GOVERNMENT IS UNLIKELY to soften its stance on making Barbadians pay tuition fees at the University of the West Indies, despite an unspecified “threat” from the Guild of Students.
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart indicated this yesterday while delivering the Democratic Labour Party’s weekly lunchtime lecture at the George Street Auditorium.
“At some stage, you have to let people who can look after themselves carry a little more of the burden so that you are left some elbow room to look after those persons who cannot look after themselves, and that is what the Government has done,” Stuart told the gathering, while explaining Government’s stance on the fee payment.
He noted that “a lot of controversy has raged and has been waged” around the issue but said he was neither ashamed nor afraid of disputes.
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