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PADARATH: TSTT Estate Police to be Replaced by Private Security Firm
Posted On 15 Mar 2022
Princes Town MP, Barry Padarath is calling on the Minister of Public Utilities to say whether the employees at the TSTT Estate Police Division are being sent home and placed on the bread line while bringing in a private security firm to take up those jobs.
The Opposition Shadow Minister of Public Utilities indicated that he has received a document in his mailbox that shows over one hundred and fifty employees from the Estate Police Division going home and being replaced by a private security firm. Further he also stated that the private security firm was already engaged in other aspects of TSTT’s operations under the name of another company but who had the very same owners and directors.
Padarath stated that friends, family and financiers of the PNM were feeding at the trough at TSTT and that was the main reason for the announcement of a Sub-Committee of Cabinet to address the challenges at TSTT. The MP also asked whether the government had already earmarked several vacant properties owned by TSTT to be sold in a fire sale in the not too distant future.
The MP stated that the private security firm already had several lucrative contracts with TSTT and appeared to be the supplier and proprietor of preference by this administration. He added that while properties owned by TSTT were left vacant for years, the government was busy renting properties for TSTT’s operations from the owners of the preferred security company under different names.
Padarath said the amalgamation of issues affecting TSTT appears to have one common thread and echoed the concerns raised by the Leader of the Opposition at the UNC MNF that the government was intent on privatizing the public utilities sector while sending thousands of employees’ home only benefitting their friends and financiers.
