Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram has as­sured the Trinidad and To­ba­go So­ci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Cru­el­ty to An­i­mals (TTSP­CA) that it will re­ceive the fund­ing it des­per­ate­ly needs to car­ry out its du­ties.

Speak­ing dur­ing the han­dover of an­i­mal chow to the TTSP­CA’s Port-of-Spain shel­ter yes­ter­day, Rati­ram said the long-stand­ing is­sue of a sub­ven­tion will be ad­dressed.

“The TTSP­CA has been do­ing yeo­man ser­vice for decades. It is un­ac­cept­able that they have not re­ceived the fund­ing that was al­lo­cat­ed to them. I will per­son­al­ly en­sure this mat­ter is ad­dressed and that they re­ceive what is owed, he said.”