Workers take to the streets of Port of Spain

Work­ers took to the streets of Port of Spain to­day as 12 trade unions mo­bilised for a march, which start­ed short­ly af­ter 9am at Memo­r­i­al Park. Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young, Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day and oth­er mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion PNM were among those present.

The march is on­go­ing, with pro­test­ers tak­ing their con­cerns to the streets amid grow­ing crit­i­cism of the Gov­ern­ment and wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

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The 12 unions ex­pect­ed to par­tic­i­pate in the march are the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU), Steel Work­ers’ Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Avi­a­tion, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Al­lied Work­ers’ Union, Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers Trade Union (SWW­TU), Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion, Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union, Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers Union, Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion, Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA), Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion and Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Trade Union.