You seem to be agitated for no reason. Your points are being challenge for the reason that they are have no backing.

So you admit the raising the vat could lead to no increase revenue. Which in turn mean that there is going to be no close of the deficit which is what it needed.

How would the cellphone tax be hard. lime and digicel have prepaid plan that deduct each month from their balance. adding it to bill plan is even easier. Further yet lime give me 5 promotion show that taxes can be charge even if no credit is on phone for latter deduction. What hogwash your trying to tell people.

as for the environmental levy it been charge 1% for awhile that hasn’t changed. to reflect the position in the budget.

As for your pondering the diesel prices it might go down ( wait david removed that did that didn’t he) but if the price of diesel increase by 50% be sure prices will go up on the day.

The Bee don’t wish the economy to fall off a cliff it will make it all the harder to fix back. At least you have to come to realise by your own admission why the budget was bad and doesn’t address the main issue. Goverment needs to cut some its spending or be efficent with it spending.

UNDER ITS PRESENT RULE, THE BLP IS WISHING THAT THE ECONOMY FALLS OFF CLIFF BECAUSE THEY ARE POWER-HUNGRY AND FEELS THAT BARBADOS BELONG TO THEM.

CERTAIN MEMBERS IN THE BLP WERE WISHING THOMPSON DIED AND ARE NOW WISHING SINCKLER IS SUED OR GETS SCARED AND REMAINS SILENT.

WHY DOES THE BLP ALWAYS WANT TO HUSH-PEOPLE-UP OR GAG PEOPLE?

STOP WISHING BAD FOR BARBADOS BECAUSE YOU ARE POWER-HUNGRY!!!

@ just observing

YOU WROTE:
The environment levy was NEVER implemented., so it can’t be taken off the books.
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IF SO, WHY ARE MANUFACTURES NOW FEARFUL OF COMPETITION FROM REGIONAL GOOD?

THINK MAN!

AND YOU PEOPLE PURPORT TO BE GOOD ON THE ECONOMY?

I BET YOU WILL BE HAPPY OF PEOPLE MARCH AND IF THE ECONOMY COLLAPSES.

YOU PEOPLE ARE BEING DRIVEN BY A LUST FOR POWER AND GREED. 14 YEARS AND YOU STILL WANT TO RULE SOMEMORE.

WHAT ABOUT THE ELECTORAL FRAUD THAT RAWLE EASTMAN SPOKE ABOUT, WHO IS DEALING WITH THAT?

WHY IS YOUR PARTY NOT ALLOWING EACH MEMBER THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR WHO HE WANTS?

WHY IS THE BLP SUPPRESSING OPINION AND THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE WITHIN THE BLP?

@Bajan Panday

You may want to consider your approach to remain credible.

Up to you.

mash up
mawnin, my red-velvet cake wid butta-icin. ya tu swoiteee. smoochhhh, rite pun dem tick lips a yourz.

PANDAY
tawk ya tawk.

People dont be fooled by Bajan Panday. With the 2.5% increase in VAT and the 50% increase in the excise tax on gasoline, prices are bound to skyracket.

Doing simple arithmetic, if you take off the 1 or 2%(whatever it is, I checked the minister’s speech and it did not say how much it was) but add 2.5% VAT and 50% on gasoline, by simple adding, costs are bound to increase as merchants will have to pass on the additional expense of transportation.

I am glad that the defenders of this “good” budget have now realised that the increase in VAT will not raise the additional revenue of $124 million. It is obvious that people will save and dont spend which is going to lead to more layoffs. Hence the reason to sell the BNB shares, they may yet have to do and BNB will be holding the trump card. They will then use Sandi’s words…… “take what we are offering or lump it”.

Reading over the budget, I can clearly see that this government does not know what it is doing, hence the plan to try to destroy Owen Arthur. How can a responsible government allow the fiscal deficit (not physical deficit as per Jepter Ince, Lord help us) to increase from $396.9 in 2008/9 to $712.9 in 2009/10 without anything to show for it. Have they built any schools (Ronald Jones said they were building two), has there been any major infrastructure in this country since January 2008.

Tell us where the money gone?

By the way, I was told by my pharmacist that if you go to a private doctor, you cannot fill the perscription at a government pharmacy and if this is true, why were the people of Barbados not told this.

I agree with the writer of this article, it seems that there was collusion by the kingmaker and others in the DLP to conduct a poll at the particular time because only the kingmaker knew the condition of the PM and how long he had left.

So I knew that the poll would only have said that Sinckler was the people’s choice. I cast no aspersions on CADRES but I think they have a DLP agenda. Some dems felt insulted by this same poll, judging from the call in programme. But wait, did Mara pass a note to the NATION on this poll, did she felt it was an insult to her husband who was very ill at the time.

How could Sinckler think he could become PM when he just come? I saw his facial expression after the vote on that morning and if you check the group picture, Sinckler was not in the picture! I know Kellman was up front, though!

Talk all you want, he is not PM material. If he had done his research instead of trying to belittle Owen Arthur (does Sinckler have a father or an uncle Owen’s age), he would have known that the building was done by JADA whom they are with now in bed with and whom they will need to finance their next election campaign.

Certainly if a contractor cuts corners to maximise profits, the design cannot be faulted. If as the article above says that the repair estimate is $1 million where the $22 million figure Sinckler mentioned in the wrap up comes from.

More of the fatted calf to be shared!

@ mu&bb
Wuh yuh tryin’ ta put mih in wid my girl Bonny? I jes coolin’ it hey quiet so an ain’t diggin’ nuttin’. Anyway, its good to see you back with us. I can’t figure out what happened with ol ROKie lately, he like laying low for the time being. Perhaps he might have flown up stateside to meet up with his “buddy” Dr. GP. { 🙂 }

Hoodie

Thanks for de shout out.Man yuh like yuh frighten for the bushman,lol.
Doan worry bout he man, bushie ain’t know about putting lashes,he cud only throw a few wild blows.Doan give up so easy man represent the brotherhood.

Bonny like she men strong yuh hear,so yuh gotta stan’ up strong buddy, murdah.

@ Prodigal Son
“The BLP can be proud of: the airport, the seaport, Arawak Cement plant, Independence Square, the wharf boardwalk, Jubilee Gardens, the highway, the west wing, Pelican Village,Kensington Oval, the Coast Guard bilding, the Hall of Justice ( I waiting to see if they are going to stick Thompson’s name on it), Dodds, the NIS building, St Lawrence Gap, the Bay Gardens at Oistins, Swan Street building 436 houses and repairing 611 between 97-07, BNB, new schools, new police stations and the list goes on and on.”

Prodigal Muh Boy, above all, don’t forget all of those roads that get fixed, even totally rebuilt like Hindsbury Road ……… AND THE ABC HIGHWAY. You really think DEM shame to put Thompson name pon the Hall Of Justice? You didn’t see that His Excellency Errol Barrow curse the ABC Highway real stink, HATED the thing, and they still put BARROW name on it!

@Barbados Uh Come From! | December 1, 2010 at 5:33 PM |

Prodigal, yuh got Bajan Panty …. oh sorry uh mean Bajan Panday
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So what’s de apology for? Bajan Panty knows his name very well he only playing that he spelling it P-a-n-d-a-y and not P-A-N-T-Y! What is even wuss is dat he is a soiled one not even a clean one! 🙂

@Brother Bear who wrote, “LET THEM GATHER, LET THEM GATHER, THEN LIGHT THE DYNOMITE”

The man that said and did that blew off his own hand.

fuh true.

Bonny Peppa is a disgrace to Barbados
cussing all over the place and in cyberspace

Ban Bonny Peppa (BBP)

BBP Bonny now

@Hants | December 1, 2010 at 7:46 PM |
“@Brother Bear who wrote, “LET THEM GATHER, LET THEM GATHER, THEN LIGHT THE DYNOMITE”
The man that said and did that blew off his own hand.
fuh true.”

Hants, you are living in the age of dinosaurs! Brother Bear told me that he detonates far from the scene …… by remote control.

de hood | December 1, 2010 at 6:41 PM | @Barbados Uh Come From! | December 1, 2010 at 5:33 PM |

Prodigal, yuh got Bajan Panty …. oh sorry uh mean Bajan Panday
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So what’s de apology for? Bajan Panty knows his name very well he only playing that he spelling it P-a-n-d-a-y and not P-A-N-T-Y! What is even wuss is dat he is a soiled one not even a clean one!”

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This is the level of disrespect shown towards proud, liberated bajan black women by male Chauvinism. It is this level of share disrespect that caused five men to remove a female leader of the BLP.

It is this disrespect by men who feel that they have a right to rule but that women must be insulted and follow eventhough in many instances, the woman is far more qualified, as in the case of the BLP.

Your unprovokes attack on me and Bonnie is an idication of how you feel about the Barbadian woman, that our role is to step aside so you could look smart and macho. You will not get a free pass from me!!!

You level of disrect shows your character and explains the ease at which you would spread rumours about a female leader of the BLP just to pull her down so men can advance.

Your level of disrespect towards the Barbadian woman indicates why you now cuss Irene because she came to Mia Mottley’s defense.

Here you are now being disrespectful about the female cycle. How vulgar can you be? Don’t you ahve a mother, wife or sister? You call yourselves men? Some of you guys in the BLP must treat women with respect. The few that do like Rawle Eastman and William Duguid are then pressured and treated badly.

Now I see why it was so easy for you all to oust Mia Mottley. It is because you have no respect for the very women whose vote you need to get power only to disrespect women all over again.

The Question is: how did Owen Arthur get the cheques we now hear he made photocopies of?

Cheques are always returned to the person who issued them.

Remember I told you that Mr. Stuart is not the leader some people want to do business with , now you know. So how did Owen Arthur get those cheques?

Answer the question.

@KISSMYA

Of course Arthur had the options to endorse the cheque to the party account and avoid using his personal account and or transfer it with haste.

In both instances it would have given the appearance of transparency.

Hey Mr. Panday,
Your comments on treatment of women are hilarious. Really!!

The thing about the ribbing you are getting is that even though you are a man, you are the one wearing the soiled ladies’ unmentionables. It has nothing to do with women!

And don’t talk about Bonny. She is the epitome of bad behaviour and filthy language on this blog. Do you believe Panday, that she is being insulted when people ask her to clean up her act?

@Bajan Panday | December 2, 2010 at 11:21 AM |
“The Question is: how did Owen Arthur get the cheques we now hear he made photocopies of?”

Panday, where did Thompson get that paid cheque re Owen to make a photocopy of it?

I believe it came from the man at the “Hellum”, green-verb Parris.
He was at the “hellum” of CLICO, which owned the bank CCB, on which the cheque was drawn. Who better than Parris could get access to that paid cheque?

What were the motives of Parris and Thompson, firstly in delivering that cheque, and secondly providing a copy for Thompson to parade in public?

Panday, are you one tiny weeny bit interested in finding out the size of Thompson’s CHEQUES from the CLICO GROUP, and could we see some copies as well?

I have studied Bajan Panday’s blogs carefully and have come to the conclusion that there is a reason he has been on the BLP’s case over the change of leadership singing the same tune over and over again.

The DLP needs Mia to be leading the BLP because she poses no threat to them and they have an arsenal of inuendos and lies stored up out of which they would use against Mia whenever they want. Remember Hartley Henry’s treat to the Sunday Editor of the NATION in January 2009. Henry then went ahead and posted his vitriol on a blog. David Thompson who was such a family man condoned what Hartley Henry did to the editor and Mia. The Dems need Mia as leader for a reason that suits them. They have no love for Mia or the BLP.

Owen Arthur poses a treat to them as the economy is in the tank and the Dems have not a clue how to fix it. Hence the constant attacks.

Bajan Panday insults Owen Arthur every day and has the nerve to ask if Bees dont have mothers and sisters. When your MPs “skinned” Owen Arthur as you put it in the debate, that was alright, you rejoiced as evidenced by the use of the word “skinned”. Did you ask Sinckler, Stuart, Sealy, Jones, Todd, the Lashleys, Boyce and the ignorant Kenny Best if they have a father, uncle or brother?

Mia does not need the likes of Irene Sandiford-Garner to defend her. Mia was never liked by the DLP, she was always the butt of their sarcasm and attacks, so why the lovefest and defence of Mia now?

The DLP does not have a track record of treating their women well. Look at the lastest treatment of Marilyn Rice Bowen…… first as soon as David Thompson took over as leader of the Opposition, she was told she could no longer run in the St Michael West Central constituency, then look how she was treated over the NHC debacle…… Michael Lashley fired her behind her back and then the DLP operatives leaked information to discredit her to the NATION.
Look how David Thompson move around Esther Byer Suckoo like he had no confidence in her.
Look how the DLP treated the late Antoinette Thompson, like a dog in the halls of George Street, help drove the lady to any early grave.
Look how Pat Inniss was removed from the Senate in the second last reshuffle David Thompson did.

How many women have the DLP run as candidates prior to 2008?

Do the Bees a favour and stop talking about the treatment of Mia. The way democracy works is that the person who has the majority of the votes becomes the leader.

Did not the Dems do worse than this to Clyde Mascoll and in Mascoll’s case he was asked to resign by people who were not even elected, so dont tell us about no Prior Park accord. Where was the letter drafted by these elders asking Mascoll to resign? In Enterprise or at South Ridge? The letter that the “gang” of three took to the speaker to oust Mascoll was drafted by someone who was not elected either.

So lay off of the BLP! Mia was removed by the democratic process, Clyde Mascoll was removed by a palace coup!!!

@ Prodigal Son | December 2, 2010 at 1:24 PM | Bajan Panday re your post on Dec 2, you dont remember what you write, do you?

You worrying now how Owen Arthur got copies of cheques and that cheques are always returned to the person who issued them, so where did David Thompson get the one he purported belonged to Owen Arthur to parade at the meeting at Haggatt Hall?

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You merely highlight my point.

Imagine, a few days after something appeared on BU from one “AAA” purporting to want to sue Minister Sinckler for something he is alledged to have said during his budget wrap-up, we now hear that Owen Artrhur has returned cheques from a company he photocopied.

Cheques, which he obviously did not have before January 14, 2008 but seem to have received later when he was not Leader of the Opposition of Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. How did he get them and on what condition?

Did those cheques come from the BNB? if so, before or after any director might have resigned? Would that explain any Senate picks? If those cheques did not come from any BNB director who resigned, did they come from the sender?

If so, did Owen Arthur get them at a Meeting held at Post St. Charles? If so, was that on the occasion he was collecting funds for the BLP eventhough not being Political Leader? Were funds collected?

If yes, did they suffer a fate similar to what Mr. Thompson exposed in the 2007 budget?

LEAVE ME!!!!

So what your making noise about is the supposed hypothesis of taking of funds that never happen and you can’t prove. I think this story finally written its end and Mr. Panday should stop repeating it or be made to look ridiculous for shouting about nothing.

Bajan Panday,

You are real hard ears, what about it dont you understand that the DLP has no track record on women’s rights or the treatment of women.

The economy is of no importance to you all, imagine you could say that the economy is only a distraction, no wonder we are in such a mess.

The BLP can also use Mascoll’s last speech as a DLP and also Stuart’s 17 point indictment on Thompson and the DLP.

You said something about when Owen’s star was fading and Thompson ‘s stars were aligning in 2007, wow, look whose star has faded!

And in any case, Fruendel Stuart dont want you anywhere around the DLP!

Barbados is a society and not just an economy!

SMH. Can’t have a society without money to support it. So a strong economy is one the points for a strong society.

@Bajan Panday…

Please correct me if I am wrong.

But did not the late great PM Thompson spend a great deal of time on CLICO’s private jet?

Was not the late great PM Thompson a lawyer for CLICO?

Honest questions.

I hope for honest answers.