Daily Mail, Thursday, August 8, 2019 Page 35Striking bin
men threaten
Majorca stink
BIN men in Majorca are warning the
holiday island ‘will smell all over’ after a
walkout from August 22.
Tourists can expect rubbish mountains
outside hotels due to the action which
will affect most of the island.
Unions say the strike will continue until
bosses agree to wage and conditions
talks for 3,000 staff, after a vote at a
workers’ assembly in the capital Palma.
Workers’ Commission leader Miguel
Pardo said they ‘do not want to damage
tourism’ but added: ‘We are prepared to
strike – but we hope we don’t have to.
‘We hope the government and town
halls want to adopt a new agreement.
‘With a strike like this, Majorca is going
to smell all over in three days.’
Refuse collectors are seeking wage
rises which would see drivers getting
around 1,300 (£1,200) euro a month and
rubbish collectors a minimum of 1,000
euro (£924) a month.
Around 2.3 million Britons holiday on
Majorca every year, making up around a
quarter of tourists on the island.
Around 8,000 hotel chambermaids on
the neighbouring island of Ibiza are also
set to strike – over ‘slave labour’(^) conditions – on August 24 and 25.
THE former mar-
keting chief of dat-
ing app Tinder is
suing the company
for allegedly firing
her after she
accused her boss of
sexual assault.
Rosette Pam-
bakian (pictured)
claims former chief
executive Gregory
Blatt groped her in
a hotel room at a party in Beverly Hills in
- In the lawsuit, Miss Pambakian
describes Mr Blatt as a ‘notorious bully’
and alleges that Tinder carried out a sham
investigation to ‘cover up the assault’.
In August last year she joined a legal
action filed by several other Tinder
employees alleging executives purposely
undervalued the app to reduce the
amount it had to pay staff.
Miss Pambakian was fired in December
and her new lawsuit alleges infliction of
emotional distress, sexual battery, gender
violence and wrongful termination.
Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group,
said the firm does ‘not retaliate against
anyone who reports sexual harassment’.
Old tyres used to
resurface roads
OLD tyres could be used to resurface
motorways in a bid to stop them being
sent to landfill sites abroad.
A new asphalt has been invented using
waste rubber from tyres in a trial funded
by Highways England.
The surface has already been laid on
part of the M1 near Leicester to test its
durability and, if successful, it could be
used on motorways across England.
It comes amid concerns over how best
to deal with the 40 million waste tyres
produced in Britain each year. Tyres can-
not be sent to landfill here under EU
rules, so most are recycled. However, as
many as 500,000 a year are shipped to
landfill sites in Asia and the Middle East.
The new road surface, developed by
British company Tarmac, recycles tyres
by adding granulated rubber to the mix.
The trial used £180,000 from Highways
England’s £150 million innovation fund.
Paul Fleetham, of Tarmac, said: ‘Used
tyres offer an opportunity to unlock the
benefits of a circular economy.’Exec ‘groped’
by Tinder boss
Top of f icers suspended
over ‘assault’ on woman
at police retirement do
TWO senior policemen By Andy Dolan
have been suspended after
a woman was allegedly
assaulted at their boss’s
retirement party.
One of those being investi-
gated is believed to be a chief
superintendent, while the
other is of a similar rank.
The probe centres on behav-
iour at the leaving do for
£138,500-a-year Chief Constable
Julian Williams at Gwent
Police’s HQ in Cwmbran, South
Wales, where free drinks were
said to have been on offer.
A source said all high-ranking
officers from the 1,300-strong
force were invited to the bash,
along with Matt Jukes, the chief
constable of South Wales Police.
He was said to have seen the
‘aftermath of the incident’ in
which a female officer was alleg-
edly sexually assaulted at theend of the event. The source
said: ‘The last thing you expect
is a crime at a chief constable’s
leaving party where all the senior
officers would have been there.
‘A lot of police leaving dos are
a bit boozy and this was no dif-
ferent – but Julian Williams is a
good chief and this will really
upset him. He wouldn’t want
this linked to his name.’
The two suspended officers
were named locally last night as
Chief Superintendent Mark
Warrender, 50, and Temporary
Assistant Chief Constable Marc
Budden, 45. Other officers were
also said to have been accused
of misconduct but have not
been suspended after protest-
ing their innocence.
Mr Warrender joined Gwent
Police in 1996 and is listed on
the force’s website as head of
CID. He is also the chairman ofthe Gwent branch of the Super-
intendents’ Association and has
regional responsibility for equal-
ity, hate crime and cohesion.
Mr Warrender is understood to
have separated from wife Helen,
also 50. She confirmed yester-
day he was no longer living at
the marital home, but declined
to comment further. Mr Budden
joined the constabulary in 1993,years with South Wales Police.
Avon and Somerset Police has
been tasked with the investiga-
tion, which is being managed by
the Independent Office for
Police Conduct. No arrests have
yet been made.
A spokesman for Avon and
Somerset Police said: ‘We’re car-
rying out an investigation into
an allegation of the sexual
assault of a woman on June 28,
2019 made against a serving
officer at Gwent Police. The
officer has been suspended
while this investigation is car-
ried out.
‘A second serving Gwent police
officer has been suspended while
our professional standards
department investigate an alle-
gation of misconduct in public
office. Both are senior officers.’
A South Wales Police spokes-
man said: ‘Matt Jukes is not
currently recorded as a witness
in relation to the incident.’‘Leaving dos are
a bit boozy’Give us our birdman
back, Jamaica tells
the British Museum
GI
BA
JAMAICA is demanding By Henry Goodwin
the return of a pair of
wooden sculptures from
the Caribbean that have
been in London for more
than 200 years.
The carvings of a rain
god and a birdman, both
around 3ft tall, are cur-
rently in storage at the
British Museum.
They are believed to
have been made by the
Taino people, the indig-
enous inhabitants of the
Caribbean when Euro-
pean explorers landed
in the 15th century.
Due to war, famine and
the introduction of pre-
viously unknown dis-
eases, they were largely
extinct a little over a
century after the set-
tlers arrived.
The statues were dis-
covered in a cave in 1792
and first went on display
in London seven years
later, according to the
museum’s catalogue.
The treasures are
among a number of his-
torical artefacts origi-
nating in Jamaica that
the island’s government
is demanding be repatri-
ated from the UK.
Olivia Grange, Jamai-
ca’s culture minister,
said: ‘They are priceless.They are significant to
the story of Jamaica and
they belong to the peo-
ple of Jamaica.
‘We are working
through our National
Council on Reparations
to have them returned.’
Both sculptures were
kept in the south London
home of art dealer
William Oldman
until his col-
lection
was split
up after the
Second World War and
sold off after his death.
The British Museum
said it had ‘not received
any official communica-
tion from the ministry of
culture in Jamaica’.
A spokesman added:
‘The British Museum has
a number of ongoing
collaborative research
projects with colleagues
and island governments
in the Caribbean.’
It is the latest row over
artefacts at the museum.
The Greek government,
for example, has long
demanded that the Elgin
Marbles, removed from
the Parthenon at the
turn of the 19th century,
be returned.Caribbean
treasures:
The birdman
sculpture, left,
and the rain godand was in charge of neighbour-
hood policing, partnerships and
uniform operations before rising
to the role of temporary assist-
ant chief constable, according
to the Gwent Police website.
Retired chief constable Mr
Williams, 53, spent two years in
the top role at the force, having
joined five years ago after 25V1ПОДГОТОВИЛА
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