The leader of a local trade union is taking a case for non-payment of gratuity and pension to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Head of the Unity Trade Union (UTU) Senator Caswell Franklyn said today he will be writing the IMF shortly to get clarity on a matter in which he said the non-payment of these entitlements to a former Transport Board worker is being attributed to the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) programme, which is supported by the fund.
“I was in talks with a woman who was very distraught. She worked 33 and a third years for the Government, and now the time comes to get her pension and gratuity, they are saying at Government Headquarters that this BERT programme . . . it can’t be paid,” Franklyn told Barbados TODAY.
“I am going to write the IMF on it. Cause if they are blaming the IMF for this woman not getting her gratuity and pension, I am going to write the IMF,” the union leader insisted.
He argued that this is a debt to Government which is not supposed to be carrying any debt under the IMF loan arrangement.
“This lady worked at the Transport Board . . . and they are saying the Transport Board doesn’t have enough money to pay. But the Transport Board belongs to the Government, so the Government has got to pay it,” he stressed.
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Pay the woman. Wanna could be so harsh to people? This suppose to be a government that cares?
the woman will be paid
similar situations happened at bwa and cbc.
caswell just seeking attention.
If the woman will be paid, when will she be paid? You cant go in the supermarket or tell the electric company that i getting pension next 3 months or next year.
the person that will get the woman paid her dues asap is the minister of finance of Barbados, not anyone at the imf.
Franklyn…. is the Government responsible for the Payment of wages and salaries at the Transport Board?
Franklyn needs to go to the A and E if he wants attention,
….and who is YOU that feel you can just write an INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTION and demand answers about a BOARDS problem.
You should Fruendel instead and ask how we got where we are now. The leader of the opposition has to reign in this loose cannon
I WANT TO KNOW WHERE WAS THIS BIG C****** FRANKLYN ALL THIS TIME, THE DLP WAS IN POWER AND NOT ONCE DID HE STOOD UP IN THE PRESS TO SAY A WORD, MR FRANKLYN, MAYBE THE WOMAN WOULD HAVE GOTTEN HER MONEY FASTER IF THE (YOUR FRIENDS) THE DLP DID SINK CLOSE TO 95 MILLION BAJAN DOLLARS FROM THE NIS IN THE FOUR SEASON PROJECT WHICH WASNT A GOVERNMENT PROJECT, WITH NO SURE RETURNS, AND ALSO TAKING ADDITION MONEY FROM THE NIS TO BAIL OUT CLICO WHICH AGAIN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH GOVERNMENT, YOU REMEMBER DAVID THOMPSON DID THAT MR FRANKLYN, THEM GOT THE COUNTRY IN THIS POSITION, YOUR DEEP POCKET FRIENDS,
MR FRANKLYN YOU WANT TO WRITE THE IMF, WHY NOT WRITE THE DEVIL DOWN IN HELL, TELL HE BOUT THE CLICO MONEY DAVID THOMPSON AND THE DLP USE FOR FOUR SEASONS, AND CLICO, ALONG WITH LEROY PARRIS, TELL THE DEVIL SAVE THEM A SPOT IN HELL, I HOPE THEM BURN IN ETERNAL DAMNATION, YA WHITE MOUTH YARD FOUL, YOU GOT WHAT YOU DIDNT EXPECT, CAUSE THE SAME DLP DIDNT WANT YOU ROUND THEM FOR THE 10 YEARS THATS WHY YOU WAS OUT IN D COLD, TILL TURN COAT JOE TEK YA UP, THE TWO OF WANNA SUIT THAT WHY WANNA HOLDING HANDS, JOE GINE BURN IN HELL TOO, I GINE BE THERE WID WANNA I SAVING A SPOT FA WANNA,
Caswell, your madness is really now manifesting itself completely. Did you enter into a contract with the IMF? On what basis can you question them? This appointment has now totally gone to your head and your assumption of importance and power is hilarious. You’re writing to the IMF – guffaw
Caswell the clown…cuddear! You have good intentions but yuh gine bout things in a huffy-puffy foolish sorta way.
Lol I had my laugh for the day. When you do write them remember to tell them which island you are the minister of finance for.
“I was in talks with a woman who was very distraught. She worked 33 and a third years for the Government, and now the time comes to get her pension and gratuity, they are saying at Government Headquarters that this BERT programme . . . it can’t be paid,” Franklyn told Barbados TODAY.
There is something wrong with this story. This woman could have started work at Transport Board from the age of 18, which means she could be 51 years old. She cannot get gratuity and pension at that age.
Unless the age of this woman is revealed, the story makes no sense.
What would writing to the IMF do?
people, you should first find out, what Mia/Owen done to Caswell years ago,that caused him to hate BLP forever.
Donald if there one thing Caswell is nonentity for is speaking based on facts. Don’t you think he knows what he is speaking about? Can you name one issue he got wrong?
watchman while I can’t speak on the “wrong”if any done by Mia and or Owen to make him hate BLP, I still see him as a BLP Member as opposed to a DLP member. Even if he hates them he is usually on point. And who is the IMF that a private citizen cannot write them?
@SAGA BOY – it is not logical for a Gov’t representative to tell a person that the Gov’t cannot pay them a gratuity or pension that is legally due to them because of some recently introduced IMF program.
Got to be a more reasonable explanation to this story.
saga boy
a private citizen can write to who ever they want.
how is writing to the imf going to help this woman?
Boy is just a CUN%. Just looking for attention and self importance.