This one is for the Barbados Labour Party:-

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” -Anonymous Author

Or as the Bajans would say:-

When the rain was falling the Barbados Labour Party did not put out a teacup to catch any, but now there is only Dew they want to put out a bucket to catch it.

In times of plenty they put nothing aside, now they want to SELL EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE.(i am sorry,PRIVATISE)

millertheanunnaki | November 6, 2012 at 12:04 PM |

“When are you going to give us an update on the whereabouts of Minister Denis Lowe?”

You are the one looking for him, not me.

@ Onions

Given the statement ” Has anyone else noticed the sudden impulse to rename buildings, boardwalks and schools nowadays?” can please let everyone here on BU know what was the previous name of the boardwalk on the South Coast before it was re-named?

You does really write some shite doh.

off topic

New tax on shop awnings gets stormy reception

“The City of Hamilton’s new policies on awnings and signs got an acrimonious reception from city business heads at a Chamber of Commerce meeting.

Beginning next year, awnings, signs and any other jutting attachment on the side of a Hamilton building will come with a fee if they extend over Corporation property.

Awnings must reach no closer than two feet to the sidewalk’s outer edge, and signs must not extend more than two feet from the building.

Signs or awnings that encroach over the City’s property will cost their owners $75 a year each, as will sandwich boards out on the sidewalks. “

THE DAME NITA BARROW QUEENS COLLEGE
THE ERROL BARROW HARRISONS COLLEGE
THE BREE ST JOHN FOUNDATION SCHOOL
THE DAVID SIMMONS/HENRY FRASER LODGE SCHOOL
THE OWEN ARTHUR/ERSKINE SANDIFORD/ELLIOT BELGRAVE COLERIDGE AND PARRY

AND SO ON AND SO
WHATS WRONG WITH THat
go ahead and rename all Schools
IT IS EASY

ALSO Rename –Buckingham Road—Betram Collymore Road
King William Street — Harry Persaud
Queen Victoria
Queen MARY

—AND ON AND ON —

How about a new name for :-

Four Seasons……..”Fissed NIS Contributions”
CLICO Debt………..”Devils Own”
BWA…………………..”Beached Whale Asylum”
Transport Board…..” Hemorrhaging Unlimited”
CBC……………………” DEMS Photo OP’s”
St.John Polyclinic…..” Disaster Land”

Onions

You hit on something here, but I would like to share a different perspective. The members of the Government realise that they are in danger of losing office in one term. They have nothing to show for the time that they occupy office so in order to get their names on plaques, they are putting old wine in new wine skins.

The most laughable plaque erection is one at the QEH. They put in a few chairs, change some tiles and install a fountain, and had the nerve to erect a plaque which states:

“This Plaque Commemorates the Completion of the Main Entrance Service Improvement Project Commissioned by the Hon. Donville Inniss M.P.
Minister of Health
on
June 12, 2012

They want to be remembered.

Caswell, yuh lie!
…Dat can’t be so.. No wonder we need a new horse-spital. If they fix up the QEH they would have to spend too much on plaques….

The David Thompson Secondarry School to replace Cawmere. He deserves it.
The Freundel “the sleeping giant” Struart Secondary School to replace Foundation

Its always interesting to hear many of us promoting the name change of things british-connected, and nary a word about President Kennedy Drive, George Washington House which we contributed millions to reburbish , and the popular unofficial name of Enterprise Beach, not to mention the complex in Tamarind Hall.

@old onion bags et al – can anyone remember writing this – only placing an excerpt here – need to know as I wish to place in the book I am writing (did as permission before but cannot find me notes on who wrote this!) with the rightful author (pseudonym accepted) noted…. please! Thank you very much.

“Regardless to what you might say, one thing in we Bajans, we is good
cookers. Naturally you would find the odd fella who can’t tell you
when water boil or who does stick a hard boil egg with a fork to find
out if it done cook. But generally when it comes to moving ‘bout in
the kitchen we know we way around. We ain’t no sprinkle on people,
we like to carve up we meat with precision like a surgeon and ‘shub’
the seasoning all through it. If you give a Bajan a sparrow to cook
we gine put he in lime and salt and as small as them two lil legs is,
we gine find a way to’ shub’ seasoning in them drumsticks, cause we
like we food well-seasoned and tasting a certain way. And all of
this is things that get pass down from generation to generation. And
I ain’t only talking bout this cooking thing from a woman’s stand
point, cause when you see a Bajan man decide to bake piece o’ pork,
you wonder if he and the pig did friends that it come out so soft and
succulent. And even though sometimes during the week according to
how we pocket stop or how busy we is, we might work a few quick
things like a li’l cornbeef and macaroni or stretch out breadfruit and
mackerel, or even make a tot of pap and fry two bakes, but when it
came to Sunday it wasn’t no messing bout. Sunday was always the
day for real food. If it is one day in the week that you gine….”

“Commemorating the Anniversary of 5o years of free Education
WODDOVE, i thought they were commemorating universal free education, if the plaque indeed says ‘free education’ it is misleading and distorts history in itself.

@balance
“not to mention the complex in Tamarind Hall.”
ARE YOU REFERRING TO THE LLOYD ETHELBERT SMITH COMPLEX IN ST JOSEPH ILLADVISEDLY NAMED AFTER ONE ERIC HOLDER”…………………..

This is one of the things this government has done that has really galled me. Right after they got in, they brought Eric Holder here and named this building after him even thought it already had an appropriate name.

Eric Holder had no connection with Barbados other than that his parents were born here. Prior to that visit, he could not remember if he had visited here before. Maybe once. What did he do to get his name on our building? In the cables leaked by Wikileaks from the US Embassy, even they were surprised. When the BLP gets in, I will be robustly advocating for a name change especially since Eric Holder was cited for contempt in the US Congress.

balance, I have said on this blog already that that building should either be renamed Tamarind Hall or after Lloyd Smith, a son of the soil in St Joseph.

Another galling thing was when these Dems slapped a DLP diehard Baby Doots name on the fish market in Oistins. The next thing to name in Oistins will be the Bay Gardens. I would not put it past these hopeless Dems to name the Bay Gardens after a DLP.

The BLP did not think to put a BLP’s name on this instead they went for a cool name like Bay Gardens. They could have placed Sir Harold St John’s name on this as we well know that it was Sir Harold who was behind the transformation of Oistins.

This shows that the BLP know who they are and the Dems have an identity crisis. You know, the DLP only seem to leave behind in the wake of their time in power a string of chaos and destruction, so they have to claim other’s achievements as their own.

Prodigal Son | November 8, 2012 at 3:56 PM |
When the BLP gets in, I will be robustly advocating for a name change

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No need for a name change. Just under the name Eric Holder, add an inscription.
“Long time sugar industry worker at Mount Wilton Plantation” A St Joseph man more deserving of the recognition, as we are forever bragging about how sugar made us great, but never see it fit to honour the people who laboured for years in keeping King Sugar on the throne.
Real Bajan Eric Holder, was a Driver and a Watchman, in addition to his many other skills.

BTW when the airport is sold, will the departure fee be $100.00 or $150.00 as the new owners try to recoup their investment quickly?

@ Harry callihan

And, the winner of the Most Retarded Man in Barbados prize is………….Harry callihan!

“the leases and rentals would bring in long term monies not just a one time thing”

My thoughts exactly!!!!

As is done in many Countries of the World where they are sensible Governments not like the idiotic Barbados Labour Party. Once those lands and other assets are sold to foreigners, then they are gone for good!
No one in the stupid Barbados Labour Party cares anything about our children or grand children?

WHAT WILL WE LEAVE FOR THEM?

But the bigger problem HERE IS GREED!!!!! A one time sale will provide Barbados Labour Party ministers with huge amounts of money to line their pockets with up front.

They dont want to receive their kickbacks by drips!

Dont mind Carson Reudon Eversley Cadogan
The DLP AINT GETTING OUR VOTES
They dont deserve a Second Term
Actually, they should be charged for loitering

Nor NONE OF MY POSSE in Haynesville …you DLP losers

Even Pat Hoyos agree that Donville is one of the better MPs. If you make a statement back it up to be credible, at the moment your are not and you know why.

People enough not working up here and he finding jobs all bout fa people in Warrens and Crystal Heights in the QEH. The man doan like we ghetto people and dat is fa realbare people ent working

Wanna keep dreaming,ask Donville when last he went down here and ask he where the jobs for the men pun block

I dont support the mendicant attitude of Realist / Haynesville begging for a job from the representative.
BUT I support Realists from Haynesville when he indicates that Donville Inniss will lose in St. James. LIZ was strong in St. James South. Donville did not win by much and with the present swing against the DLP, Donville Inniss will obviously lose his seat.

While I dont support the mendicancy of the boys on the block, I understand that in a situation where the Government offers little hope, people will get extreme. The Government therefore must take the blame. Tell Freundel Stuart to take his Big Black Board Nose ass off the TV at nights and call the elections so that the electorate can do what they have to do

Why if they could rename schools at will, what about renaming certain areas that carry a stigma when I write a job appliaction and cannot even be given the courtesy of a reply? No but I wake up this morning and see a BRAND NEW road up in here. If you tink we people down here stupid Donvile inniss you had better think again love..

Semblance sane or tings of fame
Eurkel? Shrek? or Efeliest Simblest Jr.
But not to real those things defamed
Make many a toot boom thunder.

…am am Madam, you real late doh…