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SHAL­IZA HAS­SANALI

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s plan to scrap the de­mer­it points sys­tem (DPS) could re­sult in loss­es of mil­lions of dol­lars in rev­enue when her new gov­ern­ment, is al­ready grap­pling with a pro­ject­ed $11 bil­lion deficit for this fis­cal year.

The DPS, in op­er­a­tion for the past five years, gen­er­at­ed al­most $300 mil­lion in rev­enue be­tween 2020 and 2024, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures in the Min­istry of Fi­nance’s es­ti­mates of rev­enue doc­u­ments.