The Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) has condemned the “offensive, personalised and abusive” remarks being levelled against the Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley on social media and in the press.

“For many Guyanese and Carib-bean women and men – Mia Mottley is an exemplary Caribbean leader.

She is deserving of our respect,” the commission said in a statement yesterday.