One of the enduring characteristics of politicians is that many of them will promise anything to woo the support of the electorate they have sworn to serve. Often times the public because of partisan blindness, a flawed governance system or complacency allows promises made to go unfulfilled. The objective of this space therefore is to give you, the PEOPLE, a chance to record promises made by public servants (and others) thereby facilitating a mechanism where we can have active follow up.
We wish to thank BU family member St. Georges Dragon for the suggestion.
Barbadians who listeed to the VOB talk show yesterday heard Dale Marshall echo his committment on behalf of the BLP to Corruption Legislation. Kudod to Wickham for forcing the issue. We will be monitoring should the BLP win the government.
Minister of Agriculture has promised to spend about 400 million dollars to restructure the sugar industry.
http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/400m-plan-for-sugar-industry/
The BLP (Mia mottley) has called for a 500 million plan to make low cost funds available to the hotel sector.
http://www.broadstreetjournalbarbados.com/2012-06-30/mottley-calls-for-500m-hotel-sector-loan-fund
@ David:
Do you have a link to the public confirmation given by the PM to the CLICO policyholders that hid government will ensure that they get back at least the principal portion of their investments?
I believe he made that commitment some time in October / November last year in one of his walkabouts preparing the campaign trail.
@Miller
Here is a link:
http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=16432
You may recall the late Prime Minister made a similar promise.
David
What about Mr Arthur’s promise to investigate the Pierhead Marina project using the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament?
@ David | January 31, 2013 at 7:44 AM |
I believe Stuart made a similar reconfirmation of his government’s commitment to the CLICO policyholder as recently as in the last quarter of 2012 during one of his campaigning walkabouts.
Now you see why the miller a serious beef with the integrity of this man. It’s nothing personal but only based on his utterances both in Parliament and in public spaces.
Utterances that are diametrically at odds with a man of integrity, sharp intellect, political acumen or even commonsense. But everyone has his or her human weakness to equalize us all to Life’s LCD.
OSA’s might be his ‘spirited’ demons that Rev. Jones could exorcise but Freundel’s seems to a congenital incurable case of political foot-in-mouth disease daily spreading like an aggressive prostate cancer.
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The deputy opposition leader did not fully embrace the idea that public figures should be
subject to closer scrutiny. He explained, for example, that people in Barbados are very
cautious about disclosing their assets and indicated that such an expectation on public
figures to do so would deter citizens from pursuing politics
We have a chance to keep an eye on the government as far as delivering manifesto promises is concerned:
Barbados Labour Party (BLP) Manifesto 2013
Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Manifesto 2013
Have you seen today’s Sunday Sun (Feb 17 2013)? Are Bajans really serious about what happens to our country? Owen Arthur lost the last election after 14 successful years of growing our economy all because persons thought he was out of touch with Bajans and wanted change, and now Freundel Stuart’s administration may win after directly putting certain unnecessary policies in place which have directly lead to the worst economy Barbados has had in 2 decades and no willingness to change direction! We must be mad! Bajan’s are being taxed to death in order to prop up our ailing economy, a strategy that is neither sustainable nor can achieve the economic growth we need to get out of this mess.
Are people really studying the reality on the ground? For 5 years now the DLP have blamed the previous administration and global recession for everything that’s wrong with the Barbados economy, and have not been able to do anything to fix it, and now all of a sudden they have the answer??? I don’t know about you but with rising cost of living (Largely due to excessive, tax increases imposed by the DLP administration), increasing national unemployment and increasing government wastage (cost for constituency councils, ineffective government jobs, etc) is more than adequate justification not to re-elect the DLP and give the BLP a chance to repair what is now broken, just like they did successfully after the departure of previous prime minister Erskine Sandiford.
After 4 years thousands of Pension policy holders caught up in the Clico, British American debacle are still awaiting relief and justice something this current administration has seen fit to ignore and drag its feet on after the judicial report has been out for well over a year. In this they have proven how little they care about the middle class persons that have been hurt while trying to avoid dependence on the NIS / government for their welfare after retirement.
Has anyone also not noticed that on the DLP’s website dlpbarbados.org where they boast their own performance in a 2008-2012 report http://www.dlpbarbados.org/site/dlp-performance-2008-2012/, access to the original 2008 manifesto is nowhere to be found on the entire website, for the public to read and make up their own minds regarding the DLP’s performance. Is that not curious? I would just not that on the BLP’s website not only do they have their loosing manifesto from 2008, but they also still have up their 2003 manifesto for the public to read and judge their 2003-2008 performance for THEMSELVES.
Undecided independents – Please take my words to heart, decide for yourself what direction you want for our country over the next 5 years, more of the same or at least a hope of something better, then get out on Thursday and vote. BLP supporters don’t lag like last time, there is too much at stake for our country this time around, get out and vote!
Prime Minister Fruendel promises to call names of people he personally witnessed vote buying.
http://www.cbc.bb/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6292:cash-for-votes&catid=97:elections&Itemid=233
dAVID your above comment was a gross misconception as to what the PM said in the referenced article . and to think that no one challenge your comment until present is just as worse.