Prime Minister Dr the Right Honourable Keith Mitchell has extended congratulations to colleague Prime Minister, Barbados’ Mia Mottley who secured a second term in office with a landslide victory at the polls on Wednesday.
Having announced snap elections on 27 December 2021, Prime Minister Mottley’s Barbados Labour Party (BLP) secured all 30 seats in Wednesday’s vote.
Dr Mitchell congratulated the Barbadian leader saying, “The results represent an overwhelming vote of confidence in the BLP administration. The Barbadian electorate has essentially opted for continuation of the tremendous work that Sister Mia and her team have been doing. Yes, the times are difficult, with an unprecedented pandemic that just seems to go on and on, but there are many other important facets to leadership at this time, and the people are obviously of the opinion that the BLP has done a good job thus far. With the new mandate, the administration needs to continue fulfilling its promises to the people of Barbados, uniting the people of the country and managing the ongoing crisis.”
Prime Ministers Mitchell and Mottley have had a close friendship over the years and Dr Mitchell has pledged Grenada’s commitment to continuing the historic ties between the 2 countries.
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There is lot of things that our leaders has to embrace in order to get this lovely little island on the road to recovery.
One big suggestion as a resident is the number of large empty houses throughout the island.
Who ever wins the next election should introduce a new TAX for that purpose only and call it “Empty Property Tax” which will encourage some of the owners of such property to either sell or rent out these properties in order to avoid such large numbers being left unattended for such long periods.
I am not sure what category of tax they come under but any property that is left empty for more than 12 months should be liable to pay “Empty property tax” of a high figure in the region of 100% of the standard tax.
He should take a page out her book.