GOVERNMENT HAS TO PAY.
That is the view of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, who was speaking to journalists yesterday on Friday’s ruling by the Employment Rights Tribunal, which went in favour of the retrenched workers of the National Conservation Commission (NCC), who waited more than two years for the ruling.
Stuart said it was not a matter of whether or not Government could afford to make the payments, at this stage.
“You cannot have a decision against a Government institution, in this case the NCC, and say you can’t afford to pay. You have to pay. Whatever the terms on which the payments are made, it is now a debt due and owing by the NCC when the figures have been finalised,” he said. (YB)
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