A second Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) march against corruption is expected to come off today. Head of JTUM and president general of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) Ancel Roget is expected to lead the protesters out of Woodford Square just after 2 pm today. The marchers have police permission to hold a round-up rally at the Brian Lara Promenade at the end of the march.
Police are expected out in their numbers along corners and walking before, behind and alongside marchers. Roget has labelled the protest action as a “March against Korruption,” playing on the Prime Minister’s name, Kamla Persad-Bissessar. In several interviews and even an address to the nation on Wednesday night, Roget said Persad-Bissessar must accept responsibility for her role in the state of the country.
He has listed the LifeSport fiasco, the unresolved E-mailgate and “prisongate” investigations and the mismanagement of state enterprises among his list of corrupt activities. Since the march was announced last month, Roget and his supporters have been making visits throughout T&T trying to gather support for the action.
Union members yesterday said they were aware CEPEP workers were being recruited to form part of an anti-march group against the union-led protesters, but up to late yesterday several checks could not verify that information.