Port of Spain South MP Keith Scotland has appealed to the government to put measures in place for the CEPEP, URP and Reforestation workers who were fired in July 2025.

Speaking to media at his office’s book drive on Picadilly Street, Port of Spain on August 22, Scotland said there had been an influx of requests for assistance since the firings.

“Forget about the contractors – what about the workers? They are on the breadline and those are the people who don’t have normal matriculated skills, for A’Levels, Math and English now, in a way, you need to empower yourselves, you need to access programmes that the PNM government implemented. “You can’t turn a blind eye to this conversation, you have to put that in place. There will always be that vulnerable subset of society that needs to be taken care of. TT is not unique in that way, and that is why under a PNM government, social development had one of the major shares of the budget, because the PNM understood this. Not that we want to keep people like that, but we want to balance.”