(Trinidad Express) Anger has turned to pleasure as the Emancipation Support Committee (ESC) yesterday received TT$2 million with another TT$2 million promised from the State for this year’s Emancipation celebrations.
Speaking with the Express after receiving the first cheque for TT$2 million from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday, ESC chairman Khafra Kambon said he was pleased as the $4 million was what they had asked for.
“We have gotten what we requested and we didn’t expect more than what we requested. The Minister assured us that he is working on getting additional funds and the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism sent us a letter indicating we will be getting $2 million from the Ministry,” he said.
“This afternoon I enquired at the Ministry and I was told that it (the cheque) was being prepared. So if it doesn’t come this afternoon it will come in the morning,” Kambon said.
On July 24, the ESC held an emergency press conference at the Lidj Yasu Omowale Village at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain, to announce that it had refused a TT$1 million cheque from the government for Emancipation celebrations on the grounds that it was not enough.
