Why didn’t UNC sue China Jiangsu?

Imbert was addressing a People’s National Movement (PNM) meeting on Tuesday at Mount D’Or.

He also said only two of the nine apartment blocks at Las Alturas had collapsed and that neither Noel Garcia (former HDC managing director) nor Dr Keith Rowley ( then Housing Minister) were in oversight offices at the time of construction of the fated buildings. He said Garcia left office in June 2008, and Rowley left office as housing minister in 2007, but that construction of Las Alturas began in December 2009, this being initiated under two new post-holders in each case.

Imbert hit the former UNCled government for spending $40 million on the Las Alturas Commission of Inquiry when in fact the material loss on that construction project was just $26 million.

Next on stage, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, said attorneys hired during the commission of inquiry became millionaires from these earnings. He condemned the commissioners for issuing a report after which they then made changes by issuing an Errata. “It is now seen as a political witch hunt which failed.” Rowley alleged that the former UNC-led government had tried to use the Las Alturas probe in a similar way to trying to use the Milsherv controversy to try to tarnish Tobago House of Assembly (THA) head, Orville London, as corrupt, an effort that Rowley said had clearly failed, as shown by the THA election results soon after.