@ ! | March 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM |
“The ones the MPs were speaking about was those persons who can go to every show, every cat fight, travelling, the latest in everything but have no time for the old person who raise them.”

Then the Minister must learn to stop putting his foot in his mouth and letting it run like a burst pipe that has been reported two weeks ago to the BWA. Instead of using one brush to tar all people who have old family members to look after, be proactive and help solve the problem. Stop the pension payments and if public housing is involved then repossess the housing unit. Get the army of officials in his ministry to do their job and stop the annual harangue we have all heard before ad nauseam.

“Heritage Tourism” i know about this well. this is a joke. person just trying to control and get as much money from a Pay to Play system. Barbados is sure to lose its world heritage site status.

Miller QUOTE “stop the .long talk” So Sir what long term measures did your beloved party of yesterday put in place to combat the promblems which the elderly are facing now. for indeed these problems did not start yesterday

@island girl Quote”we need to build more geriatic Hospitals. you mean after 14 years you now figure that out.what we had back then was a visionless and selfcentred captain with a people who had no care in the world about the future it is only now that reality has taken a serious foothold we are being asked to pause and take a deep breathe and wonder what did we do in those years of plenty that was indeed beneficial to all and not An entitled few

@ ac
You just can’t call a SPADE a SPADE….Truth of the matter is, you all DID NOTHING but spend and travel and sponsored your FAMILY FIRST slogan….WITH NOTHING TO SHOW now after 4 years….. what else to do but….. BLAME the past administration of course …for everything else not covered by your recession PLASTER…..You are all are a sad case !!! …..ONE TERM baby… ONE TERM…..got your staff yet ?…lol

This problem with old folkes didn’t start recently and both governments didn’t take time to correct a growing problem with Barbados being one of those countries in the world where life expectancy rate is very high. my problem now is with this governmwent, Mr Stuart has now declared that because of the problem with the Cuban/American man Garcia, he will build a STATE OF THE FACILITY to house such persons. Tell me, how many of these cases we get? so why spend so much money on that project, when we are in dire need of additional facilities to house the growing elderly in this country? Even those who have their old parents at home are struggling to deal with them and work too, with a devaluation in the spending power because of the high cost of living, these families are finding it hard to cope with dealingf with these old folkes properly. Sometimes, it means neglecting your very family (children) to purchase items needed to keep these old folkes happy or just comfortable. Forget about the Garcia man and concentrate on providing additional facilities for the elderly.Private Senior citizen homes and nursing homes are very expensive and totally out of the reach of the average bajan family.

@David
Our position was over the years never changed…The BLP had developed a vibrant International Business nest, revenue earner which if managed effectively and proactively won’t have seen the loss of million in revenues and jobs due to laziness. Our commodity always was our people and the service industry. These will once more be managed effectively one day coming soon again ..you’ll see.
Other places still, as well, thru effective marketing, are still reaping benefits from diversified tourism products….The truth is this admin. just fail to be on the ball and be proactive and were warned of the impending….and did NOTHING . The reserves ( $2 billion) seemed colossal , the projected Vat income bountiful….hence the parties…only to be visited by the truth….less sales equal less collections.No brainer to some, difficulty for others.

@ !
The majority of what you listed are not accomplishments to brag about, there are mere day to day chores of any government. Not to mention many were initiatives of the previous government and some disingenuous like for instance your claim of diversifying tourism. If you intend to win an election with these may the Gods help you.

@ Scoutie
These fellows approached this like Alice in Wonderland….couldn’t believe their EYES…. the amount of money around and in store.Tell me who would pay off the Highway contractors in cash….throw lavish parties for SIX Rd ..new tenants..function ??..SPEND SPEND..was the call. Grey Goose the drink of choice at football meets….THEY COULD’NT BELIEVE THEIR EYES..people…spendamania….now they begging.

@ ac | March 29, 2012 at 12:58 PM |
When are you going to stop living in the past and face up to what is before us? The reason why Bajan voters put the DLP in power in January 2008 was for that party to make a difference and do the things that were needed to be done. Not talk, talk and talk and continuously blame the BLP. How can you blame the BLP for the current state of abandonment of our elderly? This is the third year this problem has been highlighted in Parliament. The DLP has adopted the baby, it’s now their child to raise. The BLP are like hecklers in a crowd watching the DLP performing in a comedy show cracking jokes that nobody is laughing at.

Get on with it and stop the long talk and blame game or else you will see a reversal in fortunes very soon.

@ ac
So laugh-able…man you really got nothing to say….anything could be worse than this continuous ineptitude? You realize that if LIME bosses overseas say NO is strike On !…not to mention…I ent sayin it.

What a disappointing blog, 3 or 4 BLP yard ducks maybe even less using mutiple handles begging like vagrants for elections to be called. Why so? There is no outcry form the three hundred thousand Bajans for elections.
Citizens are carrying on with their lives in a tough world economic climate.

We are better off than Greece, spain, Ireland , Portugal, Italy, and all the Caribbean countries bar none. How is a rum drinker and a ship of fools we threw overboard a mere four years ago going to turn the streets of Barbados into gold and honey?.
Elections will not be held because OSA and his gaggle of BLP yardfowls want it. Elections will be held when Prime Minister Stuart decides.

My advise to him is to take down to the wire. The BLP have a long frustrating wait to get catspraddle at the polls again. The writer of this article can go hibernate until at least this time next. Read my lips there will be no election this year. We the poeple dont want it OK.!.

@austin

i know the BLP ites would prefer more mention of a past which highlights only the good , but in as much as that is being said there were a lot of golden opportunities missed along way. The Present is a reminder of the past . Many of the problems that barbados are experiencing today were brought about because of a “LACK OF VISION” as clearly stated that a man who builds a house on sandy ground when the winds of trial and tribulation blows the house will fall. A Govt in building a country is like building a house and must have the vision to be prepared for stormy weather if not the efforts would have been in vain. Now it is incumbent for this government to build such a country that not only is economically sound but socially aswell leaving all the political hat tricks behind while teaching the people that doing what best is not always doing whats right and eventually the seeds which were sown in the past would yield dividends not only in the present but continue into the future.

@ austin
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Those are profound words. Why should we want to forget the past for within in it is a tour guide of the future and also a road map as to where we were at that moment in time not to mention the lessons learned and an open and objective appreciation of were we want to be in the FUTURE. The BLP has left a treasure box of real and unreal realities that we all can learn from so it is there where the story begins and hopefully after shifting through we can learn from their mistakes and use them as lessons that would guided this country smoothly into a prosperous future.

@ Voter Too | March 29, 2012 at 5:18 PM |
“We are better off than Greece, spain, Ireland , Portugal, Italy, and all the Caribbean countries bar none.”

Your use of the term “and all the Caribbean countries bar none.” must include Trinidad & Tobago.
How can we be economically better off than a people who own much of the commercial and industrial life of Bim, supplies our economic blood (petroleum products) and controls our preferred fish stocks?

Stop with your jingoistic crap!
Next minute you will be saying we are richer than China.

The DLP would have been hardpressed not to want to repeat the policies of the past years. THey would try and try very hard against all odds but in the end they would have been forced to seek shelter in austere methods in fighting the onslaught of the global recession.

@Voter too…..”We are better off than Greece, spain, Ireland , Portugal, Italy, and all the Caribbean countries bar none.”

Are you sure about this? How can you compare a small dot like us to those countries that are many many times larger than us? Our problems will appear smaller than those of large countries but that does not make us better off when we depend on those countries like the UK for 90% of our Tourism. Remember the government borrowing to pay salaries, to pay for imports, we are not manufacturing for export, sugar prices are down and we can’t meet our export quota. We import every damn thing how sustainable is that? You are like many who have their heads up your rear and walking about pretending that their crap don’t smell! Stupse….Stop fooling yourself and face reality for once nuh?

Enuff do you really believe that we are better off? Our shit is slowly heading towards the fan.

@enuff

“if Barbados was worse off than those countries!
So in fact aren’t you not agreeing with the point made by Voter! understandably our economy is much smaller than there’s but to keep insisting that the global economy did not have a real impact on the Barbados economy in similar ways is ludicrous and insightful.an economy which in part relied on Tourism has seen the rug pull from under it and be it Greece or Barbados the impact is Real and problematic

The globlal recession continues to be used as a reason by the DLP to “DO NOTHING” …. just lets “wait an see” is the current DLP economic strategy.

What I am saying is this:
1. Governmen Expenditures: Others nations are looking to lower government expenditures in light of the current economic situation, DLP government is doing nothing, and is actually growing expenditures with the so called “building a society non-sense” some people a swallowing.

2. National Deficit: Current approaching a totally out of control % of GDP.DLP government is doing again nothing,

3. Economic Growth: The DLP is void is any ideas on how to grow an economy, “they just dont know how to do it” (FACT), or have the talent to do it (FACT) … hence why the wait and see is the preferred DLP approach.

In some ways the DLP approach is like a HOUSE SLAVE approach to running a government. The global recession may be the thing we have needed to lower our dependenct on Tourism and start leveraging the talents of bajan people.

No one knows what the future will hold, however what Bajan people do know is that they have “EXPECTED MORE” of an effort from the DLP, vs the daily shi_te rambling in Parliment coming from the PM and his favorite students (chris, esther etc).

What is amazing is how institutions like the QEH, BWA,BNOCL,NHC,UDC were left in almost shambles a few years ago by the BLP.
The auditor general reports consistently highlighted bad management practices – yet we are hearing we need an election now- to go back to what?
Stop looking for manna from heaven folks!

No! the blp don.t want to talk about the sh..t they left behind with not enough toilet paper to clean up but rather in a dotish manner talk about all the mundane issues that do not have a real impact on the economy like the”C” word an issue that only the courts can resolve they are a bunch of LOSERS hoping that the ole days of OSA policies would be enough to RESCUE.! RESTORE! the economy. What a bunch of bull sh..t and to make matters worse the BLP has not even realise that the world is in golbal recesion

@ac
Oh how fail the inking of a propagandist…..suited in darkness…fed with the knowledge of swine …..All that left for you to do is consult the DLP’s map for directions to the wilderness, because your visionary is not giving you exact time,…. but assurance of place. Onions however, forecast the EXODUS by January, and THY WILL be DONE.
Then you shall have good reason not to regularly visit BU blog with anymore of your loud nothings, as you shall be filled with vexation and anguish, having looked back at the foolishness of your rants.On remand for another 14 years for your ignorance, for having seen, but no taken heed of the light.

Ole Onions you beginning to sound like an echo and I am also tired with your rhetoric. Try something new cause you are boring me as well. What about the health of the Minister of agriculture? I heard he was not feeling too good. Do you know what is wrong with him?

David, whoever you are,
I thank my Creator every day for the strength, motivation and love of this country that drives my purpose to leave Barbados better than I found it.

I am happy that we have sought a solution for a problem which spoke to the tattered fabric which our society has become: Abandoning our elderly.

That persons would seek, at length,on this blog, to justify this practice and malign individuals and processes aimed at halting it, is proof positive of a degenerative element that must be battled against at all costs.

As a “dimwit” and “sensationalist” as per your bloggers, I would hate to think this highly agitated response is springing from political discomfort. Some of the reactions seem to be rooted in guilt. Sometimes when uncomfortable truths hit home, people strike out.

Black people come from a heritage of nurturing elders. Some of us still acknowledge our ancestors in everything we set out to do. We grew up in districts and cart roads where the only persons watching us for 8-10 weeks during the day were those no longer able to go in the field or clean somebody’s house. Not all of them were blood relatives either.

Yet they did an excellent job in stopping vice; teaching us to cook; preventing us from getting away to the East Coast, Brandons or Morgan Lewis to drown; making us move and water stocks, and teaching us the bible, local and international history and long division.

We learned our lessons well, passed exams and went to “big school.” Now we can get on these blogs and on call in programmes, with all the “learning” and whine about people who curse you for kicking those same old people to the curb. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for taking some person to the hospital and walking away and not coming back. Especially when you sleep under their roof and draw and spend money that the government cannot get from you. NONE!!! We have the documentation and social survey for every single one. To the misinformed, as long as state care is provided, government stops the state pension.

@Islandgal246 whoever you are, I respect your humanity. And you are correct in all you have said. Obviously you have common sense and a heart. The “know alls” you battle with who have all the solutions in their heads for the blogs only are almost comical in their rants.

But this is too tragic a societal development to laugh at. What I can advise is that it is sometimes pointless engaging in battles of the conscience against opponents who are unarmed.

Rest assured that this move is one (Health Minister Donville Inniss has spoken about this time and time again, in detail, but it suits some to mouth off that there is none) step towards our holistic approach to elderly care for those too busy, too pressured, too scared, too caught up in adversarial politics, and too “broke” to love who loved them.
Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner