I , would like to know who has the superior candidate now . Case, chapter,and verse close down Owen. Mara delivered her self with a masterful speech, with so much confidence, class, and style that David surely must be well please with her. Owen what are you going to do with Griffith?The Dems say they have more to reveal about Griffith.Cat piss and pepper Owen.

Yes the slagging off & the dirt slinging has started. The race is on & may the best “Man” win.
We will leave it until Mr Lashley comes back to give the public an update on the alleged assault & credit card fraud.
The BLP is only getting a dose of their own medicine, as they are the ones who are very popular with the mud slinging & evidence of so & so. They need to get their act together, stop fighting among themselves & get this party started.
They need new blood & new ideas. They need to act like an opposition & start giving the DLP a run for it’s money.
Mara’s campaigning strategy will be subtle & aimed at the family, as this is how she was best portrayed. Others like Lashley will bring up the rear with the mud, goo & gore.
We all watch as each man play their hand in this game.

You have heard the term ruling from the grave, this is a prime example. I have nothing against Mrs Thompson but I find this rather disturbing. It appears that the late PM was a master manipulator. It is very difficult to deny a dying man his wishes. But to put that burden on his wife and family is very selfish by putting “family first” in St. John. This sends warning bells to the rest of Barbados. It is clear that this is the foundation of a dynasty. Dynasties have no place in Barbados politics. The resurrection has begun!

Islandgal, you should really rename yourself Cavegirl because your “Mara, stay home and press the children school clothes” argument belongs in the stone ages. You need to crawl out from under your rock into 2011. Seriously.

Remember I said:-

“Get over it. The people of St. John called for David Thompson and now they are calling for Mrs. David Thompson”

“she will be the candidate and she will go on to win handsomely.”

“Look who the BLP is offering to the people of ST. John, A JOKE!”

Check it out
You are being very disingenuous.
She said her daughters were fully behind her decision to run for the seat. Put yourself in her shoes and you would have done the same thing. It is no lie that she walked the streets of St.John for a long time campaigning for her husband. She took the natural decision to formalize something she was doing for a long time, which is looking after the needs of the St.John people in his absence.
Now let’s look at your candidate. Is it true that he was before the courts for assault and his travel documents have be confiscated?
That would be very irresponsible of your party for foisting on the women and families of St.John a person whose character is not very good.

Charlie; I did’nt see your post above before I posted mine.

However, to respond to the questions raised. “Put families first” is the DLP faux slogan. I merely added the “beginning with my family” to put the bye-election firmly within the context of that slogan.
It is more than likely that David Thompson did indeed will the seat to Mara on his deathbed. Therefore he was setting up a first family of “the Thompsons”. The amended slogan for the by-election tries to put this into perspective. It is of lesser relevance to the General Barbados situation at present but may become so if moves are made to further elevate Mrs Thompson.

I think I answered the last part of your question in my post above. But I agree that, if Owen ARthur knew of the allegations before Nomination day and did nothing about it, it would have been, not only showing bad taste and being disrespectful to the people of St John but Totally Stupid. Owen Arthur is not stupid so I choose to believe that he did’nt know beforehand. What will be revelatory will be his and the party’s reaction to the story. Will they defend the candidate or quietly back away?

In any case, providence does not seem to be smiling at the BLP at this time.

Charlie. I forgot to add above. I have no party. Neither B nor D. Both of them are heavily populated with persons who really have little interest in the people they serve and are in it for self aggrandisement, irrespective of what they say.

The current BLP aspirant for the St John seat seems (if the allegations are correct) to be just slightly off the norm for politicians in general. I don’t think Mara (She presents as an honourable, good, hard working woman) fits into that mould. But I think that she could have rested on her laurels of service to St John and let someone else carry the fray for now. But other considerations, headed by loyalty to the wishes of her Husband, held sway.

Now where did the BLP and DLP get all this money to campaign the way that they are …? Who supplying all this money, and for what ?

I agree with BAFBP. This is nothing but a distraction from the hard times that are upon us. Since when did one seat matter so much to a people afflicted with economic worries?

By the way, is not there a claim of assault with a deadly weapon against a sitting MP? What happened to that? Should it not go to court and the magistrate take his passport?

Not really, if the allegation is not tested in court because of a technicality. Was Griffith convicted?

What about Kenny Best. Ask him about trinidad and when last he went there.

@de hood

How is it splitting hairs to separate what is an allegation and a charge, one which resulted in the confiscation of a passport?

@ CCC

Tell us, CCC, where did your suit come from? At least he would have it obtained honestly and not sell his soul to fly to USA on company jet to buy it in Miami or New York!
You see, CCC, people who put cocoa out in the sun to dry should look fuh when de rain “set up”!

@ David
What is the difference between “a charge” before the court and “a charge” before the Privileges Committee in Parliament?
Isn’t it still recognised in Barbados that one in INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty by a jury of one’s peers? Note I wrote “peers” not “pears”. 🙂

David, a charge is an allegation, nothing more.

@ de hood you sound like you have a tree branch stuck up your arse mate this is a blog not a bloddy wedding invitation from buckingham palace the man can call her mrs david thompson we all know what he means and i doubt the lady herself would take offence capiche?

Oh yes! What a difference a week makes.

@Liberal
Where were you last week when BLP operatives like Random Thoughts, Anonus, Fran, Jenny M, and others were wucking up in the streets celebrating the baseless character assassination on this blog over the QEH issue? I wish I had heard you supporting my call for evidence and facts over rumour mongering and character assassination then.

By taking a dig at Mrs. Thompson I can tell you don’t really care about TRUTH, you’re just upset that your guy is on the receiving end with the UNSUBSTANTIATED talk about credit card fraud.

Demand TRUTH for everyone not just your BLP people. Otherwise I don’t want to hear you pontificating about TRUTH.

In the name of veracity,
VERITY

@Leroy Payne | January 7, 2011 at 10:57 AM |
RE It’s wishful thinking that the BLP candidate will win this by-eletion. Reason being the DLP candidate who is the wife of the late Prime Minister would be returned because of the smypathy vote.
THOSE TWO STATEMENTS ARE STEEPED IN VERACITY.

I am wondering why if the late Prime Minister, who represented St John for so many years(lived in St Philip) did so much for the parish, as claimed by many, are the people of St John now looking for her to put things right

MANY ARE WONDERING THE SAME THING.LOL

BAFBFP | January 7, 2011 at 9:32 AM |
This is a process that does NOTHING for the furtherance of the process of development for St. John or Barbados. Neither candidate has any special to add to the policy makers. What you dear friends are witnessing is the securing of a seat for a political party and not the securing of the future of a constituency or a country. Its a whole lot of bull.

THOSE STATEMENTS ARE STEEPED IN VERACITY. THEY ARE VERITIES LOL

@ Checkit-out | January 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM |
RE I forgot to add above. I have no party. Neither B nor D. Both of them are heavily populated with persons who really have little interest in the people they serve and are in it for self aggrandisement, irrespective of what they say.
THIS IS MORE VERITY AND VERACITY

RE. It is of lesser relevance to the General Barbados situation at present but may become so if moves are made to further elevate Mrs Thompson.

DO YOU THINK SUCH ELEVATION[S] HAS/HAVE ALREADY BEEN WILLED TOO? Is IT A VERACITY AND A VERITY THAT A DEAD MAN STILL LEADS THE DLP. AND THIS IS THE REASON THAT PM FUMBLE IS FUMBLING FROM THE STERN OF THE SHIP OF STATE AS CLEARLY ARTICULATED BY FARTLEY LAST NIGHT?

THE NEW TEAM IS FARTLEY & FUMBLE!
WAS THAT WILLED TOO? oH ME AM!

@ Checkit-out | January 7, 2011 at 8:28 AM |
It seems to be all over for the BLP’s candidate bar the counting. But some questions need to be asked on how the BLP got to this sorry pass, assuming that the info above on the candidate is true.
Were no background checks done?
Did these revelations come out of the blue for the BLP after the nomination?
Should OSA gingerly distance himself from the candidate or should he push on?
Is Mia’s “scorched earth” policy re. OSA and the gang of 4 likely to pay real dividends 2 years from now or 7 years from now?

You have asked some good questions.
May I ask you for fun ……why should OSA gingerly distance himself from the BLP’s candidate, when FUMBLE has apparently endorsed all the nonsense that happened recently at the QEH RE DEXTER DOLORES DONVILLE & THE DIOTROPHETIC DUNCE?

@ da costa | January 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM |

@ de hood you sound like you have a tree branch stuck up your arse mate this is a blog not a bloddy wedding invitation from buckingham palace the man can call her mrs david thompson we all know what he means and i doubt the lady herself would take offence capiche?
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Having a “tree branch stuck up my arse” is one thing but whose DICK do you have stuck in your throat!! 🙂 Capiche!

de hood | January 7, 2011 at 4:45 PM

This is just another example of how common some BLP supporters can be.

No wonder you are BLP supporters, deprave, corrupt, nasty little people.

@ Carson C. Cadogan | January 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM |

de hood | January 7, 2011 at 4:45 PM

This is just another example of how common some BLP supporters can be.

No wonder you are BLP supporters, deprave, corrupt, nasty little people.
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Why didn’t you point that out to the DLP yardFOUL who started this up? Oh, I forgot, you only have eyes to read certain comments! Well if you wish to now open your eyes you will see who started this. I have done you the favour of copying it here below for your perusal! So have a read:-

****da costa | January 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM |

@ de hood you sound like you have a tree branch stuck up your arse mate this is a blog not a bloddy wedding invitation from buckingham palace the man can call her mrs david thompson we all know what he means and i doubt the lady herself would take offence capiche?*****

@ CCC

So tell us, CCC, since Davy ded all de free flying on company jets done for you and de rest? Or allyuh latch on to annedder “gravy train” e.g. the one that originates somewhere by de Warrens roundabout?

Suss crise, somebody tell de hood he like he got a branch up in he ass and he aint deny it, in fact he reply with a smiley face and say he got a whole forest up insida dey. Shite man, de fellow really gone ‘cross in trute. Can’t drink soup and none of he arguments pon dis blog can’t hold water neida. Murda!