BARBADOS-EMPLOYMENT-PM to meet with senior public servants to discuss employment issues

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart will meet with senior public servants later on Tuesday amid ongoing reports of retrenchment within the public service as the government comes to grip with a worsening economic climate. But ahead of the talks, Prime Minister Stuart is emphasizing that his administration, which introduced a number of cost cutting measures in the national budget last month, is not on a “crusade” to lay off public workers. “What we are on a crusade to do is to increase efficiency in the public sector and I am aware that there have been some howls of protest from persons who got letters telling them their employment has come to an end. I am not sure why this has happened.