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Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent de­ci­sion to ter­mi­nate more than 400 work­ers em­ployed un­der the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme across 12 re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions.

She ques­tioned where was the “love” the Prime Min­is­ter pro­fessed for the peo­ple of T&T. How­ev­er, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, in re­sponse, said she loved peo­ple but does not like “ghosts”.

On Wednes­day, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen con­firmed the ter­mi­na­tions and de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s ac­tions, say­ing a re­struc­tur­ing of the “make work” pro­gramme was a nec­es­sary step to com­bat decades of what she de­scribed as en­trenched cor­rup­tion.