@Caswell

I dont normally agree with you on most things, I too had observed that Dr. Chandler was out of her depth when discussing the public service, I too believe that her condescending way of dealing with the public service had the plaantation approach, but then again she would have come up in the era where the whites in Barbaados were the preivelege class and perhpas she was socailised to believe that she can talk to us like we are the slaves on the planatation, on the other hand, profeesor fraser seems all embaracing and has no problem with race or class, having married someone from outside his race.

If not Leroy who could he have chosen to represent Labour? should it be someone from the other big Union.

I think I can see the direction that DAVID and his the Barbados Labour Party jokers will will take for this five year term.

The last term they wasted their time in fruitless attacks on the Govenor of the central bank and this term around it will be ceaseless attacks on our Esteemed Govenor General.

These Barbados Labour Party people are just plain sick in the head.

That is why they are on the opposition benches for another five years just as I predicted.

To repeat myself, Chandler: GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.

She should have never been in the Senate in the first place.

After all Tony Marshall contract was not renewed ., What more should Byer Suckoo say… Was this a job for life that Marshall was entiltled to i don’t believe so. In my humble opinion he was a govt employee like all others who can be fired and no further need for comment by his employer should be necessary to protect the integrity of confidentiality between employee and employer. in any case if Tony felt he was wronged he could have challenged and pursued the action taken by govt for not renewing his contract by legal process ,Apparently he was satisfied or agree with the actions taken by govt to not rehire him.

i am not going to nit pick on how many women were chosen by the GG .however the Dlp has a record to show that it represented woman well in high appointments is serval offices over the four years in office in comparison to the fourteen years the BLP has been governing. I can”t recall a more sickening scene than that of the way the BLP handed a leadership role to a woman and then five men along with its leader back stabbed her to regain leadership and the rest is history .

i don’t see MIA taking on the GG or DLP for not chosing women as representation cause that would be like opening up old wounds which she is too familiar with and a cause for reminder that those who live in glass houses should not throw “big rocks”

JUST ASKING | March 10, 2013 at 8:07 AM

I really want to be around the day that write something worthwhile on this blog.

@ TO THE POINT | March 10, 2013 at 2:14 AM |

“I would have tought by now that this partisan crap woild have come to an end and we would have been putting forward ideas to have some reform in the goverenamce structure in the private and public sector so that we can optimally uilise our resouces; financsi and economic among other things.”

There you go again, TPP, with your forked serpentine tongue in one bifurcation of venom attacking people for not dealing with ideas and proposals and in the other putrid breath of vilification bringing up issues and rumours from 10-15 years ago to inform today’s debates.

Why are you attacking OSA and denigrating the same ex-Senator Chandler because of her racial background and family history? Why go the same dirty, filthy nasty way of Carson Cadogan?
Who is next on your agenda for personal attacks Mia Mottley and her family history going back to Park food days that save your hungry ass?

When we query the tquality of the decision to appoint so-called senators we are doing it on the basis of principles that ought to guide the selection of any so-called Independent Representative of any sector of society. We are concerned about their integrity and competence and not on any overreliance on rumours and hearsay regarding the personas involved or their private lives.

Now if you want others to rise from the political gutter then you must set the example and stop attacking OSA and others who happen to disagree with your partisan politics.

A set of questions has already been posed to you regarding the pending republican status of this country. So far you have refused to respond. We wait in vain but would be prepared to retaliate to your congenitally dangerous personal attacks on OSA, MAM and others.

Now it’s your turn to lay an issue on the table for debate, Senator of BU roundtable family.

“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” ~Aristotle

THAT DAY HAS COME CARSON

READ AND WEEP——–YOU DLP GOON

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

@ ac | March 10, 2013 at 7:50 AM |
in any case if Tony felt he was wronged he could have challenged and pursued the action taken by govt for not renewing his contract by legal proces.”

That statement alone is the completely accurate measurement of the depth of your intellectual stupidity, total political ignorance of our system of governance and your daft stubbornness to understand legal issues despite continuing wasteful attempts by your other half.

Let us put it to you ac, Mr. Marshall was the Chairman of a Statutory Body to be appointed and disappointed at the whims and fancies of the relevant minister. He was not an employee like the CEO or the maid.

He got what he deserved by trying to stand up to the Minister of Finance with respect to the Four Seasons loan. But groveling and begging for forgiveness through lodge friends can be an alternative path to salvation and a yardfowl’s method of coming in from the cold back to the warm inner sanctum of the George St. initiation temple.

Now go back to political primary school to study your ABC’s in governance and law behind a façade of lies and deceit that will soon come to light.

@carson
“I really want to be around the day that you write something worthwhile on this blog”

OH CRAP!!
Wuhlosss!
Muh belly!
I reading right?!?!
MUUUUUUURDAAAAA!
Carson C. Cadogan ya gine kill muh dis early Sundee morning?

Talk bout a pot and kettle drama!! Ha ha ha I. love it!!

Observing

in any case what would you blp yardfowls want suckoo say in concerning tony’s dismmissal i still expect some level decency and confidentiality from those we hire to go about doing the people’s busineess, it was not as if Tony had embezzled NIS funds and there was an attempt by govt to cover up such wrongdoing.wether appointed hire or fired . conidentiality and integrity still applies to all as a means of respect something which was never a hallmark of the BLP. ask MIA.

All agree that a level of transparency should permeate how decisions are taken by government, it is comprised of people who have been elected to serve the people. It is why many of us have called for transparency legislation. The late David Thompson promised that his government would govern on the basis of being more transparent.

When the BLP was in power some may recall the incident where Ronald Toppin abruptly resigned over a ‘dispute’ at the Fair Trading commission which he had ministerial responsibility. Many have asked what happened and to day it remains a big secret. Toppin and the BLP have felt no obligation to advise the public. In more developed democracies there is the opportunity for the People and Fourth Estates to probe.

Recently we saw Ian Carrington at the NIS making the decision to move over to the FSC on secondment. A couple years later he has refused to stay on, why? Citizens are viewed by these people as a means to an end i.e. to get what they want and we the people (many who are sheeple) continue to allow our blind partisan lenses to affect our outlook. A people will always get the government it deserves.

To quote Sean Penn in the movie Fair Game, “Democracy is not a free ride.”

The following link is useful to note the countries which have instituted a unicameral system, and there are those countries which have amended the role of the upper house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system

The comfort zone mentality, easier to manipulate and feed self-serving greed.

@AC

dont mind miller this suanday morning, he cant handle me so he want to attack you. He thinks using big words is impressive, but he doesnt realize that a lot of us here can use bg words if we so desire. The point is he got his ass whipped soundly and he is a glutton for punishment. he was advisd not to wake a slleping giant, and he woulndt hear and now he feels usless, so he has to attack you as he aint gon get wah he did looking for from his party. Dont mind he and this foolish crap that he well off. The more the well off got, the more they want. He and Prodical got awhile to wait for handouts.

@Bushie

i should call you tell it like it is. We have some private sector manager who only succees because the inbreeding and incestuous relationships allow them to rip us off.
On another note, i visted the 2008 blog whre u and Ian Walcott were having a robust debate on jessie Odle. What has become of the chap, I know there is an ian Walcott living in Brasil. Is that the same laddy/

@TTP

Why do you believe some of us are stupid on this blog?

We are discussing the relevance of our system of government and how it can be reformed and you drag private enterprise into it?

Chandler cannot be as well meaning as some are trying to make us believe, if she still sees black people as plantation chattel, there is nothing well meaning about that type of downgrade in 2013, it is demeaning and degrading. Correct me if I am wrong, but chandler herself is reportedly from irish stock who were treated maybe one level above how Africans slaves were treated, I have met her and find she does indeed have a very nasty attitude in trying to present herself as better than blacks. She claims to be a Barbados Scholar, then in my view she should know a whole lot better, however, that is the normally disgusting attitude that majority blacks allow the lower form of white in barbados to practice.

Stale Blood and BLP Son, you can ramble along much like the BLP did in its 14years of rape of the Barbadians Taxpayers bjt you need to speak directly to the fight that took place on the day your party met to decide on who should lead, i maintain a lawsuit was the outcome of that meeting.
May I ask what has come of the court filing by George Payne for damages against Edmund Hinkson coming out of their meeting to elect a temporary leader of the Opposition to replace Arthur, when Payne insisted that the members give Arthur 6 months at the helm to steady the ship and then hand it over to the party to elect a new leader and Hinkson stuttered something about who would listen to Payne a scamp a crook a fraud and a liar.

All he’ll broke loose leading to Payne refusing to sit with or have anything to do with Hinkson and followed up his talk my going to court on Wednesday and filing Court Papers against Hinkson for damages for the stuttered utterances coming from Hinkson lips.

@Well

being a barbados scholar doe not mean that you would know how to deal with people.

Look why don’t you guys question the decision of Mottley to not place a true woman in Senate let’s be honest as much as WALCOTT represents the female vote and the female interest he is not a true and health person to have there to speak on women’s matters but then again as Dr Lowe stated neither is Abrahams as he too is of uncertain balance and of uncertain persuasion and neither is he fit for that role.

And if I am not mistaken, it’s the same one who went snitching, for payment, in the wikileaks scandal.

So although they may hold a senate seat, their loyalty does not lie with the majority whose tax dollars pay their salaries, when will these leaders see things as they really are and not through rose colored glasses?

there is robust debate on barbados free press as well, dont u think so?

And that should have read, Chandler should never have been allowed to be a senator in a black majority country in the first place. Do the leaders ever wonder how everything they do is always a secret to the majority tax payers, but never a secret to the bigger countries. That is because these minority senators have an agenda, their loyalties lie not with the majority in Barbados but who will pay them the most for information.