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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby toyolink » January 25th, 2022, 3:15 pm

The design short comings are evident from the failure of the work here and it is difficult to understand how the engineers 'underestimated' the destructive nature of the impacting hydrological forces which the load bearing base would be subjected too.
I expect the failure that is taking place may well extend for a much longer distance than that which we can see with the surface fractures and collapse.
A proper long term solution may very well be a completely new elevated design which may include providing appropriate flow and interface between the sea and the mangrove/ land based drainage forces.
Again the creators and owners of the design cannot be excused for not doing a proper job and this continues to frustrate our ability to come out of the hole we have found ourselves in.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby antlind » January 25th, 2022, 3:42 pm

toyolink wrote:A proper long term solution may very well be a completely new elevated design which may include providing appropriate flow and interface between the sea and the mangrove/ land based drainage forces.


Hit the nail on the head. This is perhaps the only realistic solution for this stretch of road. But I fear it is too late for them to make this change. Instead we will be saddled with a road that keeps sinking and needing major repairs every year. Mo money to help fill the pockets of JUSAMCO and the others.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby pugboy » January 25th, 2022, 3:54 pm

prior to this work, was the road suffering from slippage like now?

to me the road was low and subject to occasional flooding but not sure if there was constant slippage.

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toyolink wrote:A proper long term solution may very well be a completely new elevated design which may include providing appropriate flow and interface between the sea and the mangrove/ land based drainage forces.


Hit the nail on the head. This is perhaps the only realistic solution for this stretch of road. But I fear it is too late for them to make this change. Instead we will be saddled with a road that keeps sinking and needing major repairs every year. Mo money to help fill the pockets of JUSAMCO and the others.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby zoom rader » January 25th, 2022, 6:54 pm

All dis and not a word from the red government

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby Chimera » January 25th, 2022, 6:58 pm

If dey ask sinanan for a comment he would say its the first time he hearing about it

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby st7 » January 25th, 2022, 7:01 pm

zoom rader wrote:All dis and not a word from the red government


they waiting to take credit for a self-funded athlete who accomplished something overseas

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby Rovin » January 25th, 2022, 9:27 pm

media said skinahnan nuh answering he phone or replying to messages ...

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby nervewrecker » January 25th, 2022, 9:28 pm

Rovin wrote:yall see d pics & vids that Edward Moodie posted on fb ? .... https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=966 ... 1107597704


Take anything he says with a pinch of salt.

He had a group for something concerning woodland.

He says the works on the creek causes flooding in woodland.

I asked if the existing structure not affecting it. Well everything including the kitchen sink was thrown at me, I cant comment on anything he post and the group went poof some months after.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby nervewrecker » January 25th, 2022, 9:35 pm

Oh yea, he was taking a bathe in the sea during low tide near the rocks outside by the cremation site, pulled up some mud and did an instant analysis on it within his hand.

Said its silt and mud, that's the flooding problem.

You by a river mouth and expect to find white, black or pink sand? news flash, all the beaches in the gulf have brown sand, its mostly mud and some silt. Anyone who ever pass near the sea, was on the water taxi or any tower in port of spain after rain fall saw such.

Then you want to know why they say south dont have road, internet, water and we live like primitives.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby Rovin » January 25th, 2022, 9:45 pm

nah i eh no follower\fan of him, skeptical of him from since d kubs\highway re route days

i just shared d pics & videos he took, i eh really business with d stuff he speaks ....

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby nervewrecker » January 25th, 2022, 11:27 pm



Here he goes again, the water takes the path of least resistance, through compressed mud under a road with low hydraulic conductivity and not a river.

He says the land raise up when in fact it was boulders put as wave breakers.

He went and measure the river depth again, good for him.

He does not seem to understand what a swamp is and that not all rivers end in the sea. Some empty into the swamp / mangrove / wetland. It is normal to find vegetation in it, having a dedicated channel will create a path of lease resistance and starve the wetland of flow through it.

Loving how the age old idea discussed in class about the underground cylinders is suddenly something he came up with.

Social media and his band of followers making people like him famous.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby jhonnieblue » January 26th, 2022, 5:58 am

The real story behind this is just a failure by Aecom engineers. They took numerous shortcuts to get the porject delivered at a certain time. Geotechnical review was cast aside when certain questions was asked by prolific companies in the third party assessment phase.
In the situation it's not the contractors fault as they followed to spec the outline of the engineering.
This falls on Aecom and Nidco.
It's rotational embankment failure due to hydraulic motion through the sub surface.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby Musical Doc » January 26th, 2022, 9:52 am

nervewrecker wrote:
Rovin wrote:yall see d pics & vids that Edward Moodie posted on fb ? .... https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=966 ... 1107597704


Take anything he says with a pinch of salt.

He had a group for something concerning woodland.

He says the works on the creek causes flooding in woodland.

I asked if the existing structure not affecting it. Well everything including the kitchen sink was thrown at me, I cant comment on anything he post and the group went poof some months after.


Correct, Moodie is a businessman and opportunist. Only seeks his interest while trying to portray being a knight. When the path of the highway was announced through penal years ago, this man quickly bought a piece of land in the path, built up a house and about a year later, got paid for his property from the govt and then demolished and moved on.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby zoom rader » January 26th, 2022, 10:30 am

No public outcry on the red government disaster.

What a stupid cont tree.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby Rovin » January 26th, 2022, 11:14 am

zoom rader wrote:No public outcry on the red government disaster.

What a stupid cont tree.


hadda agree with u

so much brilliant engineers & minds we suppose to have here yet no outcry from anybody

like once poo nm in power d country cud run into d ground & nobody gaf ...

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby The_Honourable » January 26th, 2022, 11:51 am

Mosquito Creek revetment wall crumbles

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Part of the concrete revetment walls on the northbound carriageway of the South Trunk Road has crumbled while the andesite boulders are slowly sinking beneath the sea.

The road is part of the Solomon Hochoy Highway Extension which connects San Fernando to Point Fortin.

Guardian Media visited the scene for the third day on Tuesday and found one part of the wall completely gone. There were also gaping cracks on other sections of the revetment wall which runs along the western coasts of the Gulf of Paria.

The paved area has been dug up and a source at the site said piling may be done soon.

Responding to a question in Parliament on Tuesday, Works Minister Rohan Sinanan said despite the failure of ongoing works, there was no threat to public safety at the South Trunk Road.

He said the ongoing construction at Mosquito Creek consists of 2.4 km of the northbound and southbound carriageway. He explained that approximately two km of the southbound carriageway has been successfully opened to traffic since 2019.

“Within the ongoing construction zone of the 2.4 km northbound carriageway, a localized 180 metres failure zone has occurred. This construction zone is not open to traffic and therefore does not impact the existing flow of traffic at the Mosquito Creek nor does it pose any immediate threat to vehicular traffic to road users on the South Trunk Road,” Sinanan said.

He told Guardian Media on Monday that investigations were ongoing to determine what caused the failure.

“To minimise propagation of the failures, the earth fill and pavement loads on the embankment were immediately reduced. The situation is being monitored by surveyors, three times daily to map the movement of the instability,” Sinanan said.

He said the designers were doing a detailed review of geotechnical assumptions on the existing sites to generate a relevant site-specific solution.”

But the former works minister Dr Suruj Rambachan said Sinanan should ask for a full report from the consultant AECOM. He noted that the contractor Junior Sammy was executing work on the basis of design and materials recommended by NIDCO.

“I find the statement made by NIDCO to be lacking responsibility ad dismissive of a serious situation. AECOM consultants were the ones who did the designs. One would hope that this was done based on proper geotechnical surveys. The minister must find out through an independent source whether the designs were done in geotechnical surveys. He also said a job like what was done at the Creek should have involved extensive piling.

Rambachan said when the southbound carriageway was being built, the roadworks were left to settle for 14 months before any paving was done.

However, the founder of the Highway Re-route Movement Dr Wayne Kublalsingh said he was not surprised that the highway works had failed to say no proper hydrological study had been done before the project was executed.

“They have built bogus hydraulics without understanding the hydrology. They have put the cart before the horse. All of these people have to take a bow. Colm Imbert, Rohan Sinanan, NIDCO, Carsen Charles because they have cost this country billions of dollars,” he added.

Asked what could be done about the situation now, Kublalsingh said, “They have to hire a team and do a proper hydraulic system, bridges, culverts, embankments so they can have a proper flow of water from the river to the sea so that the highway will not be impeding the flow of water in that area.”

President of the South Oropouche Riverine Flood Action group Edward Moodie, who did extensive research in the Oropoche swamp, said the White Bridge River had been narrowed by the highway works and highway debris had clogged the water flow.

Source: https://www.cnc3.co.tt/mosquito-creek-r ... -crumbles/

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby zoom rader » January 26th, 2022, 3:21 pm

Rovin wrote:
zoom rader wrote:No public outcry on the red government disaster.

What a stupid cont tree.


hadda agree with u

so much brilliant engineers & minds we suppose to have here yet no outcry from anybody

like once poo nm in power d country cud run into d ground & nobody gaf ...
I remember when the new interchange at cross crossing had some land slip after the red government came into power.

The 1% media blaster this all over together with some tiles falling off at the then new airport. They push for public outcry and hyped up the red government public. They portray the UNC and contractors as evil.

What an arse hole country this is

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby nervewrecker » January 26th, 2022, 6:33 pm

Zoom, and where the UNC pple mouth?

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby zoom rader » January 26th, 2022, 7:46 pm

nervewrecker wrote:Zoom, and where the UNC pple mouth?
Sadly the 1% media plays down the opposition ppl mouth. The media chooses which news gets plays and its always in favor of the red government.

Don't play you know don't this
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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby paid_influencer » January 26th, 2022, 8:07 pm

i does only trust azp news

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby De Dragon » January 29th, 2022, 1:08 pm

Redman wrote:
DMan7 wrote:Everything has a warranty even road infrastructure. The contractor needs to repair this free of charge on material and labor. Talk done!


This.

Unless an Addendum was signed getting the contractor off the hook.

Indemnity.com

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby De Dragon » January 29th, 2022, 1:10 pm

Phone Surgeon wrote:If dey ask sinanan for a comment he would say its the first time he hearing about it

He waiting for the camera footage, and the protesters ID to know how much to charge us :roll:

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby MaxPower » March 9th, 2022, 12:03 am

Friends,

His Excellency, the defender of the people of Point Fortin, His Grace, Captain Kennedy Richards Jr. will be vigorously addressing this matter.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby The_Honourable » May 25th, 2022, 12:57 am

One b...b...b... billion dollars...

Nidco’s decision to cancel OAS highway contract to cost T&T near $1 billion

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A decision by the National Infrastructure Development Company Limited (Nidco) to cancel a contract for the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension project with Brazilian construction firm Constructora OAS SA is set to cost the State almost $1 billion.

Delivering a decision on a partial final award on April 16, arbitrators John Fellas, Adam Constable, QC and Andrew White, QC, of the London Court of International Arbitration, upheld Constructora OAS’s arbitration claim against Nidco and ordered US$126.3 million (approx TT$852 million) in compensation.

In the 223-page ruling, obtained by Guardian Media, the arbitration panel ruled that Nidco was wrong to have terminated the contract based on the two main grounds it claimed.

In the arbitration proceedings, Nidco claimed that Constructora OAS effectively abandoned the project in late 2015 after it slowed down work, dismissed most of its staff and became insolvent by letting debt accumulate to suppliers and contracts.

The company denied any wrongdoing, as it claimed that the issues raised by Nidco were due to the fact that it (Nidco) failed to make a major interim payment under the contract. It claimed that at the time of the termination, it had injected a further US$31 million into the project and had renewed its performance and retention bonds.

In upholding Constructora OAS’ case, the arbitration tribunal ordered that it be paid US$127,072,326 in damages minus the US$706,426.70 offset granted to Nidco.

The damages represent the company’s claims for performance and retention securities, a series of unpaid interim payment certificates (IPCs), materials in stock, temporary works and contracting equipment.

The compensation to be paid to the company can still rise, as the arbitration panel requested further submissions from the parties on whether the damages awarded could attract interest.

The tribunal also has to consider the company’s claim for additional damages on the grounds that Nidco was overpaid when it seized the bonds in connection with the advance payment deductions. It stated that it denied all other claims, counterclaims, claims for offsets and defences.

The outcome of the arbitration proceedings was raised by Opposition MP Dr Roodal Moonilal last week, while he was making his contribution to a motion to adopt a report of the Standing Finance Committee in Parliament.

Moonilal claimed that the Government was deliberately concealing the development from the public.

In early 2011, Constructora OAS was awarded the contract for the project, which was then estimated to cost approximately $5.3 billion. After the contract was terminated, the project was put on hold for several years before being restarted with local contractors.

In August last year, Nidco announced that the project was three-quarters complete. However, several months later, a segment of the highway at Mosquito Creek collapsed.

In July 2019, Cabinet announced a Commission of Enquiry to investigate aspects of the project, including whether a ministerial oversight committee under the former People’s Partnership government had fulfilled its mandate.

The committee was headed by former prime minister and current Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and included several former members of her Cabinet, including Moonilal.

The commission, which is yet to start its work, is to be chaired by retired judge Sebastian Ventour, with attorney Gregory Delzin serving as commissioner.

Source: https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/nidcos- ... 6f206f1809

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby wing » May 25th, 2022, 12:38 pm

Taxpayers owe Construtora OAS $852m: Kamla called to account
Golconda-to-Point Fortin highway extensionflashback, 2012: An aerial view shows a paved portion of the Golconda-to-Point Fortin highway extension. —Photo: DEXTER PHILIP▲
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$852 million!

That's the amount of money Trinidad and Tobago Government now owes Construtora OAS, the original contractor on the Point Fortin Highway.

And Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday called on the Commissioner of Police to go into and find out by what authority and under whose authority a clause which protected the country's interest was removed from the billion dollar Point Fortin contract on September 4, 2015, the last working day before the September 7, 2015 General Election.

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Speaking at a public meeting in Arima, the Prime Minister said: "Ladies and Gentlemen the chickens have come home to roost. Confirmed by the arbitrator in the arbitration on March 30, 2015, OAS was insolvent under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil. Who was in Government on 30 March 2015? OAS went bankrupt from corruption in Brazil. So March, April, May, June, July, August the UNC under Kamla Persad Bissessar did absolutely nothing to protect the public money. But there was a clause in the contract- Clause 15 (2)- that said that if the contractor is bankrupt, that money belongs to Trinidad and Tobago.".

"Listen to what the arbitrator has now said, "notwithstanding these matters, NIDCO was not entitled to terminate the contract under Clause 15 (2)...Because it had waived such right by reason of the terms of an addendum to the contract which was entered into by the parties on September 4, 2015," the Prime Minister said.

"Pay attention to the date, the 4th September 2015 was the last working day, that Kamla Persad Bissessar and the UNC were in office as the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. That was a Friday....The General Election was on the Monday the 7th and they lost the election," he said.

"On September 4, the UNC removed the clause by way of an addendum in that contract and allowed the contractor to go away with almost one billion dollars. Today because of that situation the court gave us the money, but the arbitrator has now taken it back. And we now owe the contractor $852 million, (US $127 million)" he said. And that could only have occurred because the protection for people's money was removed on the last day of the UNC being in office," he said.

"Tonight I want you the people of Trinidad and Tobago to ask Mrs Persad Bissessar and her consorts iin that thing they call the People's Partnership, who removed this clause. We know why, but we don't know who," he said. "If ever there was a case to be made against an individual for misbehaviour in public office, it is the person who authorised the removal of that clause which is now costing the country $852, 969,825 million," he said. "The matter has now come to this...After you (Persad Bissessar) gave away $852 million you calling on unions to mobilise their members to come and march because (you saying) 'public servants can't get this and can't get that'

He said the $852 money which was first given back to the country, was used on the highway but it was always clear that it would go to arbitration because of the removal of the clause. "We owe this money now unless we can successfully appeal," he said. But in the meantime he called on Persad Bissesssar and Suruj Rambachan to respond to this matter.

He also wanted Jack Warner to say what was the nature of the business conducted between a Minister of Government in the UNC and the brazilians who flew by private jet to South Africa in a hotel in South Africa a few days before the contract was awarded.

He said the former UNC Ministers could not answer any of these questions. "They just stirring up muck and throwing it every day at the window," he said.

"I want the Commissioner of Police to go into NIDCO and the Minister responsible for NIDCO, the Minister of Works and Transport, he is hereby instructed to instruct NIDCO to cooperate with the police officers so the country can determine under whose hand and under whose direction this travesty took place. You could imagine what we could do with $852 million that belonged to us, that they gave away for love and affection of the contractor?" the Prime Minister stated.



Who lying and who telling the truth. Or a combination of both. In any case, taxpayers get the shaft again.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby hover11 » May 25th, 2022, 12:48 pm

wing wrote:Taxpayers owe Construtora OAS $852m: Kamla called to account
Golconda-to-Point Fortin highway extensionflashback, 2012: An aerial view shows a paved portion of the Golconda-to-Point Fortin highway extension. —Photo: DEXTER PHILIP▲
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$852 million!

That's the amount of money Trinidad and Tobago Government now owes Construtora OAS, the original contractor on the Point Fortin Highway.

And Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday called on the Commissioner of Police to go into and find out by what authority and under whose authority a clause which protected the country's interest was removed from the billion dollar Point Fortin contract on September 4, 2015, the last working day before the September 7, 2015 General Election.

Solomon Hochoy Highway ExtensionSolomon Hochoy Highway Extension▲

Speaking at a public meeting in Arima, the Prime Minister said: "Ladies and Gentlemen the chickens have come home to roost. Confirmed by the arbitrator in the arbitration on March 30, 2015, OAS was insolvent under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil. Who was in Government on 30 March 2015? OAS went bankrupt from corruption in Brazil. So March, April, May, June, July, August the UNC under Kamla Persad Bissessar did absolutely nothing to protect the public money. But there was a clause in the contract- Clause 15 (2)- that said that if the contractor is bankrupt, that money belongs to Trinidad and Tobago.".

"Listen to what the arbitrator has now said, "notwithstanding these matters, NIDCO was not entitled to terminate the contract under Clause 15 (2)...Because it had waived such right by reason of the terms of an addendum to the contract which was entered into by the parties on September 4, 2015," the Prime Minister said.

"Pay attention to the date, the 4th September 2015 was the last working day, that Kamla Persad Bissessar and the UNC were in office as the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. That was a Friday....The General Election was on the Monday the 7th and they lost the election," he said.

"On September 4, the UNC removed the clause by way of an addendum in that contract and allowed the contractor to go away with almost one billion dollars. Today because of that situation the court gave us the money, but the arbitrator has now taken it back. And we now owe the contractor $852 million, (US $127 million)" he said. And that could only have occurred because the protection for people's money was removed on the last day of the UNC being in office," he said.

"Tonight I want you the people of Trinidad and Tobago to ask Mrs Persad Bissessar and her consorts iin that thing they call the People's Partnership, who removed this clause. We know why, but we don't know who," he said. "If ever there was a case to be made against an individual for misbehaviour in public office, it is the person who authorised the removal of that clause which is now costing the country $852, 969,825 million," he said. "The matter has now come to this...After you (Persad Bissessar) gave away $852 million you calling on unions to mobilise their members to come and march because (you saying) 'public servants can't get this and can't get that'

He said the $852 money which was first given back to the country, was used on the highway but it was always clear that it would go to arbitration because of the removal of the clause. "We owe this money now unless we can successfully appeal," he said. But in the meantime he called on Persad Bissesssar and Suruj Rambachan to respond to this matter.

He also wanted Jack Warner to say what was the nature of the business conducted between a Minister of Government in the UNC and the brazilians who flew by private jet to South Africa in a hotel in South Africa a few days before the contract was awarded.

He said the former UNC Ministers could not answer any of these questions. "They just stirring up muck and throwing it every day at the window," he said.

"I want the Commissioner of Police to go into NIDCO and the Minister responsible for NIDCO, the Minister of Works and Transport, he is hereby instructed to instruct NIDCO to cooperate with the police officers so the country can determine under whose hand and under whose direction this travesty took place. You could imagine what we could do with $852 million that belonged to us, that they gave away for love and affection of the contractor?" the Prime Minister stated.



Who lying and who telling the truth. Or a combination of both. In any case, taxpayers get the shaft again.
The amount of money this Government squander etc... that's nothing for them, not like it's coming out of their pockets.


Another L for the red government

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby agent007 » May 25th, 2022, 2:43 pm

The current HSF standing is at what 5b? 1 from 5 = 4billion. The country have money to spend and more cases to lose.

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby hover11 » May 25th, 2022, 3:14 pm

agent007 wrote:The current HSF standing is at what 5b? 1 from 5 = 4billion. The country have money to spend and more cases to lose.
1 billion gone in the wind and half a billion to pay the new contractor to finish the job.

Red government con jobs, great is the .....

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Re: San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway

Postby The_Honourable » May 25th, 2022, 3:49 pm

So PNM cancel the contract and now OAS win the arbitration, he blaming Kamla about a clause?

LOL

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