Minister of Labour Senator Dion Foulkes places a wreath in the area where four union members died during last year’s Labour Day Parade, when a car ran into the parade: Tami Gibson, Tabitha Haye, Kathleen Fernander and Dianne Ferguson. Photo: Letisha Henderson/BIS
Union members paid their respects yesterday to the four colleagues who died in last year's Labour Day parade.
Among those paying tribute to Tami Gibson, Tabitha Haye, Kathleen Fernander and Dianna Gray-Ferguson - who died after a car ran into last year's parade - was Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes.
Ahead of the event, he had said efforts would be made to ensure there was no repeat of last year's incident, and yesterday he laid a wreath in memory of the four women.
A number of other union leaders also laid wreaths near to the spot where the collision took place.
Last year, a man was charged before Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain with four counts of manslaughter by negligence stemming from the June 1 incident, which also injured 24 people.
• See Tuesday's Tribune for more.
Comments
sheeprunner12 5 years, 4 months ago
How many times are these Union people going to bury these traffic victims????? ...... Lord Jesus, let them (and their families) have some peace. ......... the accident was bad enough, this is overkill.
Well_mudda_take_sic 5 years, 4 months ago
Useless politicians like Dion Foulkes never miss a photo op or chance to get their name mentioned in the media. You can be rest assured he will continue milking the 2018 Labour Day Parade deaths for all the political self-benefit he thinks the deaths are worth. Few politicians have ever been more useless than Dion Foulkes. His track record over decades of doing little if anything meaningful for labour union members should be well known by now. How he keeps getting re-elected by his constituents is well beyond the comprehension of most of us in the Bahamas today. Union members should ask themselves how is it this man enjoys so much support from management of employers and union leaders alike, while the needs of lowly union members largely go unmet.
sheeprunner12 5 years, 4 months ago
Mudda ......... he is not an MP ........ He cannot even get elected. And he is no friend of the workers ........ He plays them as fools for his Cabinet post benefits. This is one useless Cabinet post anyway, it is only a small Department ........ Long past are the days of Randol Fawkes getting brownie points for helping SLOP become PM.
bogart 5 years, 4 months ago
Much forgotten.......is the fact ....that the PLP 1967 strategically chose to... NOT run a PLP candidate against Randol Fawkes and support him to win his seat............AGAINST ..the UBP ..Black candidate running against him in St. Barnabas.......and the reselt was overwhelmly.....winning his seat...!!!!!!!!!....dat was good strategy .... the .....PLP .supported beneficial winner 1967 St Barnabas....Randol Fawkes .......who then....breakjng the tied election result...In the 1967 elections .....the PLP only ran LESS...Candidates than the powerful UBP which ran candidates in ALL electoral seats.....
sheeprunner12 5 years, 4 months ago
And do not forget that SLOP dropped Fawkes like a hot potato as soon as he won that 1968 landslide ............ SLOP used Randol Fawkes ....... and black politicians continue to use poor black people to profit ...... VAT12%????
bogart 5 years, 4 months ago
Yes....the regressive VAT......engineered....knowingly calculated.....pushes pore both black an all other colours......into grinding poverty.....every last worker in the March is affected by this regressive VAT.......hundreds of millions of dollars removed from these workers....and pore at home not on March....addition hundreds of millions of dollars frittered away in gambling houses all approved by Politicians.......Depleted and no disposable income prohibits.....from preparing for hurricane, strengtening, repairing roofs h.....houses.....no houe insurance.....will if hurricane hits.....pore people...workers still on minimum pay years... lives in greater ricketery homes ....Hurricane...more persons harmed......da more an more victims.. assets.....destroyed.....proportionally..increased... more suffering among the most ....pore ...destroyed.....DAMarch goes on wid all da politicans engineering VAT...an expanded...gamblinghouses... on workers...people...when las workers minimum pay increase....
sheeprunner12 5 years, 4 months ago
Yes, Mudda ..... how can I forget that detestable webshop opinion poll ????????.............. the PLP dumbed down the population so badly by 2013, that they pissed on the Bahamian people's heads and said it was snowing.
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