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LISTEN TO ME, SIR! Little 18-month-old Empress Forde had the full attention of Prime Minister the Right Honourable Freundel Stuart right after his speech at the Democratic Labour Party’s Errol Barrow Memorial Church Service, which was held at the New Testament Church of God, Crab Hill, St. Lucy yesterday. Minister of Housing, Lands and Rural Development and St. Lucy MP, Denis Kellman (left), looks on.

STAY FOCUSED, says PM STUART

Mon, 01/23/2017 - 12:00am

 

Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Leader, Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart, urged members not to get distracted by a lot of the ‘incoherent noises’ they hear from time to time.
 
Acknowledging the Opposition’s call to give voice to various national issues, he signalled “those issues are going to be settled on a date that I will determine”.
 
The Prime Minister’s comments came as he addressed the Errol Barrow Memorial Church Service, held at New Testament Church of God, Crab Hill in St. Lucy, yesterday.
 
He said that wealthy developed countries are still feeling the effects of the global financial crisis, and therefore it is no surprise that a small, fragile, developing country like Barbados should continue to feel the effects as well.
 
“Now that is not an excuse, it’s an explanation,” he stressed.
 
“It is the kind of explanation which is required to be given in Barbados because over the last eight years, there have been a number of false prophets running around trying to give the impression that we in Barbados are in a collection of Robinson Crusoe’s on our own little island – that we are not affected by what happens anywhere else; that we can make our own decisions, do our own thing and we can be as viable as we want. Not true!”
 

“It would have been a good thing if all the tourists that Barbados depend on came from St. Lucy. We have to depend on them coming from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other parts of the Caribbean… Similarly, for our International Business and Financial Services sector, we also have to depend on what is going on in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada in particular if we are going to get the kind of business out of the North Atlantic, to build our national business and financial services sector,” he indicated.

The late Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, first Prime Minister of Barbados and National Hero would have celebrated his 97th birthday on January 21.

 

Stuart observed that even 30 years after his death, he is still the most quoted politician in Barbados.

 

“We memorialise him because of the great contribution which he has made to the development of Barbados – in our enrichment and to our education,” he expressed.

 

“He came not to see what he could get out of politics, but he came to see what he could give to it… We in the Democratic Labour Party have every reason to feel proud that he has been our leader and that he has contributed as much as he was able to contribute, using the Democratic Labour Party as his vehicle to the people of Barbados.” 

 

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