@ David and BU
Towards the end of last year BU raised some questions relating to this constituency and the candidates. This weekend the PM spoke of a website run by the BLP and suggested something illegal or unethical. Pray tell me more of my concern stated below.

Can you people believe that Patrick Tannis, a new candidate for the DLP, is sending out letters bearing his name and signature which, deliberately seeks to distort, mislead, and deceive the young people and first-time voters in the constituency of St. Michael South East.
The letter says that “you have the opportunity to cast your vote in the upcoming general election due in 2013, a right that the members of the Democratic Labour Party have fought for you to have and will continue to do so.” Please tell me, was there a Democratic Labour Party in 1952, the year of adult suffrage?
Mr. Tannis goes on to write telling these young people that “as you are aware, the Democratic Labour Party won the previous general election and with your support it is working towards its reelection in order to continue to work in the best interest of the people of Barbados.” How can Mr. Tannis, a self-proclaiming christian do this to our young people when this society and economy requires truth and credibility?
Tannis ought to give a public apology or even withdraw from the race if he would stoop so low as to frustrate the efforts, and to further confuse the young people of St. Michael South East and across Barbados with his blatant attempt to tarnish the most instrumental achievement in the electoral history of Barbados.
It makes me wonder, how could a decent man like Prime Minister Stuart endorse Tannis’ candidacy knowing full well that there have been previous statements or actions in the public in which Tannis is seen to divert from the truth or as Barbadians would say tell a blatant lie?

@ Observing(…) | January 9, 2013 at 11:58 AM |

As the foremost legal cognoscenti on the BU blog (after Amused and sarcastically, ac, of course) do you see a difference between Mary Pinkie Redman feminine grandiloquence and Sir Roy’s trumpet blowing in the wind to summons his troop to a deadly sour battle?

Is Lime legally allowed to make staff redundant if they are excess to the requirements of the business?

Ever wonder who got the contract to run the outlets?

@David
I have a sibling who managed a division of a company and who was offered to take it over and run it on a contract.He did not need 3 days,he knew it was worth his while to do it.He had the working expertise and he had training in supervising .He made his decision in less than 48 hours..He is still in the business…after 25 years!

@Gabriel Tackle

Surely there must be financing considerations? And the construct of the agreement maybe different too. However your point is made, it seems a wasted opportunity.

George C. Brathwaite | January 9, 2013 at 11:56 AM

You getting old and senile.
The LIARS are on the BLP side, they always have been there.

To get things in prespective Barbados is a little more in population than the crowd at three barcelona home games.So as Mr. Trotman is myopic in threatening closers, bullying businesses etc carefull he doesnt piss off the real money or Barbados may be like Montreal in the seventies when all the business left and decimated the city over french nationalism. Rhetoric shows
the masses your doing your job, but people outside your little pond listening and watching may have second thoughts of investing.

@miller
can’t comment fully on LIMe/BWU until I get more facts…but, one man’s trumpet is another woman’s clarinet.

Observing

LIME is a beast which CANNOT be wrestled to the ground.

LIME is marching to the beat of another drum.

Perhaps MAM should be called in to mediate.

David wrote, “LIME is a beast which CANNOT be wrestled to the ground”

Why not David? Bajans consumers will not give up their status symbol.
They MUST have a cell phone.

If Bajans decided that 1 land line from LIME and switch cell phones to Digicell what do you think would happen?

@George C. Brathwaite | January 9, 2013 at 11:56 AM |
“The letter says that “you have the opportunity to cast your vote in the upcoming general election due in 2013, a right that the members of the Democratic Labour Party have fought for you to have and will continue to do so.” Please tell me, was there a Democratic Labour Party in 1952, the year of adult suffrage?”

mr tannis can afford to write that kind of letter to the young people in MSE because he is aware that not many of them know their history or would take the time to learn and understand how far Barbados came from between 1961and 1976….they seemed to be more interested in partying etc etc. so yes it was crap he wrote but are u sure that mr, tannis is aware that their was not Democratic Labour Party in 1952?

@Hants
@David
Lime owns all the infrastructure upon which all the others operate.David is correct.Lime is a sine qua non in the connectivity business in Barbados and the English speaking Caribbean.

It appears a National strike is still on the cards?

Whuh National strike whuh?
Wunt appen.
The duke in gine tuh risk dah agen. Tummuch face tuh lose.
The whole thing will peter out and embolden the other employers waiting in the wings.

The Duke means business. A meeting of ALL BWU divisions has been called for 5PM today.

@ Carson C. Cadogan | January 10, 2013 at 2:22 PM |
“Many observers predicted the upcoming economic troubles years before Dr Kenny Anthony and his economic team. But, when politics is used to cloud peoples’ mind about “better days”, all that is left when reality hits is, “Kenny lied to us!”

Sounds exactly like something we heard played out some time ago leading up to the January 2008 in Bim that tricked people into voting on a ticket of change including the silly miller. The persons lying then were DT and his henchmen. Poor Fumble now saddled with a reputation he hardly deserves to inherit.

The truth will set him free if only he would say it instead of keeping the big lie going that the country is stabled and well managed. Everything is fine in our local paradise and to hell with the pronouncements from the credit rating agencies and the IMF.

@BAFBFP

It takes a Black Uneducated N_______ not to see the truth, whose racist NOW.

Use the Blog for constructive comments or SHUT UP.

Look how fruendel trick Mary. She was lead to the slaughter like a lamb, shouting jeff must go but the sleeping giant woke up and now all of them gone and Mary crying.lol
As for leroy it is time somebody tell him shutup and go home.

@David

voting for a stike and getting support for a stike is two different things. This issue that should call for a general strike, but Trottie knows that elections are near so he wants to pressure the govt to get involved.

I can assure u that workers are not going to risk losing their jobs in these difficult times. He should deal with lime, not using the threat of a general strike over the company’s head, thats a sign of black mail and lime should not fall for it. Trottiie should negotiate ing ood faith with the company, but he must recognize that the comapny has a right to down size, but he should get the best deal for the workers.

It is time for Leroy Trotmman to hand over the reigns to some one else, he is becoming too autocrtaic ahd believed that he can bludgeoned the company into submission, not hat i have nay love for lime as i think since alex take over, it has been managed poorly,

i am still remebering the royal shop , sandy lane and those two company by the harbour road, when he huffed and he puffed and he did not blow the house down.

Trottie go nogotiate, i have been told that u have been using delaying tatics since last yeat as regards the negotiations.

it is a tatic used by tu, what if the emplyers use lock out in response and what would be the impact on the country.

direct the threat at the company and not the country, thats all i am saying. i would not want the union hot to have the threat of a strike, but i also wont want a company not to be able to down size. if lime continues with its present trajectory of laying of staff, it will continue to lose goodwill among barbadains, and good ill lost is hard to regain, when there are other competitors. Gone are the days when lime could do as it like and get away with it, and also the union using muscualr language to get what it wants.

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