BARBADOS NEEDS COMPETENT professionals with a proven track record to manage its affairs. Therefore, attempts to negate people with such expertise from participating in public life would only hurt the country.
This, essentially, was the reaction of the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) Ian Gooding-Edghill and Lynette Holder to rumours that supporters had infiltrated the trade union movement and key professional associations and were seeking to stoke the industrial unrest in the country for political gain.
Dismissing the rumours as unfortunate, Gooding-Edghill, the president of the Barbados Employers Confederation (BEC) for the last seven years, said the Constitution guarantees everyone freedom of association. As such, a person’s political persuasion should never be something which people should ever be made to feel ashamed of, or feel they need to exercise in a secretive manner.
Please read the full story in today’s Sunday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.