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Why would anyone expect Kay McConney to resign from the post of Minister of Education? While she deserved to be suspended, there is too much politics and friendship at stake here.
Miss McConney was appointed as our Consul-General at Toronto, Canada, under PM Arthur and Deputy PM Mottley. Prior to that few people ever heard of her and she probably was neither known to members of the BLP nor the Barbados Public Service. Her brief stint in that office didn’t seem to yield any known significant returns for Barbados. On demiting the CG office, McConney opted to remain in Canada. That was her right; she had no requirement to prove her commitment to Barbados.
Upon becoming PM in May 2018, one of the first orders of business of the Mottley administration was to appoint Kay to the Senate and to the Cabinet. Remember there was a national embarassment when it was quickly revealed that as a Barbadian living abroad she could not serve in the Barbados Parliament.
As a consequence, the PM had to do two things: have the Governor General appoint John Williams and Delisle Bradshaw (Santia’s papa) temporarily to the Senate to hold said post instead of Kay McConney and Rawdon Adams (Tom Adams’ son). Then the Constitution had to be amended to allow for Ms McConney and Mr Adams to serve in Parliament. Thereafter Delisle and John resigned and Kay and Rawdon became Senators.
McConney was then installed as General Secretary of the BLP. Then John King, a committed son of the soil, was replaced by McConney in St Philip South as their MP.
And we have not even yet broached the issue of the real reason why this LBGT+ agenda test has been administered to over 1,500 ten and 11-year-olds here. That is the elephant in the room which no one wants to discuss. That is when and how Barbados will become WOKE.
Many are questioning whether Minister McConney has been tasked to lead this agenda for the BLP.
Recall this was anticipated by the developed world when the Mottley administration first took office. All things seems to be falling into place in their second term. So please tell me when, where and why would this Minister of Education resign?
Look out for some other issue to surface tomorrow to distract from this one. That is who and how we are.
Douglas Leopold Philips Jr.
