Why Join?

Because our record of public service and national development speaks for itself…

Our Past Achievements

• 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

Present Initiatives

• 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.

Planning for the Future

• Establishment of the University College of Barbados to facilitate professional training of skilled Barbadians.
• Completion of state of the art multi-million dollar Hilton Hotel.
• Improved technical and financial assistance to the agricultural sector.
• Greater financial and technical assistance to the tourism & hotel sector.
• Improved water supply through the joint public-private sector initiative of the desalination plant.
• Implementation of the Money Laundering Prevention and Control (Amendment) Bill and the establishment of the Financial Intelligence Unit.
• Operation of the Fair Trading Commission.
• Expansion and rehabilitation of QEH
• Establishment of a National Art Gallery
• Expansion of GAIA