Broken DLP Promises
Reduction of VAT
The DLP will reduce the rate of VAT within 90 days of assuming office.
KENSINGTON OVAL
KENSINGTON OVAL will become "part of the family silver" within 90 days of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) assuming office.
"We are insisting that Kensington Oval, where hundreds of millions of hard earned taxpayers dollars are invested, must be owned by the people of Barbados and that is what we shall see to, within 90 days from Wednesday," Thompson declared. – Nation Newspaper, January 13, 2008.
LAND
Within 90 days of being elected, a DLP administration would introduce a policy of zoning certain lands for exclusive Barbadian purchase.
We have come to expect this knee jerk reaction from this Government that at first blush appears to be solving a problem, but which in the long run is likely to create even further comess.
It is noteworthy that both Morris Lee and Judy Forde have said that they have been trying to sit down with the government to find a solution to the problems in their industry, but have been ignored.
In fairness to Mr. Lee, he has been proactive in encouraging his membership to attend courses at the Polytechnic specially geared for PSV operators and seems genuine in his pursuit of raising standards in the industry.
On the other hand, the Government - led by no less a person than the Prime Minister, has sought to lay the blame for the anti-social, wayward behavior exhibited by some of our young people on what we Bajans call the ‘minibus culture.’
You cannot legislate decorum and good manners. They have to be taught. And what of the rest of society? Does it have a role to play in reporting unacceptable behavior to head teachers and the police? Is this not what our grandparents would have done?
These are issues that have been raised in several fora by our leader Mia Amor Mottley - the need to re-build the blocks of civility, civic responsibility and self-confidence on which our communities were founded.
It is time that the Prime Minister comes to the stark realisation that tourism under Richard Sealy is trending in the wrong direction – downwards. Sealy does not seem to understand that marketing, particularly in times of economic recession, needs to be concentrated in the markets where we have proven success.
Our chief foreign exchange earner is limping along and is in need of an urgent rescue plan if it is going to do its part in pulling us out of the recession.
News & Updates
Late Saturday afternoon, November 14, 2009, Opposition Leader Mia Mottley released this statement to the media.
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Yesterday’s news report of a further downgrade from a stable outlook to a negative outlook from Standard & Poors is regrettable but not unexpected.
There have now been two downgrades of our credit rating in two years of this Government.
This government is devaluing our international credit standing at a record pace.
If we are downgraded again we will be one step away from being officially classified as Junk, making borrowing more difficult and the cost more expensive.
We will then have gone from the star credit in the region just a few years ago to Junk Bond Status in two budgets.
This is the cost of this government’s fiscal incompetence and lack of imagination of how to deal with economic problems that are worsening by responses that are plenty of talk and little action.
Barbados cannot afford to be downgraded by international investors twice in two years while the Guyana economy reports this week 2.7% growth for the year so far.
It becomes clearer every day that the Government is at a loss as to how to manage the recession and is so lacking in confidence that it will not come to Barbadians with the truth.
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