News­gath­er­ing Ed­i­tor

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment’s sus­pen­sion of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and re­view of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) has trig­gered push­back from what she de­scribed as the “deep state” and “the bel­ly of the un­der­world.

Speak­ing at the par­ty’s meet­ing in Cou­va on Mon­day night, she said the mea­sures, aimed at in­ves­ti­gat­ing and dis­man­tling cor­rup­tion, had un­earthed “a re­sis­tance that reach­es far and wide.”