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vob Voice of Barbados (92.9FM) will assemble a panel tomorrow – 27 April 2008 to discuss the government’s first 100 days in office. Looks like true to his promise David Ellis intends to hold the feet of the David Thompson government to the fire. The show should start at its usual time 11AM. We are not sure who the actors will be but it should prove to be an interesting program given the prevailing economic climate along side the promise by the government while in opposition to reduce the cost of living.

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59 responses to “Voice Of Barbados Radio To Discuss Government's 100 Days In Office”

  1. Sam Gamgee Avatar
    Sam Gamgee

    Robot, unlike you I believe that civil servants run things and ministers make policy.
    I do not believe that the BLP had specialists anymore than the DLP has specialists. So they are even. Their ways of doing things just differ is all.
    That said I still think the country is in for a dusty time and the only winner or loser I see is going to be Barbados not the DLP or BLP.
    If you are still in election mode I do not see how that is of any use to the situation at hand.
    The world is in a mess and you had better hope for the best and stop looking back to what you seem to believe was such a rosy time. Some people were catching their tails ever since.
    Seems that you think that Barbados is the world and not a miniscule part of the world. I am under no such illusions.
    Thing is I have never needed a politician or expected one to do anything for me. What I expect from them at all times is that they will do their best for the country.
    I guess the BLP did that for a time and then got tired and full of S##T. I expect the DLP now to do their best as well. As for me and my house we will do what we have to do to survive if God grants strength.
    You can decide if the politician is going to be your saviour or not. You can also play prophet of doom and gloom as though you’ve got dibs on the future.
    I figure you should try to be positive in the face of all the stuff going on in the world, but you seem to prefer to waste time talking about who can run the country or can’t.
    I am sure the sky is not falling Chicken Little. Try to take life one day at a time Robot.
    BTW, you did not see a tsunami in that future for us did you or a hurricane, or an earthquake, or the end of the world,…?

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    […] Voice Of Barbados Radia To Discuss Government’s 100 Days In OfficeVoice of Barbados (92.9FM) will assemble a panel tomorrow (27 April 200 to discuss the government’s first 100 days in office. Looks like true to his promise David Ellis intends to hold the David Thompson government’s feet to the fire. … […]

  3. ROBOT-now called SIR ROBOT Avatar
    ROBOT-now called SIR ROBOT

    i stand by my words -sam —

    every word i say is true–
    as for my predictions : these are done based on previous experience,
    already i have been told that all is not well in the d l p camp.

    everyone is not in agreement with the maximum leader for the price increases he introduced and cracks are beginning to widen , cracks were present before.

    i am not political, i called it as i see it
    and the way i see it, this economy has always been a challenge and if you dont have the ability to run this boom and bust economy you will run the country into trouble. thompson and his band are not CAPABLE of running the economy. this is not a joke

  4. Wishing in Vain Avatar
    Wishing in Vain

    Bovell robot suits you to a tee, you clown, sit back relax and enjoy the ride, meanwhile remember you got thrown out of office for fraud, deception, stealing, and arrogance the people are still hating you for your actions while in office, take a rest, we have a new gov’t and a new gov’t that will not refuse to give locals contracts because they the contractors refused to pay bribe money as was the case with prison project and instead of costing us US $ 67 million it cost us US $ 144 million because your friend Hallam Nicholls was refused payment of a 7 % commission, instead he sent the work offshore to VECO so he could free his hands. and free up the bribe money.

  5. Wishing in Vain Avatar
    Wishing in Vain

    SEE BELOW COMMENT IT MAY EXPLAIN WHY WE ARE NOT ALONE.

    Anchorage food prices soar with fuel costs
    10 PERCENT IN 3 MONTHS: Drought and farm subsidies squeeze consumers.

    By GEORGE BRYSON
    gbryson@adn.com

    Published: April 29th, 2008 12:03 AM
    Last Modified: April 29th, 2008 04:40 AM

    You can see it in the bread aisle at Carrs, where shoppers nowadays stare long and hard at a small $4.50 loaf of all-grain Oroweat Best Winterwheat bread before placing it in the cart.

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    TUNA up 34% 2007 $1.76 2008 $2.36

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    RICE up 85% 2007 $0.46 2008 $0.85

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    WHITE FLOUR up 21% 2007 $.34 2008 $.41

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    EGGS up 23% 2007 $1.80 2008 $2.22

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    COFFEE up 14% 2007 $2.40 2008 $2.74

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    CHEDDAR CHEESE up 61% 2007 $2.75 2008 $4.42

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    WHOLE GRAIN BREAD up 22% 2007 $1.48 2008 $1.81

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    WHITE BREAD up 33% 2007 $.92 2008 $1.22

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    GROUND BEEF up 18% 2007 $2.41 2008 $2.85

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    APPLES up 24% 2007 $.98 2008 $1.22

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    Or at the Costco on DeBarr Road, where fears over rice availability and price increases to come created a small stampede near the entrance Monday morning as customers raced for the food aisles — clearing out four whole pallets of rice in less than 15 minutes.

    Or in the wall-to-wall faces of morning diners at Bean’s Cafe, which increasingly caters to Anchorage’s “working poor” — low-income residents who tell the staff they can’t afford to buy their own food the last half of the month.

    Food prices in Anchorage are rising.

    After remaining stable for several years, the cost of a typical weekly shopping cart of food for an Anchorage family of four shot up 10 percent during the first three months of this year — from $121.31 to $132.88, according to preliminary statistics reported Monday by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service.

    Some individual items have climbed even higher. From March 2007 to March 2008, ground beef rose 18 percent. Eggs, 22 percent. White bread, 33 percent. Cheddar cheese, 61 percent. Rice, 85 percent.

    Experts blame a variety of factors, from global-warming-related droughts to higher shipping costs (driven by steadily rising fuel prices) to allocation decisions traceable to farmers who choose to grow government-subsidized biofuel crops rather than food crops.

    But it all comes down to a bigger hit on the pocketbook, according to Anchorage resident Janet Galbraith, who says she’s changed the way she eats because of the increase in prices.

    “Everything has gone up,” Galbraith said Monday afternoon, standing with her cart at the Midtown Fred Meyer. She’s buying more generic groceries now and tailors her cooking to what’s on sale.

    “I’m just more careful than I was before,” she said.

    RUSH ON RICE

    The most dramatic example of costlier food, both locally and worldwide, might be the suddenly soaring price of rice, partly due to droughts and shortages in producing countries in Southeast Asia.

    On the global commodities market, the price of rice has jumped 68 percent this year. And rice eaters in the U.S. — including a significant population of Asian-Americans living in Alaska — are stockpiling rice after hearing horror stories about shortages and soaring prices from relatives back home.

    That trend accelerated last week when news spread that Sam’s Club and Costco, which typically sell some of the lowest-priced groceries in town, had set new restrictions on how much rice its members can purchase.

    Costco members can now buy no more than five bags of rice per day, which still allows someone to purchase as much as 250 pounds per trip — if it’s available.

    By 10:15 a.m. Monday, all the rice at the DeBarr Costco, which had been restocked overnight from the Sunday shipment, was gone.

    Manager Bob Ripley said some of the rice-buying spree should be a short-lived story, at least at Costco, since supplies from U.S. growers appear to be ample. He expects more rice to arrive with each new ship. The restrictions, he said, were aimed mostly at the owners of local restaurants that serve a lot of rice cuisine.

    “I have some pretty big accounts that buy a lot of rice from us, and it wouldn’t be fair for us to sell everything we own to them — and then have that price not be a good value to all our members,” Ripley said.

    WHEAT AND FLOUR

    But rising prices don’t stop with rice.

    “You talk to any retailer or wholesaler in town and they’re going to tell you the same thing,” Ripley said. “Prices are going up across the board — with gas and everything else.”

    Wheat commodities are also on the rise worldwide.

    Great Harvest Bread Co. owner Dirk Sisson, who buys flour by the ton, says his Benson Boulevard business has seen the price of white flour he purchases from a seller in Montana double in the past three months — from $18 for a 50-pound bag in January to $36 today.

    “The franchise has never seen anything like this,” Sisson said. “The problem is just basic economics of supply and demand. … There’s a shortage of wheat right now.”

    As a result, he’s raised the price of his breads about a quarter a loaf, Sisson said.

    Part of that covers the higher shipping costs for the 6,000 pounds of flour he buys each week, he said.

    “Whereas a year ago I was paying about 10 cents a pound for freight, now I’m paying 15 cents.”

    BUSH GROCERIES

    The steep increase in shipping costs is, of course, expected to hit rural residents the hardest. It’s already being felt in Bethel, according to grocery story owner Christy Inman.

    “Every time I look at my billing, it seems like things keep going higher and higher,” Inman said Monday. “This is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s going to get way worse by the end of the summer.”

    She said she doesn’t know how people from surrounding villages are going to be able to pay for the boat fuel to come to Bethel for groceries.

    “But, fortunately, they can subsistence fish and hunt. They can go out and get birds and eggs, pick berries,” Inman said. “They are at least going to be better off than the people in the cities who can only go to the store.”

    Cathy Squartsoff in Port Lions, on Kodiak Island, said she and her husband are taking the ferry up to Anchorage to load up on groceries for their lodge. The cost of putting three vehicles on a ferry and shopping at Sam’s Club and Costco is cheaper than buying groceries in Kodiak, she said. “It is just more expensive,” she said of the island prices.

    Nome resident Sterling Buffas said the cost of milk has gone up from about $6 a gallon to $7 recently. “We’ve got two babies, a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old — we still have to buy it,” he said.

    THE HUNGRY POOR

    At Bean’s Cafe near downtown Anchorage, executive director James Crockett has seen food costs for his nonprofit agency rise steadily since the start of the year.

    “We’ve seen a 15 percent increase in roast beef, a 19 percent increase in tuna, a 23 percent increase in apples,” Crockett said.

    At the same time, he’s watched low-income residents in the community — people he calls the working poor — increasingly take advantage of free meals at Bean’s, especially during the second half of the month.

    “These are people who basically pay their rent and put money in the gas tank, then they look in the refrigerator and it’s empty,” Crockett said. “They used to come (to Bean’s) around the 21st of the month. Now we’re seeing them toward the 10th and 12th.”

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    Find George Bryson online at adn.com/contact/gbryson or call 257-4318. Reporter Megan Holland contributed to this article.

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    Trip to the store

    Weekly shopping cart for a family of four in Anchorage:

    2005 (Dec) $118.33

    2006 (Dec) $119.32

    2007 (Dec) $121.31

    2008 (Mar) $132.88

    UAF Cooperative Extension Service

  6. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    wait WIV, This Robot is Henderson Bovell? Was he finally let go from the political post he had?

    Is he the subject in the following taken from the last weeks’ “Flying Fish & Cou Cou”?

    “Pieces of silver

    WORD IS THAT a certain individual who has changed his charge from saint into a modern-day male Jezebel, went on a mission early in the year and it backfired in his face.

    Seems that his about-turn and departure from the hive, is, and was something, that he was trying to impress on his former foes at every juncture.

    Cou Cou understands that he went with $5 000 to a certain individual and offered it as a gift to assist in a particular venture.

    But after assessing the situation and acknowledging that he was dealing with an individual with no fibre, the individual told him: “Thanks, but no thanks, you keep your pieces of silver.”

  7. Wishing in Vain Avatar
    Wishing in Vain

    He has resorted to hiding in the halls of the leader of the opposition’s office only to be seen in public when arthur or mottley are near to hand, this the same clown and crook that collected $ 9,000.00 per month to be the voice of the blp on the call in shows.

    A political pimp if there was ever one, that is HENDERSON STANDS FOR NOTHING BOVELL.

    Actually he was only one of the 28 or 29 that have been revealed todate most of which hail from arthur’s office, Ezra Alleyne, Clyde Griffith, Phillip Goddard, Denil Agard and the list is on going, each one earing no less than $ 100,000.00 of our money.

  8. Wishing In Vain Avatar
    Wishing In Vain

    It seems the opposition and its leaders problems will just no go away, as taken from the blp blog today.

    ENJOY THE OPPOSITION AS THIS IS WHERE YOU DESERVE. // May 5, 2008 at 12:40 am

    Get used to the opposition, you have been put there by your own actions, remember the Prison , the 3S road works, the transfer of the Holders land, TIME IS LONGER THAN TWINE people, ARROGANCE AND COORUPTION WAS YOUR FAILURE LIKE IT OR LUMP IT.

    You and your party were under the feeling that you were untouchable and you acted in that manner, but your day of decision came before you were able to fully raid us any further.

    Thank god for the sensible thinking Barbadians that came out and voted you out of office.

    Let us remember those statements made by mottley to some of the biggest names in the building business here that they would tow the line with regard to the illegal Chinese workers and if they did not TOW THE LINE THEY COULD EXPECT A VAT AND TAX AUDIT, this is just not how business is done in this island and it is a disgusting act by a Deputy P M to threaten our business leaders in such a manner for her own selfish reasons.

    Is this the method of a Deputy P M or a DICTATOR in action?????

  9. Wishing In Vain Avatar
    Wishing In Vain

    Based on this latest development of the FBI to continue working with these two former VECO leaders, I would suggest that the players from this end such as HALLAM NICHOLLS, OWING ARTHUR, GLYNE BANNISTER need to keep looking over their shoulders as these two guys are singing like birds to reduce their own jail time, I am sure if the FBI ask about the DODDS PRISON PROJECT it is going to become very nasty for this lot, lets just wait for the next chapter to unfold and unfold it will.

    Veco sentencing on hold

    The Associated Press

    Published: May 1st, 2008 01:49 AM

    Federal prosecutors aren’t ready just yet to recommend sentences for their two witnesses in an ongoing federal corruption probe.

    In a status report filed in federal court Wednesday, prosecutors requested that sentencing for former Veco executives Bill Allen and Rick Smith continue to be postponed as the investigation continues.

    Prosecutors wrote the investigation is “exceedingly complex,” and they promised to have another update no later than July 31.

    Both Allen and Smith pleaded guilty last year to federal bribery charges.

    They’ve been key witnesses in the convictions of two former state lawmakers so far, and former Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch is awaiting trial while questions about evidence in his case are being appealed.

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