INSULTING!
That was how newly re-elected third vice-president of the Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU), Charles Morris, has summed up the developments at Combermere School where he teaches.
Addressing the BSTU meeting at Solidarity House yesterday afternoon, Morris queried why guttering was being installed, wells sealed and industrial cleaning undertaken at the Waterford, St Michael plant, when the principal and some stakeholders said environmental problems affecting students and teachers last term were as a result of a smell from a tree in the acacia family located in the nearby Waterford Bottom.
“The most common sense thing to do is to remove the tree. The tree has not been removed, but all the work is going on around the school. Isn’t it insulting to us? What are you saying about human beings? These are people, human beings, that you employ and you are exposing them to all sorts of danger,” Morris contended. (YB)
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