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Audit: One WASA worker earned $.5m in overtime
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The document showing overtime payments to six workers which was highlighted during an audit in 2016 by the utility’s Legal Department.
Tamika Amora
ANNA-LISA PAUL
“A scandal of the highest order.”
This is how Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales yesterday described the payment of over $1.1 million in overtime to six officials of the Public Services Association (PSA) employed at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) during a three-year period. One of the PSA officials alone received over half a million dollars of this figure.
VSEP, OT fraud allegations at WASA:
Ex-boss refuses comment
and ANNA-LISA PAUL
Former senior manager at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Ken Mahabir yesterday refused to comment on allegations that there were billions of dollars in unauthorised salary and overtime payments during his tenure at the utility a matter which has now been referred to the Police Service for investigation.
Calls to his cell phone yesterday were answered by a man who initially claimed not to know Mahabir before later claiming he was “just doing some work for him” and promising to relay the messages to Mahabir.
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