Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs Kirk Humphrey has dismissed critics of Government’s Summer Nutrition (SuN) programme, saying there should be no shame in children coming forward to accept the meals if their families are poor and unable to adequately afford nutritious meals during this summer.In fact, Humphrey, who said he grew up in The Pine, St Michael, argued that most Barbadians were “born poor” and are descendants of slaves who started with nothing.“I have to contain myself, because I listen to people talking about not giving people children school meals because it is going to make them look poor. But most of [us] born poor though, and most people of colour came to this country against their will, chained in a boat, lest we forget. Some people were able to get certain things, fair enough, but all of us came here as slaves. Just go back three or four generations and none of us had [anything],” said Humphrey.
