Barbados has been known as a ‘model democracy’, observers from around the world have visited to witness our electoral system. Prominent Barbadians have been invited to to observe elections all over the world. The idea that we are toeing the legal line in Barbados regarding when parliament will have to dissolve and the related issues is a position that we needed to avoid. In fact some may say it is asinine.

Agreed Baf.
David, democracy is essentially an economic system not a political system. When you trumpet the mouthings of idiots in high places about political stability as a replecement for real democracy you are giving credence to a popular incoherrence. As an economic system Barbados cannot claim to represent notions of equality or equity as resouces are being consolidated into the hands of few and fewer people. Dont buy into the hype.

David don’t forget that the white South African government viewed Barbados as the perfect acceptable voluntary apartheid system.

No civil war.No “freedom fighters”. Just a docile black majority enriching the white minority and now Foreigners especially Trinidadians.

prodigal son

“I await CCC to call me a liar, as usual! Poor fellow!”

If you continue to call every date on the calendar between now and when the PM rings the bell, one would have to be correct. then you would beat your chest and declare, “see I told you that it would so and so date,” but that of course would not make you a very smart guy. You appear to want people to believe that you more important than you really are.

Perhaps when Sir Trottie’s legacy is written he will be remembers as one who voted against the Sandiford administration in the infamous ‘No Confidence Motion” AND again the one who called a strike, or threatened a strike, to add to an unstable IR climate NOT in the interest of the government with an election looming.

I don’t get it. There is a problem with LIME.

Why shut down the whole country?

@Hants

It is a tactic by unions to drive fear in the other party. In this case it will not work. If by chance he succeeds it will be his darkest action. The word is that he will not get people to walk off their job at this time. This is a hard guava season to borrow a term from fragile80.

I fully support the trade union member’s right to withdraw labour, but really hope they have all thought through the big picture here. We are now in one of the most critical winter tourism seasons in recent history. Last weekend was one of the biggest holiday booking periods in the UK, still our largest market with the longest average stays and spending. Already the subject of a national strike is being carried on the world’s most visited travel website (TripAdvisor) as a individual subject posted on the Barbados Forum. If you had saved fifty weeks to take your main annual holiday, would you risk going to a destination that is threatened by a possible shut down and
delays in immigration, customs, air traffic control etc
Think about it!

@Adrian

The AX dispute should have taught you something, we have a population who seem happy to take sides (yo see it here on BU), the idea of conciliation is beyond comprehension to some, especially the political hacks. The implication of a strike does not even feature in the thinking of many of our educated population.

@B B

dont waste time with Enuff, owen is out with the co-leader Mascoll plotting for Mia.

@aDRIAN
i am with u

@ Prodigal Son | January 12, 2013 at 4:51 PM |

It is being said in inner DLP circles that the PM is being advised by Rev. Durant not to announce the date of elections before the obeah event takes place in the gymnasium next Sunday the 20th.
Rev Durant is the bogus apostle who made it abundantly clear that because he has a direct line to god David Thompson could never die on his watch.
He now has a plan to import another imposter who is able to heal the sick, heal the nation through prayer (not forex) and even raise the dead. Can you imagine in 2013 Rev. Durant can entertain and foist upon the educated but stupid and gullible people of Barbados a con man laying claim to performing magic of raising the dead all in the name of Jesus?

It is felt that the two charlatans plan to go to the graveyard and like real lodge men summon DT from his rotting grave to seek advice on how to win the upcoming elections.
They are hoping too that DT would accede to the request of his remaining followers in the DT/DLP faction of making a few apparitional appearances at one or two night meetings during the upcoming campaign.

@Miller

I think u and ur ilk should have been tired by now pontificating on when elections are going to be called. U have tried everyting as to the rationale for not calling the elections at a particular time. Greedy hot will cool. What will u and ur ilk think of next. The elections have to be called by a specified time.

Barbados has survived five years of “global recession” and i am certain that a week of putting LIME in its place .would not shut the country down . i know the Davids of this work would not understand the rights of workers not to exploitated by giants like LIMEbut would prefer to pretend in the qausa intellectual mind that these workers are the problem and less deserving of a job and management has every right to kick them out under false disguise.

To the Point wrote
“@David
i really detest that term political hack”

A political hack is a negative term ascribed to a person who is part of the political party apparatus, but whose intentions are more aligned with victory than personal conviction.

A threat is only as good if it is carried out.You guys need to relax and let the process takes it course .Lime has just as much to lose if a strike is carried out so i don.t see any such happening to paralysis the economy.however a strong word followed by some kind of action should be carried out if lime does not comply with currant agreements.

Hants

“Barbados cannot afford a National strike at this time”

Then tell LIME to reinstate the displaced workers.

LIME, a powerful company making money hand over fist, strangely enough the greater the net profit LIME makes the more BLACK BAJANS they get rid of.

Am I the only one who see something wrong with this picture?

All the General Secretary has to do is to call the General strike on Monday and Tuesday and if that does not bring Old Macdonald to Christain feelings then call off all workers at the Airport and Seaport and that will do the trick.

@Carson

have u really thought through what u have just said, u seem not to understand ir. You never start with a national strike. If u dont get support for a national strike u have failed, because it means that the workers do not think that it is sufficeint cause for such a strike.

Why would u think that the airport and the seaport should be closed to pressure lime. I am amazed at u, but then again should I be.

@cARSON

for heaven sake, u r becoming stale with ur rantings. Writing often does not mean that u r making sense. Think first and then write, and not the other way around. Lord take a rest or write something that make sense.

prodigal son

Take a hike.

@Carson C. Cadogan,

So what is the Union going to do when other companies send home workers?

A National strike will be a National disaster.

hants

“A National strike will be a National disaster”

Accordding to you.

From the mouth of……………..Carson C. Cadogan | January 12, 2013 at 9:03 PM |

hants

“A National strike will be a National disaster”

Accordding to you……………………

Peoples, you see what I have been saying that there is a reason why the Dems are egging on this strike. Read what CCC has said……hants and all right thinking people think that the strike would be a national disaster, not so the DLP.

I tell you there are ulterior motives behind this strike action!

@Prod

i dont want u to use me to get at carson, u deal with him and let me deal with him in the way i want to, in the end he and i will make up as we support the same party, but i will objectively let him know when i dont agree with him.

prodigal son

“I tell you there are ulterior motives behind this strike action

What ulterior motives?

Because you and the Barbados Labour Party members and supporters want to hang the workers out to dry and I disagree with you then there must be “ulterior motives”?