BLP aiming to stamp out corruption

The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) will be stamping out corruption.

Candidate for St Michael North, Ronald Toppin, is assuring Barbadians that this will be a priority.

“There is a cost to corruption; money spent on corruption is money that cannot be spent on beneficial and developmental projects and programmes for this country,” he indicated.

He therefore revealed that if the BLP wins the upcoming general election, the necessary legislation will be passed to deal with that issue.

“There has been a lot of corruption in this country in the last 10 years – you know it, and I know it. I believe that serious investigations should be carried out to get to the bottom of all the corruption that has taken place in this country,” he stressed.

“I believe that you agree with me that when those investigations are carried out, whoever is found to have been involved in that corruption should see a piece of prison, no matter how ‘big-up’ the person might be. The corruption in this country in the last 10 years has been too blatant and it has cost this country heavily and it must stop and the BLP will stop it.”

Toppin, who was addressing the BLP’s National Meeting held at Farm Road, Deacons on Wednesday night, also assured supporters that under a Barbados Labour Party government, misplaced priorities will be a thing of the past.
Moreover, he threw his support behind the candidate for that St Michael North West constituency Neil Rowe, who will go up against Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Christopher Sinckler.

“…Over 20 downgrades under the stewardship of Chris Sinckler, which is his greatest failure to date – we are the laughing stock. And every time when you bring these issues up, the DLP likes to play the blame game, it is always somebody else’s fault, or they give some other reason other than their own sheer incompetence…

“Our debt is still exceedingly high, our fiscal deficit is still nowhere near being balanced, our foreign reserves are at an all time low, and prices have gone up at least by 45 per cent in the last 10 years under the DLP.

“I am here to tell you that better can be done and that better will be done. Team BLP will rescue this country – it will be hard work, but we have done it before and we are going to do it again. We have a plan,” Toppin assured. (TL)