St Vincent de Paul workers unpaid for two months
Friday 5 March 2021
Workers of the Centre for Socially Displaced Persons (CSDP) protest over on Independence Square, Port of Spain, Wednesday. Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
Workers for the Centres for Socially Displaced Persons (CSDP) said they have not been paid their salaries in two months and are also awaiting backpay and overtime payments from as far as April of last year.
Speaking to Newsday by phone, an attendant working at the Port of Spain centre, Rounelia Shallow, said this is affecting all workers, including supervisors and managers.
The CSDP is operated by the Society of St Vincent de Paul. She said when staff spoke to administration at the society, they were told that the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services handles the payment of workers for the centre.
Cox seeks legal advice on street dwellers
Minister of Social Development and Family Services Donna Cox. FILE PHOTO -
MINISTER of Social Development Donna Cox said she is awaiting legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General on approaches to Trinidad and Tobago’s 441 street dwellers.
She was speaking to reporters at a brief function at her ministry on St Vincent Street, Port of Spain on Friday.
Minutes before she had hosted a high-level stakeholders consultation on street dwelling at nearby Cabildo Chambers on St Vincent Street. Those attending included Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh and Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram.
Cox: MPs to distribute Xmas food cards
Minister of Social Development and Family Services Donna Cox -
MINISTER of Social Development Donna Cox on Friday presented Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh with 200 Christmas food cards for needy individuals in his St Joseph constituency, at her ministry on St Vincent Street, Port of Spain.
“This is for the vulnerable in his constituency,” she said.
Cox told reporters each of Trinidad and Tobago’s 41 MPs will get cards to give their needy constituents. Each card is worth $550. Asked how they would be distributed, Cox said MPs, their staff and their local councillors would know the people in the constituency who were in need especially during the Christmas period.