Padarath fires back at Gonzales over TSTT allegations

Akash Sama­roo

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath is de­fend­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of al­le­ga­tions against for­mer Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Keino Cox, in­sist­ing that the com­pa­ny’s board act­ed when con­cerns about his con­duct were brought to its at­ten­tion.

Padarath al­so turned the spot­light on TSTT’s ac­qui­si­tion of Am­plia un­der the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, al­leg­ing that the trans­ac­tion took place with­out a val­u­a­tion re­port and left the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny ex­posed to more than half a bil­lion dol­lars.