Opposition Leader Mia Mottley as she addressed the large crowd.

Opposition Leader Mia Mottley as she addressed the large crowd.

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This lady with her red flag in hand showing her support for the ‘white’ march as the group made their way towards Upper Bay Street yesterday.

Walking for Justice

 

Hundreds of Barbadians took to the streets yesterday braving the sweltering heat, to Walk for Justice.
 
The “white” march, led by Leader of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), the Hon. Mia Mottley started at Parliament Building and ended at Browne’s Beach, a stone’s throw away from Government Headquarters, where Cabinet was in session.
 
Mottley, having lost the No-Confidence motion she brought against the government last week, called on Barbadians to join the BLP on the road if they were discontented with the management of the country.
 
Answering the Party’s call were the young and the young at heart holding their placards which read “No Layoffs – DEM Lie”; “The DEMS have no Divine Rights”; “You Dun know DEM must go”; “Pipes Dry – Pockets Drier”. Among those showing their support were Political Consultant, Peter Wickham; Attorney-at-Law, David Comissiong; as well as President of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), Akanni McDowall; and Treasurer of NUPW, Asokore Beckles who were clad in white.
 

Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic assured the marchers that the Barbados Labour Party will continue to fight for justice.

 

“We will continue to fight for you; we will continue to fight until the people in Barbados are able to live proudly again,” he stressed.

 

Bostic, the Member of Parliament for the City of Bridgetown, also pointed out that when things are not going well in his constituency, “We have problems in this country.”

 

“You don’t have to wait on any economist… the people in the City of Bridgetown who suffer most, will know when this economy will be turned around. As long as the taxi men are only taking home $40 at the end of the day – this economy could never be turning away,” he stated.

 

“There can be no justice in this country as long as a man is allowed to keep a structure in the middle of a highway…. And when the little man in Deacons Farms, Chapman Lane, the Orleans and in the Ivy puts up a shack in order to earn a living – the bulldozer comes and pushes it down. There can be no justice in this country as long as that prevails,” he said.

 

The general consensus among protestors was that they are frustrated with the current government.

 

Gloria Alleyne told The Barbados Advocate, “I am supporting the Barbadians who have not gotten back their income tax; the people who got laid off from the National Conservation Commission; and so many other reasons.”

 

“This government is not doing the country right… People not getting any money but they want ten per cent back..., and it’s unfair that they haven’t given people a raise in eight years. All that made me come out to support the Barbados Labour Party.”

 

In July 2014, the BLP also took to the streets to get government to repeal the controversial Municipal Solid Waste Tax. (TL)

 
 

 

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