I wish to say that Bush tea is not politically a partisan. (This is for personal, selfish reasons. I am already committed to a national cause much higher than any party, group or friendly society. I would equally have wished Owen Arthur well and offered genuine advice for his success as PM….(and I actually did, but that is another story.)
My instincts are that PM David Thompson will be the best Prime Minister that Barbados has ever had (and this is even without any advice from Bush tea). He has all the requirements, he has been well prepared through his time ‘in the wilderness’, he has matured excellently and he has a great family structure.
(… oh wait, did I mention that he is a full 100% Combermerian? As is his wife?)
David,
SERVICE
Remember that you offered to serve Barbados when you applied for this job. There are two points here :SERVE is the OPPOSITE to rule. Every morning, when you wake up, remember that the great power you have is solely for the purpose of empowering this country, especially the weak and poor.
Second point- serve ALL Barbados.
-DO NOT LOOK at the ballots to see who voted for you. “BARBADOS” DID!
-Use ALL of this country’s BEST brains- and you do not need to buy their political loyalty or bribe them to do this. Use Commisong and let him stay in his PEP. Use the best of the BLP performers – and let them remain BLP (You have the wisdom, self confidence and tact to do that…It will be well worth the effort.)
DELEGATE
You have a GREAT team with you. USE THEM. Leave yourself free to do the REALLY important things
– like walking around and seeing for yourself what is happening.
– like communicating with your various publics and LISTENING to their (foolish) concerns
– like making sure that your ministers, Boards and other delegates are operating according to you and your party’s philosophy – especially that they are Honest, Fair and impartial in their dealings.
– Like developing and selling a VISION for the future. One that Bajans can buy into and join you and your team.
DISCIPLINE
Set high standards for your people and ENFORCE them. Be quick to show intolerance for wrong-doing and dis-honesty.
The Higher the level of Authority you have given, the less patience you must show for dishonesty, graft, bribery and all unrighteousness.
…but be patient with your foes (‘cuddear’…you must know how Liz and dem must feel, you went through it…) Give them some slack, even listen to their curses and respond if they actually have good points.
DEVELOPMENT
David, you have taken the mantle when Barbados and the world is about to undergo the most difficult times that have ever been experienced… believe me.
All those promises about lowering the cost of living, providing opportunities etc should have been premised with “if the world situation remains stable”.
This country’s chance to go into this period of difficulties in a healthy position was squandered in cost over runs, Millions spent on CSME, years of neglecting AGRICULTURE and LOCAL INDUSTRY etc.
The BLP opted instead for prostitution in the form of selling ourselves to the highest bidder (that always works for a while if you are pretty…)
Your Job is to restore PRIDE IN BARBADOS FOR BARBADIANS and those who choose to come here and BECOME 100% Bajan too.
Do not make promises about being ‘first world’ – Promise to restore pride and independence (pay a visit to ‘Lowdown’ and carry long a pork –cutter and some mauby for details on this philosophy.)
FINALLY FOR NOW
Life on earth is nothing but a temporary sojourn – the real purpose is so phenomenal and beautiful that these issues pale into insignificance.However, Putting God first helps you to place many things into proper perspective. Your public Thanksgiving service this Sunday is a brilliant start. Don’t be afraid to continue to seek God’s guidance in all you do…and when things get rough –sing quietly to yourself the school’s anthem (I don’t mean the school song as you know, but “To be a pilgrim”.
“….mighty undertaking here, up and on, up and on..”
Bush tea
January 18, 2008
Barbados Electoral System Comes Under The Microscope
The Basic Problem With Barbados
Bush Tea Is Fed-up With Richard “Lowdown” Hoad!
UWI Expansion Plans Misguided~Need To First Address Relevance.
Well, well, BT the mentor 🙂
-Use ALL of this country’s BEST brains- and you do not need to buy their political loyalty or bribe them to do this. Use Commisong and let him stay in his PEP. Use the best of the BLP performers – and let them remain BLP (You have the wisdom, self confidence and tact to do that…It will be well worth the effort.)
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David
I hope you do not listen to bush tea and he nonsense. Who said dat dese people can be trusted. I think yah should embrace everyone, but dat doesn’t say you have to give them employement. Surround yourself wid people dat you can trust.
All de best skipper.
Bush Tea has given some good advice here.
Of course he has to surround himself with people he can trust but at the same time if the country is to move forward we will have to adopt a non-partisan approach to matters of national interest. We can think of health, education etc. As a young man 46 years old he has to find a way to encourage contributions from Barbadians, forgetting colour, race, creed or political affiliation.
Wah foolishness is dis?
David
By de way, I was addressing de new PM David. Anyway, wunna love to throw ’round dat word non-partisan to suit wunna needs. I sey if David can find a few whites, indians and chinese he can trust hire dem. But given de nature of de society we talking ’bout I sey he still got to keep de electorate in mind. Now you tell we David on de blog, you tink dat de average man running round Barbados gine tek kindly to de PM hiring a tourism minister from Turkey or some other country?
Educated Bajan ~ please do not stretch the point which we are making. If Thompson and his team wishes to build a new economy built on services and he feels that a Singaporean would bring that expertize why should he pigeon hole himself into recruiting someone who fits some stereotype?
Time to wake up and smell the coffee!
Hiring Loveridge would be the same mistake as relying on that Chapo/Boxill poll.
The Jamaican experience does not apply to us.
The British experience does not apply to us.
Please keep Bajan politics Bajan.
Good advise Bust Tea. I think we can say that on Jan 15 Barbados took a dose of bush tea the led to a cleansing of the body politic. 😀 we still need to have the forensic investigationS.
B F P E // January 18, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Hiring Loveridge would be the same mistake as relying on that Chapo/Boxill poll.
The Jamaican experience does not apply to us.
The British experience does not apply to us.
Please keep Bajan politics Bajan.
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Too late and keeping up appearances don’t put money in our pockets.
Can anyone tell me why the prime minister’s planned 8:00 pm address to the nation was cancelled? Is it tomorrow night and if so at what time will it be broadcast?
And why is BU blocking people from asking about it?
I hear some people talking all sorts of nonsense. What is really going on please?
I hear that his wife is a St. Lucian.
You know how these Bajan men prefer de foreign women.
Reasonable position Educated Bajan, but have you considered the desired end state?
There may be some BLP people that actually love Barbados; are actually competent and may possibly be the best person suited to fill certain positions….
This is a small country and leadership and expertise is vital to final success.
I suggested that we should seek the best that we have to fill these posts – not persons from Turkey…. but as leader of ALL Barbados the PM must not overly limit his options.
A real mature leader is one that recognizes that not everyone agrees with everything he says or does and who in turn is able to deal with different personalities, ideologies, classes and creeds. I don’t know how ‘educated’ you are, but I am convinced that the PM would be able to do this.
Companies (and even families) all over the world operate with persons of different political persuasions working side by side and this has not been a problem for the Management…
finally, consider the message of unity and genuine NATIONAL spirit that this would send to all Barbadians…..
The Tourism Minister is as Barbadian as any of us and he is very deserving of his posting, he is a very sharp bright person so unlike the Brand name suit clown Noeless Blarney Lynch.
He also is a very hard worker so unlike Lynch so yes our Ministry of Tourism is in fine hands.
May I also take this time to extend my best wishes to he and all the others that have been recently appointed.
Bush Tea,
Why do I get the feeling that your post is an indication that there is REAL BIG TROUBLE in the DLP camp tonight?
People are whispering that he is smelling hell to find suitable ministers and everybody fighting real bad between DEM-selves.
Who is de body that come outta de meeting crying long long tears?
We like to say “Keep this Bajan and Keep dat Bajan” when it suits us, dont we. Yet in the last 30 years we have deeply imported all kinds of wrong behaviors and thinking from the USA especially. We sont went anything British, but we are always talking about what the Americans do, as if the Americans are sitting on the glassy sea with the four and twenty elders.
There is merit in Bush tea’s suggestion. You and I would do it in running our business. We would seek advice from folk whom we can trust or from those with a good reputation for service. Why cant the people’s buisness be run the same way.
If we conducted the people’s buisness as we do our own, we might do much better.
There are many Bajans in all walks of life who can make a contribution to the running of the country who will not join a political party or run for public office. Are you saying that we should refuse to ask them advice or deny thier contribution?
Thier is nothing wrong with the PM asking counsel of any one, and then sitting and contemplating the best move before implementing the best idea or the best combination of ideas submitted.
wife is a St. Lucian and she has been St.Lucian for the last twenty something years of their marriage.
Exactly what is your point, I seem to have missed you and what message you were trying to spread???
B F P E // January 18, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Hiring Loveridge would be the same mistake as relying on that Chapo/Boxill poll.
The Jamaican experience does not apply to us.
The British experience does not apply to us.
Please keep Bajan politics Bajan.
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Barbados First Prison Express a.k.a B.F.P.E
That is the best advice you have given since contributing to these blogs !
See what a threat to PRISON……does ???
Too bad doh….you gine still get lock up !!!!!
Wishing in Vain,
And who is this tourism minister whose name you seem afraid to reveal or speak?
De Guyanese getting de low jobs and now de British getting de top ones?
SPEAKING AS A BAJAN I AM NOT PLEASED ABOUT THAT!
I did not vote DLP in order to make some FOREIGN WHITE MAN the minister of tourism!
If what I have been hearing is true, then the DLP has truly BETRAYED me. I don’t know anybody called Loverage. Who the hell is he? Never heard about him until today.
What happened to all the well-educated and loyal Bajan people who have served the DLP faithfully over the years?
I am VERY FURIOUS about this!
Maureen // January 18, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Bush Tea,
Why do I get the feeling that your post is an indication that there is REAL BIG TROUBLE in the DLP camp tonight?
People are whispering that he is smelling hell to find suitable ministers and everybody fighting real bad between DEM-selves.
Who is de body that come outta de meeting crying long long tears?
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Why should anyone come out of a meeting crying long tears Maureen. Unless they thought too highly of themselves.
Why do you get the feeling that Bush tea’s post is an indication that there is REAL BIG TROUBLE in the DLP camp tonight? Is that what you want? Bush tea’s suggestion is reasonable, and one that sensible folk use in contemplating any complex task.
You say that people are whispering that he is smelling hell to find suitable ministers. You mean the recently elected folk are more useless than the last set of fellas we had? Like Rommel, Rawle Eastmond etc
Actually Maureen or whatever you really are, I find your comments immature, childish and stupid.
When you grow up and have something to communicate (exchange and chat about
just in the event that communicate was above your level of comprehension) with, I would cease and splewing your utter garbage.
Georgie Porgie,
Alright for you to talk. Then you would be sitting down in America complaining that the government in Barbados hiring foreigners and would not give people like you a job.
David Thompson better think again about that. Who the hell is Loverage? I don’t believe this!
Maureen are you suggesting that faithful service to a political party is the only qualification necessary for appointment at the highest level?
Bush Tea, that was very good advice.
I have noticed something though. Every body advising the new PM, but your advice real cool.
I can understand now why the previous government was fired. Nobody could tell them anything, well at least they did not seem to be listening.
My advice to the PM if he has a listening ear is to use it and listen to his fellow B’dians, and talk with them too. Share the joys and the pains. Do not let any more distance than is necessary develop between you and the people of B’dos.
Seems we are going to have a love affair with you on these blogs, since we all (most of us, never mind BFPE)want you to succeed and because your success will also be our success.
Take your time and do things right the first time. Be slow to speak, words cannot be recalled.
Five years will be a long time or a short time depending on what happens during the time.
Wishing in Vain,
You poppet! Let me tell you something, see? It was my X that put you in power and it will be my X that will take you out too.
I am only waiting for the next Brass Tacks to open my mouth WIDE WIDE WIDE and you will hear me EVERY DAY ON BRASS TACKS until then.
How can we be appointing foreign white people as ministers in this day and age? What has Barbados come to?
If this is what you mean by “time for change” then this is one change that will have to change!
I am waiting till Sunday and if I see any foreign white minister I will NEVER VOTE FOR THE DLP AGAIN!!!
ha ha ha haha GP and WIV why do you find it neccesary to respond to these new name doppelgangers? chuuupppssse
Maureen // January 18, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Georgie Porgie,
Alright for you to talk. Then you would be sitting down in America complaining that the government in Barbados hiring foreigners and would not give people like you a job.
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You are so right Maureen. Thats what the BLP government did. It give a foreigner the job that I acted in for years with great competence for many years to a foreigner- a job which the man’s wife told me that she and he hated.
So the DLP cant do me the same thing, cause I not expecting anything from them. My God will supply my needs has he has done in the past.
I can assure you despite your stupid mouthings the Minister of Tourism is one of us my friend.
Now off you go to classes to be taught your ABC.
Maureen is it OK if he makes me the Minister of Health? Then phone him and tell him you got a good boy for the job, before he give it to a foreigner. LOL
What is this thread about again? How you guys freting about something that ain’t even happen? Serious imaginations we have over here don’t we?
May I also take this time to extend my best wishes to he and all the others that have been recently appointed.
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WIV. Could you please enlighten the public who is the face behind WIV. For a person who is not a member of the DLP, yet, you have advance knowledge of every decision and plans of the party. Now, you gone a step further by insinuating that you are privy to the appointed cabinet ministers. Can I firmly state, that you are the DLP consultant-at-large Hartley Henry.
Although you have not name any minister, this is a breach of protocol. Our Prime Minister did not even made mentioned if he made his selection. You need to separate your blogging from real protocol.
fretting
Wishing in Vain,
“the Minister of Tourism is one of us my friend.”
Hmm!
You know, more than one person here warned me to be careful with you because you are a deceitful lying snake. What is the name of this Minister of Tourism then? What are you trying to HIDE? Because the name people are telling me is Loverage and there is no way in hell that could be a Bajan name. I remember that one time he went and bring some white woman here name Jennifer Lazlo. These are jobs that should be for Bajans! I did not see any Loverage or whatever the hell his name is when I went to any of the meetings.
Maureen you have a computer and can pay your internet fee but it seems to me that you are betzpaenic!
Anonymice,
“How you guys freting about something that ain’t even happen?”
I have to make sure that it NEVER happens.
You know full well how some people will purposely let information leak out in order to gauge public opinion before making a final decision.
This is what I suspect is happening, because very funny that he was supposed to address the nation tonight and all of a sudden it is cancelled. If he is considering whether to put a foreign white man in that post, then he has 22 hours to find a REAL BAJAN instead.
Some of you Bajans are too PASSIVE and ready to swallow any **** from these politicians. He only just start so he better not play the fool so early.
I DID NOT CAST MY VOTE FOR ANY FOREIGN WHITE MAN.
frankology are you and maureen one and the same?
I am forced to ask this as it appears to me the same type of utter rubbish comes both of you.
Sit back my friend and enjoy the next five years of progressive thinking and progressive actions free of personal attacks and corruption.
betzpaenic – please convert to bajan, otherwise, refrain from using virgin words with no meanings.
Wishing in Vain,
“Sit back my friend and enjoy the next five years of progressive thinking and progressive actions free of personal attacks and corruption.”
Now I know for sure that you are a REAL ASSHOLE!
Despite you best efforts to create strife and confusion, should Mr Thompson wish to select Mr Loveridge as his Minister of Tourism, what could you do about it ?
Lets remember that you pupit Owing has been removed from office and is now assigned to his fight for leadership of the Opposition with mottley, not sure that he will find much support within the ranks of what is left over as he has treated this lot with gross distain.
Frankology is Frankology. A simple black man with the same strategic intellect like you. I have no “fe” before my “male”. I am 110% male and Bajan.
I am also looking forward to see a progressive country, free of corruption.
It will be a long hard five years for you my friend.
Sit back my friend and enjoy the ride the next five years of progressive thinking and progressive actions free of personal attacks and corruption
Frankology a paenia is a lack of something
e.g thrombocyto- paenia lack of thrombocytes, the cels involved in clotting
Betz cells are found in the brain
hence we have a serious malady here.
You hit the nail on the head when you used the word virgin—- suggesting that the cells have never been used. I believe they never developed. LOL
Maureen, the elections over, Please refrain from the vile language. Communicate professionally, it sounds bad when posters post bajan cuss words; and it is worst when that person is a woman.
Any of you fellas seen SUCH STUPID COMMENTS recently? He has been absent since the elections were announced. Is he yet alive? Or is he hiding under an alter ego?
frankology // January 18, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Frankology is Frankology. A simple black man with the same strategic intellect like you. I have no “fe” before my “male”. I am 110% male and Bajan.
I am also looking forward to see a progressive country, free of corruption.
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ha ha ha hha I knew it. Mia Mottley has always been Frank. 😀
David can we have an article dealing with the make up of the opposition and the relationships between it members and Former Prime Minister Owen Arthur?
Peoples,
Companies in corporate Barbados often takes MONTHS to fill vacancies at the management level. These organisations do not normally consider politics, usually not race and most nowadays are not limited in nationality.
If some of this is beyond our levels of competence it would be useful to listen and learn.
Only a fool would expect that a NEW PM making critical appointments that relate to national management in critical areas should rush so as to relieve our impatience.
I do not even see the need to complete this task within the first few weeks.
We had no ministers over the past 5 weeks… anybody noticed?
Mr PM, please take your cool time. Tomorrow, reassure Bajans that you have all in hand and will complete the appointments in your OWN GOOD TIME.
…and why would there not be some stress in making these appointments? What would you expect? have you ever even tried picking a cricket team? have you looked at the number of qualified persons in there? Do you know how much money an engineer like Sealy or Boyce earns in private industry? many big decisions are being made as we speak – there must be stress and some strain…
…any biting or throwing of chairs reported?!? No? well what is the issue?
Frankology
you learn a new word tonight man.LOL
frankology,
YOU SAID: “I am 110% male and Bajan.”
What are you trying to say? That you like boys too?
frankology,
Coming at you again…
“it sounds bad when posters post bajan cuss words”
Are you ashamed of being Bajan?
Maybe you have been living abroad too damn long.
I’m a member of BFPE and we LOVE Bajan cusswords…. they “distinguish” us.
Cameron Red.
The Governor General of Canada is black and from Haiti. I just thought Maureen might want to know.
Another incumbent political party bites the dust
Former Prime Minister Owen Arthur (Photo: Barbados Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
By Peter Ischyrion
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 16, 2008 – The winds that swept out the incumbent governments in St. Lucia, Bahamas, Jamaica and the British Virgin Islands in the past 13 months returned with a vengeance on Tuesday and upended the administration of Prime Minister Owen Arthur in this small Eastern Caribbean island.
Arthur had sought to follow in the footsteps of Patrick Manning, his counterpart in Trinidad and Tobago, who last November appeared to be the exception to the rule by leading his ruling People’s National Movement back into the corridors of power.
Most importantly, Arthur, a 58-year-old economist, had sought to secure a spot in Barbados’ political history as the first prime minister to win a fourth consecutive term in office. He failed, and perhaps now more than ever, he will understand the phrase “those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it”.
In the end, the electorate not only condemned his Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to the opposition benches, but also possibly signaled the end of his political career in the island.
Insisting that he was not about to engage in an “instant judgment” regarding his future, Arthur, who led the government since 1994 for “13 exhilarating years”, said he would seek to ensure that the 69-year-old BLP “remains one of the premier political institutions in the region”.
“I have not left a party that is politically bankrupt. ‘The party can cope beyond me’ is the assurance that I give the party. It has people in it who can qualify to be leaders in any institution in the world,” he added.
Arthur had entered the general election on Tuesday hoping to achieve a feat that had proved beyond many prominent politicians here, including Errol Barrow, who led the island to political independence from Britain in 1966 and is considered the founding father of the nation.
But Arthur’s Barbados Labour Party (BLP) was trounced by the DLP, led by David Thompson.
Arthur said that his BLP had conducted a “good campaign” for control of the 30-seat Parliament, but acknowledged that the electorate’s desire for change proved insurmountable, resulting in the DLP reversing a 24-6 BLP majority in the last parliament to 20-10 in its favour.
“Change is a natural human instinct and I fully respect it. I want to merely say that I thank the people of Barbados for the opportunity to be prime minister. I tried my very best for the country and I leave office with no rancour,” Arthur said in his concession speech.
The 2007 Human Development Report issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supports Arthur’s contention that his tenure had brought relative prosperity to the island.
The UNDP ranked Barbados, which is mainly dependent on tourism and international business services for its revenue, at 31 out of 177 countries with respect to its human development index, “which looks beyond GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to a broader definition of well-being”.
In fact, the U.N. body ranked Barbados at the very top among 108 developing countries regarding its human poverty index, which measures the proportion of people below an income threshold but which also includes “living a long and healthy life, having access to education and a decent standard of living”.
The opposition DLP, however, found traction with its platform to transform “the nation to meet the real needs of the people”.
“My vision of Barbados is centered around the idea of our people enjoying a significant improvement in living standards,” said David Thompson, the 49-year-old prime minister-elect, who was successful on his third attempt at winning the government.
“I have a vision of Barbados in which our arts, architecture, industrial policy, economic policy and social policy promote the concept of island living that is socially empowering, highly productive and allows us to meet both our internal and external obligations,” said Thompson, an attorney.
The change of government is not expected to result in a drastic change in the island’s foreign policy, although one of the main controversies of the campaign was Arthur’s allegation that Taiwan had contributed to the DLP’s campaign in return for a switch in allegiance away from China.
Bridgetown and Beijing established diplomatic relations 30 years ago, and while Thompson and Taipei publicly rebuked Arthur’s claims, the outgoing prime minister contended that an allegedly similar strategy had been followed in the case of St. Lucia, where the ruling United Workers Party had severed ties with Beijing in favour of Taiwan after a 10-year period.
In its manifesto for the election, the DLP said that Barbados would “continue its longstanding policy to be friends of all and satellites of none”.
“It will continue to defend the interests of its citizens at home and abroad. We will respect those treaties entered into by predecessor governments and seek new alliances conducive to the achievement of our goals,” it said.
As lead prime minister within the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Arthur had played a high-profile role in the quest by regional states to create a single market and economy (CSME) by 2015 that includes the free movement of goods, skills, workers and services.
But while saying he would “work towards the realisation” of the CSME, Thompson has already signalled that a new DLP administration would also embark on a major public education programme to sensitise Barbadians to the “challenges and opportunities that free movement of labour, goods and services will bring”.
“It will then prepare Barbadians for taking a leading role in the development of the wider Caribbean Community,” the DLP said.
Another concern for the new administration will be the recently negotiated Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that Caribbean countries reached with Europe at the end of last year.
The full details of the accord have not been published in the region despite numerous calls from civil society groups, even as regional leaders are preparing to sign the trade deal on Mar. 15.
DLP general secretary Chris Sinckler, the executive director of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre, had been critical of the accord and now, as a front-line member of the new government, could be in a position to agitate much more successfully for a review of the agreement. (IPS)
notbajan,
Yes, I know of her, Michaelle Jean.
Once again, that’s Canada and this is Barbados.
There are matters of RACE and NATIONALITY which many Bajans are afraid to voice or confront or speak about.
If any prime minister of Barbados, Thompson or Arthur, tried to appoint a black Guyanese or an Indian Guyanese as minister of tourism you would hear Barbados Underground behaving in the worst way possible. Why should we look down on black foreigners but accept WHITE ones like Loverage as being better than ourselves?
What sort of mirror image do we have of ourselves?
Wishing in Vain,
Are you on crack or something?
Why do you keep posting those lengthy pieces of rubbish on this blog? Bajans already know about it so what’s the point?
maureen you are a stranger to the truth, you know that Mr Loveridge is not the
Minister but in your warped effort to spread mistruths you persist.
The sooner you resign yourself to living under the rule of the DLP the better for you just ask the vast majority of Bajans and rest assured that we will not divide and rule as you did when arthur was the beast in power.
Wishing in Vain,
I never claimed to know who the Minister is. You are the one who came here running your mouth.
I’m more convinced than ever that you have some sort of mental problem.
Do you check under your bed every night before going to sleep to make sure no evil BLP agent is hiding there?
owen arthur had a white man as minister of health maureen now give the new pm a chance to his jop fa god sake
owen arthur had a white man as minister of health maureen now give the new pm a chance to his jop fa god sake
WIV
I guarantee you that if loverage is made minister of tourism we will suffer such a down turn in tourism we would welcome back barney
I wish to weigh in on this subject of who the minister of Tourism is/will be.
Has he/she been formerly announced?
Was not Peter Morgan a former minister of Tourism in the Barrow cabinet?
Why all of a sudden the xenophobic, rasists rants in this forum?
Please explain for our general education.
Son of the Soil,
“Why all of a sudden the xenophobic, rasists rants in this forum?”
Ask the same people here who are always ranting about Guyanese and Chinese in Barbados. Surely what is good for the blacks (and the yellows) is also good for the whites.
Surely what is good for the blacks (and the yellows) is also good for the whites.
Some like David of BU resent the presence of Guyanese in Barbados, yet he is ever ready to lick Loveridge’s backside like a house slave.
I say you can’t have it both ways. You either hate the Guyanese and hate the whites, or love the Guyanese and love the whites. The DLP has committed itself in its manifesto to protecting the rights of the “foreign worker”.
We will soon know who the new minister of tourism is.
WIV
It is pointless engaging persons such as Maureen and Frankology. Maureen first of all is bent on causing strife, nothing you say will divert “her” from her agenda ignore her.
Frankology has been claiming to be neutral but I am yet to see him critical of any specific thing or things done by the BLP administration. Yet he manages under the veil of neutrality to find all things wrong or suspect about the DLP. I say again his slip is showing.
who cares who the minister of tourism is, once her can do the job and bring the foreign exchange to this island without being corrupt.
We had BLACK BARBADIAN MPS of the previous government riddled with all sorts of corruption. Fear of these people was so intense they were hardly any voices crying in the wilderness. Lo and behold government changes now suddendly the sickness of laringitis has been lifted from this island. Where were the lot of you all this time during the last administration.
Prime Minister Thompson choose who to the best of your knowledge is best suited to assist you in taking this country forward. when success comes even the nay sayers will benefit.
For those who would seek to misrepresent our position on Chinese and Guyanese coming into Barbados we want to repeat. Our position is that like the developed countries a small and heavily populated island like Barbados cannot afford to have a open door policy to immigration. It is well known that Barbados at this time is overrun with illegal immigrants. This situation highlights the fact that our immigration system is faulty and additionally the illegals serve to put pressure on our social services and other infrastructure in a way which makes it impossible to plan as far as managing our resource allocation. There is also the need to ensure that the country is emotionally managed as we transfer to a more multicultural society.
We can go on but I hope those of you who continue to cause mischief by misrepresenting BU position will stop.
I agree with David whole heartedly, we cannot have a propper system in place to deal with illegal immigrants. For too long it has been allowed to continue in the hahazard fashion that it has and when the people speak out and say something “red herrings’ are thrown saying how we it is a personal vendetta. For some it may be but for others such as I it is the desire to see my country able to progress without the backwash of another. We don’t get the best of these people but those who are willing to do anything to further rhemselves. Some of them actuall seem to be pretty desperate in their goals. We can’t afford to just let them enter and reamin here as they so desire. What will become of us? Of our children? This island is already greatly populated as it is with declining social services and amenities.
Bush Tea
I am very curious, not being rude, but why do you not develop your own Blog? The Broken Trident had a great chance and wasted it, you can take up where they left off!
On the topic of immigration. As constuction continues to boom here i have to wonder. Are immigrants starving in the streets with no where to go? From what i see they are WORKING .”Taking Bajan jobs” is the cry. ..but why is that?
Could it be that most Bajans are simply lazy? Strolling in at late hours, taking long lunches and more importantly, lacking in work skills and still expecting to earn a full days pay! I could go on but very few seem not to want to face these things and would rather take offence to this statement.
I do however believe, that the Immigration Department must adopt stricter policies but as it stands now construction companies need an efficient work force, so here we are..
One of the best Ministers of Tourism we ever had was from England – Peter Morgan.
I guess that was before BFPE’s time.
more,
Actually, we know of Peter Morgan.
YOU SAID: “I am 110% male and Bajan.”
What are you trying to say? That you like boys too?
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You seems to have a problem with percentages. But I would not cry down yur intelligence. Hava a nice day, my friend.
The sooner you resign yourself to living under the rule of the DLP the better for you
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The above language is not diplomatic. It more look like a threat. Be careful with your statements.
Frankology has been claiming to be neutral but I am yet to see him critical of any specific thing or things done by the BLP administration.
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You seems to understand posts based on gossip rather than posts based on truth lined with realistic reasoning, thus your failure to read all my articles on the highway, I can tell you that over 50% of the posts was from this writer. I was critical of the installation of flyovers, the lack thereof with the tendering process, the award of a contract to an inexperience contractor, the BOLT agreements, the failure of submitting the Environmental and Impact Studies and the composition of our limestones and caves. I can go on and on. Just type in “Highway in the right hand search engine, and presto, you will see the posting. Give thanks my friend.
Ian Bourne,
YOU SAID: “I am very curious, not being rude, but why do you not develop your own Blog?”
And why don’t you try to develop YOURS?
It needs help!
Educated Bajan ~ please do not stretch the point which we are making. If Thompson and his team wishes to build a new economy built on services and he feels that a Singaporean would bring that expertize why should he pigeon hole himself into recruiting someone who fits some stereotype?
Time to wake up and smell the coffee!
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David,
Um is you dat need to get up and smell de de coffee cause you don’t know de caliber of people de PM got to deal wid in Barbados, or yah pretending.
An’ ah hope de PM don’t tek your advice causing if he does, he gine be a 1 term PM.
Leh he go outside de country to hire foreigners for de ministries in dis xenophobic world we live in.
Tek care David and don’t mind dis David here nad he nonsense yah hear!
David // January 19, 2008 at 6:24 am
For those who would seek to misrepresent our position on Chinese and Guyanese coming into Barbados we want to repeat. Our position is that like the developed countries a small and heavily populated island like Barbados cannot afford to have a open door policy to immigration.
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For once I agree wid you on dat point. Comparing Barbados to Canada, de US or any other country is ridiculous. Our sheer size alone should be a factor of us having strick immigration policies.
Bush tea,
You never mind ’bout how educated I is, common sense prevails here. And I stand by what I said earlier. De BLP can not be trusted so de PM should stay clear of dem folk. Dis goes to all dem other parties as well. Lukka David Comissiong, how he up pon de new PM, riding he like a thong asking he to disclose de names of he financiers.
You talking bout embracing all dem people. Bwoy every man for heself, especially when um comes to power.
From the Manifesto of the DLP
Stipulate that in order to qualify for state
funding of constituency offices, each
Member of Parliament must identify one
day per week as Constituency Affairs Day,
where the member is physically present
at the office or visibly involved in constituency related activities.
Immediately introduce integrity legislation
requiring
• a declaration of assets by public officials,
• a Code of Conduct for Ministers,
• a new Freedom of Information law,
• amendments to the Defamation laws and
• new constitutional provisions to rationalise
the powers of the Prime Minister.
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Note the use of the word “immediately”.
~B ~F ~P ~E
Jinx:
Lazy Bajan is always put forward to justify de greedy contractor rationale for hiring emigrants and paying dem less than Bajans to help some investor get rich. But de said emigrant you are claiming is more efficient than the average Bajan will become a burden to de country once de construction boom is over, cause most of dem don’t leave.
Now, you gine have to weigh in on 2 points: helping de investor build gated communities or hotels and making lots of money by hiring de emigrant who gine put a strain pon de social network like schools, hospitals versus de so called lazy Bajan. As far as I’m concerned um is all a numbers game, while trying to control de population.
Wishing in Vain
The 2007 Human Development Report issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supports Arthur’s contention that his tenure had brought relative prosperity to the island.
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If Peter Ischyrion had done his research he would have also indicated that Barbados become the number one developing country under Erskin Sandiford and that we were ranked at number 20 compared to 31 under Owen Arthur.
Using therefore the argument of the HDI as an indicator one would also have to agree that in 1994 when Sandiford left office, he like Arthur had also brought relative prosperity to the island.
Indeed the BLP were so greatful for what Erskin Sandiford had accomplished that they gave him a knighthood…
Will the DLP give Owen Arthur a knighthood?
Jinx
Are you Bizzy or Cow? I am certain at the very least you look like them. Your statements about lazy blacks would not be out of place in Land of Boers or Deep south.
DLP manifesto promises
The following promise that you highlighted cannot be implemented by ministers who have to travel and be away from the country for weeks at a time since it stipulaes that the candidate must be physically present in the constituency
“Stipulate that in order to qualify for state
funding of constituency offices, each
Member of Parliament must identify one
day per week as Constituency Affairs Day,
where the member is physically present
at the office or visibly involved in constituency related activities.”
Rev. Atherley D.D.?
Just wondering.
“Mr. King”, have you found my registration at the Personnel Administration Division? No worries, I ready to turn up for work bright and early Monday, 20th January, 2008. I’ll need a clothing grant for work attire, not too much, or a coupon would do:)
The interview panel which is chaired by Mr. Bush Tea awaits your arrival Mr. Superlative1!
Delbert,
I think um is Bizzy. He jinx de Bees wid de tripe he write to de Nation.
But listen, you think all dem so gine thru de eddoes? Or dem gine keep dem pon de projects dem started?
IMMEDIATE ACTION PLANS OF THE DLP as taken from their manifesto with relevant pages
Labour rights legislation ( page 36)
Anew DLP government will move to immediately enact a comprehensive national Labour Rights legislative compendium which will include the following:
A Full Employment Rights Act
An Alternative Disputes Settlement and Arbitration Committee
A Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Act
National minimum wages legislation
Legislation fully recognizing Trade Unions.
Approval of capital account transactions (page 25)
Immediately review the current Central Bank procedures for approving capital account transactions with a view to simplifying and speeding up the approval (or denial) process for restricted transactions.
Port charges (page 33)
The DLP pledges to immediately re-examine the Port charges with a view to significantly reducing these to manufacturers as they consider them to be a burdensome cost. They say that tonnage dues are charged twice; – on raw materials when imported and again on finished products when being exported.
Integrity legislation (page 48)
Immediately introduce integrity legislation requiring
a declaration of assets by public officials,
a Code of Conduct for Ministers,
a new Freedom of Information law,
amendments to the Defamation laws and
new constitutional provisions to rationalize the powers of the Prime Minister.
Health issues (page 11)
A new DLP Government will immediately embark on a health promotion campaign to sensitize the public to the dangers of unhealthy lifestyles
Have you realise that we have a 16-member cabinet.
Just let me know when and where and I’m there. Except Tuesday morning, I have an 8am class in International Politics.
delbert,
A pity you had to draw the race card isnt it?
The “lazy bajans” ( most , i said) were given a colour by you ……
but i expect such comments from those who can not accept constructive criticism.