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PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar warned members of her own UNC party to avoid the corruption that she alleged of the former PNM administration, in a fiery address at the UNC's Monday Night Forum on August 11 at Couva. It was a speech hitting both high-level corruption and low-level dependency work.

She alleged that under the former PNM government the Cepep programme was linked to criminality and various public works agencies were linked to corruption.

With the government now under fire for job losses due to the freezing of Cepep while under audit, she said her government's stoppage of the programme has unearthed a huge resistance from the belly of the underworld.