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Barbados has bowed to pressure and shifted the pension policy in the public sector, says former Leader of the Opposition Bishop Joseph Atherley. He said it was one of the shockers coming out of yesterday’s Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals delivered by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley in the House of Assembly. Atherley, chair of the Alliance Party for Progress (APP), said the package was more of a further expose …
“An insult to the intelligence of the Barbadian people.” This is how Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley is responding to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s assertion that the recent strike action by nurses, spearheaded by the Senator Caswell Franklyn-led Unity Workers’ Union, was being bolstered by opposition forces. Atherley told the Weekend Nation that as the man who appointed Franklyn a senator to tackle Opposition matters on labour in the …
Message by Leader of the Opposition Bishop Joseph J.S. Atherley on the occasion of Barbados’ 55th anniversary of Independence Fellow Barbadians, I join you in glad celebration on the occasion of the attainment of the fifty-fifth anniversary of our Independence as a developing nation state. We are indeed a people blessed under the Sovereign hand of God; to whom we offer all gratitude. Our gratitude as well to all those who have …
Leader of the Opposition Bishop Joseph Atherley has called for government accountability. With the refrain “the people have a right to know” following the many concerns he voiced, Atherley on Tuesday questioned Government’s policies, including its award of certain contracts for services; payments for consultancies and the extent of government’s involvement in the recent matter surrounding a failed attempt by a private sector operation to procure COVID-19 vaccines for Barbados …