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The countdown to budget day is on!

And, the UNC is continuing its pre-budget consultation.

The UNC took its caravan to Penal, Debe.

This time, the UNC was joined by the Oilfields Workers Trade Union.
Transcript
00:00 The United National Congress takes its budget consultation to Penal Debae.
00:05 The party continues to be joined by the oil fields workers trade union
00:09 just as they had before the local government election.
00:12 We have for the very first time a prime minister and I say it without apology
00:19 who has no compassion, who has no sense of sincerity, who does not have the pulse or the
00:32 feel of the average man and woman in Trinidad and Tobago. In short he does not care.
00:39 Mr. Kesar is advocating for several things including what he refers to as an industrial policy.
00:47 An industrial policy that focuses on the restart of the point up here refinery.
00:55 The continued and eventually the restart of the steel plant.
01:05 There were invest in steel plant yes.
01:07 That international buzzword, buzz concept called just transition
01:13 and the development of an industrial policy.
01:17 Joining him on stage another OWTU comrade Christopher Jackman laments the cost of
01:23 the closure of the refinery remains unknown years later.
01:27 They would have given out 180 lots of land. Big spectrum on the news.
01:34 You know what is the truth? The truth is that is the third raffle distribution list that they
01:43 would have called and thus far I am not aware of one person that got a lot of land.
01:48 I believe it should be raised at the budget. Let us find out what is the cost,
01:54 what this country would have paid to develop those 300 plus lots of land.
02:00 Budget day is Monday October 2nd. Ravishi Tamari, Rupnurine TV6 News.
02:06 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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