I have gone and scared Scout. ”Are you then telling me to accomodate these migrat regionalist, you would “tek up” 2 1/2 acres of my land? You got to be MADDDDD. Over my dead body anbd a lot more too.”

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No Scout Sir. No one would take your property.

But, if it is on a property currently classified as agricultural, a new land use policy would prohibit this every being converted.

A new land use policy, would ensure, that if you ever sold it for development, there would be a maximum per lot size, to ensure adequate housing availability from such an area.

Maybe a half acre, maybe x square feet.

Such a policy needs legislation to give it teeth.

One can put it off, or complain that we should own however much we want, but in the greater good, such a policy is necessary.

As for the reference above by another, to socialist policies, that is neither relevant nor accurate.

This is about usage of a limited resource, nothing more nor less.

Peace

This guy Hog Squeal is either a decoy or a total idiot. I think the DLP is planting him/her to write bare nonsense on this blog site which then discredit Mia Mottley who he advises.

Does he/she really work in the Leader of the Opposition’s office? As what? The driver? Obviously not as a researcher or serious office-holder.

It is clear what is hurting the Bees: they have been on the wrong side of several critical issues – Clico, Immigration are two issues of note. Where is the party going on these except to the eternal discredit of its leader? They play so easily into the hands of David Thompson.

I have heard even strong BLP supporters saying that they support David Thompson 100 on this immigration thing.

One thing about Owen Arthur is that he did not suffer fools gladly – I would know because he taught me twenty years ago (whenever he was sober)! Is that the reason for his silence?

Either Hog Squeal is a decoy or and idiot or the Opposition Leader is worse off than I thought.

What is “IT” exactly that the DLP is doing that the BLP has been opposing for opposing sake?

Who said that colonialism is dead? Massa still leading us.

There is more in common between a Guyanese and a Bajan than there is between a Bajan and a Englishman, but yet the Englishman has managed to set Bajans and Guyanese at war with each other.

On the plantation, massa (Englishman) was able set the house slaves against the field slaves by making the house slaves feel that they were more important than the field slaves. Once the house slaves bought and accepted the big lie they started mistreating their brothers and sisters in the field. They spied on them and inform massa of everything the field slaves said and did.

This is the same tactic being used today to set Guyanese against Bajans. A small vocal group of Bajans have bought the big white lie that Barbadians are more important than the others in the rest of the region and that they need us but we done need them. This is the ploy being used by this “throw back” of colonialism, David Thompson, who has managed to get not only Bajans against Guyanese but has also succeeded in triggering an atmosphere of suspicion amongst other nationals in Caribbean.

Today, the union we started to build, with much success is in jeopardy and the survival and livelihood of our peoples in the region are at stake. Europe has build a union that today serves the social and economic mobility of its people, but here in the Caribbean we have fallen once again for the oldest political trick in the book. We have allowed this Englishman “New Age Massa” David Thompson to single handedly destroyed our union.

Barbados’ new immigration policy has nothing to do with protecting our borders or defending the interest of Barbadians. In fact, it is more about protecting the wicket and immoral deeds of Thompson and hiding the truth from Barbadians. We would be shock but far more enlightened if we knew the real reason behind Thompson’s policy, which is directed specifically and deliberately at Guyanese.

Mr. Fario and Mr. Jagdeo would want to do some investigations surrounding the departure of a young Guyanese lady from Barbados and the abuse she experienced while here. If this young lady is willing to confirm the abuse and mistreatment she received at the hands of Mr. Thompson, then every effort should made, on the part of the Guyanese Officials to bring the matter before the Human Rights tribunal at the United Nations. In addition, every woman and women’s group in Barbados that value their dignity should condemn the abuse suffered by this young lady.

On January 6, 2008, nine days before the general election a young Guyanese lady by the name of Patina Agustine was sent back to Guyana by Mr. Thompson with the understanding that she would be allowed to return following the completion of the election.

Ms. Agustine’s sojourn in Barbados was in search of a better life that ended up in total disaster. Her search was for nothing more than what Bajans searched for when they journeyed to England, USA, Panama, Guyana, Canada and other places in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and even today. What this young lady found has now become a depressed story that included regular sexual escapades with Mr. Thompson, the exponent of the Family First. The acts indulged in during these escapades ranged from cocaine use to sadism, where the ends of burning cigarettes were placed on her buttocks to heighten the sexual pleasure of pain.

It is the vehicle, registration number G7096, belonging to one Mr. Herbert Crichlow of 2nd Avenue, Lower Newbury, St George that was used by Mr. Thompson to transport Ms. Agustine. Ms. Agustine now feels used and abused by Thompson and feels that his refusal to let her back into the country is an act of bad faith.

I hold no sympathy for Ms. Agustine. In fact, the disrespect she showed herself and women in general is not the issue here. My concern is at the level of the man with whom she was involved and the kind of moral values he holds not only for himself and his family but also the women folk of this country and the example he sets for our children.

Ms. Agustine is willing to share her disappointment with the media and I wish her well. Sadly, it is for her willingness to share her sad story with the media that she and many of her countrymen will not be permitted to enter this country again.

Barbadians have a much bigger problem to solve. That our Nation is now in verbal combat with the rest of the region for policies that bear no relevance to our advancement as a people is most unfortunate. That a Prime Minister would engage state apparatus to protect his personal immoral acts is frightening. What can we expect next Thompson?

Camper // June 24, 2009 at 12:43 pm

Since when was parliament relevant to the Bees? Most of the decisions that hurt us between 1994 and 2008 never saw parliament.
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What?

Unemployment at 6.7 per lower than even when Barrow was PM;

Over $2.7 billion in foreign exchange, the most ever.

Are you talking about progressive legislation that had a transforming effect on the Barbadians society, such as the Public Service Act, the Scotland District Authority Act; logical amendements to the Income Tax Act such as would provide for the first $25,000 tax free?

You could not be talking about the 8% cut, that was the DLP.

Camper trust me it was no Clico millions it was the average persons in the street that was ready to bid the corruption so long and farewell, ordinary people like you and I helped remove these crooks of the BLP from the corridors of Parliament..

Trust me if money won elections Owing and Mascot would be sitting pretty because Owing would be Leader and Mascot CoLeader, remember they money that they tried to giveaway in the Farm until they were stopped by ordinary citizens???

Per Bloomberg:

June 21 (Bloomberg) — Banks in North Carolina, Georgia and Kansas with combined assets of $1.5 billion were seized by regulators last week, costing the U.S. insurance fund $363 million and pushing this year’s tally of failures to 40.

Southern Community Bank of Fayetteville, Georgia, and 111- year-old Cooperative Bank in Wilmington, North Carolina, were closed June 19 by state officials, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency shut First National Bank of Anthony, Kansas. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was named receiver.

Southern Community’s $307 million in deposits were bought by United Community Bank of Blairsville, Georgia, and most of Cooperative’s $774 million in deposits went to First Bank in Troy, North Carolina, the FDIC said. Bank of Kansas in South Hutchinson acquired First National’s $142.5 million in deposits. The acquiring banks are assuming a combined $1.47 billion in assets, mostly loans, and signed agreements with the FDIC to share more than 80 percent losses with the government.

“The loss-sharing arrangement is projected to maximize returns on the assets covered by keeping them in the private sector,” the FDIC said in each statement. “The agreement also is expected to minimize disruptions for loan customers.”

Regulators this year have closed the most banks since 1993 as a loss of 6 million jobs since the recession began contributes to mounting home foreclosures and loan delinquencies. The U.S. economy contracted at a 5.7 percent annual pace in the first quarter. More than a quarter of all states have unemployment rates higher than 10 percent, the Labor Department said last week.

Assessment Fee

The regulator estimates the seizures will cost the deposit insurance fund $363 million, led by $217 million for Cooperative Bank. The reserve in the first quarter fell 25 percent from the previous year, to $13 billion — the lowest since September 1993. The FDIC in May imposed an emergency fee to raise $5.6 billion to rebuild the fund, with more assessments possible.

Cooperative Bank, the biggest of the three to fail June 19, was considered undercapitalized after an FDIC review last year and had entered agreements with federal and state regulators, including an April 24 accord with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, on capital and management.

The bank halted or slowed writing loans held for investment in the fourth quarter to comply with orders to improve capital ratios, according to a May 20 statement from the company.

Southern Community in October said it overhauled operations and raised capital in an attempt to survive, after receiving an order from the FDIC, according to a regulatory filing in November. The bank replaced Chief Executive Officer Gary McGaha with Dave Coxon and raised $2 million to weather additional loan losses, the statement said.

‘Substantial Dissipation’

First National Bank had “substantial dissipation” of assets, earnings and losses depleted most capital, and “no reasonable prospect” of becoming adequately capitalized without federal assistance, the OCC said in a statement.

Southern Community’s five offices opened yesterday as branches of United Community, and Cooperative’s 24 branches will open tomorrow as part of First Bank. Six offices of First National will open under normal business hours as branches of Bank of Kansas, the FDIC said.

As many as 1,000 U.S. banks could fail in the next three to five years on losses related to commercial real estate loans, RBC Capital Markets analysts said in February. The FDIC estimates U.S. bank failures through 2013 may cost $70 billion.

The FDIC classified 305 banks as “problem” institutions in the first quarter, a 21 percent jump from the fourth quarter and the highest since 1993, the agency said May 27. The agency doesn’t identify problem lenders.

The FDIC insures deposits at more than 8,220 institutions with $13.5 trillion in assets.

To contact the reporters on this story: Margaret Chadbourn in Washington at mchadbourn@bloomberg.net; Ari Levy in San Francisco at alevy5@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: June 22, 2009 10:52 EDT

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So, 2009 has seen the most banks shut since 1993, up to 1000 could fail in the next three to five years, but Hogsqueal thinks that the US economy is coming out of recession.

Maybe Hogsqueal can cantact the US Treasury and offer his/ her services, as he/she must be tremendously clever to have much better understanding than us all.

Peace

Fear?

I’m only afraid that you, once in the vanguard of exposing wrongdoing, are now the pathetic apologist for the establishment cover-up.

Remember when you had credibility, you told us over a year ago prosecutions are coming.

Same old, same old.

In his column in today’s Barbados Advocate, hartley henry, a.k.a, ($155,000 highly paid principle political adviser ) Wishinh In Vain, wrote:

“Mr. Swine Flu, we are going to do everything in our power to remove and eradicate you from this country. But we are not going to blame you for what others overlooked and sidestepped and what now has to be done in the national interest. There is more to politics than politricks!:

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Is it not true that David Thompson and the DLP pose an even greater threat to Barbados and CARICOM that Swine Flu?

Then why rid Barbados of Swine Flu and not the DLP?

There are those who would rather a small dose of Swine Flu than five years of the DLP.

Ask those thousands who have lost their jobs or teachers, nurses and policemen who did not get those duty free cars or increase pay.

“Everbody” in Barbados is enduring economic pain as a result of the DLP’ dangerous mismanagement but only five have had Swine Flu.

YB. I would not say that the opposition is opposing for opposing sake. The only striking objection were the Clico issue and partially, the Immigration debate. The biggest area of opposing which the opposition failed to deal with is the “HELP” housing issue with its massive spending.

During any recession, especially this period where foreclosure is eminent. Any Government will be stupid to build hundreds of houses and preaching that John Public will be able to buy one of them, knowing that people are loosing jobs and the others are fearing their jobs. Notwithstanding that the salaries being made by these so-called potential homeowners are in no way within the peripheral to obtain a mortgage. So here we are see lots of houses being built and questionably, sold to who?

David, Scout, WIV et al; please enlightened the BU family regarding the following:-

How many lower to middle income people purchased those homes?

How many of the 63,000 being mooted, purchased other homes, unable to get a mortgage, died, not interested in a home that would give a better updated figure of potential home ownership?

How many foreigners purchased those homes?

How many third party wealthy investors purchased those homes?

We can distinctly remember, the CEO of the NHC stated that the corporation realised over 30 percent of potential owners could not meet the mortgage requirement. What say you?

My feelings are; the NHC should have concentrated on building terrace units for rental to assist those disadvantage people in having a roof over their heads. Not beating ‘ones chest’ about how many homes being built and not a bajan poor can buy.

This is one that should have been debated.

I’m off to work in order to pay my mortgage.

WORD HAS REACHED Cou Cou that a dual complaint has been dropped.

He beat her; she beat him. He complained; she did likewise.

But before the sordid details hit the fan, both have been advised that there is no need to add further bruising to the ones they endured. It could especially hurt his political aspirations.

They no longer share the same roof and expectations are that after the formalities are completed, the two others waiting in the shadows can come into the light.

Even Flying Fish and Cou Cou is aware of the Kerrie Simmonds and the beating that he gave his wife, reports also reaching me state that part of the cause of the unrest is that Kerrie has being responsible for getting his secretary pregnant and this is a major reason for the break down with his marriage coupled with the fact that he has this stain against his name with his collection and holding of the money to obtain a work permit and a sworn document form a Dr Boolani confirming this to be the case, is a haunting factor.