NGC promises to create jobs in Tobago industrial estate

Point Lisas: State-owned National Gas Company has committed to providing between 80 and 90 percent of the jobs at its $1.3 billion gas-processing plant at the Cove Eco-Industrial and Business Park at Lowlands, Tobago.

Already the company in collaboration with the Tobago House of Assembly and the University of Trinidad and Tobago has trained nine young Tobagonians for positions of plant operator.

It plans to do further training for plant maintenance positions.

NGC Chairman Larry Howai met with THA Chief Secretary Orville London on Tuesday to discuss  operationalising of the Cove Plant, which they expect will be by April or May 2012.

Howai said there had been a lot of talk about the Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Project.

The project has been outstanding for a while but he says they expect to make a firm decision about the project by the end of February next year.