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

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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
(Workers at the National Solid Waste Management Authority stage a protest outside the Multipurpose Cultural Centre— photo by Robert Andre Emmanuel)
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Comments (6)

  • Ryan Wedding April 23, 2026, 8:31 PM

    Big election season yall protesting?

  • Juju Bee April 23, 2026, 12:39 PM

    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 April 23, 2026, 10:05 AM

    Where is shermin Beek Charles

  • Uppites April 23, 2026, 9:58 AM

    Bunch of UPP people that there

  • Informed citizen April 23, 2026, 7:56 AM

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

  • Smh April 23, 2026, 6:56 AM

    They did that on purpose

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