Sin­gle Moth­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SMATT) pres­i­dent Sher­maine Wick­ham-Howe is ask­ing in­com­ing prime min­is­ter, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, not to re­move sin­gle moth­ers em­ployed with the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) and the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

The as­so­ci­a­tion al­so wants a meet­ing with Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

“Pay at­ten­tion to how they are go­ing to man­age the moth­ers on the ground, the per­sons be­ing re­moved from their jobs and lis­ten to the cry of these peo­ple. We have mouths to feed, rent to pay and it’s not nice to just delete them from the sys­tem. We would ap­pre­ci­ate it if she can find some­where, some mid­dle ground to ac­com­mo­date them,” Wick­ham-Howe said.