Don’t abuse NIS

An Anglican priest says the country is at the crossroads when there are people draining National Insurance (NIS) funds with absenteeism and delinquency of payments.
Speaking yesterday at the Barbados Defence Force’s 34th anniversary church service, Reverend Guy Hewitt said that if Barbados was to flourish as a nation and a modern society, its people must transform the way they love, learn and earn.
Before a congregation at St Matthias Anglican Church that included Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, Governor General Sir Elliott Belgrave and Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson, Hewitt said there was a level of mendicancy in Barbados that was worrying.
“The level of mendicancy is not necessarily among the majority but a few bad apples can spoil the barrel,”?he said.