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BARBADOS LABOUR PARTY General Elections1981 H' !•!; B^pi •".EM

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A political Party in power will be judged mainly on its record and the Barbados Labour Party is more than willing to submit its record to the close scrutiny and critical judgement of theelectorate of Barbados. Consequently, we have published a document. Promises and Performance, to facilitate that scrutiny and that judgement. We have also organised ourcampaign insucha way that the straight hardfactsmaybe brought out in the open and kept therefor all to see. The record is one of which any political Party can be justly proud. In the last 5 years Barbados, unlike almost every other country in the world, has shown continuous and substantial real economic growth, and the Gross Domestic Product has doubled from $700 million in 1975 to $1,461 billion in 1980. This economic growth has led to thecreation of 25,000 jobs since 1975-76, and at the same time domestic productivity has increased so that wages have grown much faster than prices. Inflation rates have declined, so that from generally having the highest price increases in Caricom under the DLP Government, we now have the lowest. Reductions in personal income tax have been so substantial as to reduce thetax bite by 30% and the income level at which income tax starts has been raised from $25 weekly to $115. Old Age and other pensions have been raised three times in years, unemployment benefits have been introduced and the first phases ofthe National Health Service implemented in the ThirdWorld's first comprehensive Social Security System. All this has been achieved within a framework of prudent economic management. Full attention has been paid to the need for maintaining a favourable balance of payments at the same time as pursuing policies ofeconomic expansion and social security. This has chiefly been achieved by giving incentives to exports and to the tourist industry, incentives which have been so successful that exports have grown from $172.5 million in 1975 to $455.7 million in 1980. Tourist arrivals have grown from 225,000 to 370,000 and tourist receipts from $165 million to $502 million. The Island has therefore been able to maintaina much more healthy balance of paymentsand to keepa reasonable level of foreign reserves. This formidable record has been fully acknowledged by international financial institutions, by the overseas Press and T.V. —whose interest in Barbados has never been greater or more favourable —and by the local press and independent commenta tors. Against it, the Opposition can set only destructive criticism, walkouts from Parliament and plain downright falsehood. To the charges that we have carried out the DLP's projects we answer that, apart from projects financed with overseas aid, they did not run the country in such a way as tohave money tocarry out anything except schemes for emptying the Public Treasury to assist uneconomic ventures carried on by their friends in private enterprise. The BLP Government has wound up all these schemes and, after payment oftheir losses, has ensured that Increases in the public debt do not merely go to pay the salaries of civil servants or the losses of uneconomic enterprises but are used to provide the housing, schools, roads, fishing harbours, rural development and urban improvement that thecountry needs. We therefore pledge our continuing commitment to the cause of Social Democracy and to the continued development of our country, and we offer you the proposals inthisourManifesto fortheforthcoming General Election asourprogramme and policy to maintain these commitments. Contents

FOREWORD 1 MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT 3 ECONOMIC POLICY AND TAXATION Including Energy 3 TRADE AND INDUSTRY 5 TOURISM AND AVIATION 7 AGRICULTURE 7 FISHERIES 9 INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS 10 UTILITIES 11 PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT 12 CANDIDATES'PROFILES 13 SOCIAL SERVICES 21 EDUCATION 21 CULTURE AND THE ARTS 21 HEALTH 22 HOUSING 22 CARING AND SHARING . .. Social Security and National Assistance 23 LABOUR 24 WOMEN 25 CHILDREN 25 YOUTH 26 SPORT 26 COMMUNITY CENTRES 26 LAW AND ORDER 27 DEFENCE 28 IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP 29 INFORMATION 29 EXTERNAL AFFAIRS 29 CONTINUATION OF THE RECORD 31 CONCLUSION 31 • -; - "v-

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born in the years of record birthrate from 1958- 1962. Inflation, which was over 100% in the four years 1972-1976, has more than halved in the four full calendar years the BLP has spent in power. The foreign reserves, which were declining sharply as the Party took power and fell to $26 million by the end of 1976, have been built up to an amount Soon after taking office the Barbados Labour which ranges between $130 million and $150 Party carried out Its campaign pledge of appointing million according to season. The economy has been a Commission to review the Constitution — the strengthened by the diversification following the Cox Commission r.- headed by Senator Sir Mencea build-up of the manufacturing sector, the expan Cox. The Commission's Report covered nearly all sion of agriculture, and the increase in hotel rooms aspects of the Constitution and a number of the and other tourist facilities. recommendations have already been accepted and Direct taxation has been sharply reduced with carried out, notably those relating to the Electoral income tax allowances doubled, the tax rates machinery. In the new session a BLR Government spread and tax bands widened. Estate and Succes will seek to implement those proposals relating to: sion duties and the Trade Tax have been abolished. In indirect taxation, the Sales Tax has been • Increasing the Opposition seats in the Senate. abolished, and in the general restructuring of • Providing for recall of Governor-General's Consumption Tax, the rate charged on many Senators. essential goods has been reduced to 5%. Collections • Such other recommendations for which there is from non-tax revenue have been considerably a consensus following a full debate in the new expanded by increasing licence fees and charges Parliament. generally to reflect modern money values, as well as the increased cost of providing the services The Party will also improve the facilities of represented by the charges. Parliament by creating a new Parliamentary The Government's fiscal policy has been direc Library with full research facilities and will make ted towards earning a surplus on its current provision for M.P.'s to maintain constituency account of revenue and expenditure so that a con offices so that they may keep in better touch with tribution can be made to capital expenditure on their electors. the many projects with which Government is developing the country. The aim of a current account surplus has been achieved in the Govern ment's four full financial years of office, and economic growth at satisfactory rates has also been achieved. This compares very favourably not only with most CARICOM and other developing countries, but also with the performance of the former Barbados regime. The BLP proposes as its Economic and Taxation The economic record of the BLP in its first policy for the ensuing term the following: 4V2 years of office has been outstanding. With the provision of 25000 jobs, unemployment has Economic declined from 22% in 1975 to 10.3% in 1981, and the Party has successfully taken the country • The policy of emphasis on high levels of con through the demographic 'bulge' of school leavers struction activity to prime the economic pump will be continued. Present bottlenecks will be where equity finance would be more appro eliminated by the coming into the workforce priate. A Government Investment Trust will, of trained artisans graduating from the Poly therefore, be set up with a fixed capital and technic and the coming into production of the with borrowing powers to provide a facility cement plant. for investment generally. • Factory construction, tourism development and agricultural expansion will continue as the three- Taxation pronged approach to structural development of • New Family Laws, passed during the 1976-81 the economy. period, have raised to 18 years the age up to • Major Alternative Energy projects, whose details which a child undergoing education should be will be found elsewhere in this Manifesto, as well supported by its parents. The BLP will there as an expanded programme of petroleum and fore restructure the child allowances for Income natural gas drilling and production, will be Tax purposes to allow more generous allowances undertaken. up to age 18, education allowance to age 25, • Unemployment will be tackled by the expanding and allowances for the whole life of a handi of the range of job training programmes for capped child. school-leavers, the introduction of a voluntary • The BLP will give regular increases in income tax allowances to compensate for the effects of National Service Scheme and by providing fur ther educational opportunities aimed at filling inflation, thus providing a measure of indexa gaps for skilled trades and new disciplines tion. required in an expanding economy. • The offshore banking and international business • Inflation will be controlled by the mix of regime will be expanded to include shipping and policies so successfully used to halve the pre insurance. The special incentives for high em vious rate of price increases, including price ployment businesses such as computer service control on essentials; promoting competition companies and regional distribution organisa through a minimum of import controls, which tions, will be continued. will be maintained only for balance of payments • A new taxation regime will be introduced for purposes to protect local industries or to meet petroleum winning operations so that Govern CARICOM obligations; vigilant monitoring of ment revenue can benefit from the expected mark-ups and profit levels by the Consumer increases in petroleum production. Affairs Division; and vigorous competition at • Income and corporation tax exemptions will be the food and household goods retail level by the given for exports of non-sugar agricultural products. Barbados Marketing Corporation. • The Party believes in spreading the ownership of the means of production, distribution and Financial Institutions exchange and to this end will continue the policy of encouraging major businesses in The Barbados National Bank established in 1978 has already outgrown its present Headquarters and Barbados to offer shares for sale to the public. To this end it will support the Securities Ex a new Headquarters will be constructed in central Bridgetown. change as a means of facilitating share transfers. The Insurance Corporation of Barbados will A BLR Government will also continue the extend its activities in marine insurance, and policy, started since 1976, of Government participation in the ownership of the fundamen will be the Government's chief agency for carrying out the recommendations on crop insurance made tal industries, including the utilities and the by the expert obtained by Government. Cement Plant.. • The BLP recognises the vital role of the small Energy Policy businessman in building national prosperity in our Island, and has doubled the limit for incen With the cost of imported petroleum having tive loans from the Barbados Development Bank skyrocketed during the BLP's term of office, the to small businesses, coupling this with greatly Party recognises the need for a total thrust in increased provision of funds from the Govern alternative energy programmes as well as in local ment and the Central Bank through the BDB. petroleum exploration. Under the Party's thrust In the new session, more funds will be made Barbados has already become a Third World available for small business, and the credit pioneer in solar cooling development and will guarantee scheme organised through the Central continue to expand in this area. Bank will be strengthened. The Party proposes the following Energy ini • Many small businesses are financed by loans. tiatives: Alternative Energy

• A Wind Energy Pilot project for producing electricity will be built in the North of the Island within the next 18 months. The results The central thrust of Government's policy in of the project will be used to determine future Trade and Industry in the 1980's will be to bring locations and size of wind turbines to be distri about the greatest diversification of sources of buted around Barbados. imports consistent with our obligations to our • The work on energy conservation of the local production and that of our Caricom partners, National Council for Science and Technology, and the expansion of exports to as many areas of established by the BLR, will be encouraged and the world in which we are competitive. finance provided to implement the schemes. Government has already been encouraging • The use of solar energy for a wider range of local entrepreneurs and industrialists to think and purposes, including industrial, will be developed. act in this direction and a number of initiatives Tax incentives for solar water heating will be have already been successfully undertaken. The improved and concessional loans will be made Ministry of Trade and Industry in co-operation available for expanding the use of solar power with the Chamber of Commerce, the Barbados by manufacturers and by the tourist industry. Manufacturers' Association and the Industrial • An East Coast Wave Energy Scheme will be Development Corporation, has promoted two fully investigated with a view to starting imple missions abroad with a view to exposing local mentation, if one scheme proves feasible, by businessmen to development in other parts of the 1985. This project will involve a substantial world, both the developed and more successful study of the power -of the waves on the eastern developing countries. A number of businessmen shores of Barbados, a geological study of the who were members of these missions have taken seabed in the area as well as the usual engineer advantage of the opportunities and have negotiated ing studies. A long seawall would be a part of joint ventures with overseas manufacturers. Indeed, the scheme. The scheme, if carried out, will so successful have the Party's initiatives in this create a substantial lagoon in which large scale direction been that in the years 1979-80, and fishfarming will be carried on. 1980-81, there was more investment in manufac • Alternative fuels, including bagasse will be turing by local businessmen than by foreign busi brought into use for generating electricity. The nessmen. use of other forms of biomass will be investi The Party will continue to encourage the de gated. velopment of the skills of local entrepreneurs and will undertake the following additional measures:-

Petroleum Products • Expansion of the Export Promotion Corpora Deep drilling for petroleum and natural gas, tion. instituted during the BLP regime, will continue. • Widening of the Export Credit and Insurance Promising new reseh/es of natural gas have been Guarantee Schemes. discovered. The recoverable reserves of natural • Institutionalisation of the Joint Consultative gas are being estimated, and the BLP proposes Committee for Industrial Development, which when these are fully known: is an informal body comprising the managers of all government agencies and private sector • To establish a liquified petroleum gas bottling agencies involved in industrial development. plant by the Natural Gas Corporation to pro • An Export Incentive Award Scheme, to be duce bottled gas for sale to the public to replace administered through the Export Promotion imported sources. Corporation, using grant funds from the finan • To expand the network of natural gas distri cial agencies such as the European Development bution, first to electric generating plants so as Fund and the World Bank. to reduce the cost of and dependence on im • The expansion of the Barbados National Stan ported fuel for generating electricity, and then dards Institution to cover the areas of Industrial to industry generally. Design, packaging advisory services, industrial • If supplies permit, to extend the supply of and intellectual property administration, that is natural gas to households throughout the urban patent, trademarks, service marks, industrial area and most of western and southern design and copyright laws. Barbados. • The expansion of training opportunities in the areas of marketing, production technology, to provide Small Businesses with efficient and computer technology and design. productive workers. • The continuation of the vigorous and successful • Establish a registration programme for Small policy of the expansion of the handicraft and Businesses, particularly in the manufacturing cottage industries. sub-sector. • The continuation of a vigorous external trade • Provide better physical conditions and improved offensive in co-operation with other Third World amenities for the hawkers and other small countries in the international arena to fight pro retailers who ply their trade along the roadside tectionism and secure favourable access for and the alleys of Bridgetown, Oistins and developing countries' exports. Speightstown. Assistance in marketing tech niques will be made available to them. Small Business Consumer Credit and Protection The Small Business Sector in Barbados has Elsewhere in this Manifesto we have outlined clearly asserted itself as an integral part of the a series of measures which will directly and in Barbados economy. The Barbados Labour Party directly benefit the consumer. In fulfilment of our Government has encouraged this, secure in the pledges in our 1976 Manifesto on this topic, we knowledge that the creation of new jobs depends have enacted a modern Weights and Measures Act, to a substantial extent on the success of smaller and prepared for introduction at the commence businesses. ment of the new session of Parliament, compre The Government accordingly established a hensive legislation dealing with patents, trade and Small Business Development Committee, appoin service marks, industrial designs and copyright. ted representatives from the Small Business Asso Mr. Sid Handlemann, a Canadian expert, has ciation on Government Statutory Corporations also studied all consumer credit and protection and conducted seminars and media programmes practices 3nd laws in Barbados and prepared a for publicising the contributions of small busi report outlining a series of measures to give effect nesses to the economy and government's strategy to the Party's policy as set out in the 1976 Mani for the development of small enterprises. These festo. Full effect will be given to this Report measures will be continued. in so far as its recommendations accord with We furthpr propose to:- the Party's 1976 pledges. • Continue to make funds available to Small The Party will also seek to encourage and Businesses through the Barbados Development strengthen voluntary Consumer Associations, Bank at lower rates of interest, easier terms of giving them financial assistance wherever practi credit and with longer grace periods for repay cable. It will devise, design and expand pro ment. grammes for a vigorous consumer education • Establish a facility to provide risk capital for campaign. Such programmes wilf take consumer financial support to and the mobilisation of education into the schools, homes, shops and assistance for Small Businesses. This has already stores and make full use of all media resources been referred to under the Economic proposals for this purpose. in this Manifesto. • Guarantee that Small Businesses, particularly in Development of Natural Resources the area of construction, the supply of goods A National Resource Survey has been done on and services and garments, will be given regular clay, limestone, and other materials, available Government contracts. for quarrying in Barbados. A new regime will be • Continue provisions of adequate factory space created to ensure that maximum use will be made for the accommodation of small businesses at of our national indigenous resources, with a view moderate rates. to the creation of industries with great potential • Establish cooperatives among businesses of a for employment and for the saving of foreign homogeneous type operation, thereby encourag exchange. Already applications have been received ing the reduction of overhead costs and achiev from private sector interests concerning the de ing economies of scale in the purchase of raw velopment of these resources. materials and in the fulfillment of orders. The new BLP Government will therefore: • Provide training and consultancy services and a • Support an expanded clay block Industry. core programme in the areas of accounting, • Develop the production of ceramic tiles. management, marketing and related disciplines. • Encourage the modernisation of the coral stone • Extend the programmes offered at the Barbados block industry and opening of new quarries to Institute of Management and Productivity. make an improved block more easily available • Provide expanded training for factory workers to the construction industry. The establishment of these industries will be Aviation associated with the overall conservation and other The Party will continue its policy of consulting development measures planned for the Scotland with other Caribbean governments, particularly in District. When completed some $140 million will the Eastern Caribbean, with a view to harmonising be spent on the Scotland District Development and developing a common approach to third party Project. Funds have already been secured from the countries to ensure reasonable access to countries Inter-American Development Bank for the imple from which tourists presently come and are likely mentation of Phase I of the Project. to come in the foreseeable future, for airlines owned or controlled by countries of the Eastern Caribbean and in order to ensure that goods and

Lt j-mi people are moved to and from the Eastern Carib bean to other countries in fuel efficient aeroplanes K MWiaiiOiii" ' at economically but reasonably priced airfares. Already the BLP Government has established, with Trinidad, a jointly owned air cargo company, The wisdom of the Party's policy in combining Caricargo, Barbados is a major shareholder of Tourism and Aviation within a single portfolio has LIAT, and a task force is being set up to investigate produced great benefits for Barbados. Tourist the possibilities of establishing a joint Tour Operat arrivals have increased from approximately ing Company with the government of Trinidad and 225,000 in 1976, to 370,000 in 1980. Tourist Tobago. expenditure $165 million in 1976, to $502 million in 1980. The Party is conscious that there is bound to be a limit to the number of tourists that Barbados can reasonably accommodate without producing social tension and environmental problems. The Ministry of Tourism and Aviation, the Tourist The Barbados Labour Party recognises that Board, the National Trust and the Ministries of agriculture in our Island, limited as it is by the Health and Housing, have established dialogue small land size and relative unavailability of a in this area. Maximum consultation will continue willing labour force, will inevitably occupy a to take place with a view to arriving at a socially smaller percentage of the Gross Domestic Product acceptable maximum level. as the manufacturing and service sectors (including To ensure that our tourism development con tourism) expand. The party does not however tinues, Barbadians achieve the maximum economic believe that agricultural output should fall in benefits, our environment is protected, and social absolute terms as happened under the DLP. Our tensions are avoided, the Party will establish a Party therefore reaffirms its commitment to a regime providing for the following:- strong, vibrant and well diversified agriculture growing with the economy and continuing to • Regulation of the Business of Travel Agents contribute to the balance of payments. and Tourism Firms. Considerable progress has been made over the • Concessions to approved Shipping Corporations course of the last AVz years in reversing the anti- engaged in the Tourist*Industry. agricultural bias of the former regime, and in con • Hotel Registratibn and Classification. vincing Barbadians of the wisdom of maintaining • Access to beaches and improved beach facilities. a healthy agricultural sector. The Party's aims are • Cooperation with other Departments of Govern for the future: ment, the National Trust and the Museum in the conservation of Historic Resources. • To make Barbados as near to self-sufficient in • Regulating Timesharing Development in Tou food production as is practicable, given the con- rism Industry. staints of land size and climate. • Improved regulations of Ground Transportation • To make Barbados a net exporter of food, in in the Tourist Industry. cluding sugar and products of the sea. • Close monitoring of crime against visitors and • To encourage the agricultural entrepreneur, the improvement of the security guard service the farmer and the agricultural worker to be both by the private sector and the Parks and fully equipped and technically skilled so as to Beaches Commission with a view to improving maximise earnings and improve productivity. protection on the beaches and at historic sites. • To ensure that marketing and pricing procedures are developed to enable all agricultural products. and not only sugar, to be sold to the local has instituted the Integrated Rural Development consumer at reduced rates or rates subsidised Scheme to bring irrigation and agricultural training by exports without endangering the incomes of and planning to thesmall, previously disadvantaged farmers. tenant or peasant farmer. It has also given general Sugar encouragement to chicken and vegetable farmers The sugar industry has the greatest addition of so that chicken production has moved from 3.1 local value of any economic activity carried on in million kilogrammes in 1976 to 5.2 million kg. in Barbados and is therefore still potentially our 1980. To increase the local value added in chicken most economically useful earner of foreign farming (chicks and feed are now imported) exchange. Its viability has diminished in recent the Government has encouraged the establishment years because production has been allowed to fall of a broiler and egg breeder unit to produce our below levels at which the reaping and factory own hatching eggs in Barbados, at a site on Govern systems can operate satisfactorily. This has partly ment lands at the Hope,St. Lucy. been due to the policy of the DLP in permitting • The Party now proposes that, in the interest of the abandonment of good agricultural land and encouraging especially the small chicken farmer, subdividing it for the purpose of land speculation , a modern Chicken Processing Facility will be so that over 12,000 acres of land have been taken established at the new Barbados Marketing out of agriculture. The Barbados Labour Party has Corporation's complex to be built in St. George. already reversed this iniquitous policy of the Full opportunity will be given for chicken Democratic Labour Party by bringing Government farmers to hold shares in this venture. lands back into production; by prohibiting the Vegetables further wanton sub-division of agricultural land; There has been a great increase in production of and by introducing tax incentives and penalties a wide range of vegetables in the course of tiie last to encourage the bringing back of land into pro 3% years, so that the Island is now 85% self-suffi duction. This policy will be continued, and the cient in vegetables. The principal constraints now Party's further proposals are: existing on vegetable production are those of • To make ownership of the sugar industry more farmer training and marketing. The Party proposes democratic by purchasing enough shares in the • To seek overseas funding to establish a full scale factory-owning company, Barbados Sugar Fac Agricultural Training College offering courses tories Limited to make the Government the of up to two years, and in the interim to setup largest shareholder. These shares will be held an Agricultural Training Centre at Sayes Court, by the Agricultural Development Corporation Christ Church. and by the Government on its own behalf and • To create an Export Promotion body for the on behalf of the small farmers. marketing of vegetables and other non-sugar • To ensure that modern ploughing and other products as the first step in releasing farmers mechanical cultivating equipment is made fully from the constraint of the tiny local market. available to all growers, large and small alike, •To exempt a proportion of the profits made by an investment programme to be managed on export of non-sugar agricultural produce through Government financial institutions and from Corporation or Income Tax, as the case the Agricultural Development Corporation. (The may be. implementation time for these proposals will be 1981-1982). Livestock • To carry out a long term programme to increase sugar production to at least 150,000 tonnes The climate of Barbados is not particularly annually by means of improving cultivation conducive to the rearing of large animals such techniques; reshaping all sugar fields to make as cows, but the Government recognises the them more suitable for mechanical harvesting; importance of a viable dairy industry and will and by expanding the scope of mechanical cane continue to support cattle raising by maintaining cutting and loading. adequate prices for milk. In addition it will :- Non-sugar Agriculture • Establish Feedlots for sheep and cows with a The most essential requirement of an expanded view to greatly expanding mutton and beef non-sugar agriculture in Barbados is adequate production. rnarketing, but there are also a number of produc^ • Expand the black belly sheep multiplication tion areas where farmers need assistance. The programme in conjunction with the feedlot Barbados Labour Party Government, in one of scheme. the most important of its development initiatives. • Improve the facilities at the Abattoir and the

8 standards for slaughtering and dealing with tution effort and in improving our diet. It also animals. considers that fishermen's incomes should be much improved. Fruits and Nuts In the 15 years of Democratic Labour Party Surveys carried out by the Barbados Statistical rule nothing of the slightest substance was done Service in 1979 show that the consumption of for the Fishing Industry in this country. Almost fruit and nuts in Barbados is not as high as would $20 million was eventually lost assisting friends be expected in a tropical country where these of the former Government in pursuing an un items grow readily. The value of nuts consumed economic venture in shrimping. This amount is about equal to that of bananas, with oranges would have gone a long way, perhaps the whole and mangoes a little way behind. Many of these way, towards building new fishing harbours and are imported, especially nuts and citrus fruit. providing modern and hygienic facilities for the The BLP considers that much more fruit should be storing and marketing of fish. grown locally and that marketing facilities should The BLP Government immediately set about to be created to cover a wider range of fruits than remedy this state of affairs and has started to already exist in the island. It has therefore under build the first of its modern new fisheries terminals taken a massive expansion of fruit planting in the at Oistins, Christ Church. The Party's plans for Scotland District, including the planting of several fisheries, implementation of which will commence thousand pineapple plants and fifteen thousand as soon as it is re-elected, are as follows: fruit trees in the last 3 years. The Party will con • New Fishing Harbours and Terminals to be tinue this programme and will include a substantial built at Speightstown, Bridgetown and Bath- fruit crop component in the Scotland District sheba. These terminals will include all necessary Development Programme. Other projects which shore facilities for landing and marketing and will be implemented are as follows: there will be a Repair Facility and Dock at • 40,000 fruit tree seedlings have been sold by Bridgetown. the Soil Conservation Unit to the public since •A Marketing and Distribution Agency for fish 1977, but by no means are all of these trees will be established to avoid seasonal fluctuations still flourishing. To encourage care of these In supply and price, so that consumers can valuable resources of our country, extension purchase a wide and abundant selection of services for fruit cultivation will be improved locally caught fish throughout the year at and a rebate of the purchase price of all fruit reasonable prices, and fishermen can sell what tree seedlings sold by the Soil Conservation ever they catch at guaranteed prices, thus Unit which are still alive three years after sale avoiding the dangers which sudden gluts present will be given. to their earnings. • Not all soils in Barbados are suitable for the • Most fishing boats in Barbados are now of an cultivation of nuts. The Government will there obsolete design and too small for really efficient fore identify suitable areas and provide persons working. The BLP will provide a Capital Invest willing to grow nuts with the use of nut planting ment Fund of at least $6.7 million in the first and harvesting equipment. Instance, for on-lending to fishermen at conces • The Government's general thrust towards sional rates of interest for renewing the fishing improved agricultural marketing will include fleet by building Intermediate size boats from assistance to householders- not otherwise en 36 up to 45 feet in length and of an Improved gaged in agriculture, to sell bananas, mangoes, design with beacons and other navigational aids, citrus and other fruit commonly grown in and ice storage capacity. small gardens. • Research into new fish types suitable for catch ing by the larger vessels will be undertaken by the Government in conjunction with the Biology Department of the University of the West Indies. Fisheries • The Fisheries Division will itself be re-organised and targeted towards intensified experimental work. Barbadians consume some 7500 tonnes of fish • The Search and Rescue facilities of the Defence annually. About half is caught by local fisherman Force will be fully activated to assist fishermen and half Imported, mostly in tins or otherwise in distress, including the use of aircraft. Coast preserved. There is reason to believe that more guard vessels will also be provided with equip would be consumed if available. The BLP regards ment for cleaning oil spills which threaten the fishing industry as vital in the import-substi fishermen equally as they threaten our shores. These measures should have the effect of remov traffic which will result from the siting in that ing Barbados' dependence orr imported fish. Taken area of the new factory. in conjunction with the possibility of extensive Under the Basic Needs Programme for rural fish farming in the lagoon to be created by the East areas a number of secondary roads will be con Coast Wave Energy Scheme, the Island can then structed in country tenantry and former tenantry become a net exporter of fish. The first markets districts, e.g. Coverley, Hannays, St. Patricks and envisaged are in the Eastern Caribbean, and then Vauxhall in Christ Church, Drax Hall Hope, Drax further afield. Hall Jump and Cottage in St. George, Fisherpond in St. Thomas, Chapel in St. Philip and the Hope and Alleynedale in St. Lucy. Other highway improvements will include •y-nsv widening of roads and the provision of rounda bouts to assist the freer flow of traffic. Major efforts in this direction will be a new Welches/ Belmont/Pine Road/Pine Hill roundabout; High way 7, (Crystal Waters to St. Lawrence Gap) im provement and the Highway 6, (Martindales Road No major roads have been built in recent years to Bank Breweries) improvement. in Barbados except in connection with specific The BLP administration will also continue its projects. This is so because the importance of outstanding work on subsidiary roads and private keeping the system of communications, including tenantry roads for the benefits of our people roads, under continuous review was not under resident in these areas. stood to be an essential part of planning for economic development. The only scheme ever Roadside Garages evolved in recent years, the Spine Road through Bridgetown to the North, was abandoned by the Roadside garages are a means of livelihood to DLP Government, and in many areas houses were some, but a source of actual or potential danger allowed to be built over the prospective line of to many on the highway. The BLP believes that the road. But as a country becomes more pros the interests both of the garage operator and of perous, greater demands are made on the road the public would be properly served by finding system both by commercial users and by pleasure parcels of land for the relocation of these garages. seekers and it will require both the building of new To this end, a re-elected BLP Administration will roads and the upgrading of existing roads to cope provide a number of such sites. A survey of all with these demands in Barbados. roadside garages has been undertaken and follow Consequently the BLP Government planned ing this the first such site has been selected in and began construction on the new Spring Garden the Cave Hill Area and negotiations are already Road and undertook the redevelopment of Fonta- underway to transfer the well-known "Old Car belle. Museum" in President Kennedy Drive to this A re-elected BLP Government is committed to new site. The sites will be provided with services the building of a new road from Grantley Adams suitable for the garage operators and the public. Airport to Wildey via Newton, from Wildey to Warrens and from Warrens to Black Rock, the Road Repairs and Maintenance latter as part of an outer Ring Road system around Bridgetown. In 1973, the quality of the asphalt used for Engineering feasibility studies and studies road repairs in Barbados was reduced, and as relating to the quality of the asphalt for use in a result road surfaces in many areas in Barbados this area have now been done and international have deteriorated to an unacceptable degree. financing has been secured for the Scotland Dis A re-elected BLP Government will set up a new trict Scheme. It will now, therefore, be possible Asphalt Plant to preparethe world's finest asphalt, to extend the East Coast Road through Bathsheba obtained from the Asphalt Lake in Trinidad, for to Blades Hill in St. Philip. This project must be future use on our roads. This will greatly improve tied in with both the plans for the Scotland Dis the surfaces and lasting power of all highways trict Development and the Bathsheba Fisheries and other roads in Barbados. Projects. Public Transport In addition, the bridge at Blowers, St. Thomas will be widened to accommodate the improved road system needed to deal with the increased The entire public transport system in Barbados

10 has been nationalised, the first stage being under In addition almost 165,000 metres of water taken by the Labour Party administration of the mains have been laid during the life of this adminis 1950's and the second and final stage during the tration and some five reservoirs were built to pro Labour Party administration of 1976-1981. Mini vide an additional storage capacity of 30 million buses have been legalised and assist the public litres of water since 1976. transport system in providing transport for the The administrative structure for the water entire public. services has been changed and a Water Authority However, for those persons using the public is now established. During the next administration transport system little has been done to provide the BLP will provide through this Authority for shelter from the elements or other passenger a new reservoir at Waterford and for a one million amenities. gallon steel tank for St. Peter (at Boscobelle) and The Party also believes that for certain areas one for St. Andrew. Also the storage capacity of of Barbados bus transport need not be the only the Grant View Reservoir at Government Hill will form of public transport. be increased. A new pumping station to increase The new BLP administration will implement the output from the Belle will be built and also a the following proposals — new pumping station at Trents in St. James. The extensive programme of laying new mains •A completely new Transport Authority will be and replacing old ones will be continued. established to make provision for the future overall needs of the Barbados travelling public. Electricity • The integration of private mini-buses into the overall transportation system by a better selec The number of electricity services in the country tion of routes to be licensed. This will be parti has risen from 59,864 in 1976 to 67,622 in 1980. cularly important for the environs of the City Electricity consumption has risen from less than and for feeder routes. 200 million kilowatt-hours to 282.1 million over • More buses will be provided on an annual basis the same period. for the Transport Board: The BLP Government has invested and has • The construction of a new Bus Terminal for obtained in return for guarantees, a substantial Bridgetown properly planned for the maximum shareholding in the Barbados Light and Power convenience of passengers. This will eliminate Company and has assisted the company to obtain most of the walking now required to be done very substantial funding from overseas to expand by passengers transferring from routes in one electric generating and transmission capacity to terminal to routes in another. The new terminal meet forthcoming demands generated by the will be fully provided with shelters and will be Government's development policies. laid out in such a way as to eliminate dangerous The BLP proposes to pursue alternative energy rushing for buses. sources to replace the country's need for imported • The construction of sidewalks, overpasses and petroleum fuels to generate electricity. Full details underpasses to facilitate pedestrian travel. of these proposals will be found elsewhere in the • The construction of covered bus stops through Manifesto. It also proposes to continue the system out the island for the comfort of the travelling of controlling the price of electricity through the public. Public Utilities Board and the relevant legislation • The construction of modern passenger facilities, will be amended to enforce new criteria for deter including toilets and waiting rooms at major mining future rate applications in the light of bus terminals outside Bridgetown. modern developments in the regulation of public utilities companies.

Telephones

Barbados has an efficient modern telephone •ir service which is the envy of the Caribbean. Service has been extended to every area of the island at Water a cost to the consumer which compares most favourably with the cost of this service in other In 1976 the total number of water services were countries. 59,016. At the end of 1980 the total was 67,500. Government has become a shareholder in the This is one indication of the very successful work local telephone company and has appointed a done in providing water services for the country. Director to its Board.

11 A new BLP Administration will continue to • The same principles of area development which encourage measures to maintain and expand an have so beautified the Halls Road/Martindales efficient telephone service, both for the conven Road junction will be applied to other streets ience of the private citizen and for the promotion in the City. Improved pavements will be pro of increased economic activity. vided and picket fences constructed. Steps have already been taken to ensure that • The feasibility of using purified water from the Direct Dialling overseas is available to all sub sewage plant for irrigation of avenues of trees scribers by 1983. and other plants as part of a City Beautification campaign will be investigated.

The subsidiary urban developments will con tinue at Speightstown and St. George, as follows: • The Speightstown bypass will be completed, the Physical Esplanade extended, a large-scale public beach facility constructed at Heywoods and an indus Development & trial park built to the east of the Town. • Developments at the Glebe, St. George, and The Environment surrounding area will include a new primary school, a school meals centre, a polyclinic, a magistrate's court and a police station. The Mention has already been made of the Party's Government will also support the development proposals for new roads in the urban area. These by the Anglican Church of extensive rehousing are not the only proposals for physical develop of its tenants and sale to them of their house- ment which the BLP intends to implement. Many spots; a housebuilding programme and the pro individual projects will also be found under particular heads. The Party has as its philosophy vision of commercial facilities including new shops. The BLP will realign and upgrade the that the entire physical environment of Barbados must be uplifted and those facilities which have roads in the district so as to facilitate the been virtually unchanged for up to 100 years scheme. Substantial development will be carried out at modernised. In addition to the road programme Bathsheba, St. Joseph. the BLP will implement a Bridgetown Improve ment Programme including the following: •A Fishing Harbour will be built at Tent Bay to be integrated with the East Coast Road. •A new commercial and recreational development • Community facilities will be improved and the adjoining the new Fishing Harbour north of the construction of the new Community Centre Careenage. This will contain a Marina, a Water completed. side Walk, Restaurants and open spaces planted with avenues of trees. A new headquarters will Parks and Other Amenities be built for the Barbados Development Bank adjacent to the Harbour and this will contain Upon completion of the works at Harrison's provision for small shops catering to artisans Cave, the Caves Authority will be merged with and small service businesses, eg. barbers, shoe the Parks & Beaches Commission which will makers, tailors and specialised retail outlets. operate the Cave and open it to the public later •A Roebuck Street rehabilitation plan. The BLP in 1981. has successfully undertaken the Fontabelle- • The Party proposes a major new Park comprising Cheapside rehabilitation scheme which will be the present Graeme Hall Swamp in Christ completed by 1982. A similar plan for Roebuck Church. This Park will include a bird sanctuary Street will include the creation of the Country for the thousands of cattle egrets which have Road/Roebuck Street/Halls Road section of an now made their home there. It will contain Inner Ring Road linking Bay Street to Westbury virtually the only lake in Barbados and will Road. Roebuck Street will be provided with cover over 50 acres of natural vegetation, water Improved pavements, derelict properties will, if ways and recreational facilities so crafted as necessary, be acquired by the Government for not to disturb the area's natural features. rehabilitation and use will be made of the • The East Coast Park, designated bythe Govern swampy lands adjoining the Weymouth site. ment in 1977 will be further developed in the • The Greenfields and Nelson Street will be next 5 years. Access roads and hiking trails will redeveloped to provide better housing for their residents. Continued on Page 22 V.-

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YOUR CANDIDATE: (St. Thomas) ADAMS, John Michael Geoffrey Manningham AGE: 49 Educated at Harrison College (Barbados Scholar in eloquent statement of the achievements of his administra Mathematics 1950); Magdalen College, Oxford University tion; "We have planted, Mr. Speaker, and no one must (M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics); Senior pluck from the hands of Barbadians the fruits of their Producer BBC (London); Barrister-at-Law (Gray's Inn); labours and the harvest of dieir sacrifices." Member of Parliament for St. Thomas since 1966; Prime Now at the height of his intellectual power, and draw Minister since 1976;. Privy Councillor (1976) Queen's ing on the experience of the last five years, Tom Adams Counsel (1980). again places himself and his great party at the service of the Lawyer and Leader, Scholar and Statesman, Tom Adams people of Barbados. has brought management skills of a high order, creativity and style to the office of Prime Minister. In a speech in Parliament on May 9, 1980, Tom Adams made his own r Y(^R candidate (Christ Church South Central)

ST. JOHN v Harold Bernard Laurisford Leroy I Age: 49 : Age: 40 Educated at Boys' Foundation School; Harrison College; Educated at St. Giles Boys' School; Modern High University College; ..London University (LL.B Hons); Barris- School; Career Academy, New York; Merchant Seaman; ter-at-Law {Inner Temple); Queen's Counsel (1969); Founder Member of National Union of Seamen; Broad Member of the Senate (1964 to 66 and 1971 to 76); caster; Member of Parliament since 1976; Parliamentary Member of the House of Assembly (1966-71 and since Secretary, Minister of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs since 1976. u x u 1976); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Leroy Sisnett enjoyed national popularity long before he Tourism and Industry since 1976; President of the African, became a politician. As an M.P. he has remained among his Caribbean and Pacific countries Council of Ministers constituents and given his personal attention to their every (1979); President of Latin American Council of Ministers problem. He has secured Government's agreement to (1980).' ^ . u . purchase Alleyne's House at Bush Hall to aid the social After 22 years in political life, Bernard St. John is a development in the area. remarkable blend of youthfulness and maturity, bringirig a He has taken a particular interest in consumer affairs plentitude of public energy to his many and varied assign and is high in praise of the work of the Import Licence ments.' At home, his large ministerial responsibilities have been Review Committee which has been an essential tool in discharged which disarming efficiency. Abroad, his work at Government's economic-strategy. the head of the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries council in 1979/80 has firmly established his international reputation as a Caribbean statesman with a world perspec tive.

YOUR CANDIDATE YOUR CANDIDATE (St. Michael East) (St. Philip South) Donald George Hutson Randolph Age: Educated at St. Giles Boys' School.; Combermere Educated at Holy Trinity Boys' School; Combermere School; Harrison College; Called to the Bar at Lincoln's School; West London College. London; Ealing College, Inn; York University, Ontario (B.A. in Philosophy and London; and University College, London; LL.B; Barrister- Economics); New York University (M.A. in Philosophy); at-Law (Called to the Bar of the Inner Temple 1973); New School for Social Research (ph.D. in Sociology); Lecturer in Law at Ealing College, London; Lecturer in Chairman and Associate Professor, Department of African Law B.I.M.A.P., Member of Senate (1976 to 1981); Deputy Studies. State of New York at Stoneybrook • Permanent Chairman. Parks & Beaches Commission; Member. Govern Representative for Barbados at the United Nations ing Body of the Lodge School; Chairman, B.L.P. Con (1976-78); Member of the Senate (1978-81); Minister of ference (1978 and 1981). „ Labour and Welfare since 1978. "The art of successful living is the art of helping others . This is the motto of Hutson Linton and reflects the warmth of his personality and his commitment to service. To him it is inconceivable that any young person, or anyone with the normal attributes of honesty, courage, generosity, hatred of injustice and oppression, should feel comfortable in any other party than the B.L.P., given its outstandingtrack record in the past five years. YOUR CANDIDATE YOUR CANDIDATE (St. James North} (St. Michael North)

^ Lionel Seymour Ezra Ederson A .^SHkW Age: 52 Educated at Roebuck Boys' School and Barbados Educated at St. Stephen's Boys' School; Combermere Academy; Insurance Underwriter with Manufacturers' School; Holborn College of Law; Queen Mary College; Life Insurance Company for 20 years; Member of Canadian University of London (LLB, LL.M); Barrister-at-Law Life Underwriters Association and Founder President of the (Middle Temple); Lecturer in Law, South Bank Polytechnic Life Underwriters Association of Barbados; Member of and Kinnington College, London, and the University of the Parliament since 1966, Minister of Labour and Community West Indies; Member of Parliament (1976 to 1981); Deputy Services (1976 to 78)-and Minister of Housing and Lands Speaker of Parliament (1976-81); Chairman, Caribbean (1978 to date); Broadcasting Corporation (1976-1979); and National Hous Lionel Craig is the consummate politician, and the undis ing Corporation since 1979. puted champion of the underprivileged. As Minister of Ezra Alieyne has a strong national image among the Lands he piloted through parliament one of the most signi young people of Barbados and is highly regarded not only ficant pieces of social legislation of our time —the Tenan for his intelligence and infectious wit, but for his real tries Freehold Purchase Act which provides a right for concern for the problems of the young. He established his tenants to purchase the lots on which they live. This constituency office early- in 1977 from which he has scheme drew praise from the prestigious New York Times. addressed himself to the problems of his constituents. He has also presided over a boom in housing, which is As Chairman of the National Housing Corporation, he not just a statistic, but a fact represented by over 1200 has seen 13 projects off the ground in the last year includ houses a year (public and private) in which people may ing the West Terrace Development, a $50 million housing enjoy their lives. project near Cave Hill.

mYOUR(St. Andrew)CANDIDATE YOUR CANDIDATE BRATHWAITE (St. James South) Lloyd Beresford \ tKL PAYNE Age: 56 ^ George Walton Educated at St. Patrick's Boys' School and Rural Studio. H Age: 32 Christ Church; Correspondence Courses with Wolsey Hall; Educated at St. Silas School, St. James; Combermere Sugar Chemist; Real Estate Agent; Member, National School; Attorney-at-Law since 1975; Attached to W.l. Executive, Barbados Labour Party; Member of Parliament Griffith (1968 to 1969) and R.G. Mandeville & Co. since 1976; Minister of Commuications and Works (1976- (1975 to 1978); now in private practice; Barbados Mara 1979); and Agriculture, Food and Consumer Affairs since thon Champion (1969-1971); Past President, Combermere 1979. School Old Scholars' Association; Member, Kiwani's Club; L.B. Brathwaite is the complete politician —an articu Member of Amateur Athletic Association; Former Asssitant late and dynamic constituency representative and a Cabinet Secretary Barbados Bar Association. Minister who has represented Barbados with distinction George Payne was a Founder Member of St. Silas Youth abroad. A former Vice-President representing the Carib Group anda former President. He has also organised various bean group at ACP Conferences, he has been a leading activities In St. James including an Annual Athletics Meet spokesman on sugar prices, agriculture and fisheries. ing. He was General Secretary of the Transport Improve As a Minister, he completed the final nationalisation of ment Committee, a group seeking better'bus service for the bus service and later worked hard to promote a stable St. James and St. Andrew in the early 1970's. and efficient agricultural industry. And his St. Andrew He feels that it is more important to belong to a Party constituency is already benefitting from major reclamation that has ideals than belong to a Party which is only and consolidation schemes at Bawdens and East River, concerned with creating a divisive society by embracing while plans are in train for the Turner Hall, Sedge Pond and the politics of hate. Black River Areas. YOUR CANDIDATE (Christ Church West- (St. George South) Central) WARD Charles Carlisle Maurice SHHi Age: 43 Age: 51 Educated at St. Giles Boys' School; Harrison College; Educated at The Barbados Academy ; Sales Manager, University of Manitoba (B.A. First Class Honours in Emtage Electrical Co. Ltd., (Appliances Department); Classics); Canadian Government Scholarship to St. Johns Manaqinq Director, Central Trading Company; Real Estate College, Oxford University (M.A.) Barrister-at-Law (Inner Agent; Hotelier; Member Of Parliament since 1976; Chair Temple) Member of the Senate (1971-76); Member of man, Board of Tourism (1976-1979); Chairman, Tourism Parliament since 1976; Minister of Education and Culture Investment Corporation since 1979. since 1976. Maurice Ward, who is an accomplished public speaker, Louis Tull has been a popular and distinguished Minister has been a hardworking and visible M.P. He has seen to of Education and a dedicated constituency representative. substantial road improvement in his constituency particu In the past five years places in government schools and larly at Edey's Village. St. David's, Vauxhall, Sargeants assistance to independent schools have been substantially Village and St. Lawrence. increased. Vocational courses have been introduced and The. housing conditions at Silver Hill have been trans more emphasis placed on teacher training. And the new formed and street lighting has been extended to many new Education Act which became law on May 7, 1981 will parts of his constituency. As Chairman of the Tourism provide a coordinated system of education related to the Investment Corporation, he is involved in new projects such needs of the people of Barbados. as the Heywoods Hotel Complex which will bring employ A Division of Culture has been set up whose major task ment opportunities to hundreds of Barbadians in the this year will be to organise Carifesta, the largest and most 1980's. significant cultural event to have taken place in our history.

YOUR CANDIDATE (St. Michael West) YOUR CANDIDATE WALKER (St. Stanton SIMMONS -0'David Anthony Cathcart Educated at St. Leonard's Boys' School; Combermere mP' Age: 41 School, (Victor Ludorum 1955): Clerical Officer, Moss Bros. London (1961-1965); Postman (London 1965-1970); Educated at Wesley Hall Boys' School; St. Philip's University of London (B.Sc. Hons in Sociology); Adminis Boys' School; The Lodge School; The London School of trative Assistant, Ministry of Health (1974-1975) and Economics and Political" Science (LLB. LLM); Barrister-at- Welfare Officer (1975-76); Project Officer, Barbados Law (Lincoln's Inn); Law Lecturer Woolwich Polytechnic Family Planning Association (1977-81) and Ministry of (England) and the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill): Labour (1977-81). Member of Parliament since February 1976; Chairman The television programme "Understanding" is the brain National Housing Corporation (1976-79) and Caribbean child of Ralph Walker, who as a young migrant in England Broadcasting Corporation (1979-81); Chairman Dodds in the early 1970's spent his spare time teaching educa Commission (1980). tionally subnormal children. After his historic and spectacular victory on February As a community development officer, he developed 26, 1976, which paved the way for the BLP's election Pinelands Creative Workshop and organised youth triumph of 1976, David Simmons has been a model MP, activities in that area. In 1979 he represented the Ministry who has kept the needs of his constituents in the forefront. of Labour and Community Services in New York where he A formidable debater in Parliament, he feels that in the observed door-to-door Youth Centre and on .his return decade of the eighties the task of leadership by analysis, persuaded the Ministry to accept a plan for such a Centre in argument and action will be the majortask of the BLP and Barbados which will be unique in the Caribbean. one which it is well fitted to accomplish. YOUR CANDtDATE I m YOUR CANDIDATE (City of Bridgetown) (St. Michael South-East)

MILLER BRADSHAW iflHBHl Age: 40 Educated at Belair Junior School, Queen's College; Educated at Hothersal Junior School; Industry High King's College, Durham University; Barrister-at-Law (Grays School, The Modern High School, Huddersfield Technical Inn); Secretary/Treasurer Barbados Bar Association College,'Yorkshire, England; Life Underwriter (1966-72); (1975-1976); Council Member, Barbados Family Planning Headmaster Kay's Academy (1975-76); Member of Parlia Association (1975-76) Member of the Federation of ment for St. Michael South East since 1976; First Vice Women Lawyers (1975-76); Legal Adviser to Women in Chairman, Barbados Labour Party; Parliamentary Secretary Action (1975-76); Member of Parliament for Bridgetown Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry since 1976. since May 1976; Minister of Health and National Insurance Delisle Bradshaw has acted as a cabinet minister on since 1976. many occasions in the last five years and has therefore As Minister of Health and National Insurance, Billie played his full part in the administration's achievements. Miller's record on care for the young, for the infirm and the He survived perhaps the most vicious slander campaign ever sick among our elderly citizens, on the health of the family inflicted on a Barbadian politician — a baptism of fire and on pensions and national insurance, has made her one which would have consumed a lesser man. of the administration's outstanding successes. Through it all he has maintained his composure, his An active participant at meetings which led to the natural dignity and his good humour. And he has worked declaration on primary-care at Alma Ata, Russia in 1978; untiringly in the interest of his constituents. on Population and Development in Sri Lanka in 1979 and on the Elimination of Discrimination against women at Copenhagen in 1980. Billie Miller has exploded the myth, so prevalent in DLP days, that women must walk in the shadow of men.

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YOUR CANDIDATE JOHNSON (St. Michael South)

HOWELL St.Clair Ethelbert Educated at Boscobcl Boys' School; The Coleridge and Age: 42 Parry School; New York College of Medical and Dental Health Technology (Diploma); Long Island University Educated at Christ Church Boys' School; City of West (B.A.); New York University (M.A.); Lecturer New York minister College, London; Barrister-at-Law (Inner Temple); University, City University of New York. Barbados Former Lecturer at The Barbados Community College; Institute of Management and Productivity; Member of Member of the Board of the Caribbean Broadcasting Parliament for St. Michael West (1976 to date); Chairman Corporation; Member of the Council of the Barbados Bar Barbados Marketing Corporation (1976 to date). Association. Vic Johnson has transformed the Barbados Marketing "Tony" Howell has been a Member of the British Corporation. In four years, annual sales have moved from Labour Party and a Shop Steward in the Electrical and $9 million to $20 million and a modest profit has been Technicians Trade Union. In his 20 years in Britain he has shown for the first time. The BMC, whose range of exports also been a civil servant (Ministry of Defence) and a now include breadfruit and other exotic crops, has also qualified electrical draftsman. entered the North American market. A member of the National Executive of the BLP, He is a persuasive public speaker whose evangelical "Tony" Howell is convinced that the main lines of policy fervour can stir even the most docile audience. As Chairman which the party has pursued have been relevant to our of the BLP for two years, he provided sound and efficient needs because they are policies conceived out of a deep management to the party organisation. concern for the people. YOUR CANDIDATE

BOLDEN Charles Lindsay Roy /mKP Age; 50 Educated at Society Mixed School; Combermere School; Educated at St. Lucy's Boys' School and privately; London University, LLB (Hons); Barrister-at-Law (Inner worked at Sandy Lane Hotel in the Maintenance Depart Temple); Farmer and Civil Servant; Private practice in ment for many years before starting his own business; Barbados 1964-1976; Minister of Agriculture Food and Deputy Chairman of National Housing Corporation; Consumer Affairs (1976-1978); Minister of Communica Former Member, Agriculture Credit Bank; First Vice Chair tions and Works (1978-81). man, Barbados Labour Party since 1976; Member of Lindsay Bolden has maintained the tradition started by the Senate since 1979. the late Sir Grantley Adams of providing sound representa Roy Brathwaite is a grass roots politician, who, although tion for the constituents of St. Joseph. A $3 million not being a Member of Parliament, has obtained certain housing development has already started at Lammings and amenities for St. Lucy after fifteen years of DLP neglect. will include 16 homes for senior citizens and a cultural Street lighting has been brought to Mount Gay, Fustic centre. Village and Coconut Hall and there has been road improve Bathsheba will have a new social centre, while properly ment in areas such as Durhams and Avis Town. paved roads are now part of the St. Joseph landscape. His plan for the future includes a Day Care Centre and As Minister of Communications and Works, he has been Housing Area for St. Lucy. He feels that the constituency involved in the framing of important legislation in the areas will benefit from the massive development planned for the of shipping and road traffic and has initiated the new thrust North of ^e Island. In tenantry road construction.

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YOUR CANDIDATE HINDS (St. John) Walter Clare Burton WILLIAMS Age: 61 John Educated at Boscobel Boys' School and Parry School; y Age: 31 Diploma in Journalism; Member of Parliament since 1966; Educated at Welches Mixed School; Combermere Journalist and Former Newspaper Editor; Proprietor of a School; Harrison College; University of the West Indies, Commercial Prlntery and Bookshop; Speaker of the House (B.Sc. Upper Second Class Honours); Middlesex Technical of Assembly (1976 to 1981) College; Cable & Wireless Technical College —Full Techno Burton Hinds Is a prominent Member of the Common logical Certificate (1975); Civil Servant (1976 to 1978) wealth Parliamentary Association who feels that a sound Engineer with Cable & Wireless (W.I.) Limited since 1968. Parliamentary system is the very cornerstone of our democracy, and he sees it as his duty to preserve the John Williams is President of the Cable & Wireless dignity, authority and prestige of our parliamentary institu Division of the Barbados Workers' Union, a Member of the tions. _ — League of Young Socialists and a Member of the Labour The past five years have been an exciting period for his Party National Executive Committee. constituency of St. Peter and the promise of the future is a His life to date has been packed with solid achievement massive development programme which will create jobs and reflecting his ability and love for hard work. As a newcomer transform the quality of life in the area. to politics he has made it clear that he will not seek to rewrite history. Rather he will seek to show that the BLP is the Party which has kept its promises and the Party which offers a better life for the people of Barbados. YOUR CANDIDATE (Christ Church East)

^Ky^r^llll CHELTENHAM YOUR CANDIDATE Richard (St. George North) Age: 39 Educated at St. Patrick's Boys' School; Boys' Founda ODLE tion School; University of the West IndiesB.Sc. {Boon) and Jack Gordon M.Sc (Government): McGill University; Manchester Univer Age: 54 sity PhD; Barrister-at-Law (Gray's inn); Member of Parlia Educated at Workmans Junior School; St. George Boys' ment for Christ Church East since 1976; Chairman of School; The Barbados Academy; Sir George Williams Industrial Development Corporation since 1976; Chair University, Montreal, Canada (B.Sc); University of Toronto; man of Board of Trustees of Barbados Institute of Manage First President, West Indies Society (Sir George Williams ment and Productivity since 1976. University); Quality Control Chemist, Toronto; Director, "Johnny" Cheltenham has devoted much of his consi West Indian Supplies Ltd,; Member of Parliament for derable energy in the past five years to creating a new image for the Industrial Development Corporation. A St. George North since 1976; Chairman of Committees, strong advocate of industrial democracy, he told business House of Assembly (1976-1981); Justice of the Peace. As Chairman of Committees, Jack Odie won the respect men and academics at Michigan State University last year of members on both sides of the House of Assembly, not that foreign entrepreneurs,though welcome, must recognise only for his knowledge of parliamentary practice and the increasing desire of working peopleto have a say in the procedure, but for his impartiality and good humour. decisions affecting their lives at work. In Parliament on May He has also made sound contributions from the floor as 19th 1981, he called for a drastic improvement in the demonstrated in several budget debates before a national quality of factory buildings. audience. A favourite son of St. George, he has called for A leading Lawyer and vigorous constituency representa and got extensive improvements particularly in the area of tive, he feels that the BLP alone offers a programme to water and roads. And the Glebe area will be a focal point bring to the forefront the imagination and the ingenuity of for development in the coming months. the people of Barbados.

your candidate (St. Michael Central)

Aaron YOUR CANDIDATE (St. Michael North-West)

Educated Barbados Academy; Cote des Nerges Commer REECE cial College, Montreal; Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Anthony Toronto; Managing Director of House of Fabrics Ltd., and Superior Plastics Limited; General Secretary, Barbados IBHBKSn' mm- Age: 34 Labour Party 1974-1975; 1979 to 1980; 1980 to date. Educated Wesley Hall Boys' School; Combermere Director of Transport Board 1976 to 1978; Member of the School; College of Law, London; Solicitor and Attorney- Senate since 1976. at-Law attached to Hutchinson & Banfield; Past President Aaron Truss has played an active part in community life. Bridgetown Toastmasters' Club; Vice-President Comber- He is a Director of the Cheshire Home Association and mere Old Scholars' Association; Former Secretary/Trea Oiairman of the Fund Raising Committee of the Thelma surer Barbados Bar Association. Vaughan Memorial Home. He is also President of the Tony Reece has a keen interest in improving the com Barbados Shotokan Karate Club, a Life Member of municative skills of individuals and establishing the rights of Barbados Squash Club, a prominent Member of Zenith the under-privileged. Weightlifting Club, a Member of Barbados Horticultural He sees the massive housing and welfare assistance pro Society, and an active Free Mason. grammes undertaken by the BLP Government as a massive A man of outstanding organisational ability, he has been contribution towards the creation of a more just society. one of the most outstanding general secretaries in the Barbados Labour Party's history. He has, by his work and example, been an inspiration to the League of Young Socia lists, which is the vibrant youth arm of the BLP. YOUR CANDIDATE Kyour(Christ candidateChurch West) (St. Michael South Central)

CLARKE FORDE June It Henry deBoulay Age: 46 ^ Age: 48 Educated at Miss Thorpe's Private School and Queen's Educated at Christ Church Boys' School; Boys' Founda College; Administrative Manager of American Life tion School; Harrison College (Barbados Scholar 1952); Insurance Company; Secretary of Life Assurance Christ College, Cambridge University (M.A., LL.B); Barrls- Companies Association of Barbados since 1973; Senior Vice ter-at-Law (Middle Temple) Queens Counsel; Past President President, Chamber of Commerce 1977; President 1978-80; Lions Club; Former Member Anglican Church Property President Securities Exchange 1978-80; Queen's Jubilee Advisory Committee; Former Deputy Chairman, Public Medal 1978; Director Barbados Rediffusion Service Service Commission; Patron Dorcas League; Member of Limited, Barbados National Bank, Barbados Mortgage Parliament for Christ Church West since 1971 : Minister of Finance Company Limited; Member Board of Governors St. External Affairs, Attorney General and Minister of Legal James Secondary School. Affairs since 1976. Chairman, Commonwealth Committee June Clarke brings to political life an unblemished in Belize and Commonwealth Law Ministers' Conference in record of public service. At 15, she was running the First 1980. Barbados Guide Company at Queen's Collegewith the help When, at the end of 1976, Henry Forde announced his of another teenager because there was no available guider. government's decision to withdraw its recognition of Twenty-five years later she was the first woman to sit on Taiwan as the government of all China, he said that to do the Council of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce. In otherwise "would be to turn a blind eye to die realities of between she has done noble work with the YWCA, die the international situation and Jie contrary to our best Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and the Methodist interests." ' Church. Here was one of this country's finest intellects reflecting She has taken on the present challenge not least because our nation's domestic aims and aspirations in its foreign she believes that social justice and freedom are essential to policy. In his other role as Attorney General and Minister a just society and that die programmes and policies of the of Legal Affairs Henry Forde has broughton to the statute Barbados Labour Party offer a better life for the people of book an unprecedented amount of new and reforming legis Barbados. lation, including comprehensive treatment of our property laws and our family legislation. Continuedfrom Page 12 ment of the teaching profession and other In terested bodies to a new Education Act — some be provided in consultation with the National thing which the previous regime were unable Trust and other bodies interested in the Environ to do either in 1962 or in 1974. This Act pro ment. vides a framework for the formulation and exe cution of educational policies and for such bodies as parent-teacher organisations to play a role in this exercise. Social Services It has long been a plank of the Barbados* Labour Party's education policies that the Common One major lesson to be learned from the aboli Entrance Examination should be abolished and tion of Local Government and Its replacement by that there should be zoning of our secondary total centralisation of Government in Barbados is schools, but the Party has always been realistic. that not all services, and certainly not the social The Examination cannot be abolished and the services, bear centralisation without alienation schools zoned until a sufficient number of school from the communities which they are intended places has been provided (e.g. the new secondary to serve. school at Wotton) and until there is a uniform Some services must be taken to the people quality of education offered in the schools. Impres rather than people asked to come to them. Social sive strides have been made in this direction under services meaning health, education, housing, the 1976-81 Barbados Labour Party administration community development and the environment and the Party will continue its thrust in this must be decentralised back into the community. direction. Day care centres, polyclinics, senior citizen ser Emphasis will continue to be placed on the vices, schools {primary and secondary), housing redevelopment of our Primary Schools and under wardens, skills training centres, youth centres, the new administration improved provision will ought to be available at community level or be be made for children between the ages of three and community based. five years. This policy will have implications for zoning It is in our interest that our citizens should of schools, for the development of sub-towns, continue to educate themselves and to this end for more efficient use of the transport service, those persons who pay fees to write the exami for the proposed establishment of Health Com nations of approved institutions and are success mittees under the National Health Service. The ful in those examinations will receive a refund of Health Committees will permit community involve those fees. ment in matters pertaining to public health includ It has already in this Manifesto been proposed ing sanitation, the environment, roads, water, that income tax allowances will be improved to health education. take into account students up to age 18 and in Decentralisation of services does not admit to some cases age 25. decentralisation of administration at the higher The policy of monitoring the Student's Revolv levels, especially financial and physical manage ing Loan Fund and other forms of Student assis ment. tance will be continued to ensure that preference The three former district council zones led is given to students wishing to pursue studies in themselves readily to area planning based on the those areas where there is a scarcity of skills in broad guidelines of this policy of decentralised the Society, e.g. dentistry, architecture and quan social and physical services. tity surveying. A re-elected BLP Administration will imme diately establish a committee of knowledgeable persons to examine the implications of such decentralisation and make recommendations to Government. Culture & The Arts

Education The Party in Government has done more than any other to encourage the Arts and enable them The Barbados Labour Party administration to flourish. From the provision of increased of 1976-81 has been able to obtain the agree- scholarships, participation in overseas and local festivals, support to, and sponsorship of, private groups both on overseas visits and at local per formances, to its strong support for NIFCA, Crop Over and now Carifesta, everything is being done to foster an artistic explosion of the natural and The carefully phased implementation of the creative talents of our citizens. National Health Service is not a five or ten year The Party believes that the artists themselves plan, but rather a plan for life designed to provide must be responsible for the administration of free and easy access to health care for all into the the Arts and Government's role is to create con twenty-first century. ditions in which this will be achieved. We there The final implementation of the primary care fore propose: service during the '81 - '86 term will be accom • Scholarships and financial assistance for studies plished with the co-operation of the health pro fessionals and the Barbadian public, when the in the Creative Arts. • Lowering/Removal of duty/taxes on musical/ time comes for each person to be registeredwith a artistic equipment and materials. primary medical care team. These teams will com • The National Arts & Culture Council to be prise a doctor, a clinical nurse, a community nurse made a Statutory Board with powers to collect and a records clerk/receptionist. Some of these and distribute funds for cultural groups. teams will operate out of the polyclinics which • Integration into the curriculum in schools of the Government is providing and also out of doctor's private premises. dance and movement, music and drama. • Development of the concept of Theatre in Secondary and Tertiary medical services (that Education as a means of teaching the social is services involving hospital care) will be adjusted sciences and history. to accommodate cases arising from the upgraded primary care service. • Establishment of local/parish culture com The eight polyclinics will service the areas mittees with support services from the Ministry surrounding them bringing primary and some of Culture, with responsibility for planning secondary services right into the heart of the local cultural activity. • Emporia for sale of local works of art and communities. handicraft. Three area health committees will be appointed • Establishment of a National Art Gallery; greater and sanitation, the public health inspectorate and acquisition of local works of Art for Govern other social services will be represented on them. In this way major issues, problems and complaints ment Departments, both at home and overseas. from the community will be channeled to the • Annual conventions of artists to formulate and central administration. Smaller ones will be dealt review policies. • A National Culture Centre at Church Village and with at the polyclinic - community level with the designation of the whole Church Village and greaterdispatch than now obtains. Queen's Park as a Cultural Village for contin Sanitation uous daily activity. • Preservation of oral traditions by recording interviews with senior citizens. For the coming term a crematorium will be • Greater use of media as cultural animators and established and Westbury Cemetery will be up facilitators. graded. Abandoned graves will be re-cycled and • Expansion island-wide of summer vacation brought back into use. workshops in the arts for school children. The South and West Coastal zones will be given • Permanent equipping of performing spaces, a sewerage system to deal with the high density at Combermere, Farley Hill, Queen's Park, of populations both resident and visiting in these areas. etc. • Establishment of a School of Drama at the Bar bados Community College. • Publishing of an annual anthology of works of Barbadian artists. • The revision, refinement and improvement of Nl FCA and Crop Over. • The institution of National schools of Music and Drama festivals. • The preservation of historic buildings and artistic treasures for the Nation. More than any previous administration in this

22 country the BLP Government of 1976-81 set out studio apartments will be built for rental to to house a nation by employing policies geared those who need these units but who currently to stimulate both private sector and public sector have to compete with families for larger N.H.C. housing. The National Housing Corporation first units. had to be cleaned up and rid of any scandal and • There will be a mixed programme of rental and private sector bodies had to be encouraged by sale of units provided by N.H.C. way of fiscal incentives. •A Land Bank will be maintained and increased The new BLP administration will continue this by the continual acquisition of suitable land, to policy, in addition it will continue the policy of provide ready building land for the N.H.C. providing essential community services within and both freehold and leasehold house-lots for the context of National Housing Corporation persons who wish to build and own their own development projects. houses. Moreover there are a number of essential •A Sites and Services programme, to be financed arrangements now in place or under preparation. with assistance from financial institutions such The BLP Government has passed a law to make it as the CDB and the World Bank. The sites will possible for owners of chattel houses to get mort be provided with water, electricity, lights, gages where previously this was not possible. This telephones, natural gas where feasible, postal is a benefit to a large number of Barbadians and services and proper roads and will be for sale helps to stimulate private effort in increasing and or rent. improving the housing stock. • Loans at reasonable rates of interest and other In order to make this legislation fully effective favourable terms of repayment will be available the BLP Government enacted legislation to provide to assist persons to purchase these lots. for the insuring of these chattel house mortgages. • The BLP considers that the duty of housing In addition the BLP Government has made it the poorest members of the community is a possible for persons living on agricultural tenantries public responsibility and should therefore have to purchase the land they live on for as little as first call on its financial resources. It recognises $300. Clearly this will have the immediate effect that this leaves a gap in the provision of housing of encouraging a number of homeowners to change for middle-income persons, especially houses their houses from wood to stone. built for rent. A new BLP Government will The need for mortgage finance is partly provided therefore introduce suitable incentives for by the Barbados Mortgage Finance Company private builders who build houses for rent which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the or sale at middle-income levels. Barbados National Bank. Government's moves to insure that Insurance Companies make more money available to the local mortgage market also helps to satisfy this need. The cement plant, which is a joint project between the Governments of Barbados and of Trinidad and Tobago, is an indispensable part of these arrangements, particularly in a situation The Barbados Labour Party, from its early days of world shortage of this essential commodity. in power in the 1950's, laid the foundations of the These are basic requirements for the success modern Welfare State in Barbados. This work was of the national housing programme which is interrupted by 15 years of DLP neglect. During the designed to ensure decent housing for every last five years the Party ended the long and dis Barbadian. The present annual need is estimated graceful neglect of vulnerable groups in this society to be possibly as high as 1700 houses and the by the implementation of a social development programme of attracting both public and private programme whose objective is the 'normalisation' funding to the task of fully housing the nation of the position of such groups within our society. will therefore be stepped up. This concept of social development marks a In addition: radical departure from the obsolete concept of • Vacant lots with derelict houses will be brought "welfare" which has blinkered some Barbadian into public use and compensation will be paid to policymakers for such a long time, effectively the owners. The lots will then be returned to inhibiting them from formulating programmes housing use. to ensure that proper social norms apply to the • Quicker methods of construction will be re maximum extent possible to the aged, children searched and used. in need of care and protection, the destitute and •A number of one-bedroom apartments and the disabled, and the economically disadvantaged.

23 SocialSecurity • The entire Scheme of the Pensions Act will be reviewed and a system of granting pensions The Barbados Labour Party is a Social Demo by right established. cratic Party committed to giving the population of our island full protection from the hazards National Assistance of sickness and unemployment as well as providing It is well known that the elderly in our society adequate retirement benefits for our citizens. The suffer terribly from isolation, and loneliness and Party has in the last 4y2 years given three increases the absence of adequate social contact, especially in the Old Age Pension payable to non-contribu with their peers. The BLP is committed to remov tors to the National Insurance Scheme and has ing old people from the periphery of society and introduced, with effect from 1981, an Unemploy integrating them fully in all facets of our social ment Insurance Scheme. As was the original Inten life. tion of the Party when in 1961 it first proposed • The re-elected BLP Government will therefore the National Insurance Scheme and engaged an implement a recreation programme for the expert to make the recommendations that led elderly, in Senior Citizens' Centres which will to the Scheme's commencement in 1967, the be set up throughout Barbados. The Govern BLP now proposes to expand the framework of ment will also monitor the facilities offered in National Insurance into a full and comprehensive privately owned Senior Citizens' Homes to Social Security for all. The Party's proposals to ensure that they conform to proper standards achieve this aim are as follows:- of care for the elderly. • The means test will be abolished and every During the past 4% years the Government has person over the age of 65 will be entitled to taken a number of initiatives in the area of national a pension under the Social Security Scheme. assistance given to persons who suffer from certain chronic ailments and made it possible for such • The non-contributory old age pension will be persons as are between the ages of 55 and 64 to get incorporated into the National Insurance Scheme. Old age pensions, both non-contribu $15 per week. tory and contributory will in future be raised • The BLP Government will, in future, increase annually. The non-contributory pension will be National Assistance payments to such persons whenever Old Age Pensions are increased. raised to $40 per week by 1983 and the con tributory minimum pension to $50. • As already announced, unemployment benefits will be added to the National Insurance Scheme during 1981. • The Health Benefits, which comprise the National Health Service, will be added in 1981- 1982. These will differ from all other benefits During the last 4y2 years the Government of in that they will be services provided rather than Barbados has battled with the problems caused cash benefits. by the neglect of the previous administration • The Health Benefits will be extended to include between 1961 and 1976. A complete survey of Barbadian seamen who at present provide for the area of labour legislation was made and im their families at great risk and without any portant pieces of legislation have been drafted coverage. for introduction in the new parliamentary session • National Insurance coverage generally will be when the BLP is returned to power. Among the doubled. It at present has an upper limit of matters ready for immediate implementation are:- $1000.00 per month and this will go to $2000.00. •A National Pension Plan will be established. • A Bill to restrain Unfair Dismissals; This will involve the integration of public • A new Severance Payments Bill; sector and private sector pensions so that a •A Wage Council order for Shop Assistants public employee will be able to carry his pen Minimum wage; sion from one point of public employment • An amended Shops Bill; to another or to private employment. All • The Factories Bill which has already been statutory corporations will be required to introduced into Parliament; participate in the National Pension Plan, and • Legislation for the establishment of a Labour will be directed to supplement National Insur Advisory Council. ance pensions for the whole amount of the dif ference between an employee's salary and the The BLP Government, through the services of National Insurance limit. an OAS expert in Labour Statistics, has estab-

24 lished the basis for a Manpower Planning Unit the nation. The re-elected BLP Government will within the Labour Department and a Labour encourage women to take initiatives in income- Economist has been appointed as the first staff generating projects to ensure that as many women member of this unit. The unit will make analyses as possible participate in the development of the of labour market information and prepare all productive sectors of the economy. It will also relevant data on which sound manpower policies continue to grant assistance to women's organi can be formulated. sations in the pursuit of any socially desirable The BLP is aware of the massive developments programmes. The BLP is committed to the full taking place within industry in Barbados. The implementation of all the recommendations importation and use of modern technology has contained in the Report on the Commission on made the industrial environment less safe for our the Status of Women. Already a substantial num workers. The new Factories Act will go a long ber of these have been implemented in pursuit of way to the solution of this problem, but a new the Party's new deal for women, as outlined in BLP Government will also improve its Factory the BLP's 1976 Charter for Women. Inspection Rules substantially in order to enforce satisfactory compliance with the law relating to workers' health, safety and welfare in factories. Special Programmes • The Government of Barbados has recently During the next five years, a BLP Government secured approval of the Canadian Government will accelerate the trend, begun with the enactment for a pilot project involving the participation of a new Child Care Act, of de-emphasising mass of female workers in the Canadian Farm Labour residential care. The new foster care programme Programme. Over the next five years a re-elected provided for in the Child Care Act will be greatly BLP Government, as a result of these successful expanded to ensure that as many children as negotiations, expects to send approximately possible in need of care will live in conditions 200 women workers to Canada on the Farm which will provide them with the warmth and Labour Programme every year. love of a family setting. This approach is not only • During the past 4% years, developments in more humane in its thrust but it also is more Occupational Training marked a new concern cost-effective. Persons fostering children will on the part of government, for the quality of receive adequate financial assistance from Govern our labour force. A Skills Training Project, ment. which provides the community with short- The amended Adoption Act has already term training has come into existence under modernised the law relating to the adoption of the Ministry of Labour. In the next five years children. It will be used to ensure that as many the programme will train a minimum of 5000 of our children as possible enjoy a more personal youths both male and female. family life. Where institutional care is still needed, the BLP Government will provide more Group Homes and ultimately the mass residential home will disappear altogether. The BLP Government will continue to increase day care facilities for children by the construction of more Day Care Centres, where their need has The BLP Government has established a Depart been clearly established. It is a disservice to our ment of Women's Affairs as the vehicle for moni children to provide Day Care Centres from make toring the problems of women and bringing them shift buildings which have been constructed for to the attention of the relevant authorities. The other purposes. Modern, purpose-built, day-care Department of Women's Affairs will continue this facilities will be provided as near the parents' function and will be aided by an advisory council homes as feasible. Where day-care facilities for with a membership drawn from a wide cross sec children are provided at or near the place of work, tion of society, including women from all social a BLP Government will ensure that appropriate strata. transportation is available. The Department of Women's Affairs is the During the past 4% years the BLP Government executive arm of the Ministry of Women's Affairs critically examined the amenities available to and will function in a way to create conditions disabled children. An historic practice through within the society which will enable women to which disabled children were always separated achieve their maximum potential and to partici from normal children was discontinued with the pate fully and on equal terms in the total life of admission of mentally handicapped children to

25 the Day Care Centres and Childrens' Homes of in character, and will be fully integrated into the Child Care Board. This 'normalisation' pro programmes for youth, including the Skills Train gramme for the mentally retarded will continue ing Programme. The programme will be employ along with the establishment of a Centre for ment oriented. mentally retarded children which would enable the Child Care Department to tackle special prob lems of the mentally retarded more effectively. A newly planned recreational programme for children will be implemented, with the provision of children's playparks in every community as the objective. During the last 414 years the idea of sport asan integral part of the community and social develop Y/i ment became concrete. Parish councils, including representatives of the National Sports Council, During the past 414 years a special Youth Affairs were set up, with a view to pioneering a pro section was established in the Community Develop gramme. This programme meant that for the first ment Division with a Community Development time, an effort was made to organise sport outside Officer assigned exclusively to Youth Affairs work, of institutions such as schools, and to ensure that with responsibility for liaising with youth organi there is massparticipation in organised sport. sations and advising on problems of special interest The BLP Government will continue its policy to youth. The new BLP Government will substan of ensuring that the major portion of the reserves tially expand the staff oftheYouth Affairs Section of the National Sports Council are allocated to so as more effectively to perform its monitoring mass sport. It will continue to pursue its objective of youth problems, as well as to advise other of providing every community in Barbados with its ministries and departments on matters relating own sports complex. It will complete its present to youth in their respective spheres. plans for the construction of an Indoor Sports A Youth Centre, now in the planning stages, Facility and ensure that the National Sports CouncH continues to provide gear for sporting will be established. Within this Centre young people will have access to a wide range of coun organisations of limited resources. Duty free selling services, including problems of teenage concessions will be provided for certain sporting pregnancies, venereal disease and drugs. Vocational equipment. Sporting facilities will be constructed guidance will also be provided within the Centre. so that they can be floodlit after dark so that Youth will be encouraged to channel their energies communities may be able to use these facilities constructively and to develop a respect for society. at night. The Government has sought to include Youth Organisations in the decision-making process by appointing nominees of Youth Organisations to Statutory Bodies. Government has also in la n creased training opportunities and sporting facili ties. The BLP recognises the need for a mass pro gramme to involve many more youths in socially- filior directed activities. Assistance for and consultation with youth clubs, including their national Council, will be continued. The Royal Barbados Police The BLP has already begun the process of Force will be encouraged to revitalise their Clubs revitalising our Community Centres which had which operated successfully in the 1950's and early fallen into disuse or misuse between 1961 and '60's. The Churches and Service Clubs will be 1976. During the past 472 years the Govern helped to continue and develop programmes for ment obtained $500,000 through the Caribbean the youth. More opportunities for the training Development Bank for the renovation and refur of youth leaders, both regionally and extra-region- bishing of community centres in order to update ally, will be explored. activities at these centres. The re-elected BLP Government will establish The re-elected BLP Government will continue a voluntary Service Scheme, which is fully des to use these Centres as locations for our com cribed in the section of this Manifesto dealing with munity-based Skills Training Projects, as vyeFI Defence. Although intended to be run by the as for the Community Development's Division Defence Force, the Scheme will be non-military Handicraft programme.

26 social, environmental and economic causes of crime, e.g. sub-standard housing, the creation of a drug culture, and so on. The public's relations with the Police will be The BLP Government inherited police services clarified and a review of police procedures for which had suffered from years of non-planning and dealing with complaints against the police under neglect under the DLP. Neither short, medium or taken. The Crime Prevention Panel will be encour long term proposals had been made for the physi aged to continue its work as a link between the cal comfort of the police or expansion in its police and the public, and the special public numbers. There was a failure to provide modern relations unit in the Force will be expanded. equipment in telecommunications and other areas and no effort was made to remove from the Force Dealing with Criminals its non-police functions inherited from the colonial past. The fight against crime cannot be fought only The Party reacted early to the needs of the through more efficient police. More resources Police, paid a duty allowance to compensate for and facilities will also be made available to magis the long hours being worked by the under-strength trates, the Probation Service, and others concerned force, and set out to improve working conditions. with juvenile offenders, to rehabilitate young Non-police duties were removed, better equipment offenders and curb crime among youth. A Young was provided and the new Government was there Offenders' Act will be passed and the reform fore able to achieve during 1976-1979, a reduction schools centralised under a Department of Correc in crime to a level below that prevailing in 1975. tional Services, which will place emphasis on pre Even with an increase in crime of 8.5% last vention and rehabilitation. Non-custodial senten ces, community service orders, and a variety of year, Barbados remains the area in the Caribbean other sentences available to the courts will be with the lowest crime rate and is a haven of sta bility in a sea of turbulence. Crime has again instituted. declined during 1981. For those for whom such sentences and rehabili The re-elected Labour Party Government will tation offer no remedy and for whom imprison ment may be necessary the new legislation will continue with policies aimed at maintaining a contain strong provisions. Training facilities, strong, well trained and efficient Police Force with a high morale. The policy of improved pay particularly in learning skills, and trades for those in custody will be increased. Penalties under the and conditions will be continued. We will imple ment the recommendations of the Graham Report Narcotics Drugs Act will be stiffened, and a Drugs on the reorganisation of the structure of the Police Advisory Panel will be established to educate, force. Training at both the local and overseas advise, and assist persons who may be in need of level will be intensified. Improved and more flex such assistance in coping with the problems of the ible crime prevention measures will be introduced. non-medical use of drugs. A new Police Headquarters will be built at Wildey The Rule of Law & Strengthening and a new Regional Police Training College at the the Citizens Rights same site will add middle rank training to the basic police training now given at the Seawell Centre. The measures taken by the Barbados Labour Containment of crime and its steady reduction to Party Government to strengthen the rule of law manageable limits will be achieved by;- have now placed this country foremost among the • recruiting more policemen as the need arises. free countries of the world. Reform of the adminis • placing the greatest practicable number of trative law, the establishment of an administrative policemen on the beat by day and night. review tribunal, the establishment of the office • providing more resources for the purchase of of Ombudsman, and a reform of the Supreme modern aids and equipment. Court Act, were all designed to protect the liberty • increasing training facilities and opportunities. of the individual. This policy will be continued. • providing expanded and improved facilities In particular, administrative policies and legislative at Holetown, Speightstown, Belleplaine and provisions will be designated to: District C and building new stations at Oistins, with sub-regional headquarters at Wildey, Welch- • protect the right of individual privacy. man Hall and Charles Rowe Bridge. The District • strengthen the rights of those in police custody. A Complex will be completed. • give greater access to public information. Simultaneously, long term solutions to crime • underpin the right of free association, including will be vigorously pursued so as to eradicate the the right to be represented by a trade union.

27 A Family Court will be established and the most purblind, it is accepted that the Sydney reform measures contained in the Supreme Court Alleynes and John Banks of this world are not to Act and the Criminal Appeals Act fully imple be dismissed as mere jokers. The Party has there mented. Judicial Review provisions as recom fore established a Defence Force, with the accent mended by the Cox Commission will also be on its Coast Guard wing, to provide not only strict entrenched in the Constitution to further defence protection, but also to monitor the move strengthen fundamental rights and freedoms. ment of persons and things along our sea lanes; to patrol our coastal waters; to assist in the preven Reform of the Laws tion and detection of smuggling and protection of Law Reform has been used by the BLP during our seas; to protect our territorial waters and 200 1976-81 to create a more just and humane society mile economic zone; to assist our fishermen and and as an instrument of social development. The yachtsmen in search and rescue missions, and to stigma of illegitimacy has been abolished, family allow our airport authorities to comply with the law reformed, administrative justice strengthened standards of the International Civil Aviation and the archaic land laws swept away. This policy Organisation which demands adequate coastguard of systematic law reform will be continued, and in •services in countries whose airports lie near to the particular consumer affairs, company and business sea. law, restrictive practices, industrial and intellectual The DLP has been relentless in attacking the property, criminal law and reform of other aspects Defence Force, its role, and its cost —although this of family law not yet dealt with will receive the is a very small portion of total government spend highest priority. Draft bills on most of these sub ing. A re-elected Labour Party government will jects are already in various stages of preparation; maintain a moderate level of defence expenditure, freedom of the press will be strengthened by the bearing in mind our limited financial resources and enactment, before the end of 1981, of a new our insistence that primary responsibility for law Defamation Act. An Unfair Dismissals Act will and order rests on the civil forces — namely the also be enacted in 1981. Police. A Coastguard Headquarters, to be named Fort Willoughby, is now being built at the Pier Legal Records head, and will include extensive ship repair faci- The Labour Party has recognised the need to ties which are generally needed in Barbados. We preserve all national records including the judge will continue to explore the co-ordination of our ments and proceedings of our courts. Law reports Coast Guard's work and services with those Carib are being published. Funds will be made available bean islands nearest us, namely St. Lucia and St. to ensure the publication on a continuous basis Vincent, and for whose vessels the repair facili of the judgements of our courts and to search out ties will be used. and publish past judgements from 1840 to the A Barbadian crew is now being trained and will, present. Legal documents and records will be within the next few months, sail the coastguard microfiched and computerised. flagship "Trident," from Britain to Barbados.

The Law Courts National Service and Skills Training Physical conditions in the Law Courts will be The re-elected BLP government will expand the improved. A new Supreme Court complex will Skills Training Programme for youth already estab be constructed in Coleridge Street. New magis lished and in operation and will institute a National trates courts will be built at Oistins, Charles Service Programme. Under this scheme, young Rowe Bridge, Welchman Hall and Speightstown persons will be encouraged to undergo, on a volun and existing courts in Bridgetown, Holetown tary basis, a short period of paid, fulltime attach and District C will be improved. The efficiency ment to a National Service Corps of the Defence of the court service will be improved. Force, followed by weekly attendance for a period of two years in all. Training will be non-military but will include discipline, self reliance, and physi cal fitness. Youths in the Skills Training Pro gramme may also be included in the National Service Corps so that there will be full opportuni ties of equipment for useful employment during Events within Barbados, the Caribbean and else and after the service period. where, have proved the need for Barbados to have a limited Defence Force with a capacity to with Military Training stand the immediate assault of potential marau More training facilities will be provided for tech ders, terrorists, and mercenaries. Except among the nical personnel and for officers of the Defence

28 Force. Places will be obtained for infantry officers A re-elected BLP administration will therefore:- at Sandhurst, the Canadian Military Academy, and the US Military Academy at West Point; and for • Co-operate with other Caricom countries in the coastguard officers at Dartmouth and the US establishment of a Caribbean Information Coastguard Academy. A number of pilots will be System. recruited as officers, and flying and flight engineer • Establish a National Information System ing training will be given to other suitable members embracing the Public Library and the Govern of the Defence Force. Technical training in com ment Information Service. munications engineering, navigation, and other • Encourage the development of the Barbados skills will be given at all levels, so that the trained Museum into a National Museum by increased officer, warrant officer, or NCO will be well grants and assisting with the provision of train equipped for useful employment on leaving the ing for museologists; and colours. • Enact legislation for the preservation of antiqui ties and restricting their export. At the same time the Government will continue its policy of purchasing documents, maps and historic relics of importance to Barbados.

Publications Media

• The BLP's commitment to the principle that the publications media is not an appropriate area for The Party's pledges in its 1976 Manifesto have foreign ownership has been clearly demonstrated been carried out and the treatment of women has by its policy in the grant of licences to operate been virtually equalised with that of men, as broadcasting stations. A re-elected BLP adminis promised. An Immigration Service separate from tration will do all in its power to encourage the police, has been established and now mans the local or Caricom interests to complete the task ports of entry into Barbados and carries out local of repatriating the media. investigations. • Initiatives for the redevelopment of the Carib The Party now proposes only that an Immigra bean Broadcasting Corporation will be given tion Appeals Tribunal be set up to give non-Barba fresh impetus with the construction of a New dians in the Island who feel aggrieved by an Radio Complex at Whitepark and the upgrading administrative decision on immigration, a right to of the Television Complex at the Pine. an independent review. This will particularly apply • Training of journalists in the broadcast and print to deportations. media and in the Government Information Service will be encouraged with a view to improving the level of programming and journa listic practice. New posts for cinematographers Information and graphic artists have already been provided.

Advances in communications technology have their impact not only on information agencies like broadcasting stations or newspapers but on those information systems on which Government rely so heavily. The role of libraries and of librarians has come to be highlighted within this context as countries During the past five years Barbados' respect, have come to depend more and more on this standing and influence in the world has grown. resource at a time when proper storage and easy Barbados is today recognised as a model of demo retrieval of information is vital not only to cracy, a leader in the fight for human rights, a researchers and to the general public but to small nation with a big and convincing voice, planners and managers in both the public and the clear policies and forthright ideas in international private sectors. relations. As a result Barbados' counsel is often A related activity is that of museums, as these sought both by its traditional friends and its new institutions reach out into communities and per partners in world affairs. More Barbadian nationals form more of a direct educational and cultural have been appointed to offices and posts in inter function. national organisations. Barbados has been elected

29 to membership of several organisations and its (viii) pursue a transfer of technology and finan Ministers, Ambassadors and foreign service per cial resources to meet the Barbados needs sonnel have increasingly been called upon to chair for development. meetings and direct the proceedings of these Even prior to full Internal self-government, the bodies. Barbados Labour Party Government in the 1950's The re-elected Labour Party Government will put the interests of its nationals overseas first by ensure that the nation continues to play its full establishing consular and welfare services overseas, part, within its financial and human constraints, particularly in the U.K. The Party during the last in shaping world affairs. five years has strengthened such representation The Barbados Labour Party, in consonance with with the establishment of a full and active consu its beliefs, will: late in Toronto and several honorary consulates in other countries. The Party proposes to establish further consulates both honorary and govern (i) foster greater cooperation and integration mental in the Caribbean, Canada, the United within the Caribbean Community as the States and the United Kingdom. Increased em most constructive means of promoting phasis will be placed on the welfare, immigration Barbados' regional interests. Regional and general needs of nationals in the United integration remains the most viable Kingdom, the United States, Canada and the strategy for the maximum development English-speaking Caribbean countries. of all the peoples of the region. To this The Party also proposes to upgrade the Consu end the Labour Party Government will late at Toronto to a Consulate-General in order to not only work for greater market integra give a better service to our nationals in that city tion but also for the integration of pro and to further the interests of tourism, trade, duction and greater functional coopera investment and exports. tion in all practicable areas including In Caricom we support a stronger and more external trade and economic relations democratic community. Our aim is for an inte and policies; grated community based upon democratic insti (ii) within the regional context promote tutions, fair and free elections held at periodic closer bilateral or trilateral relations intervals and an equitable sharing of the economic with individual countries or groups of burdens of the region. We will work with our countries of the region, similar to those partners on regional policies to contain inflation, being pursued with Trinidad and Tobago strengthen monetary and fiscal cooperation and and with St. Vincent and St. Lucia; overcome deprivation and unemployment. A (iii) emphasise, as a cardinal basis of its Caribbean Convention on Human Rights will be foreign policy, the worldwide protection pursued as part of our conviction of the impor of human rights, including civil, political tance of the individual in our societies and his and economic rights. The Party considers inalienable entitlement to basic human rights and that the struggle for these rights will be as a means of strengthening fundamental freedoms an integral part of the liberation process; in the region. (iv) labour unstintingly for a new world The re-elected Labour Government shall work international economic order, and a more for the full functioning of all the Community equitable redistribution of power and institutions. With the undoubted reputation which it has built up for Barbados' commitment to the wealth all as part of the struggle against Community's success, it will build on Barbados' hunger and poverty in the world; (v) fight for racial equality, the downfall of influence to play a leading and constructive role apartheid, and the liberation of colonial in the Community's efforts to tackle and solve peoples particularly in Africa and the all of its existing problems, including tighter coordination of foreign policies. Caribbean; (vi) pursue a policy of the maintenance and Barbados' foreign policies must include con consolidation of peace and will therefore tinued close relations with Britain, Canada and join all its efforts with those who seek to the United States. These long and historical asso ciations will be given a new awakening~ by more limit both conventional and non-conven tional forces and arms; frequent consultation, based on acknowledgement (vii) promote the special interests of small of the equality of States, mutual respect and a states, to ensure that their unique require continued attachment to the principles of demo ments for an improved share of the cratic freedom. world's resources are met; Barbados will firmly support a peaceful settle-

30 ment In the Middle East within the context of cooperation and Barbados' claim, despite its high the relevant United Nations Resolutions. In Sou G.N.P. per capita, for increased assistance in these thern Africa, there will be no compromise with fields will be pursued vigorously. apartheid, the exclusion of a majority of black people from the government and wealth of their native land, or the denial of independence to Namibia. Our goal is peaceful change, but change ilintiiiteiii ' there must be. In Latin America we will continue to support those struggling for freedom, democracy and social justice. At the same time we will strengthen bilateral links with the countries of the region and Our record of performance and achievement work for a reformation of the OAS so that it may during the period 1976-1981 is a proud one. Yet become a vibrant force in regional affairs assisting we recognise that time has not permitted us to in the solutions of the region's problems. We will complete our whole programme. There are some seek particularly to encourage closer cooperation projects still in the process of execution. Planning between regional economic groupings and improve has commenced on others. It is our intention to trading relationships. fulfill all those pledges contained in our 1976 The work of the U.N. and its specialised agencies Manifesto, which time and resources, both human will be supported. Emphasis will be placed on and financial, have not, to date, enabled us fully to international programmes of aid and technical implement.

In our Manifesto of 1976we presented a programme for launching Barbados into the 1980's.

Times were difficult and our programme had therefore to emphasise a number of remedial measures designed to remove hardship and restore prosperity to our country. Now, some 4% years later, we are proud that we have succeeded. The economy is stronger; inflation has abated; unemployment has been halved; the tax burden is lighter; the fourteen year olds are no longer being thrown out of school; training programmes have been provided for the young; enhanced pensions benefit our senior citizens; Inhumane laws have been removed from our statute books, particularly asthey related to women and children; minl-bus operators no longer have to fear policeprosecution.

In brief Barbadians at every level are better off. Careful and Imaginative management has resulted in an expanding economy after years of negative growth under the Democratic Labour Party.. This has generated the need for skills and we have Initiated programmes to equip the youngwith these needed skills. We now have a much better equipped labour force than we had 4!^ years ago. Meanwhile our industrial relations climate continues to be stable. These are conditions necessary for attracting the very investors we must have If we are to Improve on the Impressive record of providing 25,000 jobs in five years. It Is our aim to do so.

The purpose of this Manifesto is to chart a course for the consolidation of those gains and to outline programmes and policies necessary for taking our country furtheralong the road of progress. We area party that has served you well. Wedeserve your support.

31 Below Is a list of some of our projects for the next five years:-

AgrlcultuFal Training College National Art Gallery Broiler and Egg Breeder Unit Transport Authority Bridgetown Fishing Harbour New Bus Terminal in Bridgetown Tent Bay Fishing Harbour Immigration Appeals Tribunal Capital Investment Fund for Fishermen CBC Radio Complex atWhitepark Tax Incentives to stimulate Agricultural Exports Graeme Hall Park Govenment Investment Trust for Small Businessmen Urban Renewal Projects at Roebuck Street, Nelson Street and New Taxation Regime for Petroleum Winning Operations Greenfield Family Court Special Tax Incentives for high Employment Businesses Supreme Court Complex Export Incentive Award Scheme New Magistrates Courts Provision of Ship Repair Services New Police Headquarters Marketing and Distribution Agency for Fish New Regional Police Training College Expansion of network of Natural Gas Distribution Barbados Development Bank Headquarters Incentives to encourage use of Solar Energy Asphalt Plant East Coast Wave Energy Scheme (feasibility study) Airport to Wildey, Wildey to Warrens, Warrens to Black Increased Old Age Pensions Rock Road National Pension Plan Sites for "roadside" garages Expansion of NIS into a full Social Security Scheme Sites and Services Project Voluntary Service Scheme Use of vacant lots with derelict buildings for public Increased Income Tax Allowances for Education purposes. Expanded Skills Training Project Increase in the number of Day Care Centres

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[Dcyp The families of Barbados, embraced and protected in "a better life for our people" in the hands of the Barbados Labour Party.

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