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Submitted by Adrian Loveridge
Former Minister of Tourism, Noel ‘Barney’ Lynch

According to former Minister of Tourism, Noel Lynch and as reported in the Nation and repeated on Down to Brass Tacks. The same person, when in office, who first denied all knowledge of a loan to borrow US$15 million to charter Carnival Destiny for CWC2007, and who still after 5 years has not answered the question what commission and arrangement fees, and to who, were paid to shipping agent Landy and Kling Inc. and others?

The same Minister who chartered Air India and presided for several years over the Hotels and Resorts Ltd (GEMS) scandal.

The same Minister that repeated time after time, absolutely ludicrous anticipated arrival numbers for CWC2007, when in fact, the first four months of that year showing an increase of just 44 long stay visitors.

Mr. Lynch stated on Brass Tacks that LIAT (1974) Ltd had not received ANY Government support for six years. Prove it, former Minister, or is this just another puff of unsubstantiated hot air.

Tourism is our business and we should start to treat it that way and have informed, knowledgeable and truthful people steering it in the right direction.


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  1. Just a reminder of the ‘infirno’ that continues to boil in the Middle East, from within the ‘heart’ of Iran; whose geopolitical ‘agenda’ IS* driven by, its resolute, core belief Islamist, IDEOLOGY, that TRANSCENDS, all other socio/economic/political realities, that’s NOT understood by the Western leaders, they just do NOT grasp this fact of Iranian Islamic fervor and purpose, to their demise!

    By Reza Kahlili

    Despite the recent declaration by Iran that it does not want a nuclear bomb and statements by regime officials that they are willing to negotiate over the nuclear issue, indications from within Iran signal massive preparation for an all-out war as part of its destiny.

    Break through traditional teachings to truth and the word of life.
    http://www.hallvworthington.comNine years ago a Revolutionary Guards arm, the Holy Defense, published a book, “The Last Six Months,” in which it describes the conditions needed in the last six months prior to the reappearance of the last Islamic messiah. The book was distributed in the hundreds of thousands to all Guards, Basij and army bases throughout the country.

    Islam’s Shiites believe their 12th Imam, Mahdi, will reappear at the end of times and kill all the infidels, raising the flag of Islam in all four corners of the world.

    The book admonishes the military forces that they must be prepared to do their duties during those six months and that there will be many signs to help the faithful to understand the transition, which will center on Iran.

    The book, which relies on Islamic hadiths by the Prophet Mohammad and his descendants from centuries ago, describes the 9/11 attacks and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as signs that the time is near. But it also prophesies much more significant signs that would launch the six-month time frame for the reappearance of Mahdi: an attack on Syria and then an attack on Iran.

    Both those events are looking increasingly likely as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad continues to murder his own people and Iran continues its quest for nuclear weapons.

    Mahdi will only reappear, Shiites believe, when Israel is destroyed and the U.S. is brought to its knees; two-thirds of the world’s population will die in a nuclear exchange, and with this chaos and havoc engulfing the earth, the “coming” will unfold.

    As revealed in the Iranian secret documentary “The Coming Is Upon Us,” it is believed within the Islamic regime that the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is the historical figure as claimed in a hadith who will rise up against the infidels and pass the flag of Islam to Imam Mahdi, the last Islamic messiah.

    According to a source who served in the Guards’ intelligence – he has defected to a country in Europe – billions of dollars have been spent on the military forces to emphasize this very ideology of the coming as well as preparation for an all-out war.

    Thousands of terrorist cells consisting of the most loyal are placed throughout the world, and they believe Iran will be a key player in creating the circumstances for the coming.

    The Islamic regime fully expects to be attacked, the source says. Its leaders believe this will happen as foretold in centuries-old hadiths and written in the book “The Last Six Months.” Response contingencies call for simultaneous attacks on Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, and attacks not only on U.S. bases in the region but the U.S. homeland.

    The Islamic regime has already mastered nuclear technology and currently has enough enriched uranium, verified by the IAEA, for six nuclear bombs. It also has ballistic missiles capable of reaching every country in the Middle East and many capitals in Europe but is also working, with the help of China and North Korea, on intercontinental ballistic missiles.

    An internal IAEA document from 2009 shows that Khamenei, as early as 1984, was pushing for nuclear bombs, stating that, “This was the only way to secure the very essence of the Islamic Revolution from the schemes of its enemies, especially the United States and Israel, and to prepare it for the emergence of Imam Mahdi.”

    Of utmost concern is that Iran likely has nuclear weapons already even as it works to create more. As reported in October, Iranian agents scoured the former Soviet republics after the fall of the Soviet Union in search of buying existing nuclear bombs, offering hundreds of millions of dollars. As verified with sources at the State Department, a former U.S. intelligence officer and a Russian general, the Iranians have at least two workable nuclear warheads.

    The source in the Guards’ intelligence said he was informed in secret briefings while in the Guards that they had two nuclear bombs, though he could not attest if they were viable. But what he verified next was further terrifying: Iran has neutron bombs, thanks to its North Korea ally.

    A neutron bomb is a tactical nuclear weapon invented during the Cold War to kill people with neutron radiation, while minimizing damage to buildings.

    “However, a neutron warhead is more accurately described as, and is officially called, an Enhanced Radiation Warhead because it produces large quantities of all kinds of radiation – including gamma rays – that generate the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effect at high altitude,” according to Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, which advises Congress.

    “So if a neutron bomb, or more properly ERW, is detonated at high altitude, above 30 kilometers, it becomes an enhanced EMP weapon, a strategic weapon that could generate a powerful EMP, destroying electronics and collapsing the critical infrastructures that support the lives of millions of people over vast geographic areas,” Pry said.

    As verified by the IAEA, the Guards have launched ballistic missiles from ships and detonated warheads over the earth’s surface. Those tests have only one purpose: create an EMP attack, whether by nuclear or neutron bomb. As revealed last year, the Guards have now armed their naval vessels with ballistic missiles and plan on deploying warships in the Atlantic Ocean.

    Studies show that a successful EMP attack could destroy electric power, telecommunications, transportation, banking and finance, and food and water across the continental United States.

    The Congressional EMP Commission estimated that, given current U.S. unpreparedness, one year after an EMP attack, about two-thirds of the U.S. population, 200 million people, would have perished from starvation, disease or societal collapse.

    As the West continues to negotiate with the leaders of the Islamic regime in Iran, even accepting their nuclear program for “peaceful purposes,” one thing is ominously lacking: an understanding of their ideology.

  2. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    What about the Atomic weapons that Israel have in their possession which were developed and perfected by the French?

    Anyone checking on those?


  3. Waaaait like this blog get HIJACKED !


  4. So Barney Rubble is a big stinking LIAR going by theis post. LOLLL Let us hope he doesn’t get any or the same position in the next government.


  5. Zoe and Carson
    This article is not about any nuclear threat this is about the exposure of a hypocrite.
    I cannot understand why persons would want to so conveniently forget some of the things that happened just eight years ago but would want to just let these persons walk back into parliament without accounting for some of the things they did that lack transparency.
    Mr. Lynch stop all the long talk and answer the questions.


  6. @ Some people
    It’s a pity intelligence is not sold in six packs.


  7. If there is a case, and yes there seems to be, then of course he must answer…..but to whom and in what forum? Or is this just more pre-election cackling to be treated with contempt?


  8. so let me get this right : we should disagree with not giving Redjet any money because of Noel Lynch ? come on Adrian, i expected better. This is the kind of fluff that BFP and Bajan reporter trots out from time to time.. the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Where is the substance ?


  9. When politicians huff and puff it is important to seek out information, ask questions. A question to Barney Lynch: Is Dr. Jean Holder your mentor? To what extent has his views shading yours? To those who don’t know Holder is the long time Chairman of LIAT.


  10. Mr. Lynch has unnecessarily set himself up for these licks. He should follow the maxim: Silence is golden. To come out swinging wild about RedJet has served no purpose. It has only exposed him to ridicule. This is time for him to refresh himself and make a fresh start, but we seem to be getting more of the same.Unfortunately he is running the risk of doing some damage to his party which is now on the upswing. What inspires him? what is he trying to do?


  11. How will Bizzy ‘deep pockets Williams react?

    There is campaign financing considerations to consider.

    Regrettably it is how the game is played in Barbados until we look at serious reform.

  12. Adrian Loveridge Avatar
    Adrian Loveridge

    runner,

    I think maybe you have missed my point.
    I don’t know whether or not taxpayers monies should be put into REDjet, because I do not have the facts to be able to judge. But I do know that Mr. Lynch is not qualified to be able to make that decision either, based on his track record and his economies with the truth.

  13. Mash up & buy back Avatar
    Mash up & buy back

    I am so glad it is Adrian Loveridge posting these comments because he has a lot of credibility in the tourism circles and is known to be an independent thinker.

    I notice that when david ellis speaks with liar-ed noel lynch he throws soft ball questions at him and allow him to spout all these BLP talking point and lies without pointing out to him the facts as Adrian loveridge just did.

    These are undisputed facts that are in the public domain yet the BLP sympathetic Nation newspaper and VOB current moderators (ie Hoyos and ellis) never seen to want to ask any of these probing questions to the past BLP administration.

    We will never get anywhere if we don’t operate with fairness as we seek to hold politicians accountable.

    THANK YOU ADRIAN LOVERIDGE FOR REMINDING THOSE Politicians WHO THINK WE HAVE SHORT MEMORIES THAT THERE ARE STILL FAIR MINDED PEOPLE AMONG US.NOW LOOK OUT FOR THE BAD CHECKS(it -out) and THE ROTTEN ONIONS.

    Thank you!


  14. The next general election will be interesting if for no other reason we will be able to revisit some of these issues. We know the traditional media will sidestep or have to be poked.

    @mash up

    Is that you? Good to see you about.


  15. I could see whay Barney Rubble don’t want to be in the same room as Adrian….LMAO……He is afraid that the truth will lock him up!

  16. Observing (and yawning) Avatar
    Observing (and yawning)

    @Adrian or anyone
    Who would you say is best poised to determine or communicate? Finance? Tourism? Commerce? International Business and Transport?

    RedJet is an “interesting” case for the way they came in, kept noise and then fizzled. Even the PM said he didn’t expect them to fold “so soon.” Added to that is the spectre of potential “back door” agreements and the volatility of the regional relationship regarding it.

    Like you, I’d have to see the economic/financial benefit to Barbados fo injecting taxpayers money. I was going to say benefit to CSME but that seems to be an “on pause” ideal. IT would be nice too if we could get some real figures as to its economic impact for the few months it was up and running.

    Best wishes to you and yours by the way. Sorry to hear about the closure. Fare thee well.

    P.S. Noel Lynch has to comment on something regularly. He knows he has to remain relevant and in the public eye given the battle he’ll be fighting when the bell tolls. Take everything he says in that context.

  17. old onion bags Avatar

    Why was all the talk to the Diaspora only airings..? You tell me before we jump at each other’s throats…Will help be coming ?Or just another impress show ? Barrack, CLICO,AX ?Before the blow for blow at this ‘illusioned nipple’…..each should reconsider….

  18. Adrian Loveridge Avatar
    Adrian Loveridge

    Observing,

    Thank you very much.


  19. Noel Lynch does not like the blogs because it is said the comments about his role in CWC among other issues is the reason he did not procure that job in PR.

    Agree with Adrian that he has no credibility in these matters.

    LIAT was a failure under his watch, CWC was a failure, carving up Barbados in condominiums the jury is out.

  20. Mash up & buy back Avatar
    Mash up & buy back

    True that David.

    Mash Up still here looking on and listening.Missing Bonny peppa bad though.


  21. Here is a reminder from our friend Pat Hoyos offer at the BSJ:

    Was this really our finest hour?
    Patrick Hoyos Published May 7, 2007

    “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their Finest Hour.’”
    —British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons, 18 June 1940, following the collapse of France, when many thought Britain would follow.

    For Britain, it was the withstanding of the fury and might of Hitler’s war machine that became known, as Churchill tagged it, as the country’s finest hour. For Barbados, at least in the mind of Tourism Minister Noel Lynch, it was hosting part of Cricket World Cup 2007.

    Last Saturday, Mr. Lynch said more than once that hosting some of the CWC games was Barbados’ “finest hour” and the effort had been a “huge organisational triumph.”

    Beware, the hyperbole is on the loose, and no famous phrases or sayings are safe.

    http://www.broadstreetjournalbarbados.com/opinion/2007-05-07/was-this-really-our-finest-hour


  22. …. and just imagine the BLP present him to us as our future parliamentary representative after democratically electing him in the constituency.

    The party sees absolutely nothing wrong with this.

    I say shame.

    Shame on him, shame on the BLP.


  23. ahter bashing mr lynch for his alleged sins of omission amd commission, the question still remains whether it is prudent to put scarce tax dollars to prop up a private enterprise of which we know very little about and which clearly demonstated a lack of business acumen in trying to run an airline by speculative farepricing.


  24. What does this say about POLITICS AND POLITICIANS? ALL OF THEM ARE LIARS AND HAVE SMALL MEMORIES! DO NOT under any circumstances BELIEVE a POLITICIAN DLP AND BLP just figure out whose lies are less dangerous and vote for them.


  25. I have said before and say again.Redjet is very good for the economy of Barbados.Since the 70’s,Barbados has benefitted from the many Trinidadians who come here particularly during the summer and enjoy our tourist plant holidaying at Super Mare,Silver Beach,The Royal,Caribbee,Ocean View,Indramer,Blue Waters,Accra,Sunhaven,Sandy Beach,Benson Beach,Leeton-on-Sea, Rydal Waters among others, including private homes.In those days seat availability was not a problem as most US, Canadian and UK carriers overnighted at Piarco Airport and Barbados was the first stop on their return journey.BWIA operated wide bodied aircraft at that time.We are now at the mercy of CAL and they fly small Dash 8 aircraft,so that Redjet’s entry into the market can make a huge difference to our economy.All things being equal and due diligence being observed,forget Lynch’s self serving meddling and let Redjet fly.


  26. Balance you correctly pointed”we know so.little about” however it clearly seems to be politics as usual.


  27. Unfortunatlely the person delivering the message has no credibailty and his silence would have been more appreciated political opportunism most likey would caused him to be beheaded



  28. @ ac
    Neither does Loveridge!!! Gol? Dismissed from the BTA board after a short tenure?


  29. @ enuff

    but one can not help to see the political dimension of it all from which Noel is trying to reap political benefits! after all who is he to crticise his record as Min. of tourisim leaves much to be desired!


  30. The Same Former Minister once again nominated to contest the constituency of St.Michael South for the Barbados Labour Party.Chances are he will win the seat.Nothing has changed,and nothing will.Till we as a people get off our ass and send a clear message to the politicians this crap shall always obtain.This man’s nomination is an insult to any right thinking barbadian.Prodigal Son and the regular cast that post here may beg to differ,but need to be reminded that the actions of the participants of the CLICO master con do not in any way absolve Noel Lynch of the fall out that resulted from his pernicious reign in the ministry of tourism.Anyone that has the slightest doubt can check with the folk at the Barbados Advocate.


  31. Now…what of the racist antics of Gline Clarke in St George?


  32. Gline Clarke’s rants are totally out of context. It is hard to imaging he is flying a kite so close to a general election.


  33. @enuff

    What is your point? Aren’t the statutory boards in the main comprised of political cronies? The fact that Adrian was fired maybe a credit to him.


  34. @ HH
    “Prodigal Son and the regular cast that post here may beg to differ,but need to be reminded that the actions of the participants of the CLICO master con do not in any way absolve Noel Lynch of the fall out that resulted from his pernicious reign in the ministry of tourism.Anyone that has the slightest doubt can check with the folk at the Barbados Advocate”…………………………………

    HH,

    Good evening to you. I seem to recall that Noel Lynch presided over a good time for tourism during his tenure as minister. You all are so quick to buy AL’s rhetoric but I would take it with a pinch of salt, AL has a beef with Noel Lynch.

    Nevertheless, I did not agree that NL should stir up things right now, wait and see what the PM comes up with, then he should have spoken.

    HH, dont go there about low morale, morale in every government department is at an all time low especially in the BTA.


  35. @David,
    Agree 100%
    In most cases you look better being kicked out rather than staying in. My interpretation is that you weren’t towing the political line.

    Like GEMS, if I was a Director I would walk with my head down in shame.

  36. old onion bags Avatar

    @ Prodigal
    I notice all D pampalams bound in hay just so to chop up Barney..Hamilton rise up like he had yeast. But them ain’t sayin nuttin….ac eat humble pie cuz what I go say here none of you barn birds CANNOT DISPUTE….all you try……Under Barney Barbados in 2006-2008 saw its best intake from the tourism industry …so hold these licks……HHill you cuz hush…disgrace..man wha you saying ? Barney may have been a bit adventurous …World Cup…but we all were taking on the unknown with best intentions….so if we saw only an increase of 47 long staying visitor..at least it was an increase. The important thing we came out break even and with The now world class “Mecca”…another Capital Asset to add to the long list…a legacy this DLP will find hard to match come elections……wanna just like Ronnie…like nuff Jonesing.


  37. Page 3 of BarbadosToday. Owen Arthur is quoted as saying “Our land is God’s gift to our people”.

    wunna can go read the rest.

  38. Observing (and questioning) Avatar
    Observing (and questioning)

    @hamilton
    Are you willing to wager on those chances of NL winning??


  39. @Hants

    The same Owen that said that we have to sell land to keep the Foreign Exchange coming in?


  40. Hants Capone
    You need to wine down…..go watch the video….HOTT!


  41. @ Hants

    I read that and LOL almost die laughing. Now i must quote !…….The BLP would only fool those who want to be fooled!

    @ onions

    How much moneyt did BTA under Noel Lynch as minister of tourisim spent on the carnival Destiny which left the BTA with a defecit

  42. old onion bags Avatar

    Nuff Booty…….ah mean nuff $$$…..wait ac you still able to split it on the pole…or you too old fa dat ? Nice video O…..I like the 3rd one @ the end that is D bomb..


  43. @ ole onions nuff like 14 million nuff and now noel got nuff say so about telling the govt what to spend on red jet. when he blew 14 million for a three week joy ride that went bust.


  44. We Jonesing , we jnonesing ,we jonesing…lol….wanna see Jonsey last night ?


  45. @hamilton
    ( Are you willing to wager on those chances of NL winning??)

    Good one hammie la it’s unthinkable for a voter of sound mind to want to put a low life like Lynch back in the House. The man is proven liar.

    The Bees gine pay for underestimating Stuart.

    The BLP yardfowls like onion bags and prodigal will disagree but I dont see any BLP victory on the horizon. It will be a hard fought election but arent they all?

    Owen Arthur spoke a whole lotta tripe at a secretarial conference today.


  46. Here is the link which Hants referenced. Of interest is his parties commitment to building out a service economy and dispensing with the Agrarian linkage.

    http://news.barbadostoday.bb/barticlenew.php?ptitle=Close%20%E2%80%98bargain%20basement%E2%80%99&article=16343

  47. PRETTY BLUE EYES Avatar
    PRETTY BLUE EYES

    @Adrian Loveridge – jus because Barney made a couple of mistakes you are of the conclusion that he has not learnt anything from his experiences. I beg to differ, it IS because of those very errors he IS qualified to see a pink elephant a mile off, my advice would be to listen him. Redjet is a privately owned airline let the billionaires do their own funding and we all know the have the capacity to do this. They never wanted government involved in the first place now that they are in “trouble” they are looking for a bailout, let them use their money for this.

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