00:00Palm Hill, Patience Hill, project number 24, $5,367,487.50.
00:14And the last, and certainly not the least, project number 25, $1,379,700.
00:30Mr. James spoke on Sunday during a political meeting in Mariah.
00:35He said over $58 million in road contracts were signed off to Warner Construction.
00:40For a total of $58,489,422 given by Kwesi Devine's Dennis Dimenes to one contractor,
00:59all to be completed between December 2020, December 18, 2020, and January 30th, 2021.
01:14TV6 News contacted PNM Tobago Council political leader Ansel Dennis on the matter.
01:20Mr. Dennis said the awarding of road contracts to Tobago contractors was nothing strange.
01:26Well, as part of the TGA's responsibility, roads are built and maintained through paving.
01:36So yes, under my watch, we awarded millions of dollars to big union contractors
01:42to take care of road maintenance on the island.
01:45So this is absolutely nothing strange.
01:48And Mr. James is grasping at chores.
01:51Mr. Dennis, in turn, then called out the TPP administration.
01:57On the other hand, Mr. James chose in his time to award $300 million in contracts to contractors from Trinidad.
02:09And we all know and we all felt the impact of that on the Tobago economy.
02:15And I want to assure Tobago unions that when they return the People's National Movement to office,
02:22we will reverse that trend and we will get back to a situation where Tobago union contractors
02:28awarded contracts equitably to execute road maintenance works and other infrastructural works on the island.
02:38An official of Warner's construction company said all roads were done
02:43and a recent visit by the company and THA auditors inspected the roads and they were found to be satisfactory.
02:51He said they have not been paid for works not done.
02:55The company said all 25 projects listed by infrastructure secretary Trevor James were completed.
03:01The official said they have been conducting words for the past 28 to 30 years
03:07under the late Chief Secretary Ho Choi Charles, former Chief Secretary of London and former Chief Secretary Kelvin Charles.
03:16He stated that they hired the Tobago unions to do the works,
03:19adding that their lawyers are looking at the matter and will respond.
03:24Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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