MINISTER OF INDUSTRY Donville Inniss has told public sector workers they need to be a bit more appreciative of the work of the private sector, considering that was how their bills and salaries were paid.
Addressing a Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry seminar on business facilitation yesterday, Inniss spoke of a failure by public officers “to understand what businesses go through on a daily basis”.
He admitted: “There is a failure on my end, the public sector, sometimes to understand why or how our failure to respond to you [the business community] with an application matter within a day or two affects your business . . . .
“So from my end we certainly have to appreciate what the private sector has to go through. We in the public sector also have to fully appreciate that whether we like it or not, you pay our bills, you pay our salaries.” (TY)
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