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The increase in demand for back-to-school assistance is reflective of CEPEP (Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme) and URP (Unemployment Relief Programme) job cuts.

This is the view of Member of Parliament for Port of Spain South, Keith Scotland, who hosted a back-to-school drive at his constituency office on Piccadilly Street in Port of Spain yesterday.

He said that children who attended the back-to-school drive were treated to school bags with stationery, lunch kits, bottles and snacks.