MoBay Freezone workers worried about coronavirus

More than 100 disgruntled employees at the Montego Bay Freezone voiced their concerns yesterday that they are being forced to work in crowded spaces, heightening their risk of catching COVID-19.

"Dem don't care bout wi. How yuh fi have a global epidemic weh a affect millions a people round the world, a kill thousands, and yet dem still have 300 a wi a work inna the same one room? That caa right, an if any a wi no come a work, wi get fire," a concerned employee said.

The worker noted that the Freezone has employees from across the island, some of whom take public transport every day.

"Dem have fi mingle wid all kind a people, an can yuh imagine what would tek place if just one a dem worker deh have coronavirus?" the worker asked. "Den everybody carry it back inna dem parish, a dem yard and give them family, and community."

Guidelines

Gloria Henry, president of the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica, told THE STAR that the Freezone has been operating within the guidelines of the Health Ministry where sanitation is concerned before the COVID scare.

"Now we have implemented the relevant sanitisation measures of each and every employee," she said. "We have a nurse on hand and she responds to the slightest findings of even a headache, and we have even resorted to testing temperatures in some areas," she said.