March 3, 2021
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) could “disintegrate into oblivion” amid the resignation of several high-profile members, unless DLP leader Verla DePeiza steps down, a former parliamentarian Hamilton Lashley suggested Tuesday.
With at least five members quitting the party so far this year, the general membership should now be asking DePeiza to give up the presidency, particularly since the next general elections could be called any day now, he suggested. The next poll is constitutionally due in 2023.
He told
Barbados TODAY: “Being what it is, there is an urgent need within the Democratic Labour Party for consultation, for mitigation, to really look at the situation as it is. The situation is urgent and it is one that begs for serious attention because you cannot let one of the leading political institutions in the region disintegrate into oblivion. And if the members of the Democratic Labour Party are serious, then they would call an emergency meeting to look at the situation that is facing the party.”