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Outspoken trade unionist Caswell Franklyn is calling for the removal of the entire management team of the Government Industrial School (GIS).He insisted that even as a staff member remains on suspension with full pay pending investigations into reports two female wards had allegedly ingested harmful substances under her watch earlier this month, the people responsible for spearheading operations at the state-run institution should be given their walking papers.In addition to saying that he was not pleased with the conflicting messages being publicised about the GIS, Franklyn said he was not co...

Authorities are being urged to come clean on what is happening at the Government Industrial School (GIS).Former Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley made the call as he expressed concern about the conflicting information coming out about the state-run institution, in particular the Female Unit at Barrows, St Lucy.“We have to stop playing around with this situation. It is children we are dealing with here. We have to stop playing around with this. One is unclear as to what is happening. People who speak officially on behalf of the Government speak from a situation where they are properly ...

A staff member of the Government Industrial School (GIS) is awaiting her fate after being suspended from duty with full pay pending the outcome of a probe into reports that two female wards had allegedly ingested harmful substances under her watch.Barbados TODAY has obtained a copy of correspondence that Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Information Deborah Payne sent to the graduate teacher in the GIS’ Female Unit at Barrows, St Lucy, informing her of her immediate suspension and advising her to stay away from the institution.“It has been brought to my attenti...

A Covid-19 outbreak team has had to be reconvened at the Midlands Prison due to re-emergence of the virus in recent in the Portlaoise jail according to the Iris...

More than 400 prisoners have contracted Covid-19 at jails in Portlaoise and elsewhere in Ireland according to the Irish Prison Services which has had to suspend...