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Beach chair rental op­er­a­tors at Mara­cas Bay yes­ter­day de­fend­ed their trade in the wake of a com­ment on so­cial me­dia by Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der.

One op­er­a­tor, who asked to be iden­ti­fied on­ly as Ram­nar­ine, said he was re­leased from the Youth Train­ing Cen­tre (YTC) with­out any job ex­pe­ri­ence at 19 and has been earn­ing an hon­est liv­ing since.

“Thanks to the chair rental own­ers for em­ploy­ing me when I didn’t have any­thing,” he shared.