@Just Asking

Howmuch Owen, Liz, Forde, Cheltleham, Mia.(not in her constituecy), Pain(emphasis on pain, why did someone had to go and cuss Sutherland for dissing out money. Why did Liz run into a house etc. etc.

@Alvin

u have sumed it up quite nicely. I woud have though by now that the vanquised would have accepted that it is time to move on and let us chart a path forward, but like they did in 2008. they have started to find reasons why the dlp will not survive. The lord is always on the people side, The amount of money that was spent against, Donville and Chris ,one would have thought the outcome would have been different, but these gentlmen won by increased margin.

@TTP
I apologise. The truth tends to make us touchy. I’ll temper it next time.

Hypocrite – one who practices what he preaches against, or, one who condemns the action of a person but condones the same action by the other.

I deem you a hypocrite for condemning the BLP for vote buying, while not at least acknowledging that it was also practiced by the DLP and/or their surrogates.

There…..those are my cards laid flat on the table. Please clearly point out how I am hypocritical….if you can.

And to save you the trouble, if you claim that you have no concrete evidence of DLP vote buying, then be man enough to admit that you neither have for BLP…or at the very least, accept the words of US who saw and know as you would want us to accept yours.

Let’s rejoice in what was a peaceful election and hope that our leaders get it right…for our country’s sake.

Just Observing

@ To the Point | March 3, 2013 at 2:04 PM |
“I am not stupid, i accept that there was massive vote buying during this elections, This prasctice need to be halted. its undermine our democracy, and the fact the the private sector is willing to invest so heavily in such parsttice should be a clear sign that we have not achieved much since the days of slavery”
Thanks, TPP!

The journey of a 1,000 miles on the road to moral salvation begins with the first step.

Now make another so that the Light of Righteousness can shine for you to see the way.
Would you admit that the DLP committed a legally corrupt and morally wrong act by using a Transport Board bus and worker(s)- State owned and employed resources- to achieve its own narrow partisan electoral ends?
Do you agree with such actions? Do you still think that such illegal practices also undermine our democracy?
The voting buying scandal might be true back lacks hard evidence. The illegal abuse of State assets is clearly visible and can be easily substantiated.

We will be most surprised if you have the decency to respond to this prick of your conscience, if you do have one indeed.
If you don’t respond we can assume you have taken the PM’s advice and returned to the empty cane fields of morality where your mind is still enslaved and blinded by partisan myopia.

@Miller

after viewing the power point presentation and the lies ur party fed the public over the 14yrs it was in power, would u say that it had created the jobs that it did, the truth shall set u free.

After hiding the debts that we had owed by using off balcne shhet financing would u said that ur party had told barbadains the truth?

Would ur party had broken the Income Tax Act, even though Mr. Forde had warned that the moeny should have been taxed all along. Then again, owen is accustomed to breaking the law. No wonder Public Officers rejected him in large numbers the truth should set u free.

Do u think that it ws right to advertise that NIS pensionners rearing 50 000 a year will be free of income tax. No NIS pensioner earns that amout form NIS, unless I have been given the worong inofrmation. The truth shall set u free.

@Hants

I have said before, the state should set aside a sum for campaign financing and only that amount should be spent. No Ad can be placed by other than the party and there should be elction police out there where it is known that the vote buying occurs. I will go further and state that I will make voting compulsory and those not voting onreligous grounds will be exempted. if I sound like a dictator forgive me, but I think our forefathers fought to hard for the right to vote, only to be corrupted by interested parties.

@ To the Point | March 3, 2013 at 2:35 PM |
“..u have sumed it up quite nicely. I woud have though by now that the vanquised would have accepted that it is time to move on and let us chart a path forward, but like they did in 2008. they have started to find reasons why the dlp will not survive. The lord is always on the people side,”

We keep telling you that must leave out the “lord god” appeal in these politcal discussions.
Was the same lord on the people’s side from 1994 to 2007 or was he asleep and allowed OSA and the BLP to do as they liked? You are getting on as if your obeah god is some idol locked away in a DLP cupboard to be taken out when it suits you to be massaged for good luck while shouting ‘Bonnke, Bonnke’.
You sound like just one hypocritical bombastic fool that hubris will soon deal with.

BTW, this reelected DLP administration is not a brand new administration in need of a honeymoon period. What path forward you need to chart?
Just carry on the excellent work you claim to be doing since 2008 and outlined in your promises and performance report and your new manifesto. Just carry on smartly and stop the moaning. You will soon see broadside attacks coming your way for lying again to the people about the economy and privatization.

If you think a pending change in the Monarchy is going to save your sorry arse by taking timeout to dwell on the frivolous of changing from Q to K, think again KC.

@Miller

u as a candidate should know better than me, u need to admit that ur party, the one u run for lied to barabadians for fourteen years, and came with the pie in the sky promises that were rejected, until u admit that barabdians had seen through ur party’s deception, u would not be able to move foraward, and therefore u will anchor ur boat the same place and profer all type of excuses for u and ur party’s defeat. , thats my final correspondence to u, if u want to discuss tha way forward we can communicate on such a topic.

WICKHAM credbility took th sharpest and fastest decline after the second poll. Most people are reasonable and through out his polling would have formed varying degrees of conclusion.but the straw that broke the camel,s back was that second poll there is where his credibilty sank faster than the titanic. It was as if after the first people was issued a “steel donkey” had kicked him in the ars….s in the dead of night and issued him a warning to change the results fortwith or else. It really bogglesthe mind

@ac

UP TO THIS DAY. the pollster has not been able to explain why there was a need for a second pool, except to say there was a wooble, which he has not been able to explain to the populace.

Wickham methdology was nothing new, it was one he calimed that had withstood the test of time, so why would there be a wooble and as an experienced pollster he would have mave sure that the intergity of the poll was not compromised. And the only way it could have been compromised, is if the interviewers were mischievous in recording the replies. Then why would they want to do that if they are professionals. I have no dount that Peter;s intension was to confused barbadians, and for that he got a double wooble, having predicted that the blp would have won 20 seats. If he is as good as he says he is, why didnt he predict a land slide in Grenada.

I support davis’s call for banning polls 3 weeks before the elcetions, then no pollster could be accused of being bias. what we should ask if peter was a political advisor to the BLP and hence the strategy he used of attacking the PM was similar in approach to the BLP. If u raed his article of today, u will deduct that he has not given up. He has a lot to do to redeem himself, no wonder why Belle gad gotten rid of him from uwi..

@Prod

u always have a story to tell, have u awoken from ur slumber. Man move forward acording to the rastas. U might still be dreaming so i will forgive u, yah hear

Prodigal

What did OSA do with the proceeds from the CCB Bank cheque he cashed in Speightstown on Election Day in 2003, make a donation to the local Red Cross?

Get off your high horse asshole.

The ad at the head of ths post speaks loudly to the fact that the DEMs would ignore any rule in their quest for victory. Some are concerned about the use of a Transport Board bus: I am more concerned with the use of a civil servant as the actor. He is a teacher at Combermere School. Apart from being involved in politics, the actor would have to obtain permission from the Governor-General to do the ad.

The DLP not only encouraged a public officer to breach the Public Service Act: they utterly disrespected the office of Governor-General. But some of you would be satisfied as long as the result was favourable.

@ Caswell Franklyn | March 3, 2013 at 5:49 PM |
“The DLP not only encouraged a public officer to breach the Public Service Act: they utterly disrespected the office of Governor-General. But some of you would be satisfied as long as the result was favourable.”

You see why the miller is so adamantly strident in his dismissal of Freundel being a man of integrity?
Colluding to break the law in a flagrant manner is proof enough to impeach him on his claim to be decent and a man of integrity.
That is why the miller will never renege of his assertion about other private matters because he knows the truth from way back when you were a “lickle booy” in short pants going to Cawmere.

To use the word of someone who use to post on BU, lets hope the ‘onlookers’ are following the conversation. BOTH parties do the same.

@ ! | March 3, 2013 at 6:29 PM |

Listen Skippa, finish with that pre 2008 long talk. The BLP never claim to be a party with a leader of absolute integrity.
It’s the DLP and its leader who are accused of blatant law breaking while claiming the title of King of Integrity Hill.
It’s the DLP on trial here, mate. The people have spoken regarding the BLP.
Now get with the programme!
Did the DLP and Freundel the leader of the DLP break the LAW by encouraging and supporting a civil servant to break the law?
Yes or No?

For the record the favourite won the Gold Cup.

uh wunda if any a dah is Babadus money sense wunn sell wunna businesses an bank to Trickidad.

“A whopping $638,844,310 in alleged “dirty money” transactions have reportedly passed through the country’s financial system over the past year, the 2012 Report of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago (FIUTT) has stated.”

@ ! | March 3, 2013 at 6:49 PM |
Short answer. Wake up Rip Van Winkle This is 2013 the year of DLP Integrity.
You mean Boonke just gone and you forgetting his admonitions. Check with Rev. Durant the giver of eternal life and raiser of the dead and see if he agrees with you.

!

leave miller and let him choke on his own vomit.

“Hundreds of Venezuelan students and opposition members have marched in Caracas demanding full details about President Hugo Chavez’s health.”

Think Bajans could ever be motivated to do something like this?

Is the BLP an easy competitor with Mia at the helm? The next 6 months will reveal if the DLP will get 3 terms or not. Or maybe some unusual event will occur, wont say what it is yet. LOL

Words to the DLP: In this recession, major structural changes can be done as there is a plausible reason for doing so. Don’t put political expediency over the country’s development. You lied to win the election now that you have won do the right thing.

DAVID how did you come up with such information when the probabilty of Astrdemus winning depended on the soft condtions of the turf and he was up against stiffer competition, did you not follow the analysis.

@DAvid
be careful. ac usually chokes on anything factual.

@ac

If the horse paid 2/1 it meant it started favourite and this is what matters. The horse had already established a reputation as one of the best imports on the island before the race. You may have the final word.