Submitted by Royal Rumble
It is with some trepidation that I write you on a matter of grave national importance – a threat to our global reputation and an embarrassment to Barbadians throughout the Diaspora.
Barbadians at home and abroad have always held their country and its leadership in high regard so much so that anything remotely done or said by its leader that can sully the country’s good name invokes their anger and ultimately the withdrawal of their support.
I have no doubt that a large part of the Barbados Labour Party’s failure to recapture the Government in the last general election had to do with the smear campaign of the Democratic Labour Party. Throughout that campaign Barbadians were told that the BLP was corrupt and that they had stolen money from the treasury and had stashed it in foreign bank accounts. The DLP has been in office for almost two years now and not a single thread of evidence has been produced to support this wild and malicious charge.
In an attempt to give the impression that the DLP were upright and honest citizens they promised that within a hundred days of assuming office they would bring a number of pieces of legislation under which public officials, including parliamentarians would operate. The immediate introduction of integrity legislation, the declaration of assets of all public officials, a code of conduct for Ministers and a law to govern freedom of information were all promised made by the DLP. To date none of the promises made have been kept. In fact the only two public officials that have declared their assets are the present Leader of the Opposition the Hon. Mia Amor Mottley and former Prime Minister the Rt. Hon Owen Arthur, both from the BLP – none from the DLP.
The Way the DLP has been conducting itself in office since January 2008 is clear for all to see and has establish beyond a shadow of a doubt which party is truly corrupt. I invite you to read the attached article published in the Times Newspaper of the Commonwealth of Dominica. You may draw your own conclusion.
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