Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath met with em­ploy­ees of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) yes­ter­day, some of whom he says were “on the chop­ping block” un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Dur­ing a brief vis­it to WASA’s head­quar­ters, Padarath ad­dressed staff in what he de­scribed as a meet-and-greet ses­sion.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia af­ter shar­ing pho­tos to his so­cial me­dia page, the min­is­ter said em­ploy­ees ex­pressed re­lief and grat­i­tude for the se­cu­ri­ty of their jobs un­der the cur­rent Gov­ern­ment.