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OPPOSITION Senator and former attorney general and minister of rural development and local government Faris Al-Rawi, SC, said freedom of information needed to be balanced, even as he declined to speak on NiQuan Energy Ltd nor reasons for refusing to disclose an investigative report into the June 15, 2023 explosion which took the life of Allanlane Ramkissoon.

Al-Rawi spoke at the opposition’s June 9 press conference.

In a High Court ruling on June 6, judge Avason Quinlan-Williams said the ministry’s refusal to disclose the report on the explosion was unlawful. Former energy minister Stuart Young responded and said he acted under advice of independent state lawyers and a senior counsel.