Mottley: Barbados Labour Party focused, ready

The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) is focused and ready.

So says Mia Mottley, Leader of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party and candidate for the St. Michael North East. Moreover, Mottley said the BLP is more than capable of dealing with the “mission critical things” that it will confront if elected to office in the pending general election.

Addressing those gathered on Montgomery Pasture, Cave Hill, St. Michael on Sunday night, where she endorsed the St. Michael North candidate, Ronald Toppin, Mottley said they would be the first government that would have to deal with so many “mission critical things”.

“Whether it is the foreign reserves or the debt, or the arrears owed by this government to so many businesses and households; or no buses or no garbage trucks; or the blacklisting of international business sector; or the treating of people at A&E, Accident and Emergency, almost as if they don’t have feelings; the indiscipline of the young people and the use of automatic weapons on our streets so we hear about drive by shootings, these are the things that the Barbados Labour Party is coming to fix and to remedy in this country,” Mottley told those gathered.

She assured those present that when they have fixed those “crisis issues”; their focus will be on transformation, to make Barbados a better place in which to live. Mottley has promised that a government led by her will work hard every day, contending that by doing so, and “not waffling, not stopping and wondering or speed wobbling,” basic things can be fixed. To that end, she maintained that she is of the firm belief that she has the team for the times.

Mottley added, “I have people in this team who have already walked away from jobs that are paying them more than a Cabinet minister’s job could every pay them. I have people in this team who represent every aspect of society and economic endeavour in this country. We were told that Barbados is not just an economy but a society, well they have mashed up both the economy and society and I have assembled a team to build back both.”

With that in mind, she said a BLP government will ensure that there are not two and three Barbadoses, and that Barbadians can better make ends meet. She went on to say that while the Democratic Labour Party may leave this country a nightmare, it will not be their destiny if the BLP is given a chance and as such, she is urging voters to use their vote wisely. (JRT)