Stop loitering and get down to some serious work!

Opposition parliamentarian Ronald Toppin, who represents St Michael North, made this appeal to the Government yesterday.

During the House of Assembly's continued debate of the Estimates
of Revenue and Expenditure for
2008-2009, the attorney charged that
the new Government had not been
doing any work.

"By now some work should have
been done by somebody on that side [Government benches], something, somewhere," he said.

One reflection of the lack of work,
he argued, was Government's failure
to bring bills to Parliament for debate and passing into law.

"It is important that the Government gets to work because there is no political party in the history of Barbados that has ever excited the expectations of the electorate more than the Democratic Labour Party in the last general
election, Sir," he told Deputy Speaker Kenneth Best.

"I want to urge them to stop loitering in the corridors of power, stop believing that doing tours here, there and everywhere equates to work, and get down to some serious business."

Toppin also took the David Thompson Government to task over proposals for the tourist sector.

He said a plan to spend $600 000 on the preparation of a tourism master plan amounted to "highway robbery".

Barbados already had a green paper on tourism with inputs from 116 people representing 73 local organisations, and this could be used as the basis of creating a master plan, he pointed out. (TY)