De Peiza: DLP to take fresh approach moving forward

President of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Verla De Peiza says going forward the party will be taking a fresh approach.

She told this to the congregation of the Bethel Methodist Church on Sunday where members of the DLP joined as part of their Independence celebrations to mark Barbados’ 54th anniversary.

De Peiza further told the gathering the DLP views the period presently being faced not only “as a period of hardship, that is in the moment, but what we really do feel that this is a time that Barbados is ripe for change.”

“We are at a point when we can sit and think very clearly about where we want to be, how we want our country to perform on our behalf and we must not lose that opportunity of a crisis because crisis really is an opportunity to try something different, to do it another way and that is the focus of the Democratic Labour Party going forward that we are looking for other ways of doing things besides what we were accustomed doing.”

She invited persons to join the DLP on this journey. She urged, “please feel free to liaise with us. We will tap into you as well and we always have that same objective of serving people and that is what makes it so much easier for us to connect when we come to church because we have that shared purpose of making people’s lives that much better and that much easier.”

The DLP President also used her remarks to note that the DLP remains grounded in Christian principles. She additionally highlighted the church’s role in nation building. She stated every opportunity the party gets, it goes “to the church and we not just make our presence felt but we form bonds, we make associations, because it does help us when we are crafting our policy and that when we are speaking to people that we have that touch, that we have had that conversation with the different societal agencies, including the church.”(MG)