Excerpts of what’s happening in Jamaica
Firefighter Sergeant Leo Bennett, who took his one-person protest to the top of the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre in St Andrew on Tuesday morning, says he has a list of urgent demands.
Bennett is protesting what he says is the ill-treatment of his colleagues whose welfare the Government ignored.
“I am here to highlight the poor treatment of firefighters. Our welfare issues are not being looked at. We have never asked the government for a cent more, we have never pressured any government— whether this government or any other government— on money, but [there are] a whole heap of other issues which affect us — our safety, our health; mental and physical,” Bennett told OBSERVER ONLINE.
Firefighter Sergeant Leo Bennett