Submitted by Abraham
Sadly, I have found that in Barbados there are two main professions that are given all the priority and prominence in the society, these are Law and Medicine! Obviously it has lead to a large fraternity in Barbados with arguably negative results at the moment, i.e. when the population has no recourse and is always held at ransom by doctors, who have been known to exploit locals, with huge overwhelming prices for health related issue, as well as the lawyers, literally robbing poor people for legal services rendered. Added to this is a government and opposition devoid of innovative ideas to lead this country forward, as they are stuck in the past modes and methods, which aptly describes the required thinking in these professions. The problem gets worse when we look at the percentage of our scholarship winners who have and are continuing to pursue these professions in the last 15 years, instead of entrepreneurship, tourism management, agriculture development and alternative energy management. All critically needed areas of development today.
As it stands there are no alternative measures to this madness, and the thought of outside competition rendering similar services would prove futile, as we remember our treatment of Guyanese construction labour. Imagine in this present day paying a lawyer huge sets of money for the title and deeds to piece of land, to the sum like almost 10,000 and for what, poor service and unnecessary delays! I consider these practices as wrong and we the grass roots people and users of this poor service in this country need to do something about it! With level headedness, good morale and ethical skills such as displayed by our leader and deputy, maybe we have a fighting chance to save Barbadians from the wrath of these two professions as we desperately need a new path to take the country forward. Health Minister, Mr. Inniss is seemingly doing a great job and trying his best, as they are several cases I have heard about a certain urologist in Barbados and believe me, he should not be allowed to offer services at all.
The government of the day has a chance to insist on the development of other Barbadian professionals with the news of an airline on it’s way to a launch in Barbados. Another set of professionals i.e. local pilots would like to be given a chance to practise their profession at home. These pilots as well with other airline trained locals, leave Barbados to pursue their goals and dreams, and can certainly contribute to the success of a Barbados based airline. What grabs me is that places like Antigua, who have a smaller trained pool of persons can run an airline . We have spent millions lately on LIAT and they are locals at home just waiting for a chance to climb into the cockpits of a locally based airline to get going. Barbados has the infrastructure and the information needed to be able to at least run an airline. We always supported BWIA, remember our excellent PM Mr Barrow fought for certain privileges for that airline, and they used to make Barbadian lives hell.
It is time the Director of Civil Aviation (DCA) in Barbados helps at any means and support any local airline that has potential to employ local staff. I am sure the current government will be more than anxious to have a helping hand in “Airone”, that is what the airline is called, and hope that the failures of Caribbean Airways and Carib Express can shed some new light in keeping this one afloat, for the sole purpose of generating employment in a time like this. I am depending on our prime minister, acting or otherwise and deputy to assist in this matter, If we leave to the (DCA) we don’t stand a chance, they are known to discourage any potential investors who wants to start up any airline in Barbados.
Please support the development of other professionals in Barbados!!
Mr Abraham
It seems to me that you have a zeal to set up a local airline or see one going. Why dont you get a business plan and see if you can get some money to set your self up in the business that you desire
David Seale is about to open business at Eagle Hall but could not pay the Landlord. who will profit? Neville will not, for Seale effectively ran his business in the ground, so he’s in receivership. he will not recover what is owed to him. the employees will suffer, as they will lose their jobs but Seale oh yeah will profit. Some people can get away with paying $12.00 yes twelve dollars for an acre of land ( in St. Philip and has develop it where they make big business from it )from Government in present day Barbados because they buy the land at book price. but it is the VERY RICH who already have that can do this. you know why? because the jack donkeys working in govt would allow it but me or you who cannot afford the cost of land are not given that privileged. that is why the scholarship winners look for what they consider another way make it big in Barbados. don’t be mad with them. Be dishearten with the system as it is. Why do we continue to allow the white rich to rob us blind and smile behind it? why do we take briberies? we have our descendants to think about not just our children? how can people be so greedy? at some point in time Barbados will suffer for this. i am tired reading of the successes of people like RLSeale, jada, bst&t, simpson motors. i hurt when i see that young white men between 30 -45 years could come and live here for a mere 3 years and is able to set up business not with their money but walk into banks like BNB and borrow $600,000 without security. the average black bajan has to put up security to borrow $20,000 and will pay it back. ask BNB if that man has paid them a cent of that money – slave mentality – slave plantation we living on. when will it stop?
all this happens because the VERY RICH in barbados are given the priviledge of buying land at $12,00 acre. we are not. they can rent your property, not pay a cent, cause you to go into receivership. they have effectively ran your business into the ground. then set up another business on their own property. i hope it fails.
businesses like RL Seale, bs&t, simpson motors, are given lead way to profit. if you have a foreign accent, white skin, between 30 – 40, live here for 3 years only – you can go to banks such as BNB borrow $600,000 WITHOUT security and don’t pay it back. the black man has to put up security for $20,000 and he will pay it back. look at all those ugly buildings going up in St. James area, whose money do you think are being used to build them? bajans are such simple minded people. we should be going all out for our children and their descendants not for the pis..y white man? look at Venezuela’s president, he looks after his people. why can’t our government look after us? Do we enjoy seeing the single parent struggle? why does the supermarkets and stores continue to rob us? do you know what it is to buy a shirt in Canada for $4CND and come here to see the same shirt for $40.00 or a shirt selling for 5 pounds in London to walk into a store on Broad St and see the very same shirt being sold for OVER $200? Why does it happen here? even with cars – the governments have allowed the big companies to effectively run the smaller companies out of business. a small man has to pay so much duty on a car he’s importing yet Simpson Motors can bring in their cars and not pay duty right away. why? Why do we go all out to purposely make the poor poorer? some did not ask to be poor, they found themselves in situations. does Barbados believe that this will continue? oneday soon , the companies that know they are robbing the average bajan WILL lose all and WOULD NOT be able to recover because of the nature of the disaster, the poor will not suffer so much because they had little to lose.
BU’s position remains the same. Our policymakers are predominantly lawyers and therefore don’t have the mindset or inclination to push serious/fundamental change.
Our doctors are revered by the public and treated like demi-gods.
Watching the video yesterday by Shirley Sherrod NAACP it rammed home the point that the cloudy reputation/perception of lawyers is a global phenomonon just like any other profession.
Well said David/BU, and great headline too to the above lead article.
But the person who wrote the lead piece, seems to be labouring under a great state of philosophical and intellectual confusion.
So, evaluate: “When the population has no recourse and is always held at ransom by doctors, who have been known to exploit locals, with huge overwhelming prices for health related issue, as well as the lawyers, literally robbing poor people for legal services rendered. Added to this is a government and opposition devoid of innovative ideas to lead this country forward, as they are stuck in the past modes and methods, which aptly describes the required thinking(???) in these professions.”
And then evaluate: “With level headedness, good morale and ethical skills such as displayed by our leader and deputy (!!!!!!!!!), maybe we have a fighting chance to save Barbadians from the wrath of these two professions as we desperately need a new path to take the country forward.”
No damn wonder these same people of which he or she so seeks to criticize will continue to take persons like the person who wrote the lead article for granted in many ways.
That this armfolding-then-throw-me-hands-up-in-the-air-oh-lord joker cum complainer could write such brilliance in some parts, and then write such dribble in other parts, is tantamount to the very inconsistent and uncertain way how many persons like him/her that wrote this above lead piece approach party/driven politics in this country – which includes knowing so much about many of our political problems but being very short on attempts to finding solutions to them – and too like they normally do as if they are nearly always able to see other moving targets but are never able to realize that they themselves are moving targets also.
Furthermore, how could the person – unless he or she is a supporter of the status quo in Barbados, write such hot and cold mishmash at the same, without representing that there is a set of political scoundrels in Barbados, so-called DLP/BLP politicians, who do far worse to thousands upon thousands of people in Barbados on an ongoing basis, than a few lawyers and doctors could do to their clients ( not to be a construed as our being in defence of them though), and that therefore these people and their parties more than the few lawyers and doctors that do a lot of foolishness, need to be dealt some severe political blows across their blasted heads – that they need to be thrown out to hell out of the parliament of this country???
What leader and deputy that will allow us to have a fighting chance to save Barbadians from the wrath of these two professions, what!!!!!!!
That is stupid foolishness which does not even warrant any analysis from us.
It pains to see that we have persons among us who are sill not making the best uses of the formal and informal educational systems in Barbados and who are still not making the best uses of the information communication technologies available.
PDC
@David
Let me put some lashes in my buddy David now
Re Our doctors are referred by the public and treated like demi-gods
I take it you mean reverred.
How come then David that the GP is treated like dirt on BU? LOL
@Brother GP
Au contraire!
Your views are given great prominence on BU and respected by many. Certainly you don’t expect to get 100% agreement?
@ PDC
There is much merit in your post
@ annonymous
There is a lot of truth in your post too.
In the early 90’s I used to attend Trade Shows in NY. I wanted to leave Medicine. I found certain products in a line of products that I thought would be beneficial to our people.
I approached the exhibitors with a view of havinf a sole distributorship in Bim. I was told that they had a distributor in Barbados and named the distributor. It was clear to me that the distribuotor had tied up this line but was importing only a few items i the line, even though they were manyothers that were more beneficial to our people.
In those days I would source many goods via Closeout News, and found some good items but when you added on CIF and all the other levies and taxes on arrival in Bim , the costs were so inflated that it was pointless to suceed.
It would seem to me that since we import so many things, and since we pay VAT on everything that efforts should be made to control the distribitive trade, such that consumers can get goods at a reasonable price, and distributors can still live.
I read once that dollar stores operate on a 33-33 33 basis. 33% for cost 33% for overhead and 33 % for profit. Dollar stores make a killing in this way while selling the closeout and licquidated merchandise they buy.
Our distributors buy from the same sources, and after the CIF and other taxes are added they add thierkilling on top of that.
We see idiots on this forum lauding men who are said to have “balls” because they want to control the doctors at QEH; but who has the “balls” to control the distributors, or to allow other persons in the society to distribute too?
David
My views are given no more prominence on BU than any one else’s man. LOL In fact non theologians “challenge” me with piffle, and some non medics do even worse. Hilarious
Anyway I only pulling your legs. I dont need to be reverred. I just want my place up there around the glassy sea where the singing will be great! LOL. I dont really expect much down here except some good laughs. And I do love to laugh LOL
David
It is virtually impossible for the small man to distribute anything in Bim. I am sure that doctors and lawyers know that it ought to be easier to buy an item for a penny and sell it for 5 cents than to go to law school or medical school.
After all the dummies we met at HC etc are doing it. And some of the parents of the professionals did exactly the same thing to get them through school and college- even if only on a very very small scale. But there is after all a limited demand for pea nuts and sugar cakes etc.
But yet even with any money a black professional makes in Barbados he will be limited if he tries to distribute anything. I know because I tried to distribute child resistant vials to the Pharmaceutical industry.
I have already told this forum of the lad from the Thorpes area who imported a container of cooking oil in 96, and sold the oil at a reduced price. His source did not sell him anymore oil, because the magnates offered a much higher price for oil after that.
The story is well known of how the magnates colluded with Maxwell who once operated at the corner of James St & Tudor Street and put him out of business.
A few black boys were importing used cars a decade ago in the attemt to make a living. That was shut down!
We come on this forum and spew much bovine excrement about race and black vs white, but we DONT SEEM TO KNOW HOW TO CLOSE RANKS AND SHUT OUT THE MINORITY WHO CONTROLS THE DISTRIBUTIVE TRADE
Maybe the populace should learn to close ranks to protect their interests- that of SURVIVAL
I will repeat too the story of young black man whose distribution attempt was burnt to the ground in the late 80’s.
He was unable to restart it.
Can you tell me how many local pilots we have? I wish some of us stop dreaming and look at reality. I do agree we need trained people in other professions other tan doctors and lawyers. Why would you want this government, in these trying times to buy and operate an airline? Like one of the local politicos wants another airport in the north of this 21 mile long x 16 mile wide island. Aren’t we getting too big for our boots? Now talk to me about a ferry service for the islands…..I will entertain this idea.
@Georgie Porgie | September 1, 2010 at 10:24 AM |
I agree. i know of a young black business man who was selling a popular drink imported from Guyana. As soon as they reach the shelves, they were gone because of the Guyanese population here. BBC figured that he was giving them competition, went to the distributors/manufacturers in Guyana, got permission to be the sole distributor in Barbados. They bought a month’s supply into the island and that was it. my young friend does not now have permission to bring them in. that happened about 5 years ago and it happens to many other products in Barbados.
GP, it is “revered” not “reverred”. You did it twice. As for the article, the writer seems to want a scholarship to study aviation. Once he/she gets the grades, they can study anything.
@GO
“We come on this forum and spew much bovine excrement about race and black vs white, but we DONT SEEM TO KNOW HOW TO CLOSE RANKS AND SHUT OUT THE MINORITY WHO CONTROLS THE DISTRIBUTIVE TRADE”
I would love to know how we can stop this for it should not be allowed to continue. – it is wrong in so many ways. Yet we seem unable to bring it to an end
ebony hair cholacate skin | September 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM |
@GO
SORRY FOR THE ERRORS – the above is to Georgie Porgie (GP)
@ annonymous
Re GP, it is “revered” not “reverred”. You did it twice.
Guess what? I dont care. I no longer have to care about my spelling.
As for the article, the writer seems to want a scholarship to study aviation. Once he/she gets the grades, they can study anything
WELL GO HELP HIM GET THE SCHOLARSHIP AND THE GRADES.
Now can you lift this discussion to a higher plane?
@ ebony hair cholacate skin
On BU we come here to cuss Glen Beck and exalt Martin King, and try to bring down GP a peg…not to solve problems.
In 1992 0r 3 there was a certain amount of civil unrest in Bim with respect to the Mutual Insurance Co. At that time the WICB decided not to select the Bajan fast bowler Anderson Cummins to play in a test match at Kensington. BAJANS BOYCOTTED THE TEST MATCH. The attendance was very poor.
The Bajan consumers must close ranks as possible and by using local foods and home made drinks put some licke in the food retailers. When we sucessfully boycott one area we are innovative to find ways to boycott others.
We can form a third political party that is not on the take for its existence by contributions from the same distributors that are exploiting the poor. We need political and community leadership that ill be willing to take the bull by the horns to change the status quo.
The change must come via a ground swell from the bottom up. Dont expect the doctors and lawyers in the BLP and DLP to solve our problems. MOST OF THEM DONT KNOW HOW ANYWAY THE REST SIMPLY DO NOT CARE.
@ annonymous
Re GP, it is “revered” not “reverred”. You did it twice.
Guess what? I dont care. I no longer have to care about my spelling.
LOL GP you kill me!
Hi JC
I cee dat u hyding frum mi dese daze. LOL
I only told the fellow the truth
And I have no intention of killing you sugar. I plan to preserve you in the sugars of my love! And to bring you only to the brink of hyperosmolar diabetic coma with my kisses.
(forgive me…my prose not as good as Yardbroom’s. He is the real thing I am only a trier.) LOL
It is the politicians that keep destroying black businesses.
I agree with the writer, doctors and lawyers have blighted our economic advancement.
Neville Rowe moved from a one day shop in Baxter’s Road selling all kinds of oils and body accessories to form Julie N which became a very big business. He opened the building at Haggatt Hall and white business persons were saying it was too big for a supermarket. Louis Farrakhan came here from America and praised the work of this black business man. Mia Mottley as the Minister of Education put the business under real pressure with the Kola Syrup scandal. The business was never the same again. When the BLP speaks of small contractors I always remember how they destroyed Neville Rowe and Julie N. Then white people got the supermarket to run.
J does not agree but bucking the establishment in Barbados is serious business. If time allows BU will craft something on the Neville Rowe business some time.
Did you all read the Nation today?
“Monies repaid,fraud case dropped”
@Hants
This Alvin David Bryan person is still a thief despite the gymnastics which went down. Here is the link and copy pasted below:
Start praying Bajans. Gaston following Fiona and have wunna in he cone of uncertainty.
@ Georgie Porgie | September 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM |
we do need a new political party, one that is not only interested in the welfare of their own bank account but also that of the single, unemployed, the disabled bajan. we have been successful in keeping out foreign chicken on our supermarkets, we need to really practice buying bajan. i am young mother and whenever, i shop and i shop at Popular and Super Centre Warrens, i read the labels. i buy only foreign goods when i realize that there is not a bajan manufactured product on the shelf. i mean that i will not support unhealthy foreign goods – as we usually get poor rated goods from them. why cant we import fruits from the Caribbean and Venezuela? why must we continue to import N A apples? visit Margarita or Venezuela and see the innovate ways they use their products, we should have that here. one good thing about Super Centre Warrens is display of breadfuits, golden apples, pears (avacadoes), five fingers,. one draw back tho is that on all the supermarkets is that it seems that fruits like hog plums, bajan cherris, ackees, dounts, fatports etc are not good enough to grace our supermarkets. the selling of these fruits would provide money for the owners of the trees, yet is seems almost natural not to see them on display in the supermarkets for the locals and even tourists to buy. There is an ever present lingering of slave society still in existence. during slavery, the islands could not do anything to prosper themselves, they were for the benefit of the mother country, and as such it was law that no slave should have more than a white person. it was mandatory to import even if the product could be produced cheaper on the island. this big country – small island madness is still here
I am very concerned of the reported attempt to bring charges against COP Darwin Dottin, especially for the reasons given.
It would appear that the PSC is grabbing at rather tender strwars, to somehow ‘get’ to Dottin, I hope this is not the case.
While we had had far mroe serious charges against senior Government offficials, such as the alleged FBI investogation that got noweher, here we see an apparent questionable attempt to remove Dottin.
Added to this, it was Dottin, not Hinds, who was against the recent attmpt to bring unsuitable and unwanted shows to Barbados, Hinds in favor. Now this.
Why? This is something I support The Leader of Opposition Mottley on.
Give proper reasons. Or is it merely that Dottin has mashed too many corns?
It is easy to slip into error, when one has the reins of power.
Be very careful.
With the army of lawyers which our system is producing the expected progression is that we will become more of a litigious society. Traditional values which have been used to build Barbados in the past will be replaced in the future. There is a new Barbados which we are currently transforming to, it is called progress. Challenging the office of the Commissioner of Police by one of the stakeholders is simply seen as a transaction divorce from everything else.
A side note, we listened with interest to Dennis Johnson of VoB explaining the fear of STARCOM to get tangled in litigation over defamation matters by citing the Miss Ram matter which has become entangled in the court system for too long. The length of time spent in the court the more money the legal eagles take home.
The bottomline the PEOPLE have no chance with the media making bold to defend their honour because everything is being sacrificed on the altar of making money. Could it be a possibility that if litigants know that they will face a more aggressive media they will be more cautious in bringing their law suits? Who is willing to take the chance? Does anyone run a media house nowadays based on principles? Should media houses simple predicate decision making on how it will affect the bottomline?
Just asking given the importance of a fourth estate to a working democracy.
“While we had had far more serious charges against senior Government officials, such as the alleged FBI investigation that got nowhere, here we see an apparent questionable attempt to remove Dottin.”
You forget that Dottin was the PC who should have been sending a file to the DPP in that matter. It is partially his fault nothing happened. He is far from the injured innocent soul you portray him to be. At best I would say he appears incompetent and weak.
Oh shoot I ain’t a policeman so I shouldn’t criticize him.
@ anonymous
The reading of labels that you practice is a thing that should be taught in schools from early.
I agree with you that local produce should be preferred. This is the norm in most parts of the world. We used to do it before ; and we ought to return to doing it.
I believe that God has placed in every nation/country suitable components of the food pyramid for local use. Perhaps teaching the components of the food pyramid that are available to us locally should also be taught in our schools.
I remember that in 94 for the Conference on Sustainable Development the Coleridge & Parry School was producing a tasty dish from the flowering parts of the banana shrub.
@ David:
you wrote:
“With the army of lawyers which our system is producing the expected progression is that we will become more of a litigious society. Traditional values which have been used to build Barbados in the past will be replaced in the future.”
Response:
The future is here. The job is almost complete.
You also wrote:
“The bottomline the PEOPLE have no chance with the media making bold to defend their honour because everything is being sacrificed on the altar of making money. Could it be a possibility that if litigants know that they will face a more aggressive media they will be more cautious in bringing their law suits?”
Response:
Not really. The aggression you desire [and, by the way, so do I] is blunted by the time it takes to have these matters settled. It is the cost of time that is burdensome.
You asked:
Does anyone run a media house nowadays based on principles? Should media houses simple predicate decision making on how it will affect the bottomline?
Response:
There are media entities governed by principle. You may not always agree with their principles; and indeed, some of their “principles” may be questionable. And, I do not believe the bottom line predicates all decisions. What I do believe, is that as accountants and lawyers assume more control as investors and directors, journalistic principles will have to exercise greater effort to assert its place in the decision making process.
(This is off of the topic)
I need some legal advice and would like to know who I can get in contact with locally to assist me in my plight.
I am being continually harassed by the maid and am sometimes on the verge of smashing her face. Is there anyway that I can seek legal advice since the staff at work encourages this behavoir.
I have been there longer than most of them and would just like to work in peace.
@Dennis
Your response is worthy.
However the idea that a lengthy Court process is compromising our Fourth Estate is worrying. It should be worrying to the Fourth Estate as well.
Question:
Is there a role for the BAJ or some other group to lobby for a Media Ombudsman? We need a solution, the current position is untenable, a key underpinning to our democracy is under threat.
@ David:
My fear is that we create these positions [This Ombudsman, That Authority, Auditor General, Czar, and so on] and then we either ignore their recommendations, or take “note” and no action. I am as concerned as you are, about threats to our practice of democracy. I am even more concerned that so few people seem to consider it so!
@ David:
…. and before the political knives are drawn, let me add that the threats did not start 2 or three, or even 5 years ago.
Here is what can happen if we go to sleep:
@Anonymous | September 2, 2010 at 1:02 PM |
(This is off of the topic)
forget about the staff. deal with her when there are no witnesses, it would be your word against hers. Write a letter to her copied to your employer to desist from her harassment or pay a lawyer avg $50. to write her a letter, copied to you and your employer
David et al,
I am sure that you are as shocked and dumbfounded as I, at the atrocity of the crime reported in the news today.
The trhowing of an oncendiary device reported in the Nation, after the act of the robbery, indicates an intent and callouness beyond belief.
This, along with the death of six persons, indicates that these fugitives have now changed their crime of armed robbery (cutlass), to one of murder.
I strongly suspect that the Police will have them in hand very soon, the spending of sudden money and the nature of the crime will be too hard to hide.
May the full weight of the law be on these vicious morons.
May the Almighty comfort the families of the deceased and their souls travel on to better times.
Very upset at such a callous act.
One more thing, before I neglect. While not diminishing the cause and responsibility of the crime, the authorities must look at the nature and setup of fire escapes and back exits in businesses throughout Barbados.
The report indicates that there was none.
@crusoe
Well said! No stone should be left unturned in finding these criminals. Horrific !very Horrific!. My thoughts and prays are also at this time with the family.
The need to gring back the cat-o-nine tails for crimes of this nature. I am appealing to the PDF to find these vicious heartless animals as if every one lives depend it. The mind of those who committed this act is very cruel and might do so again if not caught very soon.Dodds would ce too good for them!
For some time some of us have been very concerned about the social/moral decline which has taken hold in Barbados. The criminal acts we are witnessing is simply a manifestation of it. It is easy to react to the symptom but we have to tackle the root cause. Barbadians continue to operate with a mindset that what is happening in Jamaica, T&T, Guyana can’t happen here.
Time to smell the coffee.
@David
Sowhat is your point David. Jamaica has become a police state .Shoot first and then ask questions. Is this what you want for
Barbados. Moral decay first starts in the home. Let us start there.
We must be careful not to pass laws that would infringe on the rights of law abidding citizen. The laws on the books must be enforced .
Yet we are being told Barbados told Don’t Rush the Death Penalty, and that Barbados should not rushed into executing such a penalty.
Yet if memory is correct:
Barbados was told by the Inter-American Court of Human Right in 2007 that it had to abolish the death penalty, and make the necessary changes to the section 26 of the Constitution.
Aren’t our hands already tied behind our backs after signing on to the court in 2000?
Trinidad signed on in 1991, and then dropped it like a hot potato in 1998.
We are becoming a society lost in our own progress.
Bush Tea has been a stuck record on this point.
Every day we see the disrespect for law and order.
The weeds have been protruding on our lawn for sometime now, isn’t it inevitable they will become bush at some point?
Barbadians we have surrendered who and what we are i.e. what is a Barbadian?
We continue to pander to interest/agendas which run counter to what is Barbadians.
God help us!
My question is this.
Can we in Barbados hang anyone without it being seen a murder. I read an article on Amnesty International which said that in the case of Michael Huggins et al. If those guys were hanged then it would be tantamount to murder by the state of Barbados.
So forgetting all the long talk, can we in Barbados resume hangings since the decision by the Inter-American Court left no room for appeal?
FAIR PLAY
“Mia Mottley as the Minister of Education put the business under real pressure with the Kola Syrup scandal. The business was never the same again. When the BLP speaks of small contractors I always remember how they destroyed Neville Rowe and Julie N.”
A least one person remembered. It was not only Mia it was also Liz Thompson.
I expect that should the Police actually find and arrest the perpetrators of this crime that:
– they will plead not guilty to murder,
– be found guilty of manslaughter,
– be sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and
– then released after serving about 9 years in jail.
and I will be told that justice was served. Next issue….
By the way while certain politicians wring their hands and talk about the need for fire escapes in public buildings etc, a certain large business place owned by a famous lady with the a name like a male sheep has been said to have only one open exit and is thus a hazard in the event of a fire but no body has done anything for YEARS.
This is the second robbery where an incendiary device was used to burn down the building after a robbery. I cannot remember hearing if the person was caught for the Bank Hall chicken depot robbery If not this seems to be a trend and may be the same persons.
I blame not catching those criminals in the act on poor police manpower management. On Friday evenings that street behind the Police Barracks is a hive of activity because of persons waiting for transport home and the late closing of the stores. Those streets should be patrolled by uniform officers and those not in uniforms.
Remember this is right behind the Central Police Barracks
Fair Play
A lot of criminal activity takes place under the eyes and ears of the Police. How about those folk who ply their trade at night right down the street from Central Police station? You think that the Police are unaware of those activities? On second thought if the Police ever carried out a mass arrest of the hustlers and their clients, they might find Police badges in the pockets of the “johns”.
“This is the second robbery where an incendiary device was used to burn down the building after a robbery”
This kind of crime is common place in a certain nearby South American country which DAVID does not want me to name. I have been watching this for years now.
Lol Sargeant….
You are so right.
Crusoe
Re @GP,’DLP RUNNING BIM AGROUND JUST THE BAMA DESTROYING THE USA! LOL’
You have the right to disagree.
Re Both took over …d up economies, even more so the USA.
Yes both begged and campaigned for the job of running their countries and turning things around, so they should do so….or at least look like they are trying to do so.
Sure I have independent thought, and I am VERY impressed that Mr BAMA is a TALKER. His stimulus plan was junk. Cash for clunkers also junk. Failed businesses ought to be allowed to fail. The BAMa is on the take just doing the bidding of his puppeteers. And don’t let us talk about his infamous HEALTHCARE PLAN. Did he inherit that too? He screwed that up on his own. He screwed up with the stimulus on his own. He is screwing up on the AZ border issue too, on his own. He is an excellent failure all around by ALL accounts. He is an embarrassment to me as a black man who has spent much of his life around black men who were truly brilliant men- and performed thus.
Do I expect him to do a miracle? No! But I expect him to play appropriately as one would do in a test match!
Re Maybe America deserved Palin after all?! I am not a Palin fan at all (her voice drives me nuts) but at least she was Governor of Alaska. BAMA has never run any thing…..and he showes it! I am sure that the pailin cock Mr BAMA can not even run a rum shop on Spring Garden on Kadooment day even if given the rum, coke, water, ice and glasses free of charge. He has not yet given me any evidence to think otherwise.
Some of you believe that wunnuh should give him a pass because he looks black. That is very amusing. I have always known from very early that because I am black that I had to do BETTER!….that I had to do more to get the same grade!
Oh I forgot Mr Crusoe
I am going from the EVIDENCE not the hope that a black skineed man succeeds
@Crusoe
“I strongly suspect that the Police will have them in hand very soon, the spending of sudden money and the nature of the crime will be too hard to hide.”
it was a blotch robbery, the thieves did not get any money
THE PIERHEAD FIASCO
Former PM Owen Arthur made the following comments recently at a BLP Haggatt Hall meeting;
“At a time when the Government of Barbados doesn’t have any money, when the businesses of this country are struggling, when there is no sectors going on, is prepared to dip into you the taxpayers pockets and find 48.0 million dollars to allow for a re-design of the marina that has already been designed.
And the company , (and you are going to hear about this shortly) the company was written by the BTII chairman, indicating that they were the substantial bidder and the most responsive bidder, putting in the best contract. In fairness to the chairman (BTII), a Mr. Thorne, he resigned over the incident and one of Barrow’s friends sons, a Bernstein, a loyal DEM, he has been so disgusted by the madness that he has resigned too from the BTII. Because he cannot understand why 48.0 million dollars must be taken up to give to this company in which Bannister has an interest, to redesign a marina that has already been redesigned, madness.”
http://bajanreporter.com/?cat=404
For anyone interested to to the link above and listen the former Prime Minister talk about the wanton and scandalous abuse of power and utter corruption by this administration.
Barbados Shipping and Trading and its Managing Director is in the front page of todays Business Authority calling for Government to address the issue. Mr. King claims not to know what the situation is with the Pierhead marina, is that true?
I assume the Bannister referred to by former PM Arthur is the same fellow associated with the VECO Dodds Prison deal, is it? If it is, why would this administration want to give him or his company 48.0 million dollars to redesign a marina the taxpayers have already paid 12.0 million dollars to have designed in the first place? Certainly these are questions easily answers by Senator Darcy Boyce who not only has responsibility for BTII but was also the CEO of BTII prior to January 15 2008.
Four loyal DEMS resigned from the board of the BTI over the incident. The chairman, the deputy chairman and two directors. Is it because they point blank refused to sign a MOU with Bannister for 48.0 million dollars? This needs investigating.
I waiting on Owen to feed us more so we can see who is caught up in this mess.