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Incoming local govern­ment councillors have been warned of the risks involved in carrying out their duties.

MEMBERS of the Public Accounts Enterprises Committee of Parliament were left disturbed on Wednesday by the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme’s (CEPEP) failure to complete audits of $1.5 billion spent between 2015 and 2021. This was blamed on the inability to retrieve documents from a private auditor after CEPEP’s server crashed in 2015. During

3 Days Ago Sangre Grande Regional Corporation chairman Anil Juteram and members of the council, along with permanent secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government Desdra Bascombe, centre, at the swearing-in ceremony on December 17, 2019. File photo - No one was fired from the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation says chairman of the corporation’s Personnel Committee, councillor for Sangre Grande North West, Nassar Hosein, who defended the withdrawal of contracts approved ...

Corporation head calls for action on sabotage claims ANGRY: Chairman of the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation Raymond Cozier. FILE PHOTO - THE chairman of the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation (MRCRC) wants Minister of Rural and Local Government Kazim Hosein to investigate claims of sabotage within the corporation. At the latest statutory meeting on Thursday at the corporation building in Rio Claro, Raymond Cozier complained that the administrative staff is deliberately undermining the...

Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Kazim Hosein. With sporadic protests for water escalating in several parts of the country, Local Government Minister Kazim Hosein has intervened. Following a meeting on Monday, Hosein approved the use of $1 million from unspent balances for the 14 regional and municipal corporations to assist with water trucking. His approval came days after a Joint Select Committee meeting last week showed some 260,000 families were affected by an ongoing wate...

Rural Development and Local Government Minister Kazim Hosein has granted approval to allow corporations to use up $1 million each to help people who have water problems. The 14 corporations will be able to access up to $1 million from their unspent balances to “combat water challenges faced by various communities across the island”, the ministry said in a statement yesterday. The approval to use the funds is in accordance with Section 112(2) of the Municipal Corporation Act, Ch 25:04,...

RADHICA DE SILVA With sporadic protests for water escalating in several parts of the country, Local Government Minister Kazim Hosein has intervened. Following a meeting on Monday, Hosein approved the use of $1 million from unspent balances for the 14 regional and municipal corporations to assist with water trucking. His approval came days after a Joint Select Committee meeting last week showed some 260,000 families were affected by an ongoing water crisis. Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Mini...