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Here’s a five-minute clip from Afra Raymond, the fearless anti-graft campaigner from Trinidad & Tobago.
He’s talking about the collapse of CL Financial and one of the biggest bailouts ever of a private company with public funds in the Caribbean.… Continue Reading
Trinidad and Tobago’s minister of finance said this week he’ll appeal a high court order requiring him to publish details about the bailout of a private company that might have cost taxpayers up to $25 billion.… Continue Reading
The high court of Trinidad and Tobago ruled that the minister of finance must publish details about the CL Financial bailout pursuant to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.… Continue Reading
There was news of an important Trinidad & Tobago High Court decision from Afra Raymond — an anti-corruption activist from T&T and the author of the popular Thinking Man’s Weblog.… Continue Reading
The University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) is hosting the 2014 Caribbean Conference — Towards a Corruption-Free Caribbean: Ethics, Values, Trust and Morality — on March 19-21, 2014.
The venue for all activities is the campus of UCCI, 168 Olympic Way, George Town, Grand Cayman.… Continue Reading
Trinidad & Tobago’s bailout five years ago of the Caribbean’s largest conglomerate, CL Financial, cost the country between 10 and 13 percent of GDP, according to Afra Raymond.
By comparison, the U.S.… Continue Reading
Philip Buxo, Trinidad & Tobago’s High Commissioner to Canada, was an executive of SNC-Lavalin before his diplomatic appointmentOver the weekend, Radhica Sookraj of the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian reported that Trinidad and Tobago’s High Commissioner to Canada (equivalent to the ambassador) was an executive for SNC-Lavalin until his diplomatic appoitnment in 2010.… Continue Reading
A story in Thursday’s Trinidad and Tobago Guardian by reporter Radhica Sookraj said the contract for a planned state-of-the-art hospital and rehabilitation center has been awarded to Canada’s scandal-plagued SNC-Lavalin.
Trinidad and Tobago ‘had no choice’ in the hiring of SNC-Lavalin for the .… Continue Reading
Afra Raymond is an anti-corruption activist from Trinidad and Tobago.
The Caribbean country amassed huge wealth in the 1970s thanks to oil production, he says. But that brought rampant graft — two out of every three dollars earmarked for development has been wasted or stolen, he says.… Continue Reading