Paid and Ready to Contest: DLP candidate for St. Michael West Central, James Paul; Christopher Sinckler, candidate for St. Michael North West; Michael Carrington, candidate for St. Michael West; Steve Blackett, candidate for St. Michael Central; and Patrick Todd, candidate for St. Michael North East, after each paid their $250 deposits to the Treasury at the National Housing Corporation (NHC) yesterday morning.
Finance Minister Christopher Sinckler does not see the Central Bank’s review of Barbados’ economic performance in the first quarter of 2018 impacting the Democratic Labour Party’s chances for re-election.
On Wednesday, Governor Cleviston Haynes said that the outlook for the Barbadian economy remains challenging.
However, Sinckler, the DLP candidate for St. Michael North West who sought to explain aspects of that report, said that he is confident that Barbadians will make the right choice come May 24.
“We have the best candidates, so there is no other choice. We know that we have a lot of work to do and we will get right back to it the day after.”
Sinckler was speaking to reporters after paying his $250 deposit to the Treasury at the National Housing Corporation (NHC) Headquarters yesterday morning, alongside candidate for St. Michael North East, Patrick Todd; Steve Blackett, candidate for St. Michael Central; Michael Carrington, candidate for St. Michael West; and James Paul, candidate of St. Michael West Central.
He said that the entire team is ready and raring to go, and that their campaign is going according to plan.
“In 2013 we had a very measured, controlled and disciplined campaign and the same will be the case on this occasion.”
“All of our candidates have been out canvassing and the responses have been in some instances overwhelming; people have been very engaging. If they have issues they raise them, but they do not allow those issues to obfuscate from them the fact that the Democratic Labour Party has done its absolute best in the circumstances as difficult as they have been. And has been able to produce and protect Barbados and to keep Barbados as strong as we have known it to be and as is possible in these circumstances,” Sinckler stressed.
“We are proud of our achievements as a country, proud of our people as citizens of the country and we believe that together this journey that we took in 2008 will continue.”