BLP supporters encouraged to support one another

AS Barbados Labour Party supporters gathered at Barclay’s Park on the East Coast Road on Thursday to celebrate the birthday of their founding father, the late Sir Grantley Adams, they were encouraged to support one another, amidst the “rough times” plaguing the country.

During the National Heroes Day celebrations, Opposition leader, Mia Mottley, appealed to the hundreds gathered for the party’s annual picnic and fun day, to band together and to help each other out.

“Every year, we come here to celebrate the birthday of our founder Grantley Adams. But we also come here because we recognise that we have a duty to carry on the greatest tribute we can pay to him.

“The greatest tribute we can pay to him, and to all of our other heroes, is by how we live and how we behave, and how we give to each other and how we care each other, and how we support each other. And if ever there was a time that our people needed one another, it is now,” Mottley told those gathered.

“Things are rough. But even when things are rough, we will rise together, and when we rise together, we do so helping each other, and when we help each other, we see success,” she added.
Mottley, however, did not leave the stage before she said a word or two about present Democratic Labour Party administration.

“I warned you in Baxter’s Road a few weeks ago that we would come together for this celebration and fellowship, because after today, it is work, work, work. And it is work because this country cannot take any more of the stress from Freundel Stuart and the Democratic Labour Party,” she commented.

“This country can’t take any more of people telling us one thing and doing a next thing. This country cannot take any more of our workers having to fight for their rights and everywhere a different set of workers are threatening to strike, because of how badly they are being treated by this government,” Mottley told the cheering crowd. (RSM)