The country is not for sale

Mick­ela Pan­day

When the PNM shut down Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 101-year-old Petrotrin re­fin­ery in 2018, I con­demned the de­ci­sion. A coun­try with our nat­ur­al re­sources, in­dus­tri­al ex­pe­ri­ence and skilled work­force should not aban­don a re­fin­ery that served this na­tion for more than a cen­tu­ry with­out first ex­haust­ing vi­able al­ter­na­tives to pro­tect the in­dus­try and its work­ers.

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Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­demned it too. She called the clo­sure “in­dus­tri­al geno­cide” and said the UNC would have kept the re­fin­ery open, pre­served jobs and re­struc­tured the econ­o­my.