{"id":4960,"date":"2011-02-11T03:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2011-02-14T04:40:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:40:46","slug":"no-love-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"Cops ‘Protest Action’ – No Love Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

No Love Lost<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n

By Suzanne Mills
\nFebruary 11, 2011 – newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Police<\/a>If Social Welfare Association head, Sergeant Anand Ramesar is representative of police intellectual force in TT, I\u2019ve heard enough. Let\u00b4s throw in the towel at once, surrender immediately to the bandits, but Jah spare us the cruel and unusual punishment of Sergeant Ramesar\u2019s ad-libs: \u201cWe will down tools, no retirees for desk work, \u201cno bikes for cops\u201d and his newest, \u201cTake back the $1,000!\u201d<\/b>
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\nTake back the $1,000? Too late, Sarge! By accepting the allowance for the past few months, police have signed and sealed a contract. If the police now wish to decline the payment they\u00b4d have to prove (and evidence gathering is not their strong suit) the contract to be void or voidable. Is the Association suggesting cops were misled, lacked free will, mental capacity or material facts when they took the $1,000 last year? Demonstrate it.<\/p>\n

To my knowledge, the Government never misrepresented the $1,000 extra; they did not call the allowance a salary, though the increase was arguably equivalent to a 17 percent raise. The Association took the deal, fully aware wage negotiations were at hand. If they wanted to hold out for the full 40 percent, maintain a strong bargaining position, they should have turned the extra money down. Strategy is as essential to negotiations as it is to police work. Surely they did not entertain the ludicrous belief they would get 40 percent plus $1,000 after repeated declarations by Government that the Treasury is empty. Oh yes they did \u2014 that\u00b4s what they are demanding.
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No Love Lost By Suzanne Mills February 11, 2011 – newsday.co.tt If Social Welfare Association head, Sergeant Anand Ramesar is representative of police intellectual force in TT, I\u2019ve heard enough. Let\u00b4s throw in the towel at once, surrender immediately to the bandits, but Jah spare us the cruel and unusual punishment of Sergeant Ramesar\u2019s ad-libs: … Continue reading Cops ‘Protest Action’ – No Love Lost<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,178,396,7,160],"tags":[85,44,1041,1015,612,49],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-security","tag-abuse","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-police","tag-politics","tag-suzanne-mills","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}