Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

The pover­ty line in Trinidad and To­ba­go has in­creased and these high­er fig­ures for des­ti­tu­tion and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty ac­knowl­edge the painful re­al­i­ty that life has be­come more ex­pen­sive for or­di­nary cit­i­zens, says Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Van­dana Mo­hit.

“But most im­por­tant­ly, these re­vised thresh­olds mean that more gen­uine­ly vul­ner­a­ble house­holds will now qual­i­fy for as­sis­tance in­stead of be­ing un­fair­ly ex­clud­ed un­der out­dat­ed cri­te­ria. Un­der this Gov­ern­ment, so­cial de­vel­op­ment will nev­er be treat­ed as an af­ter­thought. The poor and vul­ner­a­ble will nev­er be in­vis­i­ble,” Mo­hit added in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Fri­day.