Submitted by Beresford
The Democratic Labour Party, (DLP), Government is determined to play out a scorched earth policy and an end game for Barbados that is strictly political and self-serving. The wanton deception of the DLP, uncaring nature of its actions and fatalistic belief in its own inadequacies make it inarguable that the Government intends to fall in the furnace headfirst and take the rest of Barbadians with it. The DLP is now so steeped in speaking with forked tongues that they apparently are unable to decipher what is truth from lie.
A Government that continues down such a path is stamped with a peculiar brand of perverseness that no one can be faulted for concluding that some sort of psychosis unknown to Barbados in its history is now afflicting the DLP leadership and Cabinet that prevents it from levelling with Barbadians. The tall tales are just too easy to prosecute and convict as figments of someone’s imagination. The Government is so caught in constructing a pyramid that even as it crumbles, it spins another yarn. Barbadians have now discovered, thanks to the IMF Article 1V Report, that the DLP chopped off 1800 workers by 31 January, 2013. This is simply not true. Not according to what the Government has been telling those it is supposed to be honest with when the Government said layoffs only began on the same 31 January.
This latest episode of Chopped by the DLP is characterised with the sort of harshness, insensitivity, disregard for due process and confusion that is now brand DLP. Imagine delivering termination letters by messenger on a Saturday! Imagine having a messenger deliver the dreaded termination papers, and then giving him his! How can the most senior person in a section, with no complaints against him, be sent home while others who came after be left?
The DLP’s twists and turns with the 3000 job executions, its contemptuous disdain for the unions and approach in serving the unemployment sentence is stained with political spite, thoughtlessness and callousness that the people of Barbados have never experienced and do not deserve.
Senator Jerome Walcott has pointed out, the Government is likely in contravention of ILO rules. At the same time, Maxine McClean proclaims that the 10% salary cut to Ministers is merely symbolic – in other words, of no consequence, mere window dressing. She has said it’s not the money, there are other things. Like first class travel around the world with nothing to show for it.
Harry Husbands will do all in his power to see the DLP plan succeed – never mind it is wrong, never mind the suffering people, never mind the destruction of the country.
And in the debate in the Senate on Wednesday, not a word from the Minister of Labour, Esther Byer Suckoo. She is still reeling from the slap down by Chris Sinckler that she does not even know how many will be sent home.
For once, she is in good company – neither does the rest of Barbados. It would have to be at least 3 400, because Suckoo unwittingly exposed that the 400 from Drainage were not in the 3000.
The latest IMF Report condemned the manner in which people were terminated. It has said that there were other options open to the Government. It says that the Government is still a ways from meeting its own targets and implementing its own programme. No growth is projected this year and into the next.
Despite the Credit Suisse loan in December, to shore up reserves, reserves are down by $110 million. That loan will soon evaporate. From its own bosom, they have been bitten by a pit-bull in the outcry by David Estwick that the DLP policies are totally wrong. His prognosis and plan is a mirror image of what Mia Mottley, Owen Arthur, Clyde Mascoll, the whole BLP has telling the country for years.
The DLP simply is not putting Barbados first.
Rather, it appears to be resolutely adverse to doing that – giving Barbadians the true picture, listening to us rather businessman or employee, technocrat or expert, and constructing a path out of the mire in which it has placed the country that has a modicum of sensitivity about it, and one which will deliver the less harm to citizens and country as possible.
This is not nearly the case, even now as we lurch from one chasm to the next.
An inch from destruction, Freundel Stuart refuses to admit not a sin, but stretch the blame game and seek to demean everyone else to prove his innocence, the worth of his raping the nation with economic destruction.
Nailed to the cross, long convicted by institutions, independent experts, every Barbadian not clouded by the political narcissism and the daily pain of life in Barbados, the Prime Minister does not seek forgiveness and try to turn from failure after failure, but lashes out in defence of his foolishness.
He does not listen to any critics – they are nuisances. Point out the lack of logic of DLP statements, the absence of common sense of its approach, lack of leadership in the country…never mind the facts, we are all nuisances.
Stuart himself has established that the office of Prime Minister is too big for the simple existence of a man who delights in washing his underwear. And so he indulges in theoretical excursions in wonderland to excuse his incompetence; akin to a simpleton explaining space flight.
It is that other Prime Ministers faced recessions. Sure Stuart, but the difference was they took action. It is grappling with debt left by the BLP. The fact is, Stuart, that the DLP in six years have tallied more debt – almost $4 billion – that all the other Governments together in the 47 years of Independent Barbados.
If we could cut salaries, no one would have to go home. Let the General Secretary of CTUSAB, Dennis Depeiza reply. That is nonsense and politiking. Stuart and Sinckler, you surely know that it would take every public servant having a 40% cut – that is $40 taken away from every $100 – to even attempt to solve the DLP’s problem.
Attempt. Because it would only make dire matters worse. Workers have effective had salary cuts through no wage increases for four years, increased VAT and new taxes plus out of control cost of living. Every Barbadian can apply a 40% cut to their salary and circumstances – mortgages, utility payments, car, children, food, _ and see the horror and idiocy of this DLP yardfowlism and then see the impact of it on the economy.
The DLP just is not working.
Stuart, please stop the foolishness and deviousness. Admit you are not the man for the job. The best way now is to save yourself from the country. Or as Estwick has said, the country will have to save itself from you.
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