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Allergic2BunnyEars wrote:greggle71 wrote:Civil cause the government can’t arrest and charge, could only sue for damages. Everything else is DPP and Police and those areas aren’t the most efficient
Anything ever comes out of civil cases?
Redman wrote:More political persecution.....Mark Bassant should be ashamed.
Phone Surgeon wrote:i wanna see what going on with A&V
The_Honourable wrote:More than six years ago the Estate Management and Business Development (EMBD) embarked on an ambitious project in South Trinidad.
It's main role was to provide housing for ex-Caroni 1975 workers.
The project which became known as the Petit Morne residential project, turned out not only to cost tax payers a pound and a crown, but has now left the EMBD and the contractors that were involved in the project at the mercy of the courts.
In Part One of: "A Ballooning Billion", Senior Multimedia Investigative Journalist Mark Bassant reveals how some of the answers were in plain sight.
Video: https://www.tv6tnt.com/news/7pmnews/the ... 9c18f.html
Delays are the real cash cows for contractors on those large projects. A nice EOT with a variation to cater for overheads and stand down costs. I've seen a contractor basically use a construction site as his construction yard (i.e. park up 4 excavators on site, only 2 of which were working and only 1 of which was needed for the job) and claim for all 4 in his stand down costs during the delays. This is just one example from one smaller contractor on one job.Rory Phoulorie wrote:What would you call a state owned agency (not EMBD in this example) awarding contracts to a particular contractor for work at sites for which the state agency has not sorted out the required permissions for the contractor to be able to enter and work at the site?
This particular contractor basically was able to claim for delays from day 1 of each contract. Said contractor was recently awarded by the court some $400M in claims for delays at each site.
This is just one example of the collusion/corruption between this contractor, among others, and said state agency.
That's the engineering consultants fault not the contractor. Do better work from before the tender and we wouldn't have this.bluefete wrote:There is a major contractor who builds houses for the government.
When the contract comes in, he has a team of people who go through it with a fine tooth comb looking for loopholes.
Any variations to the scope of works, for example, significantly increase the costs whether justified or not.
It is sickening to see this in action.
What Rory Phoulorie and Slartibartfast said are very true.
pugboy wrote:you must be talking about the one whose company is two letters and have a brother who does sing calypso
spends a lot of time in the courts to make his money
BUT he obviously sends some back under the table......
VII wrote:Meanwhile we begged the Gov't to allow us to lay a free km of barriers in Trincity with support from sponsors and associates and maybe start a pilot project to install barriers at known death-spots at a price cheaper than anything else available locally. Since then 40 or so people have died as a result of median crossings and other fatal accidents due to lack of barriers in highlighted areas.
I love T&T but it makes me sick and cynical,even bordering on homicidal at times,buh doh worry dey cyar break we..we will persist we will witness and we will prevail..
Many big pretty sandcastles and glasshouses to fall,it will be messy,but it will be satisfying for all to witness .
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