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Oh what a tangled web we weave,

When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott

Kaymar Jordan, NATION Editor in Chief (l) Carol Martindale, former Sunday Sun Editor (r)

In the same way Editor in Chief of the NATION Kaymar Jordan believes she has the right to ration news to Barbadians, BU claims the right to continue to express disgust at the decision. It is obvious to most people that enough time has elapsed since the story broke that any responsible newspaper in possession of the facts would have sought to clarify the story for the public it serves. Journalistic integrity should never be traded for a bounce in sales.

BU has been criticised by some who believe we should be focussed on the bigger story which is the disquiet haunting the DLP camp concerning Prime Minister Stuarts leadership. Our response is,  we will do so on Sunday when the NATION reveals it all. Then and only then will the public be relieved of the manufactured suspense and be able to engage in a coherent analysis of what transpired.

BU was born in April 2007 because we felt the media was being intimidated by the Arthur administration. A working Fourth Estate is critical to ensuring the crust which protects our democracy is safeguarded. It is serious business. The yellow journalism which is being foisted on Barbadians by the NATION is not acceptable and we need to tell them to stop it!

The Fontabelle 7 Day Eager 11 Sales Plan designed to boost sales must be seen as a media house operating contrary to the highest ethical standards of journalism. In the way it has reported the Eager 11 story the NATION has reneged on its responsibility to Barbadians to be honest and accurate in the delivery of news. Barbadians have become accustomed to mediocrity in the media we find it difficult to recognize it when it happens.

The mention of yellow journalism raises the memory of a couple years ago (August 24, 2009), Barbadians may recall the hullabaloo when the then Sunday Sun Editor Carol Martindale reported  she was threatened by Hartley Henry who was the advisor to the late prime minister.

“The paper [NATION] said police were immediately summoned to the newspaper’s offices where a report about the telephone conversation was made to investigators from the Criminal Investigations Department.

“The Nation has sent an official complaint to Prime Minister David Thompson and has also lodged complaints with the Inter-American Press Association and the World Press Freedom Committee and copied these letters to the Barbados Association of Journalists (BAJ),” the newspaper said.”

If the NATION was a responsible media outfit would Barbadians have to wonder what was the outcome of the Martindale/Henry matter? Would BU be getting a message which suggest that the Nation has a draft copy of a letter? BU looks forward to the ‘letter’ with 11 signatures belonging to the faces of the MPs being paraded in the NATION to be published on Sunday. Any thing less and  heads must roll.

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139 responses to “Fontabelle 7 Day Eager 11 Sales Plan”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    Agree to your point.

  2. WordSong Avatar
    WordSong

    NEWSPAPERS LISTEN UP: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA IS A 2-WAY STREET. MAYBE THE NATION AND BARBADOS TODAY CAN LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE.

    By Mathew Ingram Aug. 17, 2011, 3:09pm PT 13 Comments

    (from http://gigaom.com/2011/08/17/memo-to-newspapers-the-future-of-media-is-a-two-way-street/)

    Plenty of newspapers and other mainstream media entities are happy to use social tools like Twitter and Facebook to promote their content, host comments on their news stories in order to build traffic, and otherwise try and take advantage of the web. But while some are making strides in actually connecting with their readers — including Forbes magazine, which just launched a new “social news” design — few are taking the steps they need to in order to really engage with their readers. That’s partly because they don’t really know what to do, according to Joy Mayer, who just finished a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship looking at media engagement and has released a practical guide for newsrooms.

    The guide (the PDF version of which is here) was put together based on a collaborative process involving interviews with journalists at newspapers around the country, and discussions with social-media editors such as Steve Buttry, formerly of Washington-based TBD and now with the Journal-Register Co., a newspaper chain that is making some of the most aggressive strides towards a “digital first” and community-centered approach to the news. Among other things, the company — which just recently hired former TBD general manager and ex-Washington Post online editor Jim Brady as editor-in-chief — has created a “community newsroom” at one of its regional newspapers.

    A rethinking of the way media entities operate

    Mayer says she hopes that newsrooms both large and small can use the guide to try and brainstorm about ways they can connect with their communities better. And it goes far beyond just setting up a Twitter account to post story links to, or running a Facebook campaign for a specific story — the Reynolds fellow is talking about a comprehensive redesign of the way most media outlets interact with their readers, from comments to ventures such as “open house” events involving the community. In an email to the Knight Digital Media Center, Mayer described her efforts:

    I’m trying to shake up how we think about community, our concept of audience, and being responsive [and] I’m also… laying out what I think new, emerging news organizations can do to thrive.

    In her guide, Mayer argues that newsrooms need to adopt a series of “value statements” about their relationship with their readers and their communities, and that these statements should include:

    We appear to be and actually are accessible, as a newsroom and as individual journalists
    Individual community members feel invited into our processes and products and encouraged to help shape our agenda.
    We find ways to listen to and be in continual conversation with our community.

    We continually alter what we cover, and how, based on what the audience responds to.

    It is easy for community members to share their expertise and experiences, and we value their contributions.
    Fulfilling these vision statements, says Mayer, could include things as simple as having an easily accessible staff directory complete with links to profile pages that have contact information, responsibilities, and so on. Editors and writers could include their interests outside of work, she says — their favorite sports teams, hobbies, restaurants, etc. — as a way humanizing themselves for their readers. Some newspapers might want to invite readers into the newsroom, the way the Register-Citizen has in Torrington, Connecticut, and all should try to publish the news they report “more iteratively and transparently” while inviting readers to share what they know about a story.

    Take ownership of the comments on stories

    But most important is finding ways to connect with readers wherever they are, Mayer says, whether it’s a discussion forum or a blog or the comment section. And the journalism professor is a big believer in having writers take ownership of the comments their stories generate, advising newspapers to consider “holding individual journalists responsible for staying involved in the comments on their stories.” In her guide, Mayer adds:

    Research has shown that the civility of comments goes up when site owners participate. Do we take ownership over the comments on our own website? Do we invest in moderating and participating in the conversations that take place there?

    This is a point that Anil Dash of Expert Labs and Activate Media has also made in a recent blog post entitled “If your website is full of ***holes, it’s your fault,” and the value of comments is something we have tried to reinforce here at GigaOM as well. But as I’ve pointed out in a number of posts about the social-media policies that have been implemented at a number of newspapers and news organizations, many media outlets actively discourage their staff from interacting with or engaging with readers — either through the comments section on their stories, or through social media such as Twitter or Facebook.

    This kind of engagement is the future of media

    Many of these policies make it clear that the news outlet values social media because it can be used as a promotional tool, or can produce sources and other content that can help in the reporting process, but few of them look at what reporters and editors should be doing with them apart from promoting their content. In many cases, they spend a lot of time talking about all the bad things that could happen when journalists express opinions on Twitter or a blog, but they don’t talk about what those journalists could gain from doing this — such as insights they might never have achieved otherwise.

    In addition to the Journal-Register Co., another media entity that has staked a big part of its digital future on interaction with readers is Forbes magazine. Editor-in-chief Lewis Dvorkin recently wrote about a redesign the magazine has launched for its website, which builds social elements into the page — including the ability for a writer to “call out” or highlight reader comments, as well as Twitter widgets and other tools. And Dvorkin notes that writers for the site (some of whom are on staff and some of whom are contractors) are rewarded based on the engagement that they generate with readers, some of which is measured in traffic such as pageviews.

    Dvorkin describes this as a future based on “transactions,” by which he seems to mean not necessarily financial transactions with individual writers, but the day-to-day engagement with readers that comes with a blog-style approach to writing — including responding to comments, interacting with interested readers via social media, and so on. Whatever you want to call it, I think both Dvorkin and Mayer are right that these skills and tools are becoming a crucial part of what media has become in a digital age.

    Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Flickr users Sandy Honig and George Kelly

  3. WordSong Avatar
    WordSong

    what’s killing newspapers? Greed, says Mike Moore.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @Wordsong

    What you yearn for is not possible with this money grubbing specie of journalist.

  5. WordSong Avatar
    WordSong

    @ David.
    I agree. I am just sickened to the core and I know of many others who are as well about the state of journalism in Barbados and the state of politics. We are ashamed. We are supposed to be a leading developing country – one of the most organised in the world. Where is the intellectual acumen in the newspapers? Just what are they doing to our country? They lack teeth and backbone.

    My take on the Sinckler interview is that the Editor in chief and Sinckler will try to save each other . Conspiracy theory? The aim of the DLP now is to use its newly won leverage with the Nation to defeat them, without a lawsuit – that would not help them get back in power. Right now they need to save their reputations and the Nation needs to save theirs. Gosh it would have been interesting to know just what they would have said had the scoup that was not really a scoup not take place.

    Until and unless there are more alternative media such as this one – nothing will change. The newspapers act like dying men who hold on to the last breath of air in order to survive but are doing it entirely the wrong way. This mess will be discussed for many a year to come. Help!!! Is anyone out there? We need a daily newspaper online or otherwise of substance.!!! This blog is doing the best it can in the circumstances. The nature of blogs is that there is not much that can be done to control opinions and a number of people tend to dominate them. That’s Ok. A newspaper on the other hand can exert lot more control – to the point of abusing its power. A credible newspaper will not sink to such a low.

    The NAtion ought to be trying to work out how it will survive into the next decade with all the technological changes taking place, rather than misleading the people and distorting information. What ever is revealed in today’s Sunday Sun, that fact will never change.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @Wordsong

    Again we are on the same page. The role of the Fourth Estate should not be prostituted on the altar of commercialism and for political expediancy. The adhoc nature of the profession lends itself to being penetrated by ‘forces’, there is no structure to guide it.

    Wither our Fourth Estate?

  7. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    I don’t understand why some of you are still trying to make the Nation newspaper the culprit in all of this. I haven’t seen today’s Nation yet but from the extracts on BU it seems clear that Sinckler is confirming ALL the essential aspects of this matter that the Nation has reported. If that is so why continue the agenda to go after the Nation. Why continue to suggest that the Nation will have much to pay for bad journalism? What bad journalism what?

    Something is very rotten in Denmark with the PM spinning it that in unsuccessful coups the ringleaders lose their heads after strongly implying from his previous statements that this was no coup and therefore there is no need for a hangman. Yet keeping the damocles sword hanging over Chris and the others.

    On the other hand, Sinckler appears to be admitting to something stronger than a mere letter that was LEAKED to the Nation before all the signatures could be appended, catspraddling all of the signatories. Once again, I ask who could have done that or under whose instructions could it have been done. I am now strongly inclined to think that the PM himself was the major beneficiary of that action and should therefore be at the top of the list of the possible candidates for the leakers or the persons who ordered the leaking.

    Watch this space. There will be other developments. This matter is not finalized. Not by a long shot.

    When I get the paper I may have to modify these comments slightly but if the extracts on BU are true there is very little room to make other interpretations.

  8. ac Avatar
    ac

    CHRIS SINCKLER is A BIG FAT EGOMANICAL CLOWN . My only reasoning for Chris giving an Interview to The Nation is that he has something to hid and that he might have been the source and revelation of the LETTER , It is highly suspicious when one goes into enemy camp . The NATION under pressure by the public to revealed the “COUP DE TAT LETTER ” and having none of such has cleverly pressured the source of that letter who in my opinion is CHRIS SINCKLER to open up and tell what he knows in an attempt to save the Nation credibility and Chris doing less might have cost him dearly knowing that sooner or later the source of the letter would have been revealed. What other reason would CHRIS SINCKLER have to talk to the NATION except to save his political hide.CHRIS is the ” Traitor ” of all Traitors and PM Stuart would be right to FIRE YOU like his life depend on it.

  9. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    AC; I think there is much merit in your analysis above. Several aspects of the detailed interview with Chris suggest that either he was somehow coerced into giving that interview or he is beginning to get rattled and has lost his vaunted clear sightedness. I however think that the overarching problem for him now is that he knows that a reasonable PM would demote him forthwith. His reaction of going to the presumed enemy press, spilling a lot of inside DLP information that really should not be going out to the public, will only serve to ensure that he indeed will be axed. It might also be an indication that he is planning to fall on his own sword.

    In any case, though your interpretation has much merit, I tend to go with mine, that the leaker is someone intimately associated with FS who sought to end the “conspiracy” with a very thoughtful and very innovative (to barbados) move. The idea of Chris leaking the letter himself, if, as it appears, he was one of the main movers in promoting the discussion, makes absolutely no sense.

    If that is so. This problem will fester and eruptions will continue to occur until a proper resolution is achieved.

    Why don’t you get on to Cassius again to see if he would let the BU posters get a sight of those Chris emails he has referred to so often. Perhaps the time is ripe for them now on what seems to be the eve of Chris’ departure.

  10. ac Avatar
    ac

    @ CHECK IT OUT

    BUT don’t forget the Nation back was also against the wall after all the plummetting it had received by the public and it was no way they were going to go down by themselves PM stuart has a lot of pondering to do . Hopefully he would put this unholy mess to rest as soon as possible CHRIS MUST GO .

  11. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Nationnews online has not published the interview. We overseas Bajans will have to rely on comments on BU.

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Go to the following newsservice and pay $1.00 to follow ALL in the newspaper today.

    http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/de/viewer.aspx

  13. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Thanks David.

  14. ac Avatar
    ac

    Chris sinckler has now become DAMAGE GOODS and is a definite liabilty going into the elections. The DLP must not make the same mistake which the BLP has made having a controversial issue to sidetrack them on every turn.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    On Page 3A of todays Sunday Sun Sinckler clarifies that the letter was not signed by many other MPs who expressed an interest in meeting with the Prime Minister. Despite the foregoing the Nation Editors in Chief has not seen it fit to apologize to readers.

  16. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    “Sinckler clarifies that the letter was not signed by many other MPs who expressed an interest in meeting with the Prime Minister.”

    My question would be “What exactly was the reason to meet with the PM and why could a few of you not go to the PM and say.

    “Freundel we worried bout de some tings man. tings bout hey brown and 11 a we tink it real real serious. We got to do someting now. le we all get together and talk man.”

  17. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Sinckler responds to that question in the interview.

    He flatly states that’s not the way to do it.

  18. George C. Brathwaite Avatar
    George C. Brathwaite

    @david

    Not the way to do it, but he did suggests that there were some discussions that wanted to go further. The man was part and parcel because even now it seems he seeks discussion with the Nation before having it with the PM. Guilty by association and failure to disclose.

  19. WordSong Avatar
    WordSong

    To the Nation newspaper: the journalistic creed – ” when in doubt, leave out” was not employed because you were not in doubt but were happy and eager to form part of the plot to sink the PM under the guise of having a “hot story”. You trusted a source more than the evidence in front of you. You did not “wait” as you were supposed to do especially when dealing with stories of such a sensitive nature with high political content and broad social implications. You did not consider the damage that would have been done to the country, the profession, the political process if you turned out to be wrong.

    You protected and trusted your source; your source did not protect you. But Chris may have sounded his own death bell publicly (internally we assume it has been ringing ever since the information leaked) by being interviewed. Undoubtedly he was one of the chief architects and framers of this fracas. I can only compliment him for his courage in agreeing to an interview. As for the Editor in Chief – You did not set a fine example of leadership and ethic. it appears it was not deliberate yet you continued with a scheme of deception – optimistic that you would have salvaged yourself from the unexpected disaster that occurred.

    You were pulled into what you thought was a very craftily woven plan to decimate the PM and you chose not to see beyond the immediate gratification of the “big story.” Well, big it is but for all the wrong reasons and will go down in history not for its positive valuation of the profession of journalism but a highly negative one. It only takes a supposedly tiny hole to sink an entire ship.

    Had the Nation “waited” and not publish a story that was “clearly not yet ready”, the people of Barbados might be eating Sunday Lunch today without a slant to their conversation about the deteriorating standards of journalism, the travails of Sinckler as he seeks to rescue himself or hang himself, nor what systems of governance need to be put in place so the public is not treated with the arrogance and contempt that it has been.

  20. WordSong Avatar
    WordSong

    THE NATION OWES THE PUBLIC AN APOLOGY.

  21. CASSIUS. Avatar
    CASSIUS.

    @ac
    You took issue with me when I said that I saw the text messages that were being sent out by Sinckler and when I boldly called him a LIAR. Have you come around to agreeing with me that HE IS A LIAR? For to deny on the TV news that he knew nothing of what was going on and then to give the kind of interview confirming that he was AT THE HEART OF WHAT WAS GOING ON can only make him out to be a LIAR.
    DO YOU AGREE?

  22. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    I would like to repeat. Continuing to flog the Nation is of little or no merit at this time. To continue to do so seems to point to an agenda of trying to hide the real story and the important issues.

    The real story is that Chris Sinckler appears by his own admission to have been part of an effort to get Freundal Stuart to see reason. The timing, the place and the intimate offhand disclosures of what must surely be sensitive private discussions, suggests that Chris has crossed his Rubicon and that we can expect some further action soon from either him or FS or both.

    What can FS reasonably do now, given the Nation’s bombshell interview reported on this morning? Should he kick Chris off the front benches? Should he call elections? Should he punish the other ringleaders whom he surely knows by now? Should he step down but ensure that Chris does not become PM in stepping down? In fact was this the point of all this intrigue? Who leaked the information to the Nation? Could it have been, counterintuitively, Chris himself? Could it have been an FS loyalist or could it have been a rival of Chris’ for the PM position?

    Discuss that.

    Concentrating on trying to get the Nation to say sorry to the Barbados Nation won’t bear fruit since Chris has provided all that the Nation needs as an explanation for its slight journalistic mistake and the DLP parliamentarians can’t reasonably sue for that mistake unless they individually want to spread more dirty linen in the public arena at a time when elections could be in the offing.

    Its a dead horse, the Nation’s articles this morning killed it. Move on.

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @Checkit-out

    You last comment is surprising.

    Are we not discussing Chis and the issues surrounding his interview?

    Several blog on the fronpage of BU tells the story.

    There is even the view that there is a larger plot to this story to unravel.

    Like you let BU repeat, it will and should not be at the expense of giveing the NATION a pass.

  24. ac Avatar
    ac

    @Cassius

    I don’t remember taking issue with you . I however did question your role in all of this and since you were close to the happenings i did ask for you to give more details. however which you didn’t. i also remember you denying knowing of a letter but did admitted to knowing of text messages sent by CHRIS in regards to a meeting. i hope that now Chris has more than less implicated himself with knowing about the letter you would indulge BU with the text messages through correspondence that you have. If you read my previous post you would see i have no sympathy for Chris Sinckler and that i have mentioned before .

  25. David Avatar
    David

    While Barbados battles its own demons the world continues on its rollercoaster.

     

    Fitch downgrades seven leading banks December 16, 2011

    BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and Barclays are among the banks affected by the rating agency’s concern over their higher funding costs

    Moody’s downgrades Belgium December 16, 2011

    Selected risk assets rally as investors take heart from US economic data, but wariness over the eurozone crisis remains

  26. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    The Nation took an explosive news story and embellished to suggest that they had more than they actually had; they then misled and manipulated the public in promising to provide full details of the letter including the “signatures” and lastly they substituted opinion for news which is a cardinal sin in journalism.

    Memo to the Nation, verify, verify, verify!

  27. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    The Nation rushed the brush. I’m still waiting for a letter with at least one signature on it as well as a denial from the named MPs that they had “concerns about the their leadership of the country”

    Someone done gone and tossed poor little Bim into a mess. Absolute silence from the business class, the economists, the opposition, government’s usual critics and of course CBC and the advocate. Not a good sign heading into what will be a difficult year in all aspects of our operations..

  28. David Avatar
    David

    Here is a really folish question for the BU family.

    Why would Sinckler agree to do an interview with the Nation?

    Don’t give the response please that the Nation has the widest circulation because then one could ask why is the government in bed with the Advocate.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Who read the NATION editorial today?

    Any thoughts?

    http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/editorial-ever-watchful-ever-true

  30. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    What artifice, this is the heights of chutzpah for the Nation to be patting itself on the back for their handling of this story.

    The Editorial writer probably belongs to a generation that is foreign to the one I grew up in, those of us from that generation would know that “Self praise ain’t no praise”

  31. ac Avatar
    ac

    if only she had put in force what she wrote in the editoral ,They wouldn’t be cause for distrust. and calls for integrity and fair balance reporting by the Nation However reporting the story as a Plot was twisting the truth of the story. Up until present the story still maintains itself as a LETTER however shrouded with speculation because it was indeed reported as a Plot.,She must be reminded that FACTS and TRUTH compliment each other one without the other is only heresay.

  32. George C. Brathwaite Avatar
    George C. Brathwaite

    @ac

    You lost the plot in the plot because your pleading to ignorance is as deliberate the attempt by the Eager 11 to destabilise the Government of Barbados from within the very internal structures of the executive. Keep denying, the average Barbadian, on both sides and the middle of political parties, can see exactly that there was (and I maintain is) a plot to remove by coercion and/or by graft the PM.

  33. ac Avatar
    ac

    @george Brathwait

    I left a message for for you on “THE merry Xmas Thread” go retreieve it before the Nation get a hold of it and it becomes a plot of biblical porportions. BTW what we see is what we want to see and that is the problem with the nation reporting of the story. It is not up to them to insinuate or inject what they perceived as is but to stick to the facts of the story and as the Editor plainly states in her last p-aragraph of her editorial”LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. An advice which she should have taken herself.

  34. WordSong Avatar
    WordSong

    @Check It Out. Incredible. I don’t believe you – where is your sense of honour, truth and justice? I agree entirely with “ac” “If only she had put in force what she wrote in the editoral ,They wouldn’t be cause for distrust. and calls for integrity and fair balance reporting by the Nation However reporting the story as a Plot was twisting the truth of the story. Up until present the story still maintains itself as a LETTER however shrouded with speculation because it was indeed reported as a Plot.,She must be reminded that FACTS and TRUTH compliment each other one without the other is only heresay.”

    George Brathwaite and Sargeant are also on the right track where the Nation is concerned – essentially the point being made is that the Nation erred and beguiled the public. Surely that is something to be upset and concerned about. The Editor in Chief has set the clock back a few decades and now has the nerve to pretend she was right all along. NO YOU WERE NOT RIGHT> HAVE THE DECENCY TO APOLOGISE. WE SHOULD NOT REST UNTIL YOU DO. But you and the board will not, will you? You would rather not lose face to the public. What a sorry, sad lot.

  35. ac Avatar
    ac

    No reputable newspaper would keep KAYMAR. She has the same problem Chris Sinckler has They are both liars. He lied about not Knowing . She lied about the content of the letter. itis only a matter of time before she falls under the pressure of those asking for her removal and it would be in the best interset of the Nation and its readership that she removed . Distrust is a trait with which no one wants to be associated and Kaymar crossed that line and so did Chris Sinckler . THey both evenly matched and apparantly cut from the same cloth.

  36. WordSong Avatar
    WordSong

    @ac. Excellent analogy worth repeating:

    “No reputable newspaper would keep KAYMAR. She has the same problem Chris Sinckler has They are both liars. He lied about not Knowing . She lied about the content of the letter. itis only a matter of time before she falls under the pressure of those asking for her removal and it would be in the best interset of the Nation and its readership that she removed . Distrust is a trait with which no one wants to be associated and Kaymar crossed that line and so did Chris Sinckler . THey both evenly matched and apparantly cut from the same cloth.”

  37. David Avatar
    David

    @WordSong

    Your last comment accords with those of BU’s.

    It has been posted as a separate topic.

  38. ac Avatar
    ac

    @ George brathwaite

    In reference to your comment posted on dec 18 @ 6.45pm. yes george i can read and no way in the letter is there mention of a conspiracy or an alleged “PLot” . This slant on the story was given by the NATION newspaper and Editor. Until a letter is published to confirm such allegations i would maintain must stance justifiably so . if however such a confirmation arises i would alter without an apology my opinion. e Nation must not take the TRUST of the public for Granted.

  39. Brief Avatar
    Brief

    George Brathwaite:

    I believe you when you say that there is ‘concern’ about the leadership based on the polls and concerns by BU family. Did you say that? Not because the BLP think they should be in power and are better able to manage, lead and run the country but only the ‘leadership style.’

    Should PM Stuart be removed by a democratic process all is well.

    Should the DLP MP’s decide to conspire to remove him (the PM) – they can prepare to spend a possible 20 years in opposition with Kellman alone ’cause Hammy will cross. Only God knows what Mara will do – clearly she is still not interested in being a politician.

    The same Wickham in 2008 told them that their victory was very small and they need to work to secure becoming the choice of the people. Now he wants the DLP to remove PM based on a poll he orchestrated in my opinion because of his love for Chris. He did the same for MIa and OSA still removed her.

    DLP members do not have a problem with Freundel Stuart as President of the Party and the Parliamentarians do not have a problem with him being PM. There is a grievance and disquiet – those who have concerns will move or be moved at this time.

    And George, shed some light to the BU family, is all the disquiet being poked from within? Of course you can.

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