{"id":6601,"date":"2012-08-10T06:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2012-08-10T06:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:27:34","slug":"blind-man-claims-discrimination-by-san-fernando-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=6601","title":{"rendered":"Blind man claims discrimination by San Fernando bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Radhica Sookraj
\nAugust 10, 2012 – guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

David La Caille, of Pleasantville<\/a>A blind worker is calling for an investigation into alleged discrimination at T&T\u2019s state-owned First Citizens Bank (FCB) claiming he was denied a bank card because of his disability. David La Caille, of Pleasantville, said he was amazed at the discourteous service meted out to him when he went to FCB\u2019s High Street, San Fernando Branch to open a savings account on Tuesday.
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\nLa Caille, who is computer literate, said he requested Internet banking and a bank card from the bank. The teller reportedly conducted the transaction, La Caille punched in his pin and obtained the card. However, after putting the card in his bag, La Caille said the teller told him there was a mistake.
\n\u201cI handed her the card and then she told me that she was sorry but FCB\u2019s policy was that blind people were not entitled to Internet banking or a bank card.\u201d La Caille said he got upset and demanded to speak to the supervisor. <\/p>\n

However, he said the supervisor\u2019s attitude was worse than the teller. \u201cI asked her why I was being denied and she said if I got the card how will I see the machine to use it?\u201d La Caille offered to show the supervisor how he could use the card but was bluntly refused. \u201cShe did not want to see. She kept saying that this is their policy. I don\u2019t feel good about this because it shows the backwardness of some people. We have been using computers and I have a bank card which I use from another bank,\u201d La Caille said. Asked what was his next step, La Caille added: \u201cI will not close down my account. I want to fight this because in this day and age such discrimination must not be tolerated.\u201d <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Manager of the Blind Welfare Association Deonarine Ragoo said he intended to personally visit the bank to find out its policy. Ragoo said La Caille\u2019s rights were violated as the United National Declaration of Human Rights as well as other national and international laws entitled all blind people to have the same rights as sighted people. The bank\u2019s Group Corporate Communication Manager Dexter Charles said he would ensure La Caille got a bank card. He also promised to investigate La Caille\u2019s claims of discrimination.<\/p>\n

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By Radhica Sookraj August 10, 2012 – guardian.co.tt A blind worker is calling for an investigation into alleged discrimination at T&T\u2019s state-owned First Citizens Bank (FCB) claiming he was denied a bank card because of his disability. David La Caille, of Pleasantville, said he was amazed at the discourteous service meted out to him when … Continue reading Blind man claims discrimination by San Fernando bank<\/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":[29,1,251],"tags":[85,813,810,811,812,106],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-general-tt","category-protest","tag-abuse","tag-bank","tag-david-la-caille","tag-discrimination","tag-fcb","tag-first-citizens-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","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=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6604,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}