Opposition Leader Supports Disabilities Bill

The bill received the support of Prime Minister John Briceno, as well as from the ministers of Education, Francis Fonseca and Labour, Oscar Requena. All these officials made references to either their own relatives or an associate who had a disability and believe the bill will be beneficial to people like their loved ones. The bill’s popularity came when Opposition Leader, Moses “Shyne” Barrow

also supported the bill and paid compliments to Marshall Nunez, who is the Disability Desk Coordinator in the Ministry of Human Development. Even as Barrow acknowledged Nunez, however, he wished the Opposition was included more in the decision-making process.

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“I must applaud Marshall Nunez who is the champion behind the Disabilities Bill. I know that he worked exhaustively on this. He has been one of the premier advocates for people with disabilities. It is a very ambitious bill. But I am never one to shy away from having revolutionary ambitions, but I do applaud Marshall Nunez, who is the champion behind this. And so this is one thing that we can support. And we do hope that the government will do everything to assist in meeting these very ambitious targets. But one of the criticisms we have is the lack of representation of the Opposition on these commissions, on these boards. It makes no sense for continuity, for democracy, for diversity. to exclude the Opposition. And remember, this is a government that said they would be different. They said they would be able transparency on good governance, so why is it that you can’t have the Opposition on these very important boards for continuity, so it is when we become government because governments change in a democracy, we can be seized of all that is happening in these different places.”