THE BARBADOS LABOUR PARTY (BLP) says it is no part of any campaign to politicise recent sudden deaths in Barbados.
General secretary Senator Jerome Walcott was responding to a statement by the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) after social media messages claimed that the deaths were associated with lead in the water resulting from installation of new water meters.
Walcott said the BLP “condemns the inference from the general secretary of the Democratic Labour Party, George Pilgrim, that our party is associated with rumours that seek to sully the name of Barbados. To infer such is a new low in our politics and one we cannot, and will not, allow to stand without response”.
Walcott said the statement was “clearly designed to create mischief and cast aspersions on the BLP, which has competently managed the affairs of Barbados for 24 of the 50 years since Independence”. (JS/PR)
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