Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, during her contribution to the parliamentary debate on the Integrity in Public Life Bill, urged people who may have been involved in wrongdoing or corrupt activities to come forward and receive immunity in the eventuality of the axe falling on those who her government finds wanting in relation to their management and abuse of the public purse.While corruption was not a big theme in the May 24, 2018, general election, when Mottley’s Barbados Labour Party (BLP) won all 30 seats over the then incumbent Democratic Labour Party (DLP), issues such as incompetence, cosy dealings with certain investors and waste in public funds that led to certain issues to overflow into the public domain were front and centre.
During the election, the water and sewage crisis in Barbados in early 2018, where sewage and wastewater was bubbling up into the main city square and backing up into the water table and water supply, created a stir as the then DLP government was caught off guard by the issues that created the problem.
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