Beckles alleges discrimination, demands criteria for funding cuts

Akash Sama­roo

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of bla­tant po­lit­i­cal dis­crim­i­na­tion in its al­lo­ca­tion of de­vel­op­ment fund­ing and is de­mand­ing that it pub­lish the cri­te­ria used to de­ter­mine how pub­lic mon­ey is dis­trib­uted.

In a state­ment ti­tled “Kam­la’s At­tack on T&T,” Beck­les yes­ter­day ques­tioned whether re­duc­tions af­fect­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-con­trolled mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions were based on com­mu­ni­ties’ de­vel­op­ment needs or po­lit­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions.