Employees at Esso Service Station, at Paynes Bay, St James say they were left in shock when management informed them on Independence Day that they were ceasing operations at the station. “They gave us no prior notice,” a staff member said, adding that Tonya Trotman, the chief relations officer of Parkwood Enterprises, the company which leased the station from SOL Petroleum, delivered the news to them around 3 p.m. in …