Trafalgar Village, January 12, 2010 (Labour Secretariat) - Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas reconfirmed the Labour Party’s campaign theme, “Progress, Not Promises” at a massive public meeting in Trafalgar Village on Monday.
“We have not just made promises, but we have created real progress,” he said.
Dr. Douglas said that “promises are a comfort to a fool” and that anyone can make promises but it takes people of integrity to keep their promises.
He urged his party’s supporters not to pay any attention to the “empty promises” of the People’s Action Movement (PAM) because their history precedes them.
“Look into the background of the one making promises,” Dr. Douglas told the crowd.
He said that the PAM’s history has been one of mass victimization in which they fired several Labour supporters when they were in office and deprived several persons and the entire Constituency #6 of housing and other amenities.
The people of this country only have to look at the development that has taken place in this country to determine which party is the party of progress, Dr. Douglas said.
“We have transformed this country. We are the agents of change,” he said. “We have moved our people from being indigent to the working class”.
He said that poverty had been slashed from 11 percent to one percent and that businesses have shown profits like never before since his administration took office 15 years ago.
“We (this government) are partners with the private sector. We are not competing with the private sector…We have created an entrepreneur class in this country,” Dr. Douglas said.
“We have increased the minimum wage to one that is competitive in the region. We have given out 7000 house lots and reduced the debt to GDP ratio,” he said.
He asked the thousands gathered not to flirt with the PAM but to reach out and invite others to join Labour, the party of “Progress, Not Promises”.
