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  • 6 months ago
The PM has requested updates on status of personelle and projects done by pure, nidco and the drainage divisions.


Additionally she is intent on finding out what happened with failing infrastructure.
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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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