Now is not the time for grandstanding says President of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Verla De Peiza who yesterday urged the Government and the Unity Workers Union (UWU) to instead come to a resolution to settle the ongoing nurses’ unrest in Barbados.
She suggested that symbolic gestures or being unyielding on this issue was not in the best interest of the nurses or Barbadians, whose health was at stake.
“The nurses have had a rough time for a long time and it was exacerbated by COVID-19. The nurses need people to be standing up for and supporting them. Last year this time we were clapping, this year we are clapping back at them and that cannot be how we intend to treat nurses.
“A glow-in-the-dark coin is not going to solve their problems, they need to have hard solutions and it calls for level heads,” De Peiza said.
She made these comments yesterday at Jamoon Bar in Workmans, St George, as she supported DLP candidate for St George South, Dawn-Marie Armstrong, who organised a Christmas event during which they provided meals for about 200 people. (TG)
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