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Letter to the Editor – $55m fiasco: bring in the Fraud Squad

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) offices on Park Street, Port of Spain. The refurbished building was handed over to the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs in July 2020 by Nidco, and has remained unoccupied since. —Photo: ROBERT TAYLOR. Courtesy Trinidad Express

The Editor,

The government has now decided to end the lease of RBC’s former headquarters at Park St, claiming that a reported $55M of Public Money had been spent on that property, which the DPP never occupied as intended.

Your edition of Sunday, 22 October 2023, covered those events with Anna Ramdass’ two-page chronology entitled “A monument of waste“, your editorial “Seems we like it so!” and Noble Phillips’ provocative column “Are we all becoming Mahal?“.

Sad to say, but all of this plays to a muddled and distressing narrative of careless, poorly-managed spending of scarce Public Money, with a majority of the blame intended to settle on the DPP.  The chronicle being one of a government anxious to provide proper offices for a DPP who is careless and capricious, with the government eventually making the tough choice to vacate the office it had so scrupulously procured for the DPP.

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