BLP CAMPaign begins

LEADER OF THE Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), Mia Mottley, has issued a notice to Barbadians that her party’s campaign has officially started.

With the next general election scheduled to take place sometime within the first quarter of 2018, Mottley told hundreds of BLP supporters who attended a Northern St Michael Zone Meeting, at the Lawrence T Gay Memorial School, Spooners Hill, Michael, on Thursday night, that “it may be a short campaign, or it may be a long campaign, but it has started”.

“And it has started because we are listening to the people and as far as the people are concerned, 2018 is their date with destiny. And if [Prime Minister Freundel Stuart] listens to the people he would hear the same thing that we are hearing too. The truth is that I want to tell Freundel that I want him to talk a little more, because the truth is, every time he talks, he helps the Barbados Labour Party more than we can help ourselves,” she said.

Stating that Barbadians are fed up of living in an economy where there is no growth, and leadership is absent, Mottley urged supporters to hold strain, assuring them that her team is “red and ready” for the battle as they seek to win the Government.

“The fundamental point is that the campaign has started even if the election has not been called. It is the right of the Prime Minister to choose the date. That is his right and it does not matter to me now whether he calls it early January, February, March, or May, because we know it has to be called.”

“But what bothers me is that when you listen to this man, as far as he is concerned, he is concerned with what time they have left, rather than being concerned with what time the country has left ...” Mottley said.

“If the country is facing declining reserves, and if the country is facing mounting debt, and if the Government cannot get enough money from its citizens or companies for revenues ...” Mottley added. (AH)