Senator Caswell Franklyn has called for the removal of the management team at the Government Industrial School (GIS).
Speaking yesterday during debate of the Appropriation Bill 2020, he said: “I am calling on Government to remove the entire leadership of the Government Industrial School and institute an investigation into the abuses that [are] going on there.”
Referring to the story which gripped Barbados for the past two weeks about a 14-year-old ward at the school being placed naked in a solitary confinement cell, Franklyn said that was not the only atrocity that had taken place at the reform school.
“These things were going on for years and nobody has done anything about it,” he charged.
Pointing out that he had been involved with both the boys’ and girls’ schools over the years, he once again made reference to a maid who was fired from the school last December because she had witnessed one of the wards being beaten, according to him “by a senior member of staff”. (MB)
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