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Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called on the Gov­ern­ment to hold “prop­er” dis­cus­sions with work­ers at the Break­fast Shed to find a mu­tu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial so­lu­tion to their dis­pute with the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott).

The pop­u­lar Port-of-Spain eatery has re­mained closed this week over out­stand­ing ar­rears. Ude­cott chair­man Shankar Bidaissie told Guardian Me­dia ear­li­er that ven­dors owed close to $2 mil­lion in rent but de­nied that any evic­tion no­tices were is­sued.

In re­sponse, the ven­dors—rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Ken­neth Munroe Browne—sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter to Ude­cott, ac­cus­ing the agency of un­law­ful­ly shut­ting their busi­ness­es and fail­ing to ho­n­our a promise made by for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning. They are de­mand­ing $6 mil­lion, which they say is owed to them un­der that arrange­ment.