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Procurement Regulator: We are ready to work Moonilal Lalchan - PROCUREMENT Regulator Moonilal Lalchan says he and his board are ready to work as soon as the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property (Amendment) Bill 2020 is assented to. Speaking at a webinar hosted by the TT Transparency Institute (TTTI) on Wednesday, Lalchan said his board was ready to get started. “We are fully funded and ready but the regulations are the sticking points.” Lalchan said his board was hoping that it could begin its work once the adjustments to the procurement regulations are brought to Parliamen...

Dr Farrell: No Sacred Cows revisited; understanding the PNM’s assault on Central Bank “[…] The PNM administration seems allergic to institutions which are independent within the executive and run by unelected persons.  “It is clearly one of the reasons for the pre-emptive assault on the Office of the Procurement Regulator rendering it a eunuch, so that the hands of elected ministers will not be ‘tied’ by unelected officials…” The following column on the PNM government’s relationship with independent institutions in general and the Central Bank in particular was submitted to...

December 14, 2020 I must admit that as I monitored what was happening in the USA, the shenanigans of outgoing President Donald Trump as he sought first to defy, then later to subvert the electoral process, I all but ignored developments here at home. It was when I saw Afra Raymond, the fiercely independent activist who is also outspoken on issues of national importance, disassemble the controversial Public Procurement Amendment Bill and call on citizens to let their voices be heard, that I switched focus. It’s not that I was unaware of the concerns over the Bill’s provisions. In fact, I w...