Yvonne Ba­boolal

Duke said the one per cent would mean that the Gov­ern­ment had to spend $20 mil­lion on 33,000 pub­lic of­fi­cers for 12 months and that was a "gross in­sult." "They are spend­ing $180-some­thing mil­lion on lights at the air­port to full con­trac­tors' pock­ets," he said. "Where is the peo­ple in the PP? Where is labour?" he asked. "The PP had pledged to go be­yond the fron­tiers to work with trade unions." Duke said the PSA would be join­ing their com­rades from the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre, led by Michael An­nisette, in a Day of White on Jan­u­ary 28. He said they had post­poned their next meet­ing with the CPO for the first Tues­day in Feb­ru­ary. Ef­forts to reach CPO Stephanie Lewis yes­ter­day evening proved fu­tile.