T&T PM not cleared as yet in contract probe – senator

(Trinidad Express) Contrary to her statements last week, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has not been cleared by the Integrity Commission of all wrongdoing in the award of a $40 million contract by State-owned National Petroleum (NP) to a company owned by her friends, Ralph and Maureen Gopaul, at whose Tunapuna home the Prime Minister stayed for three months.

So said People’s National Movement (PNM) Senator Fitzgerald Hinds yesterday, at a news conference held at the Opposition Leader’s Charles Street,