Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les will host a le­gal clin­ic for ter­mi­nat­ed Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors to­day, as more Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at­tor­neys—in­clud­ing for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young—pre­pare to mount a le­gal de­fence on their be­half.

Ac­cord­ing to a press re­lease post­ed to so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day by PNM la­dy vice chair­man Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, Beck­les will be ac­com­pa­nied by a pan­el of at­tor­neys. They will con­sult with all af­fect­ed con­trac­tors at the Lisas Gar­dens Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, Cou­va, from 10 am.

This fol­lows the fir­ing of over 300 CEPEP con­trac­tors on Fri­day, a move which is said to af­fect over 10,000 em­ploy­ees un­der them, days af­ter Gov­ern­ment an­nounced a full au­dit of the pro­gramme’s as­sets, con­tracts and op­er­a­tions.