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.
01:54There are...
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