Camille Clarke

A let­ter from the man­age­ment said CEPEP was to car­ry out spec­i­fied work in the com­mu­ni­ties which was ex­tend­ed to a fixed term at the end of which con­tract­ing com­pa­nies would be weaned away to make room for oth­er con­tract­ing com­pa­nies.CEPEP chair­man Adesh De­onar­ine said some of the work­ers would be ab­sorbed un­der new con­trac­tors while oth­ers would be as­sist­ed.He added: "We are try­ing to ac­com­mo­date the work­ers with the new con­trac­tors.

The prob­lem is that they are not em­ployed with us. We can't force the con­trac­tors to work with them. "Peo­ple were liv­ing off the pro­gramme and we re­alise it was un­fair to all the oth­er busi­ness­men. De­onar­ine said CEPEP start­ed a sep­a­ra­tion pro­gramme to give new con­trac­tors the op­por­tu­ni­ty to serve.Coun­cil­lor for the area Philip Mur­ray and MP Amery Browne were not avail­able for com­ment.