Government sensitive to private sector’s needs

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is giving the private sector the assurance that Government has listened to their concerns about the impact that some new pieces of legislation could have on their businesses. His comments came last week while addressing a wide cross section of the business community at a luncheon hosted by the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Stuart told the packed room at the Hilton Barbados Hotel that their concerns have not fallen on deaf ears and that his Government will continue to show sensitivity to their needs. “A Government in its zeal, in very ordinary circumstances can want to introduce as much social legislation as possible and of course there is always the issue of the protection of workers and so on, at the workplace... But in circumstances as difficult as those in which we have had to operate over the last five years, I agree that we should look, and we have looked at how any piece of legislation we wanted to introduce or have passed in Parliament would affect the bottom line of companies that were holding hands with us through this very difficult period and keeping people employed,” he said.