MSJ motorcade for retrenched workers

Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah has announced a two-day motorcade to be held on Sunday and Monday to highlight the social ills plaguing the nation, including the plight of retrenched workers.

The motorcade is expected to begin on Sunday at Point Fortin and wind its way through several districts, including Santa Flora, Fyzabad and Marabella, ending at the OWTU headquarters, Paramount Building , San Fernando.

The second leg will begin in San Fernando and end at the Nelson Mandela Park in Port of Spain.

He made the announcement during a media conference at the party’s Royal Road, San Fernando headquarters today.

“People in power abuse that power," he said. "That abuse of power manifests itself in the absolute lack of care and concern about the wellbeing of citizens. whether it is the roads in Tabaquite, or whether it is the problem of high and rising food prices and the cost of living and the fact that wages and salaries have not gone up in the last four or five years, whether it is the issue of higher fuel prices, the condition of our nation’s schools, the prison system, the hospitals, which are in trouble and which will be under greater trouble with the closure of the Augustus Long hospital.

Those in power, he charged, "just do not care about how people live, they don’t know how people are making out day to day. So many people just barely survive from pay week to pay week,. They don’t know how the majority of our people are living and struggling to survive. And so the MSJ is going to do something about that by having a two-day motorcade starting on Sunday morning.”

Asked whether this was part of the party’s campaign strategy to contest next year’s local government election, Abdulah said the party had not yet begun selecting candidates.

“No, we haven’t gone into that mode (of campaigning) as yet. This motorcade was not precipitated by elections, but is precipitated by our wanting to identify with problems that people have in their community. It is to let people know that the MSJ is very much alive and is a serious political party, and is their only option going forward.”