FOR THE first time, Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday admitted that former Udecott executive chairman Calder Hart has “a case to answer”, even as fresh questions emerged over the role Manning played in the circumstances surrounding Hart’s departure from Trinidad last Saturday in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Managing director of the Housing Development Corporation Jearlean John is up for the challenge of heading the board of the Urban Development Corporation (Udecott) and said her new post as chairman is “just an additional duty.” She also had praise for her predecessor Calder Hart whom she said “did some good work”.
Police yesterday spent close to two and a half hours interviewing Carl Khan, the ex-husband of Sherrine Hart, wife of former Udecott chairman Calder Hart at the law offices of Timothy Hamel-Smith at the corner of Albion and Dere Streets, Port-of-Spain.
OPPOSITION LEADER Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday called upon Prime Minister Patrick Manning to tell the country the details of the conversation he had with Calder Hart on March 5. After that conversation with Manning, Hart resigned as Udecott chairman and left the country with his family 24 hours later.
WITH THE Court of Appeal set to deliver a ruling on whether or not to restore a Certificate of Environmental Clearance (CEC) for the construction of an aluminum smelter plant in La Brea, anti-smelter activist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh believes the matter is being prejudiced.
The swearing in of the new Integrity Commission on Monday is an act President George Maxwell Richards vigorously undertook in keeping with the Integrity in Public Life Act.