Local NewsNewsPolitics Stop the blame game, DLP tells PM by Barbados Today 24/02/2019 written by Barbados Today Updated by Desmond Brown 24/02/2019 2 min read A+A- Reset Share FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail 278 The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has called on Prime Minister Mia Mottley to stop the blame game and buckle down to the task of administering the affairs of the country. The call has come in the wake of what the DLP said was the Prime Minister’s attribution of the rise in crime to what she terms the DLP’s failure to invest financially in the youth. “After nine months in office, it is time for the Mottley administration to get on with the job they were elected to do instead of apportioning blame to the former Government whenever solutions evade them,” the DLP said in a statement from its General Secretary Guyson Mayers. According to the DLP police statistics show that crime in Barbados was on a downward trend for the years 2017 and 2018. The DLP was voted out of office in May 2018. “Murders were down by four, robberies by two, aggravated burglaries by seven and other crimes showed a decrease of three per cent over 2017,” the DLP said. You Might Be Interested In Crystal Beckles-Holder, 2nd runner up in regional competition GUYANA: Body of child found after gold mine collapses Barbadians asked to help with return tickets for Haitians “Conversely by February of this year we were turning to the army and prayer for solutions after a rise in murders in the month of January equaled the total number of murders for the first four months of 2018.” The DLP asserted that it was proud of its record with youth initiatives, many of which the current Government condemned and criticized in Opposition and found the first opportunity to abandon as soon as they came to office. The DLP also highlighted some of its achievements while in office. These include the amount spent in Youth and Community Development projects, and the amount spent in the Education Ministry. The DLP listed community technology programmes at Community Centres across the island; refurbished Community Centres left derelict by the Barbados Labour Party; the Community Dance Fest which explored the hip hop street dance potential of at risk teens; the David Thompson Memorial Football Classic which ensured the young male players from every parish in the country received a stipend during participation; the establishment of a modern facility for students having difficulty in the secondary school system; summer camps and the mainstreaming of technical and vocational studies within the formal school curriculum as just a few of the myriad initiatives introduced to assist in addressing some of the root issues encountered with the youth. The DLP called on PM Mottley and her team to abandon “the empty carping” and seek to grapple with the root causes of the societal issues facing the island in a mature manner. Barbados Today Stay informed and engaged with our digital news platform. The leading online multimedia news resource in Barbados for news you can trust. You may also like CARICOM urged to address ‘education crisis’ amid World Bank report 19/02/2025 Electoral commission to take over birth, death registrations – AG 19/02/2025 BBA raises concerns over Debt Settlement Act 19/02/2025