UDeCOTT got exactly what it wanted.

This was the response of Diego Martin West MP, Dr Keith Rowley, to the news that the proceedings of the Commission of Enquiry into UDeCOTT and the construction sector had been stayed until February.

Rowley said from the very beginning when information begun to come out about UDeCOTT’s operations, the company made no secret of the fact it intended to use the court to bring the proceedings to a delay or an end.

Saying that the commission was never welcomed by the Government and came only after ’great resistance’, Rowley said this latest development was not surprising and held serious implications for the country as a whole.

’Now that UDeCOTT has begun this court matter, it has the potential to be lawyered to death. The only saving grace about the situation is that the sworn testimony and documents which were presented to the commission were done in the full public view and the public view of what is going on at UDeCOTT will not change,’ he said.

He added: ’This is the beginning of a process, the end of which we cannot predict.’

He said it was galling that the delay, the derailment and the obstruction of the commission was being done by a State enterprise to thwart the public interest in its own shortcomings.