By Ezra Alleyne The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) celebrates a birthday on Tuesday, April 27. That party, which was led by Errol Barrow for its first 20 years, today has no seats in Parliament and is being led by Verla DePeiza. The Barbados Labour Party (BLP), led by Mia Amor Mottley, won all 30 seats in the Parliament. Why? Any serious analysis of the state of the DLP must examine what took place on July 1, 1987. That was the day Errol Barrow died and Erskine Sandiford became Prime Minister. On that fateful day, the seeds of the destruction of the DLP were almost certainly laid. I was so concerned about the events of that day that I put my thoughts down in a series of three consecutive articles which appeared in the Nation.