Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said Wednesday she has asked the Ministry of Finance to audit the Programme for Upgrading Roads Efficiency (PURE) unit of the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure.
She was responding to questions from reporters attending a function at the Hyatt hotel where the Prime Minister handed out keys to HDC houses.
She was responding to questions from reporters attending a function at the Hyatt hotel where the Prime Minister handed out keys to HDC houses.
The questions related to concerns that PURE will be disbanded and people will lose their jobs just before christmas. However Persad-Bissessar said that is not so.
“I don’t understand why they say hundreds of jobs are on the line. As far as I recall, what the Cabinet did was rescind the decision to grant three-year contracts to persons.
"As far as I’m aware those persons are on a month-to-month basis so they can collect their salaries at the end of the month as they’ve been doing for every month thus far.
“What is happening with the PURE is that there have been a lot of allegations of irregularities. Indeed, I have instructed the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Finance has carried out these instructions, for a central audit of the operations of the PURE unit. So I await the findings of that audit, before I take the matter further.”
She made it clear that PURE is operational.
“What is happening with the PURE is that there have been a lot of allegations of irregularities. Indeed, I have instructed the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Finance has carried out these instructions, for a central audit of the operations of the PURE unit. So I await the findings of that audit, before I take the matter further.”
She made it clear that PURE is operational.
"There’s been nothing that says the unit has been shut down. What has happened is that the contracts have not been renewed for a three-year period and therefore the persons remain on a month-to-month basis."
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