00:00According to Minister of Rural Development and local government Khadija Amin, an initiative has been launched to support regional corporations with clean-up efforts ahead of the carnival season.
00:11It is being rolled out similar to the pilot program for the upkeep of public spaces running from February 2nd to February 28th.
00:20We have over 1,000 workers who will be deployed to various regional corporations and we have teams of 12 persons, one supervisor and 12 labourers.
00:34What we have done is moved away from paying people 80-something dollars a day to paying them a decent wage.
00:42Our supervisors will get $269 plus $9 cola, so they are getting $278 a day.
00:53Our labourers will get $233 plus $9 cola, that is $242 a day.
01:03Amin says it adds up to just under $2,500 daily per team.
01:08Using those figures, the overall daily average cost will be around $207,000.
01:14The focus will be on more than just carnival venues and events and will include beaches and campsites, which people utilise as an alternative to carnival celebrations.
01:25Amin tells us she had a conversation with the various corporations concerning carnival clean-up,
01:30and many have signalled support for what the government is embarking on, including those under opposition control.
01:37She states that corporations which have high activity, for instance, Tunapunapiyako, are receiving additional resources.
01:45Here's how she sums up statements suggesting that PNM corporations have received less funding than UNC corporations.
01:53That is a blatant lie.
01:56In the 2026 budget, the PNM corporations combined got $987.29 million.
02:05And that is $181 million more than the $805.46 million that the UNC corporations received combined.
02:19She endorses the position by Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissasab that no additional funding will be provided to regional corporations.
02:28According to Amin, $2.1 billion is enough.
02:32And she believes the issue is a lack of priority, saying the corporations are finding money to FET.
02:38Citizens must ask one simple question of these corporations.
02:41If you could fund a FET, you could fund garbage collection.
02:46She adds that there are corporations which receive their full allocation under the PNM administration,
02:53and yet garbage collection contractors are being owed millions of dollars.
02:58Amin is of the view that the criticism being leveled at the government from some PNM corporations
03:03is due to the upcoming local government elections and that people like contractors or what she calls middlemen
03:11have been cut out under the government's new hiring approach.
03:15She says the opposite is true of the unemployment relief program,
03:19which she notes is now the subject of a police investigation with allegations of monies going to PNM candidates and officials and gang leaders.
03:28And I want to tell you that our internal audits continue.
03:33The police investigation will very likely widen when they look at the documents that are available
03:40and those who were involved in wrongdoing, they will face justice.
03:47Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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