RURAL Development and Local Government Minister Khadijah Ameen has said the roughly 1,600 workers who were deployed across 14 corporations in the National Programme for the Upkeep of Public Spaces (NPUPS) have been working and are not “ghost gangs”.

Flashback: NPUPS workers on duty within the Chaguanas Borough Corporation in late April.

Ameen, also the Member of Parliament for St Augustine, was speaking during the Collect Your Plants for Corpus Christi drive yesterday at her constituency office on Pasea Main Road, St Augustine.