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DESCRIBING the past nine years under the PNM administration as “pure hell,” president general of the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU) Ancel Roget vowed to neither forget nor forgive the party for how it treated trade unions.

He charged that with the closure of Petrotrin in 2018, the PNM government not only took away the jobs of 5,000 workers and affected the livelihood of 45,000 in the South Western peninsula, but also removed the workers’ medical plan, which had been guaranteed for life as a term and condition of their collective agreement.