Former Democratic Labour Party (DLP) minister Donville Inniss has strongly criticised his former parliamentary colleagues Michael Lashley and Chris Sinckler for aligning themselves with the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) – a move he describes as “destructive to the body politic of Barbados”.
Inniss, who previously held the portfolio of health, as well as small business, industry and commerce, said the political shift of his former colleagues was deeply disappointing and damaging to public trust in politicians.
“It really pains me at a deep and personal level because these are two of my former Cabinet colleagues, who in many ways represented the faces and voices of what the Mottley administration has called the ‘lost decade’,” he told the Sunday Sun.
“They were the most vilified of my Cabinet colleagues by the then Barbados Labour Party Opposition. And it’s very destructive to the body politic of Barbados to see these two gentlemen now so deep in the bosom of the BLP.”
Lashley recently confirmed his membership in the BLP and was selected as the party’s candidate for The City of Bridgetown constituency on January 18. He served as a Minister of Housing and later Minister of Transport and Works from 2008 to 2018 while the DLP was in office.
Sinckler, who served as Minister of Finance under the DLP administration, was appointed in 2022 as Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank, representing Barbados and ten other Caribbean nations – a position sanctioned by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s Government.
Inniss said he found their actions hypocritical, noting that both men had been harshly criticised by the BLP during their time in office.
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