Stuart’s pronouncement over the weekend that he saw no evidence of an attempted coup only goes to strengthen the view that he was asleep at the wheel. Sinckler confessed to the Nation. Apparently, the PM missed that edition. He should not want power so badly that he is prepared to go to bed with the enemy within and overlook their disloyalty. He has now made himself a laughingstock: nobody, not even his friends, believes him. He has confirmed to me that he is not in charge and that he is afraid of his Cabinet.

If all the above is not true then the only explanation for Stuart’s behaviour is that he has gone senile.

What best people? Stuart does not have any elected best people.

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I am thinking relative: they are relatively incompetent.

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Cas

Compared to whom ..? Seriously man the other side is mainly a combination of arrogant nincompoops… Arrogance normally suggests that there is a basis from which success has been determined … Cas with respect, of course, please state why it is that you prefer one side over the other …?

David

“It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door”

These are the timeless words of Syrus. The BLP and Kaymar Jordan failed with this ploy. The PM too smart and two well read for these amateurs butting about Barbados.

Passive…maybe aggressive???

The Prime Minister and the DLP will have a battle to win the votes of the so-called middleclass. It is a group who has always been more aligned with the BLP.

@ Caswell
Your analysis is extremely superficial . Can you name one instance during the history of man when the leader of the tribe has not been called upon to deal with internal attempts to overthrow HIS regime ? Internal attempts at overthrowing the leader is also a characteristic of the animal kingdom . Did you really expect Mr Stuart to start chopping heads left right and centre and end up with no government rather than , by his own ingenuity , work at healing any rifts that are natural in ALL organised structures and build a more solid and united institution around him ? Did you really expect him to cut off his nose to spite his face ? Come on Caswell the business of leading an organisation can never be as simplistic as you are trying to suggest . I cannot for the life of me understand how you , a person that always lays claim to having respect for the Prime Minister’s intelligence could resort to such naivety . It should be clear to all , both admirers and detractors that the man Stuart is a THINKER ; he never stops thinking . That is why the press finds it so difficult to apply methods of entrapment against him . He will probably never be the press’ darling .
What should be clear to all objective commentators is that Prime Minister has been growing daily in that job . This blog has posted a video clip of former Prime Minister Arthur getting himself in all kinds of tangles by trying to deny his involvement in a Cabinet decision to build the prison at Dodds ;
can you imagine Stuart the victim of such an horrendous faux pas ? It will be extremely difficult for Mr Arthur to explain to Barbados how he could possibly disassociate himself from a decision taken by his Cabinet .
What cannot be gainsaid is that Stuart has not been the very successful leader of a Government that has kept Barbados very stable during what has been the most difficult period the country had to face since emancipation . It is therefore really outrageous and silly that you could raise any notion of senility in any discussion on Freundel Stuart , a man whom you know well and I will enjoin you , on that score to avoid these extreme excursions in analysis ; no one will take you seriously .

That last paragraph should read..” what cannot be gainsaid is that Stuart has been the very successful leader of a Government………”

Watching Carefully and Listening

You are aware that I was one of Stuart’s biggest supporters and defenders when he was acting during the illness of David Thompson and when he first assumed the job substantively. Initially, I held on to his every word and there were not many but I asked people to give him a chance to settle into the job. More than enough time has passed for him to stamp his mark on the leadership but it appears that he does not even have a stamp. All the signs are there he will be a three-year PM whatever happens at the polls whether or not the DEMS take the Government. He was too weak to deal with traitors and is now claiming that he had no proof. What more proof does he need than Sinckler being interviewed and quoted in the Nation. He is afraid of those whom he leads and that does not speak well for an effective PM.

I can agree with you on one point: Stuart is a THINKER, unfortunately, he is not a DOER.

I love his eloquence and his turn of phrase but those qualities do not inspire confidence in his ability to effectively run this country.

When Stuart realised that he was being undermined from within, he should have, punish the ringleader. I did not expect him to fire all the plotters but he should have,at least shot the General Sinckler to inspire the remainder of the troops.

You are aware that it is not without precedent in the DLP for somebody to emerge as political leader after the victory on election night. If the DEMS retains the Government at the next poll, I predict that he would not emerge as PM. I believe that he well knows that and that is his reason for the delay in calling the elections. He had a golden opportunity to do so recently when Owen Arthur blundered on the privatisation issue and he failed to capitalise on Arthur’s folly out of fear.

My analysis is not simplistic: it is spot on or you would not have bothered to take time to respond to my foolishness. By the way, what is your take on the quandary that the PM has created in his handling of the Alexandra affair? And do you think that Jeff Broomes would sit idly by and allow them to put him on special leave and install Joy Gittens without a fight?

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Well help me with my choice … Richard Sealy on the one hand and David Gill on the other. The third hand suggests stop to shite home … My God …!

@bAFBFP
Ya running out of hands!!! lol.

@ Watching Carefully and Listening. | December 19, 2012 at 7:59 AM
“What cannot be gainsaid is that Stuart has not been the very successful leader of a Government that has kept Barbados very stable during what has been the most difficult period the country had to face since emancipation.”

This is just a lot of propaganda baloney. Where is the evidence to support your claim? By increasing the national debt by over $2 billion in less than 5 years?

Since Emancipation this country has been through and survived two World wars and a riot with one or two hurricanes in between. If a global conflict were to break out today do you think Bim can survive by feeding itself?
What hard times what? Barbados still boasts of having good foreign reserves and a very high standard of living. The majority of problems this country is facing are homegrown; some might have started under the previous administration but have bloomed and mushroomed under this present one.
If Stuart is that great leader (if not the greatest in your dopy estimation) as you are claiming the shite that took place recently with our legal system would never have gotten that far to make this country the laughingstock of the English speaking world.
Imagine it took three British women to bring justice to a citizen (despite his past convictions) and haul the whole law enforcement and legal system over the coals to expose it for what it is. One dysfunctional system in need of serious overhaul and cleansing.

@ Plastic Rain | December 19, 2012 at 11:32 AM |

Listen PR, the miller is not interested in the crap you are spewing.
Why don’t you take a leaf out of Freundel’s book of integrity? He (Freundel) has already dismissed all of the corruption nonsense that you are still peddling. That’s old hat and surely passé

If you want to know about ‘misappropriation’ of campaign funds then go visit the St. John’s Parish Church yard and open the mausoleum with the markings: “First Families Account- Bequeathed by deed of gift from CLICO”.

@ millertheanunnaki

Is that the BLP plan for the elections, to claim that Owen Arthur is not as corrupt and a dead and former DLP prime minister David Thompson?

What about the Kerrie Symmonds, he is a political waste of space and is the best the BLP can summons from within its ranks to take issues?

You do realise that Simmons plent real hand (and some foot) is the wife? At the end Arthur will have no legacy and Symmonds no career, professional or political.

An interesting bit of trivia by PR. now i await miller reply.

If William Duguid has evidence that the QEH procurement system is suspect he should produce the it and stop hiding behind the privilege which parliament gives him.

@ ac | December 19, 2012 at 1:50 PM |
“An interesting bit of trivia by PR. now i await miller reply.”

Ac, What do you want the miller to say?
The people of Bim have an appointment with the court of privatization and the IMF is the sitting judge. Who is better placed to plead than the damned lying party (dlp)? Let them explain to the people in a few months’ time why the shameful but not expected volte face.
If you, ac, think that we can continue borrowing and begging while driving around in our Mercedes and living high off the hog on OPM (other people’s money) well continue to live in kiddy kingdom.
The first female PM of this country should not be tainted with the shit that is about to hit the fan. Let that be the ‘dark destroyer’ to her main rival.
Pick sense from that, ac! Your plastic rain man can give you an umbrella to sit under while you cogitate and ruminate like the erstwhile sleeping giant now turn Don Quixote.

Sanka Price has stepped up his campaigning recently and Pat Hoyos as usual trying to be the BLP press secretary.It is really shameful that instead of fair and balanced columns we get BLP sympathisers at The Nation newspaper who try to sway public opinion every week. Arthur hardly attends and contributes nothing to Parliament but you have never seen Brandford, Sanka or Hoyos write about that or lambaste him for drawing a big fat salary and absenting himself.The Nation columnists will never touch that topic. It is not part of their biased agenda.Every week, Sanka Price got questions for Sinckler , but for Arthur, he got amnesia.

The Nation newspaper is trying their all to help the BLP and Barbados is seeing right through their deceit.They put party and personality first and country second.
Poor Kaymar- she missed and put one critical story about the BLP on the front page and got fired.You see what happens if you give Arthur power – Victimisation and more victimisation.

@NationalBLP

T
The reason you cited for Kaymar’s dismissal is not accurate and you know it.

@Baffy

You don’t expect the intelligent on the blog to believe you are unable to separate the transactional from the cognitive?

i.e. There is the activity we all must perform and then to support the purpose of our existence we have to up the ante.

David’s wife (…t’ink I can’ tell the difference nah),

Wait, you like you up dey wid Miller, Pacha and Kiki. All I am saying is that the Political Administration of Barbados lead the way a couple weeks ago when they had the chance to vote for or against and they chose NOT to vote on the Palestinian nation at the UN. I am following the example that has been set.

@BAffy

Isn’t the government for the people? By following the government as you say you have displayed your hignorance of how the system is to serve YOU.

One cannot deny the extent to which The Nation newspaper’s columnists refuse to write anything critical about Owen Arthur.

@ Nation
That is their RIGHT as long as they are not distorting facts. If we had less closet political yard fowls and columnists, public discourse would be more robust and enlightening.