If Minister of Education Ronald Jones gets his wish, Barbados would sooner have an industrial relations court and teaching would be an essential service.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday during debate on the new Employment Rights Bill, Jones broke his three-month silence on the protracted Alexandra School impasse, charging that the nation had been held hostage by the “miasma”.
He said that such a situation should never occur in Barbados again, stressing that immediate industrial relations legislation was needed, followed by the setting up of an industrial relations court.
“It must become part and parcel of our landscape.”
The minister, who handed over the school dispute to Prime Minister Freundel Stuart in January after failing to find a solution, also strongly suggested that teaching should be an essential service. (BA)
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