{"id":4326,"date":"2018-02-01T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:37:24","slug":"maharaj-wants-ic-probe-ferry-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/maharaj-wants-ic-probe-ferry-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharaj wants IC probe ferry procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former transport minister Devant Maharaj wants the Integrity Commission to investigate the procurement process used in the purchase of a ferry for the sea bridge by a Cabinet appointed inter-ministerial committee.<\/p>\n

He is also seeking answers as to when the Government made a decision to purchase a vessel \u201cwithout any transparent process,\u201d which he said \u201cclearly violated the Central Tenders Board Act.<\/p>\n

Detailing the sequence of events in a letter to chairman of the Integrity Commission Justice Melville Baird dated January 16, 2018, Maharaj noted that from the public statements made by the Government \u201cthe purchase of the boat was made before January 7, 2018, but after November 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given that the Cabinet sub-committee was constituted on November 30 to oversee the procurement of the vessel for the sea-bridge, he said, \u201cIt is reasonable to assume that the location, examination and purchase of the vessel was completed in the month of December.\u201d<\/p>\n

But having closely analysed the \u201cfactual matrix of this transaction, I am of the firm belief that this matter warrants the attention of the commission and further warrants the invocation of the investigative function of the commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said an investigation by the commission should not only be triggered by a complaint from a member of the public, but by the \u201cduty to the public to act on its own volition where the facts of any transaction causes the commission to be of the view that a matter warrants investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former transport minister Devant Maharaj wants the Integrity Commission to investigate the procurement process used in the purchase of a ferry for the sea bridge by a Cabinet appointed inter-ministerial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4328,"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":[112],"tags":[144,145,146,125,137],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-marineshipping","tag-port-authority-of-trinidad-and-tobago","tag-procedures","tag-public-procurement","tag-trinidad-and-tobago"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/question-mark-maze-labyrinth-freeGraphicToday-Pixabay.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-17M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4325,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/questions-still-linger-on-procurement-of-vessel-devant\/","url_meta":{"origin":4326,"position":0},"title":"Questions still linger on procurement of vessel\u2014Devant","author":"Michele Marius","date":"February 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Reacting to Finance Minister Colm Imbert\u2019s disclosures on the purchase of a new vessel for the seabridge, former Transport Minister Devant Maharaj accused Imbert of continuing to \u201cobfuscate the issue without clarifying the core issues surrounding the procurement of the new ferry.\u201d Maharaj said Imbert\u2019s statement left the door open\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News\/Developments"","block_context":{"text":"News\/Developments","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/category\/newsdevelopments\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ferry-Via-Tsuji-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ferry-Via-Tsuji-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ferry-Via-Tsuji-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ferry-Via-Tsuji-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2932,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/devant-wants-integrity-probe\/","url_meta":{"origin":4326,"position":1},"title":"Devant wants ‘Integrity’ probe","author":"Project Calls","date":"August 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Former transport minister Devant Maharaj is calling on the Integrity Commission to investigate the procurement process by the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (PATT) for the inter-island ferry services between Trinidad and Tobago. 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