By Sue-Ann Wayow
MEMBER of Parliament for Princes Town Barry Padarath is calling on the Minister of Public Utilities Marvin Gonzales to say whether the employees at the TSTT’s Estate Police Division are being sent home and replaced by a private security firm.
The Opposition Shadow Minister of Public Utilities said that he has information that more than 150 employees from the division were being replaced.
He also stated that the private security firm was already engaged in other aspects of TSTT’s operations under the name of another company but that had the very same owners and directors.
In a press release on Tuesday, Padarath claimed that friends, family and financiers of the PNM were benefitting from TSTT and that was the main reason for the announcement of a Cabinet sub-committee to address the challenges at TSTT.
Padarath also asked whether the government had already earmarked several vacant properties owned by TSTT to be sold in a fire sale soon.
The MP stated that the private security firm already had several lucrative contracts with TSTT and appeared to be the supplier and proprietor of preference by this administration. He added that while properties owned by TSTT were left vacant for years, the government was busy renting properties for TSTT’s operations from the owners of the preferred security company under different names.
Gonzales has not yet responded to questions posed by AZPNews.com.
