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Thursday, July 22, 2004
Barbadian PRIME MINISTER Owen Arthur has scolded Barbadians who object to non-nationals working there, according to press reports out of the island. The Prime Minister asked Immigration officials to stop treating other nationals badly, and criticized Barbadians work ethic, telling them to pull up their socks. Saying he welcomed the Guyanese, Vincentians, and St Lucians whom he thanked for making Barbados commercial agriculture sector what it is today, Arthur told Parliament recently that the immigrants did the work that Barbadians did not want.
He said an Article in the Caricom Treaty that allows journalists, sportsmen, and graduates of the University of the West Indies to move freely throughout the region, should be opened up to include other categories of workers, such as those in agriculture.
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