DLP queries Government’s COVID-19 plan

“WHAT is the plan?”

This is the question the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is posing to the present Barbados Labour Party administration.

“What is the Government’s policy on health, as it relates to COVID? What are the benchmarks that indicate imminent need for a lockdown? How close are we as a country to that edge?” President of the DLP, Verla De Peiza, queried in a statement issued to the press yesterday.

“The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) asks these questions in the context of 210 new cases and one death in the first 19 days of this month. By any index, this is alarming and a cause for concern; especially as we welcome visitors, while grappling with our internal community spread and a seriously low uptake of the vaccine,” the DLP President further commented.

She added, “Clearly, a two-week part-time curfew meant nothing to the spread of the virus. If the decision is that we tough it out, tell us outright.

If it is that we need to re-introduce harsher measures, say that too. This is not the time to be silent, but to speak up firmly.”

“The former leader was consistently accused of not speaking; this leader is emerging as one who is increasingly silent on critical issues,” she charged.

De Peiza then declared, “This is a time when the country needs strong leadership and definitive policy articulation, no matter how unpopular the decision might be. Talk to us!”