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.
“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.
Here we go. y would u even speak.
Truer words could not be said. This BLP govment has no clue what to do but had all the answers while in opposition. First thing they did on assuming office is stab the young people in the back. Now they got a youth minister whose only solution is to teach foreign language on the block.
everyone has the right to speak even if you don’t agree with them…respect others
Nine months seem to be a lot longer than 10 years a 90 days to these yard fowls, can`t you`ll just go away and stay, do like your leader.
Nobody talking about the missing $millions tho….I scratch my head….Both Ds and Bs got the country in a mess and BOTH PLAY THE BLAME GAME !!
GUYSON MAYERS have all right to talk, and he is right, under the DLP there was no crime, MURDERS wereat a all time low, a job well done, the once a year CASH COW DAVID THOMPSON football competition took the youth off the streets and provided jobs year round, even the SUMMPER CAMPS were a good idea, it put money in the pockets of many ppl working at the camps, even if they had to wait for a whole years to be paid, good point,,, GUYSON MAYERS there werent much guns on the streets,, so there were no murders,,, dont forget the good job by customs and police, when all those guns were held in the port in the BMWs that the UK GUY WERE BRING IN, i wonder how many stolen UK BMWs with GUNS got on the streets, i think the DLP FINANCE MINISTER HAD ONE OF THE BMWs AND IT SHOuLD BE IN DISTRICT A,,,so you are right GUYSON MAYERS we must do some thing now about crime, we should start with IGNORANT JEREMY STEPHENS idea as he said and change the BAJAN CARELESS SEX CULTURE WHICH GIVE RISE TO HIV AND CRIME ON THE ISLAND, CAUSE IN BARBADOS AS HE SAID CRIME IN BARBADOS IS DUE TO BAJANS HAVING A MENTAL PROBLEM, HE stated that in his last post, ,, we should also take up his idea and have community police in ever community, so police can tell ppl to lock the doors and close window, which should be a common sense thing that ppl should, YOU ALL DLP PPL ARE SO STUPID,, the amount od damage you all cause to this country, the DLP aint gine win again for at least 30 years, so years olds might be around for 30 years, 30 years olds might be around etc, and the damage will be fresh in the mind like yesterday, STUPID ZIEGENBOCK
The Pot and the Kettle battling it out. B L P / D L P same ideology. They borrow we pay / they mismanage we pay, they over tax us and squander, they lay off to create liquidity then they share the spoils with their friends, faithfuls, and associated consultants.
We need a new party, it’s that simple, and not a different party loaded with those from old ideological structures because we can’t place new wine in old wine skin.
Typical – avoid the reality politics. If St Michael is taken as the main example; in 2003 the BLP secured 9 of the 11 seats, in 2008,they secured 4, in 2013; 5, in 2018, 11. Neither party can truly elevate themselves above another on this Crime issue. It has not become a problem just in the last 10 months!
If you have local MP’s they should be at grass roots fighting for the issues they campaigned and were elected on.
Truth is, in this current administration; if local MP’s are elected to serve their constituency and ALL those MP’s are serving in the Government, who’s looking after their constituents? Who’s fighting for the grass roots cause and issues? How often do they hold surgeries? How often do they roll their sleeves up and get involved?
In which case… if they’re too busy in government why is there any surprise that nothing is being achieved at a local level to deal with Crime.
U wilfully blind people keep falling for that same rolling program/cycle of BS. While ALL of these politicians aka de-cei-ver$ look out for the few……… whenever they get that golden opportunity.
Greengiant wrote: “We need a new party….”
Haven’t you heard, Greengiant? There is already a “new party” in town! It is called the “Judas Labour Party”, consisting of rejects, defectors and remnants of the crumbling UPP.
So position yourself with Traitor Joe or your UPP will be the “kettle battling” with the disgraced “pot” called the DLP, for political supremacy.
@GREENGIANT,, was fur eine dumme fotze bist du
Once ALL of them in “power” – talk nuff Rh with doo little for dessert. when them out of “power” still talking Rh. While their people suffer all around. .
Is there a DLP still? Thought they were extinguished, obliterated, it hurts to even hear or see any of them, RIP.
BUT the man is correct in what he is saying. All he is saying is that the BLP should get on with managing the affairs of the country and stop the campaigning. The general election is over. They won all 30 seats. Please, it is time to get on with the job at hand.
On another note: That new format of presenting the Estimates is just another “OPTICS” game being played. It serves no meaningful purpose.
The Barbados Labour Party will blame the DLP, even if Mia’s boyfriend gets mad, and whips her behind one of these days, just like BERT is doing to the citizens of this nation.
The word on the street ,in recent times , is that we have jumped from the fire into the frying pan.
Come on Guyson, they don’t have an economic agenda that doesn’t involve borrowing, begging and taxing; they don’t have an anti-crime agenda that doesn’t involve doing nothing but blame the DLP, so what else are they going to do?
The blame game is played out World wide so it’s nothing new in Bim.
This seems to me like a case of the POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK.
…..and who would you blame for selecting the two most DECORATED LOSERS to be PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT of the DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY ?
….and who would you blame for not coming forward with a shadow cabinet 9 months after all ya got SHUT DOWN like a bait car?
…and who would you blame for not conducting an inquiry into the causes and reasons as to why an elder had to tell your former leader to GO TO HELL?
….and who is to be blamed for the CONTINUED SILENCE of your VICE PRESIDENT? who had NUFF MOUT before she was handed that post on a platter?
Yes Guyson Mayers ..YOU too must stop using this “stop the blame game ” thing to divert the ” who is to be BLAMED” for what is going on in the DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY after the MASSES told all ya to GO TO HELL…we in going back there?