Depeiza speaks out at Brittons Hill

“The lesson to be learned is that sometimes the medicine is bitter like gall, but it is the thing that kills worms”.

Mounting the platform at Villa Road, Brittons Hill on Monday night, Democratic Labour Party’s candidate for Christ Church West Verla Depeiza told those gathered that the austerity measures put in place by the Freundel Stuart administration over the past ten years were necessary to put the country on a path of economic growth.

Urging them to recall the unpopular political decision Former Prime Minister Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford made to save this country in the 1990s, she drew a comparison between then and the present, while noting that he was now hailed as a hero to the masses.

“We are in a “medicine moment” in this country and these are not time for “corn beef and biscuits” promises in manifestos. These are times again like the early 1990s for sober and steady steering of the ship. So when you see all of the giveaways in a manifesto, you know they are only courting your ‘x’ but they do not have the best interest of their country at heart,” the attorney-at-law added.

She insisted that this election was one where morality was an issue and persons must save the soul of the country which was “at stake”.

“This is not the time to be voting sentiment. This is not the time to follow family because they are accustomed to doing things in a particular way. This is the election beyond all other elections that happened in this country, where we sit and think and reason and make that intelligent vote for the future of your country,” Depeiza insisted. (JMB)