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The public servants of Barbados have already effectively taken a cut in salary over the last 2 years where their wage increases were wiped out by rising inflation.

To have a wage freeze on top of this is to take more money out of their pockets especially given the known increases in the prices for water, electricity, telephone, energy products and other rates and fees, like road taxes. And let us not forget that it was the Prime Minister who has led the charge in this arena of price hikes.

The public must not be fooled that by failing to agree to a wage freeze that there will inevitably be layoffs.

The Government has options even now without putting in peril their fiscal situation. No one expects large increases but they must be able to live. It is a question of options.

Yet again here is a Government that is prepared to ask the public servants, just like in 1991, to pay the price for their incompetence over the last two years. We will address this matter on Sunday night in St Patricks and lay bare the facts.

On the issue of divestment, this Government is all over the place except leading.

One minute they want to buy BNB and Sam Lords. Now they want to sell Government assets.

There is nothing known to us today that was not known to the Government last year when they were making the opposite sounds.

This is truly symptomatic of a Government in trouble.

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This statement was released late yesterday afternoon.
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