If money is being shared out this election season, take some, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has advised Barbadians.
He said that daily hollow promises were being made out by his political opponents to ordinary citizens, in an attempt to undermine their confidence in the Democratic Labour Party (DLP)-led Government. But according to him, these empty words had instead insulted the intelligence of ordinary folk.
“I say this unapologetically. If money is sharing around, try and get some. Do not get it by illegal means, but if money is sharing out, get some. Because this kind of political cynicism that is manifesting in Barbados has to be confronted.
“But that is not another way of saying that if they want to be cynical, you cannot show you are more cynical than they are. So if they sharing out money, take some,” Stuart declared.
Speaking at the opening of the constituency office of St Peter candidate Dave “Chief” Cumberbatch in Mile-and-a-Quarter on Sunday night, the Prime Minister urged his political opponents, who have criticised him for not calling an election date although the House of Assembly has been dissolved for more than two weeks, to be careful what they asked for.
“I’m saying it again tonight, the date is going to come, the election is going to be fought and it is going to be won . . . . I said again in 2013, the Democratic Labour Party is a sleeping giant, dangerous when awakened, and that sleeping giant has now been awakened and will clear everything away from its path as we go through to the next election date.”
Stuart also promised to address the most recent report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which was chaired by Barbados Labour Party leader Mia Mottley.
“I am looking forward to telling the Barbados Labour Party where the thieves can be found. I know where they are. I’ve told my colleagues don’t worry about any PAC report . . . . I am going to deal with that; see and be there.
“I agree with Dave [Cumberbatch] that when they go low, we have to go high, but I was born in St Philip and my mother used to keep pigs. And you can’t go in to clean no pig pen and come out like you smelling as though you got on cologne,” Stuart added. (SDB Media)
