IDB fulfills its obligations to Govt

Staff at the unit have been complaining that they have been unpaid for months with some of them going without salaries for as many as three months.

They say that they have held several meetings with the project manager of the project, which is funded by the IDB and the bank has paid all the money it was due to pay for the support of the project so they cannot understand why they are having problems to get paid their salaries.

A spokesman said some of the workers do not even have current contracts although every week they are promised that they will get new contracts.

The spokesman said that in the case of some of the workers, their contracts expired on November 1 and they have been promised renewals every week since then but nothing has been done. In addition, some thirty to forty workers are on three month contracts but have not yet been paid for the first part of the contract.

With Christmas just a day away, the workers say they are in a pitiful situation with some of then not even having food in their homes and unable to send their children to school.

Some of them are students themselves.

“We have bills to pay, rent to pay. And now we face Christmas without pay. There will be no joy in many homes in this season of goodwill,” said one employee in a statement to Newsday.

Efforts to contact Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Stuart Young, on the issue yesterday were unsuccessful as calls to his cellphone went directly to voicemail and there was no response to text messages.