Cabinet Minister Stephen Lashley said a full page advertisment carried by the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in the last SUNDAY?SUN was in bad taste and an attempt to sully the character and integrity of Mara Thompson, the widow of former Prime Minister, the late David Thompson.
Lashley, blazing the campaign trail at a St John by-election meeting on behalf of Democratic Labour Party (DLP) candidate Mara Thompson, criticised the content of the advertisement carried on page 2 of the paper that was paid for the BLP.
The Minister of Family, Culture, Sport and Youth, told a large crowd in Sherbourne at a meeting last night that he was disappointed to see the ad after Opposition Leader Owen Arthur, promised the campaign would be clean.
“Owen Arthur started this campaign by saying the BLP?will be havijng a clean campaign. Yet, I can open the SUNDAY?SUN?and see a full page advertisement seeking to denigrate the character and integrity of the widow of the late David Thompson”.
Lashley, a St John hometown boy, said that BLP?candidate, 45-year-old contractor, Hudson Griffith, will be badly beaten at the January 20 polls.
“The Barbados Labour Party has never been serious about St John. . . They treat St John with such contempt, that they can bring any and everybody to try to foister on the people of St John. They do not respect the people of St John. They never have,” he said.
