The Democratic Labour Party owes several contractors more than $200,000 for services rendered during the 2018 general election campaign, Barbados TODAY investigations have revealed.
The services include stage lighting, sound, lighting towers, chemical restrooms, advertising and meeting coordinators.
Williams Industries, GKY Lighting, S&R Rentals and A&R Electrical are some of the companies which are said to have been affected.
The managing director of Williams Industries, Stuart Williams, confirmed to Barbados TODAY that his company had supplied several light towers to the DLP’s failed bid for reelection to government.
Williams acknowledged that he had not dealt directly with the DLP, but with suppliers who were acting on behalf of the party.
Williams said to date he had only received around 20 per cent of the debt.
He said: “We dealt with suppliers who ordered equipment on their [DLP] behalf, so I did not have any conversations directly with Verla DePeiza.
“We supplied several light towers for events. We have received promises of payment, but we haven’t received anything substantial.
“What we have been told by those suppliers is that they have not been paid yet and are therefore unable to pay us. They have been unwilling to pay us without being paid.”
But Williams said he was confident that the outstanding debts would be settled once “everything was sorted out”.
A meeting coordinator who spoke to Barbados TODAY on condition of anonymity revealed being owed close to $5,000.
Numerous attempts to reach out to DePeiza to arrange payment failed, the source said.
The contractor told Barbados TODAY: “I was on the ground from the time Prime Minister at the time Freundel Stuart called the elections.
“I was running around arranging everything and I also had to be at every single meeting in the constituency I was stationed.
“I worked from the time elections were announced until it came to an end but no one came forward to make any payments.
“We were told that payment wouldn’t have been an issue because they had received funding for the election campaign, but now I am hearing that there is no money.”
After several failed attempts to get paid, the source said they were left with little choice but to put the matter in the hands of their lawyer.
But even this had proved problematic, the source said, as letters and phone calls to DePeiza had gone unanswered.
“They didn’t have the decency to call and say anything or to arrange any payment plan. This is downright ridiculous,” the source added.
When contacted by Barbados TODAY, DePeiza said she was not authorised to speak on DLP matters in public.
She said: “I have no authority to discuss DLP business in the public domain, that is number one. Number two; I think from what you said to me Mr Williams made it pretty clear that he didn’t contract with the DLP to do anything.”
When asked if she could reveal if she had been contacted by anyone about being paid for work done during the campaign, DePeiza responded, “No I can’t tell you that”.
randybennett@barbadostoday.bb
This says everything you need to know about that last set of DLP incompetent, dishonest jokers. It also explains why the Bajan electorate gave the party such a beating last May.
Why is this news? I’m sure that not all the contractors who supplied the BLP have been paid either. This is just another flimsy and transparent attempt to silence Verla. It ain’t gonna work.
BarbadosToday. $200k hardly merits an article if the same party has been charged for leavig rhe country in billions of debt. Just add the 200’000 to that and let us deal with where we are today
Another man just got killed. We at.28 now or 29 i have o idea how many I lost count.
I have never seen performance evaluations done on unemployed people amd we.continue to.do assessments amd.evaluations and perfornance based reports on 30 UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE
I find it odd the President doesn’t want to discuss in Public…. My my my….. Look show we de new logo do.
I knew this article was going to be red meat for you BLP haters.
You want to talk $$? How about the $27 million PLUS $85,000 monthly retainer to White Oak?
Look how Poopsie does be in everybody business,every minute up in the media with false information, before she fix she own home.Now dodging the journalist questions like she in the law court on stand. The question is Verla does the DLP owe these people money ,Yes or No. I believe she does because she did not deny it as untrue.
@The yard fowls; Still getting down graded. What about is Cahill contract? What about the Solar plant that a Canadian who said that he have invested thousands of dollars, spoke with a couple of politicians, have equipment in the port and is ready to start the building even before it was given the green light by the Town & Planning and speaking about $200.000, a fella facing the law courts accused of laundering $36.000.
I didn’t know she had the ability yo keep her mouth closed about anything.
What’s all the deal? We did not get money from the merchant class who marched with workers who they now would not give a pay increase, the unions are now quiet
Come out Verla. Let we hear you pun dis one. Verla Barbados wants to hear you now more than ever.
Not a new situation has happened to other political parties – not new also not right.
For someone who speaks on everything rather strange that Verla cannot speak on this matter,if not her then who………
she can speak on behalf of bajan who aint election for anything.
but she cannot speakmon behalf of DEMS who voted and made her president.
hmmmmm.
Please note this response, as well as all of the other responses by her, quoted in the article. “When contacted by Barbados TODAY, DePeiza said she was not authorised to speak on DLP matters in public.”
cant
Comment on this one too.SHE bout the place MALICIOUSING in everybody BIZNESS and can’t fix ya House…now you trying a ‘HOUDINI’ wid de peoples money.
I say to you CONTRACTORS put DEM IN COURT.
Only yesterday I said that the CROOKED DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY WAS CONTINUING ON ITS DOWNWARD SLIDE and look wha getting exposed now.
Now this what I’m talking about a bunch of crooks, how dishonest can the DLP be that is why Verla need to go some place and take many seat
This is all FAKE NEWS. It’s not unusual for contractors for services to political parties not to be paid immediately. They will get their money.
This is just another red herring orchestrated by you red koolaid drinkers, to tarnish the reputation of the DLP and silence a “dead” party.
If the partying dead, why you so worried?
Someone needs to tell DePeiza that she does not possess the same lying or deceiving powers bestowed on the other party.
PEDIPAC ..didn’t YOU HOMESCHOOLED YOURSELF into telling YOURSELF that NEWS IS NEWS?…that ANYTHING one has NOT heard BEFORE and is HEARING or READING for the FIRST TIME IS NEWS?
PEDIPAC,you ANNOUNCED yourself on this forum as a successful HOMESCHOOLING PARENT in SIX DISCIPLINES with your children UNTIL YOU were EXPOSED as NOTHING MORE than a FRAUD in CYBERSPACE by a turnover,now you don’t even know what is NEWS.
The DLP never had the now famous druggist from St.Thomas on board to help fund its political campaign. The party never had all the drug kings that were see at the party at Illaro Court, supporting its re-election. So go figure.
clico aint gone bankrupt????
cha man!
DEM BREK but the last set of MPs loaded and gone,aint care bout the rest of DEM
@Harry: please make that a STALE turnover. BTW, are you eating your fruits and veggies to help regulate your bowel habits?
PEDIPAC..ya IDIOT..it was NOT the BLP that EXPOSED wunna.. it could also have been a DISGRUNTLED ONE A WUNNA, VEXED that after a year in the DOLDRUMS no REAL effort has taken place to get out.
All ya said that if the DLP has to go DOWN IN THE GUTTER they would have DONE IT…now look wha happening…ANOTHER BOLD FACE LIE cause wunna GONE DOWN IN THE SEWERS instead…PAY WUNNA BILLS…PAY de PEOPLE de MONEY…tell the CONTACTORS when dey gine get their MONEY..stop hiding bout…it is THEIR MONEY and they WANT IT NOW.
You think the BLP got time to TARNISH THE REPUTATION of the CROOKED DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY when wunna reputation has been TARNISHED since LAST YEAR,and furthermore,wunna are SELF DESTRUCTING DAILY.
…had been tarnished since last year and ENHANCED when your TWO MOST DECORATED LOSERS were handed the PRESIDENCY and VICE PRESIDENCY on PLATTERS.
How could ANYBODY put two persons WHO HAVE NEVER WON A POLITICAL SEAT in those positions of importance and expect the MASSES ..ESPECIALLY the DLP YARD FOWLS to feel pleased about it….how can ANYONE who has NEVER won, tell ANYONE HOW or INSPIRE ANYONE TO WIN?
Putting the TWO MOST EXPERIENCED LOSERS to ENGINEER a COMEBACK from the DOLDRUMS is akin to the other 28 LOSERS going down Pebbles with 28 buckets to dip water out of the sea in order to minimise the water coming ashore in a storm surge.
And from the mountain top came a loud and doleful cry, it was a howl never heard before, AAAAARRRRUUUUU,, and the villagers thought it were the wild DOGS, but the cry came again,and the villagers came running out, casting their eyes up to the hills, what was it, it was the cry of the DLP MINISTERS who fled the village after a massive beat down, 30 TO NIL,,they were the one who stole from the villagers, the cry must been cause when the spare from they creditors that started to rained down on them,
mean while on the outer boarder of the village the DLP YARD FOULS are still trying to figure out why they leaders would have done some many awful and wicked things for so long, casting a shadow over the future of they existence,
Will the DLP YARD FOULS ever be allowed back into the village where there is a NEW RULER or will they be hunted as well stay tune,
Harry, speaking of “pay[ing] wunna bills”, how are the negotiations coming along with the external creditors after the Emperor DEFAULTED and we are paying $27 million PLUS $85,000 monthly retainer to White Oak?
@Roger: Awwww, what a touching bedtime story. It put me to sleep just like the other comments from the likes of Harry and his fellow BLP drones.
A StALE turnover does not alter the fact that what comes out reminds me of you.
We got 4 years and 90 days to WIPE UP after you…did you expect ANY NEW GOVERNMENT to clean that MESS in ONE YEAR?
@Harry T: I certainly don’t expect “Rome to be built in a day” (So says your PM), but I do expect the Emperor to put in place sensible policies that will set the groundwork for a great economic recovery. Shelling out $85,000/mth to White Oak for pie in the sky results is not sound economic reasoning.
BTW, are you a Charmin or sandpaper guy? You strike me as the sandpaper type.
I will call him the PREACHER: REV BOBBY MORRIS “i dont think we have to apologize to any body, i am not buying into other peoples narrative, (MEANING STEPHEN LASHLEY) now look, you all went and had the ppl services and now cant pay, all the money gone into big houses with pools, etc, you all only took up from where david thompson left off, i guess it was written in his will for you all to follow,
PED
The BEEs either paying off their/our debt or with the external debt, their are in negotiation to try to solve that – don’t mind the default the creditors will get paid.
DEM defaulted on their local debt and instead of negotiating the hiding.
But what else can you expect from DEM
HaRRY
PED seem very interested in you gASS?
i didnt see all the blp bloggers commenting on the fact that land tax bills are now about four to five months earlier and much higher than last year…that gives them nothing to salivate about….
@Breadfruit: He started it not me, when he unleashed a “poop storm” against me and Patty.
With respect to the debt, don’t you think that $27 million + $85,000/mth is a bit much for consulting services? Honest answer.
What is all this fuss over the DLP debt. All I am hoping is that BT do the same type of investigating journalism on the BLP.
That PEDIPAC says…” but I do expect the Emperor to put in place sensible policies that will set the groundwork for a great economic recovery”
…but PEDIPAC it looks as though YOU expected those SENSIBLE projects to bear fruit after only a YEAR…..I think you need to INVEST in another SPITTUM… and for heavens READ the INSTRUCTIONS carefully before using this one.
Have you forgotten the PHRASES of your MECHANICAL MINISTER of FINANCE after EVERY BUDGET?
This is what he was saying EVERY YEAR FOR 8 or 9 budgets…(1)…these measures WILL work….(2)those measures ARE working….(3)the measures didn’t YIELD what was EXPECTED…(4)…more HARSH methods have to be implemented and BACK to (1) for the NEXT BUDGET…his SENSIBLE POLICIES far from wuking ,resulted in 23 DOWNGRADES in 9 YEARS.
PEDIPAC,you need to go back HOME and SCHOOL yourself in COMMON SENSE and about the uses of and how to use a SPITTUM
Regardless of who the DLP owes that party will rise again. There is a quiet rebellion going on. People are tried of all the taxes on poor people while the friend and family of the BLP are being treated to lots of money for doing nothing and trying to brain wash the public.
By the way there are many BLP politicians and political appointees past and present who owe people lots of money. Ask John King and Carol Roberts to start.
Anything to shift the publics attention from the BLP issues. They are far more important things that concern the economy. The DLP debt is a non issue right now. The $200,000 that they owe does not compare to what the government owe the international debt or is it a danger to the Barbados dollar being devalued.. and it won’t be coming out of the tax payer money.NON ISSUE!
NEW YORK, June 12 (IFR) – “Investors are preparing to push back on a restructuring proposal released this week by the government of Barbados, sources told IFR on Wednesday.
After months of discussions with creditors, the government, which suspended debt payments last year, laid out on Tuesday two options for holders of its 7.25% 2021s, 7% 2022s and 6.625% 2035s.
But creditors, which had feared the government would launch an exchange without their consent, said such terms were unsatisfactory.
“The government of Barbados has improved the proposed terms as much as it possibly can given its commitment under the IMF-support program,” the Barbados government said in a statement on Tuesday.”
Looks like a Barbadian standoff. Where did that $27 million + $85,000/mth retainer get you?
ped
i have already stated that the only thing about white oaks that most bajans (not just me/u) don’t agree with is the fees.
i have also stated that i think the bees should try to negotiate the fees with white oaks.
but restructuring/defaulting and hiring white oaks i have no problem with.
as you said the fees are a bit to much
Just like the fee for a lot of the contracts under the dems – transport board, BWA and sanitation rentals to name a few.
Breadfruit: We do agree on something. Judging from the very recent (June 12) rejection of Bardados’ latest offer to the creditors, we need to stop paying White Oak all together.
So far we have received nothing by way of restructured debt for those highly exorbitant fees, and we are no closer to attracting all this foreign investment that the BLP talks about.
Ped
what does that have to do with DEMS not paying their debt and running away from their creditors???????
do you know how long it took the same white oaks to completely restructure grenadas debt (i used grenada because she is our sister and is similar)
expose all of dem
If the DLP had won the election, I doubt very much if many of these contractors would have come forward to cash their IOU cheques, knowing that the scratch -my- back bonuses would be much more rewarding. TS.
Come out Poopsie Verla. Cat got your tongue?
A disgruntled DEM who says HARRY TURNOVER is too HARD…don’t know what she meant by that cause I have NEVER met her says” expose all of dem”…what the RH? wonder if that is in reference to who she says is her family the one and only DONVILLE INNISS who will be hoping that he will finally get the chance to do some early morning jogging after JUNE 24th.
This obviously CONFUSED individual is also on record here as saying last year that” DONVILLE INNISS should really WALK away from that case and come back home”.
Aha,there goes,sorry,here comes the HYPOCRITE to spout her RHETORIC once more.
Wonder who is shifting the ATTENTION from the ISSUES at that AUDITORIUM of LOSERS down there in GEORGE STREET?
All the ISSUES that the BLP are facing are as a RESULT of the FAILED POLICIES that your CROOKED DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY implemented during wunna 10 years and 90 days reign when the economy went BERSERK…thought YOU would have come back to talk something SENSIBLE…looks as though you still think that ALL BAJANS stupid.
Somebody should tell you that LAST YEAR ,Bajans proved to wunna DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY supporters that they were NOT STUPID.
Wunna DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY LEADERS and SUPPORTERS are continuing along the SAME lines all ya were doing BEFORE elections after there was an ISLAND WIDE SHUTDOWN of WUNNA.
Common sense should have stepped in just to alert you to the FACT that if the CONDITIONS that caused you to get SHUT DOWN in the FIRST PLACE are still in place,how the HELL would YOU expect to get the ALL CLEAR if the SAME CONDITIONS PERSIST up to 2023?
Yet we have recognized yard fowls,paling cocks,apolitical supporters,hypocrites,the foolish and the igrunt and the ones that look like all of the above mentioned, coming here daily and twice on SUNDAYS criticizing the efforts of the BLP all the while telling DEMSELVES that the DLP did NOTHING WRONG and should have been given a third term….UNBELIEVABLE.
Don’t forget that the dishonest Dems still owe CBC over $100,000 for using the television station as an arm of the DLP.
So when I call the DLP “CROOKED”, this is exactly what I mean. But today I’m only here to enjoy the comments and get some laughs.
This lady Ms Depeiza is really something else.This political loser all over the place being critical of everything and now asked to comment on debts owed over a year to creditors suddenly has no authority to speak.Well,well if not her then who is to speak?Ms Depeiza talking about transparency,how about paying the people their money?The Dems on here trying to defend this like Patty the Dem hyprocrite,Saga Boy ,Tennyson Drakes Pedipac,Sonnyfair,Ric and Johnny Crow should be ashamed of themselves.No wonder word on the ground is about efforts to remove the two political losers from the helm.