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Mem­bers of T&T’s Na­tion­al Repa­ra­tions Com­mit­tee (NRC) will meet to­day with the coun­try’s new am­bas­sador to Cari­com, Ralph Maraj, to dis­cuss Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to the re­gion­al repa­ra­tions move­ment.

Com­mit­tee mem­ber and ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ES­CTT), Za­kiya Uzoma-Wada­da, con­firmed the meet­ing yes­ter­day. This fol­lows Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s pledge to re-em­pow­er the com­mit­tee and sup­port Cari­com’s repa­ra­tions agen­da in­ter­na­tion­al­ly dur­ing African Eman­ci­pa­tion Day fes­tiv­i­ties last week.

“It is al­ways good to hear from the Gov­ern­ment. It mat­ters not which gov­ern­ment—what is im­por­tant is the recog­ni­tion of the chal­lenges faced by African peo­ple and the ef­forts to ad­dress them,” Uzoma-Wada­da said.