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***<\/p>\n Where one gone?<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n By Sean Douglas ATTORNEY GENERAL Anand Ramlogan yesterday asked former prime minister Patrick Manning to help find a missing a US$114,000 Strauss grand piano, bought for the Prime Minister\u2019s Residence by the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) under Manning\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n Asking the Lower House to set up a joint select committee to update the Prevention of Corruption Act, Ramlogan said UTT head, Prof Ken Julien, had in 2008 bought ten grand pianos from the Bosendorfer firm for US$850,000 (TT$5 million), after a one-third discount.<\/p>\n Quoting a Bosendorfer letter of November 24, 2008, he said, \u201cOne unit entitled Strauss and listed at US$114,215 is listed with a location of \u2018Home of Prime Minister \u2013 The Honourable Patrick Manning\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey in fact delivered one to the residence of the Prime Minister (Manning),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Ramlogan said he had asked Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to search for it. Turning to Manning, Ramlogan said, \u201cSir, if you know where that piano is..could you kindly assist us?\u201d Paraphrasing a Lord Kitchener ditty, \u201cWhere the money gone?\u201d, Ramlogan said, \u201cToday we have to ask, where the piano gone?\u201d He said one grand piano had gone to each of four UTT campuses at O\u2019Meara, Point Lisas, San Fernando, Chaguaramas (Maritime campus); and one to the residence of a musician known as Prof Mikkens. \u201cUntil about three months ago, we understand that two of the pianos were in their original packaging. None of the pianos appear to have been used to any extent at all, save for a few recitals given by Professor Mikkens or Professor Seivewright. Recently, in the last few months, three of the pianos were transferred to the Academy of the Performing Arts, and two are to be found at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA).\u201d Ramlogan said the purchase was a most shameful and disgraceful use of public funds. ***<\/p>\n Where’s the grand piano?<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n By Anna Ramdass AG calls on Manning to answer: …It’s not at the PM’s residence or Diplomatic Centre<\/b><\/p>\n Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday asked former prime minister Patrick Manning this question, saying that an expensive Bosendorfer piano cannot be found at the Prime Minister’s official residence or Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s.<\/p>\n Speaking on a motion to amend the Anti-Corruption Act, Ramlogan disclosed that close to US$1 million (US$850,677 after a 33 per cent discount) was spent to purchase ten Bosendorfer pianos from Las Vegas, one of which is now missing. ***<\/p>\n Media Tour of the Prime Minister’s Residence and Diplomatic Centre<\/a> …at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s By Anna Ramdass January 14, 2011 – trinidadexpress.com The grand piano has been found \u2014in the very place it was alleged to have been missing from. National Security adviser to the Prime Minister, Gary Griffith, told the Express by phone yesterday that the piano was found after checks … Continue reading PIANO FOUND!<\/span> 
<\/a>The grand piano has been found \u2014in the very place it was alleged to have been missing from. National Security adviser to the Prime Minister, Gary Griffith, told the Express by phone yesterday that the piano was found after checks of the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s.
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\n“It (the piano) seemed to be deliberately tucked and hidden away. It was covered with layers of cloth and appears to have never been used,” Griffith told the Express.
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\nOn Thursday July 01st 2010, the media toured the Prime Minister\u2019s Residence and Diplomatic Centre at La Fantasie Road, St Ann\u2019s. The tour was led by Government\u2019s press secretary Garvin Nicholas and head of the Prime Minister’s household Armando D\u2019Souza. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"