The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) will be taking its message to the streets to make up for an error in the last general election.
Member of Parliament for St James Central, Kerrie Symmonds, said the mistake his party made during the last election was to assume the public was already knowledgeable about how badly the country was doing and that it wanted to make a change.
“We believed there were a majority of people out there who understood [Barbados’ situation] and were feeling the pain – the allowances had already been taken away; the VAT had been increased; the promises had been broken; layoffs had started in the private sector, albeit not as we are seeing them now in both the private and public sector – and we believed there was enough happening in the country for people to see this thing and say ‘look, there is a need to urgently stop what is taking place in Barbados and vote in a new Government’ but we got it wrong,” he said.
This was why, this time around, Symmonds said the party would be taking nothing for granted and would be visiting every district and explaining to Barbadians exactly how the present Government was mismanaging the country. (CA)
