#BTColumn – Mottley is doing a fabulous job

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by Algernon Carter

The criticisms which the likes of Adriel Brathwaite and sympathisers of the Deceased Labour Party are levelling against the current Government amazes me. For ten years the DLP mismanaged every facet of Barbados’ economy and social life. International investors, lenders and financial institutions had absolutely no confidence in the Barbados brand for the first time in our Post-Independent existence.

Freundel Stuart and his band of misfits did that to Barbadians. In two years, Miss Mottley has been more active and proactive than any leader I have seen in recent years.

She has stopped the financial bleeding in Barbados; she has restored investor confidence; she has been managing the COVID-19 pandemic so spectacularly well that even the World Health Organisation has praised this country for the quality of our response.

Yes, she has had to impose some bitter medicine to reverse the damage done by the DLP jokers for ten years. But if one has a son who has a malignant cancer in the right arm that could take his life, do you leave him with the arm because he is fearful of pain or do you have it amputated?

Had Miss Mottley not inherit such a mess from those thugs she would have had more elbow room to do more for the country. But under the circumstances she is doing a fabulous job and may God give her the strength to carry on until at least 2038.

I would love her to have four terms in office, God and good health willing. Please print my letter.