Resolution filed to expel Ralph Thorne from DLP

here’s a new twist to internal wrangling in the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). Efforts are now afoot to have Political Leader Ralph Thorne removed from the post and expelled from the party.

DLP General Secretary Steve Blackett confirmed this was one of two resolutions he filed Sunday evening at a members’ forum at the Errol Barrow Auditorium at George Street, St Michael. The first was a motion of confidence in party president Dr Ronnie Yearwood.

Blackett told reporters: “I moved a second motion, this time of no confidence in the political leader of this party, Ralph Anthony Thorne.”

The motion states: “Whereas the Democratic Labour Party admitted Ralph Thorne to the membership of our party on the 20th of February, 2024 becoming the political leader; and whereas since his admission to this party, the institution has experienced untold rancor, turmoil, contention and confusion.

“And whereas he in a public forum in a meeting at St Christopher Primary School on Sunday, the 14th of April, 2024 publicly endorsed the actions of a member of the Democratic Labour Party who brought the party into public ridicule, disgrace and opprobrium over a matter that was found to be invalid on its own merit and structure, and called for the removal of the entire Executive Council.

He could not give a timeline for how long the process would take but insisted that the DLP can exist without a political leader but not a President or General Secretary, which are both constitutional positions.

The resolution states: