@ ac | March 3, 2013 at 10:04 AM |

Until justice is brought to the CLICO policyholders (Not the EFPA’s) and Leroy Parris is given his just desserts the miller will continue to haunt the dead DT and his associates.
Bring justice to the table for the living and the dead will RIP.

Can we suppose that a similar reaction can be forthcoming from you if OSA pays back the $75,000.00 to the CLICO Redemption Fund?

The following quote is taken from columnist Shuntal Munro-Knight’s piece in today’s Sun:

While I would not want to take anything away from their win, I suggest the DLP take time for some serious reflection after the champagne has been poured.

The slim mandate that has been given should not be taken as an endorsement for a business-as-usual approach; the country can ill afford it. Rather, the Prime Minister and his Cabinet, unfettered by unplanned for circumstances, need to identify and lay out a plan for the country’s development which should display a strong vision and be highly innovative – characteristics, in my opinion, which were lacking in their previous term.

I note with interest and a tad bit of disappointment the make-up of the recently announced Cabinet; it’s a little too familiar for me. While on the one hand it can demonstrate confidence in your team, on the other it shuts the door on new thinking and energy that is necessary to shore up a Cabinet which, while solid, is a bit unexciting.

http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/firing-line-commission-of-inquiry-for-poll/

God dont like ugly not talking about muscle mary but about the orchestrated tearing down of DLP posters. A drive across Barbados during the campaign showed nearly all DLP posters deliberately pulled down. This was seen in 2008 but 2013 it went ballistc. It was pellucidly clear there was a plan by the BLP to destroy every one of the DLP posters. Youngsters gleefully took money to do the dirty deed. Much of this money ended up paying for marijuana and other illegal drugs by the said young people mostly recruited from the blocks.

No one tore down BLP posters up to today two weeks after elections BLP posters are on nearly every light pole etc as they where when Nasser crew blanket the island with them illegally prior to Nomination day. Guess what the BLP still lost. God really dont like ugly.

The Electoral and Boundaries commission indeed Parliament must stiffen laws against destruction of political parties advertising material at same time harsh laws come for vote buying and selling. The BLP campaign budget raised from cake sales and car washes outstripped the Dems by at least $5 to $1. We know the piper must be paid.

The BLP will suffer another defeat in 2018 so Mia, you too wickham, brace yourselves assuming Owen dont come back for his crown.

@ David…There is not very much that can be done.Journalism today is about views rather than news.Certain news stories die a natural death after one phone call.What is redeeming is the fact that we are a discerning people.This is evidenced by this last outcome.David(not BU) calls it BS,perhaps that means Brutally Straightfoward,for there can be no denial of the fact that the campaign against the DLP government started immediately after the 2008 election and continued unabated right through till Feb.20th 2013.At the end of the day the people saw right through the facade built by those who sought to hoodwink the public.As well as that transport add worked,what really turned the tide was the question why was there such intricate involvement by certain private sector groups?What was in it for them?From whence and why did the letter read at West Terrace surfaced?Why were these business interests so willingly pumping funds into the BLP coffers from back in the days when David Thompson was PM?What would their returns be?Enter the Carwashes and Cake sales answer.If all is above board,what’s there to hide?
The fullness of time I suspect shall expose Caswell’s claim that the Dems bought the election as empty,though I suspect that he already knows such.The fire sale started long ago and as I said before the Dems fought nastiness with nastiness,and the fact that after such a well crafted biased campaign ended they came out on top,lets shout VICTORY for the small man.Promises made to the money moguls remain on hold while we work to build a better Barbados.

Alongside a successful DLP media campaign many have concluded that vote buying played a significant part in the final result. The following extract is from Peter Wickham’s column today. It seems he also believed that vote buying skewed the final result, and the debate continues:

This insidious practice represents a perversion of our political process and indeed a misrepresentation of public opinion, which makes is difficult to conclude thereafter that our Government is popular.

Vote-buying aside, this DLP Government is the statistically the weakest and consequently most unpopular in our nation’s history. If the vote-buying factor is included, then we need to ask ourselves if the election was an accurate barometer of public support for this Government and what are the consequences if it was not. Notwithstanding, I have accepted the result of this election and apparently so too has the BLP Opposition.

http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/people-things-who-got-it-wrong/

Jevan Jutagir & RED Advertising really eff up in a piss poor campaign trying to push Dale and sideline Mia, while Owen airbrushed back into 1994? Utter crap, the Fire Freundel videos are all off the Net now, DEM’s should set Peter Gilkes on RED’s sorry backside! Then again Minister Inniss has better chance now!

what do u expect peter to say, the result he wanted, he did not get and hence he has introduced a new variable into the equation. In sociological terms, he is is looking for an excuse for his double wooble. it wont work peter.

donville called him to witness who is who of the blp, past and present involved in vote buying. This amend my above post

@ TO THE POINT | March 3, 2013 at 11:07 AM |
“I am told that the Wetherhead guy had his chops out for the Transpor Btoard, and the williams man was to lay his hands on the water uthority, In thsi connection, how much would they have put into the cofferw of the BLP.”

So you are told these things, right? Then let us hear unequivocally from you that the DLP will never ever go on a programme of privatization in any form whatsoever.

You must state that this DLP administration is totally committed to keeping things as they are as far as ownership and control is concerned but with a few management tweets here and there involving political “also-rans”.
Let us hear you commit yourself to this and if they fail to live up to this socialist ideal with no money to back it then your reputation as a soothsayer would fall the way of the Old Onions bag, Prodigal Son, Well, Well, David (Not BU) and yours truly the miller.

@ David
The election is done and we are trying to do a post mortem from a people perspective, can we do it?
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Do what? All this is (mostly) another excuse for the winners to rejoice and the losers to lash out, and for Peter Wickham to use “Vote buying aside” as an excuse for his piss poor polling performance (excuse the alliteration).

A curious thing about “vote buying” but some ah wunnah got short memories, I mean as short as a few weeks. Just recently when the question of the infamous cheque was raised on these pages the justification from many was that the cheque was made out in a personal name and cashed on Election day in 2004 ( not before). The cash was allegedly doled out to candidates on that day , I will now presume that it was used to buy Mauby and Fishcakes for the campaign staff.

@Caswell, Miller et al.
I want to make it clear and plain that neither ac, AC, nor any of those apply to me. I fear neither man nor beast, BLP nor DLP, so I will always sign my contributions with my full name. Next @ Caswell: The DLP did not “buy” the election as you so boldly stated. They didn’t have to.. The BLP did it to themselves by the type of campaign they ran.
1. The opening night of their campaign should have been the introduction of the candidates. Instead it was a “Dub show” with the politicians as as “side show.” this “Fete” mentality turned off many people and gave the impression that the party was not serious.. 2. Many of their Social media blogs, advertisements etc were repugnant and caused negative reactions in any but staunch BLP supporters who were thinking the same way. For example one blog I received portrayed both the Prime Minister and the Governor of the Central Bank;-two honourable gentlemen-in Nazi uniforms, calling the PM a dictator. This was odious causing a negative reaction to it. 3.The “coup” that returned OSA to prominence within the party turned off many “neutral” persons with a sense of fairness.4.OSA, in a desperate attempt to score points pandered to the persons associated with the CLICO issue and spent the entire speech the night before the election attacking Leroy Parris and trying to link the infamous “invoice” with the DLP. That time might have been better spent pushing the party’s platform. People who understand the CLICO debacle would not have been swayed at that last minute by his diatribe.5. People were aware for a long time of the activities of the “pull down brigades” and were offended by it, and turned off of the BLP. 6. Thinking people-and most Barbadian voters art “thinking” voters-were aware of the impracticality of the proposals of the BLP manifesto. They were not prepared to take chances. These, among other mistakes were the causes why the BLP lost. Based on the popular vote in favour of the DLP indicates that vote buying could not have been responsible for the government victory. By the way, if votes were bought, what percentage of those “selling” their votes would have been eligible tovote< and would have voted?
@Enuff.
"With regard to "free" drugs from the Drug service, pensioners were getting "free" drugs because the
government was paying the DISPENSING fee; all pharmisists charge a dispensing fee. People are still getting "free drugs" it is just that they now have to pay the dispensing fee. That is what government stopped paying

The BLP was involved in vote buying in a big way. Caswell is talking bare foolishness and repeating the BLP party line.
A host of big money BLP donors fanned out to different districts in Barbados with the money on election day. They were seen in Haynesville, Deacons Farm, Silver Sands, the City, Lammings, St. Joseph and the Pine and others. Among the group was Sir Richard Cheltenham and Hallam Nicholls to name a few.
It was very blatant in Haynesville as defeated candidate Sandra Husbands and cantankerous Liz Thompson were involved as they went after Donville Inniss.
Do not mind the BLP bullshit .
This is a PR strategy which they tried with the posters too. They came out making accusations when they were the main perpetrators.
Mia Mottley should look at the groups of young men that Arthur Holder was running around after on election day with 50 and 100 dollar bills.
Cynthia Forde is another HYPOCRITE. While on election day, she was not seen buying, she did her buying in the weeks before the election. Ask her if she was not passing through her district passing out 20’s and 50’s in the weeks before election.
Ask Delisle Bradshaw and Tony Hoyos about the money which they spent in the Pine.
Ask Gregory Nicholls why the group of young men were waiting in Free Hill .Black Rock up to 5.30 pm on election day when the girl announced “Gregory got the money on the front road” which he gave to the man in the beige car to distribute.Then a horde of about 50 fellas headed to the polls just before 6pm.
The BLP should be shame but then again, they have no shame.

THE WORSE GOVERNMENT IN THE HISTORY OF GOVERNMENTS IN BARBADOS has been re-elected to OFFICE————–A TRADEGY–if ever there is one.
Mia Mottley says give them a chance.
Give them a chance to do what ???
No new ideas will come from this Government
What will come is a new level of ARROGANCE !

When the DLP won in 2008, there was a display of arrogance when they said to the BLP, wunna had 14 years
Now they will say –the people rejected wunna –again—we dont want to hear nothing from wunna.

I am not pleased with the election result, not pleased at all.

The BLP was poised to take this country up, now we have to settle back to the same crap for another term (not 5 years) . Given the history of the DLP , WE DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG A TERM IN GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE.

I shall now count the period 1994 -2008 as a period that we will probably not see in Barbados for a long time. Reminds me of the period of West Indies cricket dominance. It was sweet sweet sweet –like honey from the Bees while it lasted. Will the Windies get back to those sweet days ? Will Barbados get back to those sweet days. ?

JUST ASKING

THE DLP was involved in vote buying in 1976

Let BU register its agreement with Pat Hoyos’ view that we need two or three active pollsters in Barbados. To have only Cadres creates a situation where the credibility of Wickham is constantly under attack and probably does nothing to enhance his reputation. The fact that he plays the role as a prominent social commentator adds to the problem.

@Observing
Subtract the strongholds from your totals and recalculate that popular vote. You may see that it’s not as “popular” as you’d have us believe. Peek at the marginal seats on both sides, look at the candidates, and then see if you can accept the fact that the “purchase” of 50-100 votes by direct or indirect methods could have had an impact on the overall result.
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That argument is nothing new it could also be made for the DLP after they lost the Election in 2004.

Time to familiarize you with another idiom, “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades”.

“Last night I dreamed about a dream, across a clear blue sky, I dreamt a dead man won a fight, and that dead man was I”

The invasion of Normandie and how the German high command was consequently fooled to move divisions to the wrong beachhead, ensued using the corpse of an indigent man, cladding it in military clothing and planting some convincing military papers of a pending invasion and dumping that body so that German soldiers could find it

DT, rest his soul, was such a corpse, useless in life, parading around with fabricated qualifications, cloaked in the thin veil of Families First and footballs for free while, his firm David Thompson and Associates raped poor bajans of $3,333,000. 1/3 of the full sum that the dearly departed scoundrel realized – the rest is in the US

Now, lest the Blpites jump onto my ship and start thinking that I am contra David and pro Seethru I would caution you to remember the $25,000 that mr. Unbreakables himself collected during his last and final reign of terror.

Many of his detractors comment that DT left nothing that is of any worth to the bajan landscape barring this Clico hangman noose for 15,000 bajans and green verbs Parris

I would be inclined to concur were it not for the fact that in his passing, much like the corpse of the indigent, DT performed one act of seeming, saving grace.

I now relate this grace for Notwithstanding his friendship with Sinkliar, DT knew that leaving Barbados in the hands of Bishop Sununu meant that Chris who previously had MP1 carry him to classes at UWI with a police outrider, would not be a wise choice to leave as PM OF BIM.

So while in life DT *ucked up the pensions of 15K of us, in death he sought to atone for his 3,33,000 sins by leaving us in the hands of “the less likely to tief” Fumble.

On the issue of the rest of the 10 million, a check with Delisle Worrell at the Central Bank might yield the rest of the other forex he and the DT Associates remitted overseas.

Will Mara please give an account of what has happened with the proceeds in the Families First accounts.

Hopefully Fumble will hold the widow accountable to the people under this Integrity chant that he has been singing here of late

@Observing
I am saying that many of the BLP MPs and candidates are hypocrites. The BLP presented a piss poor team of candidates,many like Lynch who were recycled and portrayed the same arrogance and vindinctiveness that voters rejected a few years ago.
Despite the world’s deepest and longest recession in recent memory, Bajans decided that they were not going back to that.
The BLP spent more money by far than the the Dems but they semed to think that because Wickham’s bump and wobble poll suggested that they should win and because they had the blessing of the corporate elite and certain media spokespersons that they could roll out Lil Ric and the Bajans would just fall in line.
They made gains but did not achieve their ultimate objective and now are spewing all kinds of accusations around the place.
I can tell you that I know of the BLP bigwigs who are out trying to buy votes and in a couple instances police and officials from Electoral and Boundaries commission were called.
If you have evidence of any such behaviour from the DLP, you should do like me and call the authorities. The BLP spent the most money any party has ever spent in the history of Barbados and lost. They should be mature enough to admit that and not accuse others of something in which they were so heavily involved at thighest levels of the party including the current opposition leader.

@Hants

As previously stated it would remove the focus from being exclusively placed on Wickham. It would give a greater opportunity for the science off polling to take root. This view does not change BU’s view that polling should be discontinued three or four week before E-day.

Barbados doesn’t need any more pollsters that is like saying we need more lawyers there is not enough work for one pollster far less three what we need is a competent professional pollster who doesn’t have his fingers in too many pies.

Pollsters can have personal views like everyone else but when a pollster is in your face all the time through the media expressing his personal
opinion(s) why should we be surprised when his polling confirms these opinions.

It is really funny to see the DLP supporters on here point all the fingers at the BLP and they have some serious problems in their party. Wanna think this David Estwick thing is jokes?

Ok.

David not BU

You ninconppop, your party still has problems. People in glass houses dont throw stones.

@Just Asking

Will u ever get common sense?
Will u ever get common sense?
Will u ever graduate from 3rd Grade?
Will u ever graduate from 3rd grade?

@ David (not BU)

Well if what I heard and read about in Pudding n Souse is true then its not only Frenduel that has to watch his back. It goes double for Mia as well.

Piece

Will owen account for the funds in the St. Peter Development Foundation or whatever it is called.