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Looka.. Lef Pinky hear. Teachers are too be the highest respected of ALL Civil Servants. Lef out dis cow swipin’ of this most treasured clan. Focus on the policicos as Cas would put it.

Observing

Re: Your point about leaving politics out of schools. Would it have killed you to say that Caswell was right? Come on let’s hear it: we know it is hard.

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The BSTU cannot now go on strike: the issue was “Separation” of the Head from Alexandra, that has now been cleverly done.

They have been out-manoeuvred they are not at school today – the excuse of a meeting – but can they be having a meeting tomorrow, next week or the whole of this month. The Authorities just need to sit tight for awhile. . . game set and match.

When they do if ever return to “a School” they could have dismissed themselves by failing to report to their designated place of work without “reasonable ” excuse. They cannot be “sick they were at meetings.

Only the Courts can then help them, they have been out-foxed.. . . . so sad.

Mr Broomes is on safer ground he can have a sick note and most “reasonable” people would understand that. He has not conspired with anyone to disobey a lawful directive.

This just keeps getting better and better!!!

When is general elwctions? i want to nominnate Mary Redman as PRIME MINISTER of Barbados, she seems to have bigger balls than Stuart or Jones.. Turth is ALL the teachers can be transaferred if the MOU is read properly. The only one who can only be removed by his consent, is the principal since his appointment was to the AX. Mrs was also apopointed but since she was later promoted, that makes it possible for her to be transferred.

@bajan boy
“Turth is ALL the teachers can be transaferred if the MOU is read properly.”

Observing said some of us were reading the MOU subjectively. Fact is, some of us only saw one para, then TTP added a second para that said they can only be transferred with their consent. Now, if your wife was in that group, got promoted and both you and her know that she can be transferred, why are Mary Redman, TTP and Observing still saying 3 cant be moved. Who are these 3 that the Ministry back tracked on, and for what reasons?

Observing ignorance of the law is no excuse especially in a matter such as this. As this debacle unfold one would see “gross negligence on the part of the PSC in administrting the tranfers and i suspect there would be more errors as this shitty tale unwinds.

I will make a prediction of the one major topic that will dominate discussion on the call in program in the coming days. It is based on a profound assessment of the cultural identity of a people that is unswerving in its championing of the important issues that affect the every day lives of those that inhabit this Caribbean space. It is, uhum, the far reaching comment of the beloved Prime Minister that refers to those certificated people that are vested with problem solving responsibilities, returning to the sugar cane fields …. Uhum …!

@”Additional Services | January 7, 2013 at 2:22 PM |
“This is a very simple nut to crack, even though Broomes thinks he is a gorillaphant. Broomes wants to behave like a gorrilliphant then he should be fed peanuts and treated like an animal in a zoo”

u people are too stupid for words. from the time it was known that 22 teachers had been transferred, they kicked up a fuss, mr. broomes NEVER opened his mouth. they did not show up for work today, mr broomes is on sick leave, and u simple jackass that u are would dare to write such stupidity,

what about the way mary redman is carry on, what do u call her, what about the ones who did not show up for school but went to the meeting? what do u call them? u people are so pathetic, for u whatever the wicked teachers do is quite fine but not mr broomes, no he is not allowed to be ill….POPPET

mr.broomes not got to open he mouth cause it is big mouth that started all these problems. mary on the other has a duty to represent BSTU and the teachers of which the twenty two teachers are members and it is within her right to represent them to the fullest extent.

@Yardbrom at 4:36 pm “Mr Broomes is on safer ground he can have a sick note and most “reasonable” people would understand that”

Am I the only person on this blog who believes that Jeff Broomes is NOT sick.

My tax money [not] wukking fa me

@ac
additional the ace in the hole is when the integrity bill is implementd before the bell rings and OAS has to declared his assets. hearing the PM talking about OSA nothing surprises me with that man……………

ac, you dont ease up at all. Stick to the discussion at hand where for once you are making an iota of sense and where others have so noted.

Before you talk, the DLP fooled the people again, proposed to pass the Integrity bill but do you know it aint law yet? So get the giant who now get up to get the bill up to the GG before you call OSA’s name. What he got for you?

Are you going to ask the likes of Kenny Worst, Michael Lashley, Donville Inniss, Dennis Lowe, Chris Sinkliar and the rest of the wild boys to reveal their assets?

I can only dream, hell would freeze over before you’d do such a thing!!!

Freundel Stuart does really make you laugh in truth .
Imagine this : Stuart say that dem will win the next electuion

He meet the next election after 2038 not the election due in 2013
2038 would mean 5 terms for the BLP .
it could happen–CALL THE ELECTIONS !
AND…………………………

This will happen whenever the joker calls election.

BLP = 29 SEATS
DLP = 0 SEATS
INDEPENDENT = 1 SEAT

Eager 11 !
Where are you all ?
Save the City
Are you all going to wait for Stuart to carry down all of you all
Come on Eager 11, do sain nuh !

Broomes is under stress and duress and cannot function in a working environment such as the mess created by the menopausal spiteful women at Alexandra School . Their pussies too dry that is why they behaving so. So Broomes must take sick leave

@AC 7.53p
You have consistently defended Mary Redman and the BSTU from word go.I seem to recall that Broomes questioned the action taken by some teachers who on their Professional Day took it as an off day to go shopping and he recommended that their pay be docked.I think that was the genesis of the real problems that followed.And further, what about the issue with the CXC and the late submission of Cape transcripts by a school,I think it was Foundation, and which Redman was seeking to bully the CXC into rewriting the rules to suit the BSTU and that teacher who was tardy in his duties to those students.Should those parents have sued Redman and the BSTU?
Anything you write has to be taken with a pinch of salt;you come across as a biased individual.Too blinkered in your views on this issue.

@Caswell

They are professionals, tell them to teach!

Taking bets on the final outcome of the AX affair. Will the teachers call out the full BUT and strike? Will the teachers get their pay docked and be dismissed from the Public Service? This outcome like cricket-a game of glorious uncertainties!

Simple Simon | January 7, 2013 at 9:07 PM |
Writing sick notes is an art and a science. lol
Once the “patient” has attended your office and consulted with you, who is to say that at the time you saw the patient, that your opinion was incorrect? Of course the dr could be wrong. But the sick leave form used in Bim particularly has a clause that states “in my opinion”

If the doctor determines that a female has “A GYNAECOLOGICAL PROBLEM ” [as females often do] can the employer pull her bonnet and look under her hood? I think not.

If the patient gives as his complaint that his boss is “a pain in the tail”, one might be tempted to write “proctalgia fugax”.

I would not be so quick to second guess a doctor’s opinion. How many young people have you known who appeared to be in the pink of health only to die suddenly? Many people are going to work ill every day.

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Hi Simple Simon January 7, 2013 @ 9:01PM
You wrote quoting:@ Yardbroom at 4:36 pm ” Mr. Broomes is on safer ground he can have a sick note and most “reasonable” people would understand that.”

Then stated:”Am I the only person on this blog who believes that Jeff Broomes is NOT sick”
“My tax money [NOT] wukking fa me.”
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Simple Simon, you like some others might believe Mr. Broomes is not sick, but that does not matter. I think along the lines of what would or would not stand up in a court of Law, if it comes to an interpretation of the evidence. Personal emotional feelings will NOT play a part.

I am often proved RIGHT – as in this case – which can be annoying even to myself.

There is a lot of talk here of knowing the Law but there is a difference between knowing the LAW and interpreting it to the advantage of your client. I will say no more on that.

You are a Simon – the good one – but certainly NOT simple.

Observing;
The sick leave gambit suggests to me that the game is almost over. Whatever happened with the heritage of the spirit, obstinancy and resolve of the heroes of past champions of situations like this? Does Broomes not realise that he has let down that team? We thought that Broomes was made of sterner stuff physically and mentally. But he did say in his interview with Carol Roberts that one of his mentors had instilled in him the ability to recognize when all the chips were in and to walk away to fight another day.

Meanwhile Mary Redman labours on in reaction to the unkindess cut of all in this matter. She too will succumb to reason soon. But it must really hurt when no less than a PM can give assurances that he will assist your cause and comes out in public praising you and your quest and then abandons you to the philistines in your hour of need. She and her management team might be excused for thinking that the PM can not be trusted.

There’s another dimension of this fight that I will touch on later. Who is likely to win the fight between Broomes and Mary Redman? Who is, even now, scoring more points in the game started after the “bring it on” glove was thrown into the jousting ring? Does Broomes credibility, contrary to popular current opinion but on sober reflection, reveal a character that was much maligned by the AX Old scholars group? and does the denouement suggest that there is a distinct possibility that Broomes was more sinned against than sinning?

So Observing, I am very close to the point of conceding that you were right all along, but I will wait to formally do so when the Last Act; Broomes turning up at Parkinson, as principal, is reported.

the PSC did make a mistake in issuing so many transfers legal or otherwise. today would have beeen another day if only one person had been transfered (Jeff Broomes) school would be set for reopened all teachers would have been in place. just imagine no talk of law and acts , just only talk of Jeff BRoomes not showing up for work ,but instead the talk is surrounding twenty two teachers and counting not teaching and a school system in anarchy and limbo.is that what we call resolution.As i stated the school system has more to lose in this standoff with the lofficials refusal to meet than the BSTU.. i hope common sense prevail on their part and meet with the BSTU to answer their questions and concerns if not only for the children sake. the longer this problem persist the more explosive it becomes.

@Georgie Porgie at 11:46 pm. “If the doctor determines that a female has “A GYNAECOLOGICAL PROBLEM ” [as females often do] can the employer pull her bonnet and look under her hood? I think not”

Even thought the employer cannot pull her bonnet…the employee should pull the bonnet of her conscience.

I can’t believe that you Georgie Porgie is making an excuse for questionable behaviour.

check-it-out it seems that broomes lawyers are doimg what mary is doing representing their client, albeit nobody pointing fingers at those lawyers and the unions which represent broomes

observing i believe that if these tranfers are challenge in court the govt case might look good on the surface for reason and cause but might not be sufficient to satisfy the court with good reason and cause. therefoe it is imperative that the MOU meet with the BSTU before the bottom falls out and the MOU does not start looking like a chicken with its head cut off spinning in every direction and getting no where..stating or advise through media outlets is not enough. a more professional approach is needed after all the teachers are adults and the BSTU is a professional organisation and not children.

@ Yvette
You are absolutely correct. In over twenty years of practice in Bim before I left to teach, that is exactly what I found.

Many persons are walking around life a boiling pot ………some times they need some one to remove the pot cover for them to relieve the tension.

We have employers in Barbados who have taken the time to follow around employees on sick leave to see what they are doing. Employees will call the doctor to check on your certificates. In such a case I would say “I never saw you in any of my lectures in Med school or at any of the oral exams.”

@ Simple Simon
Georgie Porgie is NOT making an excuse for questionable behaviour
Georgie Porgie is EXPLAINING how easy it is to write a sick leave note that can not be questioned. LOL

And it is indeed true that there are MANY young people TODAY who appear to be in the pink of health only to die suddenly?” Do you realize that nearly all of the sexy looking young girls in Barbados since 1980 are anaemic, and are overworking their hearts to adequately perfuse their tissues.
@ David
re the medical profession is part of the problem we have in Barbados fighting absenteeism.
Maybe………but if you listened to the histories of the patients …….what would you do?
I once had a patient who had a chronic headache because she could not find some where to buy to live in our dear homeland.That was in the 90’s in BLP TIME, when property prices started to escalate.
Sir David…….a lot of poor simple honest scrunting people in Bim out there like a boiling pot! On the verge of snapping!