West Indies Cricket Fans

The controversial Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba which is yet to be completed has now reached a budget of $1.07 billion. This was disclosed by Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Anil Roberts at a media conference held at his head office, Abercromby Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday. Roberts first noted that the Brian Lara Stadium, in Tarouba is under Udecott which is under the Ministry of Planning so the Ministry of Sports and its Minister have no standing on that project whatsoever .

But information is that the cost has reached $1.07 billion and its still not outfitted. There are also still questions about the steel work and the wells and so on so if you want more details you have to contact the Udecott board and the Ministry of Planning. However, the sad thing is the former Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs in his wisdom on November 19, 2009 he and the Cabinet of T&T under the Prime Minister Patrick Manning took out a loan from First Citizens Bank for $497 million at 6.5 per cent interest for the completion of the Brian Lara Stadium. Read more

“If you can remember I was an advisor in the Sports Ministry back in 2002 until January under Minister Boynes. I sat with him, I advised him and went with details to tell him don’t do it. I said it was madness it was ridiculous and was not the way to go. This was being done all at a cost of $850 million but now it has reached $1.8 billion and the cricket stadium is not finish.

thought this stadium was going to be ready for the WC.. What is going on here? Looks like they pissing away the T&T tax payers money..

thought this stadium was going to be ready for the WC.. What is going on here? Looks like they pissing away the T&T tax payers money..

well of course. these huge white elephant projects are designed for pure corruption. they involve ways to pass huge sums of money off to favorites, favours owed, buddies in business, to create kickbacks etc.

every contractor in there is in some politican backpocket to whom they will pass on generaours parts of the profits generated from government coffers to the pols involved for teir selection to do related parts of that projecct.

and the more costs over-run the more profit generated for the corruptors.

yuh ent see Kamla and dem not making too much noise..only anil, whom it appears want to take over the party

wtf dey making? Taj Mahal all over again???

the taj mahal eh!

gih dem an idea nuh googley . tell dem buil' something fuh Vidiaha, in he name. he is ah great man...jess like Lara. tell dem "in fac' greater dan Lara! if allyuh jhave soemthing fuh Lara even more so allyuh shud have something fuh Vidiaha"

better yet tell dem, draw it up too... design, costs, construction, with all the corruptions implied... and see wat deh say

. if yuh is ah 'connected' person deh go grap it up...deh go go an' sell it to the people....tell dem it go cost a fraction of what it will eventually end up costing...and all man go agree...all deh people.

deh go all say "Yes! we ought to have something fuh Vidiaha"

and den business start.

by the time deh don', deh tief zillions, kickbacks all over the place
an' yu go get some too googley...as the man wid the idea, who set it all up!

but if yuh go weh he deh an' arks Vidiaha weh he tink about the project to buil' somethng fuh he..in he name! wat yuh tink he go tell yuh?

I will bet real money, in a large amount, dat he go tell you to "HYMC away from weh he deh!"

"wat yuh come here to bodder my head wit' dis shit for!? leh dem buil' wat de eff deh want tuh buil' but doh geh me involve."

"deh free to call mih name if deh want. mih name is public property an' deh cyan put it on watever deh buil! di'ze deh business. wat it have to do wit' me?"

"look pull yuh skunt from here eh! kerry yuh skunt an' doh come 'rong here no more!"

Naipaul is a Brit now ... You and Googs scheming the poh Trinis now? Man, leh them finish pay for the Lara Stadium fuss nah

BallOil wrote:Naipaul is a Brit now ... You and Googs scheming the poh Trinis now? Man, leh them finish pay for the Lara Stadium fuss nah

deh go finish it yes! wen the cost over-run reach 2 billion

finish? bally, when dem finish that stadium the county will declare bankruptcy!

Googley wrote:finish? bally, when dem finish that stadium the county will declare bankruptcy!

time to increase production.....Drill baby drill to pay for this