Public servants in Trinidad give govt ultimatum

Public servants in Trinidad and Tobago have given the four-month-old Kamla Persad Bissessar administration until October one to respond to their demand for a new wage structure.



They’ve also warned that they’re prepared to undertake industrial action to meet their demands.



Scores of public workers marched through the streets of the capital, Port of Spain, yesterday, as the leadership of the Public Service Association (PSA) delivered a letter to the Office of the Prime Minister demanding the new wages.



Prime Minister Persad Bissessar is out of the country attending the United Nations General Assembly debate in New York.



PSA president Watson Duke told reporters that the government has until Friday to put a counter proposal on the table.