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The recently constructed Boardwalk on the South coast which stretches from Accra Beach for about half mile towards Bridgetown has been well received by locals and tourists alike. This week it was reported in the news that the Segway Scooters donated to the Royal Barbados Police Force have been withdrawn from patrolling the Boardwalk. If we can read between the lines from the press report, a policeman was injured while negotiating the Boardwalk but may not have been covered adequately by insurance.

The biggest negative feedback to date about the Boardwalk has been the lack of lighting which makes strolling the Boardwalk in the late evening somewhat of a risk. We thought it was the biggest negative feedback until we viewed the video above. The Internet can be our friend but it can be our enemy.

The relevant government agency needs to get in gear and remember that if we don’t care for our own, we are a tourist country for Godsakes!

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593 responses to “Down By The Boardwalk”

  1. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    18 million???? wunnuh wouldn’t stop building so close to the sea? But you mean tuh tell me duh aint got one hand operated rolling sidewalk sweeper in Bim?

  2. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    But wait David you sure you got this from LIB? I just watch the entire clip and this is a typical BFP prodution.

    ….As the video shows, only certain people in Barbados care about Barbados,….but did they continue to clean until the job was done or only for the duration of the photo op?

    I will not use this video to demonstrate why others were brought to the caribbean to do manual labour. lol!

    Sorry folks but the 18 mil was wasted from the time they built it. Building on sand was never a good idea.

  3. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Interesting video (from a sociological perspective)!

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Interesting observation Adrian without going racial.

    It seems the Whites are more inclined to treat with matters of the environment and that’s a fact albeit based on observation.

  5. Comment Avatar
    Comment

    The videos intent while I am sure has the best intentions behind it can be a little deceiving. I have never walked the boardwalk but looking at the pictures of the sand, the sea etc it looks like they were taken right after “big sea”. As you can see there are not too many footsteps on the sand etc. I would guess early morning after big seas. In which case I dont think you can blame the NCC for not being down there right away. This happens on all beaches around the island when there have been high seas. Before I lay blame I would like to hear from others if that is the state it is in all the time???? Whenever I have been on specific sections its looked very clean to me.

  6. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    Despite the previous post on the sociological aspect of the situation, and Adrian’s above backhanded acknowledgement of same, I will stick administrative issue at hand.

    This non-maintenance of a significant public expenditure, while unfortunate and errant, should be no surprise.

    There is always much ado about capital expenditure, yet subsequent upkeep of facilities is always lacking.

    This is a general malaise or disrespect in this nation, towards our surroundings and nature.

    Schools, hospital plant etc are left to ruin, until there is much complaint, at which point the patchwork ‘solution’, if you can call it that, is used, one can hardly use the word implemented honestly.

    Any time one places significant expenditure towards an area, subsequent upkeep is essential to ensure effective results are achieved, let alone regular maintenance reduces subsequent further remedial costs.

    One might argue, that when something is left to ruin, it creates new opportunity for further multi-million dollars in remedial work, but I will not go there.

    This however, goes beyond the strict common-sense knowledge of addressing administration of plant and equipment.

    This is about ‘Pride and Industry’, that are boldly used as watchwords in our National Emblem.

    ‘Pride that makes no wanton boast’, per our Anthem, are words in direct conflict with much seen today.

    Whether the lack of upkeep of our physical nation, or the nonchalant littering or indeed, the wine up and wuck up, grind all about, that is the thing we seek to showcase as ‘culture’, these all exhibit the truth that we have lost the plot as to what it means to be proud, not just as a people who have come far, but as civilised people who respect what the Almighty has created and given to us, that we may be comfortable.

    Are we really proud of our island, or are these just words, used to satisfy our guilt that we really have not the inclination to do better?

    While I will be the first to push for a fair chance for all and indeed have used space here to speak for that, I also reject the notion that we do not have choices, even if poor, to be respectful and industrious, in whatever small way that we can.

    Our outward cleanliness and bearing, is reflective of our inward ideals.

    Likewise, that of the nation, is also reflective of the collective conscience, as it stands today.

    Later this year, things will get harder, not easier and our mettle will truly be tested like never before.

    In times like this we need to be strong but foremost need to look to the basics that can take us through the chasm of trouble.

    These basics are industry, respect, for ourselves and others and for respect and love of the Almighty and all creations.

    Goods that are used to live, to survive are necessary, we must work hard to achieve these, but chasing material goods that have little use, is a waste of time and energy that can be better spent.

    In times like this, leadership is also required to focus the collective conscience on necessities and peaceful advancement of beneficial attitudes.

    I leave it there.

    Finally, it is noticeable that in the last few weeks, the South Coast water has been unusually high and rough, as reflected in the way that the sand has been placed high on the beach, in the video.

    Peace

  7. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    ‘Comment’, I noticed in the last few weeks, it was not clean, albeit usually not as bad as above, only on one occasion I saw.

    Before that, it was impeccable, I do not know what happened.

    But, it was recently opened, my worry is that the ‘honeymoon’ is over, as with most other things.

  8. Avatar
    Anonymous

    What do you mean “built on sand”. Local and foreign engineers contributed to the design of the boardwalk. Construction was done by reputable firms from Trinidad and Barbados. The boardwalk enhances public access to that coastal area, provides a degree of protection to infrastructure from wave action and is part of a wider program of coastal rehabilitation going on both the south and west coasts. Now as to the cost, I cannot comment except that construction costs are high in Barbados as any householder can attest.

  9. Avatar
    Anonymous

    I walked on the boardwalk only yesterday and it was in good condition and generally clear of sand.

  10. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Maybe the NCC people have come to realize that this is an exercise in idiocy.

    It is amazing how the last administration could find $18 million to spend building concrete in sand next to an unpredictable ocean.
    What coastal zone management unit what?!!
    …who are these people and exactly what do they do?

    …any sensible person would have used a fraction of that money to build a NATURAL parklike area along the beach….. there may even be some merit in an offshore boulder barrier to produce a calm lake-like beach to facilitate sea bathing and other beach activities….
    …but no!! we are building concrete pathways on the edge of the Atlantic!!

    I have been around long enough to know that everything that is placed next to the coast eventually will be destroyed.
    It is indeed a fool that “buildeth upon the sand…”

    Bush tea feels personally that Mr Neblett realizes that this is a lost cause and ‘done wid dat!’ ..LOL
    ———–
    As far as the habit of littering by Bajans is concerned, it is indeed a nasty and unfortunate habit; however has anyone ever thought of any good reason why the average Mr. or Ms. Nobody should care about the environment?

    – Do they feel ownership of Barbados?
    – Do they feel that the rewards of success are fairly distributed to them?
    – Are their opinions solicited in decision making? (hopefully the Constituency councils will address this)
    – Given the recent philosophy of bringing Tom, Dick and LIB to Barbados with their know-it-all attitudes and misguided superiority complexes, who really expects that the average Bajan will comply and be a ‘Mr. Goodnegro’?

    Wanna people have been reading too much fiction and listening to Tourist Board PR…..

    When we get the kind of leadership that RESPECTS the average Bajan; rewards the average successful Bajan businessman; that lets HOME drums beat first; and that remembers that charity begins at HOME;

    Only then- will Bajans demonstrate the pride and Industry that is indeed ingrained in us….

    As I said in a previous thread, leadership is about developing your people to be the best that they can be. It is not about discarding them and importing strangers to run your country… and expecting the discarded and disrespected locals to be models of pride and industry too boot….

    ….Do I need to list the number of outstanding Bajans who are not allowed to succeed financially because of petty jealousies, Lodge clans, and misguided priorities???

    The former PM actually said that bajan workers were asking for excessively high wages (making his imported friends unhappy) and that he would bring cheap foreigners to replace them….

    What did that say to Bajans? ….and now these people posting videos talking about littering?!?!?

    While Bajans may have reacted with an attitude of ‘not caring’, many other nationalities would have reacted in far more destructive ways….believe me!!

    …seems to Bush Tea that the right people were cleaning the boardwalk…. those who enjoy the successes of our country.

  11. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Rumplestilskin hit the nail on the head with his remarks about maintenance of public buildings and facilities. Lack of maintenance causes them to deteriorate at a faster rate than normal which generates unnecessary expenditure in repairing the premises and fixtures. (What is mash up and build back again?). Having been on the Boardwalk a few times and not seeing sand in the quantity portrayed on the video, I think that the object of the video is to embarrass the Gov’t read NCC into fixing those areas that they are responsible for and not necessarily the Boardwalk, notice that another trashy area was featured in the video. Not to make an excuse for the folks at NCC (though I’ve seen them goofing off in Queens Park) are they supposed to monitor the Boardwalk 24/7? What if a crew is assigned to clear the area at 10.00am daily and the “Friends etc” show up at 7.00 am complete with video equipment in hand?

    As to the lack of lighting, I am sure that the area was supposed to be lit but the local establishments adjacent to the boardwalk voiced their objections and the Gov’t acquiesced to their wishes. In retrospect the decision seems to be ill advised.

    The Segways were part of a public relations effort by the BTA and the Police following the Long Bay attack but they are a waste of time for the area. Two constables on foot patrol are a better fit and it looks like they have resorted to pounding the beat since a policeman fell off the self balancing vehicles.

    Finally the sea can be a fickle friend; one minute it will bring great joy and the next misery.

  12. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Another Gem of a response from Bush Tea.

  13. 199 Avatar
    199

    I ws half expecting to see a sign saying, ‘Whites Only’!! Perhaps, it’s just a matter of time?!! No blacks seem to live in the area!!

  14. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    There are many ways to react to the video. These include malicious propaganda by some white poeple to suggest that local blacks are uncaring about the environment, but local whites are. It could also show that inadequate consideration was given to a set of natural problems that have to be dealt with periodically, and for which perhaps no provision has been made. And so on. But, film aside, one still has to think about the issues that may exist. They were flagged in the early days after the boardwalk’s opening, and I think remain unaddressed. Those I saw immediately were (a) inadequate lighting (but my recollection is that the police opposed this because they did not want the area to attract undesirables after dark; (b) inadquate provision for litter disposal (I commented in January that there were no trash bins along the boardwalk, and with restaurants including a KFC fronting the area, one might expect an interest in providing such bins); (c) incomplete work (waste water of various kinds from the buildings was flowing toward the sea/boardwalk with no evident exist, and was stagnating); (d) damage to turtle nesting grounds/areas.

    The other aspect to consider is that, like the tales that tourists tell, this is now being seen by world eyeballs that look on Barbados. If it is unwarranted, I know that I will read in a few days of a visit by a Minister to walk the walk with a camera crew and assure us that all is hunky-dory.

    As some have noted B$ 18 mill. to build does nothing to maintain. Last I read, there was no money available for upkeep. You can do the rest of the figuring. Goodwill and maybe some corporate largesse may come forward, but that’s not how I imagine it’s supposed to be. But what do I know?Has anyone heard about the progress of the west coast boardwalk?

  15. David Avatar
    David

    People who know the Hastings stretch witness the sea at high tide splashing onto the car parks and road. Is this occurrence factored in the EIA and how it should be managed from a maintenance perspective?

  16. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    199 // July 12, 2009 at 2:20 am

    I ws half expecting to see a sign saying, ‘Whites Only’!! Perhaps, it’s just a matter of time?!! No blacks seem to live in the area!!
    ————————————————–
    I have gotten use to this. There was a time you couldn’t find persons on material, video or pamphlet with skin tone darker than a tan advertising Bimshire tourism products in the Americas or Europe. So here we are once again with the faces of traditional marketeers of Barbados this time seemingly wanting to tell people to stay away.
    Is that Peter Harris in the Dark Shirt? If so, um look real bad though, that not one Black person was invited to this video shoot. Now if only LIB was back in Bimshire he surely could have even things out with his presense. Not as a bajan God forbid, but as a darker hue person, well as long as he didn’t open his mouth. lol!

  17. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    ha ha ha Now de Mullins Beach people gine be pissed that the Board walk needs saving also and may compete for scarce resources. And de people that own de great house down in Road view might got tuh swim on their own now. Is there any other place yet unidentified that we can think of to dump more money into the ocean?

  18. 199 Avatar
    199

    Hi Adrian, the thing which really irritates me is that these ppl are probably some of the same who have given our people hell over the years at work and now they’ve reached retirement age, have come to live in BIM!! I would want to check their background before letting any of them into there!!

  19. David Avatar
    David

    @199

    You are way out of line, don’t test us this bright Sunday morn!

  20. Avatar
    Anonymous

    @David
    “Is this occurrence factored in the EIA and how it should be managed from a maintenance perspective?”
    [You mean ‘environmental impact assessment’? Whenyou find it you can do the civic thing and post it. See the IADB report on the process, http://www.iadb.org/sds/doc%5CMIREIA-Barbados.pdf, which seems to involve only the government, developer, and ‘consultants’.

    For those who can think, (and AH don’t say I stirred this pot), you will sense already a tone that goes against those of a certain hue. I leave that for you ‘patriots’ to work out of your systems and think whether what I started as a facetious set of points really goes more to the core.

    I have lobster to catch and baseball to watch.

    For 199, a black film crew (Martinique/Guadeloupe) did a shoot already, but it’s in French, but I have not seen the final cut.

  21. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

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    @David
    “Is this occurrence factored in the EIA and how it should be managed from a maintenance perspective?”
    [You mean ‘environmental impact assessment’? Whenyou find it you can do the civic thing and post it. See the IADB report on the process, http://www.iadb.org/sds/doc%5CMIREIA-Barbados.pdf, which seems to involve only the government, developer, and ‘consultants’.

    For those who can think, (and AH don’t say I stirred this pot), you will sense already a tone that goes against those of a certain hue. I leave that for you ‘patriots’ to work out of your systems and think whether what I started as a facetious set of points really goes more to the core.

    I have lobster to catch and baseball to watch.

    For 199, a black film crew (Martinique/Guadeloupe) did a shoot already, but it’s in French, but I have not seen the final cut.

    For 199 again, perhaps you forget how things seem to be in Bim. This crew also have a film on Kadooment and I most people watching cannot ignore how ‘Blue Box Cart’ looks relative to othr groups. So, with that sort of background where do you see regularly the seemless intermingling of the black and white races in Bimshire? Lemon Arbour, occasionally. Cricket regularly. But beyond that?]

  22. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Adrian Hinds
    “Is there any other place yet unidentified that we can think of to dump more money into the ocean?”

    How about a marina or pier at Cattlewash, Northern Point or by the East Point lighthouse? Why just pander to the swanky people on the south and west coast?

  23. General Lee Avatar
    General Lee

    David,
    I sometimes wonder about your motives and intentions.

    Did you watch this video, immediately recognized it for what it was, and then posted it to see if the rest of the family are as perceptive as you?

    Yes the NCC is mandated to keep the boardwalk clean, but do wethey really expect that it will be as clean as a whistle all of the time, or was the second part of the video really they main concern?

  24. David Avatar
    David

    @General Lee

    As always you are on the mark!

  25. Sir Bentwood Dick Avatar
    Sir Bentwood Dick

    NCC at Hastings first thing this am.

    LOL.

    David crew got powa, deng!

  26. John Avatar
    John

    I have not been on the board walk as yet but understand it was/is enjoyed by all and sundry.

    I agree putting it there is an exercise in folly, but heck, that was what our Government was into in a big way.

    I hope it has been designed and built to withstand the ravages of the sea but I know from the Speightstown Jetty which looked mighty strong that the sea is also both mighty and strong.

    It is unfortunate that this discussion wanders off into colour but it is the Government who decided in their infinite wisdom to put it there and as one of its ministers so eloquently pointed out to Richard Goddard on national TV ……

    We have a problem with our government.

    Don’t look at the colour of the skin of the people who are “embarrassing it” or we will be stuck with the problems they create for ever.

  27. Avatar
    Anonymous

    The Gov’t summer camps are costing $6 million a year. Now remember that caterers are being paid to supply food to the camps WHILE THE SCHOOL MEALS DEPT REMAINS IDLE FOR THE SCHOOL SUMMER RECESS. In 4 years the present Gov’t will have spent $6 million more than it cost to build the boardwalk.

  28. John Avatar
    John

    How long did it take to build the boardwalk?

  29. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    Well, well…I see that Bush Tea has upped the ante, and that makes me smile! And @199 with your post @ 7:50 am you are proving that you are truly an ‘intellectual goliath.’ Glad to know that Black people are slowly but surely rejecting the ostrich position.

    For a minute there, I thought that this video was showing a Hastings over in that other part of the world.

    With all this ‘global warming’ and ‘environmentalistic bull shit’ that’s constantly spewed worldwide [for total control] don’t be surprised when you see certain people pretending to ‘clean’ up the environment. Who benefited from all the pollution? Not Black us! These bastards go all over the world and f…up other people’s environment and life and now they get to live the sweet life in Barbados. Where’s the shame in their game?

    I remember a time when Barbados was truly a clean a beautiful country and it was truly predominantly Black.

    Well, I hope that whisety continue to build their houses, villas and hotels on the sand, because they are some things that are guaranteed in this life and one of them is that you can’t fight Mother Nature and win. So if the people will not exercise their will power to remove this scourge, you can count on HER!

  30. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    No John I will look at the color angle, because it is a big part of the current approach of some white Bajans. It continues till this day, what Elizabeth Thompson took Richard Goddard to task for saying he intending on doing. If you see nothing wrong with BFP approach then please don’t caution me discussing the very obvious motive of theirs and others. Everybody has issues with the government of the day, while the majority of us call the radio programs, write the in the newspapers, and the blogs, or complain in the rumshops, no Richard Goddard, BFP, and this boardwalk groupies have taken to, and not in a small way to cherry pick those things that makes Barbados (run by black people) look bad, makes themselves look good, and deliberately publish them in a way to places that have an international appeal. You were one of the apologist that tried everything to diminish the racist actions of Goodridge and his son against little boy up in Highgate gardens, you were silent when Seth a seemingly disturbed man accuse the white management of a supermarket of discrimination. BFP as you have done today played up Liz Thompson comments, they listed all black BLP operatives that they alleged may have swiss banks accounts and grudgingly add Phillip Goddard after several days of repeated questions as to why he was left off the list.

    @199
    These boardwalk groupies don’t appear to be British, they appear to be very local. I think i heard one of them cussing in dialect only a white bajan perform. The Brits and Americans does come to barbados, clean, paint and build without crying down people or publishing their good deeds as an indictment against Barbados and it’s citizens.

  31. General Lee Avatar
    General Lee

    “It is unfortunate that this discussion wanders off into colour but it is the Government who decided in their infinite wisdom to put it there and as one of its ministers so eloquently pointed out to Richard Goddard on national TV ……”

    Very clever indeed, John.

    So how exactly do we begin to ignore colour, after you reinforce your point with that link?

  32. John Avatar
    John

    It is amazing how well Liz Thomon in 1994/95 encapsulates many of the sentiments expressed herein, almost 15 years later.

    The sentiments she uses to attempt to divide what should be a unified approach towards putting the GOB in its place are the same ones being used here.

    Richard Goddard raised hell well before the GOB spent the $50 million on Greenland.

    We, myself included, only now choose to speak to the perils of placing $18 million so close to the sea.

    This is the problem.

    Not the colour of people’s skins.

    I have long figured that the effort to create division by raising the issue of colour is a learned response, carefully taught to us as children.

    Liz learned to get on so. She is a product of her time.

    It suited politicians of the 60’s and 70’s to harp on the difference.

    Now, we who grew up in that period need to stand up and show that we are bigger than the crap pushed at us by our leaders and hold those leaders to account.

    The alternative doesn’t bear thinking about.

    Who knows, maybe the boardwalk is a benefit, but we sure won’t figure that out by harping on skin colour.

  33. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Lets play a game. Who can determine what is being said between min 1.35 and 1.40 of the youtube video?

  34. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    To General Lee and John I can do both and so i will. You are not going to persuade me away from the very obvious.

  35. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    Gosh, I really did not think it would go here, am I naive?

    My approach to this, and it appears also is John’s, is that we have a problem that needs to be fixed.

    All the argument about race cannot diminish the reality that maintenance of public property is woefully inadequate.

    I do not see this as a video deliberately posted to embarass, but to identify an issue.

    Sadly, as John is now finding out, race is a favourite topic of certain people of all races here in Barbados, which is why some overseas see this as little South Africa, albeit living in supposed harmony.

    Unfortunately, as John points out, the ingrained ‘divide and rule’ is still working well, to prevent progress.

    Reality is, that snowcone cups out of minibuses, school windows falling off, etc etc, are not the fault of a particular race, but the fault of lack of respect and pride, full stop.

    As I noted earlier, the falling standards are exhibited in the crop-over jam session at which the parade consists mostly of wine up as hard as possible.

    I have seen first hand, girls from a Brazilian dance school in a parade and believe me, the rythmic and elegant dancing down the street was more enchanting than any ‘wine up’ could ever be.

    Why do we aim for lower, when higher exists?

    Sorry, but I dont have race in this issue, I have leadership and standards.

    Full stop.

    You can talk chalk, but I done.

    Peace

  36. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    More of the same. chuspe

  37. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    @John…..”I have long figured that the effort to create division by raising the issue of colour is a learned response, carefully TAUGHT to US as children.”

    Straight from the horse’s mouth.

    I’m glad that you have exposed the truth about how racism is truly taught in you ‘whitey’ house and please don’t speak for Black folk because we don’t teach our kids to hate. We all live in a racist world and whether or not you admit it. Every aspect of our life is affected by it, including the manner in which Barbados is governed. So blow ya smoke elsewhere.

  38. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    ”Adrian Hinds // July 12, 2009 at 10:33 am

    More of the same. chuspe”

    And Hopi ‘So blow ya smoke elsewhere’

    Ah, I thought this was a public blog?

    But then, some do not like to hear opposing views.

    Reality is, Barbados’s standards have fallen in all aspects. You have focused on the race issue but refuse to rebut on the basis of falling standrs, of which I have given numerous examples.

    From this, it is clear where your minds are firmly planted and it makes no sense to ‘discuss’ anything with you.

    Thus, if you have nothing useful to contribute, then why answer John or myself?

    Let others be free to discuss at will.

    Peace

  39. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Wouldn’t it solve all of Barbados’ problems if all the white and “whitish” people just up and leave and let us sort things out? People here getting tired of having to work hard and getting exploited and only white people enjoying all the sweets. These white people have some gall to suggest that Black people are mainly responsible for destroying the environment. We don’t own the hotels and businesses that polluting the coastline.

    I heard that Kyffin Simpson bought a million acres of land in Guyana. That is over 2000 sq miles!! All the white and whitish Bajans can relocate there and build their paradise (if they can) and leave beautiful Barbados to Black people to finally enjoy.

    While Thompson is sending the indians back to Guyana he can send the white Bajans along.

  40. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    Anon,

    Let me do you a big favour.

    Go back to my first post, even if you do not want to read the whole thing, read the second half, starting with ‘Later this year…’

    Remember it.

    Peace

  41. Avatar
    Anonymous

    You see how these white apologists are? A Brazilian girl (probably with she bubbies fully exposed) wukking up is somehow of a higher standard than a Bajan girl doing the same at Crop-Over!

    Notice how Rumplestilskin subtly implies that Black people ain’t got no respect nor pride cause some of us throw cups out of the minibuses.

    Hopi, Bush tea and Adrian Hinds deal with them. Expose the blood suckers.

  42. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    Anon,

    Simpson is a shrewd man. I doubt that land is for residential purposes, sorry to burst your bubble.

    Guyana, while at the bottom now, has only one way to go.

    Mark my words, in twenty years, people will indeed be moving to Guyana, why?

    Land, agriculture, production!

    Life is about cycles, we are at the height of ours, without the right leadership, only one way to go. Unfortunately, some serious economic errors have already been made.

    Guyana, at the bottom, also, with the right leadership, only one way to go.

    Simpson realises this obviously, clever lad.

    Life is tres interesting, no?

    Peace

  43. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Indeed, this coastal boardwalk was built under the former BLP Government, at a very tremendous cost of BDS $18 Million, for the leisure, recreation and walking pleasure of locals and visitors alike.

    But, who would believe it that since governments were changed on January 15 2008, and now that this joke DLP has been holding the reins of governmental office, this fairly costly structure would NEVER have been maintained by government, according to the video above? Why would a DLP Government – under whose watch this boardwalk was opened – NOT be so inclined as to give great and overwhelming consideration to the maintenance of this piece of public property which it is supposed to be properly managing on the behalf of the people?

    For, the duty of any government of the day in this country is to properly and efficiently manage the property of the people to the best of its ability, and within the limits set down by its money and resources allocations – irrespective of which other party it was then that was at the helm of the government when such a structure like this, was started,built, etc., or irrespective of which other party it is right now or in the future that is at the helm of government – owing to a change of government – and that has to later accept responsibility for its maintenance or upgrading.

    For, it is this and other great mounds of evidence of this unnecessary petty partisan politics and strife that exist between the DLP and BLP, which does NOT serve the national good, that is one of the reasons why we are calling for both DLP and BLP to be eventually kicked out of parliament by the majority of voters of this country, in the interest of the greater and further development of this country.

    Moreover, the duty of a government is to have a proper and effective plan for the wholesome management of the people’s property, and that, et al, will NOT ONLY seek to minimize instances of devaluation, dilapidation, neglect, misuse, abuse, criminal property damage, or whatever, BUT that will ALSO seek to secure the financing and the sourcing of people and material necessary for the proper maintenance in day to day up keep of the structure, and that will also seek to minimize in the long term the costs of maintaining, refurbishing, and upgrading such property.

    Why is it that these two old traditional parties with vast – though NOT great – experience in government, would continue to have such bad records at managing the property of the people and bad records too at having no proper plans for the managing of such property? Why?

    Why is it therefore that the DLP and the BLP will continue to blatantly, wilfully and recklessly mismanage so much of the property of the people of this country, indeed, goes some way to the heart of some principles that establish government within a supposedly fairly modern and civilized society like Barbados – whereby PROTECTION OF PROPERTY IS A VERY FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER RELEVANT PROPERTY PROTECTING LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY, AND IS SO NECESSARY FOR THE STABILITY AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY.

    Therefore, any serious deviation from these principles relating to the protection of property, or any serious lack of protection of property, will offer opportunities for greatly increasing the probabilities of vandalism, theft, devaluation, neglect, in the Barbadian society, and conditions leading to general instability and decline in the affairs of this country. So, property and property relations must as much as reasonably possible be protected by the government and some others, and NOT be unreasonably destroyed or undermined by them.

    But, yet, you have a situation in Barbados whereby ministers and other public officials, because they do NOT own such property of the people, have over the years been totally undermining of such legal protections, and the spirit encompassing them, by their presiding over the wanton neglect, degradation, and disrespect for the people’s property. Thus, they they have otherwise failed to preside over a regime of property maintenance that ensures that the property of the people is as reasonably and as much as possible safeguarded from such neglect and negligence – as in this case of this boardwalk – and one that ensures that the property of the people is as reasonably and as muchly as possible protected, and done so in line with the those reasonable expectations that are given to it and its relatives by the law and its spirit.

    Verily, too, it is primarily because such public officials do NOT have to pay monies – DIRECTLY OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKETS AS IF THEY HAD OWNED SUCH PROPERTY THEMSELVES – to keep up the property of the people, that the property of the people is so often grossly mismanaged, and even in so far as some new buildings are concerned and that are built by the government – when such actually happens, that involves the spending of totally unnecessary expenditures, when there ought NEVER to be built/to have been built in the first place, or instead of refurbishing old or not so buildings that it has controlling and managing, there is, again, seen this waste of expenditure which involves the very disgusting sight of government foolishly going and renting out private sector buildings to do its business, when it should be doing better.

    Believe it or NOT, though, no political party that does NOT have a proper plan for the management of the people’s property should ever be or have been elected into this country. NONE, WHATSOEVER!!

    Believe it or NOT, too, the central issue in this video concerning this particular boardwalk involves the willful neglect of this piece of property by this joke DLP government after the former inept BLP Government would have pumped so much money into it when it was a project that was being developed. Well, certainly, any other issues that are being discussed on here are really tangential or irrelevant to the discussion concerning this boardwalk!!

    Furthermore, if it is true that the National Conservation Commission (NCC) has been vested with the responsibility of upkeeping this beautiful structure – which can – if left as it is right now – deteriorate in condition fairly quickly over time owing to its proximity to the sea, sea spray, sand and other things, and owing to its continued exposure to the other elements – why is it that they are NOT doing their job or are NOT being made to do their job? What management, supervisory, labor-oriented, union issues might therefore be reasonably involved before putting in place a process for the good managing, supervising and general keeping up of the boardwalk? If there are such issues to be first resolved before there is the actual upkeep of this boardwalk, why is that the NCC is taking so long to get them sorted out before a sense of urgency is brought to bear on the management of the boardwalk. Why is it that a group of individuals should have to take it upon themselves to maintain a portion of this boardwalk that is owned by the people? Why?

    Certainly, the above issues raised by the PDC are issues that this DLP Government and/or the NCC need to bring into the public’s domain for the proper informing of many people of this country as to what is the present status of this boardwalk. Thank You.

    PDC

  44. Donald Duck, Esq Avatar
    Donald Duck, Esq

    Anonymous

    Why are you so racist!!!

  45. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    Anon,

    Pull back your venom, really.

    Actually, that Brazilian was definitely not exposed.

    It is called, ‘dance’. It is called elegant.

    I am no ‘apologist’ as you like to term it.

    Is it not interesting that persons who call others racist, resort to name calling and venom, rather than confronting issues and facts?

    Your skirt is showing.

    Facts, please, not verbiage.

    Peace

  46. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Rum.,

    read Bush tea. Wunna enjoy all the sweets when things good and now when things brown you want to preach “togetherness and all o’ we is one”? Wunna got the place in this mess so now get us out or better yet just leave and go live in Simpsonia where all will be perfect.

  47. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    I take it that that defenders all have not attempted to deduce what was said between minute 1.35 and 1.40 of the clip. Maybe you have and cannot be certain of what was said, hence the filerbustering. Any takers? tell us what was said.

  48. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    PDC,

    LOL. You have really made me smile.

    That is precious. That lengthy speech, could have been written by our esteemed personage in Opposition.

    Thanks.

    Anyhow, I have work to go and do, have an enjoyable day, including Hopi, Adrian Hinds and Anon.

    I’ll leave you with a quote:

    ”Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
    — Henri Bergson”

    Have a laugh today.

    Peace

  49. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Duck

    what wrong with being racist?! Yuh mean Black people can’t look out for their own? We got to be more like Christ than Christ Himself? Even He had to flog the moneychangers out of the temple!

  50. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Hinds

    what was said?!! I listened about 4 times and I cannot make out a thing. So make your point if you have one!

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