I CRAVE YOUR INDULGENCE to respond to a letter carried in the last MIDWEEK NATION under the caption: Looking For Our Politicians.
I cannot speak on behalf of the other two representatives identified by the author, one Alex Ryan, but I can vouch for the quality of representation being offered by the parliamentary representative for St Michael North East, Mia Mottley.
Is Ryan aware that once Miss Mottley is on island she can be seen interacting with her constituents at her constituency office at Bush Hall Yard Gap, St Michael, every Saturday afternoon?
Once again Mottley showed her love for her constituents and trusted friends on Tuesday, July 6, when she held a function at her constituency office to celebrate the life of the late James Franklin of Butler’s Avenue, Spooner’s Hill, St Michael.
Franklin was buried earlier in the day and it was worthy of note that he was mentioned in the obituary as “a friend of the Honourable Mia Mottley, Leader of the Opposition”, indicating that he was not a mere political operative but a trusted friend.
The event attracted a large crowd, demonstrating the high esteem in which Franklin was held by Mottley and other Barbados Labour Party members.
However, if one wants to come in contact with an absence of parliamentary representation, one only has to visit Bedford Land, Savannah Road, Bush Hall, which falls within the constituency of St Michael Central currently represented by Minister of Culture Steve Blackett.
Under these circumstances, one can only conclude that this unwarrented attack on Mottley at this time is an expression of the anxiety which currently engulfs the Democratic Labour Party.
Political observers have already concluded that in the event Prime Minister David Thompson has to withdraw from politics due to ill health, the DLP does not have personalities of the stature of a Mottley, an Owen Arthur or a Clyde Mascoll to keep the ship of state on an even keel.
Investors and businessmen generally are not going to repose any confidence in acting Prime Minister Freundel Stuart who over the years has consistently espoused a Marxist analysis of our economic system which maintains that there must always be a conflict between capital and labour, social partnership or not.
PETER WARD
