Three solar-powered mobile lunchrooms, each with male and female bathroom facilities and a 15-person transport vehicle commissioned for the workers at the Barbados Agricultural Management Company Limited (BAMC).
Speaking at a brief ceremony on Friday, Prime Minister Mottley commended Minister of Agriculture and Food Security and Member of Parliament for St. Philip South, the Honourable Indar Weir, for piloting the initiative through the relevant channels of Government just about a year ago.
Prime Minister Mottley stated, “This is an example of the reasons we have come to public life: to be able to make a difference in the lives of people. The initiative was actually proposed to us as a Party while in Opposition during one of our Rubbing Shoulders community outreach visits. It became absolutely clear to me that there was a class of worker who had been forgotten in modern Barbados and that we had a solemn duty to correct it. I felt proud hearing the testimonial given by Ms. Kathy-Ann Pinder. The manner in which you spoke not only reflected a level of warmth but it also had, with you, a capacity to articulate and to excite, especially when you reminded us of the critical importance of eating the type of food that we should and not the type of food that has been imported and manufactured to make us sick.”
There are more than 300 BAMC workers who take care of a total of eight farms across Barbados.
