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The Government is receiving sharp criticism from Patriotic Front (PF) leader Mickela Panday and former United National Congress (UNC) MP Rushton Paray over the decision to terminate workers at the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) and the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP).
In a WhatsApp response to Guardian Media yesterday, Panday welcomed Government’s effort to address corruption, waste, and mismanagement at the state-run programmes. However, she condemned the handling of the process as “ad hoc,” arguing that the abrupt mass layoffs at CEPEP, URP, and the Reforestation Programme left thousands of low-income workers, many of them single mothers, without proper transition plans or assurances of re-employment.
“We believe corruption must be addressed, but not at the expense of innocent families now struggling to pay rent, buy food, send their children to school, and access basic necessities,” she said.
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