THE ONGOING protest which has seen workers from some Government departments refusing to carry out their duties is no laughing matter says Minister of Industry Donville Inniss.
Reprimanding members of the opposition Barbados Labour Party, who he said appear pleased about the situation, Inniss said he was disgusted by their behaviour.
While speaking to the media after a meeting with senior officials and attorneys for the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation yesterday, he said that an island wide shutdown was a threat to all Barbadians and the financial stability of the country.
“I noted the Barbados Labour Party parliamentary group including two former attorney generals who would have helped to create legislation and certainly were in parliament when the amendments to the Statutory Pensions Act were made and they certainly ought to know better.
“Certainly as a parliamentarian I have been around long enough or perhaps have enough common sense to know that when you are a lawmaker you should not seek with a great degree of energy to be a lawbreaker and I would urge my colleagues in the Barbados Labour Party whilst they may smell blood and want to go on a feeding frenzy they need to appreciate that they are also lawmakers and must do all within their power to maintain law and order in this society,” he urged. (SDB Media)