Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Min­is­ter Ja­mal Mo­hammed said yes­ter­day he was pleased to see cit­i­zens ex­er­cis­ing their right to as­so­ciate and even protest in T&T. He made the state­ment when con­tact­ed for com­ment on the im­pact of yes­ter­day's march and ral­ly in Port-of-Spain by mem­bers of the Joint Trade Union Move­ment. Work­ers took to the streets to protest what they claimed was the lack of good gov­er­nance in T&T.

Mo­hammed said he wit­nessed part of the demon­stra­tion and saw peo­ple ex­er­cis­ing their de­mo­c­ra­t­ic right. "They still have the free­dom in Trinidad and To­ba­go to as­so­ciate," he said. He said the event went well. "There were no ma­jor hic­cups, peo­ple were able to ex­press their views, it was a peace­ful march and I con­grat­u­late all those who par­tic­i­pat­ed in it." Mo­hammed said he could not say what im­pact it had on the schools across the coun­try as teach­ers al­so stayed away from class­es in sup­port of the protest ac­tion.