Barbados Invites Remote Workers, Promising LGBT+ Acceptance
July 23, 2020Under the 12-Month Welcome Stamp Initiative, Barbados is inviting foreigners to work remotely on its sandy beaches.
Earlier this week it was insinuated that same-sex couples were being discriminated against under the Barbados '12-Month Welcome Stamp' which invited people earning at least US$50 000 annually to live and work here.
Currently, same-sex male relations are punishable by up to 16 years in prison.
But speaking in the House of Assembly during a debate on the Remote Employment Bill, 2020, Prime Minister Mia Mottley said all would be welcomed as long as she held that post, according to ‘Nation News’.
She stated that Barbados was “forged regrettably in the bowels of discrimination” and could not now discriminate against anybody for any reason.
“No discrimination on the grounds of race, no discrimination on the grounds of age, no discrimination on the grounds of colour, no discrimination on the grounds of gender, no discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation,” the Prime Minister itemised in her address.
“And the people that want to put us in a box that would allow people to be discriminated against for any reason, Mr Speaker, that is not who we are. We are not that person.
“We are not that person,” she reiterated. “And we have never been.”
More information about the 12-Month Welcome Stamp Initiative is available at www.barbadoswelcomestamp.bb
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