Jack unhappy with how T&T treats the poor and elderly

Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner expressed deep concern over the weekend about the way that Trinidad and Tobago treats the poor and elderly.

He was speaking at Saith Park, Chaguanas on Saturday at the opening of a Financial Literacy Programme and Exposition, hosted by Central Bank.

“Forgive me if I spend some time trying to understand, first of all, why you should manage your future when no one seems to have managed your past, and there seems to be little concern about your present,” he said.

“When you look every day and you read what’s happening at Clico and the HCU (Hindu Credit Union), you have to really ask yourself, colleagues, what reason does anyone have to have today to be concerned about managing their future,” he said.

“People have gone to their graves and have lost their money," he said. And the Works minister asked: "What recourse do they have, what redress do they have?”

Warner said citizens bombard him daily with questions for which he does not have answers. 

“I ask myself every day why is it that the first to suffer in this country are the poor and downtrodden...Why everywhere I go over the country the story is the same, people are losing their homes, their businesses,” Warner said.

He spoke of shabby treatment that people receive from all around, noting that when people come to visit him at his constituency office wreckers tow away their vehicles.

He said, “The people who could least afford it are the ones who today are being given the rawest deal of all.”