Deputy Prime Min­is­ter of St Lu­cia, Dr. Ernest Hi­laire, is call­ing on the pri­vate sec­tor to fol­low the ex­am­ple of the gov­ern­ment and pro­vide their work­ers with a bonus at Christ­mas time.

“It is a philo­soph­i­cal prin­ci­ple. I be­lieve when there are suc­cess­es in the coun­try — high­er pro­duc­tion and high­er rev­enues — it should be shared. You can’t tell the pri­vate sec­tor how to share their prof­its, but I be­lieve the peo­ple that made it suc­cess­ful should ben­e­fit,”  Hi­laire told re­porters.

A gov­ern­ment state­ment Mon­day, quot­ed Prime Min­is­ter Phillip J Pierre as say­ing that the bonus is part of the gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to work­ers and fam­i­lies.