After being denied their salaries for five months, the two nurses attached to City Hall’s Public Health Department have finally been paid.
Sandra Hanover, 55 and Sharon Chase, 48, resorted to publicly protesting last month in order to get their salaries.
It was disclosed yesterday that the nurses have been paid in full. Hanover said she was happy to receive her salary. “I wanna thank all the persons who helped me to get my money. I want to thank the Mayor [Hamilton Green], Mr. [Royston] King, even the man in the streets who would pass and ask me, ‘Nursey, you ain’t get paid?’…I am happy,” Hanover said.
Hanover and Chase had said although they began working on August 4th of last year, approval for payments had been held up by acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba.
Questioned at a Statutory Meeting on Monday about the situation, Sooba said she had approved the payment after a back and forth between her and the Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green.
The union representing the duo, the Guyana Local Government Officers Union (GLGOU) had threatened industrial action in December if the nurses waere not paid by the end of 2014.
