B' Involved

New Team BLP is the beacon of hope and the best resource to bring about "real change" in Barbados. Barbadians agree and accept that the BLP has the tools, the experience; the knowledge and the philosophical grounding to take this country to the next high level of development. The people of this country also agree that we understand and care about the things, which are important to them and are therefore best equipped to bring about the "real change" this country needs.

Our Record of Service

• Universal Adult Suffrage
• Free Secondary Education introduced at St. Leonard's, Parkinson, Grantley Adams Memorial and Princess Margaret Secondary Schools.
• Status of Children Reform Act – this wiped illegitimacy off the statute books.
• Establishment of National Cultural Foundation 
• Passing of the Tenants Freehold Purchase Act.
• Holiday with Pay Act.
• Construction of QEH and Deep Water Harbour
• Established the Forde Constitution Review Commission.
• Establishment of the Rural and Urban Development Commission
• Setting up of a facilitation unit for Returning Nationals
• Creation of the first ever Ministry of Social Transformation (the first in the Western Hemisphere)
• Creation of the Community Independence Celebration
• Naming of ten national heroes and the celebration of April 28 as National Heroes 
  Day.
• Conversion of 5 000 casual employees into public officers – giving them security of tenure, increased retirement benefits and enhanced social status.
• Establishment of the Edutech 2000 programme which is designed to make computers the quintessential teaching and learning tool.
• Successful lobbying of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development for the removal of Barbados from the blacklist of tax havens.
• The Small Business Development Act.
• The Agricultural Development Fund.
• The Public Service (Restoration of Emoluments) Bill, 2000 – this restored the 8% taken from public servants salaries during the period of Structural Adjustment.
• Edutech is designed to improve the quality of our educational system and the performance by improving how we teach, what we teach, how we test and by using information and communications technology as a major productivity enhancement tool. Of necessity will be a major refurbishment of all school buildings.
• Subsidy for all purchases of urban tenantry lots difference between $2.50 and the market price.