@ Yardbroom | February 2, 2013 at 6:01 AM |
“…the UK will come out of this well, much to the advantage of Barbados.”

And if the UK does not come out as most economic pointers indicate for the future?
You still just don’t appreciate that what the UK and most Western European countries are going through is NOT economic recession but a seriously sustained adjustment of their economic structures and social / cultural relationships within their own societies and with the rest of the World.
There are no longer any more “third world” countries to easily extract and exploit their wealth and people. China has taken over that game. Many of these so-called First World countries are on the brink of becoming “Second” World status nation States with Islam and other cultural forces from North Africa, Middle East, Asia and the Indian sub-continent spreading their dominant influence and economic ownership and control of the remaining industrial and commercial wealth built up from the days of slavery and pillage of other countries’ natural resources.

Even some of the earlier colonial exploiters of sub-Sahara Africa and South America are experiencing a trend of ‘recycled’ or ‘reversed’ migration patterns reminiscent of the early colonizing days of exploitation and control where Europe was exporting its indigenous populations to ease the burden at home.

Portugal and Spain are undertaking once more such a journey of ‘rediscovery’ to ease the social and economic pressures back home but this time the cream of the skilled crop is leaving. Unlike the illiterate, unlettered and unwashed who made the first round of trips making Vasco da Gama and Cristóbal Colón disorientated in their allegorical watery graves in charting this current course of exploitation and pillage.

Sorry to say this, Yardbroom, but your partisan passionate plea for a return of the DLP to power is subsuming your intellectual integrity, with your former firm broom of commonsense lying rather shabbily in the gutter.
Don’t expect further growth in tourism or FDI for Barbados out of Europe especially from the UK where Double Taxation Agreements (DTA’s) or Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TEA’s) are no longer of any advantage to Barbados and has levelled the investment playing field to the distinct disadvantage of Barbados with its excessively high but exceedingly slow cost of doing business and a growing perceived dislike or animosity towards ‘foreigners’ under this current DLP administration.

The recent bad press in the UK about the rape cases and the quality of policing and justice administration along with the recent vicious and brutal attack of an outstanding mature British couple in their own villa accommodation have left a bitterly bad taste in the mouths of potential visitors and investors who will not easily forget how they have been swindled by the principals of the Four Seasons project and, right in the making, the volcano-brewing Harlequin con game of a real estate ponzi scheme.

Go figure, Yardie, and give your broom a good “brushing” to remove the flub, flue and fluff clogging up your intellect and clouding your yellow DLP jaundiced eyes and tell us how the DLP can get us out of
this mess instead of dwelling in the past of pre-2008 Barbados and attacking a dead lion.

Remember the advice of your leader Freundel the awaken giant of a lion killer: It’s better to be a ‘lying’ dog pretending to be asleep than a dead lion called the Beast of Four Seasons.

The word on the street is that Kerry Symmonds could not find his deposit and he cut up some car seats in anger and frustration. So much for the BLP “forced imagery of unity and discipline “. This BLP campaign has obviously been about style and not substance. The speeches from the platform in Heroes Square were unimpressive spent cursing a dead man who could not defend himself. If anyone wanted evidence of the lack of integrity surfacing on BLP platforms, there it is.
Countries all around the region are feeling the effects of a global recession and the BLP response is to say that unemployment has gone up under the DLP. Has there ever been a time when our major trading partners were in recession and we did not see a rise in unemployment locally? Is this not a tourism driven economy? Doesn’t the level of unemployment in England affect the tourism arrivals and spend locally?
It is time for the BLP to stop insulting the intelligence of our young people with cartoons, jingles and gimmicks.
All of a sudden, there is a BLP gag order on the specifics of “privatisation”. Barbadians have realised that any private company that takes over statutory corporations will look to follow the example of LIME. If any of these workers were dumb enough to consider voting for the BLP privatisation plan they are saying goodbye to thousands of jobs.
That is why the BLP gag order is now in effect on this topic but Bajans are not as stupid as the BLP thinks.

I like where things are in Barbados’s stalled politcal and electoral progression. The prospect of a one term government is exciting to me, and the potential for party breakup or fracturing or siphoning of some to form a 3rd party is closer now than at any time since the NDP.

I think several one terms are a needed shock to the entire political class to get a moving on deepening participation of Barbadians in choosing party leaders and Leader of the country. I also think that both parties are at risk -resulting from a lost- to infighting, and potential breakup, fracturing due to differences; this is good in several ways. It can lead to more participation of rank n file party members having a say in who becomes the leader of either main parties, and rank n file participation is a stepping stone to some day allowing bajans at large to have a say by way of their x in choosing who shall be call leader of Barbados. We are on our way folks. LOL

This might sound silly but it seems like the elections date has caught the DLP by surprise. They are simply not ready. Imagine Dr. Estwick saying on television that he is a lawmaker and not a lawbreaker so he is not putting up any posters before Nomination Day because he would be breaching the law if he did. Which law is that? He should really be saying that the date caught him by surprise and his campaign material are not ready as yet. I would have more respect for him as a result.

By the way, did anyone see the PM paying in his deposit with the other DLP candidates who seem to have been caught flatfooted by the BLP deposit paying stunt? To make a long story short, Freundel is not with them. (The use of the present tense is deliberate)

I hope the Dodds prison fiasco reminds these two parties when in power and planning business with foreign nationals, especially when spending taxpayers money to check with the FBI and INTERPOL FIRST. Run the individuals names through law enforcement databases and find out who you are dealing with, unless of course the plan is to skim money of the top and getting kickbacks at the expense of the taxpayers.

@Caswell,
“Imagine Dr. Estwick saying on television that he is a lawmaker and not a lawbreaker so he is not putting up any posters before Nomination Day because he would be breaching the law if he did. Which law is that?”……………..

What a laugh? Did he not know that he was a lawmaker not a lawbreaker when he pulled a gun on Dale Marshall? Dont the courts lock up people for pulling guns on people?

What a laugh? Did he not know that he was a lawmaker not a lawbreaker when he pulled a gun on Dale Marshall? Dont the courts lock up people for pulling guns on people?
——————————
Prodigal
If you have evidence of such an act ….find yourself to the nearest police station and present the evidence.

Or forever….hold thy peace !

miller, Caswell,

Would you believe that with all the talk the Dems piling on about the BLP will send home people when the Bees win, do you know that this government is still hiring people filling up Immigration as late as last week?

This government knows that the public sector is bloated yet they are still hiring. For you know what? Just to say that if they have to go, they would say we told you so. Can you believe these people? They are borrowing 40 million dollars every month from NIS to pay salaries, when are they going to stop? When the NIS runs out of money? Yet Sickliar said the NIS has 10 million dollars surplus every month. How can it?

But you know they are only hiring their friends and family………….one is Byer Suckoo’s nephew, one a relative of Harry Husbands and another a relative of Darcy Boyce. Only their friends and family can find work.The rest of us have to suffer.

I know friends of mine whose children have returned home from university well qualified and cannot find work. One friend’s son who is a doctor can only get a little stint here and there. I saw recently that Byer Suckoo’s son has a big position with the Coastal Unit, I mean, I have no problem with that since he was a Barbados scholar but what about the other children who came back with first class honours as well? The problem is the government’s policies have hurt the private sector so badly that they have contracted and cannot employ people!

What an achievement, DLP!

@David
“Here is another example of politicians playing us for fools. We all know that within the precinct of parliament the Speaker and the organs he control is judge and jury”………………………….

But David, did Dr Estwick not admit that he pulled the gun on Dale Marshall in his apology on the floor of the House?

@Prodigal

But how is it a matter for the police?

@pieceuhderockyeahright

I have to humour myself; for I have been saying these things for as long as I have been interested in bajan politics which was since 1976. I am also excited to see that no matter the obsticles, no matter the ignorance and lack of will to call and confront these things, changes are occuring that will lead to the very circumstances that are needed to revive our stall progress.

@ Millertheanunnaki

Barbados as an overpriced destination

You know that the BHTA going put a fatwah on your head right!

I used to go to a very popular place where the sell Souse. They increased the price uh de pig and decreased the size of de container

As a pensioner I had was to stop Anunnaki. Your statement plussing all de udder tings dem doing to de tourisses is going to be lost pun de BTA de BHTA and of course de ingrunt Minister of Tourism soon to be also ran

Why would any body pay more for less while being robbed, raped and cussed in a tourist destination where the island’s top cop seems incapable of identifying the true culprit in the crime and is intent to lock up an innocent man particularly when the victims categorically say that this was not the rapist!

Gearbox could run our tourism industry ten times better.

Just to highlight his marketing skills, I remember one Saturday going to town and seeing a crowd at the corner by manning wilkinson and channellor.

after pushing my way to the centre of the fracas I found Gearbox there with a long hair in his hand and he said ” in my time I have seen alot of hairs around a c**t, but I have never seen so many c**ts around one hair”

He is probably laughing in his grave or wherever Noel Lynch wants to send him when he sees us voting for these same bad words en masse.

Hi millertheanunnaki, Feb 2, 2013 @ 8:59 Am

I made reference to the UK and suggested that an improvement in their economy could be advantageous to Barbados. In your response to me and in a subsequent post you mentioned Jamaica and Cuba and suggested their figures had improved.

I tend to compare like with like and use FACTS to support my arguments. Unfortunately, you “often” use character assination and the sexual habits of others – of which I have no knowledge – to underpin your position. I do not go there, this once I will respond to a direct question.

The proximity of Cuba and Jamaica to the USA and Canada – two areas where there has been increased growth – is much nearer than Barbados to the UK, our key market, to many tourists that is a major factor.

Also of note Cuban Immigrants have and are returning there in great numbers which is of major significance to their economy.

I have often said – even in my last submission – Barbados has not utilised the connection with Barbadians abroad. That has been a major mistake over the years, to people who have a reason and money to spend and are not made as welcome as they should.

Cuban Minister Manuel Marrero: “referred to the significance of the visits to the island of Cuban emigrants and said that their numbers “continue” increasing and have improved by around 50% compared with 2009. The Minister said Cubans living abroad are becoming one of the most important segments for the island’s tourism sector, adding that arrivals from the United States and other parts of the world are increasing.”

A source of ready revenue Barbados has which it has not been able to attract.

Surviving the Financial Crisis Jamaica: ” Creative discount packages were designed in order to attract tourists to the island and stimulate strong demand growth in the USA and Canada, due to their promixity to the island. This compensated for the decline in the number of arrivals from the UK”. Eurominotor International.
I rest my case.

@ my fellow bajans

If I am here at 86 when the BLP would be seeking another term I will watch and see if this saviour we going wid Owen will have brought restoration or will he claim that the silver vampire slaying bullets in his bushmaster were blanks because he was unwilling to kill the recession vampire too?

Maybe if he were to invite it to Ilaro Court during his time there from 2013 to 2018 he will be able to drink it to death!

@Prodigal
I saw recently that Byer Suckoo’s son has a big position with the Coastal Unit, I mean, I have no problem with that since he was a Barbados scholar but what about the other children who came back with first class honours as well?
****************
If you have no problem with it why is it necessary to post it? And isn’t obtaining a Barbados scholarship the pinnacle of Bajan high students academic meritocracy? Why don’t you post your nature of “friends” childrens’ disciplines and report the reasons why you think they were denied jobs.

Attack the candidates if you must but leave their children out of it, they have not offered themselves as candidates and their names or identities shouldn’t be bandied about in any partisan debate.

I am sure Byer-Suckoo’s son was not the only scholarship winner from that year or the brightest one, it must be called what it is.

@Sargeant

The issue here about the son of a sitting minister getting a government pick is not about merit BUT lack of transparency and patrimony. It needs to stop.

If I were a politician and any of my children needed to get a pick … if they qualified, you could bet that the pick would be theirs. Human nature, and though wrong on the principal of fair play, absolutely right on the principal of paternal instinct …

@Sargeant

It is useless discussing this matter with given your willingness to push your head in the sand. It happens in Barbados Ok, you can trust BU on it. You can have the final word.

@Sargeant
“Attack the candidates if you must but leave their children out of it, they have not offered themselves as candidates and their names or identities shouldn’t be bandied about in any partisan debate”……………………

Be off, Sargeant!
It matters when certain people can find jobs because of their connections when others who really NEED the job cannot get one because of this government’s policies and taxing companies to the hilt.

I did not bandied about anyone’s son, the young man was featured in the newspaper for the whole of Barbados to see. Get lost!

Here is the ad of Minister Stuart being discussed. Is it affective? Time will tell. Alot will depend on how the PM prosecute his case against Arthur as he promised on Wednesday night to do.

http://bajan.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/fruendel.png

@ David,
I can see your position and I know of cases like that of which you speak. However, I do not know the circumstances of the Minister’s son getting a pick. To suggest as some have done, he was given the job because of who he is, without any evidence for that assertion it not quite fair. Is does not matter what job he was given that could have been said.

Particularly if as is being suggested here he has the qualifications to match the job.

In all fairness, why should the young man who is not a politician be subjected to such an attack without EVIDENCE. . .because of what has happened in the past.

@Yardbroom

And given the nature of how the system of patronage is practiced in Barbados how will we get evidence unless mere ordinary citizens call these people out? Will you wait for it to drop from a truck? Will you wait until the politicians out of the goodness of their hears hearts and commitment to transparency tell us?

@ Yardbroom | February 2, 2013 at 11:39 AM |

You don’t rest your case because your red herrings will not be caught in the net of truth and integrity!
I never mentioned anything about USA far less the Canadian tourist traffic to Cuba or Jamaica.
We, Sonny Boy, are referring to the traffic out of Europe and Barbados’ main and formerly most profitable tourism market the UK.

When you advise your sexually confused leader of the DLP to stop referring to a married man called Noel Lynch as a woman I will listen to you and possibly Cameron Tudor who was a known homosexual and a very intimate pal and mentor to the closeted gay guy hiding behind a cloak of misogamist decency and misogynistic integrity.

David

When people are employed in the Public Service and the post was not advertised in accordance with the Employment and Recruitment Code, someone would have breached the law. Ministers should not be seen as openly violating the law. Were these posts advertised?

Sent from my iPad