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Mem­bers of the Dif­fer­ent­ly Abled Move­ment are re­quest­ing a meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­fore the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion to dis­cuss the need for in­creas­ing the dis­abil­i­ty grant, which cur­rent­ly stands at $2,000.

Speak­ing out­side the Red House on Aber­crom­by Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, pres­i­dent of the move­ment, Nekeisha Pierre, said, “We want to know what will the next sit­ting gov­ern­ment do for dif­fer­ent­ly abled per­sons in Trinidad and To­ba­go. We did not come to beg, but what we are here do­ing is what we know we tru­ly de­serve; we want to say that $2,000 can­not suf­fice dif­fer­ent­ly abled per­sons in Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

Pierre said the cost of liv­ing af­fect­ed the dif­fer­ent­ly abled even more se­vere­ly.