What is Parris’ interest that he would attend this function anyway?

@ David:

Because he was invited. He who paid the piper large sums and carrying nasty secrets can still call the tune. LP and & DLP are in such a symbiotic relationship that they can be deemed veritable conjoined twins. The DLP, especially CS at this stage since he is the man that got to deal with the mess, would like to distance itself from this electoral liability. LP is much smarter than you think. He is actually daring the DLP and telling them: “If you do anything to cause me to sink (or do time in ‘sing sing” although I might enjoy the time with the boys) , I will pull you under too!

You got to take your hat off to the simple village boy from Lemon Arbor.

St. John people are the smartest in Barbados that is why the elected 2 PM’s to be their representative. Ask Dowridge, the flour man!

It’s OK.
According to Rihanna, high-class Bajans hail each other with the hypocorism “c*nt”, so the conversation would have gone something like:
Boycey: “Yo, Parris, yuh dangerous c*nt”
Ponzi Parris: “Arright Boycey, yuh miserable c*nt”
which would be about right.

“To further rub salt in the wounds of aggrieved CLICO and BAICO policyholders we understand he is about to change his Mercedez.”

These policy holders are like lambs to the slaughter. Don’t have a clue what is in store for them!
Why should LP display one iota of common sense, sensitivity and decorum? That’s not his style! It’s like asking a man with no teeth to chew a chicken bone! They (the policyholders) should be thankful that far from changing his vehicle he has not purchased a luxury yacht berthed at Port St. Charles and soon Port Ferdinand where he can entertain his pals an visit his former in-the- pocket-pals in the OECS, especially St Kitts for his annual rectal examination. It is medically advised that a man at his age should have regular examination in order to detect any early signs of the onset of prostrate cancer

Parry is a clown, a man who consistantly mauls the Queens english hence the apt nickname Green Verbs.

WHY should John Voice run from Leroy Parris ????
DOES John Voice care anything bout you talking nonsense about he with Leroy Parris ??
WHAT yuh want to bet that John Voice dont care nothing bout you ???
WHY you dont leave John Voice alone ????
WHY dont you tek John Voice name out yuh mout ???
DONT you know what we would do with you if you come in Oistins ???
WHY dont you ask somebody ????

JUST ASKING
JUST ASKING
JUST ASKING

Was this a secret function where the Nation sneaked in and grab a few photos?

This photo shows DLP, Parris, BLP. May I ask if something is wrong here?

Something which has stuck with us shaking out of this CLICO issue is the fact that while Parris was Chairman of the CBC it went dark on the CLICO coverage. It has irked BU that we have ‘journalists’ in the Pine who would go silent and not publicly protest that they were being forced to compromise their journalistic principles. What manner of journalists are they and how do they sleep at nights. Surely the union would have stood by their side?

@balance

You would want to be not balanced by ignoring there was a massive regulatory failure on a regional front which straddled different governments. In the case of Barbados that means BLP and DLP.

millertheanunnaki

Come man you know what else is in the box … Tell mah nah. A decision on NIS involvement in 4C’s is pending and this box like it got allot in store. Tell mah nah

It has irked BU that we have ‘journalists’ in the Pine who would go silent and not publicly protest that they were being forced to compromise their journalistic principles.

Journalists in Barbados are not forced to do anything. They do what is required to secure their paychecks.

Investigative journalism is a foreign concept that is yet to be adopted in Barbados.

As has happened in foreign lands to people whose investments were decimated, some will protest, some will sue and some will kill themselves.

And the rich will continue to get richer.

The rich get richer and the poor get children. A.E Neuman!

I’m trying to understand something, because we are paying off clico’s debt, and just before doing so we have traveled to china with cap in hand to collect a grant of RMB Yuan 20 million, about some Bds$M6.15.

I obviously went to school long, but not too often, or just maybe common sense isn’t my forte.

@BAFBFP:

The social and economic undoing of America and, by extension, Western Europe has very little to do with the continuing financial meltdown and coming avalanche of total economic failure. These are just the superficial symptoms festering the body politic. The concept of Retribution is manifesting itself in a real sense and visiting those who ancestors were directly responsible for carrying out genocide on such a massive scale against the original settlers who lived in harmony with nature; eliminating the bison by mass culling knowing full well the native people vitally relied on this animal for food, clothing, fuel and shelter; and corralling them into ghettos called Reservations only to be subjected to the negative effects of alcohol and gambling.

Where is the Thanksgiving for these poor wretched native people? Maybe if the natives had succumbed readily to the religion, social mores and economic exploitation by the Europeans they might be just like the blacks today; in the same socio-economic filth and praising a white Jesus.

A similar extermination exercise took place in Central & South Americas and the Caribbean and will soon see a similar socio-economic dislocation and a similar act of retribution to appease the souls of their massacred ancestors.

balance,
why pillory everyone except the legal advisor?

Because the legal adviser was their king!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours too Sargeant.

I am especially thankful that I was brought up in Barbados where good manners and civility was taught in my family.

I am thankful that I was able to go fishing 3 days in a row and thankful that Saturday morning I caught a 5lb brown trout which I gave to a man and his son who had not caught any fish all morning.

I am thankful that BU exist and that BAFBFP has a forum on which he can rant and rave.
Maybe he should go fishing.lol

@David, you wrote:
Something which has stuck with us shaking out of this CLICO issue is the fact that while Parris was Chairman of the CBC it went dark on the CLICO coverage. It has irked BU that we have ‘journalists’ in the Pine who would go silent and not publicly protest that they were being forced to compromise their journalistic principles. What manner of journalists are they and how do they sleep at nights. Surely the union would have stood by their side?

It might be small comfort, but journalists who hold back from covering “sensitive” subjects for fear of losing a steady paycheque or perhaps opportunities for promotion are not unique to Barbados.

Even in that bastion of democracy and the “free press”, the USA, some journalists had to learn the hard way that it just does not pay to “rock the boat” to the point where it actually might be in danger of tipping over. Gently swaying the boat from side to side is fine. Tipping important personages or institutions into the deep is a no-no, whether they might deserve it or not.

The book Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (available at Amazon.com) is a compilation of the accounts of various award winning, mainstream US journalists recounting the stories of how they were abruptly awakened to the reality that certain stories that the establishment or advertisers would find embarrassing are strictly off limits for coverage in the media. What follows is a snip from a review.

Into The Buzzsaw: 18 Tales Of Media Censorship

by Michelle Goldberg

Between them, the authors of the incendiary new book “Into the Buzzsaw,” out this month from Prometheus (Book came out in 2004. This snip is from an early review /GM), have won nearly every award journalism has to give — a Pulitzer, several Emmys, a Peabody, a prize from Investigative Reporters and Editor, an Edward R. Murrorw and several accolades from the Society of Professional Journalists. One is veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration and a best-selling author, another is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

And most of them are considered, at best, marginal by the mainstream media. At worst, they’ve been deemed incompetent and crazy for having the audacity to uncover evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by government agencies and corporae octopi.

Edited by ex-CBS producer Kristina Borjesson, “Into the Buzzsaw” is a collection of essays, mostly by serious journalists excommunicated from the media establishment for tackling subjects like the CIA’s role in drug smuggling, lies perpetuated by the investigators of TWA flight 800, POWs rotting in Vietnam, a Korean war massacre, the disenfranchisement of black voters in Bush’s election, bovine growth hormone’s dangers and a host of other unpopular issues.

Borjesson describes “the buzzsaw” as “what can rip through you when you try to investigate or expose anything this country’s large institutions — be they corporate or government — want to keep under wraps. The system fights back with official lies, disinformation, and stonewalling.

http://www.freedomofthepress.net/intothebuzzsaw.htm

Of course smart journalists sometimes have ways of working around the censorship imposed from above. For example, check out this article (link below) in the London Evening Standard. The article discusses how the middle aged segment of British society in increasing numbers is finding it necessary to share accommodation in order to meet the high cost of housing in the UK:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23992475-forty-and-flatsharing-in-london.do

Take a close look at the cartoon at the head of the article and see if you can detect a “subliminable” (as GWB liked to call it) message for the readers on another topic altogether. LOL

well david if the bucks stops at the irregular regulatory practices of CLICO by both administrations, then i have no problem with that ; but this constant pillorying of sinckler, stuart and now boyce and other politicians for their courage in not dumping their friend( who has not been charged for any crime) under pressure is disengenuos to say the least when mr thompson would havebeen privy to any corrupt schemes with which mr parris would have been purportedly involved.remember when accused of writng policies in contrvention of the instructions of the oversight committee , mr parris defiantly let all and sundry know that he had spoken to the minister of finance. a statement so loaded that when scrutinised would surely have given mr thompson a relapse.

Leroy Parris never had any sense common or otherwise.Ditto John Bpyce as well. Parris is too stupid to understand what is prudent and what is not.I always smelt something wrong with CLICO.I was one of the lucky ones who got out 100% of their money because I didn’y wait.The moment T&T went belly up I moved.

It would be brilliant if BU could get a copy of the NIS Internal Balance Sheet for BU analyst to review. If the NIB is having difficulty generating audited financials then the next best thing is to make the internal public, in the interest of transparency.

Wunna find fault wid my Intelligent Agent and he run and lef’ … Now this intelligent information will be hard to come by ..no?

indeed david table D6, D7, D8 on central bank website haven’t been update since dec 2009. The whole idea of doing online database is so figures are easily accessible and current. no need to produce multiple pdf every month. it seems the old way data was kept more up todate

@Just Saying

Do you understand we are passed the point of playing the blame game?

Do you understand why people are starting to ‘rise-up’ all over the world in protest at the system?

@ Just Saying:

I agree that the previous Administration must carry some of the blame for aiding and abetting this fraud. They allowed LP to escape from jail. But the present Administration is equally culpable because the boys in charge gave succour to the crook and continues to provide him with a safe haven in return for some of the loot paid in advance.

If we were to follow the money in all this so-called financial crisis around the globe, it seems that monies are being shuttled from the poor to the rich on a large scale through the use of governments. (banks bailout etc)

Ordinarily persons would have objected to taxpayers monies being given to the private sector, but the “threat” of recession keeps them at bay. Some taxpayers around the place are waking up to this strategy by the elites, hence uprisings around the globe.

One can hear a minister in Barbados telling the average man that if he is not allowed to used the taxes paid by the average man, to pay off the debts of the rich, then there will be stress. The game continues.