Derek Achong

The in­com­ing Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (EM­BD) board will have the fi­nal say on the fate of its on­go­ing mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar car­tel law­suit against a group of con­trac­tors, for­mer EM­BD of­fi­cials and for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and cur­rent En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal.

The yet-to-be-ap­point­ed board’s role in the con­tro­ver­sial case, ini­ti­at­ed un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, arose yes­ter­day dur­ing the first case man­age­ment con­fer­ence be­fore High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad.