RESIDENTS ALREADY dealing with erratic garbage collection are taking the announcement of a strike by the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) in stride.
Today, president of the National Union of Public Workers Akanni McDowall announced they had called out the SSA for phase two of their industrial action against government.
This means there will be no collection of garbage or burials for the rest of the week – in the first instance.
Across Barbados, there are already piles of garbage in some neighbourhoods, like the one above in Middle Lane, Eden Lodge, St Michael.
Reacting to the news of the strike, several people on the Nation Barbados’ Facebook page said they were already dealing with poor collection and the strike would have little effect on them.
Kashera Forde: Wait!!! I swear them on strike every since cause garbage being left on the street for days, sometimes a week before it is collected. I’m confused now!
Ashanti Padilla: “As a result, there will be no collection of garbage or burials.” No one will feel the backlash. Garbage is already collected once every two weeks. Sometimes 3 weeks go buy and no collection. Not a very effective way to prove a point.
Carson Cadogan: Well this is no big thing. Garbage gets pick up in my area once a month anyway.
Lorna Watson Deukett: I hope that you all are going to pay the funeral homes the money for the extra days they have to store a body if they cant be buried and as for the garbage collectors ……….. ammmmmm you mean you all were working? My side of the world must be the forgotten land then. Stupse. (SAT)