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For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les yes­ter­day slammed his suc­ces­sor, Bar­ry Padarath, over the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to scrap the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion’s Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) trans­for­ma­tion plan.

A day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced the move at a post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing at the Red House, Gon­za­les called a me­dia con­fer­ence at Bal­isi­er House, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day to ad­dress the is­sue.

Not­ing that Padarath was part of a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) which had made rec­om­men­da­tions for the trans­for­ma­tion of WASA since 2021, Gon­za­les point­ed to the fact that 34 se­nior WASA em­ploy­ees were be­ing tar­get­ed as part of the new UNC plan for the util­i­ty.