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Civ­il so­ci­ety groups and non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tions (NGOs) are ready for the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar-led gov­ern­ment to start ful­fill­ing their cam­paign promis­es.

Two weeks be­fore Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the Dif­fer­ent­ly Abled Move­ment protest­ed out­side the Red House in Port-of-Spain, call­ing for a meet­ing with then-prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young to dis­cuss an in­crease in the dis­abil­i­ty grant from $2,000 to $3,500.

While they did not get to meet with Young, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in­vit­ed the group to a town hall meet­ing in Tu­na­puna.