Other crew members’ NIS contributions unpaid

Jul 14, 2010 News

Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir has stated that Pritipaul Singh Investments and the now dead captain were the ones liable for the contributions to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) for 19-year-old Orlon Munroe, who was burnt after a fishing trawler exploded.
The teen received burns to almost 90 percent of his body in the accident.
Injured also in the freak accident were George Fitzpatrick, Elvis Todd and Keith Adams, while captain Delbert Williams’ body was never recovered.
The minister in an invited comment yesterday told Kaieteur News that his ministry has a vested interest in the matter. Nadir said that case was a very technical one and thorough investigation would be carried out by the ministry.
He further told this publication that inspection officers had visited the injured teen in the hospital to get certain information from him. The minister promised that the findings of the investigations would be made known, within the next three days.
Efforts yesterday afternoon to contact Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud proved futile. Minister Persaud along with Maritime Department had launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.
No records of payments
Meanwhile more checks at the National Insurance Scheme yesterday revealed that there are no records of payments for Elvis Todd and Keith Adams, and a substantial number of contributions for George Fitzpatrick were unpaid.
When this newspaper contacted Fitzpatrick, he explained that he had worked with the company when it was named Georgetown Seafoods, which was well over five years.
Fitzpatrick explained that he had briefly stopped working with the company for a couple of months, but started back in March 2010.
A source at NIS yesterday told this newspaper that Fitzpatrick had a total of 22 contributions.
“He only has 22 contributions….which means we only have records showing he worked for less than a year in his entire life.”
The source explained that eight contributions were paid in 2005, and then in 2009, nine contributions were paid by Captain Delbert Williams.
It was further noted that in May 2010, five contributions were paid by Williams.
Kaieteur News had been reliably informed that as of May 2010, Orlon Munroe only had 26 contributions which were paid by Captain Williams.
A source at NIS, told this newspaper that contributions were paid from December 2009 to May 2010.
The source further told this publication that Munroe, who, according to relatives, had been working with the company for over two years, should have acquired 157 contributions.

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