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Any serious attempts by any elected government at substantially reducing poverty, social marginalization and political economic dispossession in this country must relate properly to its leading the way in very profoundly but rationally  altering the social, political, material and financial asymmetric relationships that have over the years existed between the government, the elites/pseudo-elites and the masses in this country.

As well, any attempts by such a government at further empowering  and enfranchising the broad masses and middle classes must also relate to such segments of people being able to ultimately fairly take own/control or preside over at any stage of those national public or private systems and processes that would be evolved to NOT ONLY help manage and direct these resulting mass of social, political, material and financial relationships in this country, BUT ALSO to ensure that they are the primary beneficiaries ( NOT the government nor the current elites ) of the resulting spiritual intellectual social material financial benefits that flow from these relationships.

Therefore, a very critical dispassionate assessment of our major social, political, material and financial policies would show that reducing poverty, social marginalization, and political economic dispossession to the very minimumest in this country, and would show that empowering and enfranchising the broad masses and middle classes of people in Barbados are two of the fundamental overarching people-centered goals of the People’s Democratic Congress. Hence,

  1. The Abolition of Taxation – wherefore the broad masses and middle classes would be freed of this evil scourge and government be made to properly earn more of its revenues;
  2. The Abolition of Interest Rates – wherefore persons will not be charged for using their own money, and persons will not be given income for NOT doing anything productive wise – financial institutions will be made to earn more incomes from the financial and advisory/consultancy services provided;
  3. The absolute downsizing of Euro-centric monetary policy in this country and the disabusing of the notion of INFLATION in this country – the ensuring that at any time as much money as possible goes to the most productive persons and entities in this country – and to all others in this country – too that the largest amount of money circulates at all times possible in this country, but never to a point where the value of the local currency becomes very debased in local business trading terms;
  4. The Abolition of Motor Vehicle Insurance – a People’s Money Value system – which will be created under a PDC Government – will underwrite any risks associated with, or furthermore compensate for, any genuine accidents or losses arising from motor vehicle accidents on public accesses and properties in this country;
  5. The Abolition of Exchange Rates Parities with the Barbados Dollar – local traders and debtors will be provided with – as much as  a duly established National Currency Board may allow at any time, the particular  types of foreign currencies, and the amount of them, that will be agreed with between themselves and regional/international traders and creditors in the transacting or furtherance of regional/international trade business or debt or in the facilitating of regional/trade business or the payment of regional/international debts;
  6. The Abolition of Institutional Repayable Loans for Productive Purposes – ALL  Institutional Productive Loans shall become NON-REPAYABLE – the institution of a National Non-Repayable Productive Loans Scheme;
  7. Reform of the Hire Purchase System – the amount for a particular item on cash purchase terms must the same as the amount that will altogether be paid in towards an identical item that is taken on hire purchase terms – the setting up of a Hire Purchase Relief Fund;
  8. The Abolition of the Work system – a system of National Partnerships put in place – there will be a state management entity ( a partnership) put in place to replace the Crown and the Ministry – public sector partnerships to take over from the statutory corporations – private sector partnerships to take over from companies, unions, cooperatives;
  9. The Abolition of the social financial practice of carrying out the payment of wages and salaries  in this country – those partners – who will all be part owners of all enterprises that are over a certain size in Barbados – will be remunerated in PROFITS/DIVIDENDS;
  10. Foreign owned businesses will NOT be able to operate on their own in this country – they will have to be in partnership with local business partnerships;
  11. The Barring of Foreigners owning Land Space rights in Barbados – the leasing of such rights;
  12. The Elimination of the current Land Rights System whereby a few are able to own so many acres of land – the maximum number of acres that a Barbadian or a Barbadian enterprise  will be capable of owning will be set out in the legislation that will assist in managing such land affairs;
  13. The elimination of the social financial practice whereby any thing goes in relationship to building-rent in this country – A Regime of Rent Control shall be put in place for all buildings that are rented or leased for whatever purposes;
  14. The Abolition of the Common Entrance Examination in this country – a  National Continual Assessment System will be devised and implemented;
  15. The Abolition of the system of non-specialized subject schools in Barbados – A system of specialized academies will be put in place in the country – and in which such academies will be attached to  business partnerships, and general science, technological, technical, languages, and other interests organizations within society – and wherefore many students will be able to finish school at 14 years but will have to enlist with an approved partnership business – the creation of 2 Rastafari and 2 Pan-African schools in Barbados;
  16. The bringing to a halt of the governmental practice that one major hospital shall serve this country – the building of a reasonably sized acute care hospital in the north of the country;
  17. The reversal of the trend towards many western unhealthy eating and drinking habits in this country through the informing and educating of many citizens on what they should or must eat or drink more or less of – the setting up of a National Nutritional Council – greater focus being put on alternative medicine, and the setting up of an Alternative Medical Council;
  18. The Abolition of the constitutional practice of the Queen as Head of State of Barbados;
  19. The Abolition of Single Party Government in Barbados – the putting in place of coalitional executive government;
  20. The Abolition of the governmental practice of a few people debating and passing the laws of the government of this country – constituents in constituency assemblies ( one assembly in each constituency) will initiate, debate and pass the laws of this country;
  21. The Abolition of the first past the post system – and its place a variant of the proportional representational system which itself will be used for national and parochial elections;
  22. The reversal of trend whereby candidates in national and by-elections have had to pay monies to register to contest elections in this country – No monies will be paid to do so – the state will assist greatly more in the financing of election campaigns of parties, non-party-political groups, independent candidates in this country – Voters will be given monies by the state on proof of their having voted in the immediate previous election;
  23. The stopping of the constitutional practice of the Governor General/Head of Government ( which ever you prefer) appointing Judges in this country – Judges will be elected by the people in this country – the Abolition of fines – other non-money stealing  punishments already in existence will continue to be used and others introduced;
  24. The reversal of the trend where it takes so long to get justice in this country – the creation of Trial-on-the spot-offences Courts ( criminal and civil jurisdiction) in this country which will be headed by RECORDERS, who will try criminal cases based on the sufficiency or insufficiency of the evidence available “there and then” as provided by  complainants/plaintiffs on a walk in basis – Also, THEY ALONE WILL CHARGE but will NOT TRY the suspects/accused – they will themselves get and sign arrest warrants for suspects to be as quickly as possible arrested by law enforcement people – Supreme Courts will try accused – too they alone will determine the quality of lack of quality of  civil suits, and beyond that will determine if civil suits will be good enough to proceed or not;
  25. The abolition of the practice of local law enforcement people prosecuting in the lower Courts of Barbados – the DPP Subsidiary will directly be responsible for such – the Abolition of the practice of law enforcement individuals charging suspects for crimes in this country – the prevention of  law enforcement people from driving around the Head of State representative, the Head of Government, Judges, guarding gates at Government House – a special  elite force to do so – the renaming and reconstituting of what is now called the Royal Barbados Police Force – to be named, possibly, the National Investigations Bureau (NIB),
  26. The creation of a lightly armed Rapid Intervention Force TO ACT ON THE BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE IN ANY DISPUTES THAT MAY ARISE BETWEEN ORDINARY LAW ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE AND THE CITIZENRY/PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY – AND WHICH WILL HAVE POWERS TO ARREST ORDINARY LAW ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE.

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12 responses to “Empowering And Enfranchising The Broad Masses And Middle Classes Of People In Barbados”

  1. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    @ David
    PDC is writing the same thing every week.

  2. Samperson Avatar
    Samperson

    Everything here has has basically been tried by the Communist… and it failed miserably. God help Bim if these nuts ever get in!

  3. what de bird Avatar
    what de bird

    hahahahahaha

    I find these proposals to be rather radical

  4. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    ‘– Judges will be elected by the people in this country’

    And on recent performance, the courtroom greeting will then be….’Yes, yuh Honour Lil Rick Sir’.

    PDC, that has to be one of your smoke-induced recommendations.
    1.The Abolition of Taxation – this again? Heavens no.Dont you know that a huge percentage of our workforce is actually employed by Government, how will everyone be paid, grass?
    2.The Abolition of Interest Rates – no interest, no lending. Are you saying that you are going to enforce Islamic banking?
    3.The absolute downsizing of Euro-centric monetary policy etc etc — what money, you got rid of taxes and emplyment and interest?
    4.The Abolition of Motor Vehicle Insurance – have you been smoking tonight? Really? Then how will the loans be rapid for an accident, oh, I forgot, no money, no cars there will be no need for insurance anyway.
    5.The Abolition of Exchange Rates Parities with the Barbados Dollar – as above, there will be no dollar.
    6.The Abolition of Institutional Repayable Loans for Productive Purposes – where will the Government egt the funds for this, if there are no taxes. For sure no private institution will lend funds that are ‘nonrepayable’…that must be some good stuff!!
    7.Reform of the Hire Purchase System – no comment, just quite amusing…
    8.The Abolition of the Work system – great, we will all be
    on the block’…hey, pass me one, nah! But…how will we eat?
    9.The Abolition of the social financial practice of carrying out the payment of wages and salaries in this country – you will not have money to pay salary dividends, as in previous point, we will all be on the block, smoking.
    10.Foreign owned businesses will NOT be able to operate on their own in this country – there will not be any foreign owned business anyway, dont owrry about this one. Though I do point out that this is the China model.
    11.The Barring of Foreigners owning Land Space rights in Barbados – the leasing of such rights;At LAST, ONE decent submission. Good one you.
    12.The Elimination of the current Land Rights System whereby a few are able to own so many acres of land – the maximum number of acres that a Barbadian or a Barbadian enterprise will be capable of owning will be set out in the legislation that will assist in managing such land affairs; TWO FOR TWO, Not bad at all!!
    13.The elimination of the social financial practice whereby any thing goes in relationship to building-rent in this country – A Regime of Rent Control shall be put in place for all buildings that are rented or leased for whatever purposes;Not insane, but definitely dubious, lets just say yuh got away with a noball.
    14.The Abolition of the Common Entrance Examination in this country – a National Continual Assessment System will be devised and implemented;Another noball, fair comment.
    15.The Abolition of the system of non-specialized subject schools in Barbados – No, we too small for this. Sorry.– the creation of 2 Rastafari and 2 Pan-African schools in Barbados; NO ONE IS TOPPING THIS,what is the issue? Trying to force entrants?
    16.The bringing to a halt of the governmental practice that one major hospital shall serve this country – the building of a reasonably sized acute care hospital in the north of the country;Georgie Porgie goin love this one.
    17.The reversal of the trend towards many western unhealthy eating and drinking habits – nice one, though it wont go anywhere, bajans love fried crap and likker.
    18.The Abolition of the constitutional practice of the Queen as Head of State of Barbados; I agree, Rihanna would make a suitable replacement. May I suggest Queen Nefertiti of Barbados The First.
    19.The Abolition of Single Party Government in Barbados – the putting in place of coalitional executive government -coalition, you obviously mean to get no work done, but then again, as above, we will all be on the blocks, so it matters not.
    20.The Abolition of the governmental practice of a few people debating and passing the laws of the government of this country – constituents in constituency assemblies ( one assembly in each constituency) will initiate, debate and pass the laws of this country; So instead of two weeks, a law will thake thrity-two years. Good.
    21.The Abolition of the first past the post system – and who decides who is a mionority, a majority, a middling?
    22.The reversal of trend whereby candidates in national and by-elections have had to pay monies to register to contest elections in this country – There will be no money anyway, did you not say?
    23.The stopping of the constitutional practice of the Governor General/Head of Government ( which ever you prefer) appointing Judges in this country – we will all be on the block, smoking, so no one will be available, especially as you are not paying anyone;
    24.The reversal of the trend where it takes so long to get justice in this country – the creation of Trial-on-the spot-offences Courts – oh good, lynch parties!
    25.The abolition of the practice of local law enforcement people prosecuting in the lower Courts of Barbados – the DPP Subsidiary will directly be responsible for such – Great, more delays. As for the ‘special elite force’ of thugs. Wonderful, Gairy Ton Ton Macoute again.
    26.The creation of a lightly armed Rapid Intervention Force – why not just say ‘to execute at will’?

    All in all, some fairly ludicrous proposals, sorry PDC.

    There were a few goodies / keepers though, have no fear, our intent is the same, even if you approach is out of left field and going down the road.

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @Crusoe

    That was a wicked spell! (read cricket)

  6. whistling frog Avatar
    whistling frog

    To the PDC.
    It is so easily simplistic to VOMIT up all your ideology of what you think is a neccesity for the wellbeing of THIS GREAT DEMOCRATIC country of YOURS and MINE as well as all the rest of our unsuspecting CITIZENS….Your thoughts,ideology,perceptions,pro ARCHAIC COMMUNISTIC theories etc.,Remind me very recently of our shakey friend VENEZUELA……,,,,Who’s “Supposedly DEMOCRATIC GOVT” was elected,,,(BY A FORMER MILITARY PERSON) and who has SINGLE HANDEDLY brought a a country so prosperous and with endless possibilities to such a pathetic state never before realized by the so called “OLIGARCHY”,,, I can only Hope and Pray that such as you all never become in control of this Great Country.I am truly convinced that persons that maintain and propose your ideas into society all have devious intentions that are absolutely not to the wellbeing of our Country.

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

    In the 1950s, Kwame Nkrumuh is reported to have said how countries in Africa in those years should have sought the political kingdom first and how all things should have been be added unto them thereafter.

    Well, we want, in particular, to transpose that into this present day context – blogging/posting – to say that many individuals in Barbados should seek political salvation first and become true political believers before they seek to delve into certain things political that are too politically esoteric for them.

    Also, we must state that it has long been promulgated in the old Egyptian societies, by Socrates, by the Great Marcus Garvey, and many others the concept or philosophy that man ( woman) must, know thyself which some have later on juxtaposed with the belief that “the kingdom of heaven is within you; and whosoever shall know himself shall find it.”

    So, it is critical that individuals before they seek to engage others in certain political matters, that they seek first to sufficiently know themselves in order to know what goes on very much beyond them, and also that they seek to know what certain political concepts and abstractions are first, and what they do mean as well, before delving into certain social political contexts – real or imagined – in which they are used.

    So, it is in the latter senses, where the intertwinement is deduced between what Nkrumah said and the concept of man/woman knowing thyself politically, and his or her thereafter politically self-actualizing, that we hereby emphasize.

    Thus, as it stands right now, we suppose, there are three different persons who – under this thread – are going by three different monikers, who we think should do the right thing – follow our advice, in the first instance above (Nkrumah), for doing so will, et al, make them stronger intellectually politically – and not remain as political juveniles, and too follow our advice, in the second instance above (know thyself), since this will, et al, help them to know the connection between themselves and other human beings and this man-made political world and the wider God given world.

    So, here we go,

    Samperson and whistling frog,

    It is clear that you both are not well read in political studies, and are therefore totally uniformed, and ignorant in the true sense of the term, as to what communist theories are, were, or have been, universally.

    You do not know yourself politically, and you therefore will never politically self-actualized until you do so. You are political heathens. For, you have come way short of the glory of the political kingdom!!!

    Our advice to you both is to go and talk to Dr. George Belle of the Political Science Department, at the Social Science Faculty of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, and find out what is Communism from him, and stop making yourselves look very politically immature.

    For others besides you who might be reading your thrash, we are not even believers in Communism, which is a western eurocentric political doctrine.

    We view almost all western euro-centric political doctrines as being alien to the primordial physic and physiological constituencies of a pre-dominantly African descendant peoples in Barbados, and as being detrimental to the further social political historical emancipation and liberation of a peoples in Barbados who have been helped enslaved, colonized and imperialized by such doctrines and their practices – and who continue esp. through their volitions – their own aids in many cases – to help in their own tremendous suffering from such past and present processes.

    Crusoe,

    It is clear that you have failed for the umpteenth time to properly analyse and dissect the policies that we have been from time to time enunciating.

    However, so as not to be overly distracted, we are not going to be wasting much time on your failed reactionary agenda – as we think that political phantasmagorics like you cannot be so easily cured of such a similarly named syndrome – as judged from your very atrocious imbecilic responses whereby you have coughed up loads of unrationalized phlegm but still you have provided no rational counter methods or approaches of your own to ours; and whereby you have gone so low to falsely attack us personally and hardly our policies but whereby you have failed, in your “ramblings” to rise to the occasion to relate our policies ( slight details of which have been presented here under this thread) to the centrifugal components of the lead article: the notion of reducing poverty in Barbados to the lowest levels possible, and the notion of greater empowering and enfranchising broad masses and middle classes of people in Barbados.

    So, no academic will take you seriously.

    Also, you are like the two different persons supposedly going by the two monikers above. You dont know yourself politically, and therefore you will never politically self actualize until you do so. Too, you are a political heathen who may never even make the political kingdom.

    PDC

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

    Inadvertence – paragraph two, line three – it should have been ” – through our blogging/posting on BU -“, and not what is seen there.

    PDC

  9. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    @PDC,

    No, I have not once above attacked you personally, just pointed out that most of those suggestions are ridiculous.

    Yet, you are taking it personally.

    You note ‘So, no academic will take you seriously.’

    That is rich indeed. But, if you truly mean it and by ‘academic’ you mean someone sitting in a myriad of books, no interaction with the ‘real world’ and merely pontificating on various matters with little understanding of practicality, very possibly you may be right.

    However, there is much movement to push academia towards practical uses, indeed it is a demand.

    Tell me, you MUST be joking, no? As the English say ‘You are having a laugh, mate!’

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

    Crusoe,

    Again, what methodological or ideological basis or approach are you using to criticize our NO-TAXATION paradigm, or our NO-INTEREST RATES paradigm, or our NO-MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE policy, our NO-EXCHANGES RATES PARITIES with the Barbados Dollar, etc???

    What scientific approaches are you using??

    What moral legal approaches are you using??

    Did the late Eric Williams not have to write a whole thesis to properly advance his so-called economic determinism for the ending of enslavement in the Caribbean?

    Did the late Walter Rodney not have to do the same with regard to how Europe in the pre/post/industrial revolution era benefitted from the imperialization and colonialization of Africa, whereas the latter became underdeveloped??

    What about Orlando Patterson on his thesis that the enslavement of our people destroyed the black family structure?(not the only person to have advanced such – has been challenged too by some others)

    What Islamic banking are you writing about?

    Cant you see past that??

    For sure we have gone by that!!!

    Nothing that we herein enunciate is based on such a thing.

    We do not mind your persiflage, your type of “scatter gun” approach but we deal with substance here ok.

    And we use this BU forum for serious purposes!!!

    PDC

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

    It is pleasing to realize that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro thinks that the Cuban economic system does not work for the country any more ( Barbados Advocate, 10 September, 2010).

    The news story goes on to say that the Cuban state controls well over 90 per cent of the economy, paying workers salaries of about $ 20 a month in return for free health care and education, and nearly free transportation and housing.

    Furthermore, in its segment on the Cuban economy, Wikipedia.org expresses the following: “The Cuban state adheres to socialist principles in organizing its largely state-controlled planned economy. Most of the means of production are owned and run by the government and most of the labor force is employed by the state.

    Recent years have seen a trend towards more private sector employment. By 2006, public sector employment was 78% and private sector 22%, compared to 91.8% to 8.2% in 1981.[87] Capital investment is restricted and requires approval by the government.

    The Cuban government sets most prices and rations goods. Any firm wishing to hire a Cuban must pay the Cuban government, which in turn will pay the employee in Cuban pesos.[88] Cubans can not change jobs without government permission.[41] The average wage at the end of 2005 was 334 regular pesos per month ($16.70 per month) and the average pension was $9 per month.[89]”.

    Indeed the point is clear that Cuba’s as well as all other ccntrally planned socialist economies like that of the former USSR, the Eastern Bloc, China, before its political changes in the 1970s up to this point, were bound to collapse in decades time, or would have been forced to implement – largely for purposes of expedience not validation – certain market changes ( which would have been practiced elsewhere ) along the same political economic financial trajectories in order to feed and sustain their subject people.

    What is worse is that mixed economies like USA, China, Japan, Germany, India, and all other economies across this world including Barbados, will also – from time to time -be forced into big crises and big problems primarily due to so many dangerous irrational social and political practices resulting from the implementation of the economics and western finance ideologies and psychologies.

    So, that whereas in cases like in Cuba, North Korea, in the former USSR, etc. where the state simply undertook to do what in most cases the private sector or the markets would have done in most other mixed economies (state capitalism), or in cases like in the USA, UK, Japan, Germany, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, where their private sectors would be doing many things that former Soviet States did, and which the Cuban and North Korean states would be now doing (state socialism), and it would have therefore meant, and still does mean, yes, as well, that there would have been some sizable differences in the realization of certain GDP/GNP per capita long run outcomes, in long term technological and military development, and in long term social development, as among these countries – where both socialist and mixed economies are concerned – and where trade offs between political development, social development and economic development were concerned.

    It nevertheless would have also fundamentally meant that – whether they were or are defined as either socialist or mixed economies or capitalist economies, all these economies in the world in the short or long term have suffered from and do still suffer from virtually all of the same/similar fundamental economic and financial problems – trade deficits, current account deficits on their balance of payments, huge government debts and fiscal deficits, persistent unemployment/ underemployment, too much savings versus investments, high cost of livings/recessions/depressions, etc., and that the societies within which these economies would have been found or are found to have many of the same similar social and political problems – high incidences of crime, much illiteracy, high ( infant) mortality rates, too much poverty, pervasive social inequalities, corruption, political passivity, political governmental thuggery, elite/state political exploitation.

    Such damning, often times deep-seated, problems have two common sources – the said Economics and Western Finance – which – unless they are over time substantially deemphasized or removed from the political social educational landscapes of the countries concerned – will lead to or correlate with the worsening of the social political material and financial affairs of all of these countries.

    So, what Fidel Castro should have long known – well before this so-called Cuban revolution got started in the 1950s, was

    1) that there should have been no need for any useless Capitalist/Socialist ideological battles, having regard to the fact that they are really basically two sides of the same coin;

    2) that there should have never been implemented this so-called Cuban Revolution, having regard to the fact that – once it would have been implemented – it would have become significantly intermittently compromised, as that it was substantially based on very flawed economic and western financial principles and methods;

    3) that there should never have been implementation of the socialist system on the very grand scales that have been seen in Cuba, having regard to the fact that – by implementing it to that extent – it has principally served as a vehicle for the further entrenchment of economics and western finance in the Cuban society;

    4) and that nothing substantially should have been done to have prevented the replacement of economics and western finance – as core ideas/ core principles – with far better more appropriate people-centered policies and programs than those that socialism in Cuba allowed or planned for.

    PDC

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @PDC

    It is ironic that Cuba finds itself in the same situation which would have motivated the Castro led revolution against Batista. The flipside though is Cuba has demonstrated what it is to be resilient as a people/nation; however political systems should be dynamic i.e relevant to the people.

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