Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Tuesday promised that the Barbados Labour Party’s manifesto will set out ambitious plans to improve Barbadians’ lives, as the party prepares to unveil it at Golden Square Freedom Park this weekend.
In response to a question from Barbados TODAY after Labour candidate for St Michael Central, Tyra Trotman, completed her nomination papers at Combermere School on Nomination Day, Mottley said she had never been so excited about a manifesto as she was about this one.
“Come this weekend to Golden Square, and you will hear it all,” she replied when asked what issues would be prioritised if her party were given another mandate to run the country.
“[Tuesday night], we will deal with the record… because, first and foremost, if you are going back to the people, you have a duty to report progress. We are reporting progress tonight. And then from this weekend onward to the rest of the campaign, you will get me talking about everything that we will be doing.”
She added: “The record we have shows you that there is so much more to come. I said to the others yesterday that I am more excited about this manifesto and what we are doing in this next term, perhaps than at any other stage of my life.”
Mottley explained that this was because, in her first term as prime minister, the country was characterised by a “broken Barbados”, with faltering institutions and no buses or garbage trucks.
The government had to stabilise the economy, and when things seemed to be “turning the corner”, the COVID pandemic struck and set back the forward movement, she said.
“Barbados had two structural adjustment programmes of one billion dollars in the first five years of this administration. It is only in the last two and a half years that we started to free up and have a little flexibility. And therefore, I feel as if this, in truth, is the first real term that we are going to get to do and to build out the kind of Barbados for Bajans that I really wanted to be able to do, if I had a ‘level playing field’.
“It has taken us this time to ‘level the playing field’, to start the growth path; and I think the transformation is going to excite all of us. And we see people, hear people and feel people. Don’t forget it.”
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