The body of missing was 59-year-old Neptrid Hercules, bulldozer operator of BOSAI’s East Montgomery Mine in Linden was found today.
Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton told Demerara Waves Online News the bulldozer was first located and then Hercules’ body was found.
The minister told that online news “At least, now, the family can have closure, the fact that the body has been found.”
However, veteran trade unionist Lincoln Lewis, told this publication he is questioning the length of time taken to find the person. Lewis who worked in bauxite and said he worked at the said during the developmental stage in the 1970s and was well illuminated.
According to him there was always adequate lighting in two forms “One, from lamp post placed alongside the road, and two, lighting plants that were placed at the waste dumps and in the mining pit.”
He said where a bulldozer operated at nights, during developmental or work on the dump there was always a person there standing and giving direction to the bulldozer operator.
“I am taken aback that such an incident occurred and it took the authorities so many days to locate the machine and operator, ” Lewis said.
According to the trade unionist accidents do not happen they are caused and one gets the impression that equal attention was not placed on finding the person.
Further, he said, he awaits to see what action(s) will be taken by the Ministry of Labour consistent with the law.
