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Page 69 of 215 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 much money wi waan… we coudda ever go sign off and seh wi nuh badda waan money, unless a smaddy duh dat… ” 44 A June 24, 2017, letter which was allegedly sent by Mr. Michael Uylett, President, Sydenham Citizens Association, to Mr. Floyd Grindley, former General Manager, Petrojam Limited, soliciting assistance to renovate the community centre, stated, inter alia, as follows: “ … To counter the problems identified, the Citizens Association has embarked on a programme to get the unemployed, employed and the unattached, attached. We have engaged several Government agencies to execute different programmes to achieve our goals but they are unable to help as a result of the absence of a training space to administer the programmes. A structure of a community centre exists that is in need of significant amount of work to get to a condition to facilitate us achieving our goals. We are hereby requesting your support financially to renovate the community centre. We intend to get it to a state where it will used to build a knowledge base community by way of housing a Community Access Point to serve the community in the form of a homework centre and free internet access. We also intend to conduct certified skills training courses in partnership with the HEART Trust NTA. The work that is needed immediately to get the centre in working condition includes but not limited to: tiling of the floor, installation of windows, rewiring, painting, purchasing of equipments and teaching aids, etc. 44 Transcription of audio recording allegedly of Ms. Charmaine White, retrieved from http://nationwideradiojm.com/mccooks-pen-citizens-deny-writing-letter-to-petrojam/ on March 20, 2019.