FACED with school vacation expenses and the upcoming cost of a new academic year for their children, some former workers with the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) have appealed to the Government to register and assist single parents and families who have lost their income.

According to a number of people in Enterprise and environs, including Chaguanas, Lendore Village, Longdenville, Welcome and Cunupia, those most impacted by the termination last month of contracts with the State’s make-work programme were “mainly single mothers” and labourers unable to find work as “construction has been very slow for years”.

Stating that the biggest impact will be on their children, the former workers described the sudden loss of their jobs with CEPEP as “shocking” and “disappointing”.