Democratic Labour Party candidate for St Philip West Dr David Estwick has raised alarm over the types of international agreements Government has signed on to which run counter to the traditional values of Barbados.
Estwick, a former cabinet member, was speaking at his party’s political meeting at Rices, St Philip, on Saturday night.
He also touched on other issues such as traffic congestion leading to Six Roads, St Philip, and making it a special development area, and the process in becoming a Barbadian vis-à-vis the controversy of having a digital identification card to vote.
“I want to tell you about an agreement that this Government has signed. An agreement that is an attempt to introduce European values in this country. This agreement is known as the Samoa Agreement. And in the Samoa Agreement … It mandates that Barbados is required to provide access to comprehensive sexual education and under article 80.3, Barbados is to advance LGBTQ ideology in concert with the principle of non-discrimination and human rights, are provided … autonomous sexual rights for your children, and provide sexual education for children,” he said.
Estwick said minors do not have the mental capacity to make decisions regarding their own sexuality and treatment.
“Regarding comprehensive sexual education, the Samoa Agreement proposes that between the age of zero and four years old, private schools in Barbados should introduce knowledge about masturbation… This is the time where your children should be taught the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. This is the time where your children should be taught about ethics and behaviour. This is the time where your children should be introduced to a computer so that they can use it for learning, and exposed to the basics of how that computer can help them develop themselves,” Estwick said.
He also spoke to a European Union agenda that is introducing values which are alien to Barbados.
“We don’t need parenting lessons from the European Union. And I said without reservation, that the state should not become the parent of our children. They went and signed an agreement that allowed the country to opt out of implementation. They refuse to implement the section that would have given them the right to opt out . . . . And I want every Barbadian to go and read up on this Samoa Agreement yourself,” Estwick said. (JS)
