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VIDEO STORY: Solid Waste Workers Down Tools Over Back Pay And Conditions As GM Defends Rollout

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Updated April 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM

VIDEO STORY: Solid Waste Workers Down Tools Over Back Pay And Conditions As GM Defends Rollout

Frustration boiled over at the National Solid Waste Management Authority today as workers downed tools, demanding long-overdue back pay, improved conditions at the landfill, and sweeping changes in leadership — while management insists progress is already underway and tensions stem from misunderstandings

Solid Waste Workers Protest over Back Pay and Working Conditions

Comments

6 reader responses

Ryan Wedding

Big election season yall protesting?

Juju Bee

These people are very hardworking and they keep complaining about bad treatment and pay and benefits and it seems nothing is being done to address that

Glen

Where is shermin Beek Charles

Uppites

Bunch of UPP people that there

Informed citizen

The issue makes no sense. Money floating in antigua like foam on water and people are owed ?

Smh

They did that on purpose