A victorious Mia Mottley after last night’s parliamentary vote is congratulated by supporters. (Picture by Nigel Browne)

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BLP Votes : 10/28/2009
Mia has some good leadership qualities. However, Leadership of a people and a country requires more than just education, smarts and assertiveness. Add a few more qualites, i.e. statemanship, integrity, reputation and to be a good example to others, to name a few. Unfortunately, I am unable to say to my daughter, "follow Ms. Mottley's example". I would also have a hard time saying to my son, "follow Mr. Arthur's example". Awaiting the arrival of the "new leader".

Watchdog

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Mia as Leader : 10/28/2009
My advice yo Owen is to throw his full support behind Mia. He has made his contribution and he can help her to make hers. He would like like a statesman and not a minion.

BLP supporter

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: 10/27/2009
As we continue to quarrel about who should lead the opposition, we are living in an era where the cost of living is increasing exponentially, workers are being sent home or laid off and the average household is struggling to pay their bills. We (as I voted for them too)the people elected a goverment which clearly has no type of solutions in sight and is using some of the best slight of hand and misdirection I have ever seen by a party and its pollster. Barbados wake up. What was job no.1,2,3,4?

APB

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CONCERN : 10/27/2009
Well we came and found the mess, all we could do is to help sort it out. The mess was there for 14 years

MPW

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COCKY ROCK : 10/27/2009
I think that u are talking bare nonsense, if u dont have anything sensible to say, SHUT YA MOUTH

MPW

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Queen Bee : 10/27/2009
I am amazed that a non national would have the nerve to say that Ms. Mottley is not good for the B.L.P. party leadership given her private life. Well in my opinion Ms Mottley is smart, well educated, conscientious when she has to be and assertive when she has to be, and she definately has gread leadership qualities. Whatever is in her private life has nothing to do with her her being a good party leader. I think that people need to address the real issues and see Ms Mottley as the wonderful human being she is. Maybe that non national should go back to where they were born and start their own party. Bajan looking out for a Bajan

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To COCKY ROCK : 10/27/2009
Are you really serious when you say that the Barbadian electorate is responsible for the current in fighting on the BLP? Well here's the Barbadian electorate solution: Keep David Thompson as Prime Minister and the BLP's leadership issues become irrelevant.

Part of the Barbadian Electorate

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No more rumors!! : 10/27/2009
I love Barbados and would never like to see it destroyed. "if you give a rumour a headstart, it's very difficult to catch up with it" Exactly and this society has been struggling to keep up with too many rumors about this leader. It is time that the truth be told before we listen to any vision which includes the word "alternative". The people of Barbados deserves full disclosure not just disclosure of finances. She should vigorously quash or confirm some of these rumors. We think that is part of the deeper obligation to us as citizens. I ADMIRE THOSE WHO HAD THE MORAL FIBER TO DECENT WHETHER IT WAS ONE OR TWO AS RUMORED. EXACTLY SHE MIGHT BE GOOD TO LEAD THAT GROUP BUT DEFINITELY NOT THIS NATION. EXACTLY ALL SHE IS FESTERING ARE RUMORS and more rumors ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THE UNWISE ARE BUYING INTO IT. Wake up people (Micah 2:1-3).

foreverbajan

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QUEEN BEE : 10/27/2009
What is this? Seems this former leader want to lead from the side lines. he treated the other party or the people of Barbados with the same disdain when he refused to join heads on battling the early stages of this recession. now this on Mia's leadership SHAME.

LOSTBAJAN.

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Its not about MIA -Its about DAVID : 10/27/2009
In my opinion, the people of Barbados should be blamed for this problem .When I say people, I mean the electorate who in 2008 voted for the DLP. They took things for granted and risk voting for the DLP and now they are trying to retieve the situation. Some of the same business people who supported the DLP now want OWEN to come back because DAVID is not seen as a particularly strong leader. This realy is not about MIA, this is about DAVId who is seen as a weak Prime Minister.

COCKY ROCK

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Mottley : 10/27/2009
The bottom line is what can the BLP positively do for Barbados in the event they get back in office. If that turn out to be the case, then the better person need to be at the head. Also what are the DLP currently doing and what are they planning on doing in the future. Barbados have too many issues on the table to allow talkers and not doers to be in office.

Concern

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Leading the BLP : 10/27/2009
The entire BLP does not have to vote on her leadership, maybe that is required of the DLP's constitution, but it is not required of ours. Just case David did it does not mean that Mia has to do it, they are in two different parties.

Raquel Gilkes

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BLP : 10/27/2009
I also like the BLP and also hold the view that Ms Mottley isn't good for the party leadership. Wish Owen would come back.

BLP supporter

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Get real : 10/27/2009
Why are we so caught up with how people live their private lives? i think that the question should be if she is able to lead the BLP and the country if the opportunity arises. We must look past the backstabbing and the spreading of rumors. If you are without sin, cast the first stone.

EYDEA

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: 10/27/2009
what does Ms Mottley's private life have to do with her ability to lead the BLP or Barbados if the electorate chooses her. A better question would be why the choice of party leader during a time of crisis be made only by the elite of the party behind closed doors and not by the membership of the organisation who are expected to fall in line and support a leader whose position they may not endorse. This is what almost caused the DLP to implode in the late 90s and seems to be happening again. A word to the wise will suffice, the only meaningful mandate during periods of leadership transition are those which come from the entire membership of the party. Please learn from the past.

bajandoctor

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BLP LEADERSHIP CRISIS : 10/27/2009
The BLP leadership crisis continues and continues. Ms Mottley erred in that the vote should included Mr Arthur.In the change of leadership from Henry Forde to Owen Arthur, it was an unanimous decision ; George Payne will recall that he was not in support of Arthur succeeding Henry Forde. Mr Payne absented himself from the meeting but was commanded by the late Sir Harold St John to attend; Mr Payne arrived and was part of the unanimous decision to appoint Owen Arthur to succeed Heny Forde. Going forward with weakness continues the crisis, the lack of the full nine(9)MPs and the presence of only 30 party supporters( coming from St Michael North and St Michael Central) in the courtyard, Ms Mottley is not enough but speaks volumes of bigger problems.Change your political advisors , broaden your base beyond the MPs, visit the diaspora.

BLP at HEART

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To LS4CC : 10/27/2009
WELL SAID, I need not add anymore except to say that our focus should be on the important current issues facing this country and the world.

plain talking

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: 10/27/2009
I like the BLP, but i don't think Ms Mottley is good for the party leadership, given her private life. Isn't there anyone else who can lead, other than her or Mr. Arthur?

non-national

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: 10/27/2009
I am neither B,C or D so I do not have any political axe to grind. Why has it now been considered such a big issue about who leads the Barbados Labour Party. Do I sense that people are trying to turn the spot light away from the Government. In these dificult economic time surely peoples' priorities should be focussed elsewhere on the cost of living,The economy, the Zr culture,education, the St John Poly clinic, unemployment etc. People should not be so sidetracked. What does it matter right now who leads the BLP. Is the discussion meant to divert away from the real issues facing the country. In my view who leads the BLP is not a key issue right now.

LS4CC

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Absence Noted : 10/27/2009
Arthur's glaring absence is noted and he has all but tarnished his legacy among BLP supporters in his ungraceful attempt to disregard the values and qualities he valued when he himself was leader of a young but faithful Barbados Labour Party. It is understandable that people are hesitant to change but change is constant and if managed properly Arthur's legacy would have surely been different as the elder statesman of the party. I guess he now knows how Simmons, Forde, Cheltenham, St. John et al felt when they assumed a lesser role after 1994 under his young leadership. It would be no great surprise if he held a press conference and announced his resignation from Parliament. Kudos to Ms Mottley for laying her political career on the line before her party and their supporters, the people of Barbados and more importantly the DLP who seem to have been more focused on this issue than preserving the prosperity and lifestyle of Barbados and Bajans. Well done Mia, well done...

A Believer In Loyalty

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: 10/27/2009
And Mia Mottley strikes again, give it a rest Mia, what are you trying to achieve here? Mr.Arthur is doing the dog in St.Peter. You don't even trust yourself, you are giving him all the amunition to take you down. Get back in your office and continue your opposing, that's what you do best. 246

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: 10/27/2009
Lets do the maths here; 6-2 voted for Mia (including herself) with Owen glaringly absent. Had he been there the vote well may have been 6-3. Importantly there are 2 from the 7 who have no confidence in Mia. Arthur is smart that's why he was absent he is like a clever jockey and will make his move for leadership within 18 months before elections and he will get the support of those who votEd for Mia this toss.

ME AGAIN

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Much Ado about nothing. : 10/27/2009
Just a show to try and stop public debate, but with Arthur's absence, the more things change the more they remain the same. sweeping away all doubt? yeah right. Bahhhh humbug.

AOG

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: 10/27/2009
This story contradicts itself. On one hand, it says Miss Mottley "swept away all doubts about her leadership" but on another, it notes that Owen Arthur was "glaringly absent" from the vote. The problems will continue. Miss Mottley's problems are at the mass level of the party. If so many people did not have about her leadership, then why would there be moves at the level of certain constituencies to bring back Mr. Arthur. This was just one big bluff by Mia Mottley, a public relations stunt. If she wants to be the maximum leader of the BLP, instead of being in the lameduck position that she is, she should ask the entire membership of the BLP to vote on her leadership. Didn't the DLP do this in 2005 when David Thompson emerged as the overwhelming choice? The BLP needs to recognize that Barbadians are clever in their observations and analyses of things. They are not stupid as the BLP seems to believe they are.

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