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For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les isn’t sur­prised or both­ered that his trans­for­ma­tion plan for the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has been gut­ted. How­ev­er, he is pre­dict­ing it will lead to cor­rup­tion.

Gon­za­les made the com­ment af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath an­nounced that WASA’s trans­for­ma­tion plan had been scrapped dur­ing a post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing yes­ter­day at the Red House, Port-of-Spain.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia via tele­phone, Gon­za­les said his plan was to have a new struc­ture for the state en­ter­prise, which in­clud­ed a 40 per cent staff re­duc­tion.