00:00Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa appeared in Parliament on Saturday as the Standing Finance Committee reviewed the $459.8 million
00:10allocation to the office of the Prime Minister.
00:13Today the office of the Prime Minister is no longer a slush fund for the lavish lifestyles.
00:22No longer a slush fund for the lavish lifestyles of those who treated themselves as emperors.
00:27From 2016 to 2025, our nation's taxpayers funded $19.2 million in official entertainment for the office of the Prime
00:39Minister.
00:40$40.7 million, she adds, was spent on conferences and seminars.
00:45And during that same time, she says, a staggering amount was also expended on other luxuries.
00:51While thousands lost their jobs, the office of the Prime Minister spent $80.5 million on the Prime Minister's establishment.
01:01Simply put, expenses for the Prime Minister's household.
01:05Not for the office of the Prime Minister, but for the household.
01:07In total, over the last 10 years, the office of the Prime Minister spent $114 million on fine dining, vacations,
01:18fine wine, sightseeing and splurging as our nation suffered.
01:23Those days are over.
01:25She says, upon taking office, she restored fiscal responsibility by cutting down the PNM's previous $1.2 billion allocation to
01:34the OPM to less than half that.
01:38Passat Bissassa says the office of the Prime Minister under her has become a Ministry of Delivery.
01:44Restoring TT to global leadership as we work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure the strongest US-TT
01:51relationship in our history and, of course, our historic election to the United Nations Security Council.
01:58After delivering her five-minute opening remarks, opposition members were invited to question any item under this ministry, but no
02:06concerns were raised.
02:08Cindy Raguba, Tika Singh, TV6 News.
02:15Cindy Raguba, Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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