PNM in Gov't(2015-2020)

[Redress10]

Seems Rowlee and the PNM are the real culprits of treason against the people of T&T

How can it be treason? You know what the definition of treason is?

[The_Honourable]

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/us-tt-violated-rio-treaty-with-venezuelan-vp-visit-6.2.1115485.d4a640dff6

So from the article: The US government will actively investigate all efforts by Maduro and his supporters to circumvent US sanctions and take appropriate action against those determined to be engaging in sanctionable activity, as well as those who are found to be violating US sanctions,” it warned.


Growlers 3 days ago: The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has no definitive communication from the United States Government indicating that this country is under any investigation by any agency of the United States.


I guess growlers getting the "need to know basis" treatment.

[zoom rader]

Alluh be smarter.

Plenty times that treaty has been violated.

No big deal. An official statement from the US doesn't mean action is going to be taken against TT. They will prob have some discussion at the OAS and that'll be it.

OAS is also where they have the baccanal with the Lima group so not sure how functional that treaty is. Uruguay left and returned after 6 months because of objection to action taken against Venezuela.

Yup no big deal.

Will the US find weapons of mass destructions.

[rebound]

I am just glad to know that the official statement from the US means nothing. I was worried.

Thanks tuner.

[De Dragon]

It's amazing what a 10 second Google search can find you. 10 seconds to realize that since last year, Chavez has been in a very prominent position at PDSVA subsidiary Citgo. These inept, bumblefacks apparently are in the habit of letting just about anyone walk in to the PM's Office/President's House free sheet, and sticking to a horsesheit story about not being introduced(in an alleged 5 person meeting!)., or knowing who was coming, and what they were coming for
Then again the lying, traitorous JUHN Scarfy and his Propaganda Minister Goebbels Young could only fool soft headed sheep like the Red Twins and the new dummy on the block, racist 007.


PDVSA.COM /
Wednesday, 22 November 2017


Caracas.- The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, appointed Asdrúbal Chávez as the new president of Citgo Petroleum Corporation, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) in the United States. He made the announcement during a televised address from Miraflores Palace.

"Asdrúbal Chávez is going to restructure, recover and strengthen our Venezuelan capital and investment company in the United States. Asdrúbal assumes this restructuring process starting now”, said the president.

"I filed a complaint before Chief Prosecutor Tarek William Saab on the serious crimes of treason, corruption and surrendering of the homeland’s assets that were being committed by the Citgo company”, he said.

According to President Maduro, the Chief Prosecutor's Office conducted the corresponding investigations and concluded that serious crimes had allegedly been committed; and on Tuesday, November 21, the Venezuelan Citgo executives were arrested.

"Enough of treason against the revolution and against our people; enough of these homeland traitors disguised as chavistas. They were going to steal Citgo from us. I didn’t know that some of these executives had US citizenship. Some of them had already been denounced by Wikileaks as CIA collaborators”, he said.

Asdrúbal Chávez profile

Asdrúbal Chávez is a chemical engineer from the Universidad de los Andes, 1979. He has been People’s minister of Petroleum and Mining (today known as People’s Ministry of Petroleum). He began his career in the Venezuelan oil industry in Carabobo’s state El Palito Refinery’s expansion project. He held various positions in Industrial Services, Distillation and Specialties, Conversion and Treatment, Crude and Products Movement, Programming and Economics as well as Process Engineering.

In 1989 he was assigned to the company UOP, in the United States, for a Processes specialization. In the 90s, he led other projects for the expansion and organization of El Palito Refinery, holding various managerial positions.

In 2001 he was appointed manager of Human Resources of the company Bitúmenes Orinoco, S.A. (Bitor). The following year he became a member of Bitor Board of Directors for one year. In 2003, he was appointed executive director of Human Resources of PDVSA. A year later, he took over as executive director of Commerce and Supply of PDVSA.

Since 2009 he has held major positions as vice minister of Petrochemicals, president of PDV Marina, director of Citgo and representative of various subsidiaries and joint ventures linked to the Venezuelan state.

In 2007 he was appointed vice president of Refining, Trade and Supply of PDVSA; and in September 2014 he was named People’s minister of Petroleum and Mining
until his election as deputy for Barinas state in December 2015.

[Dizzy28]

So your Ministry gave the order to allow the people to enter but you really don't know or couldn't find out??

PNM and their bloggers will spin this as Trinidad's right to sovereignty but it boils down to the serial liars in Govnt and the continued cover up even against mounting evidence contrary to their lies. But then again this administration has covered up sexual assault at taxpayers expense already to protect one of their own.

[The_Honourable]

Dizzy is a traitor trying to undermine the sovereignty of this country. Who are you working for?

[Dizzy28]

Dizzy is a traitor trying to undermine the sovereignty of this country. Who are you working for?

Mossad!!!

[pugboy]

it’s fake
anybody could type up a doc like that and print it
ent

[rspann]

Not that much spent already . It's projected to reach there by September . That would be the total .

T&T's $6 billion COVID bill

The Government relief programmes to offset the negative impact of COVID-19 is expected to cost the country six billion dollars.

This was the projected figure given by Finance Minister Colm Imbert as he gave a breakdown of Government spending to date and projected expenditure to the end of September, during the daily virtual COVID-19 press conference today.

“Government has already spent $934m up to yesterday on COVID relief, and when you add everything up including the VAT bonds, the Caribbean Airlines facility and so on, the total is six billion dollars.”

Imbert said $700m in outstanding VAT refunds have been paid in cash with another $3b to be paid in VAT bonds, which is expected to start this week.

He also stated that Caribbean Airlines will receive support from the Government.

“As you will realise Caribbean Airlines is earning no money at this point in time, so that we have secured a 65 million US dollar loan (TT$442m) to assist Caribbean Airlines. We may need to give WASA (Water and Sewerage Authority) some supplementary funding, that is being looked at right now.

He said in his capacity as Corporation Sole, he has signed agreements with the umbrella body of credit unions to make available $100m for the membership of some 20 credit unions, and that may be increased in due course with another provision geared towards small business lending within the credit union movement.

Imbert added that the provision to credit union is for them to make loans available to their membership at a significantly reduced rate of around three percent.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health, which has been at the centre of the country’s COVID-19 battle, has also received significant support.

“The Ministry of Health so far has spent $55 million dollars. We expect them to spend somewhere in the vicinity of $137 million, and this is not an easily determinable figure because if for example there would be an increase in the number of cases, God forbid, then the Ministry of Health would have to spend some more money.

“In addition if a decision is taken or if it is possible for university students to come back to Trinidad and Tobago, they would have to be quarantined and that’s an expense on the Ministry of Health. So we have an additional provision for the Ministry of Health of $250 million dollars. We expect their actual expenditure to be $137m plus $250m,” Imbert said.

Following is a breakdown of relief support expended to date:

1. Ministry of Social Development and Family Services: Amount spent - $98.1m; projected total - $400m

Support provided - Food cards, cash support cards, food and income support for retrenched persons, rental assistance, food vouchers and hampers, support to old age pension, disability and public assistance applicants who are not yet in receipt of the benefits.

2. Office of the Prime Minister: Amount spent - $10m; projected expenditure - $30m

Funding to religious organizations to provide food for the poor and needy through their normal distribution programmes.

3. Ministry of Agriculture: Amount spent - $1.3m; projected expenditure - $10.7m

Provision of fresh produce to those in need.

4. Ministry of National Security: Amount spent - $3.7m; projected expenditure - $8.3m

Additional expenditure for its various divisions.

5. Ministry of Health: Amount spent - $55m; projected expenditure $137m + provisional $250m

Funding for resources in mitigating spread of COVID-19, and for contingency spending in anticipation of a worsening of the country’s infection status.

6. Ministry of Finance:

(i). Salary Relief Grants: Amount spent - $12m; projected expenditure - $490m

Salary support to persons under the National Insurance Scheme who have been retrenched or in receipt of reduced income as a direct result of COVID-19 measures implemented by the Government.

(ii). Credit Unions: projected expenditure - $100m

Low interest loan support to the membership of 20 credit unions.

(iii). VAT refunds: Amount spent - $700m; projected expenditure - $3.7b

(iv). Face masks: Projected expenditure - $5m

Face masks will be made available to the public free of charge.

(v). Caribbean Airline: Projected expenditure – US$65m (TTS442m)

Support to state-owned Caribbean Airlines, which has lost it income earning capacity due to the closing of the country’s borders.

7. Tobago

(i). Tobago Regional Health Authority: Amount allocated – S50m

Support for its response to COVID-19

(ii). Tobago House of Assembly: Amount allocated - $5m

To facilitate enterprise development

(iii). Hotel Upgrades: Amount allocated - $50m

(iv). SMEs funding: Amount to be provided - $300m

Support to the small and medium enterprises in the form of a loan programme where loans will be subsidised by the Government in addition to standing as guarantor.

8. Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government

(i). Sanitisation programmes: Amount spent - $3.4m; projected expenditure - $16m

(ii). Food support: Amount spent - $10m; projected expenditure - $30m

9. Trinidad and Tobago Police Service: Amount spent - $5.3m; projected expenditure - $15.3m

Funding for the purchase of personal protective equipment (PPE).

https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/t-ts-6-billion-covid-bill/article_43236ec2-9460-11ea-b55b-3f3cc90cd1f6.html

They haven't spent that on COVID . Add up what was spent already and you'll get the figure . Why add the $700 m vat refund into COVID relief? That was due and owing ,they just stick it in here one time . Figure out why .

[pugboy]

padding boi padding

[MaxPower]

I understand all of allyuh points eh....

But allyuh have to understand that EVERY SINGLE TIME, nothing comes out of these things.

Dem fellas done already a step ahead.

[aaron17]

Did they test the ppl for covid? Did they quarantine them? Or their positions are too high for those things?

[rspann]

I understand all of allyuh points eh....

But allyuh have to understand that EVERY SINGLE TIME, nothing comes out of these things.

Dem fellas done already a step ahead.

Good Day Maxpower .
You seem to understand how it works .

I thought the opening of KFC would have overshadowed it, but I guess the nine days wasn't up as yet . By next week please God , it will be forgotten .

[Redman]

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So your Ministry gave the order to allow the people to enter but you really don't know or couldn't find out??

PNM and their bloggers will spin this as Trinidad's right to sovereignty but it boils down to the serial liars in Govnt and the continued cover up even against mounting evidence contrary to their lies. But then again this administration has covered up sexual assault at taxpayers expense already to protect one of their own.

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This is why the first statement needed to be on point.
Yes they were here,yes we met....the wanted xyz....I said no.
Wave the Sovereignty flag....every body would understand...whether they agree or not.

[Dizzy28]

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So your Ministry gave the order to allow the people to enter but you really don't know or couldn't find out??

PNM and their bloggers will spin this as Trinidad's right to sovereignty but it boils down to the serial liars in Govnt and the continued cover up even against mounting evidence contrary to their lies. But then again this administration has covered up sexual assault at taxpayers expense already to protect one of their own.

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This is why the first statement needed to be on point.
Yes they were here,yes we met....the wanted xyz....I said no.
Wave the Sovereignty flag....every body would understand...whether they agree or not.

Instead its been one continuous downward spiral of deceit and coverups.

[pugboy]

well u know how it is when u start lying
it gets harder to cover up the more lies you utter

[aaron17]

I understand all of allyuh points eh....

But allyuh have to understand that EVERY SINGLE TIME, nothing comes out of these things.

Dem fellas done already a step ahead.

By dem u mean USA right? Since they in control.

[zoom rader]

Not that much spent already . It's projected to reach there by September . That would be the total .

T&T's $6 billion COVID bill

The Government relief programmes to offset the negative impact of COVID-19 is expected to cost the country six billion dollars.

This was the projected figure given by Finance Minister Colm Imbert as he gave a breakdown of Government spending to date and projected expenditure to the end of September, during the daily virtual COVID-19 press conference today.

“Government has already spent $934m up to yesterday on COVID relief, and when you add everything up including the VAT bonds, the Caribbean Airlines facility and so on, the total is six billion dollars.”

Imbert said $700m in outstanding VAT refunds have been paid in cash with another $3b to be paid in VAT bonds, which is expected to start this week.

He also stated that Caribbean Airlines will receive support from the Government.

“As you will realise Caribbean Airlines is earning no money at this point in time, so that we have secured a 65 million US dollar loan (TT$442m) to assist Caribbean Airlines. We may need to give WASA (Water and Sewerage Authority) some supplementary funding, that is being looked at right now.

He said in his capacity as Corporation Sole, he has signed agreements with the umbrella body of credit unions to make available $100m for the membership of some 20 credit unions, and that may be increased in due course with another provision geared towards small business lending within the credit union movement.

Imbert added that the provision to credit union is for them to make loans available to their membership at a significantly reduced rate of around three percent.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health, which has been at the centre of the country’s COVID-19 battle, has also received significant support.

“The Ministry of Health so far has spent $55 million dollars. We expect them to spend somewhere in the vicinity of $137 million, and this is not an easily determinable figure because if for example there would be an increase in the number of cases, God forbid, then the Ministry of Health would have to spend some more money.

“In addition if a decision is taken or if it is possible for university students to come back to Trinidad and Tobago, they would have to be quarantined and that’s an expense on the Ministry of Health. So we have an additional provision for the Ministry of Health of $250 million dollars. We expect their actual expenditure to be $137m plus $250m,” Imbert said.

Following is a breakdown of relief support expended to date:

1. Ministry of Social Development and Family Services: Amount spent - $98.1m; projected total - $400m

Support provided - Food cards, cash support cards, food and income support for retrenched persons, rental assistance, food vouchers and hampers, support to old age pension, disability and public assistance applicants who are not yet in receipt of the benefits.

2. Office of the Prime Minister: Amount spent - $10m; projected expenditure - $30m

Funding to religious organizations to provide food for the poor and needy through their normal distribution programmes.

3. Ministry of Agriculture: Amount spent - $1.3m; projected expenditure - $10.7m

Provision of fresh produce to those in need.

4. Ministry of National Security: Amount spent - $3.7m; projected expenditure - $8.3m

Additional expenditure for its various divisions.

5. Ministry of Health: Amount spent - $55m; projected expenditure $137m + provisional $250m

Funding for resources in mitigating spread of COVID-19, and for contingency spending in anticipation of a worsening of the country’s infection status.

6. Ministry of Finance:

(i). Salary Relief Grants: Amount spent - $12m; projected expenditure - $490m

Salary support to persons under the National Insurance Scheme who have been retrenched or in receipt of reduced income as a direct result of COVID-19 measures implemented by the Government.

(ii). Credit Unions: projected expenditure - $100m

Low interest loan support to the membership of 20 credit unions.

(iii). VAT refunds: Amount spent - $700m; projected expenditure - $3.7b

(iv). Face masks: Projected expenditure - $5m

Face masks will be made available to the public free of charge.

(v). Caribbean Airline: Projected expenditure – US$65m (TTS442m)

Support to state-owned Caribbean Airlines, which has lost it income earning capacity due to the closing of the country’s borders.

7. Tobago

(i). Tobago Regional Health Authority: Amount allocated – S50m

Support for its response to COVID-19

(ii). Tobago House of Assembly: Amount allocated - $5m

To facilitate enterprise development

(iii). Hotel Upgrades: Amount allocated - $50m

(iv). SMEs funding: Amount to be provided - $300m

Support to the small and medium enterprises in the form of a loan programme where loans will be subsidised by the Government in addition to standing as guarantor.

8. Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government

(i). Sanitisation programmes: Amount spent - $3.4m; projected expenditure - $16m

(ii). Food support: Amount spent - $10m; projected expenditure - $30m

9. Trinidad and Tobago Police Service: Amount spent - $5.3m; projected expenditure - $15.3m

Funding for the purchase of personal protective equipment (PPE).

https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/t-ts-6-billion-covid-bill/article_43236ec2-9460-11ea-b55b-3f3cc90cd1f6.html

They haven't spent that on COVID . Add up what was spent already and you'll get the figure . Why add the $700 m vat refund into COVID relief? That was due and owing ,they just stick it in here one time . Figure out why .

So Elite get he 10million ?

[Cantmis]

Ok new topic of pnm supporters, unc denies Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie joining the reopening team.
Aka unpatriotic...

[Dizzy28]

This was pretty petty of the UNC. You can't say you not given a chance to contribute but when given the chance turn it down.

Buy that's a UNC topic maybe for their 2.0 thread.

Ok new topic of pnm supporters, unc denies Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie joining the reopening team.
Aka unpatriotic...

[The_Honourable]

A series of coincidences?

[MaxPower]

I understand all of allyuh points eh....

But allyuh have to understand that EVERY SINGLE TIME, nothing comes out of these things.

Dem fellas done already a step ahead.

Good Day Maxpower .
You seem to understand how it works .

I thought the opening of KFC would have overshadowed it, but I guess the nine days wasn't up as yet . By next week please God , it will be forgotten .

Hello rspann,

I feel its how Royal Castle didnt open too.

So yeh nex week for sure.

[MaxPower]

I understand all of allyuh points eh....

But allyuh have to understand that EVERY SINGLE TIME, nothing comes out of these things.

Dem fellas done already a step ahead.

By dem u mean USA right? Since they in control.

Pleasantries aaron17,

Dem meaning Rowley and team.

The USA dont have time for petty Trini matter.

Once allyuh dont reach in the Trump Tweet as soon as he wake up, allyuh not important bro.

[zoom rader]

1 Billion of our Funds stolen under covid by PNM and folks in here Silent.

Carry on

[Gladiator]

Red dress boy....I doh know what to say nah.

https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ ... 0ca37.html

The exemption letter to Immigration to allow entry into Trinidad to Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and her entourage clearly stated the names of the delegation as well as the aircraft number.

In the letter dated March 26, 2020, acting permanent secretary in the National Security Ministry Gary Joseph wrote to Chief Immigration Officer Charmaine Gandhi-­Andrews indicating National Security Minister Stuart Young had granted Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and other named persons permission to enter T&T, and arrangements should be made by Immigration to facilitate entry.

Young is on record as saying he did not know who the members of Rodriguez’ delegation were, and on what plane they arrived.

There has been no response from Young or the ministry’s permanent secretary to questions from the Express about the ­letter, which was circulated on social media ­yesterday.

The letter stated: “Permission to enter the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Please be advised that the Minister of National Security has conveyed an exemption to the current travel restrictions to the following members of the Venezuelan Delegation expected to arrive and depart Trinidad and Tobago on Friday, March 27, 2020.”

The delegation listed were:

1. VP Delcy Rodriguez

2. Asdrubal Chavez (former president of Citgo, a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA. Now PDVSA president, appointed April 28).

3. Juan Vicente Santana Migliacion (vice-president of gas, PDVSA)

4. Manuel Antonio Jimenez Herrera (Director of Administrative Management, National Assembly of Venezuela)

5. Major Kenny Diaz Rosario

6. Alejandra Bastidas

7. Major Sanchez

Young: I did not know

The letter stated the group was scheduled to leave Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar airport at 12 p.m. on March 27 on aircraft Falcon 2000X, registration number YV 3360, and depart Piarco International Airport at 5 p.m. the same day.

At the Covid-19 virtual news conference on Monday, Young said he did not know who was in the delegation, what aircraft they arrived on, and admitted there was no pre-set agenda for the meeting.

“We did not know the type of plane, we did not know the rest of the delegation and, at our level, meaning the Cabinet ministers accompanying the prime minister, that is not an unusual occurrence,” said Young.

The Public Health coronavirus regulations stipulate only the national security minister can authorise entry when the ­borders are closed.

It states: “All air and sea ports or any place where an aircraft or ship or vessel can land shall, except in relation to air and sea cargo, remain closed to the arrival or departure of aircraft or ships or other vessels carrying passengers unless permitted by the Minister for National Security.”

Young has said Rodriguez was appointed as the lead coordinator for the Covid ­response in Venezuela in February.

“Ms Rodriguez came (to Trinidad). There was no question or asking of what were you coming to discuss with us,” he said.

He said there was a plan for her to come on March 16, but she had the flu and Young said he asked her to come at a later date—March 27.

He said when he gave authorisation, he did not “drill down” into the plane being used to enter the country.

Young has said when the Venezuelan delegation arrived, the Government officials did not have contact with all of them.

“We saw them. They were brought in the Diplomatic Centre, and they went down a corridor into a housing bay,” he said.

Corresponding info

Young said he, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses met with Rodriguez and Chavez, who were in Personal Protection Equipment gear.

He said the conversation was about the 16,523 people who are registered in Trinidad and Tobago who are Venezuelans, plus more who may be here.

He added an offer was made by Venezuela to provide Covid test kits, which was declined by Trinidad and Tobago.

The information in the exemption letter corresponds with what was disclosed by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar last Friday, as she revealed that some ­members of the delegation were energy officials.

The former prime minister had also disclosed a flight manifest which showed the aircraft Rodriguez arrived on—YV3360.

The aircraft is a PDVSA plane sanctioned by the United States.

[Dizzy28]

Traitors !!!!! Young, Rowley, Moses and thier supporters willing to sell this country out to narco states with dubiously elected leaders not recognized by our closest allies (US, Canada, EU etc.)

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Finally!!!!!! Maxi pad throw he frame outa politics

[16 cycles]

^ what was the final bill to tax payers for his tenure?

[shake d livin wake d dead]

^ what was the final bill to tax payers for his tenure?

A cost we will never know. Man make sure he milk the state proper and then leave