Following the death of one worker and injury to another at the airport, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) will have to submit an engineer’s report to the Labour Department of the Ministry of Social Protection declaring the area safe, before work can recommence, according to junior Minister Simona Broomes who also revealed that in the company’s agreement no provision was made for the safety of workers.
“It is in the law and one will have to follow suit… All these things are in the law, it is written but for whatever reason they have not been implemented,” the minister told this newspaper in a recent interview during which she said an investigation had been launched into the death.
On September 17, 23-year-old Lui Li, a Chinese national, died at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project at
