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“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

That was the key message from David Abdulah, leader of the Movement for Social Justice, as he addressed the June 27 dismissal of all contractors under the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (Cepep).

Contractors were handed termination letters at the company’s head office on Factory Road in St Madeleine, effective immediately. The decision left an estimated 360 contractors and more than 10,500 workers unemployed.