{"id":5859,"date":"2009-10-01T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2009-10-01T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:20:32","slug":"scrubbing-anglican-floors-doesnt-pay-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/scrubbing-anglican-floors-doesnt-pay-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrubbing Anglican floors doesn\u2019t pay much"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that the Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago<\/a> is a typical example of the Anglican church’s preferential treatment of the poor: conversation, dialogue, whining to the government and little else. A pensioner who spent 30 years scrubbing diocesan floors was dismissed with a $2000 pension<\/a> [US$318]<\/em>: the diocese is all heart:<\/p>\n

A Couva pensioner is seeking redress from the Anglican Church for a retirement benefit which she claims she earned after working for more than 30 years as a cleaner at an Anglican school.<\/p>\n

Cynthia James, 65, of Balmatte Street, Couva, was employed by the Anglican Diocese in 1977 to work as a cleaner at Anstey Memorial Girls\u2019 Anglican School, Drayton Street, San Fernando. She retired on November 11, 2008.<\/p>\n

James said she informed the school manager Canon Francis Caesar of her retirement one month before leaving, in a letter which she delivered to his office at the St Paul\u2019s Rectory, Harris Promenade, San Fernando.<\/p>\n

In December 2008, the diocese gave her a cheque for $2,000. She said she was informed the diocese withheld $3,000 as payment for a washing machine which the diocese bought for her before she retired.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a breakdown the diocese explained that I really received a $5,000 retirement benefit and after $3,000 was extracted for the washing machine, I was left with a sum of $2,000,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

James said she subsequently contacted Caesar several times to ask why her retirement benefit was so small and was dissatisfied with his response.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaesar said $5,000 was the amount that the Anglican Board agreed upon and that I should be glad that I got it because I was not supposed to get any money,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest countries in the Caribbean<\/a> with average monthly income<\/a> of $4,417 [US$793]<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope she enjoys the washing machine.<\/p>\n

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