GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - FINALLY, after keeping his political opponents and supporters guessing for at least the past three months, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, has announced February 21 as the date when Barbadians will trek to polling stations to elect a new government for the next five years. The long delay in announcing E-day had itself become a hot topic of discussions, engaging media commentators as well as strategists of Stuart’s incumbent Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and its primary challenger, the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) of former three-term Prime Minister, Owen Arthur. Barbados’ election will take place two days after, February 19, in Grenada, where Prime Minister Tilman Thomas’ National Democratic Congress (NDC) is facing a major challenge to avoid being a one-term government. Both the DLP and NDC came to power within six months of each other in 2008, when the respective incumbents in Barbados and Grenada suffered massive parliamentary defeats after controlling state power for three consecutive five-year terms. Now, Prime Minister Stuart and his Grenadian counterpart, Thomas, are bravely struggling against predictions from pollsters and political pundits that they could both end up as having led one-term administrations.
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