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AFTER complaints about not receiving money collected from property tax by Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation chairman Josiah Austin and San Fernando mayor Robert Parris, Minister of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development Dr Kennedy Swaratsingh and Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen, have described their comments as hasty and politically motivated,

Speaking to Newsday on September 29, Swaratsingh said he had no idea where Austin and Parris got the information that the funds had been distributed.

“I never spoke on that,” he said