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OUR PLEDGE
TO OUR
PEOPLE WITH
DISABILITIES
It is the duty of all of us, Government,
employers, teachers, and members of
civil society to provide a supportive
environment in which People with
Disabilities (PWD) are fully empowered
to live, learn, work and recreate, and to
achieve their full potential in dignity and
without discrimination.
Technological advances and best practice
recommendations
made
by
PWDs
and their local advocates have greatly
increased our capacity to integrate PWDs
fully into Barbadian society - whether in
our schools, our workplaces, our places of
worship or our leisure settings.
We recognizes that the caregivers of the
PWDs invariably need financial support
or occasional assistance as much care for
PWDs is oftenunpaidwithwomenbearing
a disproportionate burden. Consequently,
we will ensure that Government works
with a revitalized and renewed civil
society and the Church to ensure that
Respite Care is available in Barbados to
meet this critical need. We will examine
how the Government and the society can
best support PWDs and their caregivers.
The Barbados Labour Party pledges
to use these recommendations and
advances to maximum effect in devising
and implementing comprehensive and
sensitivepolicies insupportofPWDsandto
involve PWDs in shaping, implementation
and evaluation of such policies.
OUR PLEDGE
TO OUR SENIOR
CITIZENS
Barbados is an ageing society. Senior
Citizens make up a sizeable and growing
percentageofour totalpopulation.Today’s
generation of retirees has no intention
of withdrawing to their armchairs. On
average they are living longer, more
productive and more active lives in their
golden years. The phenomenon of grey
power is clearly an important force to be
reckoned with in shaping our national
policies for the present and the future.
The Barbados Labour Party honours
the dedicated and patriotic service that
generations of our elders have rendered in
thebuildingof our nation.We cherish their
presence among us, and greatly respect
the wise counsel of their experience.
