As the labour movement ramps up its plans for a national strike Foreign Affairs and Communication Minister Dr Surujrattan Rambachan is warning citizens to ensure that they don't put Trinidad & Tobago in the hands of multilateral organisations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Rambachan was speaking at Emancipation Day celebrations at the Waterfront Esplanade in Port-of-Spain.
The minister was responding to threats by the labour movement over the issue of a five per cent cap on public sector wage negotiations.
He urged citizens to do everything they can to prevent the country from being enslaved by multi-lateral financial institutions or where "we become so selfish to our own ends that we deny citizens from being allowed to come out of poverty.”
Rambachan urged citizens to think of the poor and the dispossessed in society. “Let us be willing to give up a little so that everyone in this country can enjoy prosperity,” he said.
He also called for people to hold on toi their traditions and values and not be seduced by imported mass culture. Rambachan said citizens should seek to rediscover their traditions for the benefit the entire nation.
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