Prescod: Do not neglect the poor

Government backbencher Trevor Prescod has voiced concern over what he described as the marginalisation of the poor in national discourse, while urging a stronger commitment to empowering small, black tradesmen on Government construction projects.

In a wide-ranging and impassioned address in Parliament yesterday, Prescod spoke about the personal cost of advocating for socially uncomfortable truths, even as he called attention to what he deemed inferior construction quality on some Chinese-run housing developments.