The Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) has is­sued a state­ment wel­com­ing the ap­point­ment of Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj as Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism.

The As­so­ci­a­tion al­so wel­comed the ap­point­ment of Dr. Neil Go­sine as Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the min­istry.

Ac­cord­ing to the state­ment, TTSI­DA Pres­i­dent Al­lan Fer­gu­son and mem­bers of the As­so­ci­a­tion have had a long­stand­ing work­ing re­la­tion­ship with the Min­istry of Trade, de­scribed as the line min­istry for the scrap iron in­dus­try.

The As­so­ci­a­tion stat­ed, “Just as we worked tire­less­ly with past min­is­ters un­der dif­fer­ent gov­ern­ments, we pledge our com­mit­ment and sup­port to work­ing with Mr. Ma­haraj and his team in the best in­ter­est of our in­dus­try and the coun­try.”

The state­ment al­so in­di­cat­ed that there are on­go­ing is­sues af­fect­ing the scrap iron in­dus­try. The As­so­ci­a­tion said it hopes to meet with the min­is­ter and his team to ad­dress these mat­ters in the short­est pos­si­ble time.

“We look for­ward to fruit­ful dis­cus­sions and pos­i­tive re­sults in the com­ing weeks,” the re­lease con­clud­ed.