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Chairman of the Tobago arm of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce Curtis Williams is calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to delay accepting the SRC's recommendation for salary increases for Parliamentarians and Assemblymen. Mr. Williams spoke with TV6's Elizabeth Williams on Friday.





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00:00We think that at this time the Prime Minister should delay that recommendation because when
00:07we see what's happening in the country, the economic climate, we think it's a bit shaky
00:13and we think we should delay right about now.
00:17We see the unions and a lot of people are a bit upset about that, a lot of things happening
00:21around, we think that it should be delayed.
00:24Mr. Williams said the announcement on Thursday by the Prime Minister came as a surprise to
00:30him.
00:31Yeah, definitely we were surprised and we know in this space, Mr. Likud, there's a lot
00:35of service providers, contractors waiting on payments from the government, whether it's
00:40the TAT or the central government and now that you're giving yourself, or you're having
00:47an increase, what kind of signal will you send to us?
00:50Because we have workers to pay and we cannot pay them because of the state enterprises
00:56on the government, which is central government and the TAT, our companies, so the members
01:03is not happy about that.
01:05Mr. Williams said the issue may be a talking point in the upcoming general election as
01:10most of the citizenry is displeased.
01:13Do you think that the Prime Minister could lose the upcoming general elections because
01:17of this?
01:19Put a word on the ground, people are bitter, in Tobago, bitter everywhere I go, a lot of
01:24folks are bitter about it, very much bitter in Tobago, very, very much bitter.
01:29Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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