Important DocumentsOpposition Leader Mia Mottley addresses the serious economic situation, including the growing deficit.
Broken DLP Promises
Reduction of VAT
The DLP will reduce the rate of VAT within 90 days of assuming office.
KENSINGTON OVAL
KENSINGTON OVAL will become "part of the family silver" within 90 days of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) assuming office.
"We are insisting that Kensington Oval, where hundreds of millions of hard earned taxpayers dollars are invested, must be owned by the people of Barbados and that is what we shall see to, within 90 days from Wednesday," Thompson declared. – Nation Newspaper, January 13, 2008.
LAND
Within 90 days of being elected, a DLP administration would introduce a policy of zoning certain lands for exclusive Barbadian purchase.
News & UpdatesIt has proposed replacing air passenger duty, an environmental charge paid by individual travellers on their tickets, with a per-plane tax. BA would pay more tax than its low-cost rivals because it carries fewer passengers per plane.
Some estimates — based on previous Labour plans for the change, which were abandoned — have suggested the airline would have to find an extra £150m a year to fund the tax. BA said yesterday that as there was no detail yet published on the tax change, it did not yet know how much it would cost.
The company also faces further disruption from Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud. Yesterday the Civil Aviation Authority said UK airspace could be closed from today until Tuesday.
Calendar of EventsEveryone knows that when the Dems cannot win on the issues or fulfill their outrageous promises, they always resort to smear and gossip. That will not reduce the high cost of living or put food on anyone’s table. It will not put money in the pockets of those who are now under severe economic pressure? Gossip will not make the burden lighter when people who visit the supermarket – reach the cashier?
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