This matter is bigger than you miller.it only takes a”turnip brain” to post such rubbish that you wrote.

@ ac | January 8, 2013 at 2:00 PM |

What about the fifth option available only to the PAC?
That is, advise the GG that Mr. Broomes is unfit to function in the public service and put him on force retirement. The PAC will be standing on sound constitutional grounds.

Why create so much confusion in the lives of other innocent people including the teachers and students of the PMS who now have to deal with (according to you, ac) a most horrible horrid uncouth unfit vicious lying person. That is the picture of a monster you have painted of Broomes on this blog. Now try denying that you have painted the man in that light, you amnesiac lying political yardfowl.

But then again you would not be against the transfer of the man to the PMS or even to the St George Secondary to be renamed the Harry Husband Porn College. There instead of pitching marbles with the boys he can gamble with some tonk and poker, smoke a few spliffs, swig some Mount Gay and coke before cussing out the teachers. And that is in your estimation of the demonized principal at his sobering best.

What is really bothering me is that politicians in Barbados have access to ballot results to see who individually DID or DID NOT vote for them. WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT TO THE POLITICIAN IF YOU HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS FOR THE VOTERS WHO ARE PAYING YOU, WHY IS THAT RELEVANT??? That’s the sleaziest thing I have heard in many years. Now we know why so many lives are ruined, when these low lives get power from the voters, the ones who were previously in power, all the people who had voted them in, automatically lose their jobs and new people are installed who voted for the present bunch of clowns. THIS IS REAL SICK, people been asking about this for years, now we know. THE POLITICIANS KNOW EXACTLY WHO VOTED FOR OR WHO DID NOT VOTE FOR THEM. Now we can sit back and see how long the bajan population allows these Neanderthals to get away with this travesty. That’s why each party have staunch supporters, cause if you are not a staunch supporter, you may not get to eat. SICKOS.

And will get busier. About to take a few days vacation, but not in Barbados. Concerned citizens have been asking questions for years, let’s hope Bajan taxpayers understand what is going on and that they call the shots or one day, you see those young people in bim?? they will deal with y’all asses.

Enuff, u can’t threaten me, you have no idea what you dealing with!! Trust me!! Am not angela cole. i know you know what i mean.

ac | January 8, 2013 at 2:52 PM |
“Miller after posting trash .now answer the question that is you as legal counsel to Broomes giving him advice in reference to showing up for work with the options as i layed them out.”

According to René Artois in the sitcom ′Allo ′Allo!: ‘You stupid (and silly) woman’!
The miller has already advised Broomes since last week what action to take. Go on continuous sick leave using stress as his justification.

David (Bu) can attest to that, if you care to ask.

What more you want me to say, Option #3? Stop being the village idiot among the BU family.

AFAIK it is true that the ballot handed to each voter by the clerk has the voter’s ID number on it and therefore it is possible for anyone with significant access to the cast ballots to match ballots cast with ID numbers and so identify who any individual voted for. In addition, AFAIK, observant agents can identify who persons that they know voted for by observing the position of the X on the folded ballot when it is shown to them.

Every election season people protest this but the Governing parties of both stripes have never seen fit to change the situation. Instead they insist that the ballot boxes are sealed and stored in a secure location after the elections and can only be accessed through a court order.

The question is should we trust the Government (any Barbados Government) to treat this matter scrupulously? Is it possible that in this day and age of high tech computerization some subterfuge could be made to get access to the ballots to determine how a specific voter or how specific voters casted their ballots through a court order?

Grateful if Caswell and the Lawyers on BU could weigh in on this matter and, if possible, calm the fears of some of us that there is a distinct possibility that Big Brother could have hard evidence of who we voted for.

What happens tomorrow when LIME refuses to withdraw the letters?

Does the Duke of York think that he has that command of workers in 2013 that he could call a national strike and people would respond?

He can threaten all he wants, remember he threatened the Royal Shop and Sandy Lane and I wondered what happened?

Your Highness, this is not 1991/2 when you duped Barbadians and march them up and down Roebuck, Broad Street and Bay Street and then told us years later that you had no intention to bring down the government when all along the people were marching to bring down the government.

Why is the DLP the party of the worst governments we have had in this country???

miller @island gal whoever is advising Broomes is a bigger idiot than previously thought. Hope it is not a relative of ac.
The man was advised by the miller to turn up for work, after a few hours or the next day complain about feeling unwell and then proceed on sick leave as a result of his “exaggerated” elevated hypertension. Most adult Bajans can empathize with him. After all we wouldn’t want the man to take in with a stroke brought on by Mary’s nagging (Bushie might argue menopausal eruptions). Period!!
Broomes man wha ya gone and do? Get rid of those legal swindlers.
These lawyers have had too much of a feeding at the taxpayers’ trough. Fumble’s legal friends are now the tax payers’ parasites.

ac
miller now i know you are a bigger jerk than i thought after reading that foolishness.

Bush Tea; You’ve got it right! Compiling a database of voters and their votes is a very simple task. One person with access to the ballots can do it with a good scanner and the necessary software.

Has such a database been done or is anyone contemplating doing it now or in the future? I don’t know. But even if it hasn’t been done or contemplated by the current or past keepers of the ballots, I think several of us on BU can visualize some situation in the future where persons with such access wouldn’t think twice about implementing such a database. Suppose eg. and only as a highly speculative fantasy, some political maguffy wanted to prove that Broomes switched allegiance to the BLP as a result of Owen’s politics of Inclusion. Armed with such a database he could show conclusively at which election Broomes had switched from the DLP and back again. Suppose (again only in fantasy) that Caswell is really a DLP hard seed and was only fooling the BLP over the years that he supported them. A simple search of the database could give someone some guidance in this regard.

But my main grouse about this matter is why is it even necessary to put peoples NID on the Ballots? There doesn’t seem to be any overarching good reason for this. If there are challenges to the votes which have to be resolved then imho a simple vote count will do.

The secret ballot should be kept secret especially in these high tech times.

Anyone knows who is the custodian of the ballots and how long they are kept in that secret location?

Here is what a BU family member since us a few days ago, by the time we investigated some modification was made to the BLP website.

Happy new year David,
Not sure if you are aware, but if you visit this section of the BLP’s website: http://blp.org.bb/find-out-if-youre-registered And if you enter in your first and last name (or anyone else’s for that matter) and if you/they are registered, the info returned will include the individual’s national id number.
While I can appreciate and see the utility of this tool, is there not a privacy concern? Even if the data is classified as being a “public record” it could have been displayed another way. For example, ask the person to enter their national id number and let it run the check. Alternatively, put in a first and last name and return the info minus the national id number.

@miller…..The other secure location is Freundel’s back pocket holding the date of the elections. It’s a pity it keeps sliding out ready to stillborn within its mandatory period…………………

Freundel cannot surprise anyone now. The elections will call themselves. He has to go by February 12, no matter that Hal Gollop went out there trying to fly a kite.

Are they going to create a phony war to justify the 90 day extension period? Was the phony outrage on DLPTV on Sunday night about the BLP posting the voters’ list on line the start of a “war”? The PM play he was enraged! Fraud of a PM!

My postman said that the talk in the PO from the lackies on one of the Constituency Council is that the date is February 12th. Who cares at this time? The PM has outfoxed himself!

@David
I don’t understand the fuss over the Electoral Register being on the web.I wanted the address of a former colleague in the UK and went on the web and was able to retrieve it from the counties’ electoral register.

Gabriel Tackle

With the greatest of respect sir. If you had the opportunity or should you get the opportunity to interface with Mary Redman, you would have or you would quickly realize that she is an exceptional human being with the strongest desire to do the right thing. She to me, is the female comparison to David Commissiong, both of the same generation and very similar backgrounds. Unfortunately neither are Barbadian by lineage …. wah dah tell you …?

BAFBFP;
Although I haven’t met the lady. That is the impression I have also formed of her. A bit misguided perhaps but someone steady, faithful and ready to fight for her principles to the bitter end. BTW, I think FS was the person who misguided her the most and who is therefore partially responsible for the current debacle which the BSTU finds itself in.

I think Broomes was unfaired by the AX old scholars but I don’t blame her for the vigour, dedication and energy with which she did what she thought she had to do for her clients.

@ Check-it Out
Only a few Bajans will consider this to be a problem

Political,yardfowls won’t be interested… 60%
Everyone and their dogs done know how the yardfowls will vote, and -if their party wins they KNOW that their picks are secure.
-if their party loses they KNOW it will be 5 years of famine
…..see why Prodigal don’t care…?

Of the 40% Non-yard fowls, The usual bajan sheep who probably could not even establish that sugar is sweet, won’t care ….30%
…..so ac and Onions ain’t care 🙂

Of the remaining 10%, we have the special groups who fund BOTH B and D….so heads they win and tails they win……6%
…So COW, Bizzy and them boys ain’t care….

3.5% of the remaining 4% are civil servants, judges, etc who will get their salaries win, lose or draw…. They do not care
….if the DEMS don’t give them the Knighthood, the Bees will…

Most of the other 0.5% are the politicians and lawyers themselves – who manipulate the whole system (we got nuff of those…)

…that leaves You, Bushie and (perhaps) David to worry about this ridiculous scam. The records will show that Bushie has been condemning this nastiness from its inception….

What Stuart said about the BLP database may not make sense to most of us, but it makes a LOT OF SENSE to someone who is FULLY aware of how the system is manipulated to put citizens in a position to be BRIBED or VICTIMIZED for their voting preferences.
Not even CASTRO did this…..

What a NASTY banana-republic-like scam…. 🙁

@ Baffy
It tells me ‘send them back from whence they came so they can make their trouble among their patriots’.Not here in buhbaydus.Both Redman and Commissiong can get the hell outa here as far as I am concerned.Further,all who agree with them can get on the same transport and get outa buhbaydus.Humbugs!!And btw carry along Garcia..

The clown should have called elections soon after the events in 2010
The Clown should have run in St. John at said elections
A whole Term-5 years- and no deputy announced –
The longest term for a Government in the history of Barbados-(We must be at war then ! )
First time elections will be called during Lent.
First time a Government (in Barbados ) will lose elections – the following way:

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

yuh think this is a joke ?

JUST ASKING

Smooth Chocolate; See “Bush tea” and “Just asking” explanations above. They’re right. You’re not. Yuh certain you was an election clerk?

The NID is on the stub of the ballot and the ballot and stub also have identical matching Ballot numbers. Therefore it is possible for anyone so disposed and who has the authority and time to do so, to do so.

Gabbie

The Rt Excel. Bussa came from some where else too …! Uhum

prodigal son

Dont you ever tire of telling lies?

“My postman said that the talk in the PO from the lackies on one of the Constituency Council is that the date is February 12th.”

You read that foolish talk here on BU from the Blog owner. You, Miller, and the blog owner have been predicting the elections date for a while now, and you all have always been wrong.

Your postman didnt tell you one thing, LIAR.

Go and spend some of that Barclays money.

Baffy,80% is an A grade;20% is a F-and counting grade.QED

@CCC,
You read that foolish talk here on BU from the Blog owner. You, Miller, and the blog owner have been predicting the elections date for a while now, and you all have always been wrong.

Your postman didnt tell you one thing, LIAR……………

It is so great that you are always with me that you could know who speak with me.

Dont you realise how ignorant you sound. Continue to enjoy feating on the fatted calf, it soon will be done.

Is TODAY, still the deadline for LIME to rescind those 97 ‘termination’ letters before the Grand Old Duke of York begins to march his troops up government Hill?

Poor Trottie, a shadow of his once iron duke self now turned to eggshells!
Trottie you know you have received a call from Stuartie telling you to back off this country shut down nonsense as it is to close to the bell ringing and in the middle of the Cinderella Tourism season.

But Trottie, who you are going to shut down? The businesses owned by the Trinidadians, the Canadian banks or the Port? What about the hotel and tourism sector and the IB sector?
Oh Yes, the BL&P, now primarily owned and controlled by the Canadians. Shut the electricity off, Comrade Trotman!

miller,
Poor Duke, it has not yet dawned on him that he is no longer Grand Old Duke. I asked the same questions earlier who will the Duke bring out on strike. We wait and see!