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Clash in Parliament over $1M poui tree project – gazettE

Clash in Parliament over $1M poui tree project

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Elections 2025

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October 24, 2025

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Clash in Parliament over $1M poui tree project

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Gail Alexander

Senior Political Reporter

Bedlam broke out in Parliament yesterday when Trade Minister Satyakama Maharaj announced that Government would spend $1 million on a national beautification programme to plant poui trees along highways—prompting Port-of-Spain South MP Keith Scotland to accuse the administration of paying for work CEPEP workers were already doing.

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