Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart yesterday defended the stewardship of his ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) over the last five years and said he remained optimistic it would be returned to power in the May 24 general election.
“We are quite optimistic of our chances in this election, we have done our preparatory work and the team is working very hard on the ground doing house to house and other work necessary,” Stuart told reporters after he and other DLP members paid their 250 Barbados dollars deposit ahead of Nomination Day on Monday.
Stuart, who led the party to a 16-14 victory in the 2013 general election against the Barbados Labour Party (BLP), told reporters that unlike the opposition party, all the DLP candidates were prepared to contest the polls.
The BLP is led by attorney Mia Mottley, who could become the first woman there to head a government joining Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana, where in the past women had been elected to head the governments in those countries.
