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Lead Ed­i­tor – News­gath­er­ing

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has warned Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives that they have a ma­jor role to play as the coun­try grap­ples with the ef­fects of cli­mate change.

Ameen made the can­did state­ment as she de­liv­ered the keynote ad­dress at a na­tion­al work­shop on “Cli­mate Re­silient Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment in T&T”, host­ed by the Com­mon­wealth Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Fo­rum (CLGF) at the Hilton last Tues­day.