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One Opposition MP responds to the Leader of the House of Representatives who said thieves don't need an increase in salary, as she commented on the Opposition's rejection of the proposed salary increases for politicians. Here's what he had to say.

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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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