T&T: The games people play now

The serious charge by a representative of striking Bechtel International workers, Ernest Thompson, that Government had reportedly blocked a move by Bechtel to pay interim monies to the strikers should not be casually dismissed. Instead, an investigation should be ordered into the claim as it questions the bona fides of Government particularly with respect to its widely publicised efforts at conciliation, and at a time when the country is facing its worst industrial crisis since Independence.