00:00One of the Confederation of Regional Business Chambers, Vivek Charon, believes that the report
00:05of the government-appointed committee into the point-to-payer refinery should not be publicized.
00:11I don't know what the relevance of the report being made public should have. So, for example,
00:18if at this stage we have interest in the refinery and this interest is foreign-based interest,
00:25obviously one would think that if we are having investors from India, if we are having investors
00:30from Ghana, if we are having investors from America or whatever part of the world that we are having
00:35investors from, I think it is upon them to do the due diligence that is necessary to invest in the
00:41project. Charon's comments come on the heels of the announcement by Attorney at Law Randall Mitchell
00:47that civil rights activist Wendell Eversley, whom he is representing, has filed a request under the
00:53Freedom of Information Act to attain the report. Charon questions that if America is supporting
00:59the refinery and sees it as an important aspect in this hemisphere, then what is the relevance of
01:04publicizing the report? He is of the view that the information should be provided to people who
01:09have a serious interest in restarting the refinery in a confidential manner. Charon says releasing the
01:15report publicly can cause more harm than good, including where foreign direct investment is consumed.
01:23Because, you know, it comes down to, I would think that investors are very sensitive, very,
01:30very sensitive, and it's easy for investors to be derailed, unnecessarily so. And we've seen that
01:39happen with sandals to some extent, when a lot of reports and all that came out and went public and
01:45so on.
01:45to some extent.
01:46So, let's see.
01:46Come on.
01:46.
01:49.
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