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.
The DLP’s economic policies are a failure!
They have succeeded in sucking the life out of the economy. Worse still they are terrible money managers.
They spent $182 million dollars more on day-to-day expenses than they earned in the first six months of the year.
Even the lowliest huckster with a tray in the market knows that if she spends more than she sells - trouble will soon come a-calling.
No manager in the private sector would keep his job for long if he ran his company this way.
Somebody needs to turn up the hearing aid.
Week by week business are failing and properties going into foreclosure.
The number of people losing their jobs continues to rise with little hope of any improvement in the job market in the near future.
Young people don’t buy into these half-baked, lame duck excuses.
They expect that when you are in office you need to find answers to the problems confronting them and the country at large.
There is something even more dastardly in this statement – it simply is not true.
The economy was NOT in recession when the Democratic Labour Party came to office.
In case Stephen Lashley does not know it, the economy only went into recession in 2009.
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News & UpdatesImagine! Leaders all over the world opted to introduce progressive policies in their respective counties to achieve the above but here in Barbados - Thompson preferred to ‘wait and see,’ while Stuart now has a remarkable plan to wish the Barbados economy out of recession.
Having placed a gag order on Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition from even purchasing time on CBC - you know that something is definitely wrong and that Barbadians must therefore be very afraid when the DLP, which promised freedom of information legislation and good governance, would now seek to treat any criticism of and opposition to its horrible incompetence - as an attempt to destabilise the Government.
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