Issues & Ideas – Of gates and mergers
by Ezra Alleyne
Although Barbados has gated communities within its boundaries, the island itself is not a gated community, nor is it surrounded by a paling or any kind of fence. It is a small open economy, which is affected by the twists and turns of regional and international economic turbulence…
But is this really relevant to Barbados, some may ask, and my answer is yes. I adopt the words and reasoning of the new British Minister of Finance, on mergers and take-overs as reported in the London Times. The minister argues that “the British economy has benefited greatly from inward investment”. That is also very true of Barbados. Where would we be without Sandy Lane and other major tourism developments?
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The BU household went into a tail spin when we read the article quoted above written by Ezra Alleyne in the today’s Nation. To be honest, it has created a bitter taste in our mouths after being doped by the euphoria of achieving one of yesterday’s top post at WordPress with the piece on Roy Morris.
An achievement if we can say so considering that WordPress hosts 1.2 million blogs!
This guy continues to miss the point deliberately or otherwise, when making his opinions known on the current BS&T merger and on M&A’s in general as it relates to Barbados. I would be a fool to deny that Barbados as a country with currently no natural resources MUST pursue a policy of attracting foreign investment. BU and others might debate how the government is approaching the task but would agree that Barbados must continue to engender a receptive climate to foreign investment. However, to zoom in on the article of Mr. Ezra Alleyne, he and other commentators who should know better continue to discuss the BS&T merger with Neal & Massy, or Ansa MCal as a single transaction, divorce from the other activities also taking place in the market. The overall impact of the aggressive aquisition of T&T companies and the effect of violating the independence and sovereignty of our once proud nation has been relegated to discussion by ordinary citizens and the blogs.
The millions spent on education in Barbados, has it gone to waste?
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It continues to amaze BU that a man who showed so much promise continues his free fall from the heights he briefly attained under a Tom Adams government. We remember the guy attracting the reputation as a top corporate lawyer in Barbados. Nowadays, his new found fiefdom is to hide behind his column in the Nation Newspaper and spout the hurtful filth __mainly directed at Hartley Henry and Reudon Eversley__which we are sure not even the BLP yard fowls read. What has gone wrong with Mr. Alleyne? His failure to correct his current flight pattern which has gone haywire must be accepted by all Barbadians as an indictment on our society. What is so dysfunctional in our society that a man of Mr. Alleyne’s talent, which he flashed ever so briefly when he was Deputy Speaker at a very tender age, could have gone so embarrassingly wrong? It is a travesty of justice that our country cannot impose some punitive measure on Mr. Alleyne for betraying our educational system to the degree in which he has. If we did not know better we would say that his misguided state of mind is triggered by some hallucinogenic experience.
Yes BU readers we are pissed!
It indeed distresses us to have to not only read but listen to the hurtful and asinine diatribe and writings which Mr. Alleyne’s continues to spout with gusto on our once pristine landscape. Why has he sold his talent for thirty pieces of silver? His spineless retreat to engaging in party rhetoric, and spouting innuendo and liberal use of hyperbole is the cause of nausea among many in our population. BU ask Mr. Alleyne to read carefully our perspectives and those of others on BU on the BS&T mess and feedback your thoughts in a deliberate and dispassionate manner. We know that it will require great fortitude on your part to do so but we have confidence in you to deliver. Common sense and the education which our hard earned tax dollars provided cannot just have vanished from your brain!
Mr.Alleyne we look forward to hearing from you although like your colleagues Senator Eastmond and Mr. Duguid, you may find the cut and thrust of the blogosphere a little too “out of your league”. We also know that you read BFP and BU. We can detect it ever so faintly in some of your snide assertions!
BU readers, please forgive us if you find our attack on Mr. Alleyne in poor taste. We do respect his right to be affiliated with the party of his choice BUT that belief does not mean we will accept the many spurious positions he has in recent years embraced as his very own. His retreat to become an authority in Constitutional matters has now become irrelevant in a Caribbean looking to build its own brand. Which reminds us that we are still to get a Referendum on whether we should go Republic or not.
So Mr. Alleyne time to make a resolution!
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