Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan is urg­ing the trade union rep­re­sent­ing port work­ers to set­tle ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Fi­nance Min­istry and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer.

Speak­ing at the com­mis­sion­ing of two state-of-the-art port scan­ners at the Port of Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, Sinanan ref­er­enced last year’s protest ac­tion by the Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers Union (SWW­TU), which dis­rupt­ed port op­er­a­tions and pre­vent­ed a new record for con­tain­er scans.

“This (last) year, 2024, the Port of Port-of-Spain should have bro­ken the record for the amount of con­tain­ers pass­ing through, and be­cause of that two-month pe­ri­od where some ves­sels by­passed us, we were not able to reach the fig­ures that would have shown that the econ­o­my is a vi­brant econ­o­my. Be­cause right now, we have more con­tain­ers com­ing in­to Trinidad than we had in the boom times,” Sinanan lament­ed.