OPPOSITION LEADER Owen Arthur has publicly thanked his deputy leader, St Joseph candidate Dale Marshall, for his “tremendous help” during what could have been “one of the darkest days” of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP).
Speaking on Thursday night at a political rally at Lammings, St Joseph, the ancestral home of the BLP, Arthur told Marshall: “I want to thank you for the tremendous help you gave me when we in the Barbados Labour Party went through one of our most difficult times at what could have been one of our darkest days.
“Believe me, it was difficult but we have come through it,” said the BLP’s political leader to cheers from the party faithful who travelled from across the island, many dressed in the party colours of red and yellow and wrapped up tightly against a particularly cold country night.
“They say that you do not become the finest steel until you have gone through the hottest fires,” Arthur said and added that the BLP had been tested and had emerged stronger. (AGB/AC)
