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As the fi­nan­cial year closed yes­ter­day, chair­man of the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) Gow­tam Ma­haraj ad­mit­ted that no road­works were car­ried out over the past year, blam­ing fund­ing poli­cies un­der the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Speak­ing at the cor­po­ra­tion’s month­ly Statu­to­ry meet­ing held in Debe yes­ter­day, Ma­haraj said the coun­cil had been left “cash-strapped.” In last year’s bud­get, he said the cor­po­ra­tion was al­lo­cat­ed $21 mil­lion for the 2024/2025 De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme, but by mid-year had re­ceived on­ly $1.4 mil­lion.

“As a fi­nan­cial year-end re­view, we are sad­dened by the poli­cies of the last gov­ern­ment,” he said.