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/' PREFACE A Message from Party Leader, Tom Adams

Barbados todaystands at the crossroads. One sign pointsdown the road to total economic depression, to waste, to corruption ingovernment, to massive unemployment, to unprecedented inflation. This istheway of theDLP regimeafter 15 years ifipower. The othersign pointstowards the road that can lead us to new ideas, bold initiatives andfresh thinking about our national problems, to an honest and intelligent approach towhat isneeded in today's Barbados, to social justice, to new horizons in economic development, to a massive attack on unemployment andinflation, to the restoration of the principles ofintegrity and morality in the administration ofgovernment in our country. This is the way offered by the Barbados Labour Party. It isthe road set out in ourManifesto in 1976. We outline n(w programmes on Taxation and Public Finance, Economic Development, theMachinery ofGovern ment, Women's Rights, the Youth, Health, Worker's Rights, Education, Sport and Recreation, and Physical Development. We show you the men andwomen who will carry out these-programmes in the new Government. You will observe that theParty repeatedly pledges consultation with those who are most directly affected by the implementation ofits programme, for example the doctors, in the ca^erpf the free National Health Service, and the teaching profession, in the case ofthe nejiv Education Plan. These pledgi^ are the pledges of aSocial Democratic Pttrty. f In the Barbados LabourParty we have firmly set ourselves'dgainst those who willdestroy democracy in this country, whether bytheformal introduction of the One Party State, whichjso many members of the Democratic Labour Party seem tofavour, or byotherwisejam^pering with the Constitution, aswas done in 1974 when so many religious and other community leaders were so r'ouhjily abused by one who should know better and who should show greater respect for the views of others. Instead, wa rely on the democratic process and hope to win yoursupport by offering policies in all our interests. I titge you to give usyour support at thePolls onSeptember 2nd, 1976.

We Shall Not Fail You.

YourCandidate (st.Thomas) ADAMS, John Michael Geoffrey Manningham, 44. Son of Sir Grantiey and Lady Adams. Member of Parliament for St. Thomas since 1966. Chairman and PoUticai Leader of The Barbados Labour Party. Educated at Harrison College (Barbados Scholar in Mathematics1950); Magdalen College, Oxford University (M.A.In Politics, Philosophy and Economics); Senior Producer, B.B.C. (London); Barrister-at-Law (GraysInn). Presently a Member of the Governing Executive Committee of the World Wide Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Lawyer, Economist and Parliamentarian, Tom Adams is one of the nation's finest orators. As the Party's principal spokesman on Finance, he has demonstrated a mastery of fiscal and economic matters. He has exhibited great capacity for work, a flair for research and an impressivegrasp of detail. For five years he has provided sound and inspirational leadership to the Barbados Labour Party. Adams is married and has two sons. Candidate for SL Thomas. M!)Ur CandidStG (St. Michael North West) 1j ALLEYNE, Ezra Ederson, 32. Combermere School; Holborn College of Law- QueenEm.gratmgMarytoCollege,LondonUniversityin 1962 ofhe Londonbecame a'(LLB,Cle/kLLMJ;witi' BncoVnBarrlrter-at-Law&UncolilTsolfcitorrin^^(Middle TemS^' passed the Diploma of the Institute of Legal Executives After aradu^ttlnn frftm irniiTarcs^ l^n:SJo4f°w1?t Billed C^f^\=r!ri°n?a'i3")er« It°ud°"'t"?n Xr/firsfyeaTat'ciueen Mafy" CoBleT "" *>" of any Alleyne is married and has three children. Candidate for St. Michael North West.

supporters of the Government. achieved by amalgamating Boards Machinery where they operate in similar or over Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries lapping areas, such as those which deal with Agriculture, Irrigation and of Recent criticisms have put it beyond related subjects. The Caves doubt that there are too many Parliamen Commission and the Parks and Beaches Government tary Secretaries with too little work to Commission will also be amalgamated do. The D.L.P. has treated such positions as part of the Party's wider plan for The operations of Government during as rewards for the faithful withoutregard improvement of the environment to real governmental need and the the period 1971 - 1976 have more than referred to later in this Manifesto. ever shown that serious perils await country has accordingly been saddled * Extend Civil Service tendering pro with the heavy administrative costs and cedures to all Boards. This will put our country if the Democratic Labour salaries consequent on this policy. Party is returned to power for a fourth an end to the scandals complained of term. The period has been marked by At the same time, back bench talent, by the AuditorGeneral at the Housing swollen Ministries, swollen Statutory particularly in the Opposition, is wasted Authority where million dollar con Boards, an attack on the Constitution, by Ministerial jealousy and failure to tracts have been handed out without by-passing of Parliament in many areas, make proper use of Parliament. tender. attacks on the principle of Opposition, The Barbados Labour Party pledgesto:. * Wherever possible, associate members and finally by a serious proposal by a * Reduce the number of Ministries. of Parliament of all political parties Government M.P. for a one-Party State. * Halve the number of Parliamentary with the operation of Boards. It is essential at this time to put a check Secretaries. * Make more use of Committees of Integrity andMorality in Government on the trend, so common in the new and Parliament to suggest and improve developing countries towards authoritar Mter long debate in the last session. ian governments and dictatorships. It is legislation. Parliament agreed to appoint a Select vital to change the presentregime and to * Associate ordinary members of Parliament with the machinery of Committee on the Leader of the make sure that democracy can never Opposition's resolution calling for the again be put at risk in Barbados. Government. introduction of integrity legislation for To this end the Party pledges that it Statutory Boards Ministers and members of Parliament. will never seek to amend the Constitution However, except for the Speaker, D.L.P. of Barbados by unilateral action such as By a recent count the number of members failed to attend the Committee's used by the D.L.P. Government in its Statutory corporations, commissions, meetings and it was unable to form a last session. A Commission for the boards, and other institutions is now quorum. The Barbados Labour Party Protection of the Constitution will be more than 50. They operate outside the thusremains alone asgiving whole-hearted appointed on which all political parties strict control of procedures and expendi support to the principle of such legisla represented in Parliament will be offered tures laid down for the civil service. tion, which isincreasingly being passed in places. Its function will be to examine They are directed by persons appointed other Commonwealth countries. The the Constitution with a view to ensuring by D.L.P. Ministers and who over Party, therefore, repeats and expands that multi-party democracy is given whelmingly display their political the pledge contained in its 1971 institutional protection that can effec interests in every aspect of the Boards* Manifcstoi- tively prevent its destruction in our activities. They no longer serve the best country. In particular the party will * It will pass legislation providing for interests of the areas of Government Members of Parliament, Senators, seek to establish a permanent Electoral they were appointed to oversee. and Boundaries Commission with full and politically appointed members The B.L.P. policy on Statutory Bodies of Statutory Corporations to dis constitutional protection to preserve free will be to;- elections and put an end to the sorrv close their financial assets and * Reduce their numbers so that the liabilities onassuming office, period- system under which the machinery of membership of the Boards and the elections in the constituencies is largely cally during office, and on cost of running them is reduced with termination. in 'the hands of persons known to be no reduction in staff. This will be * Again as a matter of principle Your Candidate(St. Joseph) BOLdEN, Charles Lindsay, 45. Member of Parliament for St. Joseph since 1970. % Educated at Society Mixed School; Combermere School; London University (LL.6) Barrister-at-Law {Inner Temple). Was a farmer and civil servant before proceeding to the United Kingdom; Member of the Rotary Club of Barbados. Lindsay Bolden is the BLP's principal spokesman on agriculture. In 1974 he did an extensive tour of the U.S. observing agricultural projects and In the same year visited Taiwan. He is a dynamic public figure with wide and varied interests and a practical approach to life. Bolden Is married and has two daughters. Candidate for St. Joseph.

no salary increases will be voted by rural population centres. this, such investors will be members of the House of Assembly There will be a category of preferred encouraged to deposit funds and except after an independent review industries which will include:- form companies whose licensing by a properly qualified outside * Clothing Industries and other fees can be expected to body. * Furniture Industries make substantial contributions to • A code of proper conduct will be * Handicraft Industries using local the revenue of the Island. laid down for Ministers, senior civil materials for tourist and local con * Foreign-owned corporations which servants and political appointees to sumption. own land in Barbados will be taxed Statutory Corporations. on such land at a higher rate than * The Construction Industry, panic- ularly public buildings, the Hous Barbadian owners. This will not apply to corporations protected by ing programme and road construct incentive legislation or to foreign Economic Policy ion. corporations owned by Barbadians; * The Food Processing Industry. but, in the latter case,full disclosure The Barbadian economy is today in a * Agricultural Development. must be made to the Registrar of sadly depressed state. Unemployment * Shipbuilding. Companies of all Barbadian share has reached an all-time high of over 25% Taxation holders and the extent of their of the true labour force; the Agricultural interests. acreage has declined, as has the output The BLP recognises that one effect of • Sale of postage stamps to stamp from this sector, with a corresponding inflatation has been to raise the level of collectors throughout the world is a loss of jobs; in the area of light industry taxation in Barbados, and will therefore:- proven source of revenue to small the persistent flight of foreign investors * Amend the Income Tax Act to countries. The example of has resulted in there being no more persons provide a higher level of allowances. neighbouring Caribbean islands has employed last year than there were in * Abolish the 5% Sales Tax and the shown that the most profitable way 1960 when the B.L.P. formed theGovem- Trade Tax. of doing this is to establish a local ment of this country; Tourism has been * Restructure the Corporation Tax Philiatelic Bureau. The Party will experiencing serious difficulties; and in to remove the present disincentives set up a Barbados Philatelic Bureau the Construction industry things have to local investment. to handle the worldwide sale and been almost at a standstill. * Overhaul the system of indirect the promotion of Barbados' At the same time prices climbed ahead taxation to produce a uniform stamps locally, and has already of productivity as the impact of inflation, system which will simplify collect sought advice from other agencies spurred on by local land speculation, was ion and reduce the incidence of tax concerned in this type of operation. felt on the Barbadian economy. evasion. This proposal will also have the The BLP believes that there must be * Provide tax incentives for economic advantage of giving substantial immediate measures taken to restore development in rural areas. employment. health to the economy, and is convinced * Encourage, by means of incentives, that this will be done only by a Govern greater local ownership in the tour ment that recognises that creating jobs ist industry. Financial Institutions for people is more important than fancy Additional methods of raising non-tax revenue, especially from sources outside Government has several financial rhetoric about the Gross Domestic Prod institutions. At the apex is the Central uct, and that the Agricultural, Industrial Barbados, will be instituted. Bank of Barbados, which performs a and Tourist sectors are complimentary * Steps will be taken to provide and regulatory function. There are also the and not competitive. extend tax-haven facilities for Government Savings Bank and a number The BLP's wxation policy will be overseas investors whose businesses employed, not only to give some measure do not operate in Barbados. The of Development Bankinginstitutions, such of relief to the hard-pressed worker, but strictest control will be instituted as the Barbados Development Bank, the also to encourage economic development, to ensure that this does not lead to Sugar Industry Agricultural Bank, the particularly of labour intensive enter the island becoming a shelter for Agricultural Credit Bank and the National prises and the location of industries in criminal elements but, subject to Housing Corporation which performs a \bur CandidatecSt.Michael South East) BRADSHAW, DeUsle Othneii, 35. Educated at Hothersal Junior School; Industry High School; The Modern High School; Huddersfield Technical College, Yorkshire, England. Taught at St. Leonard's School; worked for a period with The Barbados Daily News and was an insurance underwriter before emigrating to the United Kingdom. He was a founder-rriemb'er of the Afro-West Indian Association in Britain. On his return to Barbados he founded Kay's y^cademy, a secondary school at Chelsea Road^ St. Michael and is its Headmaster. DeLisle Bradshaw is an educator and as such is greatly concerned about the problems of the youth. He commends the BLP's plan to abolish the eleven-plus examination. He does not believe that the nation can afford to waste talent and knowledge. He believes too that Government's financial policy should be aimed at constructive expenditure for improving the iives of the people, not waste expenditure on "frills". Bradshaw is married and has two children. Candidate for St. Michael South East. limited lending function. St. John and St. Philip Coastal high • Regulate the activities of tour A BLP Government will consolidate ways and fisheries. operators to ensure that more of these institutions and establish a Philatelic Bureau. the tourist dollar reaches Barbados. National Rank of Barbados with divisions • Carry out intensive training for savings, Agricultural financing, programmes and incentive pro Development banking and a Commercial Tourism grammes to train middle and upper division. level management in Barbados and The savings effected will be at the keep it at home. expense of the top-hea^ management The recent decline in the tourist • Implement those proposals which structures of existing institutions and not industry has highlighted the chronic were set out under Tourism in our at the expense of present staff. imbalance in the shape of Barbados' 1971 Manifesto and which have tourism. For too great a part of the year not been implemented despite their Energy Policy there are too few tourists to make it relevance. worthwhfle to run hotels and the big, The Party views with dismay the fact Local Transport of continued foreign ownership of all mainly foreign-owned, institutions are Barbados' energy facilities. It considers better able to weather the storm than The Barbados Labour Party is partic that just asthe Government of Venezuela the small Barbadian-owned hotels and ularly concerned over the hazardous guest houses which cannot afford to circumstances in which the small taxi- has taken control of its petroleum resources, including the sources of drop their prices to rock bottom levels. driver plies for hire in the Tourist Barbados' petroleum imports, so should At the same time the big foreign-owned Industry and pledges to:- hotels often make arrangements with the Government of Barbados control its • Review the conditions under which supplies, of petroleum. It will therefore touroperators in overseas countries which such small operators now have to establish a National Petroleum Corpora ataact many of the less well-off tourists seek their share of the tourist tion to take over the operations of the who should be the natural market for dollar and take firm steps to ensure the medium-priced Barbadian hotel that they will be given a fair deal Natural Gas Corporation as well as to operation. exercise control over the importation, and a fair return. refining and distribution of allpetroleum The Barbados Labour Party intends The Party also believes that as a products in Barbados. It will seek the to put Barbados first in Tourism. Its result of the decision to limit the number best advice on the expansion of refinery policy as set out in its 1971 Manifesto of taxi licences, licensees should be facilities to handle Barbados' own domes has been adopted wholesale by the DLP allowed to sell, leave by will, or other tic oil production and, if warranted, Government but without the necessary wise deal with their licences as will construct a new oil refinery to commitment to maximising the return private property m order to provide replace theexisting plant. which Barbadians should receive from for their retirement. This right will be the industry. given subject to safeguards against any individual or company being able to The BLP will thercforej- become too large an operationby buying • Direct the tourist construction up licences. The. BLP programme for creating job thrust towards labour-intensive opportunities will immediawly generate tourist facilities. some 3,600 primary jobs which will • Improve tourist research so that in themselves provide the base for addi Tourist Board promotional Trade tionalemployment throughoutthe Island. expenditure can be properly The main avenues will bet- directed. Elsewhere in this Manifesto we have Plans for Housing Construction. • Orient our tourist promotion drive outlined various policy measures which towards the middle-income tourist we will be employing to reduce the cost St. Andrew's Development Scheme. of living, check inflation, increase job Agro-Industries. and towards a larger number of opportunities and stimulate economic National Playing Field Programme. countries than those from which tourists at present come to this growth. Avibrant trade policy must also Parks, Beaches and Caves Development. be used to this end. Establishment of new Towns. country. YourCandidate (St. Andrew) BRATHWAITE, Lloyd Beresford, 51. fouTefwith Correspondence yea" before becoming a real estate agent. Has been a ^M^rvfceihafrman Executive Committee of the Barbados Labour Party and a former an outstanding public speaker and an experienced poiltlcian. His great nSn fnr fn?fi P®C''a"ient restored to its proper place in our governmental system. He sees the Barbados reforms and is greatly concerned about the rising level of unemployment in Brathwaite is married and has five children. Candidate for St. Andrew.

DLP rule has been characterised by the renegotiation of the CARICOM strengthen the laws governing consumer phenomenal price increases, particularly Treaty, licensing will be abolished. protection and consumer credit. As part in essential food stuffs and services, Hand in hand with the abolition of of its commitment to the provision of coupled with regular and acute shortages licences will go a policy of controlling cheaper and better goods, fairer trading of goods, particularly necessities. monopoly tendencies among commission practices and accountability by manu The Barbados Labour Party totally agents, wholesalers and retailers, who will facturers and distributors, a BLP adminis rejects the idea that extraordinary price be encouraged to sell more goods at tration will:- increases and regular shortages of goods lower prices rather than fewer goods at * Financially assist and strengthen greater cost. Such a policy will reduce cannot be eliminated. A BLP Government the cost of living and increase employ the ConsumerAssociation,encourag will pursue an active policy to restrain ment levels among staff engaged, for ing it to establish further branches the level of prices in the shops, particular example, among lorry driversand porters. throughout the Island. ly the prices of the most essential items This policy will also be implemented * Pass anti-dumping legislation to in the family budget. by restructuring the form of indirect prohibit the dumping of goods which are considered to be less than Import Licences taxation to remove the incentive which the mark-up system provides for those fair market value and which con To this end it will immediately direct who wish to take advantage of it to stitute unfair competition to its attention to a reform of the machinery make greater profits byimporting higher Barbadian manufacturers. of price control and the abolition of the priced goods. * Strengthen the Bureau of Standards, system of impon licensing. _The existingmachineryof price control confer on it adequate powers and The last five yearf experience has leads to unnecessary delay and a great widen its responsibility to advise on shown that the import licensing system waste of the time of civil servants and the measures to control false or mis is open to serious abuse and corruption. general public. Too much bureaucracy leading advertising, and the testing There is too long a delay in the processing has been built up, and there is no of advertisers' claims. of applications for such licences. established formula for the operation of * Provide protection for our com Applications are often dealt with an open and fair system of controls. A mercial and industrial designers and arbitrarily and are sometimes awarded BLP administration will therefore:- artists by a new Industrial Designs to persons who have no connection or Act and a comprehensive reform of experience whatsoever with the business • Enact a new and comprehensive the present archaic and out-dated of trade, e.g. the award of a licence to Billcovering all aspects of restrictive laws governing copyright, patents import cement to Mr, Sydney Alleyne trade practices, monopolies, mergers and trade marks. of Alleyne Mercantile Bank notoriety. and unfair competition. * Pass a new and up-to-date Food When licences are refused no published or * Drastically overhaul existing price and Drugs Act. satisfactory reasons for so doing are control mechanism. * Enact a modern Weights and given. In any case, there is no red and Measures Act. substantive reason for imposing licensing * Speed up price-fixing procedures so that there is no unnecessary in respect of at least 50% of the items Consumer Credit shortage of goods while sellers wait subject to such a system, since there are for a new control price. no general restrictions on their In the field of consumer credit the • Stiffen penalties for breach of the importation. DLP Government has done nothing to price control laws. protect the consumer as a creditor. The The result is that the consumer finds existing law relating to credit transactions himself eventually burdened with heavier Consumer Protection is totally deficient. A BLP administration prices or short of specific goods. Any wll:- "esponsible Government has a duty to >revent this. It also has a du^ to The BLP recognises that consumers * Institute a total review of all laws jrotect local industry. Subject therefore are at a great disadvantage compared to and practices governing credit and o safeguarding our own lo^ industries, manufacturers and suppliers. Its members sale and loan transactions. nir treaty commitments to our in Parliament have repeatedly urged the * Update all laws governing Pawn !ARICOM and other trading partners, DLP Government to reform and brokers, Moneylenders and YourCandidate (St. Lucy) BRATHWAITE, Roy Edison,46.

for the purpose of expectmg !„'L in material terms but were nonetheless in need of rssi°tan« '"Hf?eluv°VtWntenTe?s"?IVp"ant offica should be persons who understand Sa?r%"d^°n^ KrufcJNdTn" Candidate for St. Lucy.

The Party is committed to an urgent Oistins, Speightstown, Holetown, Bclle- Provident Societies. review of our Caricom Treaty commit plaine in St. Andrew, Welchman Hall m * Review and update the existing ment to remove the adverse short tenn St. Thomas and two other suitable areas, Hire Purchase Act to cover a wider impact on our economy, safeguard the orie in Central St. George and the other field of consumer credit and to growth of our own industries without in St. Philip. strengthen the existing provisions restricting competitive trade or the The new facilities to be added w^ under this Act and the Sale •of deepening of the integration process. include Community Centres, vegetable Goods Act. Full parliamentary and public discussion markets, library extensions, gymnasnc • Provide "truth in lending"by of all proposed measures resulting from and sporting facilities for both men and preventing false or misleading such a review will be encouraged. women, and Post Offices. advertisements and by requiring in The BLP will on the international advertising and all loan agreements front fight for greater freedom of trade, full disclosure of the terms offered, protection for the products of the less Scotland District including the true rate of interest, developed countries (including our own) For some years now Government.has and the full cost of credit m both in foreign markets, constant review of been operating the Soil Conservation cash and percentage per annum our relationship with the E.E.C., and Scheme, without regard to the long-felt terms. adequate safeguards for primary products needfor its intensification andexpansion. • Provide suitable protection for con and commodities. A vigorous policy sumer hiring (renting and leasing) This scheme has brought little control goods as an alternative to buying will be adopted towards the marketing to the Scotland District and slippage of of our sugar, rum and molasses to ensure landhas continued. If thissoilerosion to them. . maximum sales at maximum prices with The purpose behind the Party s policies be arrested the scope and operation ot out undermining long-term guaranteed the scheme must be substantiaUy in in the field of consumer credit is the market conditions. achievement of maximum freedom to creased. . The detailed measures which we have A BLP Government will seek inter develop consumer credit whilst creating outlined in this section- emphasize the national aid for a massive Development maximum competition. lack of an adequate trade policy pursued programme on the largest scale This External Trade to date by the present DLP Government. will include the excavation of dams The seriousness of the situation demands down to spring level to trap and store Under our policy for External Affairs the instant and comprehensive treatment all the streams which for generations we have listed as a guideline the set out above. have created the instability associated promotion of our country's vital trade with the region. interests. The operations of the Ministp' Physical These dams and lakes can act as of Trade in this field must be closely reservoirs for irrigation and can also be co-ordinated with the work of External developed asinland fish farms. Affairs and external trade promopon will Development The entire face of the Scotland be a high priority. There will be a District will be changed, with land fill properly staffed Import/Export Analysis where needed and irrigation to maintain Division in the Ministry equipped to and new crop programmes. Intensive fruit provide complete analyses of and all farming,( including mangoes, citrus, avo- relevant information relating to our Communications cadoes and other items at present high- foreign trade, its promotion and priced) will be carried on and greatly expanded from present levels. expansion and the rapid growth of export As noted in our 1971 Manifesto, credit and wooing of industrial develop concentration of services and develop Roads ment capital for our industries. Indus ment in the Bridgetown area isoneof the trialists will be encouraged to expand greatest threats to the proper physical rapidly their foreign trade and every development of Barbados. ' The Party will build anew coastal road measure will be taken to support them, , in the parishes of St. Joseph, St. John including the provision of tax incentives The Party reiterates its intention to and in northern St. Philip to linkup with and export credit by way ofguarantees. develop as subsidiary urban areas. MDUrCsndidSt© (ChrlstChurch East) CHELTENHAM, Richard Lionel, 34. St. Patrkk's Boys' School; Boys' Foundation School; University of the West indies ItBarnster-at-Law. X T (Grays Inn).Government) McGIII University; Manchester University' (PhD^ 1970)' Founded Crusaders Youth Group; Founder Member Barbados Youth Council; Leader UWI .Debating Team to the United States, 1963; Deputy Manager Barbados-Guyana Pavilion Expo' 67, Montreal; President West Indian Students Society McGill University. "Johnny" Cheltenham is a skilled debater with a firm grasp of public affairs. A leading authority on the recent constitutional history of Barbados he wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject "Constitutional and Political Development in Barbados 1946-1966" Cheltenham is married and has two children. Candidate for Christ Church East.

the East Coast Road at Bathsheba and the speculators in Barbados have been buying * Run down lands on plantations. St. Philip road system at Blades Hill. This land for prices sometimes as low as * Lands owned by peasants who can road will play an important part in the $1,200.00 an acre and then cutting it no longer work them. economic development of the coastal up into two and four acre lots at prices * Lands taken out of agriculture for villages of St. John and the new shellfish ranging from $6,000.00 to $10,000.00 sale as building sites or two and fisheries and port facilities which the an acre. A genuine farmer who purchases four acre farms. Party will establish in the area. It will land at this price cannot make a profit Much of this is good arable land and also give access from southern Barbados on his investment unless he is able to therefore represents a serious loss to to the new St. Andrew development market his product at a price far beyond the economy. Such as has been put into scheme and will uplift and rehabilitate what the consumer should be paying house spots is lost forever, but there is a the whole eastern side of the island, thus for agricultural produce. great deal that can be brought back into spreading development more evenly over The BLP therefore believes that there agricultural production. our land area. must be a Land Use Plan which would It will be our policy to end land ensure that maximum use is made of speculation and to bring idle lands back this scarce resource. into agricultural production by an Lands which are good for agriculture integrated plan in which the emphasiswill PublicTransport must not be transferred to housing or be on incentives and assistance to those industrial development. There is an who will bring the land into production. abundance of marginal lands which could For those who cannot be coaxed or The Barbados Labour Party believes be used for these purposes. The BLP persuaded in this way other measures that Barbadians are entitled to a cheap must therefore arrest the trend which will be employed to make the land and efficient transport system. This can has resulted in many valuable acres lying produce again. only be achieved if the buses are all idle. The BLP is also aware that Government brought under the control of one author Idlelandisa deadloss to the economy. is the owner of over five thousand acres ity with an overall plan for public trans In addition to its not producing anything, of land and that much of this land is port, detailing the main routes and feed each idle acre represents a loss of at least either not used or is underused. ing routes and how it proposes to serve $300.00 to $400,00 in agricultural wages The Party believes that such misused those people who do not live along the annually. or underused lands of good agricultural traditional bus routes. In addition to its annual loss in pro quality as are under public ownership The Party is committed to the view ductivity and wages, this state of affairs must be given out for farming on a that minibus operators have a contribu also lost the Barbadian economy millions co-operative basis and that these producer tion to make and must therefore be of dollars by keeping land out of pro co-operatives should become the full brought within the overall plan. duction at a time when sugar prices owners of the land, in such acreages as skyrocketed on the world market. constitute economic agricultural holdings. It is a situation which arose only Land is Barbados' greatest asset. Its because the Democratic Labour Party waste and misuse must be brought to a Land Policy considered the personal enrichment of speedy end. its members through land speculation to As must be the case in a country be of greater importance than the health which is so densely populated, land in of the national economy. Agriculture Barbados isa commodity in great demand. The setting is therefore right for land Idle Lands speculators,who are often non-Barbadian, and and whose only interest lies in turning It is the policy of the BLP that idle a sizeable profit. lands must be speedily brought back Fisheries The BLP is keenly aware of the serious into agricultural production and that harm to the national economy which no more lands should be allowed to lie Agriculture has historically been both results from land speculation, since such idle in the future. a major employer and an earner of speculationcauses inflation. For example, Idle lands fall into three categories:- foreign exchange in our economy. YourCandidate (St.James) CRAIG, Lionel Seymour, 47. Memberof Parliament for St. James since 1966. Educated at Roebuck Boys'School and Barbados Academy. , ...... Worked with J N Goddard & Sons Ltd. before becoming an Insurance j Manufacturers' Life insurance Company for 20 years; won the Inteniational for five years and was a member of the Million Dollar Round Circle of the Company. iSember of Canadian Life Underwriters Association and Founder-President of the Life of the underprivl^god, perticulerly old .,e pensioners. Adynamic politician, he is first Vice-Chairman ofthe BLP. Craig is married and has four children. Candidate for St. James.

drain on our foreign reserves. *A small-tractor rental scheme to However, as a result of DLP policies, assist farmers with small lots. thousands of acres have been thrown out Proposals * Development of a service to of sugar production with no correspond facilitate the growth of fruit trees ing increase in other agricultural produc A BLP Government will provide for:- and the production of fruit. tion. The acreage of sugar reaped in * The establishment of a full and * A Fanners' Crop and Livestock 1971 was 48,700; in 1975 it was a mere efficient banking service for Insurance Scheme, to safeguard 36,000. At the same time the tonnage of Agriculture, as part of the plan fanners against accidents and other sugar (which in the record year 1957 was for reorganising the financial perils. 204,000) declined from 134,600 to institutions of Barbados * Incorporation of the 4H Movement 96,900. * Reorganisation of the Ministry of into the agricultural education By 1970 jobs in agriculture had al Agriculture, with special emphasis programme for schools. ready fallen from their 1960 level of on providing aneffective Extension * Subsidies for seed, fertiliser, and 22,000 to 13,600 and have continued Service. pig feed. to fall. * Reorganisation of the Agricultural While land goes out of production, Development Corporation to make Sugar cheap politics are being played with the it an effective instrument for The Party's concern over the Sugar Agricultural Development Corporation research and a stimulus to diver Industry and the arrangements for market and the Barbados Marketing Corporation sification of the agricultural ing sugar has been expressed time and which should be dynamic agencies in economy. again byourrepresentatives in Parliament. a programme to diversify the agricultural ♦ Recapitalisation, restructuring and We restate here our intention to take the economy; the Extension Services of the redirecting of the policies of the necessary steps for Government participa Ministry of Agriculture areundermanned; BMC to ensure that it fulfills the tion in the development, control and Co-operatives are denied the training and basic objective of providing service direction of the Industry. other support they so obviously need; to farmers by assuming the respon and three banks perform inadequately to sibility for marketing their produce. Dairy and Beef give an unsatisfactory service to the * The immediate reactivating of all industry- , . . , The Dairy and Beef Industpr is a Agricultural Stations. serious cause for concern. Prices are The BLP believes that the agnculture • The establishment of an Agricultural economy must be revitalised and that, Zoning Programme and farmer high and the production ofboth milk and with increased mechanisation, with the registration to ensure adequate beef is low. In addition, the Pine Hill use of modern technology, and with Dairy continues to play an unconvincing production and marketing role. Urgent steps will be taken to improved wages and conditions in the programmes. industry, agriculture could become an • Agro-industrial sites in St. Philip stimulate this area of our agriculture, and attractive employer offering a career to and St. Joseph for processing, these will include arrangements for the the youth of our nation. freezing and canning, particularly participation of dairy men in the The Party is committed to a policy to assist those who farm vegetables, operation of the Pine Hill Dairy. which ensuresthat food supplied to con peanuts and corn, whether on small sumers in this country is at all tim« Plantation Tenantries adequate in quantity and quality and is or la^e holdings, and to eliminate the importation of these items. The agricultural worker has tradition obtained at the lowest prices compatible • Removal of duty 'payable on all with the proper remuneration of ^1 ally lived on tenantry lands of the implements for use in the plantation without any hope of wer sectors of the agricultural and fisheries Agriculturaland Fisheries Industries. industries, providing adequate incomes acquiring the land on which he lives. * All necessary assistance, including Social justice demands that every for those employed in them and invest amendment to the relevant legisla ment funds for expanding output. tenant of a plantation tenantry be given The Party also believes that home tion, to begiven to the Co-operative the opportunity to purchase the house Movement to foster its growth. spot on which he lives. production must be increased to make • An adequate veterinary service both the best use of our limited land resources A BLP Government will, as an act and reduce the alarmingly high bill for by the employment of vets and the of the highest priority, ensure that each food imports which constitutes a serious training of para vets. \burCandidate (St.Michael south) FIELD, Randolph Levenson, 50. Accountant. Financial Controller, Sandy Lane Hotel Limited since 1965. Educated at Lynch's Secondary School, he worked in Barbados and Trinidad before pursuing studies in Scotland. Associate of the Faculty of Corporate Secretaries; Fellow of the English Association of Accountants; Former Secretary/Accountant,Transport Board; Accountant, Advocate Company Limited. Apart from an outstanding professional career, Randolph Field has made a mark in sporting and other activities. He was a founder member of the Barbados Cycling Union and the Barbados Jaycees. He was manager of Sporting teams to the Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico (1966); Pan American Games, Winnipeg (1967); Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh (1970). Field is married and has four children. Candidate for St. Michael South. tenant is given the opportunity of * Inland fish farms, utilising the Airways and its shareholdings, and its purchasing his house spot at a reasonable streams of St. Andrew and St. relationships and contacts with Laker price. Joseph, and, it is hoped, the dams Airways; and, in keeping with its policy The purchase price will be calculated on and other bodies of inland water of making the conduct of Government as 1 basis to ensure to the owners the same created in the St. Andrew open as possible, to publish the results return as they are at present receiving on Development Scheme. of its findings. [heir investment. Based upon the above Generally the Party will take all the cost of the spot will be an amount necessary remedial action to safeguard well within the ability of the tenant to Barbados' best interests in the field of Civil civil aviation. All financial dealings with Carib West Airways Limited and I.C.A. Fisheries will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny Aviation and control. Positive action will be taken The BLP attaches equally great impor to safeguard the country's air routes and tance to the development of the Fisheries The Barbados Government has assoc to work towards the preservation and industry. While it produces less direct iated itself with the ownership of two expansion of regional routes for regional employment than Agriculture, it is still a airlines. One of them, Caribbean carriers. The role of the regional carrier significant employer; but more International Airlines, flies passengers will be emphasized. importantly, the sea is a source of across the Atlantic, while the other, The BLP, having built Seawell Inter highly nutritious food which can be Carib West, flies cargo from Miami. national Airport, recognises the impor Drought reasonably cheaply to the con For reasons of both tourism and trade tance of adequate air transport facilities. sumer, if the industry is efficiently this aspect of communications is very It will continue 'a policy of modernising Drganised. important to the economy and it is and updating airport facilities and will A BLP Government will make provision therefore necessary for the Government co-operate regionally with other Caribbean 'or:- of Barbados to seek the best possible countries to improve aviation training * Three new fishing ports in the arrangements. The BLP is very con and air traffic control facilities. St. Joseph/St. John area, St. Philip/ cerned that this has not been done. It does not accept and will not con Christ Church area, and St. Peter. The shroud of secrecy which for a tinue the war which the DLP has carried These ports will all carry cold long time enveloped the operations of on against British West Indian Airways. storage and marketing facilities. the DLP's C.I.A. (Caribbean International * All fish to be cleaned before Airways Limited) and its flirtations and removal from the ports so that relationships with Laker Airways, is but the remains should be collected another glaring example of the DLP's The for use in the production of disdain for the people of Barbados. molasses/urea/protein animal feeds. It required the vigilance of the * Financial assistance for the purchase BLP and a number of public-spirited Environment of engines for fishing boats. citizens to bring into the light of day • Subsidies for the installation of certain vital and relevant matters con freezing facilities and radio sets nected with the share-holdings of the so- In earlier Manifestoes in 1966 and in boats, to provide our fishermen called national airline and up to now, 1971 the BLP has consistently advocated with the means of fishing in deeper the general public still does not know far-reaching and comprehensive measures waters where there is an abundance the full terms of the Government's con for the improvement of our environment. of fish. tact and contract with Mr. Freddie Laker Just as better housing is a key priority " A National Marine Insurance and Laker Airways. for every individual citizen, so too do Scheme to ensure cheaper insurance The few facts which are available our work and leisure surroundings demand for boats. about this whole business point to the much greater attention to our natural • Beacons to guide in-shore fishing conclusion that the intention of Laker environment. Strict measures are vessels. Airways is to get a toe hold in the U.S.A. necessary to control pollution of our • A viable shell fish industry along The BLP proposes to make a full air, water resources, beaches and land the East Coast of Barbados. investigation into Caribbean International mass and the littering of our streets. NburCandidate (Christ Church west) FORDE, Henry deBoulay, 43. Memberof Parliament for Christ Church West since 1971. Educated at Christ Church Boys' School; Boys' Foundation School; Harrison College (Barbaclos Scholar 1952); Christ College, Cambridge University (M.A., LL.B); Barrister-at-Law (Middle Sst President°Lions"(:fu^ Anglican Church Advisory Property (:ommittee; Chairman, "Company Law Committee; former Deputy Chairman, Public Service Commission; Patron, Dorcas League;Member, Caribbean PressCouncil. aetiKiieh mentHenrvof^aFordeNational is a tirelessCommissionadvocateon forthe women'sStatus ofrightsWomen.andsuccessfullyHe has beenproposedP^^^'^entthe establishm^ humanitarian and charitable efforts in the island over many years. One of the BLP s leading intellectuals, he is widely respected throughout the Caribbean. Forde is married and has two sons. Candidate for Christ Church West.

programme for the building of at least ositive steps must be taken to control of the Sanitation and Cemeteries 800 houses per year. ^discriminate! noise levels, to prevent Board. Necessarysteps will therefore be taken he wanton destruction of our flora and Strengthen enforcement provisions to direct finance towards mortgages for auna, to improve drainage, to prevent in all existing legislation to prevent owner-occupied buildings and in this way he blocking and destruction of our the continual existence of derelict provide a badly needed stimulus to ullys by waste, the defacing of our buildings and sites. schemes for privately-financed housing. liffs, the annihilation of our coral Take positive steps to conserve The programme will be marked by a esources, and for the improvement of our coral reefs and resources for new dynamic community approach to housing. It will encompass the educa >ur caves. the enjoyment of our citizens and In such times of economic stringency our visitors. tional, recreational and ordinary living 5 now confront us we cannot be a Give increased support to the needs of functionally integrated com vasteful society. Barbados National Trust. munities. The Party will therefore establish a Improve and expand access to For this reason all public housing Department of the Enviromnent for the beaches and provide more and developments will in future make pro Dverall supervision and execution of improved beach facilities. In vision for:- policies to protect our environment where particular, the Party will develop * Community Centres where residents it is good and improve it where it is not major beach facilities at Accra in may meet either for indoor games jood enough. The powers of the Parks Christ Church, Brandon's in St. and other forms of recreational Lid Beaches Commission will be widened Michael, the East Coast in St. activity or for some educational and Its jurisdiction extended to cover Joseph, Six Men's Bay in St. Peter or other purpose. playing fields, community centres, open and Cove Bay in St. Lucy. * Day Care Centres where parents spaces, caves, gullies and historic sites. Establish parks along the undevel may leave their children in the full Staff training schemes will be instituted oped coastlines of St. Philip, St. confidence chat they willbe properly and a National Playing Fields service John, St. Joseph, the Pico cared for. These centres will be established to provide groundsmen and Teneriffe area in St. Peter and St. adequately staffed and equipped Lucy. with facilities for the education other staff. ' Take remedial action to eliminate of children in the three-to-five year The Party will therefore:- the conditions which lead to old age group. • Strengthen and enforce the flooding (particularly inBridgetown) * Playing fields which will beproperly provisions of existing Town and after moderately heavy showers. maintained for the benefit of the Country Planning legislation. In youth of the community. particular it will remove political Rebuild the Cathedral Square in To give effect to its policy on Housing interference from the day-to-day Bridgetown byremoving the present Sanitation Department and provid the Party iscommitted to the preparation functioning of the Department and of a National Housing Plan, which will permit technical officers impartially ing a properly planned urban plaza be based on up-to-date information as to and professionally to get on with and historic centre. ' As a part of a policy for urban the community's needs for housing and thejob of physical planning, subject related amenities. only to general policy guidelines. renewal to build a multi-storied The plan will provide for:- • Control ribbon development. housing scheme in northern * Basic amenities, such as water, roads • Enact a comprehensive Control of Bridgetown. and light, to be brought to those Pollution Bill, a Control of Noise householders who are at present Bill and a Litter Bill. deprived of them. • Improve and enforce the law relat * The reopening of a Housing List ing to the indiscriminate placing Housing for all persons who need land to of advertisements all over the rent, such land to be provided country so as to preserve the The BLP believes that eveiy Barbadian at a reasonable rent and to have aesthetic amenities of the country has the right to decent housing at reason- the same facilities as exist in side. .able cost. The Party will therefore, on Housing Areas. • Improve the collection of Utter being returned to power, embark on a * Acomplete overhaul of the National and waste and widen the powers \burCandidat6 (St Michael south Central)

HINDS, Charles Ronald, 29. Educated at Belair Junior School: St. Mary's Boys' School; Barbados Academy; Combermere School; Drakes Business College, New York; New York University; American Academy McAlister Institute of Funeral Service. He is a director of Percy Hinds & Co. Charles Hinds devotes a great deal of time to mixing with the people of his area and listening to their problems and rendering whatever assistance he can. This was in fact a way of life for him even before he decided to seek a political career. He Is particularly concerned about the problems of unemployment and housing. He believes that everyone has a right to full opportunities for development. Candidate for St. Michael South Central.

Housing Corporation to make it an will extend the definition of lender Development Plan for Barbados and was efficient agent of Governmental as set out in the Mortgage Finance later implemented by the DLP. policy, capable of achieving the Act to include individuals who will In the BLP's plans as set out in the national Housing targets. also gain the protection of the 1956 Manifesto, the new Hospital, now •A scheme whereby all tenants, Act. known as the Queen Elizabeth, was to be existing and future, may opt to but one aspect of a scheme for a National • Grant special tax Concessions to Health Service. The Party built the purchase both house and land from those persons who are prepared the Corporation and to that end hospital, but lost power before it could to lend money for the above implement the rest of its programme. have their rents credited to the stated purposes. purchase price. A BLP Government will establish a • The Corporation's surveying and * Enact a comprehensive Building Free National Health Service for all conveyancing services to be strength Societies Bill to encourage the Barbadians. The Party believes that no ened in order to reduce costs to growth and formation of bodies further time should be lost in bringing the poor person who wishes to devoted to the development of Barbados in line with those countries, for example in Europe, where free own a home. housing and provision will be made medical schemes exist. • The Corporation to be directed to in the legislation for tax-free to write off arrears of rent in the incentives for such bodies. The essence of the Service is that Housing estates for persons who The Party's programme is therefore Barbadians will be able to go to the are geniunely unable to pay, in designed to attract both public and doctors of their choice and obtain free order to give them a fresh start. private funding to the task of housing of charge the kind of medical care in • A management office to be set up the nation. In achieving this goal it which they have confidence. In such in each Housing Development to will not only bring to the country a circumstances a healthy relationship satisfactorily serve the needs of great social benefit, but will also provide develops between doctor and patient. tenants and for the efficient a much needed boost to the Construction This cannot be achieved in a public collection of rents. Industry which has historically been such clinic where the patient may see one • Except where Caricom Treaty an important provider of jobs for people doctor one day and perhaps five others obligations preclude, licences on in this country. in the course of a single month, and the importation of building mater where attention is as impersonal as it ials to be removed and steps to be now is at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital taken to ensure that the consumer Casualty. Health The Party will therefore provide fort- has access to such sources as will supply him on a regular basis with * Each registered medical practitioner a product of good quality at the and to keep a Register of Patients. cheapest possible price. * Patients not to pay fees to the doctor • An end to be put to the practice of Welfare for the attention they receive; awarding public housing on the * Doctors to be renumerated on a basis of party political affiliation "capitation" basis i.e. so much per rather than NEED. The BLP has always been the leader year for each registered patient; In the area of privately-financed hous- in planning for the health needs of * Renumeration to be paid promptlyat , a BLP Government will:- Barbadians. stated periods; • Require all insurance companies, One of it3 eariieSt Manifestoes (1940) * The price of drugs prescribed by doc trust companies, banks, pension reveals a commitment to the establish tors to patients within the Health funds and other lending institutions ment of "clinics to deal with antenatal Service to be reduced and standar to lend up to 90% of the appraised cases, child welfare, tuberculosis, cancer dised, with the Government making value of the property in question, and social diseases". good the difference where such exists. at a reasonable rate of interest, More recently, the Party's Manifesto The entire programme will be worked out in consultation with the medical pro for a period of up to 30 years, of 1961 promised four new District to borrowers who are purchasing Hospitals with out-patient clinics. This fession. or building their first house, and was part of the BLP Government's last The Party's programme will also con- YourCandidate(st,Petei-) EduStedUt BoSo^^^ and Parry School. Proprietor of a Member of Parliament since 1966. Journalist and former newspaper Editor. p

Hinds was twice married and has six sons. Candidate for St. Peter.

to restrain the prices of essential items tain measures for improving the services Pension to this level with provision for further periodic increases. but also to supplement the standard of offered by the Hospital and other Health living of poorcitizens. institutions. In particular, it will pay The Party will keep these pensions urgentattention to:- under constant review with the aim of The Barbados Labour Party Govern • Trainingmore doctors. eventually reducing the age of qualifica ment will provide food subsidies for • Training anadequate number of para tion to 60 years and providing for annual those of our citizens below the poverty medical staff, especially for the Queen periodic reviews of the weekly amount line, to cover such items as rice, flour, Elizabeth Hospital where there is not of pensions which will take account of fish, meat, bread, butter, milk, sugar and sufficient personnel to man theequip periodic increases in the cost of living. tea. Food subsidies are relatively cheap ment which has been installed at great The Party will also:- to operate, and will be animportant pan expense to the taxpayer . • From time to time review all of our anti-inflation strategy. • Reorganising the administration ofthe National Insurance pensions to The Handicapped Health Services. bring the qualifying age dovm to The Party is also deeply concerned at 60 andincrease the benefitspayable The State must shoulder its respon the number and extent, of health prob under the National Insurance sibility for its handicapped and disabled. lems in Barbados. For example, malnu Scheme. To this end, a BLP administration wilh- trition is a very serious problem, particu • Adjust the pensions of retired • Provide better services for the larly among children, and diabetes pla public officers to take account of handicapped. gues the lives ofmany adults. the salary being currently and from • Increase its financial and other con The Partycommits itself to an exten time to time paid to the relevant tributions to ail voluntary organi sive programme of Health Education office holder rather than pegging sations catering to the handicapped. which will, among other things, impress the pension to the salary paid to • Construct more sheltered workshops upon the minds of average Barbadians an officer at the date of his retire and provide vocational guidance the importance of paying careful atten ment. . for the handicapped. tion to matters of diet. • Give old age pensioners the right • Initiate a policy whereby each Another benefit from the HealthEdu to free drugs and to free medical employer is encouraged to employ cation Programme will be to the Family care provided by their own doctors a minimum percentage of Planning Association whose work will (including specialists). handicapped citizens (where suitable be given every reasonable assistance by a • Ensure full implementation of the work is available). BLP Government. proposals to pay the water rates • Expand the educational facilities Finally, a BLP Government will create and electricity bills for old age catering for the handicapped with an integrated Mental Health Service with pensioners. the accent on intergrating the extended facilities within easy reach of Not only will emphasis be placed on handicapped children into the total all who need assistance. increased benefits, butsteps will betaken school system. to provide improved services for the Our country owes a debt of gratitude Old Age Pensioners elderly. The Party will construct sheltered tothe many voluntary organizations which housing and expand home nursing, while have helped to satisfy the needs of the The BLP believes that some sacrifice at the same time initiating proposals for^ aged, the poor and the handicapped. must be made by Barbadians to take home-help and good-neighbour schemes The Barbados Labour Pa^ acknowledges care of Old Age Pensioners through the and all other forms of domiciliary and this contribution and willseekto encou^ years until the National Insurance community care. age support and strengthen such organi- Scheme takes up the mam burden of wtions. Not only will it increase Govern looking after our senior citizens. BLP Food Subsidies mental assistance to fiicm but it wm pariiamentarians have repeatedly taken There is no doubt that a vast number encourage our better-off citizens to do up this theme in the House ofAssembly of our people are stiU living below the likewise by an appropriate amendment and called for a pension increase to at Dovertv line. Inflation has had its to the Income Tax Act confemngproper least $20.00 weekly. The Party will effect on their family budgets. Urgent exemptions for donations given to such accordingly reduce the age of quaUfi^on action is therefore necessary not only organizations. to 65 years and increase the Old Age YcxjrCandidate (St.Michael v\fest) JOHNSON, victor, 40. Educated at Boscobel Boys' School and The Coleridge Parry School In Barbados; New York College of Medical and Dental Health Technology (Diploma); Long Island University (B.A.); New York University (M.A.). Lectured at New York University and City University of New York; Did Post Graduate Course Jn Marketing Management with Dow Executive Development Programme; now attached to the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity as Management Sociologist where he Is concerned with advising small businesses. Vic Johnson joined the BLP in 1969. His special fields of study have been anthropology, sociology, medical technology, management and business. By training and experience he is fully equipped to make a valuable contribution to Barbados. Johnson is married and has two children. Candidate for St. Michael West.

aided Independent Schools and 32% from A Charities Act will be passed to give attend a private secondary school at great ,cgal cenainty and impetus to all financial cost. the Grammar Schools. These figures also In short, in a country where one is indicate that the Secondary Schools are :harities. not recognised as a member of the labour on the whole performing inadequately. force until he reaches age fifteen, he Even in the school leaving certificate often finds himself out of school at age examination, the Comprehensive Schools Education founeen. Only this year hundreds of have been doing poorly. In 1973 11% pupils have been turned out of the of the students passed this examination Education is an important instrument Secondary Modem Schools at age four and 89% left school with nothing to in the social and economic development teen. The school leaving age must mark the end of their school careers. a country. In building a just society immediately be raised to sixteen. Community College results are usually there must be equality of opportunity There is some technical education presented to the public with such distor in education. This means that we must offered but this is not integrated into tion as to give the false impression that fashion a system of education through the main system of education and the this institution has been a success. which all individuals will be helped to DLP's plans to build one large polytechnic Entry to the Secondary Schools is still develop their full potential and the skills in Bridgetown would suggest that the case regulated by the Common Entrance necessary to play a significant part in the for a single integrated educational system Examination (commonly known as the life of the community and participate is not understood. Eleven Plus) although it is clearly critically andconstructively inits political, established that this means of selection Decentralisation industrial and social institutions. has been discredited the world over. It means further that, even though It further suggests that the DLP is Disparate institutions continue to make our financial resources may be scarce, unwilling to decentralise this area of unsatisfactory provision for vocational additional funds must be devoted to the education, and is unable to free itself training in this country, outside of the educational effort. from the notion that all services should context of any information as to the At present there is almost no State be located in Bridgetown (despite all manpower needs of a developing society. provision for children between the ages its congestion) and people brought to Elsewhere in this Manifesto proposals are set out for the establishment of a Man of three and five years, there being only these services. two Government-run Nursery Schools for The BLP believes that schools through power Research Unit and the training of the entire island; nor does the DLP out the nation should be equipped so the labour force. administration use the existing Day that students can acquire technic^ skills A Labour Party Government will Nurseries for any educational purpose. without having to journey several miles urgently prepare and publish an over^ The BLP believes that Day Nurseries to a central institution. It further believes plan for the development and exploitation must be provided wherever population that an effective way of students acquir of our Educational resources. Among its demands, and that these should be ing technical skillsisby way of production principle features will be the following:- adequately staffed and equipped to per of items of market value. form a school function. Our policy in As regards the established Secondary * The provision of educational facil relation to Day Nurseries is set out School system, there has been the policy ities for children between the ages elsewhere in this Manifesto. in Barbados for some time to talk about of three and five, making maximum The present educational system the "New Secondary Schools" without use of Day Care Centers. provides for those between the ages of any corresponding drive to raise the * The reform of school curricula to five and fourteen and, to a lesser extent, performance level up to, or indeed above, permit the teaching of subjects those between fourteen and eighteen. that of the Older Secondary Schools. relevant to our needs as a develop It does little more. In the G.C.E. '0' Level th«e schools ing society. For example, agricul The concept of the all-age school have always done wofse than the ture must be taught in the schools. ttill exists. A pupil who at ^e five Grammar Schools. For example, in the * The upgrading of educational facil enters the primary school continues in year 1970 only 2% of the candidates ities to cater to the development the same school up to age fourteen, from the Comprehensive Schools were of the full personality of the unless he wins a place in a secondary able to pass more than four subjects at student. ichool at age eleven, or he leaves to one sitting compared with 8% of the * The decentralisation of technical YourCandidate cst.John)

LINTON, Hutson Randolph, 30. Educated at Holy Trinity Boys' School; Combermere School; West London and Ealing Colleges, England; University of London (LLB.) Barrister-at'Law. Employed as a Civil Servant in Barbados (Accountant General's Department)and In the United Kingdom (General Post Office) and served in The Barbados High Commission in London. He also lectured in law for two years at Ealing College, London. Hutson Linton believes that the art of successful living is the art of helping others. On his return to Barbados he threw in his lot with the B.L.P. since he recognised this as the only party dedicated to the task of helping the poor and dispossessed in the society. Linton is married and has one son. Candidate for St. John.

and vocational education and the Congress to advise Government on relating of such education to the Young all matters relating to youth affairs. national manpower demands. * Establish a National Youth * The empowering of schools to Programme to provide opportunities for unemployed youth and school- market wiAin their immediate com People's munities the commodities produced leavers who cannot be immediately by the students. absorbed into the job market or * A programme for making the entire Charter find places in the higher educational educational system coeducational. system. * Establish a voluntary Community * The abolition of die Common The ELF recognises that the young Action Service Scheme. Entrance Examination (the 11+). people of Earbados are the most impor * The raising of the school leaving tant segment of our national society, * Establish a National Training age to 16. particularly as our society is a young Scheme to train youth in animal • The expansion of teacher training society, more than half of the population husbandry, vocational trades and agriculture. facilities. being under age 25. This represents a * Encourage young people to use * The construction of schools until vast store of energy which can be harnessed to the national development Community Centres and Holiday all children of school age, including Camps as meeting places to the handicapped, are provided for effort by a Government which understands in the public school system. the needs of young people and appreciates discuss matters among themselves the role they can play in the development and to learn from one another to • The appointment of a Career process. put their heads and hands to the Guidance Officer in every secondary At present the young people of task of building Earbados. school. Earbados are poorly provided for within * Co-ordinate and expand the exist • Support for the continued develop an outdated educational system. Very ing youth services of the country. ment of the University of the West little else is done to provide opportunity * Provide out-of-school facilities for Indies. for the youth of this country. training in skills and general • The abolition of fee-paying and The ELF understands the complex education of the youth. other discriminatory provisions and varied needs of youth. These needs * Generate job opportunities for the against students of law at the are linked to the needs of the educational young people of the country. University of the West Indies and system, as to the need for jobs. Young it is the Labour Party's confident at the law schools run by the people must be trained to fill the Council of L^al Education. expectation that our Youth Programme vacancies for skilled persons created by will produce service-oriented and ded • The expansion of the scholarship a rejuvenated economy instead of con programme in areas of Nation^ icated men and women equipped on the stituting as at present a vast reservoir basis of their own sense of social res demand. of untrained and unused talent. ponsibility to play a front-line role in the • The provision of free unifioms for The ELF is committed to the youth Government's programme to promote school children. having their say in the formulation of social justice, economic change, and • The expansion of the School Meals all policies and programmes relating to cultural development. Service to efnbrace the entire their pr«ient condition and future hopes. country. This is an important aspect of the Party's The ELF believes that the preparation plan to mobilise this dynamic segment of a Plan for Education is a matter of of the community to perform to the Arts and Culture compelling national interest and that maximum of its energies and abilities. nothing will come of our efforts unless To this end, and in our effort to More money in the pockets of we involve at every st^e of our delibera generate wider job opportunities on the Earbadians does not, by itself, mean that tions the expertise and experience of basis of education, training, and acquired we are enjoying a better quality of life. those formally involved in the education skills, the ELF will;- In addition to basic creature comforts — process, in particular the teachers through food, clothing, and shelter —the Labour their professional organisations. • Create a National Youth Party considers it a prerequisite for the YourCandidate (The City of Bridgetown) MILLER, Billie Antoinette, 32. Daughter of Frederick Edward Miller a former BLP Minister. Educated at Belair Junior School; Queens College; Kings College, Durham University: Barrister-at-Law (Grays Inn). ^ecretary/Treasurer, Barbados Bar Association; Council Member Barbados Family Planning Association; Member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers; Member of the Commonwealth Caribbean Resource Centre; Treasurer of the Grantley Adams Memorial Fund. Billie Miller Is the complete politician. She brings youth, dynamism and undoubted flair to public life. Her performances on the political platform, particularly in the City Bye-Election have marked her out as a young woman with a big future in the public life of Barbados. Candidate for the City of Bridgetown.

improvement of the quality of life that * The provision of an administrative which will function as an advisory opportunities and facilities should be structure of trained professionals agency, and a National Sports Foundation provided for the enjoyment and creative to co-ordinate the effort to develop which will organise and manage all use of leisure time and the fulfillment an authentic cultural life and financial resources. of our non-material needs. harmonise cultural development and The BLP's policy for sport and The BLP considers cultural develop structural transformations in the recreation will embrace the followlng:- ment to be an integral and vital part of wider national frame-work. * Provision of increasedand improved the process of national development and * The organisation of scholarships, facilities, multi-purpose sporting the emergence of an enlightened exchange visits, and technical complexes,gymnasia, and the utilisa citizenry. That is why we are committed assistance programmes through tion of unused open spaces for to providing wider opportunities, better regional and international agencies. recreational purposes. facilities, and the encouragement of mass * The establishment of an organisa * Public access to facilities in schools participation in the entire range of cultural tion to protect the interests of during after-school hours,week-ends, and artistic pursuits. musicians and recording artistes. and holiday periods. The BLP believes that the artists should * The introduction of sportsmedicine, control the arts and culture, devise * The establishment of a National Design Centre, a National Dance modern equipment, and the policies, organise and manage programmes. provision of financial assistance and To this end, it is proposed to set up a Company and a National Theatre Company, training opportunities for all sports- National Arts and Culture Council to:- people of international class and • Ensure the presen-ation of our potential. cultural heritage and the enrichment * The removal of all duty and taxes of our contemporary cultural life. Sport on sports goods and equipment • Facilitate access to participation in and the provision of direct govern every sphere of cultural and ment grants where necessary. artistic opportunity. and * The recruitment of trained • Promote local art and culture and personnel in an expanded Sports develop markets for consumer Department to promote the idea cultural goods and services at home Recreational of excellence in sport. and abroad. * The employment of personnel to • Establish and manage a Cultural FaGllities maintain playing fields and Foundation which will function as recreational facilities. the funding institution for the arts * Nationals who have achieved and culture. The Labour Party believes that sport international recognition will be A BLP Government will also be is a key lever in the struggle for social encouraged to serve and make their committed to:- justice and the creation of healthy minds experience and expertise available • The provision of a Centre for the in healthy bodies. As we stress the need to the nation. Performing Arts which will be the for greater productivity and better anchor facility in our proposed working conditions in the work-place, multi-purpose cultural complex there must be a parallel thrust for wider catering to a broad range of sporting and recreational opportunities, artistic endeavours and cultural modern and adequate facilities nation Law Reform pursuits. wide, and ready access to, and mass • The provision of services to protect participation in, -all forms of organised The increasing complexity and the our cultural heritage. duty-free sporting and recreational activities. social development of our society and the goods to assist in the development The BLP is committed to the principle need to extend the citizens' protection of our creative talents, and promote chat sports people must organise, direct, against power and its abuse, demand the mass participation in, and enjoy and control their activities. The Labour existence of a permanent Law Reform ment of, a broad spectrum of the Government proposes the creation of a and Revision Committee with a full-time arts and culture. National Sports and Recreation Council and properly qualified Staff. ^fourCsndidSt© (St. George North) ODLE, Jack Gordon, 49, Educated at Workmans Junior School: St. Georqe Bovs' Srhnni- tHp Society "ir

® ""an of wide Interests whose philosophy of life Is «™irp ailn h-c « ® should try to help the less fortunate. His family has a tradition of Od%1?merried an'"d'hes fou°r c'hSd'^n. «Pre«ntation to his constituents. Candidate for St. George North.

Recommendations for law reform are principle that the nation must make The Party wUl also expand the legal still made in a haphazard and spasmodic equal provision for all its children,whether aid scheme and will work towards the way. This is not good enough. or not born in wedlock. Although the widest provision of full leg^ services Three successive D.L.P. governments Succession Act 1975 has gone some way at minimum cost and will aim to make have ignored the absolute necessity for tow^ds this end, it is the view of such services free to the less privileged the establishment of a permanent and many lawyers that some of its provisions in our society. properly organised system of keeping the are very likely to lead to expensive laws of the nation under constant review. unpleasant and time-consuming litigation. The establishment of such a It is proposed to have a full review of Committee willbe one of the priorities of this and related legislation and a new Protection a B.L.P. government. Its general and comprehensive Status of Children functions will be to formulate proposals Bill will be enacted to confer equal of for the reform of all aspects of the civil rights on all children, whether born in and criminal law of Barbados as the wedlock or not. need arises. But as a matter of urgency Citizens' Rights it will be charged with the task of Landlord and Tenant examining and advising at a very early It must have been disturbing to most date on the following particular aspects Perhaps the most heart-rending result citizens of this community to hear cer of law reform: of the failure to up-date the law of tain D.L.P. politicians from time to time • The proper protection of Landlord and Tenant is the frequent talk glibly about the contents of citizens' rights, including the occurrence over the years of the case supposedly private telephone conversa privacy of the individual. where a tenant is put off land after tions between third parties. The B.L.P. • Consumer protection (sale of having lived on it as a reasonable tenant does not support and will not condone goods, hire-purchase, etc). for a considerable number of years, and any of the methods of a police state. It • Family Law, and in particular then sees the land sold to a third party, is absolutely essential to remove the fears the law relating to divorce, . very often a non-national real estate of the public in this regard, and to ensure separation and maintenance. speculator. The B.L.P. feels that a that the rights enshrined in the • The law relating to children formula can be devised whereby such Constitution are not an empty sham. includingtheircustody, guardian tenants should be given the first refusal Closely related problems arise out of ship and adoption. on a sale, without affecting the reasonable the fact that more and more administra • Women's Rights. and legitimate rights of the landlord. tive decisions are being made which work • Defamation and Press Freedom. injustice to citizens but for which • The establishment of the office General there is no adequate provision for relief of Ombudsman. It is the firm and uncompromising to be obtained in the Laws Courts. Over • Landlord and Tenant. view of the B.L.P. that each and every the past few years more and more • Monopolies and Restrictive citizen is entitled to make the frankest decisions which seriously affect and Practices. comments on the laws of his country. restrict individual freedoms have been • Company law. The Party does not believe that the relegated to the discretion of Ministers. Some of the above subjects are dealt citizen's involvement in the business of There has been a rapid extension of with at greater length elsewhere in this how the community is run should be the powers of government to interfere Manifesto; some require a special word confined to casting a vote every few years. with and intervene in all aspects of the here. Specifically, the B.L.P. will always day-to-day life of the individual citizen, welcome any constructive comments and without any corresponding and sufficient criticisms on its policy of law reform, checks and balances to prevent the abuse Equal Righti for Children and will certainly not indulge in the of these powers. The exercise of these uncouth behaviour of publicly abusing powers is very often cloaked in secrecy, Much as the B.L.P. subscribes to the persons and bodies who accept an and no information is given or can be Christian teachings relating to marriage, invitation to make comments on actual demanded about decisions which vitallv the Party supports as strongly the or proposed legislation. affect the average citizen. Social justice YourCandidate (St. Phiiip south)

ROUSE, Keith Augustus, 44. Educated at St. George Boys' School; Modern High School; Combermere School; New York School of Mechanical Dentistry (Diploma). , , Spent several years In the United Kingdomwhere hedid national service as a member of the Medical Corps (1955-58); was a member of the British Labour Party and Chairman of the South East Leicester Constituency Branch; pursued a diploma course In union organisation with the National Council of the Labour College In Britain in 1961. Keith Rouse joined the BLR in 1958 while In England. He observed the operation of the National Health Service in that country and looks forward to the implementation of the BLP's programme for reform of the Health Services. Candidate for St. Philip South.

emands a proper balance. be encouraged to widen and localise twice as many women unemployed as its shareholding and will be rid of the there are men. In general women hold Iffice of Ombudsman the fear of having its licence cancelled the lowest paid jobs in the community whilst it pursues a policy of freedom of and, in proportion to their numbers and It is the view of the B.L.P. that expression. Full freedom to use the educational attainments, they do not get ;ovemment should be as open as pos- broadcasting and television system will their proper share of jobs or indeed of ;ible. With this in view, the Party be given to all, subjectonly to safeguards managerial and supervisory opportuni proposes to establish the office of for the rights of others. ties. Dmbudsman or Parliamentary Commiss- The BLP will also:- The B.L.P. has long recognised that oner, with powers and duties to investi- • Reorganise the Government in the area of women's rights, strong ^te alleged ofHcial abuses against the Information Service to ensure that policy initiatives are required to end ntizen, to report publicly on his findings it performs its proper role and discrimination against women. During uid to take steps to alleviate particular is rid of political interference in its the last Parliament, the Party introduced pievances and/or to obt^ satisfaction day-to-day opertaion. a Bill to give the foreign husbands of ^or the citizen. Generally too the Party • Encourage the development of Barbadian women the same rights as the vill establish more adequate machinery locally-owned independent news foreign wives of Barbadian men to reside ;o see that the fundamental rights and papers and broadcasting services. and work in Barbados. The D.L.P. iberties are enforced and citizens are • Permit C.B.C. to play a more Government voted against this measure. ;iven legal aid at the State's expense to objective educational, cultural and The B.L.P. also twice introduced a lefend such rights. informative role. resolution calling on the Government to • Encourage political discussions on set up a National Commission on the Ifficlal Secrets Act radio and television; and, with the Status of Women with wide powers to A B.L.P. administration will also review concurrence: of Parliament, the inquire into and report on, with a view he scope and working of the Official broadcasting of the proceedings to legislative action, all areas of life in of the Legislature. which women are discriminated against. ecrets Act to ensure that freedom of The D.L.P. Government at first voted iformation is not unnecessarily limited, • Restore to journalism true pro fessionalism and assist journalists against the Resolution, thus delaying the imultaneously, it will safeguard indivi- financially and otherwise in becom inquiry; and only on the 26th March ual privacy and guard against wire ing better qualified. 1976, after the persistent efforts of the ipping, which will be made a criminal B.L.P., did the D.L.P. Government allow ffence. ThePartyremains unalterably opposed the Resolution to pass. to the ownership of the daily press by Government or quasi-governmental Instu- The New Deal for Women

Broadcasting On its return to Office, the B.L.P. will provide the women of Barbados and the with a new deal and a charter of rights. Charter The Party will: Media • Establish on a permanent basis a for Nationat Commission on the Status of Women with powers to investi The Party's policy will be directed gate all complaints of discrimination owards ensuring that the constitution^ Women against women, and to keep under ight offreedom to receive and communi- constant review and supervise and ate ideas and information is given real Women constitute considerably more enforce all legislation and admin ncaning. The Caribbean Broadcasting istrative decisions affecting women. Corporation will be rid of partisan than half the population of Barbados. Yet of the working populationonly 39% * Enact an Equal Pay Act so that >olltical influence and patronage. women will receive equal pay for Barbados Rediffusion Service Limited will are women; and still further there are NburCandidate (Christ ChurcH South Central) IducatefT'at^'^Boys'^'^F^^^^ School; Harrison College; University College, London University (LL.B); Barrlster-at-Law (InnerTemple); Queens Counsel (1969). ♦« WhernPrivate legalDlsfr?rt'"ouncil;practice since 1954Memberin Barbadosof Senateand(1964.1966the EasternandCaribbean; Legal Adviser to 'Parliament (1966-1971); Chairman of the BLP and Leader of the Opposition (1970-1971). Bernard St. John helped rebuild the BLP after Its defeat of 1961. AJ"e"o°Lp^i®'le5d1IIa outstanding courage, he stands for integrity m public life. He is one of the BLPs leading thinkers who believes that the country urgently needs a change in direction. St. John is married and has three children. Candidate for Christ Church South Central.

* Improve the provisions for the equal work. This legislation will enforcement of maintenance pay end discrimination against women Broaden the school curricula so as ments for children and for divorced at work and confer on the National to reduce the distinction between Commission on the Status of or deserted wives and immediately boys' and girls' subjects; and extend seek the advice of the National Women the powers of an Equal vocation''^ guidance facilities with Commission on the Status of Opportunities Commission. the object of ending discrimination Women on the need to provide for Enact a Sex Discrimination Bill against girls at all levels of the the maintenance of partners in a to render as unlawful all kinds of educational system. common law union. sex discrimination and in particular Abolish the present discriminatory * Support an improved and compre discrimination on the grounds of system of marking the scripts of hensive free family planning service marriage, and to remove over a boys andgirls who sitthe Common and, after consultation with the wide range of the law all existing Entrance Examination to ensure Church, Women's Organizations and discriminatory rules and provisions that, until a satisfactory alternative other appropriate bodies, reform (other than those which protect qualifying system is implemented, the existing family planning laws. women). The proposals wih cover a girl will no longer have to obtain * Direct the National Commission employment, training, education, a higher mark than aboy to qualify on the Status of Women to advise housing andthe provision of goods, for entrance to Secondary Schools. urgently what steps must be taken facilities and services (including Increase educational opportunities to assist and improve the lot of mortgages, hire purchase and bank for girls, including further the One-Parent family. ing loans). education. Amend the Citizenship Act to give Extend nursery education and day the children of Barbadian women care facilities, as set out elsewhere Equal Partners the same rights as the children of in this Manifesto. Barbadian men, in particular to Reform famfly law to institute a confer on such children an auto All the above measures will be given matic right to Barbadian citizenship fairer system and to give women priority treatment in the determination (both in common law unions ^d of the B.L.P. to challenge and stamp out regardless of whether they are bom in wedlock) a better dealin relation on Barbadian soil or not, or in or the out-dated prejudice of the narrow- to property acquired during the minded. Other proposals in our out of wedlock. union and to strengthen each Amend the Immigration Act to partner's right to occupy the Manifesto - particularly those about give Barbadian women married to consumer protection and employment - matrimonial home,to useand enjoy will help to improve the quality of life foreign husbands the same rights the basic household goods and to which Barbadian men married to share equal guardianship and custo for all the women of our nation. We are foreign wives now have, namely dial rights, subject to theoverriding determined to see women take their that their husbands will as a matter consideration of the welfare of the rightful place as equal partners sharing the sweets and not merely shouldering of right (rather than at the whim children. and fancy of a Minister) be free to • Ugislate for equality of treatment the burdens. live and work in Barbados. in all aspects of social security. By these measures we hope to create Amend the Income Tax Act so as ' Broaden the criteria for appoint the right legal framework and atmosphere to grant wives the right to separate ments to public boards and appoint for a genuine and impressive thrust assessment in respect of their more women to such Boards to forward. We recognise, however, that in unearned incomes. ensuretheiradequaterepresentation. this taskwewill need the full co-operation Strengthen the Employment of » Compel all Government Depart of our male citizens; and our women Women (Maternity Leave) Act to ments and public or quasi - public themselves must make full use of the grant a longer period ofmaternity Boards orCorporations to introduce law and all opportunities now and later leave and to ensure that during the in all their contracts a "no - dis to be opened for them. Only in this way leave period women will receive crimination - on - grounds - of - will genuine equality between the sexes their full pay without any loss of be obtained. r^hts, status orpromotional entitle- Sex" clause. NburCandidate(St. pwiip North) SIMMONS, David Anthony Cathcart, 36. Member of Parliament 1976. • j Educated at St. Philip's Boys' School; The Lodge School (Head Boy 1960); The London School of Economics and Political Science (LLB. LLM.); Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln sJnn). Member of Barbados League of Young Socialists; Executive MemberWest ndies Students Union (London); Law Lecturer Woolwich Polytechnic (England) and The University of the •West Indies (Cave Hill). . ^ ^ u i. c* David Simmons scored the most impressive political victory in decades when he won the 5t. Philip North Bye-Election for the B.L.P. on February 28, 1976. Barbadians were impressed as much by the high level of his campaign as by his outstanding courage. In less than six months he has proved to be an outstanding representative of his constituency. Simmons Is married and has two children. Candidate for St. Philip North.

munity. Some of these immigrants have Main Guidelines not entered Barbados in strict accordance with the law. The B.L.P. will grant an Citizenship amnesty to those who entered Barbados The main guiding principles of the prior to the 1st September, 1975, on the B.L.P. in enacting and administering its same principle of humanity on which a immigration and citizenship laws are and and B.L.P. government (as outlined in the will be: External Affairs Section of this Manifesto) * The interests of Barbados (particu Immigration willmake strong representation to the larly economic development and U.S. government to advance the cut-off including security). date for illegal entry by Caribbean immi * Reciprocity of treatment. grants into the U.S. to a date as close as * Humanity. possible to 1976. A B.L.P. government * Openness of decision. The B.L.P. has long maintained that * Avoidance of opportunities for there is need for a rational framework of will also be as lenient as possible (having corruption. citizenship law and for an immigration regard to the interests of Barbados) to citizens of countries represented in The B.L.P. gives its commitment: policy that is liberal, humane and settled, CARICOM or in any other simibr • To keep the laws relating to subject only to the over-riding consider economic or political grouping of which immigration and citizenship under ation that foreigners must not be allowed constant review to ensure that they Barbados is a member. unrestricted entry into Barbados in order reflect the above principles. to take upjobs which Barbadian nationals Residents • To publish (and amend from time can do. to time as required) the rules on The Party maintains that the regula which immigration by foreigners tion of immigration should not be left The immigration legislation introduced will be allowed. entirely to the "discretion" of a Minister, by the D.L.P. does not go far enough; * To introduce legislation to provide since there has been clear evidence over nor does that party's recent declaration for an amnesty for Commonwealth the years that such "discretion" has not (made under constant B.L.P. pressure in Caribbean citizens who entered been exercised on any set rules, but on a Parliament and elsewhere) that in the Barbados prior to the 1st consideration of personal contacts and past two (2) years all foreign husbands of September, 1975. the medium through whom the applica Barbadian women who have applied have * To legislate for the automatic tion has been made. Instead, the B.L.P. been granted status as "residents'*. This acquisition of citizenship by the insists, and has for long insisted, thatthe is no substitute for a right. A Minister s children of Barbadian women "discretion" can still be exercisedagainst rules for admission of immigrants should wherever bom. be settled and published so that an the applicant, as it has been in the past, The modern Barbados has always been intending applicant may know as clearly because the applicant (or even his wife) a multi-racial society. Our citizenship as possible what the requirements arc. has at some time said the "wrong''^ and immigration laws and practices will For example, there can be, or should thing or associated with the "wrong" continue to be so structured and operated be no dispute thatprospective immigrants people. as to ensure and strengthen racial toler with special skills should be encouraged As emphasised elsewhere in this Mani ance and harmony. The Barbados Labour and should not be unnecessarily limited festo under the subject of Women's Party will not tolerate racial discrimina in the time they are allowed to reside Rights, the B.L.P. is committed to the tion in any form and repeats its unswerving and work in Barbados. The same applies view that the following persons are commitment to equal treatment for all to persons who are bringing in capital for entitled to citizenship as of right: its citizens and residents regardless of investment in Barbados, particularly in * Foreign husbands of Barbadian colour, class or creed. The pursuit labour-intensive exercises. of such a policy in our domestic affairs in addition, there are in Barbados a women. • Children of Barbadian women, will give us the moral authority to raise number of persons from Commonwealth whereverborn. .•, our voices and to pursue a policy Caribbean countries who have made their Legislation to give effect to this principle internationally against racism, colonialism home here and have become very useful and imperialism abroad. and industrious members of the com will be introduced at a very early date. NburCandidate (St. Michael North East)

llfucated'Modern High Joined the Merchant Navy in 1960 to see the world and stayed ® took him throuahout North, Central and Latin America as well as Africa and the Far East. 'InNew1968YorkhebSfirmpursued a courseJoinedInCBCbroadcastingIn 1970%sInathenewsU.S.A.reporterand andbecamelaterabecamecredit reporteran announcer.with a Leroy Sisnett Is a prominent radio personality and enjoys unrlval ed young people of Barbados. He believes that atthis stage of our development, the nation needs new men with new Ideas, who will motivate and Inspire our young people. Sisnett Is married. Candidate for St. Michael North East.

will make provision for: receive hiswages from the employer * The compulsory recognition of during his period of sickness and Workers' trade unions. the employer will in turn be * The right of workers to belong to refunded by the National Insurance trade unions of their choice. Office on the expiry of the period Rights * the security of workers' jobs and of illness. their protection against unfair dis Most of the above proposals wUl be The advancement and the protection missals. Workers who are unfairly incorporated ina comprehensive Employ of the rights of the workers have always or unlawfully dismissed would have ment Protection Bill which will reform been main policy goals of the Barbados a right to be reinstated or alter and modernise existing legislation and Labour Party. From its foundation natively adequately compensated. providea charter of newworkers. *A proper and adequate level of The Severance Payments Act wiU be the Party established* a close and indis simplified and all provisions which work soluble relationship with the nation's wages below which no worker workers and since then has done every should be paid for his services. to the disadvantage of the worker thing to advance the cause oftheworkers, * Acomprehensive labourcode. removed. The categories of persons at regardless of whether they have been * Longer periods of notice from present outside of the scope of the Act, unionised or not. Several measures, employers in relation to dismissals such as casual employees of Government, including the Holidays With Pay Actand and redundancies. will in future be allowed to enjoy^ the the Domestic Employees (Hours of Duty) * An adequate period of notice of full benefits of the Act. A specified Act, stand out as testimony of the planned redundancies to be given minimum time within which an employer Party's contribution in this field. by employers to workers and their must pay severance to the worker will be The Party remains committedto these trade union representatives and included in the new Severance Paymente goals; and proposes to take further genuine consultations with thetrade Act. positive action to involve workers in unions concerned before a redun Industrial Democracy the ownership and the decision-making dancy can take place. process of the economy. * Theretraining of redundantworkers. * Statutory rights for trade union Ownership of Nation's Wealtii Strengthening Collective Bargaining representatives in relation to safety measures. If the workers are to be motivated to * Three weeks' holiday, with pay for increase their productivity then they The Party is unswervingly committed workers after one year's continuous must be made to feel part of the whole to the principle of collective bargaining service and four weeks after three process of management. The B.L.P. and will neither countenance nor be a years of continuous service. considers that if productivity is to be party to any measure or act which * Better standards of health and increased and the cause of economic and undermines this process. That is why safety and workers' facilities at the social justice furthered, then industrial the Party condemns the recent action of work place. democracy, inboth the public and private the D.L.P. Government in its attack on * Adequate compensation for indus sectors, must be extended. After due this principle in the manner in which trial injuries,and insurance cover consultation with workers' and employers' it dealt with the Civil Servants' and for the worker whilst on the way representatives and all other interested Teachers' salaries. The Party will to and from his work place. parties, the Partywillinstituteappro strengthen the collective bargaining * Publication and prominent display priate measures to achieve full worker process and see that it applies both to by the employer at the work place participation and representation in the private and public sectors. of all legislation and governmental man^ement. The present owners of provisions which protect or affect cf4>ital will be encouraged by tax incen tives and otherwise to institute profit A Positive Plan of Action workers' rights. * An amendment to the National sharing and shareincentive sdiemesso as Insurance Act to provide that a to broaden die basis of ownership of the Besides strengthening andwidening the country's wealdi. scope of collective bargaining, the Party worker who becomes ill will YourCandidate (st. George south) TULL. Louis Randall, 38. Member of the Senate since 1971. « Educated at St. Giles Boys' School, Harrison College, University of Manitoba (B.A.); Canadian Government Scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford University (M.A.); Barrister-at*Law F^hder^Member of The League of Young Socialists; President of The West Indies Students "^sociation and Member of the External Affairs Committee, University of Manitoba; former Second Vice Chairman of The Barbados Labour Party. Louis Tull has enj'oyed a distinguished academic career. He gained a first class honours degree in Classics from the University of Manitobaand the faculty^s gold medal. At Oxford he read Law. Last year he was made an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, University of Manitoba. As a Member of the Senate he has made important contributions to every major debate in the last five years. Tull is married and has three children. Candidate for St. George South.

Ministry of External Affairs are seen not Manpower Research Unit achievement of our national objectives. In many ways, a country's approach to as pockets isolated physically and con In its determination to improve the its external affairs is an extension and ceptually from the day-to-daygovernment conditions of the country's workers and a reflection of its domestic aims and of Barbados, but as essential and integral to plan properly for their future, the aspirations. parts of the development process of Party must have available to it at all Up to the present, there has been no of Barbados and Barbadians, working times reliable information on the work such direction in the guidance of our in close liaison with other ministries of force. It will therefore forthwith overseas affairs which appear to be con government. establish a Manpower Research Unit and ducted on an "ad hoc" basis. An excellent current example of the introduce additional Labour Offices The B.L.P. sees the necessity to assist way in which an overseas mission can throughout the country to monitor job {ideally, in unison with other Common function in the "non-political" way out opportunities, assist in vocational guid wealth Caribbean Countries) in moving lined above is in making the strongest ance, formulate training programmes, the world away from a State where it is possible representations to the U.S. identify the incidence of unemployment dominated by power elites' for their own authorities to advance, to a date as close and assist in administering corrective benefit to a world of co-operation among as possible to 1976, the cut-off date for measures. More and better qualified all peoples on the basis of dignity and amnesty for illegal Barbadian immigrants. staff will be recruited for the Department mutual respect, raising its voice and Such immigrants to the U.S.A. have of Labour. pursuing a policy in support of the fight always made an important contribution against racism, colonialism, imperialism to the economy of Barbados; and signifi and dictatorship of all kinds, and any of cant success in such representations would Support for Worken' Organisations the other pathological social conditions at last give the Barbadian taxpayer some which reduce men to the level of play tangible solace for the comparatively ThePartywill fullysupport financially things of other men. The Party immense expenditure now gobbled up by and otherwise Workers' Organizations in is convinced that Barbados can do so overseas missions. their educational and social development without having to emulate all the programmes. expensive trappings of larger and richer Cost of ForeignService All l.L.O. Conventions relevant to countries in trying to become a prominent The B.L.P. has made the point time Barbados will be speedily implemented. figure parading on the world political The country will only be put on the and time again that no greater fraud has stage. ever been perpetrated by a political party road to full economic recovery, the The B.L.P. is committed to the achievement of full employment and a against the people it represents than by view that the greater emphasis in the the D.L.P. in its estimation of the cost higher standard of living, with the full planning, direction and administration of of, overseas representation. The figure support of labour. our external affairs should be on this of $500,000.00 in 1966 has increased At all times the Party will consult arm of government as an instrument for by leaps and bounds to a present with all workers* organizations before creating more jobs for Barbadians in implementing measures which affect projection of $6,950,000.00. The B.L.P. Barbados,by assistingtopromoteBarbados' feels that the taxpayers of Barbados are workers' interests. In the execution of tourism and to attract more development justified, particularly in these times of the above programme, employers will, capital into Barbados, securing employ rampant inflation, in demanding value for where appropriate, be consulted as well. ment opportunities for and protecting money. our citizens in other parts of the world, and obtaining for Barbados the best The Party is convinced that a possible terms of trade. Specifically the thorough re-examination and re-orienta- functions of our missions should include tion of our External Affairs is necessary External Affairs exploring new sources of cheaper goods, to enable us to achieve the above aims safeguarding and promoting the sale and without increasing the cost of our marketing of sugar and its by-products foreign service. Stringent economy The administration of external affairs and finding markets for our other manu measures will be applied and the foreign and the conception of foreign policy are factured goods' affairs budget will be controlledto effect important tools to be employed in the In this way, the overseas offices of savings and increase efficiency — but \burCandidat6 (St. Michael North Central) EduMte

the United Nations Organization since • The pursuit, through unilateral and without retrenchment of permanent bilateral negotiations and means, foreign service staff, who will be re the Party believes that this body offers of the overthrow of all forms of deployed, where appropiate, in other a means whereby small independent states, racial discrimination and more effective spheres of government. such as our own, can make their voices heard and their influence felt in inter colonialism. national affairs. Though imperfect, the • The cementing of closer relations with the Commonwealth and the U.N. offers the best hope of maintaining The Caribbean and Caricom U.S.A., without any sacrifice of the international peace and security and of national interests or sovereignty of promoting social and economic progress. Barbados or the freedom of Ae The B.L.P. will strive to ensure that country to direct its own foreign there is the greatest possible co-operation policy. l^etween Barbados and other Common An International Regime for the Seas • The prevention of the use of wealth Caribbean Countries generally, but Barbadian soil and airspace for particularly in terms of inter-regional the invasion of or attack on other trade. The Party remains committed to The Party will extend the country's territories. territorial waters to twelve miles. It the principle that, especially on grounds • The need to minimise the cost of of our historical, social and economic will seek to preserve the nation's sea development, such co-operation can he resources. It will participate fully in our external relations. nothing but beneficial to these territories, the Law of the Sea Conference and At all times Barbadian foreign policy provided that the benefits to be derived work in unison with our Commonwealth .vill be safely based on the ideals of therefrom can beseen to justify thesacri Caribbean partners to achieve a just morality, equality and justice - the same fice being made. The Pany will continue and reasonable international regime for considerations which of necessity will to strive for the attainment of a common the seas. influence our domestic policy. approach to problems that are external to the region. It will seek to deepen the Main Guidelines integration movement in the Common Defence wealth Caribbean without abandoning itsintention tore-negotiatc the CARICOM The general guidelines of the Party's treaty arrangements. foreign policy are:- and • The need to promote the vital trade interests of Barbados. Security The O.A.S. • The need to publicise Barbados abroad so as to attract capital development and investment as well Barbados should have no territorial The Party is not yet convinced that ambitions. Whilst recognising its crucial continued association with the O.A.S. is as anexpansion in the tourist trade. geographical significance to the North bringing any tangible benefits. The Party • The need to deepen the process of ^rnerican and Latin American continents Caribbean integration without detri there is no reason why Barbados should is however interested in promoting a ment to the standards of living of wider l.atin American and Caribbean attract foreign invasion or intervention. grouping. It will critically and our citizens; whilst at the same time The Party will not commit our country pursuing a common external policy to any foreign defence pacts. Internally, thoroughly examine Barbados' relationship in its relations with third countries, with the O.A.S. in an effort to detemime thereby creating a stronger West the defence forces will belimited to such our future association with that body. Indian influence on world affairs. as are adequate to maintain law and order. • The strengthening of international There will be no need to maintain any organizations dedicated to the pro standing army or other defence force. The United Nations Externally, the Party will work towards motion of human rights, the rule the elimination of all armaments of war of law and the peaceful settle and the achievement of total world peace. The Party will continue to support ment of disputes. \burCdndid3t6(Christ Church North Central) WARD, Charles Carlisle Maurice, 47. Educated at The Barbados Academy. had a varied career as storekeeper, customs clerk, pay clerk. Uer^ecame Sales Manager of.Emtage Electrical (Appliances Department) and in 1959 opened Tiis own busthess, Central Trading Company at Victoria Street. He sold out In 1951 to enter the more challenging fields of real estate and property development and is now the owner and manager of The Tower HoteJ. Member of the National Executive Committee of the BLP since 1970. Maurice Ward is a man who believes passionately that democratic systems must be preserved In Barbados and is disturbed by any threats of a One Party state. As a hotelier he is familiar with all aspects of the tourist industry. Ward is married and has two children. Candidate for Christ Church North Central.

Conclusion

Wehave outlined to you the major policy objectives which a Barbados Labour Party Government would consider essential to its task of giving hope to the people of this country. Our policies.aregeared to provide new directions in every area of Barbadian life and this we consider absolutely necessary at the present time.

Barbados today is experiencing perhaps its saddest time. Scandal attaches to the highest places. Our people are experiencing unemployment at an unprecedented level. The basicamenities of life are not available to our citizens and, when they are, they are available at too high a price. The cost of living rises unchecked. Workers are denied much of the basic protection which their counterparts in other countries enjoy as a matter of course; our women and many of our children continue to be treated as second classcitizens. The educational system fails to provide adequately for the children of school age; and for the young people generally, there is nothing to look forward to but a life of unemployment and frustration. Even the privacy of the individual is under attack, as powerful personsindulgethemselves with telephone tapping. Indeed, the Society is so badly managed, at the presenttime that the individual is almost persuaded to think that he is not entitled to natural dignity and that he should wait at the table of some petty politician untila crumb of patronage should fall.

This is the situation which the BLP dedicates itself to eradicate. It is this Party that began the quest almost 40years ago to create conditions inwhich men and women should be able to enjoy life ofa quality second to none in any part of the world. We have never admitted that the absence of abundant material wealth should necessarily mean that life should be ugly and degrading. Yet, after our people are daily faced with no jobs, food of poor quality and prohibitive cost, expensive medical services, and poor housing conditions, it is difficult to see how our citizens could feel that life isreally worth living. While this situation continues our people are forced to make all sorts of sacrifices.

It is in these circumstances that we have outlined our programme. It is a programme designed to give new hope to every Barbadian man and woman, a programme to liftthis country out of the depths of despair and despondency and to launch it on an exciting new course of real hope and opportunity.

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YourCandidate(St.Michael South West) ^ucate^arHimfs'bu'y Girls' School and Lyrich's Secondary School. Professional Secretary. Worked with the late Ernest D. Mottley years an^ ^ closslvNationalinvolvedTxec^ inCommittee local Governmentfor some affairs.years, Membershe is also ofa theprominent Barbadosmember Labour ofranythes '*^'^Drma°Weekes'isresult oTLrexSri^ncWhVeatly concernedthe local Governmentabout the problemssystem sheof youththatandthereseniorshouW^^^^^^^ ® and easier contact between Government and people. She believes that the BLPs policies are m the fnterests of the overt^^^^^ taxpayers a!id the community as a whole and_that the time hal cSme f?r a change She lopks.foward to the day when there will be aSex Discrimination Bill to enforce equal opportunities in all^spheres for women. Miss Weekes' main interest is welfare work. Candidate for St. Michael South West.

Our Manifesto therefore emphasises

Jobs for our people Reduction in the cost of living A free national health service A charter for youngpeople AboUtion of the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children A new deal for our women New rights for ourworkers Removal of the 5% Sales Tax •' Abolition of the Trade Tax Increased Income Tax Allowances Housing for all ourpeople Achance for plantation tenants to own the spots they live on Improved conditions for the Aged, the Poor and the Handicapped A modern Education plan Abolition of the Eleven Plus/ Raising the school leaving age to 16 Free school uniforms Honest Government

• Ours is the programme for all Barbadians.

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