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The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is de­fend­ing Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath’s over­sight of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), fol­low­ing claims that the Gov­ern­ment may be over­step­ping its in­volve­ment at the State util­i­ty.

PSA pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas yes­ter­day dis­missed such crit­i­cisms as po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed, point­ing to past in­stances of di­rect in­ter­fer­ence by pre­vi­ous of­fice­hold­ers.

“The min­is­ter and the Gov­ern­ment set the strate­gic di­rec­tion for the en­ti­ty,” Thomas said.