“That part of partisan politics in my life is over.”
The words of former Prime Minister Owen Arthur yesterday as he declared he had no intention of joining the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP).
“I’m not becoming somebody else. I’m not going to become a Dem. I have made no overtures to join the Democratic Labour Party and I have no interest in joining the DLP,” he told the DAILY NATION.
Arthur’s comments came in the wake of speculation over the past several days that the former prime minister might mend fences with the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), from which he resigned late last month, or he might seek ties with the Freundel Stuart administration.
There have also been suggestions that Arthur could become the mastermind behind the formation of a third political party.
But Arthur said he had no further role to play in partisan politics and that his hands were full “with a large number of productive matters”.
