Workers protest over conditions at Palms

Staffers at the Palms Geriatric Home on Brickdam are accusing administrators of the home of neglect, which has forced both them and inmates to endure deplorable conditions at the facility.

Last Thursday, several nurses, maids and porters staged a protest on the lawns of the geriatric home, calling for better working conditions and a raise in pay. They told Stabroek News on Monday that they were planning another protest because they had had enough of the “verbal abuse” and “victimisation” from the administrators of the home.

When Stabroek News went to the administrator’s office in the compound, the reporter was