One is forced to wonder about the process through which Government ministers have been selected by the last Barbados government. Just when it seems that they have struck rock bottom in coming up with ill-conceived, expensive, wasteful capital projects – mostly in cohort with known international crooks, we hear that their solution to the QEH problem is to build a new $700 million hospital. …and who advised them that this is a sensible solution? It seems that an English consulting firm of ‘experts’ assessed the situation, and came up with this brilliant solution.
Do these people think that we are all fools?
In the first place, I an sure that I saw an article recently in the newspapers where a BARBADIAN engineer, working in BARBADOS won a united nations award for outstanding work in structural engineering with special mention of his work in HOSPITAL DESIGN. We all know Tony Gibbs and his firm CEP, why were they not used to do at least a preliminary assessment? Are they to difficult to bribe? Do they know Barbados too well? Or do their local base and knowledge make it difficult to instruct them what the minister wants them to say?
In the second place, who in this country has enough confidence when these ministers quote figures like this? $700 million could easily end up at $2 billion without any kind of explanation (except from Mallet with teeth but no common sense) Only a complete fool would accept that it could be cheaper to build a brand new hospital than to bring the QEH up to scratch. Obviously that place’s first need is a competent management structure – beginning with at least a minister who has some degree of respect from the public and from the professionals at the QEH, and a management team that understands the complexities of modern management.
How will a new building solve problems of poor management and bad relations between staff management and Board?
This Cabinet has to be real brazen to come up with yet another multi-million dollar scam on the heels of the Oil Terminal, Greenland, the Prison, and Flyover etc, where we have not had a single answer to basic issues that call into question fundamental issues of bribery, graft and integrity. We see that they have placed the same idiots who destroyed the old prison to mash up the new one and so have not addressed the fundamental problem. Is the plan for the new Hospital? Solve the management problem first, and let the new competent management team decide on a sensible future for the institution – even if it does mean building a new complex.
It is easy to see why Mr. Arthur found himself barely able to feed his family before his ascent to power. If this is how he ran his personal business no wonder he was broke… ….and if we continues like this we can expect this country to find itself in that same condition sooner than later.
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