While TTEC blames CEPEP a senior citizen suffers

THE EDITOR: While the workers of the Community-based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) have done a good job in keeping the environment clean, they should be more careful when setting fires near to people’s homes. They recently set fire to some bushes next to 24, Allan Lucky Street, La Romaine causing damage to an electrical pole as well as to a major telephone line. This has caused great discomfort to a senior citizen who is now unable to get her telephone repaired. The telephone company has promised to repair her phone if the electricity pole is replaced. However, the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) has refused to replace the pole because it claims that CEPEP is to be blamed and, therefore, must pay for the new pole.

It’s over a month now and the senior citizen is still without her telephone. The group Citizens For A Better Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) is trying to highlight her plight so that someone in authority will take the necessary action to replace the damaged pole. Is this the way to treat a woman who has made an invaluable contribution to her country?

HARRACK BALRAMSINGH
President, CBTT
La Romaine