‘Help working poor’

Former?Cabinet?Minister Clyde Mascoll thinks it would be “folly” for Government to contemplate a wage freeze across the board.
Mascoll, one of the island’s leading economists, made this assertion at a St Michael North West nomination meeting on Sunday night, at which attorney Gregory Nicholls was endorsed as the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) candidate to succeed him.
“There is no way you can expect Barbadians at the lower end to continue on a fixed income to be hurt by . . . rising everything, and therefore policies have to be designed to ensure that we give relief to those who deserve,” he said.
Before an audience at Ellerslie School that included Opposition Leader Owen Arthur, Mascoll made it clear that relief can’t only be at the lower end.
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