Submitted by the Mahogany Coconut Think Tank/ Watchdog Group
Owen Arthur, Leader of the Opposition, Mia Mottley MP, Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart
Owen Arthur, Leader of the Opposition, Mia Mottley MP, Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart

The so-called silly season is upon us. Once more, sooner or later, Barbadians will elect a new BLP/DLP government. Or a new DLP/BLP government. It’s six of one and half dozen of the other.

We can predict that none of the manifestos will contain any of the following:

(a) Radical reform of the educational system and the abolishment of the elitist Eleven Plus Exam, which continues to condemn our children to the equivalent of social and economic gas chambers.

(b) Neither will contain the slightest reference to genuine worker/employee participation in company profits. We have mega businesses that either giving the workers peanuts or nothing at all in terms of real ownership.

(c) Neither will touch land reform that will guarantee perpetual state ownership by the citizens of Barbados. The BLP/DLP has sold our prime land to the highest bidders. On the other hand a few rich locals control most if not all arable land.

We can expect more of the same from the BLP/DLP collective. Mottley has been made to eat humble pie because she so badly wants to be Prime Minister. She has yet to demand that Arthur says publicly exactly, why in his opinion, some citizens may find her “unacceptable” as our Prime Minister.We are forced to ask: Is Mottley a threat to national security?

In the midst of all the drama, we have calls to privatise the Transport Board, Grantley Adams International Airport and our Deep Water Harbour. These deals will further enrich the foreign and local investors and present lawyers from both sides with hefty paychecks for legal services. Heading the list of auctioneers are the BLP/DLP collective and pollster /call in program host, Peter Wickham.

After a thorough review of recent events, the Mahogany Coconut Watchdog Group has concluded:

1.The reason Mottley has to suck up to Arthur is because she wants power;

2.The reason Arthur came back is because he wants power;

3.The reason that Stuart cannot touch Sinkler, and the Eager eleven is because he wants power;

4. The reason that Broomes (Alexandra School) acted the way he did is because he wants power;

5. The reason that Leroy Parris (CLICO) can walk about freely is because he is very close to the power brokers.

The BLP/DLP can now be justifiably branded neo-colonialists and both have become: incompetent, visionless and corrupt. They are no longer fit to govern our island state.


  1. 75 thousand dollar cheque ! You decide Self interest or CONFLICT OF INTEREST> YOU DECIDE!


  2. Anon
    That was so funny ..we ALL forgot to laugh


  3. @ac
    Try $3.3 Million and a joint survivor still hanging around…. $3.3million is $75,000 x 44 = $3.3 Million……Wow… 44 times…..ouch


  4. These DLP Jokes are getting real crappy…fa real


  5. ANANUS …you are NOT funny at all.

  6. NationBLPnewspaper Avatar
    NationBLPnewspaper

    How come Clyde Mascoll and Pat Hoyos – the two biggest critics of the current government are the only ones writing on the economy in the Nation newspaper?
    It is obvious that the Nation is being used as a propaganda tool for the BLP.
    Kaymar Jordan will not come on this blog and defend the bias of the Trinidad owned Nation newspaper because it is so obvious that the Nation is a shameless part of the BLP campaign.

  7. NationBLPnewspaper Avatar
    NationBLPnewspaper

    You realise that any charge that is made by an opposition MP or candidate is followed up and highlighted by the Nation columnists.
    Peter Symmonds should look at the bias of the Nation Newspaper which refuses to ask Arthur any tough questions or write anything negative about Arthur.
    If the Nation treating him so sweetly as opposition leader, let him get more power and the Nation will probably officially set up in Bay Street kissing his behind day after day.
    Why no stories o Arthur absenting himself from Parliament?

    Why no stories on his failure or refusal to call meetings og the PAC?

    Why no stories about his role in CLICO?

    Why is the Nation newspaper so frighten for Mr. Arthur?

    Come on Kaymar, show some journalistic integrity if you have any left.Hoyos and Mascoll clearly have an obvious agenda so it is expected that journalistic integrity is not high on their list.


  8. @BAFBFP

    Feel obligated to ask the follow up here. What proof can be unearthed to support your comment that Minister Inniss has significant ownership in Bayview in much the same way Jerome Walcott as minister had similar ownership in another private healthcare facility?

    Also the same question regarding inappropriate conduct on his recent trip to China.


  9. Jerome is a Lodge boy he don’ count … HA HA HA


  10. Arthur and those BLP folks really can put on a good clown show and get laughs. The DLP government according to Arthur has a moral responsibility to fix CLICO. Interesting, Arthur and the BLP are now the fix it folks. They will fix CLICO. They will fix it. They will fix the economy. They will fix it. They will fix the national debt. They will fix it. Interesting, the Al Barrack mega mess FIRST appeared during the BLP government with Arthur at the helm. They, Arthur and the BLP refused to fix it. Arthur, a few months ago reported to Midweek Nation that “the REDjet Airlines might still be flying if the Barbados Government had honored its financial commitment to the collapsed airline”. Al barrack has in his possession a court ordered judgment, REDjet did not. Arthur and the BLP had a moral responsibility to fix that Al Barrack problem.

    The S&P recently downgraded Barbados to junk bond status. The S&P downgrade was immediately MAJOR NEWS due to Arthur and the BLP. Don’t forget FACT that the S&P during a better economic climate had downgraded Barbados three times before 2008. Richard Francis, an S&P associate in 2005 interviewed with the Daily Nation from his Wall Street office and stated that the [Barbados] deficit of ten per cent was “much too high” and the debt level of between 43 and 50 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), although less than a half of Jamaica’s and is even smaller than St Kitts-Nevis’, was unacceptable and should be reduced if the island were to maintain its high credit rating. Francis, further stated that the S&P worried about the Barbados deficit which he said should jump even more. Barbados credit rating before the 2008 general election won by David Thompson and the DLP was sliding down hill. The BLP before 2008 was not financially sound. Three S&P downgrades proves this.

    Arthur and his BLP cronies seem to like spitting upon DLP and often does though it backfires. Arthur and the BLP in 2008 were forced out of office but left behind a lot of things that they just can’t hide. Barbados before the 2008 general election was downgraded several times. Arthur and the BLP cannot hide this. The Al Barrack matter originated during the days of Arthur and the BLP. They know this, can’t hide it, that or the $75,000 campaign cheque that Arthur invited into his personal banking account.

The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.

Trending

Discover more from Barbados Underground

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading