The clock is ticking on overtime at the Sanitation Service Department (SSA) as, very soon, it could be a thing of the past.
Minister of Environment Trevor Prescod said this was one of the cost-cutting measures being implemented to assist the cash-strapped, state-owned entity.
Speaking to THE NATION during a CARICOM meeting on climate change at the Radisson Aquatica on Wednesday, he said in the past, they had increased the number of shifts to three to try to rid the streets of garbage.
“Sometimes there were three shifts a week . . . . That was up from sometimes one or might go to two, but it depended . . . . But in addition to that, we had to even go into the process of overtime which we are now cutting back on that because of the present situation and the Government’s finances,” he said. (TG)
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