00:00Welcome back to the TV6 News. The Prime Minister has requested updates on the status of personnel
00:07and projects done by PURE, NIDCO and the drainage divisions. Additionally, she's intent on finding
00:13out what happened with failing infrastructure. Requests have also been made for information
00:20from the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure. The Minister is here with us. It's a shame that
00:26billions of dollars, over $10 million, have been spent over the last nine years, and we can hardly
00:33find a good road in the country. Flooding remains rampant. I've asked the Minister of Works and
00:39Infrastructure to request and get audited the test results for roadworks done in Manzanilla,
00:49the Kumoto Highway Extension, the 0.14 highway from Otahiti to Labre, the highway widening
00:56in Shikwaras and the new O'Mara Road. We need to get test results, the Minister,
01:02because those roads are failing or have failed. She also announced that the mid-year review will
01:07take place on June 18th. That is a very important exercise because we have to
01:14find money, we have to shift money from one head to another head so that we continue running the
01:21government until the end of the fiscal year. We will come back, of course, as usual, September,
01:25October for budget 2026. But in the interim, we are in a very, very crucial period.
01:33The government is moving ahead to scrap the demerit point system.
01:38I see some persons are not too happy with that, but again, we campaigned on that and we got the
01:45mandate, so we will proceed with the mandate we were given. And if you have evidence to tell me
01:50the demerit system helped in road safety, I would welcome it. But thus far we have found no evidence
01:57that the demerit system reduced the road traffic incidents or places on the road, the accidents and
02:07so on. We have found no evidence. In fact, the evidence thus far is to the contraries.
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