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Friday, 14 September 2007 |
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Today is the 14th September 2007, and Barbadian citizens are now more and more convinced of Arthur’s lackluster leadership. This lackluster leadership has plunged this country into a quagmire of political darkness. This act on the part of Arthur has ushered into the political corridors of our history and unprecedented level of political corruption. Any leader who is unwilling to report to the nation on critical cost overruns of projects must accept full responsibility for the outcomes. The voters of Barbados need to know why we are experiencing 900 million dollars in cost over runs and rising.
This request is based on the sound principles of accountability and transparency. For some time now, taxpayers of this country have been asked to exercise patience with the BLP administration as the local Treasury is turned into a basket case. To date, Arthur has abandoned reporting to the Nation on the latest position with the proposed 130 million tax payers’ payout to solve the cave problem in Warrens. This matter, we were told, was going to arbitration and seems to have gone no where. The harsh reality is that the outcome will be a high cost to taxpayers of this country. For the past twelve years, this administration has treated the Barbadian public with great contempt as they neglected their governance responsibility to the voters of this country. The increased arrogance of this administration was later illustrated after the failed Cricket World Cup and this nation was told that it was “Barbados’ finest hour.” This was certainly the most expensive hour that a Nation would have to underwrite. The non use of the Oval since then has added insult to injury, as no one is sure what is the current salary bill of the consultants and management staff. The recent announcement of the addition of lights is a turn around position by the Minister of Finance who after a tour to that facility, while under construction, opted to trim cost by cutting out the installation of lights. Our nation is current experiencing severe policy drift. No Minister in the Arthur administration is sure of anything now. The entire party has now moved into election mode, totally oblivious and uncaring of the needs of the citizens. The BLP needs come first. The recent announcements of the increased cost, and extended completion time for the highway project, by the company supervising the project, and not one word from the Minister speaks volume of how the taxpayers are treated. Don’t mind that the cost has been skyrocketed from one hundred and twenty million ($120,000,000 .00) Barbados to three hundred and sixty million ($360,000,000.00) Barbados Dollars. The public of Barbados are fed up with Arthur and his administration. They have gone into hiding since David Thompson and the Democratic Labour Party began to roll out its policy agenda. A united and focused Democratic Labour Party has placed the BLP on the back foot. They are unable to respond and have reduced the political discourse to when the Democratic Labour Party delivers their Conference magazine not knowing that the relevant Conference document was already in the hands of the Party’s hierarchy days in advance. Arthur’s puerile attempts at sugar coating issues of national significance have reached its end. The message to Arthur came in the people’s shut down of the failed and poorly thought out, Conversation with the Nation series that attracted more paid policemen than patrons. We are aware of the BLP’s promise to start them back. This Democratic Labour Party, however, will keep its commitment to restart its meetings series. The Democratic Labour Party has started its Town Hall series with Education on the Sunday 9th September 2007 and plans to continue these discussions throughout the month of September. Once we have completed our series, we will put before the public another set of competent and worthy candidates for your engagement. We are aware that as a public you want more of the Democratic Labour Party and we intend to deliver.
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