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Social Share It appears it is not only the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) that is bleeding key membership of late, as the Joseph Atherley-led People’s Party for Democracy and Development (PdP) lost one of its high-ranking members with three more expected to go. After his defection was made public yesterday by DLP president Verla De Peiza, Paul Gibson, who served two years as the spokesperson on health for the PdP, confirmed that he had joined the “party of Errol Barrow”. The Weekend Nat...

First Alleyne, now Gibson swaps party allegiances Article by January 15, 2021 Less than 24 hours after the resignation of one of its own rising stars, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has embraced a former member of the People’s Party for Democracy and Development (PdP), Paul Gibson, into its fold. During a virtual meeting Thursday, DLP president Verla De Peiza announced that Gibson, a pharmacist who served as the PdP’s spokesman for health, joined the party “sometime...

"Ridiculous" is how Opposition leader, Joseph Atherley described Government's announcement that they will be offering paid return trips to visitors on Saturday. 

January 6, 2021 The Mia Mottley-led administration is being accused of playing “Russian Roulette” with the lives of Barbadians. It has come from Opposition Leader Reverend Joseph Atherley, who has condemned Government’s decision to keep the island’s borders open to visitors from the UK and other high-risked countries despite an upsurge in the number of local COVID-19 cases. Yesterday, during a live televised COVID-19 update, Mottley said a shutdown of the country’s borders o...