IF THERE IS A GROUP of inexperienced “leaders” who have done serious damage to our country, that group is not to be found in the trade unions of Barbados. Rather, they are to be found in the Freundel Stuart-led Democratic Labour Party administration!
Who – after all – is responsible for the dismissal of close to 5 000 Barbadians from their jobs in the Public Service of our country?
Who – for the first time in our history – imposed tuition fees on Barbadian students at the University of the West Indies (UWI), thereby causing some 4 200 Barbadians to drop out of UWI?
Who is it that recently imposed an additional $200 million in taxes on an already over-taxed and overburdened Barbadian people?
Who is it that has taken virtually every governmental contract of any worth and conferred them upon a small select group of elite business people?
Who is it that has entered into contractual arrangements that obligate the masses of Barbadian taxpayers to literally pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to a small group of privileged elite business people for decades to come?
The record is clear! Barbados is being destroyed – not by young Toni Moore and Akanni McDowall – but by Prime Minister Stuart and his band of ministers, the majority of whom may legitimately be described as immature and rudder-less.
How comic it is to hear Mr Stuart complaining that the new president of the National Union of Public Workers does more talking on behalf of the union than the general secretary, when he (Stuart) has absolutely no control over no less than five of his ministers, namely, Donville Inniss, Chris Sinckler, David Estwick, Ronald Jones and Denis Kellman!
Furthermore, if Mr Stuart wants to talk about new wine in old wineskins, then we need to tell him that his administration constitutes a “new wine” that we, the citizens of Barbados, do not recognise.
We all recall and recognize the late Errol Barrow and the Democratic Labour Party that he established. But we do not recognise Mr Stuart’s Democratic Labour Party! The Freundel Stuart-led DLP administration is something totally new in our political culture! Where Mr Barrow’s DLP constructed and nurtured, Mr Stuart’s DLP attacks and destroys!
– DAVID A. COMISSIONG
