Barbados Labour Party | |
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| Leader | Mia Mottley MP |
| Chairperson | Reginald Farley |
| General Secretary | Jerome Walcott |
| Founder | Sir Grantley Adams |
| Founded | 31 March 1938 (As the Barbados Progressive League) |
| Headquarters | Grantley Adams House, 111 Roebuck Street, Bridgetown |
| Youth wing | League of Young Socialists |
| Ideology | Social democracy Republicanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Colours | Red and Gold |
| House of Assembly | 29 / 30 |
| Senate | 12 / 21 |
| Website | |
| www.blp.org.bb | |
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP), colloquially known as the "Bees", is a social democratic political party in Barbados established in 1938. It has been in power in 1954–1961, 1976–1986, 1994–2008, and 2018–present. The BLP has been the governing party of Barbados since 2018.
The current Party Leader is Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, SC,MP while the Chairman is Reginald Farley, FB and General-Secretary is Dr. Jerome Walcott, FB, FRCS. Santia Bradshaw, MP is Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business in The House of Assembly, The Parliament of Barbados.
Former party leaders include Sir Grantley Adams, Dr. Hugh Gordon Cummins, Sir Harold Bernard St. John, Tom Adams, Sir Henry Forde and Professor Owen Arthur, PC.
Like Barbados' other major party, the Democratic Labour Party or the "Dems", the BLP has been broadly described as a centre-left social-democratic party, with local politics being largely personality-driven and responsive to contemporary issues and the state of the economy. However, the party distinguishes itself by being rooted in Asquithian Liberal policies, including a focus on trade as a way of bolstering economic growth over the creation of social services.[1]
The BLP is a former observer member of the Socialist International.[2]
- ^ Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Vol. 44 (1998).
- ^ "Member Parties of the Socialist International". Archived from the original on 3 May 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2011.