Child rights advocate Marsha Hinds-Myrie is convinced that Government has successfully transferred the problems plaguing the Government Industrial School (GIS) from the Barrows building in St Lucy to the newly-renovated facility at Dodds, St Philip.Hinds-Myrie , the Co-Director of the child advocacy organisation Operation Safe Space (OSS), has insisted that although the two female wards were moved to join their male counterparts at Dodds, there has been no change to the personnel working with the residents.“Different location, same operation. We understand that although one of the recommendations coming out of the Williams report was that the staff should be removed and replaced, we are hearing that the staff remains at the institution. There seems to be some complication with securing transfers for them so that new and suitable staff can be brought to the institution. And there is a way in which obviously, if you transfer the staff, you also transfer the problems,”Hinds-Myrie told Barbados TODAY.
