Jack to visit protesters in PM's constituency

Works Minister Jack Warner is expected to visit an area in Penal Rock road that has been blocked off by protesters who want immediate action to repair the roads and deal with flooding and drainage problems.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said Monday she will find out the nature of the problem and do whatever is possible to help correct them.

The residents uprooted trees and set tyres ablaze on the roadway at different locations along a stretch of road, blocking commuters from getting through.

A spokesman told media councillors of the Penal/Debe Regional Corporation and the Ministry of Works have refused to attend to the problems. "They don’t care about us. We love the Prime Minister but she doing nothing for us. She fixing everywhere else in the country, but she forsaking her own people,” the spokesman told reporters.

The group insisted that the protests will continue until Persad-Bissessar or Warner visit the area.