Trade unions postpone march to October 23

The trade union move­ment has post­poned its planned mass demon­stra­tion through Port of Spain from Oc­to­ber 16 to Oc­to­ber 23, out of re­spect for the late ca­lyp­so icon Mighty Spar­row, whose state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al is sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 16.

Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette con­firmed the de­ci­sion on Fri­day, ex­plain­ing that while po­lice had con­tact­ed or­gan­is­ers about the sched­ul­ing con­flict, law en­force­ment had nei­ther in­struct­ed nor re­quest­ed that the unions post­pone the march.

In­stead, he said, the de­ci­sion was tak­en vol­un­tar­i­ly fol­low­ing dis­cus­sions among trade union lead­ers, who agreed that the labour move­ment should pay its re­spects to one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s great­est cul­tur­al icons.