00:00Both the opposition leader and the MP for Port of Spain South say
00:04requests from their constituents for support have increased exponentially these past few months.
00:12Last year we did eight, we're doing a thousand two this year.
00:15A thousand two hundred children because of the financial work situation
00:23that has now presented itself throughout the country,
00:26but particularly for the constituents of Port of Spain South.
00:29And I thought it very prudent to stretch to see if I can reach as many families as I can
00:35who have children who need to go back out to school.
00:40And due to the unfortunate situation we have found ourselves in, they cannot afford it.
00:45MP Scotland is attributing this hardship in large part to the government's actions
00:50with respect to CPEP and URP.
00:53To the government, I will say, stop playing with people's lives.
01:01I am not into the shenanigans of the who say, he say, she say.
01:07But the effect of the termination with CPEP contractors is that 10,700 persons were put on the breadline.
01:17Up to now, there's been a lot of fury and nothing has been on earth.
01:21You know, file going to DPP, all kind of things happening.
01:25And what has come of it? Zero. And zero will come of it.
01:29But I wouldn't want the people, the workers, to come to zero.
01:33And if this continues, that's exactly what they will come to.
01:36But not if I have anything to do with it.
01:38And not if the leader of the opposition has anything to do with it.
01:40We will fight.
01:42Opposition leader Penelope Beckles is calling on the government to make things right.
01:47Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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