BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - SO PRIME Minister Freundel Stuart has finally announced the date for next month’s general election. And he did so with a ‘scoop’ (as we say in the media) by upstaging all and sundry, including real and pretentious political gurus, in naming February 21 as the day when Barbadians will trek to polling booths to elect a new government for the next five years.
Like him or not, as a political leader or Prime Minister, let’s admit that for all the grilling and verbal pummelling to which he has been subjected since the final quarter of 2012 in particular, Stuart eventually did it his way, in his own time and without committing any political crime or violation of the Barbados Constitution.
Making politics over a few weeks delay in announcing the election date is all part of the game at this very special season when voters across the political divide are being bombarded by parties and politicians – via the media and otherwise – to get ready for a new administration.