He should have saved the country the embarrassment and waste of scarce financial resources by dealing quietly and effectively with the AX situation. He should have used the Inspection Report to fire the principal or send on early retirement or suspension pending further long delayed and constant deferred investigations (they do it all the time in the Police Force and the Administrative Civil Service). The stubborn and anti-change clique of teachers should have been transferred and scattered among the secondary school system thereby saving the reputation of the Alexander School from being sullied in such an awful and unprofessional way.”

Despite the propaganda peddled on this forum and elsewhere about Mr Broomes unheard of contract of employment, the above steps should have been implemented from the time the issue surfaced again. Then again this Govt rather than familiarising themselves with the nuances of Governance on attaining office immediately went on the campaign trail publicly handing out keys to houses.

@Bush Tea

Let us agree to disagree to some of your last comment. No political system is perfect but in a modern world where national identy has been subsumed more than ever it will take elephant balls to go against the flow. Any prime minister who succeeds Stuart will have to confrot a similar reality.

@miller if it is that easy as you suggest why didn,t the BLP take that route in handling AX?

There has never been a truer statement spoken……… a drowning man will catch at a straw! This article fits this to the hilt!

@ mash up……..What surprises me is the depth of understanding and intensity of feeling against owen arthur by the average person for the corruption under his reign…………..

Why dont you start looking into the DLP mirror and stop casting aspersions on the BLP every time you blog. According your allegations of corruption, it did not take the hungry DLPites too long to reach corruption levels surpassing what you allege of the BLP. The latest one the scandal at Hoyte’s Village.

Have you heard a word from the corrupt Dennis Lowe?

Prodigal Son

I can only report what is public knowledge and in the public domain.I know nothing of Hoytes Village,I heard Lowe was seeking to get some campaign funds by scratching somebody’s back.If so he should be out of the cabinet but you know that is small change when you compare that with the goings-on of the BLP politicians
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If that is the yardstick we going to use for lowe,well then ,when we apply that to the past BLP cabinet,boy yuh dog dead,dead,dead….because dah whole cabinet gone through,except may be for rawle.
Cinty can’t talk because what she allowed with the villagers and that Polo field at Lion Castle will come out.

Mia can’t talk because she is one of the most corrupt politician second only to arthur….check out her ties and contracts given to jose and jose,check out the Crab Hill police station,Edue Tech and on and on …..

Don’t talk about glyne clarke, george payne,dale marshal and Barack,Rommel Marshal and the Transport Board,Noel Lynch….lordee I tired already.

On the other hand Prodigal I can tell you what I and the whole of Barbaduss know;
I know however of a poor old man in Holders Hill who was told year after year by the town and country department that he couldn’t subdivide his prime land near Sandy Lane and gave to his children because it was in zone one.
After years of this frustration he was convinced by Athur’s buddy Shorey and others to sell to them and guess what …in the twinkling of an eye the zoning was changed so the new owners could sub divive and sell house spots for millions.

And you know Arthur was the minister for Town Planning ….boy and he ain’t get a day for that corrupt deal… but he got something else though.

I know that bizzy and a group of unknown englishmen with no sound track record in road building get the go-ahead to add lanes and some flyovers on the ABC highway costing the taxpayers initially $90 million dollars,then 180 millions,then 360 millions and lord knows what it ended up at ……… and you know the government signed off on this project with a written contract,without specs,with some shady foreigners who were before the courts in Jamaica for corruption and kick – backs……. yet at the end of it all nichols the collector made millions from bringing in heavy equipment even before the project started………….. and arthur ain’t get a day ……. but he got something else though..

I don’t think you really want me to continue answering you,so I will ease up right now.

Mash up and buy back shut tuh f**k up!! Unless you can tell BU that the DLP clean accusing the other party of corruption is being a hypocrite. The discussion is about COMPETENCE. 2008 elections done and 2013 due!!

mash up,

Start detailing the Dems corrupt practices since day one…….. and dont forget to include the dead king’s corruption as well!

Mash up
You have them good that they start to curse. They cannot answer because everything you have said occurred and details are available.
Enuff and Prodigal do not just talk about corruption in the DLP bring details like mash up so that those who are involved are exposed just like Owen Arthur and his Friend Nichols.

Onions I see you have gone off with your buddies drinking big mout drinks. How come you can drink whisky still while most Barbadians resorted to ESA Fields white? I know you longing for the day your party gets back in power so that more big mout drinks can flow from the tax payers money.

I hope you can recall the campaign promises of integrity legislation and that Ministers in a new DLP Government would have been required to declare their assets. It is my understanding that they were not required to declare their asset because most of them did not have anything to declare. However in four short years, I understand that some of the former poor now have something worth declaring.

To the point

I had a good laugh when they made a mockery of declaring their assets. I felt insulted when that happened but you must admit that it was a good public relations stunt for the benefit of the ignorant.

@ MUBB
Haha evidence like the $3.333m cheque, the will, Marina, Rihanna show or the text? Stupse! It is not about the BLP, it is about you being a hypocrite.
If your party is so apprised of a bounty of infelicities on the part of the former government why would PM Stuart raise the issue of an FBI Report that points to two known DLP supporters (one dead ) instead of as you purport offshore bank accounts?
FYI it is the economy and competence stupid not phantom offshore accounts, and sadly all yuh failed miserably.

@ Clone
“…just like Owen Arthur and his Friend Nichols.”
You forgot Bannister or since he got two big guvment contracts post January 15 2008–one leading to a lawsuit against the government–he is no longer a tief? lmao. You are just another hypocrite.

………………….With a track record like that of the past BLP why should the voters put this man owen,and mia,and glyne,and dale,and george and cynty and noel and the others back in power so that they could get their hands back in the treasury………………………………….

I just dont get you DLPites. Bee or Dee, do any of these have keys to the treasury? You sound so ridiculous.

Look at it the other way, why are you so anxious now at the mere thought of you DLPites not in charge of the treasury for much longer? What is in it that you all do not want to give it up? The treasury is not there for any political party to gloat over and that it has control and another should not get close to it!

Can we ask you what it is that have you all so desperate just to think that the voters may kick your incompetent butts to the wall and that you will have no more control! Is this is what have you so desperate and bent on telling lies again.

Look, this is 2012, not 2008 and the king liar David Thompson is dead.

I sorry fuh wunna, but Caswell Franklyn right, both a de parties got some clowns in deh.

And Gabby was partially right. If wunna continue thise xhite, people gine get xissed off.

And it’ll be wunna fault!

I can already hear the objection form BOTH traditional parties… ‘They are making a mockery of the Parliamentary system’ or ‘this anomalistic behaviour leds me to circumlocution to remove their act from being the cynosure of the election. Indeed, to vote for them would demonstrate perfidiousness among the electorate and it would take perspicacious people to vote correctly.’

Would be bare BS……fellas, Barbados needs wuinnah!

Yardbroom:

I agree with you 100%.

Said before and say it again: The GE will be won on the day not a second before that regardless of what we say or think. Despite and inspite the best efforts of both parties.

OOB:

The Holy Bible states and this is unchanging by the wisest man that ever lived: paraphrase better is a bowl of herbs with quietness/honesty ‘than a stall ox with corruption’.

Also ‘before Moody comes with his paint brush…’ ohh OOB, OOB!!! Moody is painting the BLP I repeat. Moody is painting the BLP not the DLP at all. READ its report. READ IT AGAIN.

There is no need to put corrective measures if there wasn’t an error. The error and decline started long before 2008 according to Moody and the astute (your expressive description of OSA not mine) Arthur did nothing to prevent the decline, slippage, loose rock, loose clay (we keep forgetting the bridge in St. Joseph of 14 years BUT BUILT RELOCATE A PRISON THAT BURNT IN ONE DAY), however, I refer to the economy of Barbados.

Yeah, are you still trying to convince others as your following and you are so convinced of the ability and integrity of the BLP.

@ Brief | August 7, 2012 at 4:50 PM |
“Also ‘before Moody comes with his paint brush…’ ohh OOB, OOB!!! Moody is painting the BLP I repeat. Moody is painting the BLP not the DLP at all. READ its report. READ IT AGAIN.”

The old time name for a man’s bikini type underwear was a “Brief”.
Don’t you think that you are due for a change?
You have been wearing that same old dirty slip for too long now and it’s beginning to give you jockstrap itch in the area where your head resides instead of your two nuts.

Stop hiding your brain and realize that the DLP is the government of the day and has been for the past 4 years and almost 7 months. That is why the people changed the last set of jockeys who were taken down from riding the jack taxpayers like Balaam’s ass. We expect you to ride with honesty and competence not continue to flog like a jock the suffering jackass.

@ Brief | August 7, 2012 at 4:28 PM |
“And of national interest, how is Mr. O. Arthur’s health? It ought to be made known very soon, sooner rather than later. Can he manage the task at hand let alone ahead? The public ought to know how the leader of the opposition is and his ability and strength to carry on in office? Kindly update us.”

As a hypocrite who likes to quote the Bible to support his devilish views you ought to be aware of the saying: “Charity begins at home!”

“How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?”

Shouldn’t you therefore be concerned foremost with the health of your party leader and the leader of government? Both of them have the same health challenges but OSA is not known to faint in public on more than one occasion. Do and say unto others as you would have them do and say to you or about your party leader.

As Caswell has opined on the charges and counter charges by party suporters; simply hilarious.

Miller and OOB:

All Barbados hear .know evil. see no evil, speak knowledge of evil.

Having itemized your evils what integrity are you left with? A good name is rather to be chosen …

I am pointing out biases and strong unwavering beliefs posited by you two et al and you are unable to quit you like men.

Stuart with his known ailment is leading his team showing physical strength and strength of character.

I call on the leader of opposition to prove his strength physically to the nation of Barbados. Does that make you irritable?

Barbados ought to know the state of health of our national leaders – the same group that made it a national concern a couple years ago is trying to keep it personal business now. The shoe is on your foot now..

Be brief and simple that would be sweet fuh days.

Onions can you send Owen and Mascoll to help out our once colonial masters
Bank of England slashes growth forecasts to ZERO as double-dip recession deepens… but there is some relief for savers
The economy will grind to a halt this year as the threat from the eurozone, tough austerity measures and tight lending conditions drag on the economy, the Bank of England warned today.

In its quarterly inflation report, the Bank slashed its growth forecast for 2012 to around zero from 0.8 per cent in its May report, while the economy is now expected to grow by around 1.9 per cent in 2013, compared to 2.4 per cent in its last estimate.

The downbeat outlook will increase the chances of further emergency support measures, including a possible interest rate cut beyond the current record low of 0.5 per cent and a further cash injection to the Bank’s quantitative easing programme.

Miller
Are you trying to be funny. I used this article from the Daily mail to show how are main tourist market is faring.
I was trying to point out to you BLP fanatics that you are demonizing this government for running the economy into the ground and believing that Owen Arthur,Clyde Mascoll,Ryan Straughn and the young UWI lecturer know how to correct the world’s problems. I was therefore just asking them to go to England and lend their expertise for big dollars.

It seems you are also a hypocrite too.

You are putting all the blame on a four year old administration for our perilous economic position when they came into power with the world going into its worst economic slide since the great depression.
You dismiss any thought that there was corruption under the BLP administration. You dismiss that there was wastage. Now you are trying to force this government to make the hard decisions that you refused to make when you had 2.8 billion in foreign exchange that you claim was there.
You can’t have it both ways by saying you were good managers in times of plenty but do not want to accept that you were also very good at wasting public funds such as Greenland, Gems, the Highway, the prison, the solar water heater project in Nigeria.

The DLP government will never devalue the dollar so if you win you can go ahead.