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Let us hope the GM is not using ‘wuk fuh wuk’ criteria.

Glad you raise this flag pole tonight…..Onions usually does…Hear Kellman..Well he finally admit this Govt has been operating like a barrel of Crabs…true true…hope everybody hear…then sought to step back ..Too late Kelly …we know you all climbing up on each other and can’t find a way out..even ac, like she stop begging Ole Onions for sum of the BLP ideas to save face…..oh its a sorry lot ..one sordid lot

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It way not the most scientific of a criteria but it ‘wuked’ for Clarke.

When politicians openly identify with giving handouts from the public purse as though they are giving their own money, that is a form of Wuk fuh Wuk. They are buying votes with Government’s money. They should be aware by now that Barbadians are not foolish: they could take the handout and still vote you out. Remember Arthur rushed the Public Service Bill through in the dying days of the last Parliament so that 3000 temporary officers in the Public Service would be appointed permanently, probably hoping that they would have voted for him. It did not work.

However, I have to suggest that if the other party had been in power, they would have done exactly the same thing.”
how can you be so sure that the other party would have done the same thing and furthermore, you are missing the point, it goes beyond whether what either party would do; the publicity is in poor taste.

@ balance

you call it publicly for political reasons which you are hiding it is obvious that your political agenda is showing although you try to sell the idea of not being B or D. however whether publicity or not doesn’t the public have the right to know if the taxpayers money is being squandered like in the “good ole days of yore” under BLP rule one should appreciate when the politician give an accounting of the peoples business and if they are benefits derived from it to them so be it .no manshould lites a candle and hides it under a bushel.

Interesting note in today’s newspaper where the NIS has put out a tender for private audit firms to bid to audit a backlog of financials for the period 2003 to 2009. How does this reconcile with Tony Marshall’s press statement?

What is going on here? The reason given is that the Auditor General’s Office is under resourced to do the job. What is happening with the most important fund in Barbados.

I have to agree with Caswell on this public humiliation of poor people. I hate to see it being done by Bee or Dee. It is bad, these people then have to live in a society like ours where people can be very unkind.

I hate to see it at Christmas time when every body giving the poor hampers but all of Barbados has to know. My church gives out hampers monthly to the needy and no one knows. This is how it can be done.

When I was on the PTA executive at one of my children’s schools, the executive set up a fund to help with poor children’s meals. The guidance councillor identified the needy children, a list was given to the canteen and the children would go and get their meals, breakfast and lunch, without anyone else knowing. I was happy then to introduce this caring for the poor to the executives of two other school and was happy that it is still in place. That is how we should help the poor not blast it all over the news.

I am curious though, if only one person in this household works, who is going to pay the light bill and water bill for this five bedroom house? I am just asking!

To be accurate, Marshall and Robinson promised recent financial statements, not recent audited financials.

The ad is to audit accounts from 2003 to 2009, which evidently are now complete.

Nothing wrong there.

David;
As a rank layman re. finance and someone who depends on my pension from NIS, I can read something into it. What I read is that the Government assumed that the NIS’ money bags are full and bottomless and adequate to support such speculative investments as Four Seasons, even though audited statements were not available since 2003.

I hope they are right.