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Contractors Demand That Government Repay Them.
March 17th, 2010.

The Joint Consultative Council has taken to task recent statements attributed to Prime Minister Patrick Manning.

In response founding member for the Umbrella Joint Consultative Council Emile Elias says he was deeply saddened by the statements of the Prime Minister.

The JCC addressed the matter at a press briefing yesterday.

The group of construction stakeholders is also of the view that the Government must accept some responsibility for the ills in the sector.

JCC chairman Winston Riley said local contractors agree that all is not well but he said the Government has a role to play in fixing the problems.

President of the Contractors Association, Mikey Joseph said Government can start by paying local contractors the millions of dollars they are owed.


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  NAME : CALDER HART D.O.B. : JUNE 11TH 1945 EDUCATION: Bachelor of Commerce from St. Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada 1962 - 1966 Worked for the City Government of Ottawa, He was about to be "fired" for incompetence, insolence, lack of integrity and insubordination when he left for Trinidad on the invitation of Mr. Andre Monteil, a senior executive with CLICO, his former class mate. He claims to have studied at MIT for his MBA - to date this cannot be confirmed irrefutably. He cannot remember his lecturers names and they cannot remember his. He claims to have studied at the Sloan Business School at MIT in 1969. No one remembers him. He claims to have worked for the city Government of Toronto as a town planner. This cannot be confirmed. JOB STATUS: Chairman of UDECOTT Chairman, CEO and Managing Director of the Trinidad & Tobago Mortgage and Finance Co. (TTMF) Chairman of NIPDEC Chairman of NIB (Many staff members of the above institutions say that Mr. Hart is a very unpleasant person to work with.) CITIZENSHIP: Canada and Trinidad & Tobago MARRIAGE STATUS: Married three times. Presently he is married to a Malaysian Chinese woman, Su-Hua Lee, a former Call-Girl and child prostitute from the age of 12 years old. She claims to have attended University in Canada but her level of English and Chinese is about Primary School, Standard Two level. She cannot read or write Chinese. Mr. Hart’s first two wives are still alive and have never remarried. They are still being supported by Mr. Hart. He has five children. Two are mentally challenged, Ross now 21 and Ling Lee now 7. His both sons, Chase and Ross, for his second wife, Sandra, are apparent drug users. Chase apparently failed a drug test when applying for a holiday job with the Ministry of National Security of the Government of T&T, a few years ago. He attended his father alma mater in Canada and now works in a government Institution in Port of Spain. Mr. Hart has received five apartments in the Woodbrook One Complex from Mr. Fifi, the CEO of Home Construction Ltd., a subsidiary of the CLICO group of companies, for favours done. He recently sold two apartments there for 3.200.000.00 TT dollars each. He subsequently bought a damaged sail boat in New Orleans, USA, that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina for about 1 million US that was refurbished in a boat yard in Venezuela, not far from Trinidad. The sailing boat, CHINA DOLL DL 8607-Z, is now moored at Crews Inn, Chaguaramas, in the Western Peninsula of the island, just in front of the restaurant and is still undergoing light repairs. He also owns houses in Goodwood Park and in the Tobago Plantations - now under construction by 30 Chinese workmen of the Zhe-Jiang Ningbo Construction Group Co. Ltd., who’s Managing Director, Mr. Yuan Yong, is the brother in law of Mr. Yin Dan the Managing Director of China Jiangsu Construction Company. Mr. Hart’s home at 6 De Lima Road in Cascade was refurbished for FREE by workmen from Mr. Yin Dan’s company. It is interesting to note that it is Mr. Yin Dan’s Company that recently won a major construction contract to build the University of Trinidad & Tobago at Wallerfield. Mr. Yin Dan’s who lives in Westmoorings South is now seen driving around in a brand new present model Black BMW X5, SUV, PBE 187. On a recent visit to Malaysia Mr. Hart and his wife bought a very expensive high end home in a very upscale area in the capital and has invested heavily in a plastic toy factory there that is run by Mrs. Hart’s sister: SOEH CHING LEE - D.O.B. 16th March 1966 Mailing Address: Elite Visage SDN.BHD., 20 Jalan Awana 14, Taman Cheras, Batu 71/2 Cheras, 43200, N. SELANGOR, Malaysia. FAX: 603 9074 8199 EMAIL: elitevsg@pd.jaring.my mailto:elitevsg@pd.jaring.my It is alleged that Mr. Hart has received kickbacks from most of the owners of the properties that the UDECOTT has purchased. His wife has confided in her close friends that the Prime Minister, Mr. Patrick Manning gets 60% of monies thus received. She has recently boasted that her husband received so far $8 million US from Shanghai Group International Construction Company. She has also boasted that her husband has been able to put away more than 100 million US dollars for the Prime Minister. She also now drives a brand new Dark Green BMW, PCB 338 that is the property of UDECOTT. IT was recently disclosed in Parliament by an opposition MP, Mr. Ganga Singh that MR. Hart’s friend, Mr. Andre Monteil was responsible for the purchase of 110 million TT dollars in shares in the Home Mortgage Bank where Mr. Monteil is Chairman. An investigation is underway. There are several expensive pictures in Mr. Hart’s residence in Cascade that are owned by the State. The pictures were removed by Mr. Hart from his offices at the Financial Complex. They are the works of a well known deceased artiste, who sold his works through Mr. Peter Quan of On Location Art Galleries Limited at the FALLS Shopping Mall in Westmoorings. The present Chinese Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Mr. Huang Xing, who is not liked at all by most of the Chinese Embassy staff, is assisting Shanghai Group International by collaborating with Mr. Hart to get more contracts. Mr. Hart erroneously presented himself as a Trinidad & Tobago Government Minister on his recent visit to China. The Ambassador also erroneously informed the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Dr. Ken Julien and Mr. Hart were Government Ministers in the Trinidad and Tobago Government. Mr. Hart and his wife were not scheduled to be on the Government delegation and their presence was very disturbing to several high ranking Trinidad & Tobago Government Officials. It is alleged that Mr. Hart has given the Chinese Ambassador monetary and expensive gifts. The Chinese Government is on a rigorous drive to stamp out corruption and have Executed more than 4000 Government officials in 2006 for receiving bribes or misappropriating government funds. Apparently China State Construction and China Import and Export Bank have decided not to do any business with this present administration after their meeting with Mr. Hart, Dr. Ken Julien and Dr. Lenny Saith in Beijing. Mr. Hart has received some very stern correspondence from the Ministry of Planning and Development in recent times. He has been very disrespectful to the Minister and is always trying to undermine her authority. He is also the subject of an investigation by Transparency International. He is now seen posing in a new previous model Black BMW X5, SUV, PCA 388 that is the property of one of his wife’s companies. Apparently this company has received substantial assistance from Mr. Lian Zhi Hui (Fai of Fai’s Chinese Restaurant in Tunapuna, T&T, Mr. Ou Zhou Feng of Cantonese Kitchen in St. James T&T and the Shanghai Construction Group. Mr. Han Wen formerly of the Trade Department of the Chinese Embassy is now working for China Railway 18th Bureau (Group) Corporation Ltd., of Luilin, Hexi District, Tianjin 300222, Peoples Republic of China. EMAIL: tj_ctj@hotmail.com mailto:tj_ctj@hotmail.com: WEBSITE: www.cr18g.com http://www.cr18g.com/ in their local office. The President of the Company, Mr. Yang Yugang recently visited Trinidad on the invitation of Mrs. Sherrine Lee Hart through Mr. Her Dong of the Chinese Embassy to hold talks with a view of getting a construction sub-contract with the Consortium that was going to get the contract to build the Light Rail Project. Mr. Yang and his team had an afternoon meal at Crews Inn after visiting the Pitch Lake at La Brea with Mr and Mrs. Hart and was taken aboard Mr.Hart’s sailboat, China Doll. Mrs. Hart has confided in close friends that she has asked Mr. Yang for 10% of his possible contract sum with the consortium. She said that Mr. Yang balked at her request but he did not make a commitment. The Prime Minister, Mr. Patrick Manning has informed the public of Trinidad and Tobago that the Light Rail Project is expected to cost around 3 Billion US dollars and should be finished by 2012. Mr. Her Dong is now frequently seen in the company of Mrs. Hart in the dark green BMW 5 series that belongs to UDECOTT. SHERRINE LEE "HART" BORN IN MALAYSIA, PENANG on the 31st March 1960 as SU-HUA LEE (3rd wife of Calder Hart - a Canadian citizen now residing in Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies) She ran away from home and became a Child Prostitute from age 12. She eventually lived in Canada and Africa Liberia before coming to Trinidad in 1997 via the International Red Cross as a refugee and as a guest of Shaheed Khan, who it is alleged she married and whom she met in Toronto, Canada, whilst working as a Call Girl. She lived with Mr. Khan in Fairways, Maraval in a rented apartment. She met Mr. Hart at a Central Bank Cocktail Party and began visiting his office whilst she was living with Mr. Khan. After Mr. Khan found out about the relationship he asked Immigration Authorities to deport Su-Hua Lee. Mr. Khan almost had a complete mental breakdown. He was accused of stalking Mrs. Hart and was warned by Police. Mr. Hart was immediately informed by his friends at the Immigration Department and he later flew out of Trinidad with Mr. Khan’s alleged wife, to the Bahamas where she got a divorce and married Mr. Hart. Several years later she bore him a girl child, now 7 years old, called Ling Lee Hart, who goes to Maria Regina Catholic Prep School on Abercromby Street in the capital city of Port of Spain and who suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder. As a result she is a slow learner. Neighbours say Mr. Hart is frustrated by her condition and sometimes treats her very badly. Neighbours also say that there are periodic "CUSS FEST" between Mr. Hart and his wife and between his two sons, Chase and Ross. They cannot believe that Mr. Patrick Manning’s ‘Blue Eye’ boy and his family are such reprobates. Mrs. Hart’s father, a well known communist insurgent was held under the Malaysian internal security act for criminal activities that almost led to the destabilization of Southeast Asia. He was also known to be a human trafficker and known to operate prostitution rings in Macau and Thailand which funded the guerrilla movement in Malaysia and neighbouring Thailand. His daughters, like most of his colleague’s children siblings and wives served as comfort women to the insurgents. He abandoned Mrs. Hart’s mother and her children when the children were still very young. He left the family very destitute. Mrs. Hart ran away from home at the early age of 12. Mrs. Hart worked at a Hardware Store called Nagib Elias and Company Ltd., at Charlotte Street, Port of Spain. At that time she called herself Mrs. Khan. She worked for a brief period wearing her infamous short dresses, before she was fired for gross incompetence and fraudulent credentials. She befriended several prominent Chinese businessmen on Charlotte Street at this time and it is alleged that she was sexually involved with them as well. Mr. Winston Wong of Wing Sing Company is still a close ally from that period and funds many parties that Mrs. Hart has had at her residence in Cascade. Mrs. Hart claims that she has a degree in business from a University in Canada and calls herself a Business Consultant. However investigations show that she was never a student or a graduate of any school of higher education in any part of the world. Her command of Chinese and English are seriously in want. Her level of spoken Mandarin is very mediocre and she cannot read or write either language above post primary level, having neither attended Elementary, Secondary or Graduate School although she has successfully been used as a translator by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Govt of T&T without any examination for her competence. She has acted as a translator to several visiting Chinese government delegations to T&T, several companies including a multinational Chinese Malaysia engineering and construction conglomerate with head offices based in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Malaysia and China State Construction and China Import and Export Bank in Beijing but to the consternation of the local Chinese community in T&T who are aware of her incompetence. Mrs. Sherine Lee-Hart (wife of Calder Hart) has formerly an unholy alliance with Micheal Zhang, local manager of Shanghai Group International Construcion Company and the owner of Cantonese Kitchen, next door to Linda’s Bakery on Western Main Road, St. James. She is regularly seen at Mr. Zhang’s office/residence in Westmoorings. Shanghai Group International has recently received construction contracts worth 380 million US Dollars from UDECOTT, a government agency where Mr. Hart is Chairman. The contracts did not go out for tender, the normal process. His wife has confided in her close friends that the Prime Minister, Mr. Patrick Manning gets 60% of monies thus received. She has recently boasted that her husband received so far 8 million US Dollars from Shanghai Group International Construction Company. She has also boasted that her husband has been able to put away more than 100 million US Dollars for the Prime Minister over the last 6 years. A TRUST company in St. Lucia called TEGREMAN TRUST run by Dr. Jamie Estaphan has been mentioned. Mrs. Hart has also confided in close friends that she understands that the Minister of Works and Transport, Mr. Colm Imbert has substantial savings in the same Trust. Recently she had been receiving $83,000.00TT/ $13,175.00US per week from Hafiz Karamat’s Construction Company, during the time the Contractor was working on the Brian Lara Stadium at Toruba in South Trinidad. It has been estimated that she has thus received over $8 million of just about one and a half million US dollars. The Contractor was subsequently fired for non performance. Mrs. Hart is now seen everywhere, everyday driving a brand new dark green 5 series BMW, PCB 338 that apparently belongs to UDECOTT. Mr. Hart drives his wife’s company’s car, a new previous model black BMW X5 SUV, PCA 388. The both vehicles were bought from Bavarian Motors on Phillip Street in Port of Spain through the sales person, Mr. Peter Figueira. The decision was made to switch the use of the vehicles because Mrs. Hart had difficulty in seeing the road in front of her from the BMW X5 because of her short stature. The present Chinese Ambassador to Trinidad & Tobago, Mr. Huang Xing, recently returned to Beijing to answer questions pertaining to Mr. Hart’s conduct during his trip to Beijing with Dr. Lenny Saith and Professor Ken Julien, because it is he who invited Mr. Hart and his wife specifically through Mr. Hart’s prompting. Mr Hart and his wife were not scheduled to be on the Government delegation and their presence was very disturbing to several high ranking Government officials. It is alleged that Mr. Hart has given the Chinese Ambassador substantial gifts. Mrs. Hart is seen frequenting the Chinese Embassy at 39 Alexandra Street and the Trade Department of the Chinese Embassy at 20 Elizabeth Street in St. Clair, an upscale neighborhood of Port of Spain, even on Holidays. It is alleged that senior persons there assist Mrs. Hart to carry out her nefarious activities. The Trade Attaché if the Embassy, Mr. Her Dong Yang, has a young female relative who is now living in Mrs. Hart’s home in Cascade and is frequently seen accompanying Mrs. Hart. Mrs. Hart has told everyone that the young lady is a governess for her daughter, Ling Lee Hart and also her Mandarin Chinese teacher. The Chinese Young Lady is supposed to be in Trinidad as a student of English. In diplomatic circles around the world this is definitely unacceptable. Mrs. Hart is a known king pin in the business of smuggling Chinese immigrants including construction workers and prostitutes from mainland China, (with the help of Mr. Lian Zhi Hui - ‘Fai’ of Fai’s Chinese Restaurant in Tunapuna and Mr. Ou Zhou Feng - ‘John’ of Cantonese Kitchen in St. James), to Trinidad and Tobago where they work their lives in horrible conditions and have to repay their friends and relatives a minimum debt of $8,500.00 US Dollars (TT$50,000.00) to get their resident permit and sometimes an illegal passport. There are now a visible and alarming number of Chinese prostitutes in the major towns of T&T, working in massage parlors and Casinos. In recent times some have been arrested and deported. Some folks sure know how to revive careers amongst strangers. Malaysia is unforgiving toward ex communist insurgents as they caused the lives of thousands of Malaysian citizens throughout the 60’s to be in absolute turmoil and especially unforgiving to former prostitutes who now pose under a new cloak of respectability.
3/19/2010   


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