A fund­ing short­fall at the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion (PoSCC) could trig­ger in­dus­tri­al un­rest and dis­rupt garbage col­lec­tion in the cap­i­tal with­in weeks, as of­fi­cials warn the body may be un­able to meet pay­roll be­yond the end of May.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne de­scribed the sit­u­a­tion as a “fis­cal fi­as­co,” say­ing that while hir­ing and fir­ing falls un­der the Ser­vice Com­mis­sion, the cor­po­ra­tion does not have the funds to sus­tain its wage bill.

“It means that you may find your­self with some in­dus­tri­al un­rest. You may find your­self with goods and ser­vices not be­ing de­liv­ered, and I am here this morn­ing to ad­vo­cate on be­half of those pub­lic ser­vants and, by ex­ten­sion, all of the burgess­es of the City of Port-of-Spain who de­mand a clean, safe city and con­tin­ue to de­liv­er the ser­vices that we de­liv­er,” Al­leyne said.