?Mi­nor­i­ty Leader in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Ash­worth Jack says hun­dreds of work­ers of the Com­mu­ni­ty En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) are be­ing told to open­ly sup­port the rul­ing Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment or be dis­missed.

In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, the po­lit­i­cal leader of the To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple (TOP) said the work­ers had com­plained about the ad­verse con­di­tions un­der which they had to work.

He said they were told to wear red PNM T-shirts and al­so to put PNM flags on their cars, dur­ing a ral­ly sched­uled for To­ba­go on Thurs­day. But PNM sources in the THA have dis­missed this claim.