{"id":23152,"date":"2022-07-21T22:59:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=23152"},"modified":"2022-07-19T17:05:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:05:41","slug":"fiddling-while-rome-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/fiddling-while-rome-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddling while Rome burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinidad and Tobago<\/p>\n<p>If the Government would stop procrastinating and \u00adfully operationalise the Office of the Procurement Regu\u00adlator, there would be independent oversight of the tender process for all these special-purpose companies spending public money. This includes UdeCOTT with its dubious Calder Hart history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_instory_top\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\"><\/div>\n<p>As it stands, the public is still waiting on the attorney general to take a Note to Cabinet to have the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Regulations take lawful effect. The AG would say he is waiting on the finance minister to allocate funds to the SPEs for resourcing procurement officers. Minister Imbert, however, now tells the public he is waiting on the AG. The prime minister remains complicity silent. So, the emperors continue to fiddle while Rome burns, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/letters\/fiddling-while-rome-burns\/article_1544e22c-e785-11ec-b6f4-af5f21a96b4c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>image: pexels-rodnae-productions<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinidad and Tobago If the Government would stop procrastinating and \u00adfully operationalise the Office of the Procurement Regu\u00adlator, there would be independent oversight of the tender process for all these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":20289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[250],"tags":[121,137,158],"class_list":["post-23152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","tag-caribbean","tag-trinidad-and-tobago","tag-works"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pexels-rodnae-productions-7841812-scaled-e1648207457324.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-61q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23159,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/jcc-to-government-stop-procrastinating-on-office-of-procurement-regulator\/","url_meta":{"origin":23152,"position":0},"title":"JCC to Government \u2013Stop procrastinating on Office of Procurement Regulator","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Trinidad and Tobago \u00a0 THE Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry (JCC) has responded to the alleged tender glitch for Udecott\u2019s e-tendering submissions for the Port of Spain General Hospital Central Block project. 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