{"id":55677,"date":"2023-05-29T05:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T09:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55677"},"modified":"2023-05-29T05:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T09:52:03","slug":"massive-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55677","title":{"rendered":"MASSIVE CORRUPTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><b>20 years later: Piarco airport commission of enquiry report finally unwrapped&#8230; <\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><em>By Ria Taitt<br \/>\nMay 28, 2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/news\/local\/massive-corruption\/article_20c35be0-fcfd-11ed-bcbf-575c38a59f63.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55677\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/panday.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Basdeo Panday' \/><\/a>It has remained under wraps for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Express has however obtained a copy of the report of the commission of enquiry into the Piarco Airport Development Project, a subject which has poi\u00adsoned the political bloodstream of Trinidad and Tobago with allegations of corruption on a grand scale and counter-\u00adallegations of political witch-hunting.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe report of the commission of enquiry, which examined the project from April 2002 to August 2003, found \u201cserious breaches, inclu\u00adding acts of massive corruption, greed, conflicts of interest, inequality of treatment, favouritism, gross misconduct, irregularities, improprieties and mismanagement by many, including ministers of the former (UNC) administration\u201d.<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/news\/local\/massive-corruption\/article_20c35be0-fcfd-11ed-bcbf-575c38a59f63.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>TV6 SPECIAL: VIDEOS OF THE PIARCO FILES<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-1\/article_251cd4c0-f909-11ed-a098-b3a75545f8f8.html\">THE PIARCO FILES PT 1<\/A><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-1\/article_251cd4c0-f909-11ed-a098-b3a75545f8f8.html<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-2\/article_d9ecd628-f9d8-11ed-a6ea-c72b62173b27.html\">THE PIARCO FILES PT 2<\/A><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-2\/article_d9ecd628-f9d8-11ed-a6ea-c72b62173b27.html<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-3\/article_96a1a33a-faaf-11ed-8b9f-13a8ee971a46.html\">THE PIARCO FILES PT 3<\/A><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-3\/article_96a1a33a-faaf-11ed-8b9f-13a8ee971a46.html<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-4\/article_7c8a6a4e-fb69-11ed-a45e-d7077f3ce2f6.html\">THE PIARCO FILES PT 4<\/A><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-4\/article_7c8a6a4e-fb69-11ed-a45e-d7077f3ce2f6.html<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-5\/article_94ce6d90-fc30-11ed-ae3f-bbef96b46645.html\">THE PIARCO FILES PT 5<\/A><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tv6tnt.com\/news\/7pmnews\/the-piarco-files-pt-5\/article_94ce6d90-fc30-11ed-ae3f-bbef96b46645.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 years later: Piarco airport commission of enquiry report finally unwrapped&#8230; By Ria Taitt May 28, 2023 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com It has remained under wraps for two decades. The Sunday Express has however obtained a copy of the report of the commission of enquiry into the Piarco Airport Development Project, a subject which has poi\u00adsoned the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MASSIVE CORRUPTION<\/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":[21,37,6,1,186,638,7],"tags":[85,140,1025,44,636,1706,1705,49],"class_list":["post-55677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complaints","category-corruption","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-law","category-money-laundering","category-politics","tag-abuse","tag-basdeo-panday","tag-corruption","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-jearlean-john","tag-john-humphrey","tag-piarco-airport","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55677"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55684,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55677\/revisions\/55684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}