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Derek Achong

The Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) has claimed that its for­mer board was de­ceived in­to con­tro­ver­sial­ly re­new­ing the con­tracts of over 300 con­trac­tors days be­fore the gen­er­al elec­tion on April 28. The com­pa­ny said the re­newals were based on a fraud­u­lent mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion that the ac­tion was ap­proved by the then-Cab­i­net.

The State com­pa­ny’s le­gal team, led by Se­nior Coun­sel Anand Ram­lo­gan of Free­dom Law Cham­bers, made the ma­jor ac­cu­sa­tion on Mon­day in an ap­pli­ca­tion to strike out a law­suit brought by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) on be­half of Laven­tille-based gen­er­al con­tract­ing com­pa­ny East­man En­ter­prise Lim­it­ed.