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QUESTION NOTICE PAPER OF THE HONOURABLE JAMAICA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015 NOTICE GIVEN ON TUESDAY, 24TH JUNE, 2014 7.

* Mr. Samuda to ask the Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining on the 15th day of July, 2014: Will the Minister state what is the present state of negotiations with Energy World 1. International (EWI) for the construction of the 381 MW power plant?

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Can the Minister indicate whether the license issued to EWI has been cancelled?
Will the Minister advise as to: (a) When the House will receive an update relating to where we are in the process of having the 381 MW power plant constructed?

(b) The steps that are being taken to get the project on track?

NOTICE GIVEN ON TUESDAY, 25TH NOVEMBER, 2014 28.

* Mr. Vaz to ask the Prime Minister on the 9th day of December, 2014: Does the Prime Minister recall that in answer to questions posed by the Leader of 1.
Opposition on November 11, 2014, she stated: “The NHT has not purchased the business known as Outameni Experience.

The Board has advised me that the decision to purchase the property at Orange Grove in Trelawny and not the attraction known as Outameni Experience was firmly grounded in the National Housing Trust Act of 1979.”?
Is the Prime Minister aware and, if not, will she cause herself to become aware of a 2. submission made by the Acting Managing Director of the National Housing Trust (NHT) to the Finance Committee of the Board, dated September 1, 2014, in which it is stated, inter alia: Page 2 of 3 (a) “Submitted for consideration for the Board’s approval is the recommended approach to facilitate the re-opening of Outameni, Orange Grove, Trelawny to the public.
The re-opening of the facility is in keeping with the rationale for the acquisition of the property.” (b) “The NHT Board at its meeting on December 3, 2012 approved the acquisition of the property based on a going concern to preserve what was considered to be a national heritage experience.” (c) “In the submission to the Board it was noted that the intellectual property which was reflected in the Experience was too valuable to the educational and cultural life of Jamaica to lose.” (d) That among the procedures listed for the resumption of the operations are: “A.
A review of the remaining chattels primarily to ensure the continuity of the Experience.

C. The preparation and submission of a business plan to further enhance the Experience and for a financially viable operation…..(A business is already in existence for Outameni only to be upgraded to include the additional activities).
F. The general outfitting of the Experience with staff, furnishing and equipment for its operation over the next 3 years for a sustainable and financially viable business.” Is the Prime Minister further aware that in the Acting Managing Director’s submission also 3. stated the following: “Sometime in August 2013, it became clear that the NHT had not bought all the assets of Orange Valley Holding Limited as it relates to the Outameni Experience but had only purchased the buildings and that there would need to be further negotiations with Mr. Lennie Little-White to acquire the chattels including the props and equipment used in the presentation of the Experience.
Following several discussions, legal advice was sought as to the legality of separating these items from the purchase of the property and the response as outlined in Appendix IV indicate that chattels were not part of the purchase price.

Hence the NHT’s decision to have an Independent Valuator assign values to the items for acquisition”?

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Does the Prime Minister accept that the statements referred to in Part 3 indicate that: (a) The re-opening and continued operation of the Outameni Experience was “the rationale for the acquisition of the property”?

(b) At the time that the NHT purchased the property it assumed that what it had bought for $180 million included “all the assets of Orange Valley Holding Limited as it relates to the Outameni Experience”?
(c) It was only after the purchase was made and legal opinion obtained that the NHT discovered that this assumption was wrong and that all it was entitled to was the land and buildings thereon?

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Does the Prime Minister accept that based on the account of the NHT’s Acting Executive Director in a memorandum of September 1, 2014, it clearly indicates that, up to yesterday, Monday, Monday 24, 2014, the Chairman of the Board of the NHT again misled the country regarding the true intentions of the Trust when it purchased the Orange Grove property?
And further, given the fact that other Board members have resigned arising out of this 6. controversial sale, why the Prime Minister and Cabinet did not make the decision to ask the entire Board to resign and appoint an entirely new Board?

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Finally, does the Prime Minister still accept as accurate the information she gave to the House on Tuesday, November 11, 2014, to the effect that the NHT decided “to purchase the property at Orange Grove in Trelawny and not the attraction known as Outameni Experience”?

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