Dear BU Family
We blog with a heavy heart tonight. We have long ago accepted the reality as to why we committed to start Barbados Underground (BU) in 2007. In the heat of the last general election we came face to face with the sacrifice we will have to make if we are to continue BU. For sensitive reasons we prefer to avoid getting into the details of some recent incidents which have occurred. Suffice to day the BU household has placed itself at risk because of the bold step we have decided to take to expose issues from the underground of Barbados.
Recently we ran a series of blogs which focused on the lack of leadership over the years which Barbados has shown in the development of alternative energy sources. We would have touched on the subject earlier when we interacted with Stephen Worme , Chief Marketing Officer at the Barbados Light & Power Company Limited. We take this opportunity to thank Mr. Worme for his willingness to interact in the blogosphere. At the same time we appreciate that he works for a company which may want to communicate with the public by using the traditional media where information can be better filtered and controlled. As long as he is a paid servant he would have to do the BL&P’s bidding. Just ask Mr. Michael Browne who has been recruited by Vic Fernandes to be the hatchet man on the call in show. David Ellis seems to be a bystander in the whole process of late.
The BU family would have heard in recent days Mr. Worme participating in an energy program with David Ellis on Voice of Barbados, which has dealt with many of the issues already raised on Barbados Underground. Listeners to those programs would have been disappointed to hear that the Barbados Light & Power is currently not in a position to receive hook-ups to their power grid if proactive citizens wanted to do so at this moment. Of course in the blogosphere, Mr. Worme would have been challenged to assert why there is no contingency plan devised by anyone, to create an easy transition to supplementing the national power grid owned by them. As a stakeholder in the process to provide sustainable energy to Barbadians we would have expected a leadership role from BL&P.
We have no doubt that Mr. Ellis like some of his colleagues visit the blogosphere on a daily basis for stories and show no class when they avoid giving credit where it is due.
Not only are we disappointed at the above. But we know of one instance where one our sources has been threatened with job dismissal if they comment further on BU. The only ‘crime’ done by our source would have been to expose the truth to Barbadians. We regret that we can’t be specific an share recent events with the BU family. We just want to say as long as we see our numbers growing then we know that there is hope. People keep coming back to BU and they seem to be telling others.
Barbadians will have to make choices. Do we continue business as usual so that Barbados continues to be raped by a few, while being facilitated by a few greedy people? Or do we as proud and educated Barbadians participate in our democracy to ensure a better place for us, our children and our children’s children.
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