These little childish games being played by politicians do nothing to enhance the governance of this country. Pray tell me what delayed the Senate until 8:30 pm. The simple answer is they were filibustering to deny the BLP the opportunity to use Heroes Square for a public meeting because of its proximity to the precincts of Parliament. That was puerile. Why are they afraid to let the Opposition be heard.

My God.
This post actually made it on BU as an article?

No substance, no logic, no education, no stimulation just froth blowing in the wind of the $30 fan from S.Y. Adams? Sigh.

It truly is extra silly season.

Obsercing

yeah observing similar to what is happening in “heroes Square” tonight.

It is known in many circles that Barbados Today is on its last legs.

Investors are pulling out and ad revenues are flat. It is only a matter of time before tr collapses.

Roy is hoping that this poll would breathe a little life back into his dying organisation. That is the reason for this rush poll.

The real poll is coming soon and there will be no doubt who will be the winners and who will be losers.

Carson

I don’t think that I would waste time being offended by your remarks. Since 2005, I have not depended on politics or politicians for my living: I paddle my own canoe. Singing for what supper. I understand and appreciate your predicament where you find yourself unemployable when the BLP is in power. If you want to see someone who is singing for breakfast, lunch and supper just get a mirror. Don’t worry, I sympathise with your plight but never fear, if the Government changes, I have a job as an organiser with your name on it. Remember, Barrack Obama started out as a union organiser. Mind you, salary is based on commissions so you would have to do real work, not like what you are doing now.

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For the BLP supporters with convenient amnesia :9million dollars for the St. Joseph Hospital Commission of Enquiry plus 2 million dollars for the Glendairy Prison Fire commission of Enquiry under the BLP versus 1/2 million dollars for the Alexandra School Commission of Enquiry under this Administration.
Do the mathematics. – BLP Hypocrites. Keep the BLP in opposition.

i can’t estimate numbers but i believe the crowd in Hero’s square tonight was MASSIVE. it would be nice to hear the official numbers on hand and online.

the rain fall and people ain’t move.

then the bombshell email from Peter Gilkes. you could hear a pin drop as Arthur read it out.

all that only means that Stuarty ain’t calling this election no time soon. His ass is grass and CCC, ac, ! could sing till the cows come home.

the DEMs gone.

@David (not BU)

What did the email say?

Ann Reid from the Barbados Private Sector Association decided that the Association will release the result of a survey of “their members” coincidentally just before an election which said that government agencies owe the private sector 49 million dollars and they need this money for cash flow etc. The report obviously did not mention for long this money was outstanding or if any of this debt dated back to before 2008.
Chris Sinckler then last night had to remind the same association that government is owed over 200 million in vat,NIS,etc from the private sector.
If I owe you 200 million dollars, you think that I should be running around telling the world that you owe me 40. .

@ David

The crowd in Heroes Square last night could not make 1,500 people, I know as I was there. The platform was absent of any vision or plan for the future.

The Commissioner of Police cancelled the meeting on Wednesday night at the request of the BLP given that Owen was sick and had been to see the doctor that day. A sickly prospective PM is a no-no so they had to come up with something, so they opted to turn a negative into a positive.

Balkans so damn foolish.

@!

Yours is an argument which exposes that you are naive on the issues at play. Yes Sinckler’s statement is factual BUT the position/revelation from the Private Sector Organization shows an anti-government stance. Another disaffected group with a general election looming.

caswell

Does your “union” have more than one member?

Muscle Mary Lynch aka the man that made the costly and financially disastrous decision to taxpayers of renting an empty cruise ship for Cricket World cup was in heroes square lamenting the decline in tourism. When last I checked the entire English speaking Caribbean was complaining about the lack of spend by tourists – Could it have anything to do with recession and sluggish growth in our source markets , higher ticket costs becasue of APD,lack of investment in hotel plant over the years, ? No – Muscle Mary wants intelligent Bajans to blame a DLP government . He should go next door to St. Lucia and see that almost every major tourism / real estate project in St. Lucia including the prestigious Landings is in receivership.Let common sense prevail Barney, Barbadians will not swallow your crap,musclehead!

@ David- I was showing the hypocrisy of the PSA statement, not the politics. A BLP MP told me a few weeks ago ,”You think that a government could be in power for 14 years and not have supporters strategically placed in every major organization”.
You see it in the BHTA, Family planning, Small Business Association,Chamber Of Commerce, Barbados Employers Confederation, the so called Consumers Organization, Barbados Association of Corporate shareholders, ICAB, Ed Bushell at BARP and countless others. People who when their “boy” or in the case of the SBA their “girl” in power turn a blind eye and complain privately but when their party is in opposition remain silent.
Politics is in every organization in BIM especially at this time.

polls ! like i asked before there is a number which seems to be overlook in the category of “i dont know”: : Unsure” maybe a total of 63% of the electorate. forming an conclusion on the minority is foolish. .

@ac

Nobody is overlooking the I don’t Knows. It has been explained in the methodology how the pollster has been able to use historical positions to make conclusions.

@!

Going to the esoteric argument is fine but the job for the government is to win the message war. This is the key objective. It matter not what the BLP is doing and whether you think their strategy is wrong.

Except the BLPites who think it us a done deal and calling for the “bell”this is going to be a hard fight no easy stree for the BLP and reality with the uncommitted numbers .the BLP should not take comfort in the POLL. . the PRIVATISATION ISSUE is gioing to resonate as soon as the bell rings reminding the public sector what to look forward to. Plus integrity legislation being put in place is going to put OSA on the ropes.Surely another “rumble in the jungle” to look forward to .PM saving the best for last.

@ac

Do you understand what is involved to operationalize Integrity Legislation? An Integrity Commission has to be put in placed to manage the process. Those affected will have to be given time to submit their financial statements and close family. Do you think the government has the luxury of time to implement? You really need to understand the current reality which the government faces in a hostile environment. The DLP waited 4 years and now wants to rush these important pieces of legislation which should have been given priory to start with.

The BLP made an error by broaching privatization but many understand that something has to give, using NIS funds to bankroll current expenditure is not sustainable.

@David Jan 19 8.19am
When I heard Mr Buffoon Sinkler pontificating about how much is owed to the Government and juxtaposing that with the 49 million owed by Govt to the PSA,I said if these guys think they can write off the PSA by that kind of stupid argument they have lost this election and they know it.It does not need explaining,the writing is on the wall.
As if that is not enough we hear the nonsense from Inniss yesterday prefaced by lots of if’s,another dead giveaway that they are losing it big time.

Gabriel Tackle

Don’t waste your time with Sinckler, he is only proving what I have been saying all along, and that is: he does not understand much. He is behaving as though the PSA is a single entity that owes all this money. He does not understand that the money is owed to individual companies that make up the PSA.

He is not seeking to recover any of the $25 million from Courts. Instead, they have now appealed and I am told that relevant documents are now missing from the file, so Courts might walk.

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What will be interesting is to see if Courts retrench employees while owing the government 25 million in VAT. We should bear in mind that the CEO of Courts Barbados is Patrick Tannis’ wife.

David

Thanks for that piece of information. This is now making sense. Lord help us!

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quote from submission: “This Republican Barbados Labour Party and detractors like Peter will get a rude awakening when general elections are held; what they expect will NOT happen. Just reflect on the US polling….OBAMA won hands down.”

I have been waiting to hear someone “TRY” to draw a parallel between Obama’s Democratic party and the Barbados Democratic party.

The Obama Democratic party in the face of a global recession took tough and proactive steps often in the face of a sea of adversity from all sides to make sure the poor and middle class did not carry the full weight of what needed to happen by way of an economic recovery.

As the complete opposition, the Barbados DLP has for 5 years deployed a “LETS WAIT AND SEE” strategy which has Barbados’s poor and middle classes in a dismal economic state today. The DLP has compounded the impact of the global recession via a PM lead DLP recession of ideas on how to effective move Barbados forward and “NOT” on the backs of poor people.

We can’t as a nation afford 5 more years of poor PM leadership and an under-performing government on all fronts.

Caswell at 8:30 p.m. “Pray tell me what delayed the Senate until 8:30 pm. The simple answer is they were filibustering to deny the BLP the opportunity to use Heroes Square for a public meeting

The Nation carried a big story of how the Senate was suspended at least twice during the day because of loudpspeakers outside promotiing the same BLP meeting. That is the cause of the Senate finishing at 8.30 pm. Only a stupid person can be misled by Caswell One Member Union Franklyn.