Roget welcomes Budget, remains hopeful on refinery restart

Sascha Wil­son

Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s bud­get, as he main­tained con­fi­dence in the an­tic­i­pat­ed restart of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

Speak­ing to re­porters dur­ing the pub­lic view­ing for the late ca­lyp­so leg­end Dr Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co at the South­ern Acad­e­my for Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA) in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day, Ro­get said Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo pre­sent­ed a good bud­get.