Blackett suspended

General Secretary of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Steve Blackett has been suspended.

The decision was taken during a closed-door meeting of the DLP’s General Council at the party’s George Street headquarters late Thursday, confirmed assistant general secretary Pedro Shepherd who will serve in Blackett’s position in the interim.

He told Barbados TODAY the general council “unanimously moved and adopted a motion to refer complaints regarding the general secretary Mr Steve Blackett to the disciplinary committee of the party”.
“Mr Blackett has been suspended from his office of General Secretary pending the conclusion of an investigation,” he said, declining to answer any further questions.

Blackett was the subject of a no-confidence motion filed by veteran party member Hartley Reid who had also called for the removal of President Dr Ronnie Yearwood and the Executive Council.

Read story in Thursday’s Epaper.