The Democratic Labour Party has now been turned into a fundamentalist right wing bastion of conservatism and it is difficult to see them implementing any thing that will propel this country forward. Certainly this is not the philosophy that Errol Walton Barrow espoused .The Party has gone too far right and the influence of christian fundamentalists is to be noted at this time.
Is this a positive development or not ?

The tendency to sit and wait and do nothing until the world does something is characteristic of its present leader Freundel Jerome Stuart.

Where is Barbados heading ?

‘your logic always mystifies me. What emperical can u produce that the manifesto could not have made an impact. if the blp was leading up to the paoint and suddenly the manifestos were produced , the gospel of both parties, why could it not have made an impact? Just thinking aloud’

YOUR LOGIC MYSTYFIES ME AS WELL AND IN MY VIEW YOU ARE USUALLY QUITE SOUND.WHAT EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE WOULD THE MANIFESTOES PROVIDE TO MANFESTLY DEMONSTRATE THAT THE ELECTORATE WAS VERY APPREHENSIVE ABOUT THE RETURN OF MR ARTHUR.
I WOULD LIKE TO POST WHAT EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IS THERE FROM THE ELECTION RESULTS TO SUGGESTTHTMR STUART HAS NOW EMERGED AS THIS GREAT KIM IL SUNG. CERTAINLY NONE, HAVING GONE INTO THE ELECTION WITH 21 SEATS AND LEAVING WITH ONLY 16 WHEREAS THE AGING AND INTIMIDATORY ARTHUR ENTERED WITH 9 AND NOW HAS 14 NOTWITHSTANDING HIS CAMPAIGN BLUNDERS.

balance

Has Arthur ever lead the DLP into anything ..? BTW, have you ever heard of Winston Francis Cenac …?

@DAVID NOT BU

YOU R A SORRY LOSER, THERE WAS NO NEED FOR PETER TO HAVE REPEATED THE POLL. WHAT WOBBLE WHAT. HE DID WHAT HE DID TO PLEASE HIS MASTERS, REGARDLESS AS TO HOW U TRY TO SPING IT, HE DID NOT PREDICT A VICTORY FOR THE DLP. SO U CAN NOW TAKE UR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND AND COVER UR ASS.

wait, i seeing some new blogging names here all of a sudden, do we have the old bloggers disguisng themselves?

@AC

What has happened to Scott?

Hate to break it to the party faithfuls but it appears that the 16-14 win has now been reduced to 15-14. Told yall don’t celebrate so soon.

As I said the win was really for the taxpayers showing who really and truly holds the power in Bim, the politicians were all only allowed to barely slide into their seats. If they were not so embarassed by the shock delivered to their systems by the voters, they would man-up and admit the smack down delivered to both parties by the electorate.

Has Arthur ever lead the DLP into anything ..? BTW, have you ever heard of Winston Francis Cenac …?
THANKS BAF BUT YOU KNOW UI MEAN THE BLP

@pearlie

i did miss yah even though i stayed a way for a few days. How yah did like my preiction or 17-13. Ah did nearly accurate . I betta get a new name and call myself that fah lick yuh. How yah like dah.

On a serious note, we have to hold hands and when we de party doing foolishness give them some lashed too. I hope that foremost on our PM mind is a strategy to communicate often with the Nation. If estwick wants the Ministry of Finance, I would give it to him. Chris does not cut out for Fianace, I would like to see Donville remain as Minister of health. I will give Dennis Lowe Labour. I will put Sincler as Minister of Tourism. I would put Richard Sealy as Minister of International Business. Kellie will be my choice for environment. Maclean for FX Affairs.

We have 6 more years of Freundel now.
Owen should remain at the helm of the Opposition for 3 years and if the country seems to be on even keel, he can hand over to Mia and allow Clyde Mascoll to canvass in the St Peter constituency. The BLP needs a top economist in their camp at all times.

Two factors which have had more impact than people are admitting are:
1.) That old lady transportation/privatisation advertisement/LIE which the BLP was UNABLE to definitively REBUT.

Each day CBC started with that LIE and was highlighted throughout the News.It shows that there is still considerable influence of traditional TV media on the people of Barbados regardless of how good your Internet media campaigns are.

2.)THE DLP had more effective speakers. They can entertain you for an entire night. Freundel, David Estwick, Chris Sinckler, Verla, Michael Lashley in his nasty remarks, whereas the BLP only had Owen and Mia who was hoarse and was rather reserved in her attacks.

Well the next 6 months will be very important and we will see what this DLP administration can do.

what am i saying???? it is now 15 DLP -15 BLP. This is even more interesting.

THURSDAY was voting day and by now all would have seen and heard the results which would have been embraced by some hopefully the majority and not welcomed by .
Friday was gloating day a time for the DEMS to feel free in a democracy to celebrate their victory wether it be by small or large gains cause it was a victory for which they fought long and hard for against the mover and shakers that are bound and determined to take over this country taking all and giving little in return.and i point my finger to the BHTA which received millions upon millions of dollars from the past administration and under these hard and stressful economic times still pressure the govt to do more YES i am highly suspicious of those who would put self interest above the interest of COUNTRY. . A victory no mater how small is still a VICTORY and deserves a time for celebration. An athlete after long hours of hard work does endorse his winning with enthusiasm and gusto and the same reasoning should apply with good reason for the outburst of emotion felt by those who work hard to the victory on FRIDAY ……………………………………………………………………………………… Now today as reality sinks in we as a people must face our challenges together and look at our government with roving eyes and called upon them to move with haste with policies that would be beneficial to all and not to the few who think that they have a right to ownership and the working stiff and unemployed deserves what they get..

From past-performance of the DLP, no one will migrate. This country is in a very precarious position and Stuart does not inspire confidence in businesses nor in the people of Barbados. He must become a new man.

Mia MUST be named Deputy Opposition leader and then if Stuart holds the country she should be allowed to take over as Leader in 3 years. I LOVE YOU Mia but this country needs the top economists and experience PM just in case thing start to go awry.

TO THE POINT,

Interesting suggestions, but knowing the perlious state of tourism industry,
having ‘lost’ over 100,000 long stay visitors during the last five years and 92,000 plus cruise ship passengers last year alone, don’t you think there should be some radical changes on how this sector is treated?
Why not appoint a new Senator with proven success in the industry and who becomes the new Minister of Tourism.
It may not please the cronies, but it just might inject some new hope in the tourism industry.

@David
Can anyone explain what happened in St Philip South?
How is it that a ballot box was not counted and went missing. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Wood declared winner and then said to have lost by 400 votes.

I must admit that i am one of those who did not believe that Fumble Stuart would have won.

Yes you will note that i have not recanted in my use of the derogatory moniker Fumble and i will tell you why.

I am not one of the rank and file who blindly believes that there was a comprehensive strategy that was centrally administered by the current PM of Barbados

I am not an official pollster in fact barring being an official pensioner and a certified Bajan i am nothing at all.

What i do know is that every single seat was fought for INDIVIDUALLY and all the chanting bout integrity and leadership, barring the old bembers like me who are the party faithfuls, and the young giddy head generation Z first time voters, the new electorate, that band of in-betweeners, voted because of the individual and what they were/are seen to do/be doing/propose doing in the constituency.

It is the foot soldiers of the DLP who are to be commended on this victory and not Fumble nor for that matter Owen See Thru.

It is the tireless canvassing by the gents and ladies who once again have toiled in the trenches that brought home the INDIVIDUAL wins.

Two more terms and all that DLP Errol Barrow for the people tripe and Grantley Adams ignorance is going to be gone into the grave and it going be ev’ry man fuh heself.

That is what de fellows like Wickham doan unnerstan. This is not about any of the esoteric ramblings that Fumble does espouse, nor is it about his infantile obeah man speech on becoming the leader of this country.

If the BLP had put a man to contest his Fumble’s seat, he would be moving out of Llaro Court.

I would even suggest this that if Mia had run for Fumble’s seat he would have lost, that is the popularity of the person Mottley.

That should inform the BLP and DLP candidate selection process to (i) get good footsoldiers who are respected in the community and (ii) select people based on their competencies and not longevity this is what the electorate is looking for. We going wid Owen is a dead thing.

Had Mia Mottley been the BLP campaign manager, instead of that dimwit Jerome and Serrao, dumb and dumber, the BLP would have won. Mia, irrespective of her lifestyle, understands people and can sit down with princes, (or princesses) and de man pun de block.

Fitzherbert and Alcazar nor Jerome cannot think furthermore they cant move “in the trenches”. Both men have disdain for the common man and woman that shows in how they operate. John Boyce is an arrogant assh**e but, when pitched against Jerome, well the people have spoken and this should inform the BLP high ups.

Owen has now lead the BLP troops into two general election failures, it is time to retire him like me.

When we old men start to hobble around, dribbling, wetting our pants, cant hold our liquor, sleeping on political platforms, it is time to be put out to pasture, one has to gracefully acknowledge when “the daughters of music cease their toil”.

At 81, I am not saying that we should crawl home, and like old elephants, leave the herd and go out alone to die, such is not the nature of man, but if you are not part of the solution then you become part of the problem.

good post .Piece uh deh rock. Funny too!

@ Fed up.

The Commissioner of Police should be immediately summoned to arrest and interrogate the Head of the Electoral and Boundaries Commission, the Chief Returning Officer and every one of the clerical personnel at that Counting Station.

Balls in the drawer and plastic bags with Baygon should be employed as usual to get admissions as to how one complete ballot box could go missing.

You mean to tell me that the Returning Officer or whoever is responsible for making a determination that ALL of the ballot boxes are at the counting station BEFORE the counting starts did not notice that a box was missing!!

That man or woman is a functional illiterate and the Nation, or should i say, the We Going Wid Owen Newspaper should use the first page of the newspaper to show that ignoramus’ face on Sunday’s issue.

In fact, if any of you know the editor Vivianne Gittens, (yes i said the Editor causing she does write Hoyte newspaper now) i would call her and get her put a pictice of dat national idiot pun them yellow sticky tings, de tings she use in dis general election to decry de DLP, dem yellow stickers dat does have a habit of dislodging from my newspaper and enn’ing up all bout my house.

Whoever that clown is, should be carried out early at dawn and Jerome should be set upon him until sundown. I could see Jerome counting away dem passion stroke up in he pooch. I apologise oh Miller for this imagery, (Baffy would identify wid dis) but how you could miss a ballot box wid 400 hunred votes?

ac, you see that is why we struggle to progress in tourism on Barbados. While I appreciate your comments, they are totally inaccurate.
NOW THE FACTS;
Tourism in the Caribbean grew by almost 6 per cent, ‘a growth rate that outpaced the rest of the world’. Hotel occupancy across the Caribbean was UP 7 per cent and tourism spending UP by 3.6 per cent.
It is on Barbados that WE have the problem and very little to do with ANY recession or global economic situation. Its a convenient excuse.
May I suggest you READ my Tourism MATTERS column tomorrow.

The above comments apply to 2012, when Barbados long stay visitors fell by 5.5 per cent and we ‘lost’ over 92,000 cruise ship passengers.
So a more than 11 per cent differential with the Caribbean generally.

Someone in North America was asking me two days ago why the political lineup of both parties was so riddled with lawyers, we counted at least 20 or 21. They wanted to know why they were not more accountants and business people, as well as architects, scientists, and all round professionals.Now that is a very good question, given that lawyers in Barbados are now so closely linked with corruption at every turn. It would be a refreshing change.

In a way I agree with AC about not putting all your eggs in one basket, you should run ads in foriegn newspapers saying lawyers for sale ….you seem to have a lot of them.

ac, I don’t disagree with you. I too think its big mistake to be so reliant on tourism, but we have to be realistic. I know its a very little thing, but its the principal – when PineHill unilaterally decided to stop making yogurts at a time when there is a huge milk glut. We have to try and change the mindset and encourage the individuals/companies that are trying to support local industries.

@Well Well

I will try to answer that question for you and your North Amur’can friend.

The answer to this quandary could be answered by any Bajan student, aged 7, at one of our primary schools, (probably the equivalent of a 11 year old at a public high school for inner city black youth in Amur’ca).

THE COMMON DENOMINATOR. Like i said, We learn about this mathematical mechanism at a tender age.

It is what in biological terms is the crook gene, yes you can tell him that i have conducted a study on this gene, the results of which i am soon to publish, (once Vivianne Gittens publisher and editor at the Nation is done with her dribble on the DLP victory)

My book is titled “Cloning the Faeces Cell” under the pseudonym Ezra Alleyne.

For one to be a “politrician”, one has to have that serpentine trait of (i) not having a backbone, or (ii) having a forked tongue, or (iii) being able to say yes to impossible request and, when asked as to the progress on a matter by one’s electorate, pass the buck to one’s Permanent Secretary, or similar subordinate functionary, someone who, because of the general orders, cannot say that the minister, and the parliamentary representative, is a liar.

I would have used the pseudonym Chris “Buffalo” Sinkliar to publish my book but that name, and that of my favourite alternative Noel “Face Down while being Ravaged” Link is taken by real people. My lawyer has advised me that when my book becomes a best seller that those two scoundrels, who ironically are politricians, though not lawyers, will seek to get the proceeds of my book.

My lawyer was especially fearful of de las fellow Link, who he say when Obadelle did win de brass medal at de Olympics, when “Face Down” cun tief it, cast aspersions at Oba running style.

I trying to ge a little pic at de nation to write an article like Lik Mout and Hoad but Vivianne doan like me and i ent know why

We just had problem in the canadian senate which could have been avoided if we had your paper on genetic studies. One of our appointed senators (a reporter) was claiming living expenses for living in another province even though his primary house was in ottawa. When he filled out the forms he found them vague and confusing so he thought he was entitled to 42000 dollars for those living out of province.He has promised to pay it some of it back.This could all have been avoided if he had a legal background, he would of known from the get go how much he was allowed to steal.