MINISTER OF HOUSING Denis Kellman has struck down a suggestion that Barbados open its borders to more Caribbean nationals.
The recommendation was made during the latest in a series of community meetings on housing and sustainable urban development called Habitat III at Queen’s College on Sunday night.
“There’s nothing wrong in bringing labour that you need but there’s something called a social cost. Sometimes we do not realise that . . . We do not increase the productivity to suit the social cost.
“We are 166 square miles and we have to realise that if we have to solve the problem we first need to ensure that we’ll become productive. After we do everything to make our people productive and it doesn’t work, then we need to look at the second option,” the minister responded.
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