YOUNG SAYS IT'S ABOUT CONSISTENCY

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The Energy Minister says the voters of this country have a choice to make in the next General Election, and added that they should consider consistency when the go to the polls.  The Minister was responding to the use of that word by one energy sector company where long term investments in this country are  concerned.  Juhel Browne reports.

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00:00Senior Vice President of BP Solutions, who is also the Chairman of the International

00:05Association of Oil and Gas Producers, Giovanni Cristofori, told those attending one of the

00:12panel discussions at the Energy Chamber's 2025 Energy Conference that the issue of long-term

00:18investments in the energy business is a complex picture.

00:21We do treasure a stable environment in terms of policy, the industry doesn't like surprises,

00:29but I think that the stability in Trinidad and Tobago in terms of energy policies could

00:34be really a competitive advantage when companies like BP choose where to invest.

00:40Chief Executive Officer of ProMan AG, David Cassidy, also weighed in on that matter.

00:45We have to understand that the international markets need to know that this is a good and

00:50sound country and I think the government's done a great job of providing that platform,

00:55letting people who know Trinidad and Tobago so that the ProMans of the world don't have

00:58to teach people who ProMan Trinidad is, enabling the products that come out of here not to

01:05be subject to random tariffs.

01:07I mean we've been unfairly treated as a country and there's a constant sort of threat and

01:13shadow of tariffs and it goes hand in hand with the other thing which is making people

01:17realise who Trinidad is and how great it is.

01:21The top ProMan executive then referred to a point made by Energy Minister Stuart Young

01:25at the conference on Monday.

01:27I would say that it's one of the great successes of being here in Trinidad over more than 30

01:32years of different governments.

01:33We've been able to work well and collaborate with each one but as we look forward and the

01:41Minister mentioned that we have an election this year, as we look forward we want to make

01:45sure there's that consistency.

01:47The top BP and ProMan executives did not make any mention of political parties or politicians

01:54by name.

01:55TV6 News spoke with Minister Young on Tuesday about one of the words used by the ProMan

02:00top executive as the Energy Minister is preparing to be the next Prime Minister when Dr Keith

02:06Rowley resigns as the head of the government before the next general election is due.

02:11Is one of your messages at this energy conference as you are soon to be Prime Minister of Trinidad

02:16and Tobago, the issue of consistency be it within the energy sector or in just doing

02:22business in general in Trinidad and Tobago?

02:24What we have shown and one of the messages coming out of my discussion yesterday to the

02:29audience is you now have had the opportunity to see what it is that we as a government

02:34are capable of.

02:36You know the role that I have played so we have a decision to make, there's no bones

02:40about that.

02:41We have a decision to make by August of this year, September latest, right, with that sort

02:46of time frame.

02:47So you know the population can see and for me it's three C's, it's confidence, competence

02:54and consistency.

02:56The Prime Minister is the only one who can call the date for the general election in

03:00Trinidad and Tobago.

03:01Jule Brown, TV6 News.

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