Projects protesters say $69 not enough

[admin]

$69 too low? So how much you think a worker of your calibre, coming to work bareback, with pants below the waist and who specializes in scattering rubbish and cussing, should be paid? Allyuh have no skills but you demanding wages? Nobody wants the likes of you in their village but you negotiating salary?

BOTTLES and stones were thrown and rubbish strewn along streets in east Port of Spain yesterday afternoon as recipients of the Government's newly-launched "People and Projects for Progress" protested the $69-a-day payment, which they said was too low.
According to one protester: "The change we vote for is not what we get. We only getting pocket change."

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[madsuya]

a 9 am to 1 pm job....d labourers were getin $17.25 an hour....which was $5 more than the minimum wage....i'm wrkin for minimum wage now...buh dem urp wrkers in schools doh wrk for more dan 1 hour.....dat instruction from their office supervisor...so all in all dey wrkin for $69 an hour.....well Jack should butter up to dem an support dem hard st.nes men up dere....it hav so much wrk out dere if dey r qualify y not go look for somting better.....MTS takin on ppl....y dont dey join an get $12.50 an hour...dem dam ppl oonly want Gov't to mind dey lazy arse....an we who wrkin hard for minmum wage have to suport dey f...kin nastya.s piece ah sh.t!!!