Bridgetown.
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has started the process of filing a motion of no confidence in the Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler to have him removed from that office with immediate effect.
Opposition Leader Mia Mottley made the disclosure during a press conference at her office in Parliament Building.
Ms. Mottley said the people of Barbados are frustrated and tired of the excuses of Sinckler whom she says has failed in effectively managing the financial affairs of the country.
Flanked by a team of party members a determined Mottley said they will be urgently filing a no confidence motion with the Clerk of Parliament with the view of having Sinckler removed from that post in short order as the country cannot afford to have him in the that top job.
She Barbadians will be given a chance to have their say on this decision when the BLP holds a massive rally in Queen Park this Sunday called For Love of Country.
The Opposition Leader says the BLP is prepared to take the matter further if this exercise fails.
Ms. Mottley says Barbados' economy is in shambles with members of the international community distancing themselves from Barbados … A country she says that was proudly sought after in the recent past.
She says Minister Sinckler tried to downplay the economic situation facing Barbados with a by the way speech about why Barbados took its bonds off the international market blaming a US shut down.
But Ms. Mottley painted a different picture charging that the bonds were refused by buyers on the international market.
She says as poor as the Jamaican economy is, their bonds are seen on the international market as more profitable than Barbados' and she attributes this to the government's policies.
Ms. Mottley say government's focus appears to be misplaced with much attention being given to the issues involving the CCJ ruling on the Shanique Myrie case and the subject of the death penalty as opposed to the stability of households and businesses, and getting cash back into the hands of ordinary Barbadians.
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