If I am not mistaken the Min of Small Business said on the radio today that the BHTA was in constant communication with the Min of Tourism. The inference of course, is that Jordan is trying to publicly embarrass Min Sealy by claiming that the meetings required higher authority … Now this is something completely different and speaks to the transparency of Jordan and the effectiveness of Sealy. This is NOT good either way. Jordan parting action is inappropriate …!

Colin Jordan is just a wimp. He was a “yes’ man and said nothing against the policies or actions of the BTA or Ministry of Tourism when he was the incumbent President. The likes of him go along with the crap and keep their mouths shut when reaping the sweet rewards that go with “position”. A true house “N”. When he was a pseudo top dog the Government was doing OK in helping the tourism industry. People of his ilk should be dismissed when they are relegated to just “one of us”.

Go take a long dose of Epsom salts Mr. Jordan, you are no longer relevant to the Industry.

Of interest also is the fact Jordan would not have seen the need to mention that the PM’s Office acknowledged the request for a meeting. A careful response to avoid the appearance of being political would have seen the need to utter a more transparent statement.

@The Nation Critic,
“Is this not the same Colin Jordan who was a prospective BLP candidate for one of the constituencies who was being given a chance by a partisan and unprofessional rag and a partisan organisation of the BHTA”………………….

You speak of what you do not know. Colin Jordan is a staunch Adeventist and would therefore not get involved in elective politics.

I have been following this pulling down of DLP Prime Ministers by the Nation for a long time. They have done it to Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford and now Freundel Stuart.

This Guyanese editor has no respect for the Barbados Prime Minister. She even taunted him in an editorial where he had said that the Nation is his favorite newspaper. Don’t tell me about no Caricom citizen because I am like Richard Hoad Barbados for Barbadians.

Barbadians have allowed people from other countries to reset our standards of decency.

Mr. Stetson Babb on today’s brass tacks said that no journalist decides to slant a story to suit any political party and he will defend them. He must be joking and insulting our intelligence. Well Mr. Babb you cannot be speaking of Kaymar.

The Prime Minister must recognize that he must go on the attack and stop letting people haul his Name all through the mud without defending himself.

Owen Arthur said it clearly Bajans like a leader who drive fear in people. No one on this this blog can dispute that. They take kindliness, honesty and decency as weaknesses.

Onions
In the interview in the Nation Mr. Arthur said that people must fear a leader and Dr. Estwick could not have tried that with him.

This is no short memory person as you feel all Barbadians are.

It is clear that Mr Jordan was responding to the fact that the PM had not indicated when he would met the body. An acknowledgement of the letter was not enough for the Tourism President since he indicated how urgent and necessary it was for the PM and the group to meet. Your rag here is out of place and I would have expected you to recognise that Mr Stuart was a lot tardy in meeting the present and former presidents of the BHTA . You cant be wrong and yet right. Bearing in mind the strategic position of Tourism and the need to give the PM first hand in your face info then two months would be far too long . This is Barbados not any fly by night club. If you are going to meet then say so . Commom courtesy would demand it , Think on these things

as far as i am concerned, that article made the PM look like a sensible man, meaning that it highlighted the fact that yet another company wants to beg the government for money to prop them up and the PM answered with silence, which is good. just like Redject and it’s hidden agenda, i.e. to make govt and people of Barbados feel obligated to fund the airline but it did not work. good job for the PM

Don’t you think the No.1 Revenue Earner Past President deserves at least an ear….? When last you went down town ? Everybody is crying out…these IMF measures aint EZ……

It just don’ mek nah sense. Stuart is Min of security so the Cuban prisoner will form part of his direct responsibility … (also he become real high profile too yah, and PM luv spotlights)

Smooth Chocolate,
It was the PM himself who said when he was in Washington that he was going to look favourably at the Redjet request. Not the BLP. Remember he made the comment about sore nipples. The PM gave the people false hopes and his word was not his bond which seems to be a common thread with the PM.

This whole Redjet fiasco has been mishandled from day one. From what I can see, the investors were misled by the Minister responsible who was wined, dined and used the man’s luxurious vehicle to explore Ireland, he made promises he could not keep and when the road got rough, the minister could not deliver.

For this the minister should be fired, ministers should not be using their offices to get private holidays from potential investors. They would be put in a position where their principles would have to be compromised.

ac, what say you on this, was this corruption or a compromise of principles!

Quoting Election Watch ” NOT A WORD”. BHTA head says PM has not responded to request for meeting “It was a story by a Gercine Carter in which the paper has outdone itself in its efforts at vilification . The Prime Minister was being ” rapped for failing to respond to a Barbados Hotel Association ( BHTA ) request for an urgent meeting to discuss the plight of the Island’s vital tourism industry “.

Please explain why it is vilification to say that the PM had not responded to a request for a meeting.

Even though of course the BHTA should be meeting with the Minister of Tourism.

Quoting Election Watch “Whatever it is, we are here presented with another opportunity whereby we must say to the Nation Newspaper ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. We must not stand for anymore of this unseemly conduct from a newspaper which depends upon the support of the public for its survival …
THE NATION MUST BE CENSURED.”

Who is the “we” in the paragraph above?

Are you sure that “we” are on board with you and the PM?

What if we the public think that the Nation is essential for the survival of democracy in Barbados? What if we the public are happy to support the Nation, even if the Nation’s reporters sometime err?

What if we the public refuse to throw out the baby with the bathwater?

Just Asking, with sincere apologies to the real JUST ASKING.

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Someone on this blog raised the point about the PM meeting with the Cuban former and still prisoner and disclosed that the PM was the Minister responsible for security. Wasn’t a solution for the Gonsalves impasse announced several weeks ago? Didn’t the papers publish a picture of the secure facility where he would be housed? What is preventing the PM from implementing the solution?

It can’t be all that difficult to get the Cuban into the facility provided and get adequate guard resources to ensure as far as posible that he abides by whatever arrangements and agreements are made and keep adequate track of his movements. If he leaves the facility under his own steam and somehow reaches some other country it seems to me that the matter will be solved as far as Barbados is concerned. If he leaves and becomes involved in some lawbreaking situation in Barbados he could then be tried and if found guilty be remanded to prison again.

Altogether a win win situation for Barbados. So what’s the delay in getting him into the facility?

Another example of procrastination by the powers that be?

Oops! I should have said Raul Garcia above not Gonsalves.

@onions quoting AFFTA “i.m just trying to gleam some light from the ignorant amongst us”

David, the only reason is the make up of the BHTA it reeks of politics the likes of Peter Odle now and always a bag man for Arthur.

The other item of value is not one of the past presidents are struggling financially personally and with every one of them with properties in London, Surrey, Iver London, to some with homes in Portugal and Toronto and Ottawa and one with a ski chalet in Austria their wealth is sprung far and wide but will live in Barbados and pretend to be paupers and try to fool people into government grants and free money giveaways, least we forget the Ward family at Silver Sands when the Tourism Industry Relief Fund was created to keep people working in the hotel and tourism sector, the Ward’s applied and were paid in excess of $ 750,000.00 and four months later they shut their hotel down.

These same ones who now are crying crocodile tears and seeking more government grants money to be used to buy more offshore homes for they themselves and family, should be told to use some of those foreign funds that siphoned off of their properties in the good times and repatriated some of the money taken out of their hotels and brought back to work and support their properties.

How can it be right for a chap like Peter Odle with two luxury homes in London and one in New York to expect the taxpayers to prop up his lifestyle and extravagance with more grant money?

I bet these Champagne and Caviar drinkers a eaters are smiling if they feel that they have pulled off a coup to fool this government, this Minister, and this Prime Minister.

Rational son you know of what you speak. Show me a hotel owner(not manager) who complains he is scrunting and poor and I will show you a humongous liar. Hotel owners are amomg the richest elite on this 166.

Rational Son “were paid in excess of $ 750,000.00 and four months later they shut their hotel down.”

If anybody gave me $750,00 in cash I would fire de wuk’ too

ac girl, i glad to see you does recycle. you does take in all the ignorance and type it back out on the blog. keep it up.

how does one get to CENSURING the Nation Newspaper? do we then censure CBC? the call in programs? the people who say things YOU don’t like?

here is a stupid question, did Colin Jordon say at the meet that he got the letter back from the PM’s office? now if he did say that, the nation is dead wrong and should be drag over hot fire for the headline but if he did not, then the nation did nothing wrong.

VOB played the clip on the midday news and they did not report that he got a reply. i’m sure Barbados Today carried the story, did they say if he got a reply from the PM’s office?

i know this much, CBC did not carry the story, so my question to the writer would be, is CBC TV8 CENSURED or bais as you say the nation newspaper is?

the comment from Jordon only adds to the profile of the man we have as a PM. he is one lazy bitch. censure me, do. Colin Jordon is the head of BHTA, but 2 and half months to not even find out what the man want? and some of you don’t see this as a problem? so what if there is a Minister of Tourism? what if the meet was requested to deal with issues the BHTA had with the Sealy? would you Barbados Election Watch like to see it as a headline in the Nation Newspaper in red of what Colin Jordon would of like to discuss?

you people and are blasted well sicken.

@RATIONAL very scandulous indeed .another sect who lives off the backs of the taxpayers and to think that bajans would decry this govt for not bailing redjet out who was trying to screw the taxpayers out of 8million dollars and to hearOSAside with redjetis an eyeopener UNBELIEVABLE.here is a man who says he is/an economist and in these hard times want to give vultures 8million dollars of taxpayersOSA must think money grows on trees

@ BAF

You’ve been around for a long time – err – please tell me who ‘Barbados Election Watch’ is if you have a moment.

“I have been following this pulling down of DLP Prime Ministers by the Nation for a long time. They have done it to Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford and now Freundel Stuart”
Mr stuart’s easygoing and nice boy approach has attracted much goodwill which he has not earned through performance but he pulling his own self down with his frequent fauxpas and constant about turns on important matters of interest to the nation he leads.

Mr. Jordan (and the BHTA board) must think there is a sufficient reason to meet with the Prime Minister that seemingly cannot be addressed by the Minister of Tourism. There is no doubt that our tourism industry is in crisis. I am told (sadly not by the BTA) that the much heralded Dallas/Forth Worth service will end in August. This after the loss of Atlanta (despite Delta still being on the BTA website). It is almost unbelievable that we cannot fill one tiny B737 or A319 once a week from both the worlds largest and world’s fourth largest airports.
St. Lucia still manages to fill 5 Atlanta flights each week.
Over 1,000 hotel jobs have already been lost due to hotel closures either permanently or those closed for extended periods for ‘refurbishment’.
Clearly something is radically wrong and after 4 1/2 years the current Government has not restructured the BTA or put people in place that can do the job.
The BTA Los Angeles office closure just at a time when you are launching a new 190 connecting city route out of Dallas simply does not make sense. Who had the responsibility to ensure the Dallas flights operated viabily within the BTA?
Why on earth has the BTA retained the same Advertising Agency out of Kansas?
The Government has dismally failed to appoint those most able with proven ability and knowledge of the industry.

@David notBU QuotingAFFTA”one of the seven deadly sins is the insatiable taste for Power” to censor or not to censor the purchasing power of the people can easily resolved that.when people stop buying that is where the impact of censorship begins.