Opposition Leader Mia Mottley has blasted Prime Minister Freundel Stuart for his comments relating to the almost $50 million raked in from the increased National Social Responsibility Levy (NSRL).
Last Tuesday, Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler reported to the House of Assembly that the NSRL, increased from two per cent to ten per cent on July 1, had contributed “just short of $50 million” to Government’s coffers in a quarter and was projected to inject $200 million over a year.
However, in the wake of that revelation, Stuart is reported to have said he did not have all the financial data from that quarter and would speak to the takings when he had received such information.
“But if ever there was a . . . statement by a Prime Minister to tell people the equivalent of ‘like it or lump it’, this is the statement to which we are referring,” Mottley said yesterday evening during a Barbados Labour Party Rubbing Shoulders event in Maynards, St Peter. (HLE)
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