“An insult to the intelligence of the Barbadian people.”
This is how Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley is responding to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s assertion that the recent strike action by nurses, spearheaded by the Senator Caswell Franklyn-led Unity Workers’ Union, was being bolstered by opposition forces.
Atherley told the Weekend Nation that as the man who appointed Franklyn a senator to tackle Opposition matters on labour in the Senate, he felt as if he was directly in the firing line of Mottley’s comments.
He also accused the Prime Minister of double standards, arguing that by going into details about what her administration had done for the nurses, she was guilty of the very thing of which Franklyn stood accused. (CLM)
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