Barbados has been making sure citizens of the country are not losing out on employment opportunities.

The assertion came yesterday from the country’s Chief Immigration Officer Margaret Inniss, who revealed that nearly 1 700 people entered the island under the CARICOM free movement regime during the past eight months.

Speaking before Parliament’s Joint Select Committee (standing) examining the Barbados Citizenship Bill yesterday in the Upper House, Inniss disclosed that between October 1 last year and the end of May, 1 696 people arrived from participating CARICOM member states under the free movement arrangement.