Marshall: Barbadians have lost faith in the DLP

The country has been slowly decaying over the last ten years, due to the incompetence of the Democratic Labour Party government and as such, Barbadians have lost their faith and confidence in the ruling party.

Barbados Labour Party candidate for St. Joseph, Dale Marshall suggested the above, as he spoke at a National Meeting held by the BLP in Greens, St. George recently.

“The one thing that the Democratic Labour Party has failed to recognise, is that the people of this country have lost confidence in the Democratic Labour Party government. If you ask any Barbadian if their life is better off today than when the Democratic Labour Party came to power, their answer will be a resounding no,” the incumbent said.

“And the people did not lose this faith and confidence overnight, it was a gradual decline. Because when the Barbados Labour Party came in 2013 and said that the Democratic Labour Party was taking us down the wrong road, the majority of the people of Barbados said, give them another chance. They got another chance. They had two terms of government in this country and the one thing that you can be sure of, is that every single day was worse than the day before. So we have had ten years of Democratic Labour Party rule and the people of Barbados have absolutely nothing to show for it,” Marshall said.

He meanwhile questioned the vast amounts of money spent by the DLP on various buildings across the country and yet, critical services are still not being delivered.

“It boggles my mind that the Democratic Labour Party could build a brand new headquarters for the Sanitation (Service) Authority in Vaucluse St. Thomas. Building real estate is more important than buying garbage trucks to pick up garbage alongside the street,” he said, adding that virtual mountains of garbage are now piled up on local streets, creating a haven for rats.

He added, “How could they build a headquarters for the Barbados Water Authority for $160 million, but not lift a finger to ensure that the people of my constituency, the people of parts of St. George, parts of St. Andrew, St. Thomas, St. Lucy, even as far up as St. James, are without water.”

“They spent $39 million on a polyclinic in Gall Hill (St. John). I did a police station, a new law court, a post office and a library in Horse Hill for $17 million dollars. I built four facilities on one location for $17 million dollars and they built a single polyclinic for more than twice that. And it still isn’t finished,” Marshall asserted. (RSM)