I don’t know nutting bout politics or the opposition leader, all i know is that she is an alleged ‘wicker with a iron fist.’ and the voice don’t help much.

True or not, that is how i view her ‘in a nut shell.’ so she cant get my vote.

I wid u, RD!! I in voting eida!! Whaever dah is!!

@199

Your comment was edited. Dont cross the line again.

I caan onstan dat one at all!!

Agree with the position Yardbroom has taken and Bush tea on another blog. The talk shows and the blogs etc have show that politicians will have to come different. Lets see what happen.

For one i dont closely follow politics but certainly i do vote!!!!!!!

I think most of the ‘younger’ public is like me in this regard. Personality plays a big role for the politician, in this day and age, when i notice a problem i should be able to ask my self what would my leader do? and ‘know’ what they would do.

That ‘persived connection’ is all it takes to get my FIRST vote, if ya mess it up, you cant get it again. EVER.

David, thank you for the reply but, “prattles”? Dat hard man!! Anyway, according to your correction I’m going to re-write the sentence:

I in have nuh intention of voting fuh nuh ALLEGED, wikka!! I hope dat satisfy my dear friend Dave’s insistance pun accuracy an fairness!!

But, “prattles”, Dave!! Dat’s hard man!! Dat’s hard!!

I still maintain that my point about the voting eligibility of Bajan-Americans and British-Bajans is still a reasonable point to make!!

Over the years, the DLP became practiced at the art of looking back, complaining and attributing blame to everyone but themselves.

It now blames the global financial crisis for its poor judgment and bad decisions, which triggered a meltdown of the Barbados economy and made a difficult global financial situation more challenging for Barbadians.

Truth is, the DLP is too stupid to realise that with our foreign reserves plummeting – the global financial crisis is actually doing it a favor.

The list of persons (including die- hard Dems) who are saying that the DLP does not know what it is doing and is therefore creating a mess, is getting longer, daily.

Whether the DLP will be able to hold onto its job – is up to the people.

However, the record will show that even within its first 100 days in office, seventy per cent of the respondents in a Nation Newspaper poll gave the DLP a failing grade.

Watching as family members loose their jobs; being price gouged on land tax; petroleum products and now hurting unnecessary in their pockets – Barbadians are in no mood to give the DLP a second chance.

They remember only too well the words of DLP elder: Sir Frederick Smith, Q.C., when he said: “well give them a chance and if you do not like how they perform, kick them out.”

Still, having created such unnecessary economic pain, the DLP is holding on to its job longer than expected.

Barbadians must not loose their sense of outrage, especially when there is a better way.

In the national interest, the people must rescue this country and put it back on track.

Given its “intellectual weakness” and “political incompetence,” the political institution (the DLP) that dominated the Barbadians political landscape between 1961 and 1976 – will have a near impossible task of convincing even a tolerant Barbadian society – to ever trust it again, especially since the Barbados Labour Party has proven for fourteen years that the DLP will never be able to have influence in a thinking society.

That under Errol Barrow the DLP was a symbol of Barbados’ ascendency but is now diminished and humbled – is unfortunate.

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While you seek to take the spot light off David Thompson and put it on the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, note that the “breaking news is that Thompson has stop the Natural Gas Pipeline from Trinidad to Barbados.

Why?

Simpson and Clico. But I will tell you more later.

Talk about collusion and corruption! And the Church is silent as death.

Barbados! Where is your sense of outrage.

@Adrian

Check the immigration blog underm BT made a comment last night.

I stand fully behind my comments had it not been for the actions of one young sensible thinking lawyer who formerly sat on that board to stand up and say enough is enough the Brewer and Hoyos clan would have secured the operation of all 14 duty free shops at GAIA, he in his wisdom stood up to the nonsense and said that some of that space needed to be set aside for local back owned business, I praise him fully for having the guts to go against the trend permitted by Owing, Mottley and company, the only reason Hoyos and Brewer were given so much room to operate is that these two were the revenue generating machinery of the BLP, created to be DLP crusher, the use of vast sums of cash on Election day where Owing and Mascot were openly seen going to the trunk of M50 and extracting white plastic bags of cash in Deacons and the Farm, the electorate were smarter that the politicians by a long way they took the tainted BLP money derived from persons like Hoyos and Brewer and passed on to the BLP network yet still they voted for the DLP and voted you out.

A Fast Free Fall – From Prosperity to Crisis

There can be no denying that under Errol Barrow, the DLP was a political institution that helped lift hundreds of thousands of Barbadians into the middle class.

Back then, the DLP continued the transforming of this country that started by Grantley Adams, utilizing Barbadian talent and innovation and its access to grant funds and concessionary loans.

Today, not knowing what it is doing (even though being the government) the DLP’s slide continues with Errol Barrow’s Party travelling below the earth at record speed.

The DLP’s reality is therefore: “a Fast Free Fall – From Prosperity to Crisis.”

Will there be an investigation into why are Chinese threatening to bulldoze the homes of Barbadians who were living on the land for over an half of a century?

And , to build a guard wall? A guard who?

Highly respected regional academic, Sir Ronald Saunders, has added his voice to the growing list of intellectuals who are disappointed in David Thompson and feel that he poses a tremendous threat to regional integration.

Sir Ronald therefore adds legitimacy to what has been said by other intellectuals, such as Professor Frank Alleyne; Professor Girvan and Dr. Joseph – the latter of who has openly called for a reshuffle of the quasi-CARICOM Cabinet.

In essence, highly respected regional academics are of the view that David Thompson should be fired because he lacks the capacity to drive to process forward and is only a pedestrian – at a time when intellect and leadership is required.

?????Why Knight Templar??????

The Knights Templar trace their origin back to shortly after the First Crusade. Around 1119, a French nobleman from the Champagne region, Hugues de Payens, collected eight of his knight relatives including Godfrey de Saint-Omer, and began the Order, their stated mission to protect pilgrims on their journey to visit The Holy Places.

They approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, who allowed them to set up headquarters on the southeastern side of the Temple Mount, inside the Al Aqsa Mosque. Since the Temple Mount was the site of biblical King Solomon’s Temple the Order took the name “The Poor Knights of the Temple of King Solomon”, which later became abbreviated to “Knights Templar”.

Little was heard of the Order for their first nine years. But in 1129, after they were officially sanctioned by the church at the Council of Troyes, they became very well-known in Europe.

Their fundraising campaigns asked for donations of money, land, or noble-born sons to join the Order, with the implication that donations would help both to defend Jerusalem, and to ensure the charitable giver of a place in Heaven.

The Order’s efforts were helped substantially by the patronage of Bernard of Clairvaux, the leading churchman of the time, and a nephew of one of the original nine knights. The Order at its outset had been subject to strong criticism, especially of the concept that religious men could also carry swords.

In response to these critics, the influential Bernard of Clairvaux wrote a multi-page treatise entitled De Laude Novae Militae (“In Praise of the New Knighthood”), in which he championed their mission and defended the idea of a military religious order by appealing to the long-held Christian theory of just war, which legitimated “taking up the sword” to defend the innocent and the Church from violent attack. By so doing, Bernard legitimised the Templars, who became the first “warrior monks” of the Western world.

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Of Knight Templar, Bernard of Clairvaux, wrote:

“A Templar Knight is truly a fearless knight, and secure on every side, for his soul is protected by the armor of faith, just as his body is protected by the armor of steel. He is thus doubly-armed, and need fear neither demons nor men.”

One of the tenets of their religious order was that they were forbidden from retreating in battle

LOL, KT, I din ask fuh uh history lesson!! I already know enuf bout dem tuh do me!!

Ok, Sir Templar Knight!! lol!!

Cigarette and gambling?

These are sin taxes. Nothing wrong if you are promoting good health (medical and spiritual) and wellness.

The cellphone tax is a nuisance tax.

It cannot be implemented because it would be costly to administer – hence a nuisance tax and a waste of Parliament’s time.

Speaking on Starcom Network’s Tell It Like It Is on Friday, Joseph, a lecturer at Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies, said “the language and pronouncements made [by the Thompson Administration] would lead one to conclude that the current leadership is not pro-integration”.

He also called for some leaders to be shifted in CARICOM’s quasi-Cabinet.

“You actually look at commitment, skill and personal ability, for example, before you give someone a ministry . . . [but] what we have in CARICOM is where a Prime Minister may inherit a portfolio,” said Joseph

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In short, there should be a reshuffle of the Caricom Cabinet because David Thompson is “intellectually weak” and lack the capacity to drive the CSME process forward.

Just what we need to import drugs,right Jester Templar.

http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/news/local/06/05/six-guyanese-guilty-in-huge-bajan-drug-bust/

“Six Guyanese guilty in huge Bajan drug bust
By Stabroek staff | June 5, 2009 in Local News
-Narcotics had been secreted in logs

(Barbados Nation) Six Guyanese who have been on a prolonged trial in Barbados on a charge of smuggling ganja and cocaine into that country in 2005 were yesterday found guilty and will be sentenced on June 15.

Lemme Michael Campbell, 45, and his wife Somwattie Persaud, 40, both of 106 New Garden Street, Georgetown; Christopher Bacchus, 43, and his wife Dianne Bacchus, 37, both of Bay Gardens, Bayland, St Michael, Barbados; Wayne Gavin Green, 38, of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown and Bridgefield, St Thomas, and Rohan Shastri Rambarran, a 43-year-old businessman of Georgetown, Guyana, were on trial in the Number Four Supreme Court on six counts relating to a police seizure of hundreds of kilos of both cannabis and cocaine at a house in Bay Gardens, St Michael.

All six had denied possession and trafficking in 91.3 kilos of cannabis and 119.4 kilos of cocaine on November 30, 2005, while Campbell and Rambarran had denied importing both cannabis and cocaine on November 29, 2005.

Around 1.50 pm yesterday, the nine-member mixed jury walked back into court after deliberating for nearly three hours.

The foreman, bearing a sheet of paper, rose and, when asked if the jury had reached unanimous verdicts with respect to each accused, replied yes.

He then intoned 28 guilty verdicts. As he did, Somwattie Persaud started to silently cry and her husband held his head down. Rambarran started to fidget as if wanting to rise and speak.

On hand, inside and outside the court, immigration officers waited, while friends of the six hovered in the courtyard of the court complex.

“The prosecution is asking for an adjournment at this stage,” said Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock, QC, who led the prosecution’s team of Principal Crown Counsel Anthony Blackman and Principal Crown Counsel Wanda Blair.

There was no objection from the defence attorneys and Justice Kaye Goodridge adjourned the matter until June 15.

“And the six accused are remanded in custody,” she said, before thanking jurors, police, prison officers and other court staff for the work during the trial.”
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I wonder why the BLP are so anxious to be “pro-integration” or is it pro-drug money,hmmmmm ?

Here is what is written on page 69 of the BLP’s 2008 manifesto:

“We have strengthened the capability to effectively police our territorial waters against drug traffickers and other transnational criminal activity.”

Why did the BLP revamp Barbados’ communication capacity by purchasing and installing an integrated wireless telecommunication network at a cost of more that $26 million?

Why was Police operations computerised; state of the art equipment acquired and a Local and Wide Area Network, activated?

What is the judicail system modification all about? Do you realise that the building that was recently named after US AG Eric Holder and not after Sir Federick Smith, Q.C., was built by the BLP.

What was the $59 million coast guard upgrade all about?

Why were new boats bought for the police and coast guard.

Incidentally, is it true that in the last election – the DLP told drug dealers that Arthur bought boats for the Coast Guard so that they cannot get their drugs into Barbados?

Why do drug dealers feel that the DLP gave them a commitment, which it must now honour?

David Thompson prooves regional academics right.

As if to confirm that he is a joker, david Thompson said recently that the Arawak Cement Plant should put a “welcome sign” on its roof so that people coming into Barbados can see it.

I suppose he will soon tell the BDF at Paragon to do similar.

He then says that he cannot wait for the day when the US economy rebounds.

david Thompson is too “intellectually weak” to realise that there is a link between the US economy rebounding and increase demand – hence increase food and oil prices – hence an increase in the cost of living in Barbados and increase pressure on our foreign reserves.

Why is this a problem? There is already reduced investor confidence in the DLP and a capital flight from this country. FDI down.

People are travelling but not to Barbados.

Peoplem are investing but jut not in Barbados.

Under DLP rule, Barbados is on a free fall from prosperity to crisis.

Mad men at the controls yet no public outrage, despite the warning of the most intelligent locally and within the region.

Kt ‘killa’ somebody got to get terrorize, you wife get deport or wha?

Tell me something, who/what criteria determines the head the Caribbean integration ‘council’ is it only the head of Barbados?

If that is so then the critique towards OUR PM is unjustified because his predecessors views on integration may not be in keeping with his own.

He may not even want that level of integration.

Once again i will like say this, I expect those I place in power to protect and uphold all laws.

Barbados is not yet a socialist “utopia” like Cuba where, whatever is said by those at the top goes. In Barbados today you have to win the argument, you have to, as in the kind of democracy that we hold too, argue your point to and convince those electors whose support you will require in other to govern. These so called regional academics and the BLP need to win the argument. The latter clearly is on the wrong side of the debate with no way to dig themselves out, and the former, still cannot bring themselves to talk to average people. I don’t know how they can ever convince anyone of anything they say.

Barbados is not yet a socialist “utopia” like Cuba where, whatever is said by those at the top goes

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The thing that binds Cubans is “UNITY.”

The Party in Cuba has about 850,000 members.

Perhaps you should also be aware that Cuba has tremendous respect for Barbados, Jamaica and those countries that held the line back then and established Diplomatic Missions there, despite the American boycott.

If ya braking the law ya should be locked up. simple.

but

‘Rules or made for the guidence of the wise but for fools to follow.’

With that said, if Clico was to fall would it be for the better or worst of Barbados?

All a them breck laws you talking bout is too much for me to swallow, at once. So we gin have too attack them one at a time.

You saying there is a way that i could boycott paying road tax?

Part the printery is??or you did not mean that literally.

CBC is not the best place to broadcast from?

I really is a novice to these things but i wanna learn what going on bout hay.

If they are bright how come they have not figured out a way to “win” the argument with less bright people? I think is it trio of physical, mental, and intellectual laziness that defines caribbean academics love affair with socialist type goverments, such as Castro’s Cuba. They just seem to lack the ability to convince any significant number of people of what they claim they believe, and know. Maybe they just BELIEVE.