Authorities are being urged to come clean on what is happening at the Government Industrial School (GIS).Former Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley made the call as he expressed concern about the conflicting information coming out about the state-run institution, in particular the Female Unit at Barrows, St Lucy.“We have to stop playing around with this situation. It is children we are dealing with here. We have to stop playing around with this. One is unclear as to what is happening. People who speak officially on behalf of the Government speak from a situation where they are properly informed. And then, conversely, we get the impression that people outside of Government speak as equally informed and based on proper information. So you are confused,” he lamented in an interview with Barbados TODAY.“You get the impression that an investigation is ongoing and reports will be done. What happens after those reports, why is the investigation taking so long and some of these things are critical? You have had people whose lives have come close to being imperiled, if we are to believe all that we are hearing in terms of suicide attempts and absconding and so on,” added the Chairman of the Alliance Party for Progress (APP).
