The dis­grun­tled work­ers gath­ered in front of the Bei­jing Con­struc­tion En­gi­neer­ing Group of­fice in Car­li­fo­nia this morn­ing de­mand­ing an­swers

Sascha Wil­son

More than two months af­ter work­ing at the Phoenix Park In­dus­tri­al Es­tate project, a group of work­ers are still wait­ing to be paid.

The dis­grun­tled work­ers gath­ered in front of the Bei­jing Con­struc­tion En­gi­neer­ing Group of­fice in Car­li­fo­nia this morn­ing de­mand­ing an­swers.

The group of 24 work­ers worked for a sub-con­trac­tor hired by Bei­jing Con­struc­tion which is the main con­trac­tors con­tract­ed by state-owned Evolv­ing Tec­knolo­gies and En­ter­pris­es De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd to do the project in Cou­va.

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Ju­nior Jack­son who was a fore­man at the work­site said that they start­ed work­ing in April and the job was com­plet­ed on Sep­tem­ber 6.

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But he said they on­ly got paid one fort­night in June and was told by their em­ploy­er that they would get the re­main­der of their mon­ey af­ter the job was com­plet­ed

Jack­son said they “ban their bel­lies” and did the work, but now their em­ploy­er is claim­ing that the main con­trac­tor has not paid him all his mon­ey

“He tell us the Chi­nese did not pay him yet and all these kind of things and the chi­nese say­ing they pay him. We are the men who were on the field work­ing hard and now to get the mon­ey we have to fight for it, it not right.”

An­oth­er fore­man Kevin Lewis who start­ed the job in April com­plained that he has been strug­gling to pro­vide for his fam­i­ly. Lewis said he had to get as­sis­tance from his mem­ber of par­lia­ment to get books for his three chil­dren to go to school

“I plead­ing to the con­trac­tors, al­lyuh please hear we cry and give we mon­ey. Christ­mas com­ing, we want some­thing to eat too.”

At­tempts to reach the sub-con­trac­tor for a com­ment were un­suc­cess­ful.