OPPOSITION LEADER Owen Arthur last night accused the Government of playing politics by naming a football tournament after late Prime Minister David Thompson.
He made the charge in a speech during which he declared that the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) was on the edge of an emphatic electoral victory and would build an economy for the youth once it came to power.
At Tyrol Cot in Codrington Hill, before a sizeable crowd at the unchallenged nomination St Michael North-East Member of Parliament Mia Mottley, Arthur said Government should have named the tournament after either Reggie Haynes or Victor “Gas”?Clarke, two former outstanding Barbados players.
“At this time when Barbados should be opening up sports like the rest of the world as an avenue for professional development of our young people and to give them careers, what is the Democratic Labour Party doing? – seeking only to use sports for the purposes of their own political development, and it is wrong,” he said.
