The planned re­struc­tur­ing ex­er­cise at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), which was set to see the re­moval of hun­dreds of man­agers and them be­ing re­placed by 34 se­nior per­sons, has of­fi­cial­ly been scrapped.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar made the an­nounce­ment at yes­ter­day’s post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing at the Red House, Port-of-Spain, where she con­firmed Cab­i­net had re­scind­ed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-ad­min­is­tra­tion’s re­struc­tur­ing plan.

In seal­ing the deal, Per­sad-Bisses­sar ripped up the ex­ist­ing trans­for­ma­tion pol­i­cy be­fore her Cab­i­net col­leagues and those on hand.