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Each day the poor DLP leadership continues under PM Stuart – “the food lines for those homeless and in need get LONGER”. Each day that the poor leadership in the Ministry of Tourism continues – “we lose more and more hotels and small businesses that depend on this vital sector of our economy”.

Each day the DLP continues to blame the global recession for all or most of our national challenges – “other Caribbean nations are innovating and reinventing themselves to meet the demands of a changing world and region”.

Each day the DLP continues in power – “the recession of ideas and effective governance continues”.

Each day more and more Bajans are increasingly feeling the impact of the last (5) years of total government under-performance (beyond the impact of the global recession).   Another (5) years of the DLP will render the Barbados we know today “unrecognizable”.

We are in serious times people and the time for voting DLP because common quote “my daddy and mummy vote DLP so I voting DLP” is OVER.  We as bajans have to use our heads, rise above the daily political games and elect a government that has the best chance for improving our lives in Barbados.

Based on what we have seen over the last (5) years with the DLP, we must unfortunately “throw” the baby (PM Stuart) out with the bath water (DLP cabinet).

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163 responses to “PM WAKE UP You’re Unintentionally Destroying Barbados With EACH DAY, Do What’s Best For Barbados Sir, LET THE BAJAN PEOPLE DECIDE NOW”

  1. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS

    Ministry of Tourism, The only thing that is true is the Sun and the Beach .Stay out the lawyers office.Nothing is for sale in Barbados

  2. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Is this the best that you can do?

  3. ac Avatar
    ac

    what a blantant piece of political poop! gheee!

  4. David Avatar
    David

    For the PM and DLP sake let us hope they have something to pull out of the hat when the bell is rung. At this point it does not look good.

  5. ac Avatar
    ac

    the same could have been said of Barrack Obama.

  6. ac Avatar
    ac

    However this article does not give a better alternative it is just another piece of political crap to generate the rabid response of the BLP yardflows..

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    You just don’t get it. Government’s lose elections, Opposition parties do not win governments. In the prevailing climate and 3 Cadres polls later the government is in trouble. Unless Stuart can do something dramatic to turn opinion the government will lose.

  8. ac Avatar
    ac

    david wake up this is going to be a very hard fought election .no easy pickings for the BLP. it is going toi be a matter of the numbers and how motivated both sides are . No poll can decide that as was proven in the USA election. It can happen. more over many DLP Salwarts will be motivated by the Poll to prove Cadres Wrong. another point worth noting This is not !992. people are politically savy and well read and know when they are fed garbage,

  9. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    If you have money on the bank, in your wallet and a bit of spare change, you are in the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    Actually no. There is an anger and resentment simmering below the radar. So many groups which are currently disaffected Just put it down to BU in the thick of it. You can almost taste when you walk among the people twiddledee and twiddledum notwithstanding.

  11. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    If you woke up this morning in good health, you are more bless than the million people who will not survive past the end of this week.

  12. Smooth Chocolate Avatar
    Smooth Chocolate

    @ac | January 18, 2013 at 6:31 AM |
    the same could have been said of Barrack Obama.

    stop comparing Stuart with Barrack Obama. they are worlds apart. Obama has charisma Stuart does not… Obama’s talk has led to action Stuart ‘s has not. are u so blinded or just pretending. other islands in the Caribbean or boasting of increase productivity and growth and all that is coming from Stuart is ‘the world is in recession’ and of course everything else is blamed on the 14 yrs BLP was in power. a wise man does not wait until he has a $1.00 to decide how he will get another $1.00….STUPES

  13. Smooth Chocolate Avatar
    Smooth Chocolate

    SORRY – CORRECTION TO ABOVE

    ‘other islands in the Caribbean ARE boasting of increase productivity and growth”

  14. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Poor ac!

  15. ac Avatar
    ac

    Smooth choclate.not comparing PM Stuart to OBama obviously two different individuals in style and personality.however one must concede that they both were dealt similar hands having to deal with high defecits and unemployment in tramatic economic conditions.not to mention many polls which favoured them as underdogs Similarties or Coincidence go Figure.

  16. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | January 18, 2013 at 8:39 AM |

    Mr. Obama was elected by the American people in his own right. He was also re-elected in November last in his own right and on his own steam.

    Can we say the same about Mr. Stuart? Let him seek his own mandate and stop hanging on to the coattails of a dead man and his cult followers.

    What are you DLP people afraid of? Are you waiting for Reinhard Bonnke to raise the dead and an apparition of DT to appear saying: “This is my beloved Brother Freundel in whom I am well pleased”.

  17. Observing(...) Avatar
    Observing(…)

    @ac
    “not to mention many polls which favoured them as underdogs ”

    Obama was NEVER an underdog. Smooth Chocolate dealt with the comparison error.

    “it is going to be a matter of the numbers and how motivated both sides are ”

    the BLP typically outnumber the DLP. Motivation to change is greater than motivation to keep. Undecideds will stay home or vote to change, not vote to keep. The DLP should be extremely worried at this stage.

    @Austin
    DLP follies aside, the BLP still hasn’t presented a compelling argument why they should be unequivocally be selected to lead. Having said that, when in opposition against a bungling government a lukewarm argument will suffice.

    Just Observing

  18. ac Avatar
    ac

    The “fear factor” is most revealing in the BLP yardflows that with a Poll susposedly giving them preferance and much needed confidence, one can sense a lack of such confidence in the BLP machine response especially when confornted with the reality that the OBAM adminstration had faced a similar challenged and the need to downplay that reality is noticeably obvious by the BLP respondents

  19. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    “For the PM and DLP sake let us hope they have something to pull out of the hat ”

    you were saying this from 2008.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    You were not around on BU last general election but we remind you the the cadres polls were favourably received by DLPites then at the expense of the Chapo/Boxill poll. Where is the hypocrisy you ask?

  21. ac Avatar
    ac

    Observing i disagree Going into his second term he was undoubetly an underdog. much can be said about the way the rgt wing presented with “fear” similar to what we have here and the much touted mantra of him being a one term president .again to reemphaised a president not capable of handling an economy and much more negative than positive attributes highlited via media , not to mention polls which had him losing in many of the big states. which made many wonder if he had a to the very end of election day

  22. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    In 2008 there appeared to be more DLP supporters posting on BU (Barbados Underground) than BLP, although the BLP – unofficial supporters – used more swear words and cussed more. . . .it made no difference to the electorate. At this moment the BLP is out in force one must not complain.

    I was not born in the Far North, I am only a little Bajan Boy but I have two brain cells and I believe it is within the grasp of the DLP to launch a counter assault and win this election.

    (1) They must first drill down to a careful analysis of what is being said – on the Polls – and then explain with reasons to the electorate.

    (2) They should choose someone with Authority to immediately stamp on half-truths, not every one at the same time, just one person.

    (3) Always revert back to their own set agenda, reinforced “repeatedly” by Ministers and the Prime Minister.

    (4) Focus on why the BLP lost in 2008 and see the economic situation in Barbados as part of a global situation. . .which it is.

    (5) Then no one, just no one should go off message.

    (6) The Prime Minister should be seen and launched as what he is, a man of the people, an ordinary, decent, honest man of the people, “just as I am”, I come before you.

  23. Observing(...) Avatar
    Observing(…)

    @ac
    “Observing i disagree Going into his second term he was undoubetly an underdog…not to mention polls which had him losing in many of the big states”

    If you can find any poll that had Obama behind in overall electoral college votes then I’ll admit that I am completely wrong. Public opinion and individual states had him even or behind Romney, but all polls had him ahead in what mattered..that magic number of 270.

    Just Observing

  24. ac Avatar
    ac

    David 2008 is a different time with noticably different circumstanceusing the same yard stick to measure is useless.however the poll is sufficient to give both sides concern with an economy which need answers and not “political hodge podge”on one side we have a govt who have had to deal with realityand struggling to find answer. while on the otherside an opposition with an attitude of entitilment while giving no answers a major factor which would be weighed in most minds on election.day.

  25. David Avatar
    David

    @Yardbroom

    Any message in the scenario you painted will need time to resonate with the electorate. Secondly, the message if it is meant to shift public perception of the DLP must be connected to an ongoing strategy given the time constraints. In other words, PM Stuart can’t be perceived as taciturn all the months leading into the general election and ‘sudden so’ Stuart begins to spew from the mouth. It becomes a credibility issue and smacks of being opportunistic and false.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    The issues maybe different but what has not is the methodology of the poll. The result of the poll must be questioned based on methodology used and not the issues circulating.

  27. Observing(...) Avatar
    Observing(…)

    @Yardbroom
    you espoused this strategy 18 months ago. I applauded it then as i will now. Time is too short for it to work now and many variables have been introduced. Damage control should be the order of the day.

    Just Observing

  28. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS

    Carson C. Cadogan@ LOVE TO SEE A CLEAR TITLE DEED PULL POUT THE HAT .

  29. Additional Services Avatar
    Additional Services

    @ David

    Peter Wickham is a DLP, always has been and always will be. That is fact number one. The DLP is intentionally running the campaign of the underdog knowing that the support will come, both naturally and orchestrated.

    How much would you be willing to bet that in the not too distant future, CADRES and Peter Wickham will start to sing from a different hymn sheet and proclaim the DLP and PM Stuart as having made a miraculous recovery in the electorates eyes? The engineering ongoing is one where the DLP and its operatives are trying to make the electorate being that they don’t HAVE to elect the DLP but rather WANTto.

    Peter Wickham is like the baby bird in a nest who is waiting on the mother bird to return to him and stuff his beak full of food and thereby causing that awful crying sound to stop. Peter Wickham knows the DLP wants the awful screaming to stop, the parties are only hammering out the final details of the bargain.

    When will Peter Wickham and CADRES forsake OSA and the BLP, before the week one, two, three or four of the election period.

  30. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    . . . . @ David
    . . . .”opportunistic?” politics is about taking opportunities as they arise. I venture not to ask of, or use the words “credibility” and false.

    Do you believe “ALL” that is said by politicians at elections to be true.
    – – – – – – – – –
    Hi Observing (…)
    There is too much of reacting to an item that has been mentioned on the call-in programmes. If a rebuttal is warranted, do it “immediately”. Then move on, if not you will be constantly firefighting, reacting to events without a strategy or focus. In that situation you cannot get your message across.

  31. Austin Avatar
    Austin

    The position that the PM has taken is totally selfish and NOT in the best interest of the people of Barbados who really “did not” election his to be PM.

    To string the nation along for months waiting for an election date announcement I believe was very “disrespectful to the people of Barbados” hence why we are now hearing words like “dictator” etc, simply because what the PM has done has that feel to it.

    The PM lives in a “bubble which is flowing around the library” where the clear realities of how hard life in Barbados has no place, and would bust the bubble.

    I guess in many way he must be thinking that he owes it the the former and deceased PM Thompson (with ALL respect and prayer due to the former PM) … to hang on till the last legal and possible day (this is my sense) …..WHILE things for average bajans getting worst daily … “IS SIMPLY NOT RIGHT” and even DLP supporters know it.

    In conclusion:

    The kind of politics we see coming from the DLP has been a total distraction for the real work the bajan people need getting done to get our nation back on track. (FACT).

    5 years on non-performance, poor governance, a recession of ideas/ effective leadership and “sufferation” (as the rasta men say) ..

    is simply enough

  32. David Avatar
    David

    When we think the delay probating the David Thompson Estate, are we talking politics here?

  33. Additional Services Avatar
    Additional Services

    @ David

    Whether probated or not, don’t you think the BLP have a copy of his last Will and Testament?

    probably even have a copy of the bank account details of Families First charity.

  34. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    David some of us read the Barbados traditional newspapers every day.

    I will listen to what might happen but the attempt to portray Barbados as a failed economy is bullshot and you all know it.

    The Elections will be bought by whichever party has the most money to feed the residential chickens.

    When I see breadlines and when my friends and family start asking for help then I will know things really brown.

    This blog is now saturated with politically tainted election motivated crap.

    Just waiting for Carson C Cadogan and SylvanGreenidge2 aka RoyalRumble to provide the visceral entertainment.

    Gine home early today and sip on a little 18 year old Single Malt. I emulating Owen although uh hear he prefer his likka white.

  35. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Yardbroom
    ” I believe it is within the grasp of the DLP to launch a counter assault and win this election.”
    *************
    Yardie, when you see a man fishing in a dry pond, don’t call him a fool.

    Define WIN!
    – Is winning the election getting to spend every waking hour worrying about the endless problems that face us?
    – Is winning getting to listen to Bajans complain and bitch about not being the wealthiest people on earth…dispite being the least productive, the laziest, and the least able to run their own affairs?
    – by “winning” did you mean having the privilege of getting cussed by Sir Roy, Mary Red, the Eager 11, Bushie, Caswell, BU, Owen, Miller (especially Miller 🙂 ), ….and everyone else….?

    man what win what?!?

    It is clear to Bushie that PM Stuart has taken a good look at the pros and cons of being PM and decided to go for a REAL WIN…..and dun wid the whole shi*e.
    …probably buy a little Moses and spend some quality time down St James fishing….or gardening in st John…

    …at the same time, he is taking the opportunity to REALLY frig up his opponents ….by leaving the whole damn mess in their hands….both the BLP and the eager 11…. LOL

    Obama is just an idiot….
    After losing in 2008 and being stuck with America’s, and the world’s problems, one would have thought that he would have learnt his lesson…. This time around is REALLY going to teach him…
    Fool me once shame on you
    Fool me twice shame on me.

    But…wunna can’t fool stuartie twice…. 🙂

  36. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @Yardbroom

    4) Focus on why the BLP lost in 2008 and see the economic situation in Barbados as part of a global situation. . .which it is………………

    You dont think that like wise the BLP can remind the people of why they kicked the Dems out in 1994 and remind them of how the Dems ran the country into the ground just like they have done for the last five years and what they are seeing is a repeat of the DLP’s incompetence when in office! All the BLP has to do is constantly remind the people of the Sandi era and compare it with the Stuart era.

    For every DLP claim, there is a BLP counter claim!

  37. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    I would be shocked if the DLP can pull off a victory whenever Fumble calls the election.

    This government has angered everybody. Only today on the news we heard that the government owes business some 49 million dollars. How can a government owe the country’s businesses so much money and then tells them not to lay off people? Talk about being heartless. Yet ac will tell us that they are doing a good job.

    Why hell, I still have not received my tax refund, they owe me too!

  38. ac Avatar
    ac

    It is ironic how on the issue of “call for election”the PM is being called selfish.however when one take a look back at thev previous govt and its leadership no one can honestly says that the arrogance displaythen have not far outspaced the so -called “selfishness” of Stuart. Furthermore the term “selfish can also be described to the RT HON who in the pass five years have rarely set foot in Parliament to see about the affairs of this country.

  39. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    @ Yardbroom
    In 2008 many had forgotten or knew little about the DLP as a government; while MANY knew of the BLP after being in power for 14 years. However in 2013 the electorate can now conduct a comparative analysis/experience of the two, which does not augur well for the DLP.

  40. Austin Avatar
    Austin

    @Prodigal Son

    Totally on target responses, “Thanks” for saving me the time of responding to Yardbroom … clearly the Yardbroom need some cleaning as it apparently has too much “blank” on and in it.

  41. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    ac,
    As a person in the know, can you tell BU what’s the hold up in the PM calling elections? I mean if he and all you Dems are so sure of victory, what is the problem? Why cant PM call the elections?

    His delay is tantamount to children going to school, doing no work for the whole school year and come the night before an exam, they are cramming! He has run out of time, so he may as well call the election and get it over with!

    The DLP’s problem is that they spent their whole term demonising the BLP. Instead of going in, assessing their new roles and start working, all they were busy doing was cursing OSA every day. Every Tuesday when he came to the House, they were hoping he would stay in the chamber to try to humiliate him. What did the Fumble said……..he reduced him to an emperor without clothes. Well, Fumble your day is not far away!

    KARMA!

  42. David Avatar
    David

    @Prodigal Son

    Actually the government has worked harder in the last year than the previous four years or so it seems.

  43. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    Hi Bush Tea, January 18, 2013 @ 2:13PM
    There might be merit in what you “assert” no, alluded to. Prime Minister Stuart is an honest, decent man, I am not suggesting those attributes on their own will make you a good Prime Minister. . .but Bajans always want something different from themselves – not too Bajan – and the further it is away from themselves or the farther away from Barbados, it is perceived as better. They then complain there is no one among us of honour in politics. Ah yes!!! we never encourage them.

    Hi Prodigal Son, January 18, 2013, @ 2:16PM
    If you are asked an honest question and I “try” to be fair. The BLP had 14 continuous years in government that is a very long time and it is beyond what is capable of even a government in 2 terms, far less one. Added to that the global downturn, and the loss of a Prime Minister in office, but I hope I am around to see the results in 5 years if it comes to that. . .but I must hope for the sake of Barbados.

    Hi Enuff January 18, 2013 @2:52PM
    I recall the morning after the 2008 election there was jubilation, genuine feelings of happiness and warmth. There are some here who think the BLP wins and all problems will just melt away, good governance comes, unemployment down, economy booming, prices low, taxes reduced, houses built the list is endless but hey!!! the wheel turns, if you keep replacing the foundation, nothing of real substance can be built.

    Hi Austin January 18, 2013 @ 2:53PM
    I have read your comment, it is very perceptive.

  44. balance Avatar
    balance

    DON’T YOU THINK WE ARE PLACING TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON THE RESULTS OF THE CADRES POLL. POLLS DO NOT VOTE, PEOPLE DO AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE DLP IS STARTING THE RACE WITH FIVE SAFE SEATS WHEREAS THE BLP IS ONLY STARTING WITH TWO.

  45. ac Avatar
    ac

    @ observing

    you speak of the electoral vote.However the popular vote gives the electoral college a real perspective of whom the country favours .there are rare instances when the popular vote did not influence the electoral college in making a decision as to who will be president. if the polls which had indictated that Romney would win the popular vote and had remained as predicted pecentage wise he would have won the electoral vote.Why do you think Romney did not prepare a speech.?By the way there are no polls that show how the electoral college is going to vote until the night of election when votes are counted . that is when the electoral vote makes their decision.

  46. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Yardbroom | January 18, 2013 at 4:56 PM |
    ” Prime Minister Stuart is an honest, decent man, I am not suggesting those attributes on their own will make you a good Prime Minister. . .but Bajans always want something different from themselves..”

    Yes indeed! A real honest decent man who likes to keep close company with crooks and conmen like “Greenverbs” who along with DT swindle ordinary Bajans of millions of their hard earned savings.
    A real honest man who hold up these same crook as icons of business acumen and paragon of virtues and business ethics.

    A decent man who flagrantly lies to little children without compunction.

    What intelligent Bajans (and there are some of them) want is a leader who can tell us like it is and lead us in a direction that would redound to the benefit of the majority and give hope to the many.

  47. Austin Avatar
    Austin

    @yardbroom

    Clearly you have cracked open that 18 year old you bottle you referenced earlier .. more foolish talk in your last post.

    What barbados needs is a real PM … not an academic full of big word foolish speeches which leave many bajans puzzled … while poor people getting poorer…

    Yardbroom many in barbados also want to afford that 18yr old you clearly drinking as you blog.

  48. wallace Avatar
    wallace

    imagine a government mp and minister say that when a party in opposition it can promise the electorate everything under the sun and the people need to face reality…..
    How did the present administration win the last elections? Can somebody remind me

  49. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    millertheanunnaki on January 18, 2013 at 5:34 PM
    What intelligent Bajans (and there are some of them) want is a leader who can tell us like it is and lead us in a direction that would redound to the benefit of the majority and give hope to the many.
    ___________________

    Miller,

    We intelligent Bajans just hope from your statement above that you are not recommending the return of Owen Seymour Arthur !

    Because when he led us (1994 – 2008) the DIRECTION he followed was:
    1. GREENLAND – $ 80 million
    2. GEMS – $ 300 million
    3. NIGERIAN SOLAR WATER PROJECT – $ 10 million

    Near $ 400 million in projects that we intelligent Bajans taxpayers cannot UTILISE on this day 18 Jan 2013. These millions never accounted for.

    MILLER,
    You are LYING….Bajans did not AND cannot benefit from such RASCALITY.

    DEMS are better for BIM ._

  50. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    Hi Austin,
    I am “never” drunk no need for the stuff, but enjoy yourself. Cheers!!!

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