Barbadians want greater oversight into the affairs of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) along with less political interference in its operations.This was the view expressed by some citizens who attended Thursday’s NIS Town Hall Meeting at the Princess Margaret School in St Philip.Barbadian Anthony Barrow took to the floor and expressed his concern at the way current and previous governments used the scheme’s savings for capital projects and other ventures which ran counter to the purpose of the scheme.He suggested that tighter control mechanisms should be implemented going forward.“How much power and control do you have if a Minister of Finance, if a government decides, ‘I want this amount of money from here’… It might be good for them at the time, but down the road you are depleting a fund which is really the people’s money.
