{"id":6074,"date":"2026-10-20T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=6074"},"modified":"2026-10-20T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:18:50","slug":"stuart-young-rejects-roodal-moonilal-s-spanish-language-claims-about-dragon-gas-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=6074","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Young Rejects Roodal Moonilal&#8217;s Spanish Language Claims About Dragon Gas Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tg-source-video\" style=\"margin:1.25rem 0;\"><video controls preload=\"metadata\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/news.tringlobe.com\/auto-article\/static\/output\/podcast-source-clip-0744b75d81e000c790c7139706a6390453e13c9468503229f8ccf01803d330a0.mp4\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Former Energy Minister Stuart Young has rejected claims attributed to Energy Minister Roodal Moonilal concerning the language of the Dragon Gas agreement, insisting that official English translations accompanied the Spanish-language documents.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an opposition press conference, Young responded to Moonilal&#8217;s reported statement that the only agreement located concerning the Dragon Gas project was written in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Young argued that Spanish-language documents were entirely normal because Spanish is Venezuela&#8217;s official language.<\/p>\n<p>However, he maintained that English translations were provided whenever the agreements were executed.<\/p>\n<p>He said lawyers representing the Trinidad and Tobago government, Shell and BP participated in the negotiations and documentation process.<\/p>\n<p>Young also referred to a 30-year Dragon Gas licence and a separate 20-year licence associated with other gas developments.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned why the Ministry of Energy would be unable to locate English versions, suggesting that copies should be available through the ministry or participating energy companies.<\/p>\n<p>Young also identified the National Gas Company, Shell and BP as organisations that could potentially assist in locating the documents.<\/p>\n<p>His statements directly challenge the impression that English-language documentation was unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The original agreements and translations were not presented for independent examination during the supplied press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Young insists official English translations accompanied Venezuela&#8217;s Spanish-language Dragon Gas agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trinidad-and-tobago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}