Painting a ‘White Elephant’

THE EDITOR: The then minister, who, when the new Piarco terminal was described as “a White Elephant”, laughed and retorted he would paint “his airport” any colour he chose, is now apparently contending that this project has nothing to do with him and any enquiry into same could not involve him! How very strange!

Perhaps Mr Panday will now deny he proclaimed this building, a “Gift to the Nation” for which, furthermore, it had waited “for 40 years”! Other ex-Ministers who promised us “Monorails”, a brand new “highway network” and a brand new “public transport system”, the latter two to be “hubbed” at this wondrous “Engine that will Drive the Economy” will each in turn distance themselves from the matter now that it has fallen into the disrepute, I and many others predicted.

GEOFF HUDSON
Port-of-Spain