NWC unnecessary expenditure
published: Monday | May 19, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
CORRECT ME if I am wrong, but the management of NWC, based on their report in The Gleaner 14/5/03, is on a cost-saving venture of which they are to save $200m in the short-term. My question to NWC management is why go on a retreat to Ocho Rios for a couple days to deliberate their cost-saving methods? Isn't this a costly and hypocritical venture, bearing in mind that 200 workers may be laid off.
Would it have been less costly to have the retreat in their boardroom, or if they needed to be out of the environment, one of the Kingston hotels and then they could go home each day? The answer to my question is yes, but then who am I to suggest that these people be deprived of their hours of play at the expense of the public in order that they may take NWC out of the financial doldrums that it is in?
Indeed, I am just a mere mortal with no idea of what it takes to govern a country, that is why we, the public, should continue to pull our belts tighter and try to make ends meet while the government continues to enhance our way of life with economic stress, which they seem not to endure. Then again, maybe they are comforted by the fact that there will be an increase in our water bills soon to offset the cost of this retreat.
