![]() This gross misrepresentation has affected countless black women who go about their daily lives and whose characters are far from angry and aggressive. They did this by promoting what we call Ratchet TV and entertainment. They sold us hatred and shame of our own race. They used a minority to represent the majority. ![]() These Women had daddy issues and had babies for different men - they were rude and sassy with sharp mouths - This is the narrative pop culture gave us. It’s funny how all the way across the Atlantic to where I was born and raised in Nigeria, the strong, aggressive black woman stereotype was sold to me via media and Hollywood as the true representation of all black American women. The one at the other venues is doing a fine job," he said.The strong, aggressive black woman narrative The job of one of the vendors at the Village was not good. "We have deployed 700 people at the Village on Wednesday. Organising Committee Secretary General Lalit Bhanot said there was no problem. A2Z Joint Managing Director Anil Soni refused to comment. Ashok Kapoor (Rtd), the OC man in charge of the Games Village. We are just bringing in more agencies for the current cleaning drive," said Lt. "There is no time to carry out accreditation of the staff of new vendors. ![]() ![]() A desperate OC has now asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to lend manpower from its sanitation department.īut the OC has to stick to the vendors despite poor service delivery because of accreditation issues. On top this, the Australian consultant hired for cleaning, waste management and catering-David Payne-has gone back to home and no one at the sites have any clue what he did. "There is no accountability on the resources because the contracts of the vendors do not specify the number of machines they would deploy or the amount of consumables they would use for the money they are charging," he said. The vendors are hiring labourers who lack the skills for such work but there is not time to train them, OC sources said. Labourers have been leaving over payment issues," said a senior OC official on the condition of anonymity. "Accreditation cards were kept aside for them, but so far only around 2,000 have turned up. Sources said that large-scale attrition coupled with a supposed shortage of labourers in Delhi have prevented the two vendors from deploying the required manpower.Ī2Z, which has the contract for cleaning close to 60 of the CWG-controlled premises - including the main competition venues and outside the residential areas of the Village for a whopping Rs 20 crore-had promised to deploy 5,000 people. Highly placed sources confirmed that the cleaning of the Village stopped abruptly for some time around 10 days ago because labourers went on an on-the-spot flash strike over the demand for wages. Kalpataru, which is in charge of cleaning the Games Village residential towers numbered 16 to 34 - found to be filthy by a number of foreign delegates - has been given a dressing down and the OC has decided to rope in more agencies. Organising Committee officials have found the performance of two main Indian vendors for cleaning work -Kalpataru and A2Z - shoddy. The big job of keeping all the Commonwealth Games venues, and not just the Games Village clean is in a mess.
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