Minister of Public Service Sonia Parag and her predecessor Tabitha Sarabo-Halley yesterday squared off over whether there had been discrimination in the ministry’s public scholarship programme with the former contending that hinterland regions were particularly badly served.
In her contribution to the debate on the 2020 national budget which she described among other things, as being anti-public servant, Sarabo-Halley in addressing the issue of scholarships said that Parag seemed confused by the difference in meanings between demographic and geographic.
But Parag in her maiden speech to the House at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre fired back saying that the government side could not be responsible for the misunderstanding of any terms of the English language by the Opposition.
