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I was about to say that at least the people of Barbados will be spared the size of the last Cabinet given the number in the Lower House, but fa’get ’bout the Senate picks …. Stupse!

No party is without internal struggles for power. To pretend that any party is without leadership struggles would be hypocritical. I would wait to cast judgement on either the government or the opposition. It seems to me that everyone on this blog claims to know exactly what is currently going on inside both parties.

It doesn’t make sense speculating on which party is more united than the other and what sort of fights are going on internally because if you are not one of the members of the parliamentary group of either party; then you simply do not know.

A cabinet hasn’t even been appointed yet and the first sitting of parliament has not even occured and everyone here is trying to sggest that Ms Mottley will again be ousted as leader or assumes that the DLP winning will automatically quell any leadership battles. Why not wait until a few months and see what developments spring up?

I personally believe that it will be a totally different ball game from both sides of the political fence. These 5 years will be so interesting.

@millertheanunnaki | February 25, 2013 at 11:19 PM | Amen!! Well said. Congrats, MAM.

“The miller does not want to fight in the gutter but if required he has enough dirt stored up to sully all the hypocritical linen in a dark closet parading as whiter than snow.”

I got nuff dirt too and I will side with you, Miller, so between the two of us………

@Sargeant | February 25, 2013 at 11:40 PM | “…….Stuart is underrated…….” I agree with that completely, but not most of the rest of your comment. I have always strongly believed that he IS underrated. Unfortunately, this is the fate of many bright, competent people of good faith with a lack (or dislike) of communications skills. Stuart now has no choice politically but to work on that, because he is not opposed now by a distrusted has-been, but by a strong and very popular leader. I have no doubt that if MAM had led the BLP into the general elections, the political landscape would have been very different today. But the good thing is that neither Stuart nor MAM are revenge-driven and both are pragmatists – and, outside of the House, they actually seem to like each other – so I am hopeful that, where possible, they will work together in what is, after all, a time of crisis. I would go further and say that, given the crisis, it is their duty to do so. And they must be held to account if they do not.

CHris Sinckler must be Loving this!

@TTP

Except when he try to set an agennda on what would be off limits pertaining to MIA lifestyle in the political arena, He seems to forget his ruthless and constant accusations pertaining to PM STUART sexual lifestyle . miller you open the gate .Either you apologised or ac would follow your example! promise

BAF, has it ever occurred to you that some if not most of these scholarship and exhibition winners will return to contribute. Given that a lot have tried over the years and were soundly mistreated, we also have to take into consideration that there are not enough jobs and positions available for scholars to contribute anything in Bim i personally know of lawyers and doctors now in Barbados who cannot find jobs and have to emigrate anyway. My point continues to be, Trinidad sends 40% of their brightest minds out to study, Trinidad now owns Barbados, around the world, India, China, Japan, USA, Germany, Canada etc, etc, sends their brightest minds around the world to study cause they know that some if not most will contribute even if they do not return, in some for or another t the country of birth. Most people in Bim don’t understand that a countries population is their only true resource, trying to academically imprison scholars on an island that has very little resources, will see that island remaining in the 18th century mode, with politicians continuing their small island corruption indefinitely. How many scholars do you see wanting to enter the nasty swamp of politics in Bim. The last scholar who had anything to do with politicians in Bim was more than happy to die in his sleep and he had just turned 40.

What would be encouraging for MAM and the BLP is for Toppin, Payne and Marshall in the coming weeks and months to make statements/gestures which show their unequivocal support for her. It was not loss on BU that MAM was flanked at the press conference yesterday by Sutherland on her left and Bradshaw on her right.

One thing Mia Mottley will not have to worry about is press coverage. The Media loves her . She is a talker and has many admirers in the press. One issue for Ronnie Clarke and Starcom, at the opening ceremony of the LIME football tournamnet last year Ronnie Clarhe admitted that he voted for Mia Mottley in his constituency in 2008. We have a programme manager at Starcom admitting that he voted for the woman who is now BLP opposition leader. Pat Hoyos admitted on Sunday what the world knew that he was supporting the BLP.Surprise surprise.
PM Stuart will have to fight a stronger opposition and a media that will side with Mottley on every issue. Remember you heard me say it here first.
It would be good to ressurrect The Barbados Association Of Journalists.

@ Crusoe .
” …Clyde Mascoll would be the ideal candidate for St Michael South ” ..
I say to you Crusoe, leh he come ! the licks we put pun Lynch would be like child’s play . wunnuh din think Lynch could get beat suh bad nuh?

We cut off quite a few heads, Seethru now accepts that he is a spent force, Mascol will not be taken seriously again, and the pollster is now being seen for the fraud that he is. Just to mention a few.

Boy, quite a lot of issues were settled in the last elections.

We are really going to have a lot of fun with Mia as we go forward.

Stay tuned!!!!!!

Also we want Seethru to vacate that office space at the UWI!

NationBLPnewspaper wrote”PM Stuart will have to fight a stronger opposition and a media that will side with Mottley on every issue”

That is good for DEMOCRACY. Barbados is not Cuba.

This could be the best governance Barbados has had in 50 years.

It is up to the parliamentarians.,

The elections are over and it is time for Nation building or Nation saving.

Integrity Legislation and Freedom of Information acts should be passed into law and the appropriate bodies set up to enforce them.

Food security and import substitution should be a priorty.

CLEANING Barbados should be a priority. Tourism is “your business”.

Solar energy and wind power should be a priority.

The above will create JOBS and has has been preached from the BU pulpit by both dees and bees including Millertheannaki who is probably now an advisor to the Leader of the Opposition.

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@ac
“it would be interesting to know the names of the ones who voted against MIA”…………………….. .

When the king died, were you interested in who voted against Freundel? It has only been hours since Mia’s elevation to leadership and I mean you start bringing out your knives already? What the hell does it matter, she got the majority of votes and this is what democracy is all about.

You only come on BU and blabber your nonsense and conveniently ignore what goes on in the DLP. Do you know that when Freundel Stuart went to the GG on that morning on DT’s death, the GG asked for all of the DLP MPs to come to Government House just to ascertain that they were all behind Stuart? Do you know that that blabber mouth from St Lucy who voted for himself held on to his vote and told the GG that he would give his support only if he is guaranteed a ministry?

That ac is what went on in your party. Mind your business before the BLP’s!

With the result of the poll 16/14 Barbados must now deal with the fiscal mess that’s left from the last government.Failure to constructively solve this mess will create a more serious result in this economy:-
Credit will dry up
Money supply will contract
Unemployment will spiral
Businesses will fail
Property values will decline
The solution will be to reduce the public sector payroll,but who on the DLP side is willing to do that given the posture that group took on the election platform.
But it must come as day follows night,and all you ‘won’t say’,’won’t vote’,’indifferent’ middle class bajans will weep and gnash your teeth.You have given over your stake in this country to the ‘lumpen proletariat’ led by a person who delights to carry 3 or 4 pens in his pocket looking busy and wearing a wedding band on his left hand,but nobody knows if he is married and to whom.It’s a state secret.We like it so

Mia will be fighting on two fronts, in a manner of speaking.

She will have the unenivable task of taking on the Democratic Labour Party while fighting for survival in the Barbados Labour Party.

My sources tell me that the Barbados Labour Party is blaming “traitors from within the party” for their recent defeat.

Whatever that means.

Prodigal Son what ac should mind is the fact that to date the has not named a cabinet. In light of what is reported at the QEH, one would think that would be front and centre but i could be wrong.

In that case you will have to follow the money and find out who got paid or who was promised what.

David | February 26, 2013 at 7:04 AM |
What would be encouraging for MAM and the BLP is for Toppin, Payne and Marshall in the coming weeks and months to make statements/gestures which show their unequivocal support for her. It was not loss on BU that MAM was flanked at the press conference yesterday by Sutherland on her left and Bradshaw on her right.
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And David I am sure that you could not have helped noticing how perplexed and unforgiving George Payne and Dale Marshall looked after the announcement was made.

You should also have noticed that the maruauding BLP “five rebels” of October 2010 was again in action yesterday as they sought to re install Owen Arthur…with the addition of one more traitor (As Owen Arthur was absent )

I believe you noticed the treacherous look on Kerrie Symmonds face….when it was disclosed that Mia Mottley had won the Leader of Opposition vote yesterday.

ac | February 26, 2013 at 5:45 AM |

@TPP, could you please convey a message regarding intellectual honesty to ac?
Tell her that the miller will only attack and expose those who lay claim to the title of Mr. Clean & Pure while wearing dirty and soiled undergarments.

Unlike what ac has done to OSA the miller will never be interested in the private life, far less attack, any person in public life unless that person is being hypocritically disingenuous in discussing other people’s private lives or sexual orientation. The miller comes from a culture where such public attacks are deemed as criminal offences.

With regard to her specific charge about Mr. Integrity let her know the miller was most upset about that derogatory remark about Noel Lynch for which he has so far failed to apologize to the man and his wife. Mr. Lynch is deserving of much political vilification and attack but that slanderous barb by the PM was the “most unkindest” cut of all coming from a man of ‘feigned’ integrity.
Until he does, the charge still stands with personal evidence to support him.

Again leave Mia Mottley’s private life and sexual orientation out of the political shooting range. A similar level of behaviour applies to all in public life unless they are hypocrites and liars.

CCC, you have been warned! It would do you a world of good to emulate a few good things about the UK, Canada the USA and other mature democracies that Bajans like to ape.

PS: Ac & CCC now OSA is beheaded and to be buried politically who or what will now be the focus or target of your putrid venom?

@ Carson C. Cadogan | February 26, 2013 at 10:34 AM |
“When on the political platform, I hammered it.”

And it is this same display of dishonesty and lies that will come back to bite your backside within the coming year or so.
We shall watch as you stew in your own privatization juices. When one lives above one’s means there comes a day when one must face the bailiffs.
Retribution is a bitch, CCC!

http://itccs.org/
read well People , C.U.P will see you all in court

Barbados is in a real quadmire after the 21st and what’s all the merriment about? Next up is the laying off of Civil servants by the droves and the big P Word privitization. Bet no one wants to be first to break the news that DEM lied.

How much longer before we see long line of Civil servants in the unemployment lines can anyone help me? Paying salaires from borrowed loans will soon come to an end dear Bajans, WAKE UP FAST ! Elections Honeymoon soon over and reality will have to kick in.

BIG FIVE PREDICTIONS
IMF in charge before Christmas
Bds Credit Rating declines rapidly
Massive public sector lay-offs and cuts in social programmes like Free Uni
A Jamaica -like post 76 fiscal crisis with devaluation on the cards
Collapse of the Stuart Gov pre 2015

Given what everyone nows is hanging in the air, I think most people are justing waiting for the other shoe to drop.