Any questions for the PM? We understand members of the public can email CBC.

Well,we certainly need to ask the Prime Minister to go into detail about his reworked immigration policy & why is it considered a “‘managed’ migration policy” ?

How would he implement CSME in detail currently ?

Does the Prime Minister truly believe in giving an amnesty to those who reside illegally as the Chief enforcer of Barbados immigration laws ?

Should Free movement of ALL nationals within CSME be implemented in Barbados ?

Why has the Prime Minsiter not made any effort while in office to ensure that employers do NOT hire illegal immigrants ?

Why doesn’t the Barbados Immigration Department take immigration tips seriously concerning reports given to them about who illegally resides in Barbados ?

Does the P.M. support limited free-movement of skilled nationals within Barbados so the Bajan first employment rule could be more effectively implemented ?

Is it possible that we can have immigration taken away from arni walters and given back to maxine mcclean?

Are you aware that we the voters are tired of just words and no action?
Ever so welcome wait for a call is a joke if the illegal persons in this country continue to stay untouched and new ones come in?

Anonymous // February 28, 2009 at 9:02 pm

Is it possible that we can have immigration taken away from arni walters and given back to maxine mcclean?

Are you aware that we the voters are tired of just words and no action?
Ever so welcome wait for a call is a joke if the illegal persons in this country continue to stay untouched and new ones come in?
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I second that!

I think Thompson should be asked about Hally Haynes proposals of working with the Credit Unions of Barbados to establish a credit union bank. Let BNB stay where it is. I think The Bank of Barbados has a better ring to it, especially if it is conceptualize with working people in mind via the Credit Unions.

http://www.nationnews.com/story/340187575674067.php

I never trusted or did Business with Banks in Barbados. I took that same mistrust with me to the US, where I do all my banking with a Credit Union.

If CLICO goes under, Sagicor should not benefit; deep in it’s core, it is still the Mutual, and to my mind no different than BET-to-Cable&wireless-to-Lime.

BTW:So RA is Tom Adam’s youngest son? ha ha ha ha Rawdon vs. Thompy what uh ting. lol!

David you knew this?

No David the Credit Union does not change status.

What Hally Haynes Proposes:
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It is my humble submission that the credit union movement would welcome the opportunity to sit at the table with Government and other interested Barbadian companies with a view to establishing a locally owned and operated bank that provides financial products and services for credit unions, businesses and Barbadians alike.

I am sure that this new financial entity would be the jewel of the Government and people of Barbados.
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I am sold on this.

Whe are the 700 workers at Four Seasons returning to work?

Anonymouse:

What would all those Bajans abroad feel if they had the same treatment? If you are illegal, no problem… it is your risk… but what about the ones that are “technically illegal” because of the amount of red tape and the plodding pace of the departments involved?

I am sure a lot of Bajans here would dislike their relatives having their green cards revoked. Who would send them the brand name gear now?

Put the shoe on the other foot and walk in it a while. Right now your writing comes across xenophobic.

Thompy: When are you going to revamp the departments of immigration and registration so that ordinary folk do not have to suffer and be denigrated?

Why would you tell a man who has been working in this land for 20 years, has a child born here and a common law wife here…. that he has two weeks to pack up and ship out? Top if off that he was working legally here…paying taxes, etc…

Is that the kind of policy we are pushing?

I thought that we were getting rid of illegals only?

Iwatchya

Simple answer,Barbados cannot be the garbage can for the rest of the caribbean,and in particular Guyana.

Bajans and othe caribbean people who are convicted on the simplest of crime eg.g. parking fine etc are being sent back to the caribbean daily.

I don’t hear jagdeo from guyana kicking a big fuss like he and ricky singh do every time a guyanese is deported.

This despite the fact that they came to the great USA since they were 2 years old.

Howz that,my man?

Any one living here illegally whether 1 year or 20 years shuld be subjected to the laws of the land and sent back to their home country.

No amnesty for breakers of the law.

Strong supporters of david thompson are now quietly up in arms about his lethargic approach to getting out thes illegals quickly despite what he promised us on the campaign trail as well as his loose talk about amnesty for some.

Carson C. Cadogan // February 28, 2009 at 9:15 pm “what about the fact that the PM and his Govt. has done little to ease the suffering of Black Consumers at the hands of the Barbados Private Sector?”

I guess Carson is saying the “Private Sector” = “white people” ? ? ?

Where you been living, Sir? On the Moon? Get back to earth before you run out of air.

Breaking News

AMNESTY WILL BE GIVEN BY THIS ADMINISTRATION.

However I believe Negroman had his information right ,it might be for a certain number of people that immigration has already been worked out.

He was very careful not to use the word amnesty – but same difference.

David

Like you I am hearing vague answers about immigration,and based on the question that man in the audience asked about the prime minster’s response about illegal children not going to school,I wouldn’t be surprised that like that man mnay others listening picked up on that response.

All I will say is immigration is making me more concerned that everything isn’t as it appears.

Adrian

Which one was sylvan greenidge?

What questiondid he ask?

A little concern that the Prime Minister was not pressed to be more specific on the strategy and plans to stave off the economic storm.

David,

You are ,making this point over and over again. What do you suggest? If I were the Pm I would do just what he is doing now – communicating, collecting up to date information from players in all sectors and saving jobs! That is where his biggest challenge will be but I am confident that David Thompson will do it.

I give him 95% for tonite’s activity. He did three things:
1. Established his command
2. Wiped out the Opposition
3. Set the public agenda.

Has Mia taken to flight?

Owing See Thru Arthur WILL NOT REST UNTIL HE DISPLACES HER AS LEADER, simple and plain, neither does Arthur want a debate on Constituency Councils but there she goes head strong as ever again.

It will be a tough one to step down with pride from her face will be dirtied and bruised for trying to pull a spoilt brat temper tantrum with the Barbadian voters.

But, if the PM’s figures are right (and they should have been easy to check), there is still the matter of CLICO’s statutory fund deficits in 2005 and 2006.

I dint see the entire interview… was anything asked/said about the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary???

@Wuh

Because of your query we will try our best to clarify in our next blog which we will post later today.

The disappointment we have is that this morning Leader of the Opposition is not being placed under pressure by the media to respond to the statements made by the Prime Minister regarding the statutory limit which has existed from 2005 according to him. We would be surprise if she does not have a plausible explanation, we don’t think that she would have brought a no-confidence motion without good grounds.

David, the media doesn’t have to do anything, the people watched, the people already were alarmed at Mia’s willingness to cause economic fallout for no good purpose at all.

David, is the person at the head of this article, PH Thompson, the same person we saw on TV last night?

The PM we saw on television last night had a face as round as a dinner plate.

It’s not the only part of his anatomy that’s become rounded either.

Back Seat Driver
The PM said that the owners did not demonstrate that they were short of cash or that the operation was going bankrupt so there was never a consideration by Government of a bail out or buy out. All that the Government was prepared to offer was the taking over of the paying of salaries that’s it. Do you have a problem with that?

John I am not looking for any person to take any high road. At the end of the day um don’t matter to me who wins or lose.

MIA got dem on the run

Thompson’s reaction is nothing more than an attempt to hoodwink. He thinks that a public relations exercise is going to solve his problems. HA HA –it wunt work.

Mia got who on the run? Thompy, Or Owen?