Contractor accuses former PM of misfeance

Port-of-Spain: The chairman of NH International Emile Elias wants answers from former Prime Minister Patrick Manning, former Housing Minister Emily Gaynor Dick Forde and former Attorney General John Jeremie as to why the Bob Linquist report into the Cleaver Heights project was never given to the Uff Commission of Inquiry.

Elias told a news conference this morning that the report had cleared his company of any wrong doing in the project but he said when he requested a copy of it through the Freedom of Information Act he was told the document did not exist.

Elias now wants the Integrity Commission and the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate whether the three former public officials were guilty of misfeance in public office.