If this is true, it is a prima facie case for police investigation – and they do not have to be called in formally. The public statement is itself enough.

WELL! WELL! what you are missing is the TRUTH! OSA produes a check for services rendered to DT and associates and DT not her to respond. in the meanwhile OSA receives a check from CLICO for 75 THOUSAND dollars put it in his personnal account and has never in five years respond to what he did with the FUNDS. OSA is a liar.BAJANS would not be FOOLED>

@ac

Think!

This matter does not die because David Thompson is dead. Mara Thonpson the former office manager of Thompson Associates is alive. Also remember this is politics and the DLP will suffer collateral damage based on how the public perceives its role in the whole affair. This is not only about David Thompson.

Will be keeping a very close eye on this one. My friend ac will have a lot of explaining to do. Why are your friends paling around with this guy?

Thompson in 2008 and Arthur in 2013 and the people caught in the middle.

@ ac

Furthermore, 5 long hard years after Haggatt Hall you still want to know about the “$75k cheque! OSA has made it CLEAR over and over again that the cheque was made out in HIS NAME. And like most normal people, when a cheque is made out in their name, he deposited it to his account (quite a normal procedure) and then he paid the $75k back to the party account. So, where’s your beef, ac. At least Owen can give an explanation for that cheque but what about that cheque for $3,300,000.00 (3.3million blenzers) from the CLICO account. Tell us, ac and any other DEM, explain that one to us!

@ the exclamation mark

Man, you like you still sleeping too, just like ac. Man, WAKE UP, nah! This is not about Owen or DT now. This is about the fraud perpetuated on an entire population, including you, who will now have to repay all that money (maybe lots more that we don’t know about yet!) This is about a Minister of Finance getting on a public forum and vilely referring to a member of the general public as “A BARE POUCH PUSSY”! Is that the kind of intellect that we want from a government minister in this proud country called Barbados? Did he not take advantage of the free university education and use it to uplift his mind and thoughts? Or, did he use the opportunity just so he could keep his mind in the gutter? Because those kinds of statements could only come from someone whose mind is tainted. Or, are we to continue to tolerate government ministers who would go into Parliament and question another MP’s paternity?! Questioning whether another man is really the father of his wife’s children. How much lower can one get? If that was not hitting well below the belt (pun intended) then what is? If you were placed in that position what might have been your response? You may have only given him an answer with Ri RI’s famous, or infamous, word, I believe you would have wanted to knock his mouth off at that point. Ah LIE?? And, what importance in that to be mentioned in Parliament anyway? So, WAKE UP and smell the roses or, in this case, the fumes from the NUCLEAR bomb that Owen exploded last night in West Terrace.

@ AMUSED
So, you still voting fuh DEM now???Wheel and come agin man!

Know what folks?No one will go to jail.As David said to me in relation to Owen ‘s check these things happen all the time.My guess is We Like It So.

@H Hill

Like it so, you say! When I can barely pay my mortgage for my l’il tinnin’ boodoo here by the Bridge? Only the Good Lord knows how much longer I am going to be able to do that and feed my family as well! With all the burdensome taxes that have been placed on us over that last 5 years. I now paying $465.00, instead of $265.00, a year to keep my 16-year-old Suzuki legally on the road My land tax increased, my food is now costing me 17.5% in VAT, my water bill increased by 60% my light bill! well, lets not mention that! Soon have to start lighting “de ol’ smut muh ded mudder gone an’ leff muh wid” and hope de ol’ wood house doan ketch fire! I ain’t even mention de cost of gasoline fuh de same Suzuki and many of the other burdens that has been foisted on us these last 5 years by DEM so! And, to make it worse I am a senior citizen on a very limited income. My wife has not heard of, much less seen, a salary increase for the last 5 years either!
So, wheel and come again, Mr. HH! Like it so nah! Try that stunt on a little 4 yr-old child, not on big hard back, mature people who are crying out under the huge oppressive situation!

@Crystal

He did but yet monies were still able to reach Parris via Thompson & Associates. Questions which need answers.

@ David

Did I not suggest to you last night that you were missing the explosion in West Terrace?

You like you fell asleep at the wheel that time. 🙂 🙂

@ David

But Dave, what has suddenly happened to the voices of all the “big-up” DEMS who were so loud and vociferous all along on this blog until now? DEMS gone back to sleep already? Man, try and wake DEMS up and let DEMS know the election is tomorrow, it is not time to sleep yet. Tomorrow Dave! They are behaving as if they have a few more weeks to sleep!! They still playing “catch up” with the Bees. 🙂

@Kevin | February 20, 2013 at 9:12 AM

Hard evidence in black and white writing. That is the difference. Before now it was just allegation and innuendo. So now the DEMS have to deal with it UPFRONT and BOLD. Wish them luck in trying to explain all of it!

If BU understands correctly the 3.3 million was issued by Thompson & Associates to an account at CIBC which was not owned by the new owners of Thompson & Associates at the time?

Just heard from a reliable source that when the Ds get knocked out tomorrow the USA will be filing documents for Pornville, no diplomatic passport = no immunity. heard the same will apply to Michael Lashley, and they are questioning why he was not locked up. it gets even worse. To all I say GOOD LUCK!!!! Day can run, but night will catch it. HA!!!!

Musing | February 20, 2013 at 8:27 AM |
Wickham’s second poll in two days is a puzzle here is why. Wickham posits that the swing remains at 7% against the DLP where it climbed to a long time ago. If this is the case we can draw the conclusion that the entire three week campaign by the DLP had no impact whatsoever. In other words despite government’s excellent performance in five years in the face of history’s worst recesssion the swing needle did not move.

Despite outstanding articulation of solid creative proposals by the DLP to take Barbados forward during the campaign nothing registered with the public. Wickham’s second poll in two days “to right the wobble” and the now infamous “outlier” means there was no push back from the extensive hard fought battle of ideas coming from the DLP.

The long hard grind of the election campaign based on Wickham’s poll was absolutely unecessary. Producing manifestos was a waste of time.The people of Barbados according to Wickham’s poll are dense. Nothing from the DLP influenced Barbadians despite more than half of them being mass based DLP supporters. The swing needle did not flutter by even one percentage point in the three week campaign although the PM moved from single digits in popularity to draw even with Owen Arthur.

Wickham’s poll postulates that in the face of a multitude of revelations which umasked and showed the BLP as a disunited discredited institution they marched serenly onward. The obvious in fighting in the BLP, Mia Mottley’s destruction by Arthur and his cronies, the condemnation of the BLP’s economic proposals by respected neutral economic analysts counted for nothing says Wickham’s second poll.

As a humble university graduate I find Wickham’s second poll in two days hard to believe. It is an affront to my intelligence. Wickham’s second poll is a puzzle. The mother of all polls is Thursday 21 February. I will accept the results of Feb 21st poll not Wickham’s.

Both parties are guilty of misleading the taxpayers and abusing their trust and the offices taxpayers allowed them to hold. However, I don’t think anyone from the BLP is being sought by any foreign government just yet, for breaking multiple international laws. Their turn too shall come.

Donville Inniss is being reported in the news this morning that he denies all that was thrown at him last night by Liz and the BLP.

@ac

Okay ac, you win hear! If you could call the case of the $3.3MILLION SLANDER, you can go right ahead and brainwash yourself that it is SLANDER. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating and people like Sinckliar and Pornville going eat DEM words that they spewed out of their mouths like vomit! Imagine a government minister calling a member of the public “a BARE POUCH PUSSY” and another one questioning the paternity of another MP in, of all places, Parliament! What nerve these DEMS have! And, those are the people that you want to continue to govern this country? Lord help us! Have we not eaten enough of the bread that was kneaded by the devil already? Marie Antoinette of France, so long ago, lost her head at the guillotine for less. So, yes ac, you win. I just hope you do not happen to have to reap the benefits of your sentiments!

@ Alvin Cummings
……CLICO is not a Govt issue”

Why don’t you put down your yellow paint brush….you sounding STUPID-DDDY mannnnn !

Roverp, This is the inevitable price ‘we’ all pay for allowing the wrong people to be placed in policymaking positions that they are NOT qualified for.
WHOEVER, is elected tomorrow, if they are allowed to put their friends and cronies on critical boards like the BTA, they will never be forgiven again.
The BTA is starved of money, but there is still enough to buy or lease an AUDI luxury SUV Q5, only for the CEO to leave weeks later.
Sue of the BHTA is absolutely right and I hope that the politicians FULLY understand the implications.

@Musing

What you are missing in your analysis is that the BLP was allowed several months without any responses from the DLP. Their numbers were allowed to rise without any intervention from the DLP.

When the election was finally called, the DLP did not take the initiative so it was still the BLP that seemed to be leading in terms of issues and even the fact that the BLP had posters up for 48 hours before the DLP responded.

So whatever can be said of the DLP’s campaign, the BLP was placed in a position where it could play defence and still win. But the BLP played offence all during the campaign, and basically beat the DLP at every turn – with advertising, crowds of 25k, 18k and 20k, manifestos, and the final bomb releases.

So essentially the fact is that even if we said the DLP ran the most effective campaign, you would also have to admit that even if the BLP ran a worse campaign, then it wasn’t that far behind and in my view, it actually ran a superior campaign.

Now, if the BLP did not run a campaign and were sleeping for the last 3 weeks, then your argument would be correct. Unfortunately that was not the case.

Tomorrow will be about the ground game – getting your vote out. If the BLP runs a superior ground game, it will win as many as 22 seats, but even if the DLP runs a superior game the most they will get is 13 seats – not enough to for a government. If they run similar “on-the-ground” logistical operations, then it’ll be a 20-10 victory for the BLP which some would say is the likely case.

FS is a really bad leader, incapable of listening and he has surrounded himself with people who speak his language and who he thinks are lesser mortals. In that situation there is no value-added and everyone including FS will be shocked by the outcome even though people with some level of objectivity were telling them this – they kept shooting the messengers and looking for people who would say what they felt.

The DLP has the leadership it deserves. What now should be the focus of the debate is who will be or should be the leader of the opposition.

My own view is that we could end up in a place where Dennis Kellman could be the Leader of the Opposition or even Mara Thompson – because the key first string leaders – Chris Sinckler, Donville Inniss, and Freundel Stuart are quite likely to lose their seats.

This likely DLP defeat is grounded in poor leadership and finds its genesis in the decisions made while David Thompson was ill and all the various steps that were taken during and after his death.

FS if he considered himself the DLP leader should have been firm about becoming the member for St. John and he should have been equally focussed on the timing of the general election.

@ac – take your head out of the sand. A new dawn is coming!!!

@Alvin

You have made the same mistake this government has made. There is the legal position which you outlined but then there is the political dimension which HAS to be managed. It is too late now.

Poor ac;poor!.poor Boots Cummins;all sick dems destined for the appendages of the book soon to be released “The DLP.The rise,fall and collapse of a Barrow legacy”,a lesson in visionless politics in Barbados 2008-2013.