SSA Workers: Health concerns just one of several issues in need of resolution
Channel: Barbados Today
Date: 2024-03-04

A shocking discovery of infested drinking water tanks at the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) Mangrove Pond landfill in St Thomas led to a work stoppage on Friday amid workers’ fear their health could be compromised by the latest in a series of issues there.

When the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) went to fill two potable water tanks at the landfill on Wednesday, the workers discovered a severe infestation of millipedes and hog lice.

The workers also reported that there was a “cohobblopot of issues” unrelated to the latest health hazard that they were also pressing management to address but it had become the proverbial last straw.

Terry Carter, the spokesman for the Unity Workers’ Union-affiliated landfill workers spoke to a Barbados TODAY team at the site.

📸: Haroon Greenidge