“For seven long months in 2007/2008 the official WordPress blog of the Barbados Labour Party linked to the BFPE blog (Barbados Free Press Exposed) that published threats against many people, including threats to murder Adrian Loveridge, to burn down his business, and to rape his wife. At the time in 2007/2008 the Barbados Labour Party was asked to remove the links from their blog to BFPE but did not do so for seven months until BFP and Keltruth blog focused on the story and wouldn’t let go.

The Barbados Labour Party blog was started by Dr. William Duguid, who was an MP and high party official but we don’t know who was in charge of the official BLP blog at the time that the editor decided to link to the threats at BFPE. It is a fact though that the Barbados Labour Party knew of the threats to murder Adrian Loveridge and was content that their official BLP blog should publicize and link to the blog where the threats were posted. The Royal Barbados Police Force shamefully refused to investigate the threats, and especially after information surfaced linking some of the threats to a computer in the Member’s Lounge of the Barbados Parliament!”

BFP

http://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/barbados-labour-party-blog-removes-link-to-website-threatening-murder-of-adrian-loveridge/

Cuddear Carson…..your whole family DEPENDS on the DLP …so what’s the point ?

We will not return the Barbados Labour Party to office anytime soon.

This is the party which was advocating a One Party state.

ac | March 15, 2012 at 5:57 AM |
“The PM told off that “dirtyrag” the Nation newspaper and rightfully told them of their shortsightdnesss and its “rush toprint articles which are unfounded in a quest for sales. THe PM is correct in not forming or making a comment on any story which is soley based on information in any leading newspaper especially when the story is of a high sensitive nature. FACTS first !.”

You can always tell when a government is on its last legs and is about to fall.
They always blame and cuss the media. Wanting to silence or kill the messenger instead of countering the message or proving it false. Then they focus the ire at the civil servants who are blamed for all the mistakes and incompetence of the administration and are accused of spying for the opposition.
Instead of looking in the mirror and taking a good hard long look at themselves they keep looking for whipping boys and scapegoats. Owen Arthur has already accepted blame for all the mistakes and maladministration that took place during his tenure. But what do we have here; a party that keeps harping back to the previous BLP administration and seeking to pin on that administration all the current failures or inabilities to solve the current problems. Both “ac” and “!” clearly represent the epitome of this malaise. Instead of the farcical statement “the devil made me do it” we can have in its place the DLP alibi of “Owen Seethru Arthur prevents us from doing it”. OSA is to blame for everything under the sun: from CLICO to causing the death of their dear leader to leaking ‘coup” letters and forensic audit reports to the Nation. Carry on DLP, the next step would be that you will be calling us voters stupid and don’t know what we have done by kicking your tail from office as we did with that arrogant BLP lot in January 2008. Hopefully, they have become more contrite and humble and in tune to the power and needs of the people to deserve another ride in the seat of power.

The nation bnewspaper not only understands what contributes to advertising sales but is well aware that the pschye of the bajan mentality yearns for salicious reading fueled by juicy gossip half truths innuendo and a false perception .never mind “THE TRUTH”

Big tangent…
Mary Redman expects a concrete solution to AX by the end of the term? Really?

@ ! | March 15, 2012 at 9:58 AM |
Just as expected!
So yes, the BLP must carry some of the blame for the CLICO fraud. But what about the DLP? Specifically, David Thompson and Freundel Stuart who made public assurances that all was well and that CLICO was a well managed and financially sound company. Of course you are not prepared to examine that side of the equation in order to solve the problem.

I keep saying that the Dems on this blog are in the early and middle stage of alzheimer’s disease.

How can they continue to heap scorn on Owen Arthur when their dead king on January 20, 2009 said that the Barbados company operations have nothing to do with its parent company and that the company was sound and well managed. He had so much confidence in the company that he took up TEN MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayers monies and put into the company.

And you Dems want to tell us that the dead king was not intimately involved in the management of this company?? OMG, he dead too soon. He would now have to defend: “I will not lie, steal or cheat”.

So m.iller you are telling the electorate that”ETHICS” in journalism doesn matter The Fourth estate is what the people depends on for getting the TRUTH but istead the journalistic ethics have been layed prostrate upon the political altar and delivered to the people as GOSPEL.

The new BLP excuse is oh we took money from CLICO but not as much as the DLP.
If the CLICO money was sooo bad, why take any at all, BLP hypocrites!

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Remember when OSA was taking money from Clico, David Thompson was their attorney. Had Mr Thompsn come out after being elected to P.M and declare his hand, things would look better for the DLP. However, he ccame out and tell Barbados Clico was safe.I’m sorry he’s not here to deal with this himself, but God knows best.

@Prodigal Son
If raping policy holders was the charge, Owen Arthur must be the first to be held

miller what you are saying that the “Truth” is only accepted by those who perceives it as the “TRUTH” meaning that if one agrees with the messenger and with the source then without a doubt that must be the truth .Therefore since you have very little respect or belief in the PM his response must be a LIE. Now you go figure and take a step back and for everything you have said in the above response your vision is clouded by the lens with which you are looking through!

I would like to put the contribution, from a CLICO associated company that was paid to Owen Arthur when he was prime minister, into perspective. I firmly believe that the contribution by cheque was a set up designed to embarrass Arthur and the BLP as it eventually did. I believe that the real master tactician, David Thompson, was behind the move to donate the money by cheque in order to have evidence to use against the BLP. As a former political operative, I have been campaign manager and election agent and can assure you that campaign contributions are normally made in cash. Only a greedy fool or a neophyte would accept a campaign contribution of that nature by cheque.

@ ac | March 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM |

Let me give you an example of TRUTH.
Here goes: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
Sounds familiar!
When you stop lying on, sullying the character and integrity of, and rubbishing the invaluable contribution to the nation by the Rt. Honourable Owen S. Arthur then similar respect, decency and trust would be accorded to your ‘can-do-no-wrong’ man. Respect has to be earned not demanded. And that is the Truth! We have a deal or no deal?

@ ac | March 15, 2012 at 11:04 PM |

Hypocrisy! Oh, hypocrisy! How thy reign supreme!

If your man of business with high integrity and presumably commonsense has the right to castigate the Nation newspaper for ‘withholding’ the relevant and truthful facts’- to use your words- why can’t other people enjoy that same right to haul your man of business over the coals for misleading the national talk shop and the public at large, especially the CLICO policyholders?
Getting up in the biggest talk shop and making pronouncements is not the same as gassing off in a rum shop. The same way that the Nation newspaper is, by your understanding, misleading the readers by not presenting the facts and revealing the ‘Truth’ a similar charge could be levied at the same person who got up and made it clear that CLICO was a well managed company and there was nothing to be concerned about and nothing to fear from a man who is of estimable character and not a leper to be ostracized. On what basis was this claim made? On facts, on Truth, on what then, gut feelings?
So if you want the fourth estate to step up to the plate, then start with the third Estate. The fourth Estate can only report what is going on in the other Estates and it is up to the likes of you to determine whether what you read, hear or see is the ‘Truth’ or makes sense via your prejudicial lens.

@ ac | March 15, 2012 at 11:56 PM |
“i hope you take your own advice!”

You mean about CLICO? Yes, because I was quite aware of scheming of the parties involved since the 1990’s. But luckily, you who were once in but came out before the big scam or not you would be singing a different tune on this blog. As I told you before you should judge people by their actions and not by their words. Remember what comes out of a man’s mouth defiles him not what goes in (but can kill him).

BlP answer to the economy is PROPAGANDA and HYPE geared to the SLASH and BURN mentality

@Austin
Any idiot like you can put out a poll. We remember BLP consultant Dr. George Belle assuring Barbadians that there was a reverse swing and that the BLP would win in 2008.
Here we go again, 2012 and another BLP lackey up to the same tricks. You are the 2012 version of Belle with less academic qualification of course.
Bajans have a lot more sense than you think boss.Bajans have family in the US, UK,- We are not blind.
Wake up Austin. The BLP aint going nowhere with this piss poor group of BLP candidates.
Voting fa Wuk fa Wuk and Muscle Mary and crew is not putting country first . They and many others in the BLP will certainly be thinking of themselves first and not Barbados.

Onions that POLL has already be condemned to the graveyard of LIES and DECEIT punishable only by laughter as the DLP ites would not participate in such a fraudulant POLL.

Caswell Franklyn | March 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM |

Only a greedy fool or a neophyte would accept a campaign contribution of that nature by cheque.
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I checked wikipedia for the definition of the term neophyte.

It is indeed comforting to know that the results of the poll so far indicate that we will not be having a neophyte as our next PM!!
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A neophyte is a beginner.

In the context of Christianity, the term often refers to a:
1.New convert to the religion, in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches an adult convert is considered a neophyte for one year after conversion. Roman Catholic neophytes are considered full members of the Church, but may not act as sponsors for others planning to join,
2.Newly ordained priest,
3.Person who recently took a monastic vow.

Neophyte may also refer to:
Neophyte (botany), a plant species recently introduced to an area (in contrast to an archaeophyte, a long-established introduced species)
Neophyte (band), a Dutch group that produces Gabber/Hardcore music
Neophyte (comics), a character from Marvel Comics
Neophyte (series), a series of freeware videogames from Alien Software
Neophyte, a character in Warhammer 40,000
In fraternities, it is a person that is a new convert or member of a secret fraternal organization, a beginner or novice member of the organization, or a recent convert (rookie/freshman) to the fraternal organization.
Neophyte Redglare, a character in Homestuck

why the insensivity to the criticsm of the poll!just like any other issue her on Bu has its pros and cons and B”S and D”S . my idea of a POLE is a good oldfashioned “Stripper Pole” it always work for me See the YA:!00% NAYSwell they did not bother to VOTE!

yuh see what i mean a good ole fashion stripping and licking up of de POLL and ac is demonise!