DLP General Secretary Guyson Mayers
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.
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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?
.....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?
This seems to me like a case of the POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK.
The blame game is played out World wide so it's nothing new in Bim.
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 word on the street ,in recent times , is that we have jumped from the fire into the frying pan.
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.
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.
Is there a DLP still? Thought they were extinguished, obliterated, it hurts to even hear or see any of them, RIP.
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. .