THE ISLAND’S economic gains will mean nothing if there is social dysfunction in communities, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said yesterday.
Despite a drop in the unemployment rate or growth in the foreign reserves, he said it would be “like spinning top in mud” if there continued to be “a complete breakdown” in domestic relationships.
Stuart was addressing the Father’s Day luncheon hosted by the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) at the George Street Auditorium.
He told the audience that the DLP had been trying to create a “different type of Barbados” by its policies, from that which existed during slavery.
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