It was only last year that Trinidad company; Western Scientific Company Limited was blacklisted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for what the bank referred to as fraudulent practices.
That blacklist was to last from March 2016 to October 2020, but somehow, on August 18, the coalition Government announced its no objection to a G$30 million contract for this very company to supply Sysmex reagents for the Ministry of Public Health.
