The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) re­turned to Fyz­abad yes­ter­day with An­cel Ro­get de­clar­ing vic­to­ry in labour’s long strug­gle to re­move the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) from gov­ern­ment. Stand­ing on the JTUM plat­form at Char­lie King Junc­tion, the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al called on the new ad­min­is­tra­tion to now claw back the 47 per cent salary in­crease grant­ed to for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, which al­lows him to re­ceive a $1 mil­lion pen­sion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, who made his­to­ry in 2010 as T&T’s first fe­male Prime Min­is­ter, had an­oth­er mo­men­tous mo­ment yes­ter­day—stand­ing on the Joint Trade Union Move­ment’s (JTUM) Labour Day plat­form at Char­lie King Junc­tion in Fyz­abad.

For­mer pres­i­dent of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) Wat­son Duke has praised to­day’s trade union lead­ers for keep­ing the labour move­ment alive and giv­ing work­ers re­newed hope.

For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs Renu­ka Sagram­s­ingh-Sook­lal says her at­tor­neys are re­view­ing state­ments made about her by Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein in Par­lia­ment on Wednes­day.