OVER 900 URP WORKERS CONTRACTS TERMINATED

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The  Rural Development and Local Government Minister  told the House of Representatives today that the Government discovered there were people on the Unemployment Relief Programme who were being paid but never reported to work.  The Minister was responding to a question from the Opposition about the U.R.P.

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00:00The overall development and local government minister told the House of Representatives today

00:04that the government discovered there were people on the unemployment relief program

00:08who were being paid but never reported to work.

00:12The minister was responding to a question from the opposition about the URP.

00:18Mr. Speaker, if we have to bring the whole truth to this parliament,

00:23the opposition will never ask this question.

00:25In the short time that I am alone.

00:30In the short time that I am allowed,

00:34I cannot list the incidents of radio talk show hosts

00:39who get paid under this program and never report to work.

00:42Not once.

00:46Members of the opposition bench, relatives, who listed who never report to work.

00:53Minister Khadija Amin confirmed the cancellation of over 900 contract URP workers

01:01as she said some of them were not living in this country.

01:04What I can tell you is that when we came into office, we met 928 workers on paper.

01:13Mr. Speaker, with the number of employees who never reported to work,

01:20some of them who were living outside of Trinidad and Tobago,

01:26termination letters were issued for all 928 contract workers.

01:32There were some of them who, as I say, we couldn't even find them to give them a letter.

01:37Some of them only turned up to receive their letter.

01:40There were also 130 public servants who have been absorbed into the Ministry of Rural Development

01:47and local government and assigned to various municipal corporations throughout Trinidad.

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