Noting that partners will not always agree on every issue, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says he wants to see the commitment to the tripartite dialogue continue.
This country’s seventh Prime Minister reminded hundreds of Barbadians attending yesterday’s May Day celebrations on Browne’s Beach in Bay, Street, that life was never intended to be a straight line with its mountain tops and valleys.
Stuart was speaking in the wake of the acrimonious split by this country’s biggest and longest serving trade union, the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) from the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) after it was removed as the island’s representative at the International Labour Organization (ILO).
“The commitment to that dialogue must continue. It does not mean of course that partners will always agree on everything, it does not mean that all of a sudden that God has created duplicates and not originals.
“There are some individual actors in the partnership and from time to time there will be challenges which have to be overcome and a social partnership is no exception to that rule.
“I want to applaud all of the partners to that social partnership that recognize the importance of keeping the avenues and dialogue open and of ensuring that none of us loses sight of the goal which is to make Barbados a better place for all of us to live,” remarked Stuart, who was remembered in song by the crowd on reaching 62 on Saturday.
