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Ke­jan Haynes

PANA­MA CITY -Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has pushed back against crit­i­cism of Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen, re­ject­ing claims he is act­ing uni­lat­er­al­ly as the Gov­ern­ment moves to raise nat­ur­al gas prices and dis­man­tle sub­si­dies.

The de­fence comes af­ter in­dus­try sources warn the heavy-hand­ed ap­proach to con­tract ne­go­ti­a­tions could force sev­er­al down­stream man­u­fac­tur­ers off the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.