Scrap iron deal­ers are now able to ap­ply for their li­cens­es, fol­low­ing a de­ci­sion by the Li­cens­ing Com­mit­tee at the Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trates Court, yes­ter­day.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion, the group’s Pres­i­dent, Al­lan Fer­gu­son, con­firms that all stake­hold­ers in the Scrap Iron and Sal­vage In­dus­try can now ap­ply for li­cens­es, as the Com­mit­tee has grant­ed the As­so­ci­a­tion the nor­mal One (1) year li­cense re­quired.

In the re­lease, Mr Fer­gu­son lob­bied again for the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try to work on the As­so­ci­a­tion’s be­half, to en­sure they would even­tu­al­ly be able to re­ceive li­cens­es for a five (5) year pe­ri­od, which he says is a more prac­ti­cal op­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to Al­lan Fer­gu­son, such a de­vel­op­ment would elim­i­nate any re­oc­cur­rence of the dis­com­fort and loss of busi­ness that the As­so­ci­a­tion and its mem­bers un­der­went, from De­cem­ber 2018 through April 2019.

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