Speaking at the Weymouth pasture, Roebuck Street, The City, during the launch of her party’s campaign Lift Off, on Saturday night, Leader of the BLP Mia Mottley, said, “a shortage of Transport Board buses, Sanitation Services Authority trucks , the South Coast Sewerage Project problems and free tertiary education were issues that would be solved immediately should the Barbadians vote the Bees back in on May 24, when they go to the polls.
“We will buy the trucks, we will buy the buses, we will fix the South Coast Sewerage System issues immediately,”said Mottley.
“They keep asking how are we going to do it. We will show them how to do it”, Mottley said to thunderous applause from the 23,000 plus supporters at the meeting.
In addition, Mottley promised that should the BLP regain the Government, from June 1, non contributory pensions would be increased to $225 per week, payable every two weeks. She later explained that the minimum contributory pension would also be increased to keep it in line with the increase in non-contributory pensions.
A BLP Government would also sit down with the National Union of Public Workers to negotiate a salary deal, and should it not be concluded, a cost of living allowance would be introduced.
The BLP leader said it hurt her to know that transportation issues were leaving old people and school children stranded at bus stops, or in the bus terminal. “How under this Government is it so hard to purchase buses?” the caring leader asked.
Mottley said the country still faced a direct date with destiny with a foreign debt payment of Barbados 120 million due in June, but she was confident a BLP administration would get the country’s economy back on track.
She said she was embarrassed that a Google search of Barbados could be headlined with negative news about sewage flowing in the streets.
“We have a high mountain to climb. We are up to the task”, she concluded.
