Fifty-four work­ers, re­trenched re­cent­ly from the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, will con­tin­ue to be em­ployed un­til Sep­tem­ber, un­der a plan which es­tranged UNC deputy leader Jack Warn­er will dis­cuss to­day with Ch­agua­nas May­or Natasha Navas. Warn­er, who was sched­uled to re­turn home from Nige­ria last night, spoke about the plan by tele­phone yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, dur­ing his New York stopover en route home. Warn­er said he would meet at 1 pm to­day with Navas on the work­ers' sit­u­a­tion, af­ter her con­fir­ma­tion, last week, that the 54 work­ers had to be re­trenched, due to lack of fund­ing.

They were ex­pect­ed to be out of work ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly, since the cor­po­ra­tion had ex­haust­ed fund­ing for their dai­ly wages. How­ev­er, Warn­er said yes­ter­day: "We have a plan to tide them over, and I've been dis­cussing it with the may­or re­cent­ly. All of the work­ers will be em­ployed un­til Sep­tem­ber. "The de­tails of the plan will be re­vealed af­ter I meet with the May­or at 1 pm and al­so with the work­ers at 2 pm to­mor­row (to­day)." Warn­er did not say whether he would see Ch­agua­nas deputy may­or Or­lan­do Nages­sar, whom he ac­cused, last week, of mak­ing life dif­fi­cult for the new Navas. He al­so took is­sue with Nages­sar for al­low­ing UNC leader Bas­deo Pan­day to use Nages­sar's cor­po­ra­tion of­fice for meet­ing con­stituents from Warn­er's Ch­agua­nas West con­stituen­cy.

Warn­er re­it­er­at­ed yes­ter­day, "I am com­ing at him (Nages­sar) in ways unimag­in­able." Warn­er said he was prepar­ing for the "moth­er of all pub­lic meet­ings" (sic) on Fri­day night, when he would launch his own con­stituen­cy of­fice in Pan­day's Cou­va North seat. He said he was not an­tic­i­pat­ing any trou­ble, since he had held a meet­ing there be­fore and it was very peace­ful. "We have enough se­cu­ri­ty," he added. Warn­er would al­so meet on Thurs­day with the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture, re­gard­ing his of­fer to spon­sor fire­works for the Di­vali Na­gar this year.