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Many illustrations have been given over the years to depict the “sufferation” Barbadians endured during the early 1990s under the Democratic Labour Party when public servants’ salaries were slashed by 8 percent and hundreds lost their jobs.But none have come close to that related by Barbados Labour Party candidate for Christ Church East Central, Dalton E. Lovell when he excited the 10,000-strong crowd at Carlisle Car Park last Saturday night with a speech delivered with the fire of an American Baptist speaker, but spiked with heavy doses of sweet humour that would have made him the envy of Mac Fingall or Trevor Eastmond. According to Lovell, the loss of jobs and crippling reduction in spending power resulted in many a married man having to sell of his family home and return to beg for a lodging in that of his mother or mother-in- law. The dynamic candidate argued that this situation reduced men to a state where they no longer considered themselves real men since, for example, they could no longer walk around the house wearing nothing but boxer shorts, giving full vent and freedom to their manhood. This, he said, was made even worse by the fact that when their female partners felt oozy-woozy, the men found it very difficult to rise to the occasion out of fear that any “noise” could bring the mother or the mother-in-law running into the living room to see what was going on. Living under these DLP-imposed conditions, he reiterated, stopped men from being real men.

The electorate of St. George South got the shock of their lives during a recent meeting held at Charles Rowe Bridge when a Democratic Labour Party candidate exhorted them to cast their votes for the Barbados Labour Party. Michael Lashley had spent most of his platform speech trying to convince the small crowd in attendance that they should turn their backs on the BLP’s Clarke, who had served as their representative in the House of Assembly for three terms. He did so by presented a litany of condemnations of Clarke. However, he referred to Clarke and the BLP so many time that when he came to what was intended to be the fatal thrust to the former’s heart, he shouted that that was why when the constituents go to the polls on Tuesday they must “cast your votes for the BLP (Clarke)”.