So when is the Curepe Interchange?

[10-01]

That "investigator " eating ah big food from that interchange too..

every 1 eating ..... like d country hav a cloud over its eyes .... doing a interchange and a hi way to toco is more important than the country itself ... reason being is rowley hav to pay back his friends who invested in his campaign party

and d sad part is the country and the poor man paying for this sheit ... we all sit back and watch and say " only 3 years again for election , we go make it "

[Ben_spanna]

That "investigator " eating ah big food from that interchange too..

every 1 eating ..... like d country hav a cloud over its eyes .... doing a interchange and a hi way to toco is more important than the country itself ... reason being is rowley hav to pay back his friends who invested in his campaign party

and d sad part is the country and the poor man paying for this sheit ... we all sit back and watch and say " only 3 years again for election , we go make it "

This is not an exclusive mentality,,,,,, this happens with ALL the relevant Parties, they all have their financiers, they all give lucrative contracts to their families and friends... its not a current government thing, it happened in the last government and its happening in this one too, and we all sit back quietly whilst health, schooling and social services get overlooked and our youths futures go to hell.

[10-01]

That "investigator " eating ah big food from that interchange too..

every 1 eating ..... like d country hav a cloud over its eyes .... doing a interchange and a hi way to toco is more important than the country itself ... reason being is rowley hav to pay back his friends who invested in his campaign party

and d sad part is the country and the poor man paying for this sheit ... we all sit back and watch and say " only 3 years again for election , we go make it "

This is not an exclusive mentality,,,,,, this happens with ALL the relevant Parties, they all have their financiers, they all give lucrative contracts to their families and friends... its not a current government thing, it happened in the last government and its happening in this one too, and we all sit back quietly whilst health, schooling and social services get overlooked and our youths futures go to hell.

yes i agree it happens in all governments that take up office ,but the PNM has done it bold face and has done nothing to help the country ..besides fill the pockets of its people ... .. each contract that has been given out shows public corruption and has made news ... BL stadium , Sea bridge , Hi way to toco , the Curepe interchange ......
PNM has no interest in this country except its money ...

[RedVEVO]

^^^

The Kay Donna will get sold . Big $$$$

The KFC will get sold . Big $$$$

Big money will pass . $$$

Then no Curepe Interchange ... Noe, none ,none , none .

Rowley has done this before in East POS.

[Chimera]

PNM has no interest in this country except its money ...

nah man doh be so one sided na


http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20151124 ... ted-by-ngc

The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) has terminated its contract with Super Industrial Services Limited (SIS) for the construction of the $1 billion Beetham Water Recycling Plant. The decision was taken after SIS said it was unable to continue with the controversial project.

The following is the statement issued by the NGC on Tuesday -

The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) and Super Industrial Services Limited (SIS) entered into a contract on March 10th, 2014 for the Design & Build of the Beetham Water Recycling Plant for the value of US$162,055,318.77. The agreed contractual date for completion was October 21, 2015. To date, SIS, the Contractor, has failed to complete the project and has indicated in writing that they “are unable to continue the works” in accordance with the contract.


http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/_23 ... 11621.html


A top financier of the People's Partnership administration has been awarded a $232.5 million contract by the National Insurance Property Development Company Ltd (Nipdec).


It is not the first contract the Krishna Lalla-owned company, Super Industrial Services (SIS), has received from the People's Partnership Government.


But it is the most lucrative to date.



Jack: $2b SIS contracts
Published on Jul 4, 2014, 8:31 pm AST
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Since the People’s Partnership Government has been in power, Super Industrial Services (SIS) has received $2 billion in contracts, says Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner.



Warner was speaking at the Parliament sitting yesterday during the debate of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Bill, 2014.



Warner questioned why it took four years to bring procurement legislation to the Parliament, adding that it cannot undo the millions of contracts awarded to SIS.



$Billions in Contracts for UNC Financier


US Monitors Suspicious Deals as Cash Sent Out of T&T
Ucill Cambridge
Published:
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Stephon Grey
An international financial investigative agency has information that a Government financier has amassed over a billion dollars in contracts over the three years that the People’s Partnership has been in power. This was revealed yesterday by forensic and fraud auditing specialist Stephon Grey.





Grey is the managing director at BDO Forensic Accounting, the world’s fifth largest network of auditing firms; a sub-contractor at Kroll UK Ltd, the world’s leading forensic and investigative group; and the director of education at the Caribbean Institute of Forensic Accounting. He is considered to be one of the leading forensic accounting consultants in the region


IS gets $310m in contracts for three years


Published:
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Super Industrial Services Ltd (SIS) has issued a full page advertisement in today’s paper (July 4th Page A4) denying that it has been the recipient of special favours by any government or its agencies. A chart listed four agencies from which SIS received contracts which was close to $310 million from 2010 to 2012. They were EFCL, NGC, Nipdec and Pure. However, earlier this year another newspaper reported that the company had been awarded a $232.5 million contract by Nipdec.

[Chimera]

doh lemme start to list kallco exploits



the FACT is, why would anyone seek power/public scrutiny unless its to enrich their friends/family

[Dizzy28]

SIS needed to play it smart like Ramhit, Contractor 72 and some of them boys. Play both sides.....eat a food despite whoever there.

The amount of food would be dependent on red or yellow but never an empty plate.

[RedVEVO]

SIS needed to play it smart like Ramhit, Contractor 72 and some of them boys. Play both sides.....eat a food despite whoever there.

The amount of food would be dependent on red or yellow but never an empty plate.

Some contractors like to buss and run ..

[10-01]

PNM has no interest in this country except its money ...

nah man doh be so one sided na


http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20151124 ... ted-by-ngc

The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) has terminated its contract with Super Industrial Services Limited (SIS) for the construction of the $1 billion Beetham Water Recycling Plant. The decision was taken after SIS said it was unable to continue with the controversial project.

The following is the statement issued by the NGC on Tuesday -

The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) and Super Industrial Services Limited (SIS) entered into a contract on March 10th, 2014 for the Design & Build of the Beetham Water Recycling Plant for the value of US$162,055,318.77. The agreed contractual date for completion was October 21, 2015. To date, SIS, the Contractor, has failed to complete the project and has indicated in writing that they “are unable to continue the works” in accordance with the contract.


http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/_23 ... 11621.html


A top financier of the People's Partnership administration has been awarded a $232.5 million contract by the National Insurance Property Development Company Ltd (Nipdec).


It is not the first contract the Krishna Lalla-owned company, Super Industrial Services (SIS), has received from the People's Partnership Government.


But it is the most lucrative to date.



Jack: $2b SIS contracts
Published on Jul 4, 2014, 8:31 pm AST
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Since the People’s Partnership Government has been in power, Super Industrial Services (SIS) has received $2 billion in contracts, says Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner.



Warner was speaking at the Parliament sitting yesterday during the debate of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Bill, 2014.



Warner questioned why it took four years to bring procurement legislation to the Parliament, adding that it cannot undo the millions of contracts awarded to SIS.



$Billions in Contracts for UNC Financier


US Monitors Suspicious Deals as Cash Sent Out of T&T
Ucill Cambridge
Published:
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Stephon Grey
An international financial investigative agency has information that a Government financier has amassed over a billion dollars in contracts over the three years that the People’s Partnership has been in power. This was revealed yesterday by forensic and fraud auditing specialist Stephon Grey.





Grey is the managing director at BDO Forensic Accounting, the world’s fifth largest network of auditing firms; a sub-contractor at Kroll UK Ltd, the world’s leading forensic and investigative group; and the director of education at the Caribbean Institute of Forensic Accounting. He is considered to be one of the leading forensic accounting consultants in the region


IS gets $310m in contracts for three years


Published:
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Super Industrial Services Ltd (SIS) has issued a full page advertisement in today’s paper (July 4th Page A4) denying that it has been the recipient of special favours by any government or its agencies. A chart listed four agencies from which SIS received contracts which was close to $310 million from 2010 to 2012. They were EFCL, NGC, Nipdec and Pure. However, earlier this year another newspaper reported that the company had been awarded a $232.5 million contract by Nipdec.

pal everybody eat ah food from dem contracts even d man on d road with no skills ...

PNM not even letting d cents touch d poor man ..... wait for 2017 budget when gas go up again .... then according to imbert " dey aint riot yet " .... cuz we dumb and chipid ....

[RedVEVO]

^^^

No Interchange in Curepe .. Wait and see .

But land and buildings will be SOLD before new Gov't come

[shake d livin wake d dead]

While I won't underestimate the Chinese..I can't see this project being completed in 3 years...all them people who have to move etc etc...

[10-01]

While I won't underestimate the Chinese..I can't see this project being completed in 3 years...all them people who have to move etc etc...

pal u feel the PNM care if it finish ? what happens b4 the project starts ? allocation of lands for the interchange .... thats wher all the big money pass and thats d end of that project b4 it even start ....

[RedVEVO]

While I won't underestimate the Chinese..I can't see this project being completed in 3 years...all them people who have to move etc etc...

pal u feel the PNM care if it finish ? what happens b4 the project starts ? allocation of lands for the interchange .... thats wher all the big money pass and thats d end of that project b4 it even start ....

Correct.

PNM do not care what happens in Curepe .

The plan is to sell the PNMite "assets" for big $$$$ and then buss it.

[The_Honourable]

Government starts land acquisition for Curepe overpass

Government has started the compulsory acquisition of land for construction of the $221 million overpass and ancillary roads at the intersection of the Southern Main Road and the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway.

Twenty-two properties, including the old Kay Donna Drive-in Cinema, part owned by Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan, have been earmarked for acquisition.

Letters have already been sent out to the land/business owners for acquisition.

The total settlement value is yet to be determined but can run into millions of dollars. Sinanan confirmed this to the Sunday Guardian.

Asked what was the area of land to be acquired, Sinanan could not say but assured that it would not be as elaborate as the interchange at the Grand Bazaar.

Sinanan, a shareholder of the Kay Donna Drive-In Cinema, who said it was true that he has interest in the land, promised to recuse himself from the land acquisition process.

Asked if he owned or had any financial interest in the condos at the front of the Kay Donna property, Farah’s Court, Sinanan said “No,” but added that there will be no favour in settlement with regards to the Kay Donna property.

“I do have an interest in Kay Donna as a shareholder but that matter was dealt with before. The settlement for me would have no favour as the Ministry of Works does not deal with settlements... it would be with the Finance Ministry and it would be a fair valuation process for all,” Sinanan said.

Sinanan disclosed that the acquisition process began some time before November last year and is being done by the Valuation Department in the Ministry of Finance.

“There is a process and they are the ones who determine the value keeping with the present- day value,” Sinanan said.

The acquisition letter

The letter sent to land/business owners in Curepe states: Compulsory acquisition of land by the Ministry of Works and Transport for the construction of an overpass and ancillary roads at the Intersection of the Southern Main Road and the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway.

It reads: “In accordance with Section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, Chap. 58:01(the Act), a Notice of Intended Acquisition was published as Legal Notice 181 dated 26th August, 2013 in the Trinidad and Tobago Gazette Legal Supplement Part B in Volume 52 Number 114 on the 4th September, 2013.

“Under Section 4 of the Act, a Legal Notice No 137 dated 7th November, 2017 was published in the Trinidad and Tobago Gazette Legal Supplement Part B, on the 10th November, 2017, in which is attached.

“This Notice gives the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works and Transport or her Agents, the authority to enter upon your property for the purpose of constructing an overpass. The area to be acquired comprises (the amount of metres), more or less.”

According to the letter, “It should be noted that Section 22 of the Act provides for a land owner to present a request for an advance payment regarding compensation in respect of lands to be acquired once possession of the land has taken place under Section 4.”

The advance payment, according to the letter, should not exceed 80 per cent of the agreed value.

The contract

Of the five companies which tendered for the project, one of the Chinese firms—China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) was awarded the $221.7 million contract by the National infrastructure Development Company (Nidco).

Fresh tenders went out on March 27, 2017 and closed on June 7, 2017.

Sinanan said that he expected nothing less than “value for money” and boasted about the savings incurred as that same project had been tendered out at over $400 million under the People’s Partnership administration.

In June 2015, then opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley had raised concerns about the $400 million Curepe project and called for it to be stopped after Nidco jointly awarded Lutchmesingh Transport Company and Vinci Construction the contract.

“We have serious competitive bidding now and the $221 million is what was tendered out, the public tender price saving over $150 million,” Sinanan said.

Construction is expected to start later this year. Once construction is started, the project, which is a design-build package according to Sinanan, is expected to be completed in 18 months.

About the overpass

• Work on the overpass will start from the Southern Main Road and go all the way to the bustling intersection of the CRH.

• At the intersection, two loops will be built for motorists to get onto the west and east lanes of the highway.

• The traffic lights at the CRH intersection will be removed to allow vehicles a free flow onto the four lanes that will be constructed.

VALUE OF LAND AND PROPERTIES (RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL) AT VALSAYN NORTH, SOUTH AND WEST

Registered Real Estate Broker of TTPropertySearch Colin Ghouralal confirmed that the Valsayn South, North and Spring Vale areas are considered as high profile residential areas.

He said that residential plots, per sq ft, in the Valsayn North area are pricey.

“The prices there can range from $300 to $350/sq ft and the area span from 20,000 to 25,000 sq ft, according to open market value.

“In the western side of Valsayn known as the Springvale area, the prices are a bit lower from about $200 to $250/sq ft and plots there are about 10,000 to 15,000 sq ft. At the Valsayn South area is about the same $200 to $250/sq ft,” Ghouralal said.

Asked the value of land in a .5 km radius from the traffic light, Ghouralal said, “very pricey…as much as $400 to $450 sq ft—that includes from Kay Donna in the south of the highway to the gas station area to the south of the highway.”

Prices for residential properties, according to the Open Market valuation, Ghouralal said, ranges from $10 million to $30 million in the Valsayn North area; Valsayn West from $5 million to $12 million and Valsayn South from $5 million to $12 million.

Commercial properties, he said, “not less than $6 million and that price can go up to $15 million, maybe beyond, it depends, once within that half kilo radius.”

BENEFITS OF THE OVERPASS ONCE COMPLETED

ACCORDING TO THE MINISTRY:

- Reduce traffic congestion
- Increase capacity on Churchill-Roosevelt Highway
- Improve access to/from adjacent communities
- Improve pedestrian accessibility and safety
- Reduce pollution
- Reduction in road user cost
- Reduced fuel consumption
- Reduction in emissions which results in reduction in pollution due to reduced idle times at intersections and traffic
- Ultimately, it will improve the lives of citizens

Source: http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2018-01- ... e-overpass

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Interchange would not be completed...pnm just making sure rohan get he $ so he could finance d next election...election in the air...all kinda wild $ going to spend

[hong kong phooey]

Interchange would not be completed...pnm just making sure rohan get he $ so he could finance d next election...election in the air...all kinda wild $ going to spend

not only rohan opposite his piece is a next big financier of said [party
As i always asked why not move the interchange East and use connector roads but i guess the answer is govt probably own most of those lands so no body to make "ah morney"

[sMASH]

Sooo, we should ask Colm how much tax dollars he giving Rohan for the cinema.

[zoom rader]

Sooo, we should ask Colm how much tax dollars he giving Rohan for the cinema.

Redman should know

[shake d livin wake d dead]

About ah 30 mil...that's a good start for 2020 election.

[tiger balm]

Interchange would not be completed...pnm just making sure rohan get he $ so he could finance d next election...election in the air...all kinda wild $ going to spend

not only rohan opposite his piece is a next big financier of said [party
As i always asked why not move the interchange East and use connector roads but i guess the answer is govt probably own most of those lands so no body to make "ah morney"

What do you mean by moving the interchange East?

[ADONI]

What happen to the Curepe gas station? I saw it close down and all the pumps gone....

[Dave]

All part of the land acquisition for this project

[Chimera]

i saw something about the condos in front of kaydonna

those hadda go as well?

[Dave]

All of that.

[Chimera]

so in the case of property that is mortgaged/bank owned

government paying the bank and you getting your share if it have any left and what they doing with you?
considering they would be paying present market value and not what your property would be worth 15-25 years down the line when you would have paid off mortgage otherwise

(not sure if my question making sense)

[Dizzy28]

so in the case of property that is mortgaged/bank owned

government paying the bank and you getting your share if it have any left and what they doing with you?
considering they would be paying present market value and not what your property would be worth 15-25 years down the line when you would have paid off mortgage otherwise

(not sure if my question making sense)

Valid question IMO.
Never thought about mortgaged properties in a compulsory acquisition scenario nah.

[The_Honourable]

Bumping up this video simulation

[hong kong phooey]

Interchange would not be completed...pnm just making sure rohan get he $ so he could finance d next election...election in the air...all kinda wild $ going to spend

not only rohan opposite his piece is a next big financier of said [party
As i always asked why not move the interchange East and use connector roads but i guess the answer is govt probably own most of those lands so no body to make "ah morney"

What do you mean by moving the interchange East?

Valsayn and the curepe is the most expensive if you move it east to opposite Sags property will be much cheaper and that piece of land has plenty less houses or business , sags girl will loose piece of they ground unless they shift the highway a little . or 2 connector roads and send the traffic to GB highway

[ruffneck_12]

Interchange would not be completed...pnm just making sure rohan get he $ so he could finance d next election...election in the air...all kinda wild $ going to spend

not only rohan opposite his piece is a next big financier of said [party
As i always asked why not move the interchange East and use connector roads but i guess the answer is govt probably own most of those lands so no body to make "ah morney"

What do you mean by moving the interchange East?

Valsayn and the curepe is the most expensive if you move it east to opposite Sags property will be much cheaper and that piece of land has plenty less houses or business , sags girl will loose piece of they ground unless they shift the highway a little . or 2 connector roads and send the traffic to GB highway

Saghs doh even use all of that field anyhow, is just a bunch of picnics every lunch time. Bulldoze the whole thing

[SR]

There is no 4 way junction by saghs........ smh