The Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) has is­sued a state­ment wel­com­ing the ap­point­ment of Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj as Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism.

The As­so­ci­a­tion al­so wel­comed the ap­point­ment of Dr. Neil Go­sine as Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the min­istry.

Ac­cord­ing to the state­ment, TTSI­DA Pres­i­dent Al­lan Fer­gu­son and mem­bers of the As­so­ci­a­tion have had a long­stand­ing work­ing re­la­tion­ship with the Min­istry of Trade, de­scribed as the line min­istry for the scrap iron in­dus­try.