Friends visiting from UK have lamented the sorry state of Barbados claiming it looks tired. I have to say the same thing. It is a very sad state of affairs.

And how much does government pays the private sector for the rental of office space all across the island, while government building fall into desrepair ? We know for a long time that the BWA was renting office space in Eagle Hall. Pretty soon that section to the east of the Trimart Complex in Haggatt Hall will be completed and occupied by some government ministry. In Fairchild Street / Independence Square , we have seen government renting space to house the nations public library, while “empiretheatering ” the Heritage Public Library building at Coleridge Street. The Licensing Authority and Land Tax Department are occupying rental space in the privately owned Southern Plaza, and this is after the last administration demolished the partly completed new Oistin Post Office building, to make way for a car park. And this list is by no means complete in anyway. As taxpayers we should be made aware of the rental cost of these buildings, and who owns them.

This whole situation is tired. If you NEVER take a stand for what you want from those that you place in office to support you. You will continue to have this problem. The government officals seem to run the country the way they see fit to benifit them financially .
I have a friend who has a time share in Barbados. She just returned from Crop Over. Every year she tells me that Barbados is loosing all the places that were once of importance. They will allow historic places to just fall apart. And continue to build new palces.
I sometimes wonder what the elected officals really feel about the people that has placed them in the positions their are in. To me they seem to forget that they are SERVANTS of the people. But instead they seem to act as MASTERS of the people.
Nothing will change unless you stand up and allow yourself to be heard.
They can NEVER do anymore than you the people of Barbados allow them to do. They are working for you. You have a voice in where and how your tax dollars are spent.
Islandgal, I want to thank you for bringing this to the attention of others. I’m quite sure that many have seen this, and said nothing. And will do NOTHING.

Dear Cadogan Sr.

In small societies like Barbados, when you take a stand openly you are victimized. Why do u think we blog here anoymously. People will come after you and your relatives with a demoltion weapon. There is a belief among politicians that when u place them in parliament that u r to worship them. I cant wait until elections are called to let them see who is boss.

You know the old saying that even if yuh belly hurting yuh how not a soul would know by the way yuh look pon de outside!

It seems that we have become very comfortable in our shoite and the attitude is if yuh doan like it lump it!

HA HA HA HA , whalosss this is sooooo funny …call Cryin Sparrow

My once beautiful Barbados is becoming a very tired and sickly looking dilapidated old house overrun with bush with a growing rat population especially in parliament and the public service.
A sure sign of decay and decadence and a place where tourists will no longer be interested in coming to.
The streets in the Bridgetown environs are in a bad state with grass growing in the gutters even on Broad St which was previously drawn to the attention of the relevant agencies.

What is the sense of keeping people employed in the public sector if they are not doing their jobs or don’t have the tools and materials to work with. Is this now a public sector on welfare that our PM finds to be the best in the class of mediocrity?
Where are the returns from the billions invested in free education? If the degrading state of our island does not shock the sensibilities and sensitivities of our officials you can bet it does those of the visitors to our country, especially those who have visited us over the years and know of a once beautiful and clean place nicknamed “Little England in the Tropics”.
Sometimes it leaves one to wonder if members of the Cabinet don’t look out of the air conditioned vehicles and see the state of disrepair and despair around them starting with the lower Bay Street.

islandgal246 | August 29, 2012 at 7:31 AM |

We are only BOSSES for 24 hours when we select some BOSSES to run our affairs. After that they will do as they like for the next five years!
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As someone once said, the difference between us and the many central and south american countries around us ,is that we freely elect our own dictators.
Its always a matter of pick one lot,and you wish that you had pick the other.

“Its always a matter of pick one lot,and you wish that you had pick the other.”

RFLMAO True so true

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/9035967/lost_barbados/