PM Disputes Opposition’s Funding Cut Claims, Says PNM Corporations Got $490m More Than UNC’s

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has challenged claims by People’s National Movement (PNM) councillors that their municipal corporations were shortchanged, saying the seven PNM-controlled corporations were allocated $490 million more than the seven run by the United National Congress (UNC).

In a social media post, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar said the PNM should be telling its constituents about the allocations instead of “making fools of themselves.” She shared a media report and an excerpt from the budget documents to support her case.

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Citing the Ministry of Finance’s Draft Estimates of Expenditure 2027, she said the PNM corporations were allocated about $1.29 billion, against about $799 million for the UNC corporations. The PNM bodies also saw a larger increase over the 2026 revised estimates, about $276 million, compared with about $183 million for their UNC counterparts.