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President Bharat Jagdeo
President Bharat Jagdeo

A commenter recently stated on Barbados Underground, in reference to the Conference of The Americas:

They [ Heads of State ] recently unanimously passed a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister David Thompson by selecting the Guyana President to be their lead spokesman when they meet the US President later this year.

Is this fact? CARICOM leaders passing a no confidence motion on the leader of a sovereign country Barbados, or is it hyperbole abundantly clothed.  If it is a factual statement and the writer is to believed…CARICOM has lost its way.  To invite a leader of a country which is sometimes referred to as a “failed state” as a spokesperson for the region takes some understanding.  The citizens of Guyana are “fleeing” the country in their thousands, to all parts of the globe.  There is little governance there and the rule of the gun is the order of doing things.  I hear calls of supply evidence to such a harsh statement, I must therefore supply it, it is not from years ago, it is immediate.

“Chief security officer Clifford Peters, alias Malivn, of Lot 48 “N” Essequibo Street, Lamaha Springs, was shot dead yesterday while on a mission to oversee the removal of illegal electricity connections in Lamaha Park, East La Penitence, another part of Georgetown”…

…” The utility routinely carries out raids to detect illegal connections and in 2007 and 2008, at least 370 were executed and the one yesterday was among many Peters led…” Guyana Chronicle May 5, 2009

Mayhem rules in Guyana, 370 executed in 2007-2008 in what should be a routine task in a properly administered country.

It is all well to posture on the world stage, but it seems shallow when everyday governance and mayhem reins under your administration, but the astute observer looks behind the superficiality and will not be moved by mere rhetoric, where is the substance?

It is sometimes wise to disentangle the rhetoric that gushes forth from “some” political commentators.  In an effort to discredit Prime Minister David Thompson caution is thrown asunder and the incompetence of others is burnished bright in a dark hole.

I am tempted to ask why is this leadership, this economic expertise not evident in the country this supposed “intellectual heavyweight” governs.

A Prime Minister’s first duty is to his country and by extension its citizens, it is better – and wise – to learn to doggie paddle in a little pond before an attempt is made to swim the Atlantic …Bharrat Jagdeo should be told.  Get the basics right and other things will fall into place.

It is of little concern to me how President Bharrat Jagdeo governs his country and the political stance he takes on a variety of issues, that is the business of Guyanese, but I wish others would desist from telling Barbadians and their leaders what is best for Barbados.


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  1. mash up & buy back Avatar
    mash up & buy back

    Yardbroom

    The likes of royal rumble and others using mutiple personalities have no credibility with their mouthings as far as most bajans are concerned.

    Today marked the start of the begining of the winds of change which are now blowing across barabados,with regards to the illegal immigration problem.

    Finally the powers that be seem ready to take their country back.

    Let’s hope that the rules on citizenship and marriage of convenience are also tightened up.


  2. You are taking the shooting of the GPL man out of context, why don’t you focus on T&T, several weeks ago little Leah Lamy was kidnapped an butally killed, this was an 8 year old girl, last well talented and bright 12 year old Adrian Richards was brutally gunned down in POS, and I can go on, there is presently a serial killer or two in Trinidad, killing left and right but you focus on Guyana.

    It is sad that Guyanese are stealing from GPL and then do such a thing to the inspector. I am ashamed of them, ashemed of them, and I hope that Guyana hang every one of these bad people when they are caught, no trials, we have to hang them to rid this scourge from our country.

    You say your leader was not picked to represent the area in the meeting with Presidnet Obama, well our country is more in the international limelight than yours, we are more active, and we participate in a lot of forums and so on. Your country is just a tourism place, and there is nothing wrong with that. You should have known from long that Guyana is more important than you. Look when President Bush hosted the area’s leaders, Presidnet Jagdeo was placed besides President Bush at the breakfast, another meeting had President Jagdeo besides President Bush and besides President Jagdeo was Minster Condoleeza Rice. At a South American conference President Jagdeo was seated next the powerful leader of Brasil President Lula, at the London Conference he was placed next to PM Brown. Don’t feel badly we are working on your behalf. You guys are so into this black race thing. it just makes sick.


  3. @ Mash up & buy back,We can only hope that is the case.

    I once read a comment on I believe Stabroek news that maybe Guyana should think about integrating itself into the South American union Mercosur,instead of progressing with Caricom’s CSME.I think that would solve all of these issues funny enough.

    As long as there are no limits per country on CSME,this problem will continue,imo.


  4. /http://www.kaieteurnews.com/2009/05/05/the-east-indians-of-guyana-the-inheritance-of-dictatorship/

    This article on Guyana explains why the country will not be a success, irrespective of meetings, forums or whatever Jagdeo attends.
    he has failed miserably in managing the country and healing the racial divisions. He has promoted the racial divisions to win elections, along with the Indians who think they can PLUNDER GUYANA’s resources forever. It will end one day… it has to!

    Guyana has to be for ALL Guyanese and the TRUTH has to be told to President Obama. The US public and politicians have to be contacted and informed, through a concerted campaign by Guyanese at home and abroad, as well as all Caricom people who want to see an end to this “Guyana problem”, where they are exporting their economic and social problems to member nations.

    President Obama is soon going to be aware of the true picture within Guyana – if he is not already aware of it. Jagdeo pushing himself in the limelight will backfire. Jagdeo goes in 2011 to a fat unlimited pension package with lots of “benefits”. – Good riddance! See the sweet package he has in the article below:

    http://www.kaieteurnews.com/2009/05/04/president-jagdeo-leaves-office-at-age-47/


  5. mash up & buy back would like to tell fellow bloggers what are the other names I use on this blog?

    I will await your response before I comment on any subject matter on this blog today.


  6. United States President Barack Obama has invited Caribbean Community leaders to meet him in Washington to bolster closer ties with the region advanced at the just-concluded Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

    President Bharrat Jagdeo and other leaders of the 15-member grouping met Obama during the fifth Americas summit and agreed to strengthen current arrangements for official contact between the two parties, the Caricom Secretariat reported yesterday.

    Even though Prime Minister Thompson of Barbados has lead responsibility for the CSME, in a vote of supreme confidence – President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana was picked by his colleagues to present Caricom’s position on a wide range of issues to Obama at a late night meeting Friday in Port-of-Spain.

    The Guyana-based secretariat said discussions with President Obama and members of his Cabinet will centre on issues of the global crisis, the offshore financial services sector, trade, energy (including renewable energy), security and climate change.

    Guyana President already getting results:

    “In response to the Caricom concerns that the interests of small developing nations were not being fully addressed in the efforts to revive the global economy, President Obama indicated that the recapitalisation of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was one of his administration’s regional priorities”, the secretariat said.

    It added that Obama will appoint senior officials to facilitate better official interface between the U.S. and Caricom.

    It said that on the offshore financial services sector, the American President appreciated the new perspectives put on the table by the community and indicated that this merited another look.

    On security, he reiterated the pledge in his statement at the formal opening of the summit that US$30 million would be made available to the region to continue the fight against trafficking in illegal drugs and small arms.

    Good job on behalf of the CSME; CARICOM and the Region – Mr. President of Guyana.


  7. As someone who lives in the US & follow its politics closely,I think that President Obama doesn’t really give a damn about “Caricom’s Integration”.The only thing the US government actually cares about is actually Russia’s growing influence in South America & keeping it at bay,& the Caribbean would be a good start to do so.


  8. Regional Heads passed a no-confidence motion against David Thompson at the Summit of the Americas – by selecting the Guyana President to lead them in talks when they meet President Obama later this year and David Thompson get vex and now putting Guyanese and people from those countries that selected the Guyana President – out of Barbados.

    How can a Prime Minister of Barbados be so childish?

    Will David Thompson now ban Professor Girvan and Dr. Joseph from landing in Barbados because they say that he is “dumpsy?”

    Will David Thompson and the DLP deport Frank DaSilva; Auntie Olga and Ricky Singh?

  9. Ruel Daniels Avatar

    Those Caribbean leaders who selected a man who his wife claimed subjected her to high tech domestic abuse are a bunch of obsequious nattering nellies. Jagdeo cannot even lead his own Country. This man is not a national leader, he is the leader of an ethnic group, governs like the leader of an ethnic group, and stands in front of them hurling hateful innuendos against blacks

    That is why blacks continue to be spit upon and treated with disrespect by racist. When their leaders are so damned stupid and have complex for idiots they have to remain at the back of the class. It is no wonder Norman (David Duke) Faria act as if he owns black people in Barbados. These whiny black Caribbean leaders genuflect before Ricky Singh and these canta Brahmins like whores before their pimps.


  10. A pledge of $30 mil to fight drug trafficking and illegal small arms. All these bastards are doing is making the Caribbean a MILITARIZE zone. What a damn shame! And pray tell why should Jagdeo be congratulated? What has he done? Is it because Guyana is in a strategic position with its natural resources, its conflict with and its promixity to Venezuela which would make it a pivotal launching pad for any squirmishes against Venezuela by Obama? Or is it because he is head of a bleeding, bankrupt state?


  11. I have not commented on a blog site for over 3 years. I am intrigued though by the childishness and silliness of the comments of Dark Knight on this subject and think that a site like this should be kept away from children like him.

    The Caribbean has 13 leaders. Manning was not chosen to speak for the region. Golding was not chosen. Skerrit nor Douglas were not chosen. No one in their country is being so unpatriotic and arrogant as to think that because their leader was not chosen, that they are diminished.

    CARICOM is an integrated project with 13 major protagonists from diverse islands.

    So does that mean that all the other Prime Minister’s who were not chosen are “dumpsy”? Let’s be serious.

    It is in keeping with the BLP’s traditional philosophy that once you are the CSME man, you are the CARICOM man. For them CSME means CARICOM. CSME was not CARICOM when Erskine Sandiford was the PM responsible for CSME though!

    This is a strategy to boost Owen Arthur and the recent writings of Dark Knight and Royal Rumble are very much calculated to promote Owen Arthur not Mia Mottley. That they use Ms. Mottley’s good offices to ignore her and promote Arthur is unworthy but that’s politics folks.

    Back to the central point: this is why the BLP bloggers extrapolate that Barbados is an economy before it is a society! I read Clyde Mascoll a few weeks ago on this.

    One of his unfortunate disabilities is that for him Barbados is just an economy – numbers.

    There is a reason for this. As long as we view Barbados as an economy, it gives Arthur and Mascoll and their supporters the opportunity to boost themselves. They are economists.

    What the DLP under David Thompson seems to be doing is building a society – inclusive of an empowering economy – which gets back to basics.

    There is hope…


  12. We need to stay focus on what is important.

    Did we read in the press recently that the receiver of the Sanford Bank has expressed a lack of confidence in the Antigua Judiciary? This statement alone should be an affront to CARICOM.

    We wonder if Jagdeo raised this as an issue with Obama. There is enough evidence to suggest that speaking to Obama will not make one iota of difference. No wonder Thompson didn’t raise his blood pressure. Any crumbs Barbados get from the G7 table will be based on accident or personal relationships.


  13. Even though I am a bajan, I prefer the President of Guyana. David Thompson to me is not an effective and decisive leader as he is unable to articulate his points and command respect.


  14. Think we heard Ambassador Kellman with this point some time ago and that is the CARICOM region should find ways to enable Guyana to unleash his wealth. In the process Guyanese would not have to flock to the neighbouring small poorer islands of the Caribbean to work for money to support their families. It is the greatest travesty which the Caribbean is currently witnessing, to see the exodus of Guyanese in thousands when that country was not too long ago touted as the bread basket of the Caribbean. The political and racial conflict which has visited Guyana will go down as one of the biggest failures of the region when history’s page is written.


  15. Even though I am a bajan, I prefer the President of Guyana. David Thompson to me is not an effective and decisive leader as he is unable to articulate his points and command respect.
    _______

    Go and live in Guyana.

    If you say David Thompson cannot articulate his points, something is wrong with you. He is an extremely effective communicator. Most of all, he commands respect and that is why Jagdeo eventually signed the EPA after David Thompson, very early in his leadership, summoned them all here and read the Riot Act!

    Pardon me, but I also heard all of the the OECS leaders say that they will be guided by the Prime Minister of Barbados on the Clico matter!

    What is it you all are trying to prove? That Owen Arthur is a better leader? That point was decisively answered 15 months ago!

    So much for your silly comment.


  16. Jagdeo should have his ass cut for ruling Guayna with racism. It is not right;

    I will admit, when I heard some of the atrocities that were being handed out to my fellow blacks in Guyana. I was pist off. However, the more I think about it, the more I realise that this entire conception is wrong dead wrong.

    JAGDEO NEEDS TO STEP DOWN WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT!

    Rise up all right thinking Guyanese and cut Jagdeo’s ASS!


  17. Veritas // May 6, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    “He is an extremely effective communicator. Most of all, he commands respect and that is why Jagdeo eventually signed the EPA after David Thompson, very early in his leadership, summoned them all here and read the Riot Act!”

    I think they signed because of Christopher Sinckler. Sinckler was the man who was instrumental in convincing leaders – not Thompson.

    In fact, it was clear than Sinckler knew more about the topic than Thompson – to such an extent that some were saying that he looks and sounds Prime Ministerial.

    As MFA, Christopher Sinckler simply over-shadowed Thompson.

    That there was a Cabinet reshuffle and the firing of Sinckler – is not surprising.


  18. @ Veritas

    You wrote:

    “The Caribbean has 13 leaders. Manning was not chosen to speak for the region. Golding was not chosen. Skerrit nor Douglas were not chosen.”

    Yes, but none of them have lead responsibility for the CSME. Thompson had!

    That is the point Professor Girvan and Dr. Joseph is making: reshuffle – fire Thompson.

    Note that the Guyana President will discuss with President Obama, precisely what Thompson has lead responsibility within CARICOM, for.

    That is why regional academics like Prof. Girvan and Dr. Joseph are calling for a reshuffle of the quasi-CARICOM-Cabinet.

    Essentially – that Thompson should be fired, from having lead responsibility for the CSME.

    Regional Heads seem more graceful.

    They simply selected the Guyana President to be their chief spokesman.

    Veritas, no one expected that Thompson would have retaliated (get vex) and now put out Guyanese.

  19. Sinckler supporter. Avatar
    Sinckler supporter.

    Thompson is a master of the small details (as in trivial, inconsequential and irrelevant details). He is an expert in making innuendo which on analysis show to contribute precious little to any given debate except to insult an opponent. Mr Thompson is a masquerader without equal. Next kadoomnent he probably should play himself in powerX4.


  20. I agree with Veritas. Most of the BLP posters are trying to big up Owen Arthur as this great Caribbean guru. Yes it was so for the Guyanese.

    I was in a room with many nationals from the Caribbean, mostly Guyanese. An argument started about immigration and all other Caribbean nationals lambasted Barbados. The Guyanese felt the only good Barbadian was Owen Arthur because he said that he hired some illegally to work on his house and he was looking after their interest.


  21. This is the main and critical point to note:

    “They [ Heads of State ] recently unanimously passed a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister David Thompson by selecting the Guyana President to be their lead spokesman when they meet the US President later this year.”

    Since January 15, 2008, there have been a never-ending-series of no-confidence motions passed against Prime Minister Thompson.

    It started with Peter Wickham telling the DLP and Barbadians some plain truths.

    I will explain in my next post.


  22. Dark Knight, we did not elect the caribbean leaders, we elected David Thompson and his government. For the regional leaders to voice no confidence in the persons we elected to be our representatives and leader is to tell us that they have no confidence in us. Well if this is truly the case, please welcome back what belongs to you. Can you imagine Bajans taking orders from people like Patrick Manning, Ralph Gonzales, and de fella dey in Guyana? No kidding, that you are kidding!


  23. @ Adrian Hinds,

    As promised, here are the entities, local, regional and internation that have all indicated publicly that they have absolutely no-confidence in David Thompson:

    1. No sooner had David Thompson been elected Prime Minister of Barbados -than the DLP was told by Political Scientist and Pollster Mr. Peter Wickham (who is very familiar with the limitation of Thompson and the DLP) that it will be a one-term Government.

    That sounds like no-confidence to me!

    2. Within its first 100-days in office – the National newspaper conducted a poll in which 70% of the respondents gave the DLP a failing grade.

    That sounds like no-confidence to me!

    3. Regional academics such as Professor Girvan and Dr. Joseph essentially passed a no-confidence motion in David Thompson’s ability when they called for a reshuffle of the CARICOM quasi-Cabinet to fire him.

    That sounds like no-confidence to me!

    4. The Oppositon BLP then brought a no-confidence motion in David Thompson.

    Base on all of the above, with just cause also.

    5. As if acting on cue from regional academics, Regional Heads essentially passed a no-confidence motion in David Thompson when they selected the Guyana President to be their lead spokesman when they meet with President Obama later this year.

    That sounds like no-confidence to me!

    Note also that those talks will surround the exact matters which Thompson had lead responsibility within the CSME for.

    6. It gets worst.

    ICBL has now join the list of local, regional and international entities that have made public that they have absolutely no confidence in david Thompson.

    They are doing so by making know to the entire world that they wants absolutely nothing to do with Clico and David Thompson – its legal programme.

    Stay tuned for more!!!

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