how long do politicians believe that taxpayers can continue bearing the brunt of their ill advised and Party decisions? at some point in time unrest will surely arise in this country. enough is enough is closer than we dare to think…looking thru Barbados’ political history, Party politics has been thrown over every decision made for this country…greenland, st. joseph hospital and enquiry, the eye clinic that languished for 14 years, the st. john’s polyclinic – 18 years , and the list goes on. it is time to stop this madness

The documents posted place both sides of this issue in the public domain which at first impression deflates the political balloon the matter had become. A careful read suggests that there is substance to the government’s position.

One of the substantive arguments by the defence is that the rights conferred to VECO were retained by SMI given its association with VECO and the Dodds project.

@DAvid
“if it wants to remain relevant”

That’s the magic question. I think it just wants to remain profitable.

The media is a business crafted to make money or advance agendas. Objective journalism comes second or occasionally runs neck and neck with priority one. Governments need money, and successful businesses to survive. They cannot and choose not to live without each other.

Social media is unbeholden to anyone (that we know of so far 🙂 ) and allows for the creation of information from within rather from on top. The difficulty is that it’s reach and effect has a ceiling that til now has not and probably cannot be breached. It’s up to the citizenry to exercise their “power” based on what they learn from each other daily on blogs such as this. Without the exercise of that power or “calling” we shall remain at square one.

The social media revolution is only but a beginning but it can have no true revolutionary success unless the same said genuine and visionary leaders we speak about so often take to the physical fore and lead.

My sincere commendations to you David on a fantastic online job in our 66 sq mile domicile. I don’t think many appreciate the power, value and significance of the information generated here over the years.

I would love to get my hand on a copy of the BTI Inc Act to see where the power to award contracts lie.

If a police officer damages someone, the AG is the one charged, therefore if the BTI defaults, the government of Barbados pays the penalty. This government, some inherited, some they caused, is faced with some large debts and the interest will keep rising. Where I blame this government is, they knew about the ones they inherited and delaying the payment will only cause the taxpayers un-necessary money, plus to cancel contracts because they did not start it has resulted in at lease two large payouts, $ US $ 39 million to 3S and another $ 60 million now to lagan. This shows a lack of maturity within the political system, this is where partisan politics can destroy a country.

@ David

Is that your way of not being sued for defamation?

@Obs

Thanks

It sickens me when I see these law suits holding up national development. The sickest part is the size of the suits multi million in nature guaranteed to be bogged down in the ridiculous court system for decades. The big name lawyers like Johhnny Cheltenham should be ashamed of themselves for taking on such cases blocking national development resulting in big loss of jobs, revenue, foreign exchnge etc. The whole greedy laywer syndrome, and we know many of the lawyers are dishonest, destroys a lot of projects that would’ve taken Barbados forward. The Pierhead Marina is a prime example. So much wastage of time,of scarce government money and resources for what? Its deplorable and sickening.