Polling is not an exact science.

Case in point St. Lucy otherwise called Dennis Kellman land.

If you send some pollsters rather enumerators into the district and do not give them any parameter re your sample population locations and they go to LA1 and conduct their survey as opposed to LD1 and the results of their poll is going to be immensely different.

It is like polling St. John, and then duplicating said results all over Barbados, the euphemism for wobble.

So I would submit this as a consideration for Cadres/Wickham ‘s wobble.

Wickham understandably does not do the actual polling since that would taint the results because people might not be as forthcoming in their answers.

So he sends out a team of men/women who, because they are fearful of going to the gun totting , drug dealing, gang banging, trigger happy, outsider fearing Crab Hill denizens, concentrate their poll in the safer districts.

So Wickham, while examining the pollsters ‘ results might have noticed that his avid enumerators had inadvertently fcuked up his normally unbiased polls in their rush to collect his data and get paid, so he kindly assigns it to a wobble as any person seeking to address the sins of their employees.

Now the above is just a hypothetical situation but the issue of staff fudging info and not going anywhere near the target population is one of the realities that polling entities face.

I do not know Wickham but, I don’t think he would put his reputation on the line for the likes of Owen Seethru nor Vivianne both of whom as snakes in the grass, would hang him out to dry in any subsequent situation

ac,
You are such a hypocrite, no one can argue with you. You are in the dunce class with !, CCC, Brain Less Pimp and TTP.

I would have thought that since it is widely known that the DLP bought the election, you would have kept your mouth shut and stop trying to discredit Peter Wickham. Keep quiet woman, the DLP bought the election. They were so intoxicated with power, there was no way there were going to give up power. Win at all costs, eh,ac?

the fact that this election baffled and confused wickham is not surprising cause of his one sided view of believing that the more he and others buffoon and made mockery of stuart the more the public would be swayed into believing the rhetoric and be inclined to vote for OSA hence the first poll about leadership! hah but that was not to be and the electorate relied on their own instinct casting aside the obvious and misleading polls and vote with their conscience ,all the excuses by wickham and the bees cannot change that reality.

@AC

let prodical and his counterparts have the last laught, the elections are over, the cabinet is ready to go, and the governemnt is ready to embark on its five year development plan. Lets see how we can offer constructive advice to this government.

@ TO THE POINT | March 7, 2013 at 7:43 PM |
“Lets see how we can offer constructive advice to this government.”

Not one piece of “constructive advice” should be given to this government unless these ‘operational efficiencies and cost reduction programmes in the public sector are clearly identified and spelled out in the Estimates and debates. Generalizations will not do it.

But one thing is sure. Any further efficiency savings or costs reductions must involved having 2 people instead of three do one job. Ask Ryan Straughn if you are in doubt. Or is he a big-time BLP as is your wont to sully the man’s professional and personal character?

Anytime this administration ever mentions privatization in whichever form or proposed layoffs it must come back to the people for such a mandate. There must be NO Variations in the terms and conditions of this socio-political contract between this DLP administration and its employer the Electorate of Barbados without seeking such a revised Mandate.

Rotten to the core–The Democratic Labour Party
Broke the laws in 2008–billboards etc
Now they gone a step further with this election

Get rid of the Dems before they destroy Barbados

Stop supporting the Dems on the basis that Errol Barrow gave us free secondary education
The Democratic Labour Party is lying -no good party.

Distorters of the Truth–thats the DLP

@ac
ttp as long as my govt don’t hand off the control of the treasury to the opposition i have no problem. they have presented a wise and clear path to the people in restoring confidence in govt and restructing the econmony with reasonable and well thought out plans which ac is all supportive of……………………………………………….

ac,

I hope you and TTP heard when the GG said that his government will be merging departments. We will wait and see what that yields!

@ Prodigal Son | March 7, 2013 at 8:24 PM |
“I hope you and TTP heard when the GG said that his government will be merging departments. We will wait and see what that yields!”

Let it be repeated here on BU as a matter of record so that when the privatization shit hits the layoffs fan, the twisted mouth ac and her fan club cannot claim ignorance of such policy proposals.

My Government will:

“Reduce the levels of Transfers and Subsidies in line with the targets of the Medium Term Fiscal Strategy…”

“Reduce the operational costs of Government Ministries, Departments and Statutory Corporations by merging Departments and entities that have similar remits or are serving the same interests…”

We shall see how the TB and similar entities survive with reduced transfers and subsidies. The Transport Board will soon be living up to its acronym TB and suffer from a terminal and dying case of financial tuberculosis (TB).

@ Prodigal Son | March 7, 2013 at 8:55 PM |

Demanding that this administration stick to its non-privatization and no layoffs promises and pellucid commitments it made to the electorate if returned to government is not being unpatriotic.
As a matter of fact, it is the apex of patriotism when you fight in the interest of your country against bold-faced liars who cannot now claim that the commitments they made to the electorate should be seen in the same light as the 2008 giveaway promises that had to be rescinded when the true state of financial affairs were confronted against a background of a ruinous international recession.
This administration was and is quite aware of the non-negotiable need to reduce its fiscal deficit and restructure the public sector manpower profile as agreed and outlined with the IDB and the credit rating agencies on behalf of the IMF

The BLP was a bit too honest in its proposals and dealings and had to pay the electoral price as a result. The lying ads against any form of privatization or the firing of 10,000 public sector workers must always come back to haunt this administration.
No room or quarter must be given to the DLP where this matter is concerned.

Prodigal Son and Tackle,
You two have been banished to dump heap of Doom and Gloom. Your inglorius rant and rave was the same between 2008 – 2013 ( and you still find yourselves on the opposition benches)

You find yourself in that position because over 2 years ago Prof. Neville Duncan asked you BLPites…what NEW approach/policies will Owen Arthur bring to the PM position ?

The BLPites gave no coherent or honest response. Barbadians waited with bated breath as well.

In 2013 under Owen Arthur , the BEEs lost , many now belated reflect that if Mia Mottley had led the party into the 2013 elections the BEEs would/might have won.

Such is the behaviour and thinking of….SCALLYWAGS !!

For the record,
Thanks for providing an irrefutable presentation of the facts with respect to Christ Church South.

I now believe Prodigal Son and Tackle would be mentally challenged to comprehend your lucid analysis.

But remember that is how IMBECILES like those 2 were socialised !!!!

I can’t believe how some of these BLP stalwarts expect to move forward by looking in the rear view mirror to the Elections of 2008 and 2013. Someone should try to catalogue the number of reasons that some of them come up with to account for the loss, do these folks sit around and try to outdo each other with suggestions for the loss?

Poor Pat she has been on these pages lambasting the DLP but because she didn’t like the BLP candidate in her constituency and said she would vote against him she has now become a part of the DLP contingent that was flown in to cement the win. That DLP sure is efficient to announce an Election and get all these people to fly in at short notice to vote in all these constituencies no wonder Wickham didn’t pick up that “wobble”
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When did that meteor land in Russia again? That is as good a reason as any for the loss (along with Mia, Arthur, Gangs, Cost U, Lynch, Money, Fumble, Sinkliar, Valentines Day, Red, Yellow, Blue, Wickham, Bribes, The Sun, Moon & Stars, Clico, Parris ) hope I haven’t left anyone out.

Have a happy Friday night.

The Barbadian Society is declining fast
The election of 2013 is the worst in the history of elections in Barbados
That statement -wunna loss -by one Gingerbreath Girl above is indicative of the kind of persons that inhabit this place nowadays. We have a person today in Barbados who does not know anything about what our forefathers did to bring this country to where it is. They know nothing about Slavery, emancipation, 1937 riots. adult suffrage, chiggers, lice, stand-pipes, burning cow-dung for fuel—nothing so.
Some of these things I did not personally experience but I grew up in a household with old people and I heard the stories. I am appreciative of people because of these stories. When I hear these stories, I realise that we all came here to the Caribbean with nothing and that we as a people were treated like dirt by the white slave masters and their descendants even after freedom . This simple fact makes me empathise with the unfortunate person who is struggling out there. I understand the need for us to be our brothers keeper and with this in mind, I want to see a political party put the people first.

I was happy therefore with the Barbados Labour Government for the 14 years that they were in Office. I was happy that they were able to bring Barbados from a very dark period between 1986 and 1994 to which the demise of Errol , the adamant and stubborn nature of Sandy and the nastiness of Cammie plunged this lovely country.

I remain eternally grateful to the Right Honourable Owen Seymour Arthur and the BLP for restoring my confidence, as citizen in Barbados. I wanted the BLP to have a 4th term in 2008. A lot of ignorant people including people like Harold Hoyte did not want Owen to get a 4th term because this would have made him better than Errol.

Enter David Thompson with his brand of stinking dirty nasty politics and with a big set of lies they won the election in 2008. I maintain that there were no reasons to change the Government in 2008 –none. There were more reasons to change the Government in 2013 than they were in 2008.

But getting back to David Thompson who had a brand of politics that I simply abhored. His was a politics that would mow down anyone who he saw in his way of becoming Prime Minister. That is all he wanted. He salivated after this position from his days at Cawmere and his admiration of Tom Adams. The cheque waving thing that he was so obsessed with was a direct copy of the Sidney Burnett Aleyne cheque waving stunt by Tom Adams..

David Thompson brought a brand of politics that was dirty and nasty and a win at all costs approach. Nothing therefore was sacrosanct and if it meant destroying Mascoll or erecting Billboards illegally and jumping in bed with whoever, going to Penthouse, a known drug den, drinking Vodka or whatever, it was done.

If you want to talk about a legacy , this is the legacy of David Thompson. It has therefore culminated in what we have seen in the 2013 elections, a kind of nastiness unseen in Barbados before this time. The legacy lives on in people like Chris StinkLiar and his ilk who would do anything to win or theif an election. This is the new benchmark. It deserves a study

@Fractured BLP

Surely you are aware the St.Joseph Hospital Report was laid in parliament you say BUT was the said report made public? BU’s recollection is that a ministerial statement was delivered.

Now that elections all across the English speaking Caribbean have been completed since 2006, here is one fascinating trend:

Kenny Anthony of the SLP – lost in 2006 came back and won in 2011.

Portia Simpson of the PNP – lost in 2007 came back and won in 2011.

Keith Mitchell of the NNP – lost in 2008 came back and won in 2013.

Owen Arthur of the BLP – lost in 2008 came back and LOST in 2013.

WHY…….oh great Owen ???

WuhLOSS….. I forgot you and that damn $ 75,000.00 cheque that you stole !

The other leaders won because they never STOOPED so low .

@Prodigal

Let us begin a discussion by saying both parties engaged in vote-buying. If as you say the DLP did it better i.e. had more money to spend the next step is to prove it.

David,
I dont have to prove a thing! The PM and AG said they saw it! They are the ones who need to deal with it.

Brain Less Pimp,
Why dont you deny the transfer of St John voters to St Michael constituencies or the bringing home of overseas DLP supporters. You are the DLP pimp feeding at the trough not me. I depend on no party to exist and let me tell you this, I want for nothing, so get lost!

Talk about the34 million of CLICO policyholders monies the dead king had to spend in 2008. You dont talk about this but talk about a measly sum OSA got. Talk about the 3.333 million of the CLICO policyholders monies the dead king and his wife laundered!

@ waiting | March 9, 2013 at 10:52 PM |

Don’t you think we both rationally know that the DLP is the party forming the governing administration?

What we intend to do is to make sure you are not given any honeymoon period. You are just a continuation from January 2008.
Now get on with the mandate and take your licks and praises when earned.
We will watch you stew in your own no privatization no layoffs juices.

We will be turning up the heat one day at a time while you wait for the pain up your political asses starting in the new fiscal year.

Now go pluck yourself yardfowl to be ready for the stew pot. We shall soon see who will be waiting to get heart attacks when many taken on this year hoping for a job for life are sent packing and many of those are chosen to attend the Hill wouldn’t be invited to or can’t attend.

@ David | March 9, 2013 at 5:21 PM |

Do you know the reasons or causes why the Electoral & Boundaries Commission are expressing concerns over the integrity of the last general elections?

Really? Chairman Nobby Estwick is displeased at flagrant breaking of the law? you are kidding me right? what a fcuking joke.

EBC laws state that all election material must have who printed it and for who. i’m positive they are still DLP posters up as i see them daily. go look and come back and tell us if that requirement was met by the DLP. Chairman Nobby Estwick and you waiting could really shut wanna ass and go and hold a chair in a corner.

if we can get real for a min. both party’s supporters pull down posters and place poster over the party’s. to attempt to single out one party or the other just shows the lies you stinking DEMs would go to AND the same would follow if the BEEs tried to do the same.

HOWEVER, one party (DLP) broke the rules as it relates to printed material and the proof is there for all to see. so let Chairman Nobby Estwick and the EBC deal with that and stop talking shite which persons like waiting eat up and think its a five star meal.

blasted jokers.

the same way parties pay to put up posters, they should pay to take them down. i have seen posters remainig from both parties, but i would admit that those i am seeing mostly belong to the blp, but that does not mean that they should not be taken down.

I wonder if the bl&p could pay to have them removed and bill the respective person on whose behalf they were put op for the cost. I bet this migh be an option that could be explored.

@ Caswell Franklyn | March 10, 2013 at 9:32 AM

Do you know if that teacher from the Combermere School pretending to a bus driver in the DLP ad has been disciplined for his blatant breach of the Public Sector Workers Act or whatever it is correctly titled?

How can the Electoral & Boundaries Commission insist on the removal of harmless posters (except being a blight to the environment) that everyone ignores and where there is no legal control (except in the case you sighted), but a known civil servant can breach his terms and conditions of service with impunity just because he is an ardent DLP supporter?
Tell us Mr. Lawman, why these double standards? Is law enforcement in Barbados represented by a one-eye political bandit or are we only running after the fellas as easy targets on the block for smoking marijuana?

@Miller

Does it matter what the Act says? Both political parties flout the law any way.

Miller and Prodigal

Here is your problem for the next 5 years :

On Friday the 8th of March ,2013 over two thousand 15 year olds were at a function as part of International Women’s Day. At the end of the function the children all broke out in song
“DEMs now….DEMs again”

And to demonstrate their acute undersatnding of Barbadian politics :
1. They all said DEMs gi we free bus fares…DEMs again !
2. They all said DEMs gi we more schools…DEMs again !
3. They all said DEMs helping the mothers and fathers who turn up to court for child support…DEMs again !
4. They all said DEMs enact legislation to protect workers….DEMs again !
5. They all said DEMs building houses to shelter our families…..DEMs again !

It was so wonderful to see those young minds and voices at work……your headache Miller and company……..they will be voting DEMs for the first time in the next five years .

Yes the DLP has won the last general elections, but with such a slender advantage, and with Mia leader of the opposition, they will be under serious pressure for the next five years, if the DLP government last than long. Remember, the DLP can’t blame the BLP any longer, they have to find the money for Barrack, the UWI, give civil servants a salary raise, plus they cannot continue to fork out $ 17 million dollars monthly to pay additional civil servants and other government workers employed just after 2008.