Hundreds of millions of dollars were paid out to more than 50 contract workers of the Ministry of Communities under the previous APNU+AFC administration over the past five years with no record or evidence of their performance, newly appointed Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall has said.
During his first press briefing, which was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, at Liliendaal, Dharamlall said the discovery was made following a situational analysis that was undertaken by him and Deputy Minister Anand Persaud.
“We found that in the minister’s secretariat, in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, there were 23 staff who were earning as much as, in total per month, $7.730 million dollars,” Dharamlall said.