THE?BARBADOS?Labour Party’s parliamentary group is willing to take a ten per cent pay cut but only if government stops its “partisan” projects.
So said Opposition Leader Mia Mottley yesterday, when she spoke at a news conference at her office in Parliament.
Pointing out that the parliamentary group had met on Friday and had discussed the matter, Mottley said: “Our pay cut for 14 members is miniscule in comparison to the $4.5 million dollars that is being spent for catering for summer camps. The Government must stop that and it must stop the $5 million in constituency councils and the David Thompson football tournament and if we can get those things then the opposition like anybody else is going to bear its share of the burden,” she said.
In reference to the proposed lay-off of over 3 000 public workers next year, Mottley said that suggestion and the proposed pay cut by all public servants would not bring safety nor stability to the country.
