For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has de­nied claims by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie that the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion spent over $120 mil­lion on Drag­on Gas project ne­go­ti­a­tions with noth­ing to show for it.

Speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence to­day, Dr Row­ley called the fig­ure “com­plete­ly false and mis­lead­ing”, adding that the project re­flect­ed years of metic­u­lous diplo­mat­ic and tech­ni­cal work that laid the foun­da­tion for progress un­der the cur­rent gov­ern­ment.

Flashback: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Venezeulean President Nicolas Maduro shake hands after the signing of the terms of the development of the natural gas from the Venezuelan Dragon Gas field between NGC, PDVSA and Shell in Venezuela, August 2018.