We can overcome current challenges
Barbados has the ability to reclaim any ground lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That’s the view of the Chairman of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP), Senator Kay McConney, who said that as Barbadians, we have it “in us to pursue progress at an even faster pace to transform Barbados and to make our lives better”. She made the remarks while speaking during the virtual service of thanksgiving and hope to celebrate the second anniversary of the party’s historic election victory.
“This is our work, no one else will do it for us. Every single Barbadian must want better and must want better badly enough to stretch, and to strive, and to fight for it,” she stated.
McConney, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Smart Technology, went on to say that while some of the progress made by the Administration has been pushed back, the country can today thank God that Government had managed to save the Barbados dollar before the COVID lockdown and had started to rebuild the foreign reserves, which will help to cushion the current financial blow dealt by the pandemic. The BLP Chairman also told the online audience that Government had also positioned significant investments that could “raise employment prospects for everyday people going forward”. With all that, she said, Barbados had been well on its way in pushing a transformational agenda that would carry us into the future to compete in the new digital world.
She said that while there has been some fallout from the pandemic, Barbadians can rest assured that their circumstances will change and that the country will hold them up.
“...We will do better together. All is not perfect comrades, Barbadians, no it is not; and uncertainty does not feel good, but take heart. The story of the Barbados Labour Party governments show a history that has seen us lift Barbados and Barbadians out of hard times, restore hope and rebuild prosperity – hold on to that,” she stated.
Minister McConney made the point while referring to the successes achieved under former Prime Ministers Tom Adams and Owen Arthur, who she indicated, helped to transform and strengthen this country.
“Think back to the progress we made most recently under the Mia Amor Mottley led Administration, now think forward as our country safely returns to work, returns our children to school, returns to traveling, returns to shopping – all in their own gradual time. Let us do so grateful that we are in a Barbados led by a caring team, whose stewardship is anchored in the Barbados Labour Party’s Covenant of Hope that puts people first,” she added. (JRT)