DLP bringing the Facts during upcoming conference

THE Democratic Labour Party (DLP) launched a campaign yesterday under the theme Facts, with the view of elucidating government’s achieve-ments and the actions taken to ensure Barbados’ viability.

Yesterday, during a press conference at the DLP headquarters, General Secretary George Pilgrim made a call for party faithfuls to make their way to Queen’s College on March 4 at 9 a.m., for a mid-year conference, which he says will allow Ministers to share the policy journey over the period in government.
“It is very important that we share this as we seek to chart a path for all Barbadians. The conference will be streamed live on all of our platforms so that our overseas branches can also tune into the conference,” he said.

Furthermore, “The conference will also allow for the party base to share and give the party central, needed feedback on the views and thoughts. The conference will be streamed live in on all our platforms so that our overseas branches can also tune in to the Conference: FACTS as our speakers roll out,” he further explained.

Pilgrim also used the opportunity to announce that 30 Barbadians will be awarded Patriot Awards, noting that 2017 was designated as the year of Youth Engagement.

“These awards will be sponsored by the party and will be given to persons under the age of 35, based on the outlined criteria,” he revealed.
The hope, he said, is that the public will get a chance to nominate deserving young persons for such awards. Areas to be recognised include music, theatre, dance, fashion, cricket, football, religion and agriculture to name a few.

Pilgrim noted that this year also marks the 30th anniversary of Father of the Party the Right Excellent Errol Barrow’s death. “We will remember Barrow in a number of different ways during the first week of June. June 1 marks 30 years since his passing and therefore on this day we won’t be marching or asking Barbadians to be disruptive,” he stated.

“Instead we will head to St. John for a full engagement of the schools’ children by hosting a primary school cook off, the recipes will come from Barrow’s Cook book. We have engaged St. John’s Primary, Mt Tabor and St. Margaret’s. We have approached Lodge school to participate by hosting the cook off,” he said.