00:00Former president of the Public Services Association, Watson Duke, took legal action against the
00:07PSA, claiming since January 2022 he has not been getting pension payments.
00:14Duke served as the PSA's president from late 2009 until December 2022, when he became the
00:23Deputy Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly.
00:27Calling for the PSA to pay up, Duke's attorneys said, over the last two and a half years,
00:33Duke has suffered severe financial hardships and that Duke has become stressed, depressed
00:40and anxious from trying to recover the monies owed to him.
00:45On Friday, the High Court told the PSA to immediately pay up.
00:50How much?
00:51Half of Duke's final salary as PSA president, as his pension benefit.
00:56Justice Frank Siposad granted an interim injunction pending the outcome of Duke's lawsuit against
01:03the PSA.
01:04A hearing of that substantive claim is set for July 8th.
01:08Anselm Gibbs, TV6 News.
