“Tell me we get paid since the 22nd of December last year and to date we can’t get no money. How we can survive? We have children to support, we already working for lil bit money and now we not even getting the money,” said the frustrated mother of three.
The woman is a sweeper cleaner in the county of Berbice and she said the cleaners at her school and those nearby have not been paid. The pain in her voice is evident.
Sweeper cleaners have been receiving the smelly end of the stick for years and although government, in recent times, has indicated that it is addressing the situation, this marginalised section of workers still suffer.