WASA pays portion of $75M debt owed to security firms

Days af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pri­vate Se­cu­ri­ty As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­SA) ap­pealed to the Gov­ern­ment to set­tle $75 mil­lion in out­stand­ing pay­ments to mem­ber com­pa­nies, the as­so­ci­a­tion says it has re­ceived a par­tial pay­ment from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) but main­tains that the amount falls far short of what is owed.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued on Wednes­day, the as­so­ci­a­tion called on Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath and WASA’s board of di­rec­tors to meet with its mem­bers to de­vel­op a struc­tured re­pay­ment plan.

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“Our mem­bers sin­cere­ly ap­pre­ci­ate WASA’s re­sponse and the re­cent dis­burse­ment of funds. How­ev­er, we wish to re­spect­ful­ly em­pha­sise that the pay­ments re­ceived do not ad­e­quate­ly ad­dress the sub­stan­tial out­stand­ing ar­rears owed,” the TTP­SA said.