64 responses to “Canadian EMERA Controls Key Strategic Asset Of Barbados”

1. 

   Bush Tea

   January 3, 2012 at 7:45 pm

   
   

   @ BAFBFP
   Your objective and intent are understood and noted. It is just that the whole approach does not seem to be in keeping with your personality…. Seems more suited to a gentleman like Yardbroom or Inkwell …LOL

   @ enuff
   So are you now armed and ready to put those lashes in BT? You certainly had enuff time to do your research….
   Another small matter from your last post however is that Bushie never claimed the idea to be “innovative or brilliant”.
   In fact it is a tried and tested system of governance and it has worked all over the world, and in particular here in Barbados.

   if you have not yet done so, look up the British Cooperative Party which has nearly 30 members of Parliament at present, as well as the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Party before you dismiss the idea as foolishness….. Then double check your weapons again and advance …..

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2. 

   Paradox

   January 3, 2012 at 10:19 pm

   
   

   EMERA has taken over, but who have we got as Managing Director?
   Answer: An acceptable face of……
   So why all the fuss?

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3. 

   balance

   January 4, 2012 at 5:13 am

   
   

   those who know mr king might refer to him as “poor great” because he is not a a community person or as we would say mix with the people in the neighbourhood; but he is a product of a poor but decent and hardworking barbadian family of whom he takes good care. he has always been a bright fellow. he attended harrison college under difficult circumstances and despite the struggle put his hand to the plough and made use of his opportunity. he has been with the BL@P since he left school.; so he is not only eminently certified academically but has the requisite experience to handle the top job. i am sure that cannot be pushed around.

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4. 

   ac

   January 4, 2012 at 6:07 am

   
   

   balance mr. king is also a man of few words. don’t expect to hear much from him .he is just going to be a figurehead speaking only whentold to do so .

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5. 

   Ping Pong

   January 4, 2012 at 6:17 am

   
   

   I am somewhat taken aback by one or two comments on the appointment of Mr M. King as Managing Director of Light and Power. I do not know Mr King but from the biographical sketch provided by the company, he seems very well qualified for the position. I can only offer the following words written by Marianne Williamson. Interestingly these words have been often erroneously credited to Nelson Mandela. It is hoped that we can see “our” people as agents of creativity and of positive progress of all Men.

   ” Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel unsure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

   On the that note as I post my first contribution to BU for 2012, I wish for David and all fellow bloggers: good health, peace and love in their families and the provision of all their needs throughout the year.

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6. 

   ac

   January 4, 2012 at 6:51 am

   
   

   we as a people welcome such appointments and wish our fellowman the best. but we see those appointments for what they are only in the interest of those which ought to serve but not for the betterment of the country. Mr king is not one to rock the boat.

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7. 

   David

   January 4, 2012 at 7:23 am

   
   

   @Ping Pong

   Thanks and the same to you and yours.

   Perhaps what others are saying which is not meant to question Kings’s credentials but recognizing that policy on the ground is mostly shaped by head office directives.

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8. 

   ac

   January 4, 2012 at 7:39 am

   
   

   Exactly David. What we need are people with influence not ones to be mouth pieces for those in charge.

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9. 

   Checkit-Out

   January 4, 2012 at 8:04 am

   
   

   I know Mr. King. I have also met Mr. Williams on a number of occasions. They are both brilliant, well qualified men. But as AC has hinted above and as David has clarified to some extent, Such men are not politicians with a dominant mission to do whatever is best for the Country (and note that most of our politicians hardly ever put country first). There were selected as the persons who their BOD thought could best serve the Company’s interests at particular points in time.

   I wish Mr. King well and I know he has the attributes to make an exceptional contribution to his Company and secondarily, to Barbados. Unfortunately, at this juncture, the Company’s and Barbados’ interests may not coincide but I think it is much better to have a Barbadian at the helm who does have some barbadian interests at heart (eg. the interests of the Barbadian workers at the Company and the few remaining Barbadian shareholders ) than a foreigner, who would certainly not have any such allegiances.

   The Government chose a path of significantly reducing its clout in the company (perhaps understandably so) when it could have done otherwise. The attack on Mr. King is undeserved, to say the least.

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10. 

    Blogger2012

    January 4, 2012 at 8:35 am

    
    

    @Busttea

    you aint easy you wont let up. keep it up. I enjoy reading your postigs.

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11. 

    ac

    January 4, 2012 at 9:29 am

    
    

    Nobody is attacking mr.king.far from it.the only attack is on thiose who blatantly use blacks as tokens to do their bidding and we deserve better. All that is being said is that when board meetings are called our input should not be shelved or overlooked..mr king in my opinion even though well educated is very humble and domicile and fits right into Emera agenda.Emera could not have pick a better person to do their dirty work.

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12. 

    Boy Blue

    January 4, 2012 at 4:14 pm

    
    

    John 1:11 King James Version
    He came unto his own and his own received him not.

    It beats me how we often rant and rave that one of our very own should be put in certain positions in this country and when it happens we go all out to drag that person down. How often we hear the supposedly degrading remarks about some particular person who have reached the top is the son or daughter of ‘that woman who used to sell at the corner of Busby Alley’, or ‘the son or daughter of the old man with the donkey cart.’ Today we used more sophisticated terms in our descriptions to pull others down,but nevertheless just as cutting.
    But we have in the past ,and will in the future accept superiors from overseas whose background may be more humble and more dodgy that our home grown products.
    But is it not funny, that many of the negatives now being pinned to Mr Kings back, were probably present on the last three MD’s backs?
    but as the worker said when he was kicked up the arse by the plantation manager, ” Skipper dah is a gud wun!”

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13. 

    Random Thoughts

    January 6, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    
    

    http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1111965–porter-jamaica-s-leading-gay-activist-maurice-tomlinson-married-a-torontonian?bn=1

    Jamaica’s leading gay activist, Maurice Tomlinson, marries a Toronto man.

    The day after Jack Layton’s funeral, eulogist Stephen Lewis and pastor Brent Hawkes congregated again for a different holy ritual: Maurice Tomlinson’s wedding.

    Tomlinson is a leading gay activist in Jamaica — the only country in the Western hemisphere where gay sex is still illegal.

    In Toronto, he married Tom Decker, a police officer-cum-pastor in the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto.

    The UN’s former special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa was the best man

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14. 

    Hants

    January 6, 2012 at 11:11 pm

    
    

    Emera is a publicly traded company in Canada and is mandated to make as much money as possible for its owners and shareholders.

    It is not a charitable organization.
    They will try to squeeze as much profit as possible out of BL&P.

    That is just good Capitalism.

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