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Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Manifesto 2008

Tonight at Passage Road the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) launched their 56 page Manifesto 2008, Pathways to Progress.

Irene Sandiford-Garner speaks on the lack of governance and financial accountability. See some notes jotted while various speakers spoke:

Irene Sandiford-Garner

Governance and Financial Accountability

  • EDUTEC – $400 million
  • GEMS – $300 million
  • Highway Project – $200 million
  • Publications of agreement by government
  • Adhere to ruled regarding parliamentary questions
  • Press Briefings
  • Constituency Offices to manage $100,000 stipends to manage
    miscellaneous affairs to decentralize government
  • Integrity Legislation – declaration of assets by all parliamentarians
  • Rationalize powers of the Prime Minister
  • Vote on limiting prime Minister to two terms if elected

Haynesly Benn reports as the man selected to slay Owen Arthur in St. Peter

Haynesly Benn

  • Prime Minister Owen Arthur canvassing harder than in previous years according to Benn
  • Reports of fights between BLPites over the co-leader statement made by Arthur with chairs being thrown around
  • Land ownership is too important to leave to market forces: DLP will implement a policy to provide 500 lots in 5 months for first time homeowners. Other lots will be provided to other would be homeowners. Removal of VAT from houses value up to $400,000
  • Abolishment of user fees for Barbadian patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  • Implement Rescue QEH Plan
    • Increase trained personnel
    • Construction of new Accident and Emergency wing
    • Expand Asthma Bay
    • Upgrade Geriatric Hospital
    • 24 hour opening of selected Polyclinics

Reform of Educational System

  • Convene a forum to discuss relevance of current education system
  • Review school age
  • Co-education
  • Teacher recruitment
  • Use of school property, should not be closed at 3 PM
  • School Security
  • Expand textbook loan scheme for primary school students
  • Include family life, civics, sport, art on the school curriculum
  • Facilitate slow learners
  • Raise school leaving age to 18 years
  • Subsidize amenities fee at UWI
  • Resources available for counseling to improve families and delinquent parents

Employment Related Policies

  • Reopening of Services Commission
  • Create environment for self-employment
  • Policy to manage immigration
  • Increase investment in training of the workforce
  • Assist entrepreneurs with research and marketing
  • Reserve government work for small enterprises

Chris Sinckler Chris Sinckler, the MC for the night assured Barbadians that no one Minister will be able to change water zones and similar decisions. DLP will encourage competition in the distribution sector to drive down prices; re-examine tariff regulating all goods entering Barbados. Selected price controls to implement on a basket of goods.

Financial Policies Delivered by David Estwick

David Estwick

  • Restore balance and prudence to monetary and fiscal policy
  • Slow down the approach to Capital Account liberalization

Spoke at length about current ‘spending spree’ on government projects given the increasing National Debt over 2 billion. Tourism Development exhausted. DLP will roll-out proposals to transform the economy to generate other avenues for foreign exchange.

The notes are not exhaustive and BU visitors can feel free to fill the gaps.

 

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196 responses to “Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Manifesto 2008”

  1. Talking Straight Avatar
    Talking Straight

    Too totally different scenarios Hammie’s move was people oriented. Mascoll’s was self oriented big big difference.

    When Hammie cross the floor everyone in Barbados knew he did that to help the people of his constituency.

    And that is not just my opinion, look at all the benefits that went to pinelands creative workshop and all the other community resources in his constituency.

    When Mascoll cross it is plain that he did it for him self no one else benefit. If I am wrong show me the evidence in his constituency. And don’t mention paving the road that is not a benefit, it has to be done regardless only his was done as an election gimmick.

    So Hammie got the vote after because the people benefit. Mascoll on the other hand will lose his seat the people know that his was for himself.

    It is also time that BLP supporters apologize to us for the hardship that your party force on the people of Barbados.

    And stop talking about David this and David that, David is the man to run this country and we going with him if the BLP pimps don’t like it to bad

    I saying it again we voting out the BLP on January 15, 2008

  2. Wishing in Vain Avatar
    Wishing in Vain

    I am now hearing the the son of a maid that I know who happens to live in mottley’s area was moments ago handed and envelope which contained $ 200.00 to buy his vote for election, much to her regret the family that she attempted to buy is a loyal and faithful DLP supporter and the young man has taken the money and has vowed not to let the money steal his freedom and his rights.

    No wonder the blp feel that they can treat the citizens with distain and abuse them as they do, because according to the Brand Name specialist Noeless Blarney Lynch when he states that 10 % of the electorate votes are buyable, and we have HALLAM NICHOLLS who has stolen with the help of Arthur when he can state that he stopped counting his personal wealth at US $ 25 MILLION but he has vowed to buy the blp an election win, and to this extent he is willing to spend $ 2 million to remove two DLP candidates, take the money my friends and tell him thanks for giving back to you what HE HAS STOLEN FROM YOU FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS, he has stolen many millions of your tax payers funds get it back in any form and any fashion that you can it back in.

  3. Roger Rabbitt Avatar
    Roger Rabbitt

    Young Dappa
    It is clear that you have your head where your backside should be.
    Let’s get real here. NOBODY “unfair” Turncoat Clydie. I am registered to vote in North West and Mascoll NEVER EVER explained to the ppl of NW that he got “unfair”. All this talk came out LONG AFTER he defected. At the time he joined the BLP I was still a supporter (not a member) of the BLP. He did that out of greed. Pure and simple. I did not like it and together with other things, it caused me to change my mind from ever supporting the Bees again. It was Mascoll’s intention to destroy the very party of which he was the leader. Can you imagine that?
    He had this long held dislike for David Thompson and he used to tell all and sundry about it.
    I feel sorry for ppl like you who are so blind that they are unable to see truth, so I would not expect anything different from the likes of you.
    BTW, you seem to be someone who has been commenting under a different name. It shows.

  4. Hardcore D. Avatar
    Hardcore D.

    We struggle for the last 15 years. Living paycheck to paycheck and members of the Owen Arthur administration banking millions of dollars in Cayman and everywhere else. Come January 15th we will say goodbye to all of them including Owen. His cousin Benn will give him a run for his money.

    He is so nervous I was told he is holding spot meetings in St. Peter something I understand he never did for all the time he was Prime Minister. Isnt this a sign of insecurity???

  5. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Roger Rabbitt
    Do you think that the BLP suggestion made twice on their platform tonight that Mascoll win defeat Mascoll by a large majority is correct?

  6. David Avatar
    David

    Looks like Thompson has decided the time is now.

    FOR THE PEOPLES SAKE OWEN MUST GO NOW!

    28 mins ago by dlpbarbados.

    IT’S THE DEMS’ turn to drop a political bombshell.

    The Opposition Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has cancelled all meetings tonight except its national rally at which leader David Thompson has promised to reveal “some of the ammunition I have in storage” and which he was planning to use during the aborted live debates in the lead-up to next Tuesday’s general election.

    Titled Campaign Eye-opener One, this meeting will be held at Haggatt Hall, St Michael, near the Emancipation [Bussa] Roundabout. “Some people in this country may not like what I will have to say, but in the public’s interest I believe I have got to say what I know,” Thompson declared.

    It was only last Saturday night that the Barbados Labour Party hinted of a bombshell at its Bridgetown meeting when it accused the DLP of wanting to take Barbados into bed with Taiwan instead of the People’s Republic of China.

    Thompson said yesterday he would use the opportunity of a single, national political rally to reveal “the latest and most stunning example of governmental mismanagement and squandermania”.

    While not giving further insights into the precise nature of tonight’s “bombshell”, the DLP leader said the revelations involved the reckless spending of hundreds of millions of hard-earned taxpayers dollars in a “highly suspicious and certainly non-transparent manner”.

    “Mr Arthur has said this election is about leadership and the economic management of this country,” Thompson said.

    “I want Barbadians from all walks of life and of all partisan political persuasions to come to Bussa Roundabout tonight and determine for themselves whether Owen Arthur and his BLP Government are deserving of another term, given the hard, cold facts that I will make public at that meeting tonight.”

    “The moment I said I wanted a debate on governance, the BLP retreated from the idea of debates. I suspect the Prime Minister feared that I might have been onto something and he did everything humanly possible to pre-empt disclosure.

    Red herring

    “Mr Arthur came with this red herring issue of Taiwanese involvement in this campaign to detract persons from examining the real charges that have been levelled against him, dating back to 2003. The time has come for me to give chapter and verse on that entire episode that again involved some very questionable financial transactions.

    “This election is not about China or Taiwan. I repeat for the umpteenth time that this Democratic Labour Party has not benefited in any way from a single contribution from either China or Taiwan. This election is about governance and the manner in which we want as a people to be governed. I gave notice during the Hardwood debate that I would have been calling names such as the late Johnnie Cochran in my wrap-up to that debate.

    “I do not know if that was the reason for the sudden curtailment of debate, but after tomorrow night (tonight), I expect that the voters of Barbados will be in a position to answer that question for themselves,” he concluded.

  7. Wishing in Vain Avatar
    Wishing in Vain

    Let me say thank you to the concerned citizens of Barbados for wanting change and being prepared to stand up and be counted for that change.

    Even more remarkable is the fact that in 2 days of operationthe website has taken 65,000 hits this is outstanding by anyones standard.
    Congrats to th DLP for the work that they have done in such a short time.

    NOT TO MENTION THOSE TOTALLY FANTASTIC PEOPLE NEWS NETWORK CLIPS THEY ARE FANTASTIC INDEED.

    PNN #1
    PNN #2
    PNN #3
    PNN #4
    PNN #5
    PNN #6

  8. Roger Rabbitt Avatar
    Roger Rabbitt

    Georgie Porgie // January 9, 2008 at 1:18 am

    Roger Rabbitt
    Do you think that the BLP suggestion made twice on their platform tonight that Mascoll win defeat Mascoll by a large majority is correct?
    ……………………………………………………………..
    GP
    Anyone can say anything. Mascoll cannot win any seat in NW unless it is won in a lying contest. I think that Mascoll knows he’s a loser.
    We are fed up with him. He had a spot meeting in Brandons last week and about 11 ppl were at the meeting. No lie.

  9. IT is well with my soul Avatar
    IT is well with my soul

    It is sad that Clyde Mascoll a talented and educated Barbadian is being insulted and cursed on the Political platform. Lets face it The Great Errol Barrow was a member of the BLP and broke ranks to form the DLP. Sir Richard Haynes was a member of the DLP and broke ranks to form the NDP. Mascoll is an asset to any Political Party and should be welcomed as he contributes to the Development of Barbados.The DLP made a grave error by pushing him out. But then I could never get over the behavior meted out to Branford Taitt an elder States man. the shouting “GO Home”

  10. Wishing in Vain Avatar
    Wishing in Vain

    I agree leave him let him be, let the residents maul him instead.

    When as a BLP candidate he cannot visit the homes of BLP voters I think that his goose is cooked!!!

  11. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WIV
    Can you suggest why it is that even as a BLP candidate that Mascoll cannot visit the homes of BLP voters?

    Like you, I have enjoyed the PNN clips. To see Doug Hoyte in action again is a pleasure. Perhaps our best newscaster on CBC ever.

    Although the has taken 65,000 hits. I miss the old site man, where I could listen to the speeches.
    The speeches are slow in coming on the new site.
    I know nothing is perfect but still.
    I hope we get the meeting to night.

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  13. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    I just come from the massive crowd at the DLP meeting. I have two comments to make about the the organisation for the meeting. Firstly, Ronald jones abuse the theory of being a MC. He talk and preach and use up the time where other speakers could have been given an opportunity to speak. Secondly, the headliner do not come in the middle of any meeting. Why whould David speak before Morris, Alleyne and Sinckler. That was a fundamental error and the chairman of this meeting should be fired.

    Now on to the meat of the meeting. David Thompson took the Barbadian public for a long ride and now wait to make his first speech on the highway. Questions should have been asked from 2005 in relationship of the mis-conceived highway, I challenged anyone regarding my prior statements of costing, financing, contractor selections, Environmental and Impact Studies and various obstacles with this highway project. Mr. Thompson refuse to address this financial burden on taxpayers, he refuse to discuss the “BOLT” arrangement and its rape on the economy for the next 25 years. Now all of a sudden, David now have mouth after two years of Barbadian engineers and private citizens shouting morning, noon and night about the astronomical costing. This is too late in coming. With the CCB issue, he did confirm the election monies paid to the BLP and the PM. What he did no tell us, is the amount paid to him since he admit that both political parties usually receive campaign money.

    His excitement pertaining to corruption was simply lukewarm based on the advanced hype.

    Again, the crowd was massive but not all were responsive.

  14. Guava Jelly Avatar
    Guava Jelly

    In true Frankology fashion. Sad.

  15. Talking Straight Avatar
    Talking Straight

    frankology

    I just come from the massive crowd at the DLP meeting. I have two comments to make about the the organisation for the meeting. Firstly, Ronald jones abuse the theory of being a MC. He talk and preach and use up the time where other speakers could have been given an opportunity to speak. Secondly, the headliner do not come in the middle of any meeting. Why whould David speak before Morris, Alleyne and Sinckler. That was a fundamental error and the chairman of this meeting should be fired.

    ========================

    Frankology are you out making sport or what? After seeing last night that these people that run this beautiful island of OURS are a bunch of gangsters you telling us that the chairman should be fired.

    You really come here with that, after what was presented last night we should be discussing how much time the PM and his gang should get in the new Dodds prison.

    Your Prime Minister and his crooked friends Screwing we gine and coming and you talking about “David Thompson took the Barbadian public for a long ride”.

    If Mr. Thompson had discussed this earlier would it make a difference to you?

    Barbadians were not waiting for Thompson to drop a bomb to make a decision. We already decided to vote out the gangsters a long time ago.

    I saying it again we voting out all of them on January 15th

  16. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    Why don’t all of you with partisan ideas deal with the issues I am raising and stop the erratic response. I was merely stating that Ronald Jones as the MC, over talk during his introductions and that is a fact. I was with a host of DLP supporters who brought it up. Secondly, I mentioned the people who attended the Carlisle meeting were not all BLP supporters. Why didn’t you object to that statement or you only object when I speak about the DLP. Let’s be fair.

  17. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    Your Prime Minister and his crooked friends Screwing we gine and coming and you talking about “David Thompson took the Barbadian public for a long ride”.
    …………………………………………………………………….
    When I say he took us for a ride. I am speaking of the whole over-run talk was in the public domain since 2006 and Mr. Thompson now speaking about it. This is his first in depth speech about this highway. That is a fact….deal with it.

  18. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Maybe David Thompson had the cheque to Owen Arthur, the cheques to the ‘friends of Parish, cheque to the BLP, the ones written all on the same day. But now is a great time and a political coup for David Thompson to have brought them out.

    Now the general public has proof that he got paid for “something”, or to do ‘something’ by CCB that wasn’t part of the political campaign.

    All what Thompson said in the Bussa speech about the cancellation of the debates, the need to stop corruption in Barbados is exactly what I have been thinking too. I did not go there. The first time I heard it was last night via the BU link. The media has not printed these things.

    I do not want to live in a corrupt society.
    I do NOT want to live in a corrupt society. David Thompson’s speech spoke to me. I do not want my CHILDREN to live in a corrupt society. The hundreds of millions of unconfirmed theft are what we will never be able to pin on the SRLs, the ‘Societies of Restricted Liability’ whose people pay almost no tax. What have we come to in Barbados? Where are we going? So much money to advertise that you cvannot even hear anything on radio. That’s how big the financial remuneration from these deals amount. That is OUR money.

    I have stated I do not wish to live in a corrupt country.

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  20. Talking Straight Avatar
    Talking Straight

    frankology

    This is his first in depth speech about this highway. That is a fact….deal with it.

    ==========================

    Maybe Mr. Thompson should have discussed the BOLT in 2006 but what difference would it have made?

    Politics like everything else is about timing. I really believe that this is the perfect time to deal with it. As they say Barbadians have short memories.

    Now that Mr. Thompson has highlighted it in such a detail manner we the ELECTORATE can definitely do something about it on January 15th.

  21. Straight talk Avatar
    Straight talk

    Frank:

    “I am speaking of the whole over-run talk was in the public domain since 2006 ”

    Name your source, or be hoist by your own petard.

  22. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    Maybe Mr. Thompson should have discussed the BOLT in 2006 but what difference would it have made?
    ……………………………………………………………………..
    Do you know the role of an opposition party? The role is to alert wrong immediately, not wait till the house done burn and then call the fire service. So it is nonsense you saying that it tactical based on timing to wait two years while the country suffers.

  23. Straight talk Avatar
    Straight talk

    Are you being less than Frank?

    Where are the facts to back up your 2006 statement , or are you getting desperate as your persecution complex is shattered by the spotlight of truth.

  24. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    Straight talk, read the blogs, just type in Highway in the top right search engine., go to the Nation site and type in Highway and you will see hundreds of info from 2005, ask your DLP friends and you will be told the words, ‘it is timing’ and “the elections matters most”.

  25. Straight talk Avatar
    Straight talk

    Name one, Yardfowl.

    Give me the source.

  26. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    Straight talk let me help you with this issue. Type in Central Bank of Barbados Bolt report and you will get pertinent information. You can also log into the Broad Street Journal and Patrick Hoyos have information on the Bolt arrangement. And if you don’t know what is a BOLT arrangement, type in “bolt arrangement” on Google site and you will get all the information needed. If you have problems, have no fear. I will direct you.

  27. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    This is the way people like you and others deal with issues. You must engage in name calling, but I will not lower my intellect to your standard.

  28. Straight talk Avatar
    Straight talk

    Frankology:
    You seeker of the truth, you demander of accurate facts, you Doubting Thomas finger poker, where are you?

    To remind everyone; you were bringing to this board evidence that Highway cost over-runs were in the public domain in 2006.

  29. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    Home with my family watching Chris from your party on “My TV”. Now, where are you?

    From 2005, we were brandished with cost, in June 2006 we had the first increase before any work start, in 20o7 we heard another increase in the cost. All this time, this writer was enlightening the public, Where were you during those periods, where was David’s voice during those periods.

    If you don’t know about this issue, please research and get back to me.

  30. Straight talk Avatar
    Straight talk

    Less than Frank;

    June 2006 you heard about rising costs?

    From where?

    Give us the source or admit you were making it up.

  31. Straight talk Avatar
    Straight talk

    Frank:

    It’s tough at the top isn’t it?

    Having to justify every single thought which pops into your brain.

    Especially when you can’t.

    Your nemesis, Wishing In Vain, has the same single mindedness as yourself, but at least he comes up with regular nuggets of information.
    Unfortunately your attempts at detailed fact verification are so out of place on a blog as the flow gets stymied when no proof is readily at hand.

    Know what I mean?

  32. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    It was July 2006, one month different. Not as long as two years from David.

    Here’s the fact
    Date July 23, 2006
    Brief $20m overflow

    by Donna Sealy

    OPERATION FREE FLOW, Barbados’ Road Network Infrastructure Improvement Project, gets under way tomorrow at a cost of $140 million – $20 million more than the figure originally quoted.

    Road-widening work is set to begin at Th

    by DONNA SEALY

    OPERATION FREE FLOW, Barbados’ Road Network Infrastructure Improvement Project, gets under way tomorrow at a cost of $140 million – $20 million more than the figure originally quoted.

    At least I am able to back up my statements.

  33. Straight talk Avatar
    Straight talk

    Thanks for the info, Frank.

    Happy New Year

    Straight talk

  34. Talking Straight Avatar
    Talking Straight

    frankology

    Maybe Mr. Thompson should have discussed the BOLT in 2006 but what difference would it have made?
    ……………………………………………………………………..
    Do you know the role of an opposition party? The role is to alert wrong immediately, not wait till the house done burn and then call the fire service. So it is nonsense you saying that it tactical based on timing to wait two years while the country suffers.

    ——————————————

    I know the role of the opposition party but my question remains.

    What difference would it have made if Mr. Thompson had deal with it a year ago?

    Barbados was not ready to listen to the opposition, and my guess would be that you were not ready to listen at that time either.

    Actually I don’t think that you are ready to listen even at this late hour.
    So if you call the fire truck and they ignore the call the house would still burn down.

    Don’t get me wrong I believe that the DLP should have called a no confidence long before hardwood.

    One should have been call on OPERATION FREE FLOW but having said that I think at this stage you are just NICK PICKING.

    Now that the wrongs have been exposed you and all the other BLP supporters need to join with us and vote out the Barbados Labour Party and stop the suffering.

    We are tired of the spin the BLP and its leadership screw up. They had the opportunity to do what was right and they didn’t.

    So point out how the BLP let us down, not how Mr. Thompson let us down.

  35. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    Barbados was not ready to listen to the opposition, and my guess would be that you were not ready to listen at that time either.
    …………………………………………………………………….
    How can you say the people where not ready. Did he mention anything to the public?. The same way he spoke about Hardwood, he could have spoken about the Highway issue which to mind is more crucial to our economy.

    And please, I am not a member or supporter of the Bees or Dees.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    We endorse the strategy by Thompson now that we have seen how it has played out. The DLP used the Hardwood issue to whip-up a public frenzy of opinion in a way that the ABC would not have done. It was too complex and the average Barbadian would not have taken to it the way many did to Hardwood. Hardwood had several stories embedded in it which provoked much discussion. We can all see the unprecedented rise of the DLP as a credible alternative in the aftermath of the no-confidence matter. This was far removed from the truth only a short time ago. politics is not always about what is the intelligent thing to do it is what will work better to achieve the result. In the case of the DLP they had to find an issue which they could use to connect to a mass Barbadian public to offset the perception of a party which was not ready to lead .

  37. Straight talk Avatar
    Straight talk

    Frankology:

    As you claim to be non-partisan, what do you make of Mia’s explanation in yesterday’s Nation?

    “However, Mottley said: “The brief which I received . . . [had] a figure of $115 million in relation to the widening of the road. 3S [the contractor] was claiming $125 million for widening the road. But after a series of meetings, we came down to $117 million.

    “In relation to the second phase, is the construction of the fly-overs, which will not commence until later this year, and certainly not until we have settled the costs, we have started the process.

    “3S was claiming $145 million. The Ministry of Public Works’ estimate was $113 million and the variation was such that I would have asked, with the support of other Cabinet sub-committee members, an independent estimate be obtained in relation to the largest portion on the variation of the prices and that was on the commodity of pre-fabricated steel.”

    Especially its total contradidiction of Gline’s statement.

  38. Talking Straight Avatar
    Talking Straight

    frankology

    And please, I am not a member or supporter of the Bees or Dees.
    ————————————

    My apologies to you Frankology if you are not a member of either party.

    It just seem a bit strange that for some one sitting on the fence your arguments are a bit one sided.

    As David said in his post “politics is not always about what is the intelligent thing to do it is what will work better to achieve the result.”

    I endorse that once it is not a selfish position or illegal. I don’t think that Mr. Thompson’s strategy was a selfish one because I can see how this can pan out for the good of all Barbadians.

    I am also saying that the people were not ready to listen to the DLP base on what was being said on the ground and on the call in programs.

    It was stated on more than one occasion that many of Mr. Thompson’s strategies backfired on him.

    So I don’t see how anyone can blame him for playing a bit more circumspect this time around.

    Personally I think this shows that he has matured as a politician and as a leader and that argues well for Barbados.

  39. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    As David said in his post “politics is not always about what is the intelligent thing to do it is what will work better to achieve the result.”
    ……………………………………………………………………..
    Achieving the results for whom. Is it based on opportunism or should the Nation be informed of an issue that will affect us in the future. This have nothing to do with partisanship, it is reality. As I see it, the DLP should, could and will win the elections without the last minute discussion on something that was in the public domain for a period of time.

    When the DLP get into power, the BOLT system of financing will still continue since the majority of countries are using this private banking sector arrangement to finance projects. These same financiers will be responsible for the overall payment up front whilst the Government will repay a yearly amount. Would they be a moratorium with the BOLT agreements when a new Government is formed?

  40. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    It just seem a bit strange that for some one sitting on the fence your arguments are a bit one sided.
    …………………………………………………………………….
    With all respect to you, things might look one-sided once due to neutrality. I am not trying to criticize the Dems, but I am trying to place things in the right perspective with an open mind. I must say it is very enlightening to have a debate with you, Adrian Hinds and my friend Jerome who castigate everything I am trying to express. But, that’s what you call democracy.

  41. yardfowl Avatar
    yardfowl

    barbadians and people on dis site i think wanna need to open wanna eyes and see wat going on cause de day wanna elect this country would become a republic and den wanna int gat no choice but to adhear to overnment rules and den wanna wad suffer de consequences so its wanna choice

  42. anon Avatar
    anon

    the dems must have found that their manifesto was not up to standard and they have taken it off their web site.

    We can’t even see their youth manifesto.

  43. Wishing in Vain Avatar
    Wishing in Vain

    Do not get excited you anon the site is being updated, hence the lack of access.
    A little like the lack of updates on your blp blog.

  44. Wishing in Vain Avatar
    Wishing in Vain

    Vanishing views of the ocean
    Web Posted – Sun Dec 09 2007
    On the Editorial page of the December 3, 2007 Barbados Advocate, there was a column written by Nicholas Cox about the disappearance of our Windows to the Sea.
    Barbados has always been known for its lovely beaches, among other attractions. This past year or two we have noticed lovely houses along the West Coast being sold for condominiums, and one wonders if they all have been sold and how much revenue they are going to bring into the island.

    Hotels employ a staff which gives employment to the locals. Condos, when and if sold, will more likely be used as holiday places which will be closed up when not in use, with no revenue coming in and less employment. The worst part of this sudden splurge is that it has taken away all the beauty of our special island and leaves very little entry to the beach and sea for the locals, although our beaches are not private.

    So does this mean the locals and others have to ask permission to enter their properties to get to our beaches? One drives along the St. Peter, St. James and Hastings areas (to name a few) and there is no view of the sea, only wooden fences blocking the scenery while the construction goes on. Personally, I think it is greed! I have already heard many repeat, long-staying visitors saying that if we get like Spain and other over-developed countries, spoilt by condos and high rise buildings, they will not return. Apart from the tourist aspect of the problem, how do we know that these high rise buildings are not going to affect our coral stone levels of land (and the coral reefs) with all the drilling and digging going on? Interesting!

    Jean Ellison

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    danielle brathwaite

    very good site

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