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Ceron Richards –
Union leaders are now concerned by the growing restlessness among its members who are convinced their Push Back movement to demand a higher wage offer in ongoing negotiations with the Chief Personnel Officer will be ineffective. They say public servants have had enough and are planning to bypass their unions to take matters into their own hands to get a fair wage increase.
In a joint press conference at the Public Services Association (PSA) headquarters in Port of Spain on Monday, Prison Officers’ Association president Ceron Richards and Fire Service Association president Leo Ramkissoon warned that, based on workers’ level of frustration, there is a rude awakening coming to government.
PSA leader Leroy Baptiste said the unions would have no control over what happens next.
“We have assessed the situation and now we have to look at the next move because our members are becoming extremely agitated and they all want us to do something about it. This will end when workers are able to maintain their standard of living. Any attempt to call use slaves or use the law as a whip, we shall respond.”
Richards said his members were deeply aggrieved and warned the government of a possible revolution.
“There is no strategy here, all we have is members of the PSA, Prison officers and other unions that are despondent and are willing. This is not a plan generated by the various organisations. This is members who have reached the breaking point.
“They have reached the end. They are seeing the disparity in how they are treated and how parliamentarians treat themselves. They would have maintained significant increases over the years putting their pension on par with higher salaries and consolidated allowances to bump up their salaries.
“This is the breaking point, our members are saying they will take this no more. TT will seriously be disrupted.
“I say to the Finance Minister that, no matter what you do, members of the protective services are not going to accept that. They are not doing to succumb to an 18 per cent reduction in wages.
Asked what his union would describe as a fair and satisfactory offer, Richard said it must be one that will allow public servants to live comfortably.
He said the government’s inability to offer a fair wage increase is a recipe for disaster in TT.
“I’m speaking this strongly because our members are saying, hearing and telling us TT will change very soon.”
He further accused the government of pushing around, undermining and ignoring essential workers because they were bound by law that prevents them from taking industrial action.
Fire Service Association Leo Ramkissoon said his members were also angry and disappointed by the government’s treatment of workers.
Contacted for comment, Acting Commissioner of Prisons Deopersad Ramoutar said he was not worried by the union leader’s “sabre rattling.”
“It’s nothing for me to be alarmed about. That’s just industrial language, and it is common language or vocabulary from that kind of forum.
“Things are always in place for the proper operational personnel. We have officers on standby, our dedicated officers will not walk off the job.
“The union leader has a role to play and, yes, the prison service has a lot of room for improvement. There are due processes to get things done.
“When there is a lack of resources, we have to understand that not all have to be the ones we need can be given at this point. My officers are very dedicated, and hardworking, and we go beyond the call of duty.
While Ramoutar supported the desire for better working conditions and a fair salary, he was against any move that would interfere with operations at the prison and compromise the safety of the country.
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Pricilla Ramcharitar, 38, –
A 38-year-old woman died on the spot in an accident over the weekend that left her husband and two young children with injuries.
Pricilla Ramcharitar, of Perseverance Village in Carapichaima, was the mother of five.
Her common-law husband, Damian Straughn, 37, and their seven-year-old son, Shevon Straughn, were discharged from the San Fernando hospital on Monday.
But the couple’s four-year-old son, Shiva Straughn, remained warded. His left leg was broken.
Two other people, Damian’s nephew Shawn Hosein, 15, and a co-worker Shiva Joseph, 20, also survived the crash. Hosein was still hospitalised with a broken leg and Joseph had been discharged.
The crash happened on Sunday before 11 am in Exchange Village, Couva on a road that is in poor condition. The road, relatives said, links Waterloo Road to Exchange Village.
Damian Straughn, a construction worker, was driving a Toyota Hilux on his way to meet his employer at Roystonia in Couva. Ramcharitar was in the front seat. The others were in the back seat.
They had plans to go to Tyrico Beach together.
On the way, Straughn hit a pothole, causing the van to flip four times before landing on its side on a tree stump.
“The two Shivas were thrown out. Pricilla died in the front seat. We heard he was driving fast, and the road has many potholes,” Damian’s sister, Hosein’s mother, Shelly-Ann Jackson, said. She spoke to Newsday on Monday at the family’s home.
“Damian was discharged today but had to stay with his son on the ward. My son is also a minor, so we are taking turns staying with them. My son had to crawl out of the van. He has spine injuries. I was in the hospital with my nephew (Shevon), but he came home today.”
Sumentra Straughn, the mother-in-law of Pricilla Ramcharitar, who was killed in an accident on Sunday in Couva. – Marvin Hamilton
Shevon was asleep on a nearby couch.
Ramcharitar’s mother-in-law Sumentra Straughn, 73, said the incident has further devastated the already grieving family.
Sumentra’s grandson Dillon Daniel Straughn, 24, of the same address, was shot dead on April 30 at Waterloo Road in Bank Village, Carapichaima. A man is charged, and the case is pending.
“We just paid for his funeral. We have to make up the money to pay for Pricilla’s funeral. We are still trying to get over Dillon’s murder, and now we are dealing with this,” Sumentra said.
About eight years ago, Ramcharitar’s 17-day-old newborn died from natural causes.
Sumentra called on drivers to drive with care on the road to prevent the loss of lives.
PC Nanan of the Couva police station is leading investigations.
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El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el martes 8 muertos y 321 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,909.
Hay 263 adultos hospitalizados y 58 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 8 al 21 de agosto de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está a 27.47 por ciento.
Se reportan 8 defunciones adicionales a causa del COVID-19. Unas 321 personas están hospitalizadas; 263 adultos y 58 pediátricos. Al medio día se ofrece una actualización de los datos que incluye el status de vacunación; https://t.co/8KaFLZcGta
— Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico (@desaludpr) August 23, 2022
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Agentes federales, la Fuerza de Choque y el Negociado de Drogas de la Policía de Puerto Rico se encuentran en el residencial Juana Matos en Cataño realizando algunas 8 órdenes de allanamiento por armas, drogas y delitos.
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Varios artistas han compartido a través de las redes sociales una publicación en la que se hace un llamado a protestar contra LUMA, companía a cargo de la transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica en el país.
Entre las celebridades que han compartido la imagen se encuentran el exponente urbano Residente y la cantautora pop Kany García.
El lunes, legisladores de cuatro de las cinco delegaciones representadas en la Cámara de Representantes, así como el independiente Luis Raúl Torres, le hicieron un llamado hoy, lunes, a la ciudadanía a lanzarse a la calle para reclamar la cancelación del contrato otorgado a LUMA Energy.
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— Kany Garcia (@kanygarcia) August 23, 2022
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Dennis Nero
An HDC worker was killed in San Juan on Tuesday morning.Police reported that at about 6 am Dennis Nero was standing on Saddle Road, San Juan, near the Croisee, when another man walked up and shot him in the head.
Police said Nero collapsed and died at the scene as the killer ran off along Saddle Road and escaped.
The murder happened between the San Juan Sub Station and San Juan Police Station.
In an unrelated incident, police are yet to identify two men killed last Friday.
A farmer on his way to tend to his crops at Guave Road, Chaguaramas, stumbled on the bodies of two men whose hands had been bound and who had been shot.
One of them, who was fair-skinned and of African descent, was wearing a white T-shirt, black shorts and black-and-white Nike sneakers. The other, of East Indian descent, was wearing a green T-shirt and cream short pants.
Police said there were no identifiable markings or tattoos on either body
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Darryl Jessop
Two men were killed 30 minutes apart on Tuesday morning in Arima on their way to work.Police reported that at about 4 am, Darryl Jessop, an employee of Swissport, was found dead after they responded to a report of gunshots.
They said residents of Mt Zion, Maturita, heard the gunshots and called the police, who found Jessop’s body.
Jessop lived at Tumpuna Road, Cumuto and was staying with relatives in the area.In the other shooting, half an hour later, police said 57-year-old Brian Carter was found dead after residents of Hoyte Avenue, Arima, heard gunshots.
Carter worked at Coca-Cola and lived about 200 metres from where he was killed.
Police said they are unable to say if the two murders are related or were committed by the same person/people.
The only known connection between the two was that they were both wearing red T-shirts.
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The Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Driving Schools (NADS), believes implementing a demerit system for errant drivers could help reduce road accidents.
Kingson Jean explained that the driving licence demerit system has been on the law books in Saint Lucia for many years.
And he believes that with its implementation a lot of individuals would be careful how they drive on the roads, knowing that they would attract demerits for traffic offences.
“No one wants to lose their driver’s licence or have their driver’s licence suspended,” Jean told St Lucia Times.
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He feels that the implementation of the demerit system should be expedited, resulting in improved road safety.
The NADS official said he was not sure what was holding up the process.
“I think that’s a question for the Chief Transport Officer to answer,” Jean told St Lucia Times.
However, he told St Lucia Times he believes the problem lies with the courts and the Transport Department.
“If the courts find people guilty for traffic offences that information has to go to the Chief Transport Officer so she could have those points deducted from the person’s licence,” Jean stated.
“I am not so certain if the system is at Transport and they can deduct those points now,” he told St Lucia Times.
The NADS Public Relations Officer spoke against the backdrop of concerns over a spate of road accidents that have claimed the lives of fourteen people so far this year.
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Nubosidad y aguaceros se movió a través de las aguas locales en horas de la noche, pero algunos de estos se movieron a través de sectores del sureste, este y noreste, incluyendo el municipio de Culebra.
En general, el resto de la isla observó tiempo mayormente estable con temperaturas mínimas en los medios 70s a través de las áreas costeras y en los medios 60s a través de las montañas y valles. El viento estuvo desde el este-sureste a menos de 10 mph con variación en brisa terrestre.
Las condiciones del tiempo se espera que estén tranquilas en horas de la mañana a través de la región con una mezcla de nubosidad y sol. Entre horas avanzadas de la mañana y luego en la tarde, la cercanía de una vaguada en los niveles altos, el calor diurno y la brisa marina resultarán en aguaceros y tronadas.
Esta actividad podría resultar en inundaciones urbanas y de pequeños riachuelos, especialmente a lo largo de la Cordillera Central, incluyendo el área metropolitana de San Juan. Los índices de calor sobrepasaran los 100s grados Fahrenheit en horas avanzadas de la mañana a la tarde. El viento continuará del este al este-sureste entre 10 a 15 mph.
Condiciones marítimas permanecerán tranquilas con oleaje por debajo de los 5 pies y vientos entre 10 y 15 nudos. Sin embargo, actividad de tronadas de la tarde podría ocasionar condiciones marítimas peligrosas a través de las aguas locales y los navegantes deberán ejercer precaución.
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