Unions postpone Oct 16 protest out of respect for Sparrow

Akash Sama­roo

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 Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co, whose state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al is sched­uled for the same day.

Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette con­firmed the de­ci­sion yes­ter­day, ex­plain­ing that while po­lice had con­tact­ed or­gan­is­ers about the sched­ul­ing con­flict, there was no in­struc­tion or re­quest from law en­force­ment for the unions to post­pone their march.