Friday, March 29, 2024

Don’t privatize the BWA

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LEAVE THE Barbados Transport Board and the Barbados Water Authority alone!
That’s the call from the recently ended 71st annual delegates conference of the Barbados Workers Union (BWU).
The delegates have given a thumbs-down to any talk about the privatisation of the Board and the BWA.
In a media statement released yesterday they said that shifting the Transport Board to the private sector “would create hardships for thousands of wage workers at the lower levels of the pay scale such as security guards and gas attendants”. (JS)

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