@ Stephen Williams

“as well as a shortage of nursing staff at the QEH after government refused to re-employ Barbadian nurses who were severed when that institution became a statutory body?”

In your zeal to blow the DLP’s trumpet, you have misrepresented the truth in this matter. Surely you must recall that those person to whom you refer opted NOT to work with the QEH board, and instead preferred to be paid a monthly salary until they were integrated elsewhere in the civil service.

While you are at it, can you tell us if persons who work for minimum wages and below qualify for these houses, and how many of these houses are occupied to date.

“Where were you when our fishermen were fined and jailed almost monthly in T&T?”

Are not our fishermen still being arrested, charged and fined for fishing in Trinidad and Tobago waters, even after the appointment of two Caricom ambassadors, in Denis Kellman, and more recently, Robert Morris, who were both charged with resolving this matter. Remember that while he was ambassador, Kellman found the time to call the call-in-programs and address all matters relating to ministries that were not under his portfolio, instead of commenting on the progress of the fishing agreement. While you are at it, Mr. Williams, since are in a proclamation mood, can you please tell us the status of the fishing agreement.

My friend, if the only achievement that you can highlight as the success of the DLP is housing, bearing in mind that many of these same houses remain vacant and inaccessible to the persons who need them most, then your effort in this venture is extremely poor.

This young lady has quickly dissolved her morals and good judgment ( some may ask if she ever had good morals to have as boyfriend that creepy one Hoyos ) for the sake of election money, least we forget the fate of Roger Smith the former BLP Candidate in St Philip and former employee at Sagicor Life $ 3 Million dollars missing and later he is sent to prison for the theft of this said money.

Let us look at these houses built by an unqualified contractor in D and B Reality in the person of Delisle Bradshaw at Lower Burney. And the fact that her father was the contractor and she was the lawyer for the purchaser and the lawyer for the contractor who was also her father.

This was the same contractor that qualified whom of those that applied to own a home and who were to get houses, there were certain pre conditions that were required before being considered suitable to enter the deal one that her employees all got houses, two those who were in line to get a house were required to use the services of Santia Bradshaw to be paid to do all the legal work for the sale, her office legal clerk, her secretary all got houses without applying to NHC and the Auditor General’s report stated that he could not understand why the allocation of these houses was done by the builder and not the NHC when the NHC had over 40,000 persons waiting houses.

Then there was a letter written to Prime Minister David Thompson on 18 th May 2010 by a J P the owners of Lot 35 at Lower Burney, complaining that the flooring had fallen in and and that the steps had run away and left the house before they moved into the house at Lot 35Lower Burney.

This was a house that D and B Reality Bradshaw’s father Delise Bradshaw had built and she acted for both her father and the property owner until the property owner learnt of the relationship and fired her.

Is this what is offering itself to represent honest Barbadian people that go to work every day and work hard for their every cent to live by ?

Whereas this one has already concocted every scam to undermine the system and defraud taxpayers seems to me the average person would do a better job than she, in representing ordinary peoples interest on this island, this woman has not yet started a political life and is already a proven and confirmed vagabond and fraud of taxpayers monies.

“Now, drive through Brittons Hill and look at the magnificent structures that have graced Valery and Forde’s Road – one word aptly describes them – SUPERB.”

All shovel ready BLP projects. I hope those units at Fordes Road and Valery will be used to help re-house squatters in the Belle, Rock Hall etc as was the original plan. I also noticed we haven’t heard a thing about your own policies like the much talked about $5 per square foot lots, I guess the owner of Wakefield and Henley plantations etc got bigger things on their plate…lol

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@ Enuff
Like most things in Barbados, once anything it involves lawyers, it takes a slow boat to China. The legal process is holding up the 500 lot program, (or shall i say lawyers). The legal fraternity is killing this country.

If the houses at Coverly are not being sold why are more still being built?

I hear a owner has recorded a temperature reading of 38 degrees celsius inside one of the house at 2pm during the September.

I always thought that this Coverley project would end up like an albatross around the taxpayers of Barbados’ necks.

First of all the houses are too small and are constructed to close to each other to be considered middle class homes.

Because the concept was good for Florida does not mean that it would be a good model for Barbados. If a Barbadian is going to pay 300-400 hundred thousand for house and land, they want a big lot for their money. Secondly, most returning nationals now want big places after living in fowl coops for years. many of them seem to like to plant little food crops and have nice gardens. So this Coverley project was always going to be a failure, too many houses….1000, no way!

The Dems like to talk about Greenland, yes that was a BLP failure, they relied on foreign experts instead of listening to local knowledge. This is the DLP’s “Greenland”. An expensive failure!

Blackwell | October 31, 2012 at 10:36 AM |
I hear a owner has recorded a temperature reading of 38 degrees celsius inside one of the house at 2pm during the September.
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That does not surprise me in the least. Christ Church in general is quite a hot area,and to place houses so close together without taking account and/ or advantage of the prevailing wind flow is sad.
Courtesy Garage Workshop in Wildey is an open affair .It is never unduly hot and when it rains hardly any rain enters. Before any construction began ,the contractor and management of Courtesy ,at the time ,put windsocks, like those at the airport, in place and recorded the wind directions over a period and then took advantage of these readings to position the open plan workshop buildings . But then again, many of those responsible ,had never been near a university,

@ Snipes

“Like most things in Barbados, once anything it involves lawyers, it takes a slow boat to China. The legal process is holding up the 500 lot program, (or shall i say lawyers). The legal fraternity is killing this country.”

Including the Judicial Manager?

Stephen Williams to tell the truth not even a sewage plant the size of New York City can handle such waste. Your writings amount to just that – Pure sewage.

Let me offer your some real facts.
Between 1994 and 2007 the BLP built 2,590 houses and disbursed $69.9 mil in general workers loans to 5,636 persons to buy homes. In addition the BLP created the environment that facilitated the granting of $1.5 billion being disbursed within the banking system, up from a mere $593.mill under the DLP.

The BLP simply became a victim of its own success when it was placed under great pressure for housing solutions because so many people were employed and driving up the demand houses.

Today houses are being built with no one to occupy them. In fact, some persons who owned their own homes under the BLP have now lost those homes and this explains the reason why the now houses being built are unoccupied.

Get the facts willie.

@Fedup

You can say you don’t like the Coverly housing concept but the three or four hundred thousand is not about the house but the value of living in a semi contained area.