The <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 600; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Jamaica</SPAN> Labour Party is blaming the Government for the collapse of the deal with Trinidad to sell Liquefied <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 600; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">Natural </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 600; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">Gas</SPAN> (LNG).
<SPAN class=news_body>News came last week that Trinidad and Tobago had announced that it was unable to honour a memorandum of understanding to supply Jamaica with low-cost LNG.
This has led to a brewing diplomatic row between the Jamaican and Trinidadian governments.
Opposition Spokesman on <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">Energy</SPAN>, Clive Mullings, says the turn of events has not come as a surprise as the Jamaican Government had acted hastily in entering the deal with Trinidad.
“In addition to that, the Government has now sent off, I gather, a letter expressing their own discomfort and concern to the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Trinidad</SPAN> government, which is now bringing us into a diplomatic row with Trinidad which we can ill afford.
“I believe we need to have answers to questions that were posed to Minister Paulwell. These were posed on the 6th of February this year, and he is now due to answer those questions concerning this project and the Halse Hall expansion.
“It seems however that things have literally fallen apart, and we are not surprised at this because [it] was not done properly in the first place,” said Mr. Mullings.
Thursday RJR News reported that Prime Minister Po
<SPAN class=news_body>News came last week that Trinidad and Tobago had announced that it was unable to honour a memorandum of understanding to supply Jamaica with low-cost LNG.
This has led to a brewing diplomatic row between the Jamaican and Trinidadian governments.
Opposition Spokesman on <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">Energy</SPAN>, Clive Mullings, says the turn of events has not come as a surprise as the Jamaican Government had acted hastily in entering the deal with Trinidad.
“In addition to that, the Government has now sent off, I gather, a letter expressing their own discomfort and concern to the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Trinidad</SPAN> government, which is now bringing us into a diplomatic row with Trinidad which we can ill afford.
“I believe we need to have answers to questions that were posed to Minister Paulwell. These were posed on the 6th of February this year, and he is now due to answer those questions concerning this project and the Halse Hall expansion.
“It seems however that things have literally fallen apart, and we are not surprised at this because [it] was not done properly in the first place,” said Mr. Mullings.
Thursday RJR News reported that Prime Minister Po
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