T&T Companies with links to Foster Cummings get over $500M in contracts in 10 years

Klydon Enterprises Ltd, a company linked to former government minister and general secretary of the People’s National Movement (PNM), Foster Cummings, operated on oral contracts for certain months in 2017 and 2018 at the Housing Development Corporation (HDC). Documents show that the HDC, through former managing director Brent Lyons and Klydon, verbally agreed for the company to provide grass-cutting services at Roystonia in Couva for $250,000 a month.

Accountant Joel Edwards, who served as CEPEP Chairman between 2023 and 2025, was listed as Klydon Enterprises’ accountant. He was also Cummings and Associates Limited’s accountant.Both Cummings and Associates and Klydon Enterprises Limited are registered at the same business address—Unit 2, Metro Building, Noel Street, Couva. Metro Building is the Metro Hotel in Couva, owned by the PNM’s 2025 General Elections candidate for Point-a-Pierre, Mukesh Ramsingh.Among those who formed part of the screening committee for Ramsingh’s selection was Cummings.‘$300 million paid over ten years to one man’

According to Housing and Urban Development Ministry documents, Klydon received at least $20 million in other HDC contracts between 2020 and 2023. As seen in the company registry, Klydon’s directors are Donetta Pierre and Oneka Mayers. Pierre was the former secretary of Cummings and Associates Limited, owned by Cummings and his wife, according to the company’s annual returns.

...This man is secretary of the PNM

One of Klydon’s invoices, dated September 4, 2017, showed the HDC was billed $180,000 for grass cutting, $25,000 for removal of debris, and $45,000 for removal of bulk garbage and clearing of illegal dump sites.

These services amounted to $250,000, inclusive of 12.5 percent VAT, bringing the total bill to $281,250.

Klydon’s other HDC contracts

But grass-cutting services were not the only job Klydon had at the HDC.

According to Housing and Urban Development Ministry documents, Klydon received at least $20 million in other HDC contracts between 2020 and 2023.  The corporation had been paying Klydon “over $200,000 a month to cut grass” at a piece of land at Roystonia in Couva.

$12,896,656.71 - HDC - Paid - Oct 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023

$3.85 million - Indian Trail Community Centre - Udecott

$1.74 million - Edinburgh 500 Community Centre - Udecott

$2,447,550 - Waste disposal at HDC Cypress Hills Phases 1A, 1B & 1C - 4/15/2025

$2,475,900 - Waste disposal at HDC Pleasantville

$2,253,259.32 - Paid - Oct 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023

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In the past, Cummings has said that he has been a businessman for the past 30 years and had no conflict with companies linked to him receiving millions in State work, while being an MP, a salaried government minister, under the Dr Keith-Rowley administration.