@david
He gets the edge “internally” only….but he’s still 10 points behind with “all bajans” and 11 behind with uncertains. Plus, factor in the damage control and change management needed and any popularity now will be chipped away at with little to no time to repair.

The DLP is really between a rock and a hard place. The BLP isn’t much better but at least their number 2 has broad national appeal already.

@ David

The DLP does desperately want to win the pending elections, that’s why not even Jesus could convince the Parliamentary Group to put Chris Sinckler as Prime Minister. This not only becuase of the blood letting required to remove Stuart but also because most of them are not convinced they have any better chance with Chris Sinckler than with PM Stuart.

Any attempt to remove PM Stuart at this late hour will spell certain and guaranteed doom ofr the DLP and most of the elected MP’s>

My question in all of this is where are the “elders”. Every institution has elders who factor in “behind the scenes”. It seems as if this group is just muddling through “on their own”. Where’re the DLP philosophers, the warriors of old, the voices to quell discontent and point a direction from among the pack…this not only speaks to leadership but to institutional strength, branding and continuity.

Have you all factored in the possibility that FS might have been made aware that an S&P downward regrading is imminent? Would that be enough to make him call elections much earlier than he had intended? Who would want to be in charge when our credit rating was devalued to junk bond status and with elections just round the corner?

Just a guess based on the Gov. Central Bank’s comments yesterday and today’s interview with the S&P lady. A foreknowledge of an imminent downgrading might be the only thing that could budge FS from having an early 2013 election date.

Wickham has gotten it right for Barbados every time. The St. Lucia situation was addresses by Wickham elsewhere as well as BU. You don’t accept the explanation?

If memory serves me correct the explanation was a last minute surge towards the Compton led administration. They did a lot of ground work days leading up or the election.

We should put things in context and perspective:
between 1999 and 2007, in the so-called “great years” of the last administration S & P downgraded Barbados no less than three times, moving the country from a high of AA to A- 1999 and all the way down to BBB+ by 2005 with a negative outlook
The same people who now want to crucify the DLP on economic policy in a global recession and when the world economy was growing, the BLP failed to transform or restructure the Barbados Economy.
A vote for the BLP is a waste of time.