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BLP nominee Prescod vows to ‘remain consistent to the path of history’
1/19/2010
By Enricco Bohne
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) unveiled its candidate for the St. Michael East constituency, Trevor Prescod, during a nomination meeting at the St. Giles Primary School on Sunday evening.
“Good night, One Love, One Aim and One Destiny” announced the newly nominated Prescod as he addressed a hall packed with almost 300 BLP supporters and stalwarts. “This is a community from which I sprung, this school that I stand in tonight is responsible for making me what I am. So I owe my life to the people of [this constituency] and I want to say thank you for making me who I am”.
He held that his “divine assignment” is to “take an interest in those persons who are vulnerable and are on the margins of economic and social development in this country”. Prescod stated “I … will remain consistent to the path of history, I will not allow any diversions to offset me from my objective, my mission. It will always be to ensure that some part of the national cake is given to the poor black masses of this country”.
“We have to have institutions so that we can build the kind of Barbados that would respect the desires of ordinary people … I want to take working class children whose parents don’t have any money, [and give them] the opportunity to go into a pre-primary setting just like the other people of this country can go” continued Prescod. “I feel that we have a responsibility to insure that we can moralise the leisure time of our youth. When we do things we should undergird them with some thought of how we could make society better for our own” he added.
Also mentioning political victimisation in the workplace as an area of contention, Prescod suggested “it is because of these fears that I took a while before I came back here to say to you and to say to my branch that I am willing to do it in here. I am prepared to do serious business, I want to be back on track, I want to put you back on track and I will carry St. Michael East as far as I can take it. There is a lot of work undone and the work has to be completed”.
Leader of the BLP, the Hon. Mia Mottley informed supporters that Prescod’s nomination as candidate takes the BLP’s count to 17. Offering her support to the candidate, she voiced “a political party must always have a conscience, Trevor Prescod is part of the conscience of the BLP and he didn’t just arrive there, his consistency and his articulation of issues – he has been unswerving in his belief that what is necessary is not simply to put bread on people’s plate, but equally to transform this country”.
She pushed that in transforming this country, the people who have most to gain have to be at the forefront of that transformation – ordinary Barbadians. Mottley urged “this island is crying out for a new type of government”, elaborating that Barbados “deserves a new politics and a new form of development” and reassuring that “the long march has started tonight”.
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