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Public Utilities Minister Barry Padarath and former minister under the People’s National Movement (PNM) administration, Marvin Gonzales, are now engaging in a heated war of words over the ongoing delays in promised payments to Community-based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) contractors and workers, amid wider tensions surrounding the Government’s restructuring of the programme.
After over 300 contractors CEPEP were terminated on June 27, the United National Congress-led Government had promised that the 10,500 workers affected by the move would receive their salaries for July. Those salaries were initially supposed to be paid out last week.
Yesterday, however, Padarath confirmed to Guardian Media that Government had not been able to fulfil the promise because CEPEP required supplemental funding. As such, he said efforts were now being made towards processing the outstanding payments to the contractors by next week.
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