David Gegg Returns to Senate Special Select Committee’s Public Hearing  

The Senate Special Select Committee’s public hearing resumed today inside the National Assembly. The committee is tasked with looking into the Portico Definitive Agreement. And, this morning David Gegg, the principal of Portico Enterprises Limited, was once again called to testify before the committee. Gegg, unlike other individuals who have been called before the committee, has been candid about the company’s affairs and signing of the agreement. The four-hundred-million-dollar project remains in limbo. Viewers may recall that former U.D.P. minister, Tracy Panton, who served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Investments, was the first person to testify before the committee back in December 2023. She told the committee that she did not see, nor did she read the definitive agreement.  Today, Gegg asserted that Panton never supported Portico Enterprises Limited for any reason other than her allegiance was elsewhere.

 

David Gegg, Developer, Portico Enterprises Limited

“She would never have supported our project Senator, you know that. She was firmly committed to the other one. She was out there with a shovel digging dirt at the time they had groundbreaking. Totally committed to the other one and did everything she could to prevent our project from materializing.”

 

 

Kevin Herrera, Senator

“So you don’t believe there was anything you could have done to satisfy?”

 

 

 

 

David Gegg

 “I couldn’t compete with Mr. Feinstein.”

 

Kevin Herrera

“What do you mean by that?”

 

David Gegg

“His resources for support were far greater than ours and besides that we had commitments through our relationship with Boskalis that we could not provide any money to any minister for anything whatsoever. That was written in our agreement with them.”

 

Kevin Herrera

“I know the letter that was written to the prime minister was also copied to Ms. Panton, do you believe she may have seen that letter?”

 

David Gegg

“I believe she tore it up.”

 

Kevin Herrera

“Why did you say that?”

 

David Gegg

“Because she did not want our project to proceed.”