Cases of residents verbally and physically abusing workers of the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) will be turned over to the police.
Minister of the Environment and National Beautification, Adrian Forde, sounded the warning as he launched the i
Cases of residents verbally abusing and physically assaulting Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) workers and illegal dumping are being turned over to police.Minister of the Environment and National Beautification Adrian Forde sounded the warning as he launched the island’s 45th Clean and Green site at the Montgomery Pavilion, Cave Hill, St. Michael, recently.Over the last few weeks, there have been several complaints of abuse against SSA workers while carrying out their duties.And declaring that would not be tolerated, Forde said the Barbados Police Service has already been engaged to deal with these matters.“The attacks on Sanitation Service Authority workers will not continue under my watch. The police are already involved because this is a serious situation,” Forde emphasised.He pointed out that while most people were still asleep, SSA workers were on the job ensuring that the country remained clean to keep health threats under control.
Management of the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) is once again cautioning Barbadians to refrain from using threatening behaviour towards sanitation workers as they carry out their duties.Public relations officer at the SSA Carl Alff Padmore repeated the plea to Barbados TODAY as he related an incident in the Mangrove St Philip area on Monday, where a resident allegedly acted in a threatening manner when told by SSA workers about they way in which they had handled the dumping of cooking oil, which had splashed them during their duties.Padmore, who also spoke last month about an alleged assault on a worker by a store owner in Bridgetown, said that the rise in incidents of confrontation was deeply worrying.
The Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) is still dealing with issues of noncompliance from members of the public. According to Public Relations Officer Carl Padmore, while there was no increase in assaults against workers on duty, the public was still not cooperating with workers, as instances of people putting human and animal faeces into bags for collection were still frequent. “This was up to yesterday [Wednesday] in the Christ Church area …
It was heartening to read that Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) workers will be among the recipients of the Humanitarian Awards on Sunday, November 20 at Kensington Oval.The hard workers of the SSA are more than deserving of this accolade and much, much more.Chairman of the SSA Ramon Alleyne disclosed today that 601 SSA employees will be given $500 each from the Pandemic Levy Fund during the Government’s COVID-19 Humanitarian Awards Ceremony for frontline workers who were not included in the first event.The first set of awards was given out earlier this year, fittingly on National Heroes Day. The ceremony saw average Barbadians, public and private sector workers, local and international agencies and organisations acknowledged for their contributions during the height of the battle against COVID-19.