Sto­ries by Akash Sama­roo

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath is deny­ing claims that he has in­struct­ed the Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme’s (CEPEP) new board to shut down its op­er­a­tions. How­ev­er, he could not pro­vide a time­line for when the com­pa­ny will re­hire work­ers, not­ing CEPEP re­mains un­der re­view.

In fact, Padarath yes­ter­day re­vealed that the board has re­quest­ed six months to com­plete fi­nan­cial au­dits cov­er­ing the past sev­en years.