Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has hit back at the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and urged the pop­u­la­tion to turn their at­ten­tion on Op­po­si­tion mem­bers who are bent on the down­fall of the Drag­on gas deal with Venezuela.

“I’m ask­ing you to send your tele­path­ic pow­er to over­come this neg­a­tive non­sense about the fail­ure of the Drag­on deal,” he said while de­liv­er­ing the fea­ture ad­dress at yes­ter­day’s cer­e­mo­ny for the prac­ti­cal open­ing of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Cen­tral Block, again un­der­scor­ing the sig­nif­i­cance of the gas project.

His com­ment came a day af­ter Op­po­si­tion shad­ow en­er­gy min­is­ter David Lee called for trans­paren­cy on the deal be­tween the two coun­tries.