U.D.P. Says All Efforts to Resolve Internal Issues were Exhausted

According to Cutkelvin, despite the firmly held position of others in the echelons of the United Democratic Party, all attempts were made to resolve the issue between Party Leader Shyne Barrow and the Alliance for Democracy via mediation.  That effort, nonetheless, also proved fruitless.

 

Delroy Cutkelvin, Cayo Zone Coordinator, U.D.P.

“When the central executive first met to consider this matter of this so-called breakaway group, there were some who came to that meeting with their minds made up that they were going to move swiftly to deal with this matter. There were others like myself, Diane, people like Lindsay Garbutt, people like Alberto August who said let us give an opportunity for a mediation process and there were some who said what if the mediation process yields no positive results?  And I was quick to say, we have to be positive and optimistic that it will yield positive results because we all love this party.”

 

Isani Cayetano

“But it didn’t, hence the reason…”

 

Delroy Cutkelvin

“But I am just making the point that the party leader, the chairman and others have exercised great restraint in making certain decisive moves in terms of addressing what is happening here.  So I am making the broader point that there is much democracy at work in the operations of the party because it was because of our insistence that we must give another opportunity to try to make this thing work.  It’s because of that that we ended up with a mediation process in the first place and no one can rule out the possibility that some kind of mediation can happen still.  I continue to maintain that the UDP has been through these kinds of tribulations and trials before and we have eventually worked it out.”