En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has slammed com­ments made by St Vin­cent’s Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­za­les, who com­pared Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cur­ren­cy to mo­nop­oly mon­ey.

Speak­ing at an en­er­gy sym­po­sium on Tues­day, Mooni­lal said Gon­za­les’ re­marks were un­help­ful and ac­cused him of fail­ing to speak out when T&T’s econ­o­my was be­ing mis­man­aged by the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment.

Mooni­lal said, “Maybe Prime Min­is­ter Gon­za­les should have shared his wis­dom with his col­leagues who were re­spon­si­ble for the col­lapse of our econ­o­my and the short­age of for­eign ex­change.”