00:00The United National Congress takes its pavement report to the once bustling
00:05Pointer Pier constituency. It's now dormant and dark, according to the
00:09parliamentary representative. Tonight I ask the Prime Minister, are you content
00:15that thousands of former PetroTrain employees are still without jobs to this
00:20very day? Prime Minister, are you happy that hundreds of small fence line
00:26businesses collapsed throughout Marabella, San Fernando, Coover, Gasparillo
00:32and even in the PNM communities of San Fernando East? Prime Minister, are you
00:38satisfied that all of Trinidad and Tobago is suffering from a forex shortage
00:43due to the loss of millions of US once earned by PetroTrain? Prime Minister
00:50Rowley, tell us, six years later are you proud that this nation's energy security
00:55has been destroyed? The MP for St. Augustine says the PNM has caused
00:59widespread suffering as the cost of living has become unbearable for
01:04ordinary citizens. She says children are not getting nutritious meals and it is
01:09affecting their growth and development. MP Khadijah Amin quoted the prices of
01:14basic food items.
01:45The UNC MP stood with their political leader in her
01:51condemnation of cabinet's acceptance of the 120th Salaries Review Commission
01:57report which will see a considerable increase in the salaries of politicians.
02:14It is a spit in your face to give URP and CPIP workers $2 increase in the budget
02:21but one month later you come to give yourself $87,000 a month, 1.1 million
02:29dollars in back pay. The irony the MP insists is there for all to see. When
02:35Scotland told you all to ride your bicycle to work and cook your food on a
02:41coal pot, you all remember that? He will move from $41,000 a month to $53,000 a
02:52month. You all remember Al Rental, Al Recruisal,
02:56Faris Al Rawi? Family living large, 20 million dollars in rent per year. He will
03:08now get an increase of $12,000. And the Urupuj East MP would be the one to
03:14respond to the leader of the house Camille Robinson Regis who commented on
03:19the opposition's rejection of the proposed increases by saying quote if
03:24you have stolen from the public coffers you don't need a wage increase end quote.
03:29I want to tell you tonight you see the UNC, the MPs, the ministers, all of us I
03:35tell you all are professionals, are skilled people with great experience. We
03:41earn our income inside and outside of politics. Many of us are businessmen like
03:49David Lee, consultants, lawyers, doctors, artists and so on that we do not depend
03:56on the Treasury to live. The report of the Salaries Review Commission is not
04:00subject to debate. Arvishi Tiwari, Rupanarayan TV6 News.
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