A high-level government team led by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley descended on a construction site yesterday, discovering 68 migrant workers living in deplorable, inhumane conditions – and promptly gave the company just hours to clear them out.

The DAILY NATION understands the dramatic intervention came after the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) blew the whistle on the unlicensed barracks during a Social Partnership meeting at Ilaro Court involving the construction sector, trade unions and officials from the Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Home Affairs.

The meeting was abruptly paused.