LISTEN TO ME, SIR! Little 18-month-old Empress Forde had the full attention of Prime Minister the Right Honourable Freundel Stuart right after his speech at the Democratic Labour Party’s Errol Barrow Memorial Church Service, which was held at the New Testament Church of God, Crab Hill, St. Lucy yesterday. Minister of Housing, Lands and Rural Development and St. Lucy MP, Denis Kellman (left), looks on.
“It would have been a good thing if all the tourists that Barbados depend on came from St. Lucy. We have to depend on them coming from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other parts of the Caribbean… Similarly, for our International Business and Financial Services sector, we also have to depend on what is going on in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada in particular if we are going to get the kind of business out of the North Atlantic, to build our national business and financial services sector,” he indicated.
The late Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, first Prime Minister of Barbados and National Hero would have celebrated his 97th birthday on January 21.
Stuart observed that even 30 years after his death, he is still the most quoted politician in Barbados.
“We memorialise him because of the great contribution which he has made to the development of Barbados – in our enrichment and to our education,” he expressed.
“He came not to see what he could get out of politics, but he came to see what he could give to it… We in the Democratic Labour Party have every reason to feel proud that he has been our leader and that he has contributed as much as he was able to contribute, using the Democratic Labour Party as his vehicle to the people of Barbados.”