Richard Lord

Op­po­si­tion forces are ex­pect­ed to con­verge at Wood­ford Square in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day for a ma­jor protest ral­ly against the pro­posed in­crease in prop­er­ty tax­es.

This is ac­cord­ing to deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) Prakash Ra­mad­har. He said UNC deputy leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Ma­yaro MP Win­ston (Gyp­sy) Pe­ters, co­me­di­an Den­nis (Spran­galang) Hall, Na­tion­al Food­crop Farm­ers As­so­ci­a­tion mem­ber Nor­ris De­onar­ine, TOP's leader Ash­worth Jack and oth­ers are sched­uled to ad­dress the ral­ly.

Ra­mad­har said a pe­ti­tion against the pro­posed hike in tax­es would be avail­able for cit­i­zens to sign at the ral­ly. He said all sec­tions of the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty had unit­ed against the pro­posed in­crease in tax­es. Ra­mad­har said that at the end of the ral­ly, a con­firmed course of ac­tion would be de­ter­mined to pre­vent the in­crease in prop­er­ty tax­es in Jan­u­ary 2010. He did not rule out le­gal ac­tion as an op­tion avail­able to cit­i­zens.