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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Barbados Government has denied allegations that it...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Barbados Government has denied allegations that it...

Minister of Health and Wellness, The Most Honourable Jeffrey Bostic, addressed the nation on December 20, 2021. This came on the heels of a meeting with the Barbados Nurses Association (BNA) which resulted in several decisions being made to address the concerns they have as a group. Some nurses, led by Senator Caswell Franklyn who heads the Unity Workers Union, went on strike in an attempt to get some of …

Now is not the time for grandstanding says President of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Verla De Peiza who yesterday urged the Government and the Unity Workers Union (UWU) to instead come to a resolution to settle the ongoing nurses’ unrest in Barbados. She suggested that symbolic gestures or being unyielding on this issue was not in the best interest of the nurses or Barbadians, whose health was at stake. …

Director of Finance and Economic Affairs, Ian Carrington, is refuting claims made in a news story in today’s Press in which head of Unity Workers Union (UWU), Senator Caswell Franklyn, accused the Government of accessing the bank accounts of striking nurses and seizing money. “That is utter and complete rubbish,” Carrington said. “The Government of Barbados, in accordance with the Public Service Act, which requires that the pay of workers …