CALLING FOR HOPE and the usual Barbadian resilience, the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) has pointed out that this small society has little room for new employment opportunities.
General secretary Sir Roy Trotman said, in his New Year’s message, that in the face of public sector layoffs, the country’s employment challenge was compounded by having perhaps the best educated body of persons in the region and in many other parts of the world.
“We are educating persons but we are not able to find the areas of employment for them. We have a significant challenge where we have several people even with tertiary qualifications and no place where we may engage them,” he said.
In such circumstances, he added, Government must understand it was the main employer and it was either “going to employ people and pay them, or you are going to have them unemployed and feed them at the public’s expense in your public institutions, including in your jails”.
