IF ALL GOES?according to plan, natural gas from Trinidad and Tobago could be flowing into Barbados in another 18 months.
This was announced by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart yesterday when he returned from the 23rd Inter-Sessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government, held in Suriname.
Stuart held a Press conference in the VIP?Lounge at Grantley Adams International Airport to update the media on what was discussed.
He said he had held bilateral talks with Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and was informed that a cabinet decision had already been made in Port of Spain on the installation of the pipeline.
“They had taken a decision on the lease. We were asking for a 25-year lease, they were saying 15 [years] but in the bilateral discussion it was thought that we could meet each other halfway and end up with a 20-year lease to get the natural gas pipeline arrangement going,” Stuart reported.
He added that technocrats in Barbados would be working closely with those in the twin-island republic and “within another 18 months or so there should be a natural gas pipeline between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago”.
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