T&T Energy Minister pledges to ‘plug’ diesel leak

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine is describing the illegal bunkering of diesel fuel valued at over TT$1.5 billion as economic genocide. And, while the diesel, believed to be part of a racket in which fuel is bought at subsidised prices and sold on the high seas at market value, Ramnarine said evidence is being gathered “with the view of making a case” against the perpetrators.

Ramnarine said research is showing that the cost of a litre of diesel in T&T is TT$1.50. He said, “If we convert the Guyanese