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Aracari Resort owner complains that Minister Broomes shoots from the hip

Nov 24, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am saddened to have written to President Granger with respect to an article that appeared in the Sunday Stabroek of November 22, 2015 titled; “Labour Department files charges against Aracari Resort Owner”. These charges are false. Having met with a representative from the Ministry of Labour, I had prepared a written response to clarify the misinformation they have been given and accepted. Attached is copy of my letter and attachments which would clarify for you the baselessness of the charges being leveled against me. I did not wish to burden the President with the many inaccuracies in the article, this would demonstrate the difference between truth and falsehood.
1 It was reported that I want to go to court for the reasons purported; is highly poisoned.
2 The Labour Officer could not understand the concept of a composite flat rate of pay; therefore she insisted that the employee was not paid for vacation and overtime.
3 As you will see from the payroll records of the flat rate implementation, overtime has been paid.
4 Even though vacation pay was part of the flat rate, I offered to pay for 9 days as requested by the labour officer just to buy peace. The labour officer insisted I must also pay for overtime.
5 In the face of such unreasonableness and absence of logic, I said to her simply that “I am willing to defend that I have paid overtime even if it means that I have to do that in court”.
There are many more inaccuracies and distortions that will have to be dealt with later. This article has at minimum created a rash situation and quite possibly libel and defamation. There is something fundamentally wrong when we have Ministers who for whatever reason are unwilling to look at all the facts and willing to shoot from the hip. I will await more sober review of the facts surrounding this case.
Sase Shewnarine
Owner
Aracari Resort

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