New member of Parliament for Christ Church South Dr Shantal Munro-Knight has encouraged fellow parliamentarians to reconnect with their constituents.
In her brief maiden speech in the House of Assembly recently, Munro-Knight, a Government Senator in the last administration, thanked all who played a role in her election and had words of advice for all other fellow MPs.
“The sense of disillusionment with the political process is something that we have to take up and something that we have to have to be able to manage as real. As how we confront that very tactically for our people, is part of what people are asking us to do.”
Munro-Knight said she encountered much apathy and complaints of neglect, and abandonment by the previous parliamentary representative while she was campaigning in Christ Church South.
“People don’t want a lotta long talk. They want action; they want a decisive way forward; they want us to show that we are true about our work; they want us to demonstrate that we can do the hard things. That demonstration of doing the hard things even when it would be uncomfortable, even when it seems out of time, is what is demanded of us in this moment if we are to make sure that we can reconnect and galvanise the hearts and minds of Barbadians who feel that level of disconnectivity.
The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2026 which was being debated, the new Minister of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security said, “is part of that reconnect to the people of Barbados.”
