Christ Church South constituents urged not to get carried away with BLP proposals

CONSTITUENTS in Christ Church South have been told not to get carried away with the proposals which the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has been promoting in its Manifesto.

The advice has come from Anthony Goodridge who addressed a DLP spot meeting in Enterprise, Christ Church, in support of the candidature of Christ Church South hopeful, John Boyce, the Minister of Health.

Goodridge said that the BLP has been promoting several measures which are not ideal for either Barbadians or the economy, and that they would do more harm than good.

He said that for instance, the BLP’s plan to do away with road tax and replace it with a tax on gasoline, will leave motorists paying more of the new tax than the road tax they are currently paying. Furthermore, he revealed that people who operate public service vehicles will find themselves having to pay more which would then have to be passed on to the travelling public. He also took issue with other measures like the pensions which the BLP has outlined in the manifesto.

Goodridge said that the BLP had 14 years, a time of plenty, to give Barbadians more pensions and some of the other giveaways which are contained in the manifesto. “Why didn’t they do that then..?” he asked.

Instead, he told those attending the meeting, that the BLP had left the country saddled with debt which the present administration is now attempting to deal with.

He charged that the promises were an attempt to get people to vote for that party. “It is just a promise which is a comfort to a fool,” he told the meeting, advising the people not to let the Labour Party fool them.

“It is not the time to question the DLP, the party which has advanced your interest and did so for years,” he told the meeting. “This is not the time to hold down your heads and give up to the Labour Party and all of the tactics that party is bringing to win the election,” Goodridge said.

Goodridge also expressed that he could not understand how the BLP failed to recognise that the person they are using as a poster child would not come under the scrutiny of the DLP. (JB)