PRESS
RELEASE : MASS
MEETING AT RIENZI COMPLEX
All
Trinidad General Workers’ Trade Union in collaboration with the
Former Cane Farmers Association and the Sugar Boilers Association of
Trinidad and Tobago are inviting all Ex-Caroni workers, Cane Farmers
and their families to a mass meeting to be held at the Rienzi
Complex on Sunday 8th
December, 2013 at 2:00 pm.
The
theme of the meeting shall be the continuing betrayal of the
Ex-Caroni workers, Cane Farmers and their families more than ten
years after the callous and brutal shutdown of the Sugar Industry.
Issues
to be discussed shall be:
- The outstanding lease and land distribution of two acre agricultural plots and Residential lots to Ex-Caroni workers
- Outstanding cash compensation to be paid to Cane Farmers for economic losses
- The Breach of the Deyalsingh Judgment by previous and present Government
- The Caroni Green Initiative and the effect on small farmers of Trinidad and Tobago
- The sweetener Loan
The
meeting is open to former cane farmers, Caroni (1975) Ltd employees
and their families.
The
main speakers include;
- Basdeo Panday on the issues of governance
- Nirvan Maharaj on the land distribution exercise and the Caroni Green Initiative
- Thomas Sotillio on the Cane Farmers Issue
- Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj on the issues facing the Cane Farmers
- Rakeeb Mohammed on the Sweetener Loan
- Mikela Panday on the youth perspective
For
more information about this event, call Thomas Sotillio at 712-0025
or Nirvan Maharaj at 725-0403
All
Media are invited.
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