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NAPARIMA MP Rodney Charles has criticised the Prime Minister for suggesting TT pay $1 billion to pipe natural gas from Venezuela and another $1 billion to build a Sandals hotel in Tobago. Dr Rowley had suggested the two sums among others in his televised national address on Sunday and Monday, titled Mind Your Business.

In a statement yesterday Charles took on Rowley for blaming the former government for the country’s ills while allegedly not having a plan of his own.

“Last night I heard only three plans for economic recovery: one, keeping our fingers crossed and praying that oil and gas prices will go up; two, spending billions to ensure that Sandals will somehow rescue us; three, wasting another billion to construct pipelines to bring Maduro’s gas to TT.”

Charles said Sandals will never make this a first-world country.

“If this were so, then St Lucia, Barbados and Jamaica would all be part of the OECD. Instead right now they are all basket economies. Two are at the IMF.

ACCUSING Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley of lying to the nation, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday challenged him to engage in a public debate with her.

"If yuh name man, I am going to take you on manos y manos, in a public debate on all the issues you raised in the power-point. One on one, I will engage you. Be man, come forward and I will take you on on all of those lies, every distortion I will show you what we did, how we delivered in any spear of lives in TT," Persad-Bissessar said.