Trinidad & Tobago: Who’s to Blame? · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

As the Trinidad and Tobago government is criticized over the sub-standard living conditions of Chinese labourers brought in to work on state construction projects, Survivein’ Trinidad says: “If a private company offers me a fully loaded contract (housing, travel allowance, etc.) to work in Germany and I get there only to realize that my living conditions are sub-standard, who is in the wrong? The German government or the company that contracted me?…Common sense before book sense people!”