RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Chair­man of the State-owned Guaracara Re­fin­ery Com­pa­ny Ltd (GR­CL), Gow­tam Ma­haraj, says the shut­tered Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery is at­tract­ing re­newed in­ter­na­tion­al in­ter­est fol­low­ing the in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ing agency Moody’s de­ci­sion to up­grade Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sov­er­eign eco­nom­ic out­look from neg­a­tive to sta­ble while af­firm­ing its Ba2 cred­it rat­ing.

The re­fin­ery, which was closed in 2018 un­der the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, re­mains a key part of the Gov­ern­ment’s plans to re­vi­talise the en­er­gy sec­tor.