) and its multi-million-dollar street-lighting project. Accompanied by several union supporters, Roget went to Gaspard\u2019s office at Winsure Building, Richmond Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday in an attempt to personally deliver the documents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/commentary\/columnist\/2009\/08\/23\/pussyfooting-around-street-lights\">Pussyfooting around the street lights<\/a> &#8211; August 23, 2009<br \/>\nThere seems to be a lot more awry about the national street-lighting programme than the Government is prepared to admit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AG to advise Govt on TTEC Attorney General Anand Ramlogan will report to Cabinet in two weeks and recommend what \u201cfurther action\u201d 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corruption at T&#038;TEC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,29,1,186,396,30,7],"tags":[394,393,44,430,1015,89],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crime","category-finance","category-general-tt","category-law","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-politics","tag-anand-ramlogan","tag-attorney-general","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-emmanuel-george","tag-politics","tag-ttec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}