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Workers at the San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporation transport yard on the Eastern Main Road have complained about their working conditions, noting a leaking cesspit was making them sick.

Newsday spoke to workers on January 22, who said there were many issues on the premises.

“There’s a cesspit that has been overflowing constantly. There’s a source of water that comes in, and on top of that, in the back there collects a lot of water when the rain falls, so that helps full it up a little faster. When it fulls up now, it starts overflowing and flowing in between the wall that separates us and (another business place). There’s a watercourse behind there that flows into the San Juan River that goes into the Caroni River.