BLP gets “failing grade” from Finance Minister
Finance Minister Christopher Sinckler has given the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) a failing grade.
He said that even after all the calls for a general election and preparation the BLP is “supremely ill-prepared” to assume the office of government in Barbados, as he highlighted some of their promises which include constructing three islands off Barbados, four marinas, a ferry service, rapid roof replacement programme as well as giving all gas station attendants raincoats.
On the other hand, he is reminding all voters that the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has presented a reasonable, responsible and implementable manifesto.
“We are not over-promising things because we know how the situation is.”
The Candidate for St Michael North West was at the time addressing the DLP’s St James South National Meeting at Thorpes in support of candidate Donville Inniss on Sunday night.
“And we have said this is what we will do. We have to continue to bring our deficit down. It was at 11 percent, we got it down to 4.2 percent at the end of the last financial year and falling. We have asked Barbadians to carry a little bit more weight, not because we want to hurt people but because we want to ensure that those who are less fortunate than ourselves can continue to get access to quality social services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital,from the Sanitation Service Authority, Housing and so forth…,” he stressed.
“Because the fact of the matter is this I might be doing okay, you might be doing okay, but we have families that still live in circumstances that they are not doing as well as we are. And our duty and responsibility is to ensure that if we have to carry a little more weight, so that they can come along too, we have to do it for Barbados and Barbadians because we are all in this together…. When times are good, we all partake, when times are tough we all have to share the burden. And that is what the Democratic Labour Party has been saying and doing for the past 10 years.”
Sinckler further assured supporters that all of the policies implemented by the Democratic Labour Party in the last decade have been in the interest of Barbados. He therefore urged them to do the right thing on May 24th.
“Now is not the time frit away the success that we have achieved in fighting down this vicious recession. Now is the time for us having laid the platform to reap the benefits.” (TL)