We are just days away from the Democratic Labour Party’s 66th Annual Conference to be held on Saturday at the George Street Auditorium.The pivotal issue to the party will be the choice of a president to guide its affairs as the party prepares for the next general election.There is no denying the DLP, like its main political foe, the governing Barbados Labour Party, has a rich history. The DLP, which was formed in 1955 by a breakaway faction of Labour’s angry young men, has contributed significantly to the development of Barbados from a colony to a sovereign state, just as has its older rival, our Grand Old Party. Both institutions have suffered great political victories and some particularly devastating losses – the BLP in 1986 with a losing margin of 24-3 and the DLP in 1999, 26 to 2.
