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All Eyes On Fruendel, Justice Must Be Done!

Submitted by Hamilton Hill As a boy at secondary school my love for the arts drew me in an astounding way to the Masterpiece called “A Psalm Of Life” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Today from that Masterpiece I borrow the excerpt “Things are not always what they seem.” Is there any other way to…

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Submitted by Hamilton Hill
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart

As a boy at secondary school my love for the arts drew me in an astounding way to the Masterpiece called “A Psalm Of Life” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Today from that Masterpiece I borrow the excerpt “Things are not always what they seem.” Is there any other way to digest the disgusting display of dishonesty, magnified by the simple fact that thousands of us in this person reposed our trust? This CLICO mess is shameful. It is scandalous. God knows that it is also felonious.

For too long the poor folk in our little country have taken it up the wazoo from persons who view their participation in politics as a path to riches. We as a people have always acceded to their ways for in times past, issues like this CLICO master con were raging fires on the political platform, the embers of which were quenched by the thrill of victory by one or the other.

Fellow Barbadians I beg you—lets not allow such to obtain this time. As I said earlier when rats run rampant their droppings can be easily traced, so while the trail may lead us to the St. John’s Parish Church, the rancid odour of this nefarious plot takes us right back to the land of the living. There is where these victims MUST BE MADE WHOLE.

Cynicism I am sure will be the label attached to anyone who dares to question the PM’s new found urgency to introduce integrity legislation to a nation that was promised the same, when expediency was the name of the game. That was then, this is now and “Things are not always what they seem.” You see Mr.PM, you and every last member of your cabinet were there at the Bussa Roundabout.In Bajan parlance association breeds complicity.there too, we see good ole Bajan tiefing as simply that—B or D, it is tiefing.

One path Mr. PM, puts your party (and mine) back in good graces.That path must be used to parade the participants of this national shame on a “perp walk.”Anything short of that says business as usual. The longest walk begins with one step. Anxiously Barbados awaits Frundell’s.

164 responses to “All Eyes On Fruendel, Justice Must Be Done!”

  1. balance Avatar
    balance

    ‘”And to openly express such deep association only exacerbates the impression that some pals of the leader are above the law and insulated from any attempts to bring them to justice” -Mr Miller, Mr Parris surely must have had reason to take those words to heart if he could brazenly say that he had spoken to the Minister of Finance when challenged about his writing policies in breach of the order of the Supervisor of Insurance. only god knows what effect that statement by Mr Parris could have on Mr Thompson.

  2. balance Avatar
    balance

    sorry to digress david, but miller was our PM, former Ag, senior parliamentarian and orator par excellence joking or deliberately misleading or really just did not know when he travelled all the way from Barbados to erroneously inform the DLP party faithfuls in New York that the outlawing of bastardy was achieved by the passage of their Succession Act of 1975 and not by the 1980 Status of Children Reform Act 1980 enacted under the BLP. This faux pas ably straightened out by Sir Henry Forde is symptomatic of the seemingly lack of knowledge of governance which has dogged the administration since assuming office. Had not for Mr Arthur’s selfishness, this would surely have been a one term government.

  3. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Perhaps ,the hope is that after 9 days of ranting and raving , like the usual good ole Bajan we will find another attractive topic to latch on to. Bajans on the whole have been relatively very quiet over the years, when ,first, Trade Confirmers collapsed ,sending at least one person to Black Rock, and countless others on the poverty line. Again we turned the other cheek ,and were severely kicked ,when the Pakistani Bank ,BCCI went belly up, but the Government of the day was the first, and probably the only one, to recoup its investments , and to hell with other lesser mortals. Next in line were a couple of Trinidad owned Insurance Companies. Those in charge must realise that they are dealing with a different kind of Bajan /Citizen these days, and not the immediately post -colonial yes sir !, no sir!, three bags full sir! types. If the government continues to sit back and watch its people being bilked out of their life savings and other earnings , like a cornered dog ,and does nothing, these very same people,when their patience is exhausted, will one day directly challenge the very same people and authorities who are mandated to represent them their cause.
    No Government or active politician can expect to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds and hope to get away with it in these times,not even in laid back Barbados.
    Perhaps the recent findings has its merits.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108341/Is-reason-democracy-work-Study-humans-dumb-pick-right-person-lead-us.html

  4. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    Peoples ya bin screwed.

    LeRoi and Sweet Cakes pucked you up.

    And hasn’t Freundel already told you “he [Leroy Parris] is my friend”

    And yet ya still looking for something.

  5. HAMILTON HILL Avatar
    HAMILTON HILL

    @ Checkit-out …..My best post ever?With a very huge grin I wonder why,but thanks for your compliment. @ Old Onoin Bags…I am with JB on this one.Every form of protest needs to be launched and sustained until there is resolution.On this matter resolution means restitution.

  6. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    Dear Porter:

    I’ll add male lawyers and male insurance executives to your list for you (since you seem to have forgotten them.

  7. WordSong Avatar
    WordSong

    The state of the media in this country is appalling – period. One bad action does not deserve another. The Nation is clearly more of a scandal sheet than serious newspaper these days. The Advocate is 10 years behind. Nobody reads it and nobody cares what it does because its influence is little. But it tries. CBC needs to be privatised or converted to something like PBS. Which government will bite the bullet and allow for competition in television media? We claim to be so modern; it’s such a pity we are taking so long to get this right. How can you have one national TV station in this modern world, with reporters feeling fussy that the 7pm news is watched, at least.

    Mr Stuart’s bringing integrity legislation will never see the DLP back in government. Listen to the word on the streets.

  8. An Observer.. Avatar
    An Observer..

    @ David
    Contrary to what most Barbadians think YOU CAN DEFAME THE DEAD…
    I say no more.

  9. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    Nnaki/Ralian, This IS* the very centrality, the APEX* of the Gospel of Christ, to those who have appropriated these Words of Jesus Christ, by SINCERE REPENTANCE and FAITH, in HIM* no matter how wretched and evil their deeds and dealings WERE, before death, they WILL be forgiven, by Jesus, and have the Gift of Eternal Life with Him, even DT, ‘IF” he did REPENT and by Faith, receive and accept Jesus into his heart as Saviour and Lord.

    Remember the Criminal on the cross, the one who acknowledged HIM, Jesus, ” And one of the malfactors which were hanged railed on Him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the OTHER answering REBUKED him, saying. Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed JUSTLY; for we receive the due reward of our DEEDS: but this MAN (Jesus) hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, LORD, remember me when thou comest into THY KINGDOM. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:39- 43).

    One malfactor, SCOFFED at Jesus, rejected Him, and has gone to Hell, by choice. The other malfactor, by choice, recognized in his heart who Jesus was/is, cried out to Him for mercy, and forgiveness, AND, was assured by HIM* “Verily I SAY unto thee, Today shalt thou be with ME* in Paradise.” (v. 43b).

    “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can not serve both God and Mammon.”
    —Matthew 6:19-21,2 Amen!

    So it be, Nnaki/Ralian!

  10. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    Hamilton Hill, re. your 9:27 post last night. I thought it was your best post as it appeared that you were the first real DLP poster who has read between the lines and appreciated the sheer enormity of the CLICO revelations vis a vis DT and have unmistakenly renounced him and called for action that could only serve to excoriate him from all things wholesome in the body politic and eventually heal the DLP. This matter is bigger than most of us think.

    I read and reread the Deloitte snippets in the Nation Paper and it is clear to me that the words that they used, juxtaposed with a knowledge of human nature, sends the message that there is little wiggle room with respect to a certain person’s involvement in the famous transfer of the 3.333 million to LP’s company. There are also suggestions from the report that this was not a one-off matter. It would appear that the Auditors have the incontrovertible, undeniable and verifiable facts on what they spoke to.

    The actions/ inactions of the DLP hierarchy speaks volumes of the fact that they know that certain hands have been caught firmly in the cookie jar in full view of the public. It also seems likely, noting the date of the report, that the eager 11 letter and actions might well have been because of this report instead of or in addition to the wickham survey findings.

  11. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    I have not seen today’s Nation newspaper yet but VOB news this morning had an item that the current lawyers at Thompson Associates’ law firm have taken out a prominent ad in today’s paper that states that they were not involved in the transactions related to the the 3.333 million dollars since they were incorporated in 2010, while the alleged transactions took place in 2008-2009.

    The question now might be who in the firm or its immediate past configuration would have been involved in the transactions?

    I understand that the Newspaper also has an item where 5 parliamentarians have declared that they are willing to declare their assets now.

    Things are continuing to fall apart.

  12. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @check-it-out
    Garth also distanced himself fully from the debacle. LIME/BWU is over the the PM and COlin is sayign that Almond is too big to fail. Wow. All eyes are indeed on Freundel. I’m not sure 10 months is enough time to right the wrongs, fix the mess and polish over the scratches…but we’ll see.

  13. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Observing | March 2, 2012 at 9:51 AM |
    “All eyes are indeed on Freundel. I’m not sure 10 months is enough time to right the wrongs, fix the mess and polish over the scratches…but we’ll see.”

    Poor guy! One hope he does not make himself sick from all of this pressure and with an unreliable team to boot.

    The pressures and problems are twice those that prevailed under the previous administration. Look and see what that pressure cooker for the job of PM did to poor OSA. Power exacts and extracts too heavy a price for its ego stimulating reward. The price is too heavy to pay. Only megalomaniacs thrive in these conditions. Now you see why the USA and some other democratic countries put a limit on tenure of high office.
    Pray for the man in the coming months.

  14. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    Observing (these observering monikers are getting quite confusing now);

    I agree with you. Stuart needs our prayers. The job seems to be getting much too big and onerous for someone with his demonstrated predeliction for thinking deeply and acting slowly and deliberately.

    And the likelihood is that much more is to come.

  15. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    Anything done is all on his own accord…….if Stuart wants a long healthy remaining life as well as a legacy of a PM with integrety..his first move is to deal with what is before him..Mona Mara Lisa……followed by his promise of IL,then call the elections in all fairness to Barbadians.His stay has costed the country dearly……will he do so ? nah….he likes what he is about…high profiled…positive or negative..arrogance of a latin lingoed..F

  16. Truthman Burton Avatar
    Truthman Burton

    The remarkable thing about this THOMPSON & ASSOCIATES matter, is that these unidentified “current lawyers” were previously eager and prepared to work under that “hallowed” and “glorified” name, and to benefit exponentially from the goodwill that would no doubt accrue to the establishment, based on the Freundel-led DEM charade, to construct a spurious legacy of greatness for the Entombed One,

    Alas, the bubble has been burst by the Judicial Manager’s exposure of malfeasance and what appears to have been money laundering.

    The “Current Lawyers” of Thompson & Associates were clearly led down the garden path of deception. Like so many other Barbadians, they were mislead by the fake, squeaky-clean persona created by the likes of Hartley Henry.

    Will the real Freundel please stand up? As recent as 2006, Freundel from his heart, wrote and distributed a damaging, though failed manifesto, in his quest to wrest the DLP PRESIDENCY from the same David Thompson. In that manifesto, Freundel screamed, inter alia, that David Thompson WAS NOT FIT TO LEAD ANYBODY ANYWHERE! Yet today, for general election purposes, FREUNDEL is fighting a desperate rear-guard battle to repair the now irretrievably tattered reputation of David Thompson.

    The DLP in true Machiavellian style recognised, as part of their 2008 election campaign, that LYING …LYING … LYING …. has many of the characteristics of a deadly physical assault, and so, they adopted it into their platform armoury as an instrument of WAR against the good people of Barbados. ONE TERM FOR YOU FREUNDEL, AND YOUR BUNCH OF BUNGLING INCOMPETENTS!

  17. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    DLP will inevitably make another mess of this scanadal before them and LOSE the elections for sure.No one on this blog can logically think otherwise including Die Hard ac….to hope is folly..
    TIME is all that is going to be wasted….watching the a circus..going nowhere FAST

  18. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    @ac
    Girl break get bret…….all the meandering about MIA and Rawle jumping ship…ha ha ha ..Onions getting the last laugh…are you coming Sunday @ HaggatT Hall to see Mia and Owen expose the DLP, LEBoy and Alibaba, the dead,prince of cowardice, who now left Mara and family to hang heads in shame..seems like you also have to do the same gf.

  19. David Avatar
    David

    And who are these lawyers enjoying the Thompson goodwill?

    Darrin Downes
    Gale Prescod
    Amiri Dear
    Jessica Ashby
    Stephna Greenidge

  20. porridge Avatar
    porridge

    @ DAVID March 1 2012 @ 1: 42 AM

    It is no surprise to me that Mr. Tony Marshall as parted company at this time with VOB , you see there are two Tony Marshalls the one that don’t like been question on matters that he stands responsible for , and the other who loves to taking all the glory rather it is his or not. So it is my belief that the next time we hear the voice of Mr.Tony Marshall on the air waves of VOB is if all goes well with the investment of FIFTY MILLON (B’dos dollars) which is to be lend to the FOUR SEASONS PROJECT by the NIS whose board he chairs.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    It is known the SOI at the time CLICO’s statutory ran a deficit is currently suffering from a serious case of dementia. One wonders when his condition started to set in.

    The excuse being proffered by Mascoll which gives a pass to the SOI’s office does not compute. A review of the internal GL would have exposed due to CHBL by CIL for example and should have prompted a full scope by that office.

  22. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    David; I agree with you that the SOI (and his boss, the Min.of Finance) would have been at fault for not compelling the CLICO people to maintain the statutory deficit requirement in both administrations and that thereby the previous admin is as culpable as this one in that regard. That culpability, however, probably only extends to 30 million dollars or so .

    The point I think Mascoll was making in his column this week was that whether or not the statutory deficit was satisfied, the collapse would still have happened as the leakage of assets exceeded 350 million dollars. Most of it apparently happening under DT’s watch and with some of it engineered by his firm.

  23. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @David
    rarely in recent history have i seen an issue send everyone scampering, whimpering, presenting excuses, i told you so’s and gotcha’s. Mascoll is being disingenuous at best. But then again it is Mascoll. All previous SOI’s had a responsibility to at least raise the red flag, even if nothing was done about it. Belgrave to his credit tried to stop the EFPA’s from being sold.

    Barbados took too long to get on top of this matter, either through “expediency and ulterior motives” or ignorance at how deep, divisive and serious it could become. the collateral damage is already great and will expand. This makes Hardwood look like a family article in the EASY magazine.

  24. An Observer.. Avatar
    An Observer..

    @ David.
    Sometime ago CASWELL warned of the implications the NARSHAM CASE will ultimately have on the CLICO matter. It is a warning that has gone unnoticed on this blog. Maybe Caswell would like to sound that warning AGAIN. The CLICO case , as the lawyers would say , is on all-fours with the Narsham case. A strong Barbados Court of Appeal ruled that the Supervisor of Insurances had exceeded his authority when he placed a stop order on Narsham ; we shall wait with baited breath to see what will unfold WHEN a court is forced to deal with the CLICO case.

  25. Observing (not to be confused with Observer) Avatar
    Observing (not to be confused with Observer)

    @Observer
    The Supervisors’ exceeding of his authority (or not) is but only one of the myriad of issues (political, legal, social, financial, economic, governance, business) surrounding the CLICO matter. Even if it is proven (in court after a protracted case) that he did exceed his power, every other issue still remains on the table festering. Let’s just say that you are absolutely correct and the charges can’t stick….good…done deal.

    Now, onto the other (and some may say) bigger discussion, issues and impact..

  26. porridge Avatar
    porridge

    @ AC March 1 2012 @ 7:01 AM

    Can you name five decisions that have been made by PM Stuart at any given time as leader of this country? If so educate us.

  27. porridge Avatar
    porridge

    Correction to my question to AC can you share not name five decisions made.

  28. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    @ David Observing
    Check-it >>>>Made the point and correctly so….
    SIMPLY…..
    The point I think Mascoll was making in his column this week was that whether or not the statutory deficit was satisfied, the collapse would still have happened as the leakage of assets exceeded 350 million dollars. Most of it apparently happening under DT’s watch and with some of it engineered by his firm.

  29. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    I am not understanding how the Supervisor of Insurance can be held responsible for the stealing that went on which made the assets less than what they should be by law

  30. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Seems a desperate attempt to find a scapegoat

  31. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    @ David
    I am having a horrid time gettin onoff (3 days now ) ..with this blog..no spell ck , no proper copy functn….Have any one else been complaining ?

  32. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @porridge

    Decisions to defer, do nothing, or wait can still be considered decisions. Like it or lump it FS has his way and his style, full stop. The important thing is if results and ssolutions come forth.

  33. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    BLOG PROBLEMS…..Onions handicapped now for days…

  34. David Avatar
    David

    @checkit-out

    You need to consider two points:

    1. Had the SOI insisted the statutory funds met requirement at all time it had the possibility of forcing a bigger problem into the open.

    2. Had the SOI enforced the order to stop selling the EFAPs again it could have exposed a bigger issue. Bear in mind the EFAs was the cash cow.

    While is does not absolve and alleged malfeasance or impropriety by others the SOI cannot get a pass. Mascoll is creating spin with his argument.

    @Onions

    Any problem must be at your end, no other complaints received.

  35. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ David | March 2, 2012 at 12:38 PM |
    “The excuse being proffered by Mascoll which gives a pass to the SOI’s office does not compute. A review of the internal GL would have exposed due to CHBL by CIL for example and should have prompted a full scope by that office.”

    I think you are being a bit hard on the previous SoI’s. The SoI is a creature of the Minister of Finance and has no independent reporting responsibility or power outside the Minister’s ambit. Let us assume that the SoI had serious concerns and reservations about the Statutory Deficit of CLICO. All that he or she could have done was to draw it, with recommendations, to the Minister’s attention. We all know who was the Minister of Finance in the inchoate stage of this financial disaster and subsequently. $75,000 & $3.3 million and counting were not spent for nothing. Money makes the mare fly and the monkey jump through the fire hoop.
    Even if the SoI had reviewed the internal GL of CLICO (if he or she was bold enough to make such a request without the fear of being transferred forthwith) what would they be looking at or for? Numbers they damned well don’t understand because they are not accountants or financial analysts with support staff; just holders of degrees from UWI. Not a clue to join the dots in the burgeoning ponzi scheme aided and abetted by the incestuous relationships between the CLICO business and those holding ministerial portfolios. No matter L P can boldly say that he spoke to the Minister regarding the letter sent by the SoI instructing CLICO to cease the sale of policies until further notice. What did LP do? Disregard the notice presumably based on some tacit nod given by the big man to ignore the SoI. Just surmising and alleging here! So you see what a beleaguered senior management civil servant was up against?

  36. Porter Avatar
    Porter

    millertheanunnaki

    Yesterday
    I was not talking about those two as bullers

    ———————
    I was talking about the other two

  37. Porter Avatar
    Porter

    Random Thoughts

    Glad for the added names
    Others persons can add to the list

  38. David Avatar
    David

    @miller

    Glad you make the point because it then begs the question how can you have an oversight body which did not have the authority or competence to do the job. Is this what you are saying? If yes the how does it reflect on successive governments?

    @Observing

    This matter will be protracted read Winston Cox’s view on the matter. BIPA is in for a long haul. The government has no cash to pay and Barbadians will not want a decision to be made to benefit some which adversely affects all.

  39. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @Porter | March 2, 2012 at 3:31 PM |
    “millertheanunnaki Yesterday I was not talking about those two as bullers
    I was talking about the other two”

    I ain’t got a clue what you are on about.
    What are “bullers”, by the way? Some sort of male bovine creature? Explain?
    Can the term apply to a male insurance executive with a very aggressive, forceful and even bullying style of peddling ponzi (pyramid) scheme con investments?

  40. Porter Avatar
    Porter

    Maybe

    LOL

  41. Porter Avatar
    Porter

    You referred to the insurance two executives
    But I was referring to two others, the two persons mentioned in pairs elsewhere on this thread.
    Just look for two other names

    For your files:
    A buller is a bull and the act of bulling by the bull has given us the term buller. The word is well used and accepted throughout the Caribbean and can be found in various texts.
    While I have nothing against bullers , I am not supporting bulling, the act.

  42. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @Truthman

    “The remarkable thing about this THOMPSON & ASSOCIATES matter, is that these unidentified “current lawyers” were previously eager and prepared to work under that “hallowed” and “glorified” name, and to benefit exponentially from the goodwill that would no doubt accrue to the establishment, based on the Freundel-led DEM charade, to construct a spurious legacy of greatness for the Entombed One,”…………………………………………………….

    Truthman,
    Excellent post. If what these lawyers are saying is true, why did they not change the name slightly to Thompson & Associates 2010. In that way people would have no doubt.

    Now it seems as it is every turkey for his own craw and every man “brek” for yourself. My question is if these “new” lawyers took control from 2010, I am just asking (with due respects to JUST ASKING) who was in control up until then? Was it the Entombed One? Was it the beloved wife? I know that it was not Garth Paterson, he had parted ways with Thompson long time.

    Tony Best’s article today is food for thought.

  43. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @David | March 2, 2012 at 3:43 PM |
    “Glad you make the point because it then begs the question how can you have an oversight body which did not have the authority or competence to do the job. Is this what you are saying? If yes the how does it reflect on successive governments?”

    Hindsight is 20/20 vision! These so called regulatory bodies are deliberately constructed to limit their authority and dull their teeth as far as reporting, independence of action and public accountability are concerned. Every thing must be channeled through or the final decision taken by the ‘Minister’. Caswell might agree with me on this one.
    Even the Auditor General who reports to Parliament is a toothless tiger with his findings and recommendations totally disregarded with impunity.

    What we should be concerned about is if the recently established Financial Services Commission (FSC) is similarly constructed. Is the FSC just another paper tiger with neither bark nor bite? Do all roads and final actions lead to and lie with the ‘Minister’, a political figure most likely beholden to the same business enterprise subject to the FSC’s regulatory surveillance but might also be a major benefactor to the party in power and a special sponsor of the minister’s electoral campaign funding and electoral chances.
    How do we protect the FSC from political interference and manipulation? Should the Chair and other members of the Board be political appointees?
    How do we insulate the executive management from day-to-day interference by the Chair or the Minister and his or her lackeys (political foot soldiers)?

    How do we ensure that the executive management and support staff are recruited primarily on qualifications, technical competence and merit rather than on political ties or recommendations or social connections?

    These are questions and issues that should be addressed before we can herald in a new dawn of a financial regulatory environment to ensure that the chances of another CLICO, BCCI,Trade Confirmers, Narsham, Great Northern, Cannon Insurance (and the list of past offenders goes on) are significantly reduced. How do we ensure that this cancer does not spread to the Cooperative Credit Union sector?

  44. Observing (not to be confused with Observer) Avatar
    Observing (not to be confused with Observer)

    @David
    re. protracted matter and no cash

    Hence my belief that the DLP and Freundel are virtually wasting time the longer they take to make some sort of statement. If something can or has to be done they need to state it in unequivocally, good or bad. Level with the people and let the chips fall where they may.. Wait, hold a sec, I’ve been saying this for the pat 16 months… must be deja vu.

  45. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Porter | March 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM |
    Get the gist. Just wanted you explain “buller”.
    Well done!

    Now you are for “bulling” but hate the “buller”. Or is it the other way around?

    Sound as confusing as the Judeo-Christian saying of “Oh, we love the “Sinner” but hate “the Sin”! We love the “Homosexual” but hate “Homosexuality”!

    Anyway I got your drift so don’t be caught napping around the same fellows, especially with your pants down. LOL!!!

  46. An Observer.. Avatar
    An Observer..

    @ Observing.
    If you do not want to consider that the role played by the Supervisor of Insurance is a KEY factor in the whole CLICO debacle , it could only mean that you are totally lacking in objectivity. A collateral issue arising would be the role played by the Minister of Finance AFTER the stop order by the Supervisor was issued . Was he allowed to perform his Statutory duties under the circumstances BEFORE the order was put into effect ?
    Sorry Mr / Mrs /Ms Observing , these are questions that MUST be answered, not only questions that may give rise to the PERSONAL vilification of Mr Thompson and Mr Parris and attacks on the DLP . In your zeal to rush to condemnation , please pause for a moment to give thought to the above.

  47. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    My goodness, look Esther Byer Suckoo gone and put more pressure on Freundel in regards to these LIME/BWU talks.

    But seriously, did anyone expect anything different??? Freundel who has not up to now delivered on phase two for Mary Redman is now being asked to broker a deal. Heaven help us. Mary was quoted as saying that she is waiting patiently. Wait on!

    The BWU in my opinion is being unfair, yes LIME may be making money but the company has explained that its expenditure is sky high re electricity. (Mine is, has doubled since Tony Marshall sold NIS shares to Emera). LIME employees will have no public support if they go on strike, the public is not at all happy with the service they provide. Watch and see that if LIME has to give in to give 17% increase, layoffs will come and the Duke of York will be screaming victimisation.

    But tell how comes the Duke of York not asking for a pay increase for government workers??

  48. An Observer.. Avatar
    An Observer..

    @ observing ( not to be confused with Observer )

    Thank you for making the distinction. We certainly would not want our views confused, do we ?

  49. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Even if the Statutory Funds were at the required amount, with the amount of stealing that was going on, CLICO would still have fallen. A lot of people not only Parris and Thompson were living large off the policyholders monies getting large salaries. Agents who refused to push the EFPA’s were fired by Parris.

    The SOI has said that he wrote to CLICO and requested that they deposit the necessary funds but he was stalled (was he bribed to look the other way as this was Parris’ and Duprey’s modus operandi?). The SOI after trying, belatedly informed the MOF.

    After the government changed in 2008, DT moved every government and statutory agency insurance policy to CLICO from ICBL.

    When the shit hit the fan, DT then had the gall to ask ICBL to take over CLICO, alarm bells began to ring out for me when CLICO refused to open up its books for ICBL. ICBL then bailed wanting nothing to do with CLICO. DT liked he thought he could force ICBL to take over CLICO.

  50. David Avatar
    David

    Here is a question for Mascoll. Are there not Board Minutes?

    What is he mean directors don’t know what is happening?

    Weren’t financials, inter company transactions etc discussed?

    Sorry by these directors had to be privy to the financial ethos within the company.

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