Bridgetown.
Leader of the Opposition Mia Mottley is collecting data on the needs of planation workers across Barbados which she will submit to Government.
Mottley, who spoke to reporters at Fisherpond Plantation in St. Thomas yesterday evening, said she had listen to the complains of female labourers at the plantation.
The main complaints which the Opposition Leader said she had gathered from the Fisherpond field workers included a lack of toilet facilities, low wages and little or no gratuity on retirement.
“That is something I have pledged to work on because it can’t be fair; these are the people who helped build the sugar industry. It is the product for which we have had global preeminence; it is the product that leads to rums for which we equally have global preeminence, and we are going to have to address that issue in terms of them retiring with nothing else than the normal National Insurance pension,” Mottley said.
“The Labour Party will pledge to do that. I’m going to get the numbers, I don’t speak in advance of getting the policy that I know that we can stick to. And I’ve given them the commitment that I’m going to look at all the numbers and see what can be done for them as a matter of urgency and recommend to Government", she added.
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