@ BAF

Let me think about it and give you a coherent answer. You mention both ‘suing’ and being found ‘guilty’ so, from your perspective we are talking about both civil and criminal law. And I do understand we’re talking about the individual and not the Office. If the latter, then seeking judicial review is the standard answer.

But let me be sure I understand the scenario. Government has a policy under which it makes financial grants, let’s say to poets. To be eligible for the grant the poet/his work has to meet certain criteria. The poet feels he meets these criteria. Now, at this point I’m a bit fuzzy. Does the poet have to meet with the Minister to promote his application? OR has the application been turned down and the poet wants to appeal his case directly to the Minister which is the procedure which the relevant policy/legislation provides for? OR does he simply want to have a chat with the Minister to explain his application further though the policy, or whatever it is, does not actually provide for this? In any of these cases, the Minister won’t meet with him, thereby demonstrating, from the poet’s perspective, bias against him. The poet thinks this is a personal vendetta and wants to nail the Minister by pursuing him in the courts in or out of office – but more obviously out of it.

In other words, ‘further and better particulars’ would be advisable if you can do that without compromising anything

Hypothetically speaking of course let’s say the “has the application been turned down and the poet wants to appeal his case directly to the Minister ” the “which is the procedure which the relevant policy/legislation provides for” I am NOT sure of. Let’s for argument’s sake say that there is legislation for this, because if there isn’t well then you are saying that there is nothing that can be done …!

Let us congratulate our own Rosemary Parkinson and fellow artist Corrie Scott for being selected out of thousands of submissions to represent Barbados:

@ BAF

On the facts I’ve understood – the Minister has turned down the application in the view of the poet wrongfully and there is no appeal procedure – the Minister would have had a discretion BUT clearly he has to have exercised that reasonably observing not only the established criteria and, eg, the rules of natural juistice including the rule against bias. As I say, the standard procedure would be to seek judicial review of the decision against the poet – but that would not be a personal action in the sense that it could be pursued personally ( as distinct from against him and the Department of which he was Minister) after he has left Office; at least I don’t think so. But as I say, I’ll think about it a bit more assuming the facts I’ve elaborated here. The problem is the idea of a personal action

Ross

The individual involved does NOT want to become another Barak going after an institution that continually changes personnel and winding up only with paper judgements. No the person that is occupying the office is the target of the exercise or there can be NO resolution.

Thnx for the ongoing interest friend.

Onions

Who is BFPFA. But with the liklihood that you can be referring to me, let me say that I have NO party affiliations, none, and am just disappointed that in Barbados, as in the rest of the Caribbean (in particular the Bahamas) we have the same Jack Ass types presenting themselves for public office with little to demonstrate that they have the slightest understanding oh what true development is ..

@BAFBFP

Surely you can appreciate that recognition of one local artist in the creative sector enhances the cultural movement? Surely can appreciate that both of the creatives mentioned unlike many others have dared to contribute to BU using their names? BU has not problem congratulating the two artistes their colour not withstanding.

@BAFBFP
apology for getting it wrong……especially on father’s day…..TO ALL THE GOOD FATHERS LIKE ONIONS….sips a JWB…we deserve it !

@ Old Onions and BAF and Me…yes HFDay.

@ BAF

Will be ongoing.

@ David

If there were thousands of entries wonderful! But on using their names – if you don’t get embroiled in the shitty stuff why wouldn’t you? The price of tomatoes is not quite the same as…well almost anything else.

“The DLP has done a good job in stabilising this economy in the worst global recession in a hundred years.”

i hope that helps you sleep well election night. High cost of living, high unemployment, lie after lie after lie from the MOF which means no confidence in the market place, someday soon we will have a junk bond rating and you sit there and type shite about the DLP has done a good job in stabilising this economy? who’s economy? cause you can’t be talking about Barbados’ own.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&rl=yes&v=qmWhMBkVcrw

“an urgent meeting”

you people are so stupid. should you not be responding and saying the meeting will be X date? this country really going to hell in a hand basket.

@ Anonymous
A date has still not been set!

@ To the point | June 17, 2012 at 8:59 PM |

Your vituperative condemnation of Mr. Jordan- although leaving a bad taste in the mouth- can be somewhat overlooked because there some measure of validity in it. However, asking the man to apologise is going too far. Why should he apologise when the PM has refused to apologise over the CLICO backing in his infamous “Leper” speech in Parliament.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
First ask the PM to apologise to Parliament; then insist on Mr Jordan’s apology. Fair enough?

The Sunday Sun of June 17, 2012 reinforces the obvious fact that the Nation newspaper is a functioning part of the BLP campaign.
On the same day that Barbados was receiving an international designation for its capital city, the Nation newspaper in its mad rush to print anything which put the DLP in a negative light puts a FRONT PAGE story suggesting that the poor BHTA cannot even get an acknowledgement from the PM.
The next day issues a tiny,cowardly clarification on page 4.
Then on Sunday, The Nation lets loose the BLP attack dogs in Peter Symmonds, Ezra Alleyne and Albert Brandford to further mislead the public.
What is worse is that the Nation newspaper gives Albert Brandford an entire page every week in its most circulated paper to consistently criticise and pull down the DLP government and then puts an the end of the article that Brandford is an “independent” writer.
Ladies and Gentlemen, if Albert Brandford was consistently criticising Owen Arthur , you can bet your house,land and all your possesions that he would not be still writing in the Nation.
The Nation newspaper has been compromised. Let us hope that journalism in Barbados will improve but with Kaymar Jordan and Sanka Price in daily telephone planning meetings with Owen Arthur, that will not change at the Nation anytime soon.

I wonder if anyone at the Nation newspaper takes a look at their mirror image and how this once fearless paper is now sitting and planning with a political party how they attain political advantage by only using columnists affiliated to the Barbados Labour party.
They certainly now have no moral authority to criticise CBC for following a policy that has been in force under both BLP and DLP administrations. The Nation newspaper now follows a policy that will see NOT ONE of its columnists criticise or attack Owen Arthur because the Nation newspaper is part of the BLP’s campaign.
The standards of the Nation newspaper are in a race to the gutter.An absolute disgrace for a sad day for journalism in our great country.

TTP and Prodical

Outside women is a cultural thing ’bout here … Drop it! Not worthy of your valuable input ..!

@Prod

your reasoning reminds me of a person who professes to have common sense, but from your mouthings, it seemed to have escaped you o is is the law of diminishing returns entering your brain cells.

After all the concession the govt give to these business enough is never enough rather than called a collective board meeting in trying to iron the many problems they are having in tourism industry they first thing is that the ran to the govt for MORE of the TAXPAYERS money and use “GOPHER” and errand boy Jordan to do so who in his unsuccessful bid to deliver to them and receives there warth and jordan the loyalist he is to the big ups takes matters even further by taking a swipe at the PM a typical “House negro” with no allegiance for his country or fellowman. Jordan ought to be ashamed of himself.

Wow all of a sudden Mr.Jordan is a ‘house nigga’.
How do we characterised the Eager 11 who, it is said, met with person(s) of the Caucasoid race or Minister Sealy who supported the idea of government offering financial assistance to Redjet? What about Coverley?
The desperation deepens.

This is what the BLP love to support and condone, this corrupt frail gone past his better use before sell by time.

During the 2011 Budget debate Owen Arthur tried to distance himself from the stench surrounding the arrangements for the new prison built under his reign. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and Finance Minister Christopher Sinckler however managed to straddle him and nail him down to the scene of the breach for future scrutiny.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&rl=yes&v=qmWhMBkVcrw

Least we forget.David the BHTA continues to act with the arrogance of the former government, these guys have no concept that some taxes are to be expected of them it would not be so bad were these leeches to be playing a role some role in the marketing of any of their properties with the exception of The Crane and to his credit Almond Resorts not one of these jokers spend a single cent of money to market their properties but rather then whine when they want more given to them but play no part in their own sales and marketing effort, can you think of car dealership selling a Ford car but not making any and no effort to advertise or give that brand any exposure but they will wait for the ministry of public works to say to people going there to license a car to go have a look at a Ford, absolute rubbish and gross neglect and laziness on hoteliers of this island .

The only reason is the make up of the BHTA it reeks of politics with the likes of Peter Odle now and always has been 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 offshore 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 they siphoned off of their hotel 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 now that is needed back at home..

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 that poor Barbadians. Contribute to making money available to him by the sweat of their brow, it could never be reasonable or rational ?

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 to fill their bank accounts off the labour of hard working Bajans.

When fellows like Jordan go to battle and do not know who or where the enemy is, they can run into severe problems, his problem is not with the Prime Minister at all but with those around him who have set him up to fall flat on his face.

In addition to this recent shaming he must also answer the public who listened to his remarks as broadcast on VoB on the midday news report and then his feebleness and lame attempt to say he did not say what he did clearly say in the news item of the day before, does he take Barbadians to be as foolish as he is?

Now then having been proven to be a puppet of Arthur and Lynch what words coming out of his mouth are worthy to take consideration of, he has destroyed any semblance of trust or credibility that he may have hopes to have left office with, all because of political mischievous behaviour.

This clown was set up to do crap by Odle and Seale and blindly he obliged and will now suffer as Barbadians have now passed judgment on him as a simpleton and one that can bent and twisted in each way possible only because he has no morals or standards or worst yet has no understanding of what is right or what is wrong and even worst is that he is a stranger to the truth, a terrible trait to carry as a Financial Controller and handling money everyday.

And I forgot Land Taxes which the Government increased 50 per cent this year, in a recession when hotels are closing down all around us.

@ To the point | June 18, 2012 at 12:54 AM |

@Prod

your reasoning reminds me of a person who professes to have common sense, but from your mouthings, it seemed to have escaped you o is is the law of diminishing returns entering your brain cells……………..

I know what I say is right when it is riling you DLPites. Dont wish that on any one, remember another person told someone he was past his sell by date, he was like a rancid cartoon of milk. The man who said this is now dead and the other man is still alive. Be careful what you wish on other people……and to quote you “the law of diminishing returns entering your brain cells”…… maybe before mine!

Amaizing

You is a Christian …? You gotta be with a handle like that … You can’ think of anoda one dho!

I pity you.