Minister Khadijah Ameen: Rural Development Company Must Be ‘Cleaned Up’ Before Delivering New Projects

Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen says the Rural Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago must be “cleaned up” before it can effectively deliver projects under the current administration.

Minister Ameen says the Rural Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago is facing serious operational and administrative challenges that must be addressed to ensure it can effectively deliver projects.

“To the Board of the RDC, I say to you that there are so many things that I know that we have to treat with. There are so many things in the Rural Development Company that we have to correct. We have so many projects that were awarded on the eve of election, monies that were that were paid that are unaccounted for. We have situations of over staffing that we must properly audit and assess as we go forward.”