To all those who thought there would be a landslide so they could benefit individually, I say you deserved what you got. The bitter pill will now be administered in the form of transparency, administered by the taxpayers.

Wickham really needs to pack his bags, how can you live in a community and be so out of touch.

BTW “working together” means inviting members of the opposition to meetings of Cabinet. That does not happen in the Caribbean so please, be quiet on this working together foolishness.

Barat, my deepest sympathies to you …

BAF, we shall see – There are greater forces at work here, the recession is still in full swing and they have no control and will never have any control over it. The spot light is on them like never before.

CONGRATS to the DLP!!!! They ran the superior campaign and won! The BLP must analyse why despite all the poll hype etc…they did not win. The fact is marketing is not about the fancy toys that you can use but using the definition as your guideline and doing the things that definition demands. That is where the DEMS were outstanding!! Let us now all pray for the entire 30 persons that have been elected that they may focus on the important things. I pray that GOD be their guide and that they do the things that please him. I also pray that they recognize things that they need to correct and correct those things.

February 22, 2013
Why We Wound Others with Our Words, Part 1
From the series Five Lies that Ruin Relationships
Gossip, slander, rumors, lies – we’ve all felt the sting of wounding words, and truthfully, we’ve delivered a few ourselves. In this message, Chip shares how to begin controlling our words, and how to respond when we are wounded by the words of others.
http://livingontheedge.org/broadcasts/player?bid=b846e2e6-b0f0-49d2-9855-36158eb35529

Congrats to Freundel.

He pulled it off despite several seeming missteps along the way. Lets hope that he will not take the election results as a mandate for him to operate as he did over the past 2.5 years, i.e. as a somewhat laid back PM, eschewing any attempt to monitor and control his Cabinet ministers and minimizing any contacts with the general public. I hope he recognizes that he got the luck of the draw this time and that he will have to change his style and involvement in several areas of governance to allow BARBADOS to get out of our economic morass and progress over the next 5 years.

There has to be a new Freundel. He has to control the exuberance and sharp edges of CS and help him to get proper economic advice. He needs new blood in his Economic adviser team. He has to interact more with the Business community. He needs to talk with us more. He needs to really demonstrate his proclaimed integrity by dealing with integrity issues proactively and not waiting for people to be sentenced by the law courts to take action, etc.

This election should see Owen Arthur giving up the mantle of Opposition leader. If the economic portents are real. It was an election that, from the point of view of the youngsters in the parties, might have been better for them to lose. The closeness of the seats should ensure that Mia will be up front in the next five years and the youngsters in the BLP will be able to develop an effective launching pad for winning the next elections.

The next 5 years will be interesting for UWI, the CLICO policyholders, business in general in the Island, Tourism, etc.

For all our sakes I wish Freundel well.

Caswell does talk so much shite, you should really give it up. This had nothing to do with Owen bigging up Mottley. You all spend to much time looking for national trends that don’t exist. The people in St.George south don’t care who or what the people in Ch Ch west want or like, and this is true across the country. Hartley said it best, this was about local needs and voters views of the two candidates in their constituencies. I called it correct 16/14 for the DLP only getting Suckoo-DLP,Todd-DLP , Edgehill-BLP, Atherly-BLP, incorrect.

@Adrian

Are you saying Stuart has no choice but to leave the status quo?

After the celebration and hangovers, let’s hope both parties realize that there is more than a lot of work to do, the problems now plaguing the island did not go away last night. The problems have magnified.

I keep telling them don’t be so quick to celebrate, this could turn into a really, really hot mess, that for the taxpayers sake, I am truly, truly happy to see.

Now Wickham is just a spectre.

@ checkit-out …sound and sober reflection.@ Caswell..let go of your personal grouse so that when Mia or Chris Sinckler make a misstep your post can be seen as credible.

Congratulations to you Dems. It is your time to gloat, I give you that! The PM instead of addressing the nation and asking for healing, was so petty and vindictive! I pity Freundel!

Peter Wickham’s poll was right, the election was lost yesterday when the Dems’ plan worked. They rolled out the millions of dollars they got as kick backs and commissions and their plan worked. Peter cannot come out and say that the money the DLP gave away yesterday is what made the difference.

I sat in an office yesterday and calls keep coming in saying the DLP offered me this amount, you have to match that if you want my vote. In Scarborough, the boys waited for money before voting and the money came. This is where the BLP lost, remember a DLP yardfowl said that the Dems had the BNB money to blow, well, blow it they did.

I mourn today for my country!

That was quite a few millions to blow, now how will the civil servants be paid for the next 5 years??? Oh, I forgot NIS money, the pensions.

I am looking at the brighter side of this, in other words, the taxpayers made sure they were properly well paid by the politicians to make sure that neither of these two parties got a landslide. I am sorry, but I love it!!!!

It seems now like at the end of the day everbody has advice for stuart.however STUART has demonstrated that he is capable of walking through landmines without being blown to bits and i can assure you that he has already worked out in his mind who the detractors are and how to deal with the boobytraps which would be put in his way.ALL this talk about partianship is just a joke OSA is a prime example over the past 5 years.

For the PM it should really be straight forward and easy ,just do the people’s work and make sure it is done efficiently and transparently.

@PRODIGAL!…………………….MY DEEPEST SYMPATHIES. However not to be meaned sipirted i have sentyou a box of tissues.

Boy Dennis mention we on Brass tacks. I like dat the “blogs” taking more prominence these days. To Peters chagrin, I might add.

Let them know that the populace will not tolerate any little hitlers and mealy mouth dictators.

I respect the decision of the electorate although disappointed with the final outcome because I have found nothing the DEMS did in the last 5 years to warrant a return to the old same.We shall have some interesting times in Parliament as these numbers will necessitate MP’s be around for passing legislation.There is every possibility of measures being defeated because head counts will matter.
I believe we will see Hal Gollop in the Senate and maybe a Parliamentary Secretary in the PM’s office but I don’t see him being appointed AG at this time.
There was no dissatisfaction with Brathwaite’s performance as far as I’m aware.
It would be of interest to see if Stuart assumes the role of Minister of Finance.

@Gabriel

Do you accept that the PM and AG positions are the two most senior position in our system of government? Do you accept that Adriel Brathwaite has the resume as a lawyer to satisfy the job?

Denis,

totally agree and we seem to have made a lot of bad choices.

@Adrian

Should we bring someone from outside the house to be minister of tourism.