Release - ILP Political Leader to meet with disgruntled contractors Independent

Published on March 4 2014 by Ilpttr

Release - ILP Political Leader to meet with disgruntled contractors Independent Liberal Party (ILP) Political Leader Jack Warner will meet on Wednesday night with contractors of the URP Agriculture Now Programme who are having difficulty in being paid for work done for the government during the height of the Chaguanas West and Local Government Elections. The meeting is scheduled for 7pm (Wednesday, February 26, 2014) at the Felicity Community Centre, Maha Sabha Street, Felicity, adjacent to the Invaders Recreation Ground. Other stakeholders are also invited to attend the meeting. The contractors held a peaceful demonstration at the Invaders Ground on Sunday morning to protest government's refusal thus far to pay them. Fifty-nine contractors are owed a total of $116 million for 289 infrastructure projects that included flood mitigation works, access road development and excavation of irrigation ponds between June and September 2013. Over the past several months the contractors have been given a run around for their money by the Ministry of Works, Ministry of Food Production and Office of the Prime Minister. Mr Warner, who met briefly with the contractors during the demonstration, has been asked to intervene in the matter. Respectfully Submitted, Jack Warner Political Leader Independent Liberal Party