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Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has pledged to pay approximately $110 million owed to former Caroni (1975) Ltd workers if the United National Congress (UNC) returns to government.

Speaking at the UNC’s town hall meeting at the Couva Multipurpose Hall on Thursday, Persad-Bissessar recalled that in 2010, when she was elected prime minister, one of the first acts her Cabinet authorised was the withdrawal of the appeal against the decision by then-Justice Lennox Deyalsingh that allowed former Caroni workers to access their residential and agricultural plots.

She said her government distributed over 5,000 leases for two-acre agricultural plots and “we ­executed over 3,097 residential lots and deeds”.