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New measures announced for safer transport

August 29th, 2009|

New measures to increase safety and provide shelter for workers transported in open-backed vehicles were announced in Parliament on August 18, 2009. They are to be phased in over three years. Here is a record of the statement made in Parliament on this matter: Mdm Halimah Yacob asked the Minister

Worker thrown off lorry in accident, killed

October 29th, 2007|

An accident in which one Indian worker was killed recently drew public attention once again to the problem of the transportation of foreign workers in the back of trucks and lorries. 24-year old Solai Raj from Tamil Nadu died after a car hit the lorry in which he was being