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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.