THE OPPOSITION BARBADOS Labour Party (BLP) will next week file a no-confidence motion in the Freundel Stuart-led Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Government.
It will be the third such motion filed by the BLP since the DLP first came to power in 2008.
The latest was revealed today by Opposition Leader Mia Mottley, who believes it is “entirely possible” the motion could be actually debated when the House of Assembly resumes sittings on April 19.
In making yesterday’s announcement at the Opposition Leader’s office on Parliament’ West Wing, Mottley was flanked by fellow MPs Kerrie Symmonds, Cynthia Forde, Dwight Sutherland, Edmund Hinkson, Trevor Prescod, Gline Clarke, and candidate for Christ Church East Central, economist Ryan Straughn.
Mottley said the BLP’s Parliamentary council had decided on the no-confidence because “enough is enough.”
“Over the course of the last 13 weeks, Barbados has experienced an unparalleled series of dislocation, bad news, challenges and crises,” the BLP leader noted, while citing the problems which media houses have highlighted for 2016, inclusive of the country’s water and drought issues, trade union activity that led to the Bridgetown Port and Grantley Adams International Airport being closed, industrial action by Barbados Water Authority employees, and the environmental difficulties being dealt with by a number of primary and secondary schools.
She said it is time for Government to stop doing its business “by stealth” and “anonymity. “That equates to no Government at all,” Mottley told reporters.
“It is bred by a culture of silence which is unacceptable given the dire state of affairs in this country today,” she added.
“We therefore passed, and agreed to file a motion of no-confidence in the Government of Barbados because we do not believe that Barbados can continue to coast or drift for another 22 months on a platform of indifference, and incompetence.”
The Opposition Leader said Barbadians need to be given the facts. “This is not about having the Parliamentary majority. We clearly do not have that. But it is about bringing the facts to the people of the country, because Barbadians deserve the right to be able to determine their future and their destiny on the basis of the facts presented to them.”
She said that in almost every area or sector of Government, Barbados is in crisis. (BA)