And much of what I said can be attributed to most of the bajan whites in Bim. To be honest with you, I don’t see color because of my ancestry and background, however I will not collude with those who blatantly show that they believe themselves to be higher up and better off…………that is not me…………..we cannot continue to pretend that there is no problem.

David | March 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM |

@well well

You really need to revisit your last comment. Why do you feel we need to attack Dr. Chandler because of her colour? Why not challenge the issues she puts in the public space? BU continues to be amazed frankly embarrassed by some of the views expressed.
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that needs to be repeated x100

We all know what occurs in the US re racism, however, if you check out NYDaily News (website) in the comments section, people who are hardcore racists or are not tolerant of others who appear different to them in appearance or who their rotten little minds tells them are inferior to them, are taking a real beating in the media, they are being exposed for all forms of bigotry. This is not the day or era to lack the guts to call others out on their attitudes, particularly if you want to leave a better environment and community for your descendants……by the way, my very immediate relatives are what you all would call white……..I have no problems with anyone…………still does not mean I will know things that have attributed to the ruination of the island and it’s people and pretend i don’t know.

David I agree that it is not right to attack this lady because of her race but the racial divide in Barbados has not changed much in 50 years.

The race debate would require its own blog.

@ Burning Red | March 10, 2013 at 12:29 PM |
“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.”

Let us give you fair warning as was given to your purblind associates.

It is highly recommended that you desist from casting aspersions (that word can now reclaim its true pronunciation now Kenny B has past his Worst aspirations) on other people’s sexual orientation or preference or gender identification or anything along those lines.

We believe you are endowed with enough emotional intelligence aka commonsense to appreciate that oft repeated maxim: ‘those who live in glass houses should not throw stones’. If you persist in travelling this redundant cul-de-sac more suited to the salacious pages or gossip column in any popular rag sheet then you might just find yourself buried under a closet of gay skeletons starting from the top of the fairy chain to offering a hand of aid(s) to those whose poor health and puffy appearances are not as a result of imbibing too much alcohol in the blood but other waste matter which requires daily doses of antiretroviral agents to get them through the day.

Now shut your trap and discuss issues or else we will have to drop to your level and find our selves in two chairs of the lower house level!

Before Bajans go into damage control mode here is the story

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2013-03-10/minister%E2%80%99s-son-under-sealed-indictment-us

so what have there been agreed on about the senate. i say keep appointing them i meaning couldn’t be worse than in the USA where big cororporations sponsors many of these senators with big campaign fundings and to whom the senators when elected are loyalist to and not to the people who elected them. at least with the selection one can blame the PM when his choices does not transfered into the wishes of the people. but in the USA. the big mcguffee lobylist make sure that they get what they have been promised from those whom they were backing.

@ ac | March 10, 2013 at 3:46 PM |

The big difference, ac, is that when US politicians and their friends are caught with their hands in the cookie jar or breaking any law they are swiftly and decisively dealt with and even finding themselves behinds bars.

Until a similar law enforcement regime well supported by a vibrantly free Media is in place her in Bim we will continue to make valid comparisons and critical analyses of our plantation-based society and law making and enforcement agencies.

well true miller when it comes to breaking the law the media is ferocious in fretting those slim bags out. however when it comes to the election process the people votes but the powerhouse brokers call the shots after and the people get the shitty end of the stick. hence exhibit A the fall of wall street? notice that when occupy wallstreet the group that represented the 99% the US media drag their feet for a long time in giving them positive attention. cause you know why the movers and shakers in the main street media are also part of the elite group that controls the financial empire in the USA and wall street.

@Well Well
Is Mrs Chandler a Baarbadian or not. If she is a Barbadian then she has as much right as anyone to be a senator. We have to be able to put all Bajans on an equal platform where our represenation is concerned. We are all bajans, so stop with this “majoarity” thing.

@Prodical

since it is illegitmate and u know why, why dont u have the illegitimate one removed and the legitimate one put in its place.

@ David: If I remember correctly the constitution provide for Senators chosen by government; so it is natural that they will support the government,especially since some of them are ministers, some Senators are chosen by the opposition, so it is natural that they will oppose Government, and some (Indeoendents) are chosen by the governor General, and are under no obligation to support either government or opposition. Having seen the composition of the senate I am satisfied that they are all “honourable”, will conduct themselves honourable, and will act according to their conscience. I have no concerns about their integrity; male or female.
@Caswell
Someone once referred to the Civil Service as “an army of occupation”. Do you remember who it was? Why did he say it? What was his colour? and Was he right? I used to work in the Civil Service. And by the way He should know where of he spoke.

@Alvin

The bigger discussion is the relevance of the Senate. As presently constituted it will almost never send back a bill which is the point made last night by Jeff. Are we happy with having honourable people whose job in the Senate has no material purpose? If we want to use the Senate as a consultative chamber let us discuss how we can effectively deliver change. The world has changed, Barbados needs to critically examine its governance system to encourage competitiveness and productivity.

@Hants.
I read the article in the Sunday Guardian re “some minister’s son etc. What minister are you talking about, is he Barbadian or foreugn (non Barbadian)Based on what I read their is nothing to point at anyone in particular. Be truthful and factual and stop with inuendo, rumour and such.

Trinidad Minister’s son, and now the Minister frighten as shite to travel to Uncle Samland.

Guess why?

And if you is a Jack of all trades you can try to guess which Minister, and which son.

Foolish people who won’t stop banking their ill gotten gains in banks in Miami and New York.

And whose spouses and children can’t resist a trip to Miami to buy more bling than they can use in a lifetime.

“Oh what a tangled web we weave..when we set about to deceive”

I have quietly read this blog over a period of time and there are some things coming through very clear to me:

Prodigal Son also known as Pat Parris former losing candidate from St Joseph and assistant to former opposition Owen Arthur is a very spiteful and vindictive person who seems to have an agenda on the internet to spread lies,rumours,half truths and doom and gloom about the DLP and its members from Freundel right down.

She is allowed to do it with impunity on this blog site but when someone says something nasty about her BLP fellow politicians like Edmund Hinckson,Owen arthur or the like,she rushes to have the offending remarks deleted ,and what do you know,she succeeds.

Miller is of the same ilk,his objective seems to be to bully bloggers into silence on this blog about Mia’s sexual preference which in this little country is an open secret – and his operating style is to throw the kitchen sink at most of the DLP politician starting with Freundel chris sinckler and on and on.Both he and Prodigal Daughter – not son – strategy seems to be if you repeat a lie often enough, it gets a head start so that by the time the truth tries to catch up,the whole world already believes the lie.
Watch carefully and see Prodigal son/daughter is an Arthur Bee and not a Mia Fan,but she will still give token support to her as a Bee at all times.

So that this pattern of innuendo and rumour mongering seems to be standard fare for the BLP although to be sure I believe the Dems also engage in throwing in some lies but, they are usually not as offensive and destructive as the BLP.

The DLP has won this election after all the naysayers on this blog and in the media said otherwise and that in itself should be a lesson for the opposition.Bajans are not as stupid as you think,they listen carefully,ponder awhile and then act in a way they believe is fair.

I am very glad Mia is given the opportunity to be leader of Opposition without Mr Arthur being blamed for anything she says or does.He is now out of the picture and the whole country will see that this propoganda about Mia being this ‘great leader’ is really just that – propoganda carefully placed in the public’s mind and a figment of the imagination.Great bull shitter and talker yes! Great leader – definitely not!

Common sense is not common | March 10, 2013 at 5:54 PM |

Your name said it all……..wait who appoint you Mr. Bumble?
Black belly sheep of the House of Commoners

@ Common sense is not common | March 10, 2013 at 5:54 PM |

“Prodigal Son also known as Pat Parris former losing candidate from St Joseph and assistant to former opposition Owen Arthur is a very spiteful and vindictive person who seems to have an agenda on the internet to spread lies,rumours,half truths and doom and gloom about the DLP and its members from Freundel right down.”

Since you know so much about PS being PP who a riddle a riddle a ri ri is miller the anunnaki?
Is he Kerrie the 1,000lb blubber slasher, is she Ms Walcott, is he/she Noellete, is he/she Dale the smiling maid or is he the short motherf*cker Hats that will be a pain in your DLP tail like a hot iron up your backside like Greenverbs up Fumble’s?

Tell us, comical sense friend, who is this scarlet pimpernel called Peter Miller living in your small island mentality 2×3 incestuous place?

@ TO THE POINT | March 10, 2013 at 4:37 PM |
“…without at the same time doing similarly about the plaantation type of managment that still esist among the merchant class”

Who are you referring to? Sir David or Sir Charles?
Only goes to show how much you are alive and in tune with modern day commercial Barbados.
Plantations closed down I suspect way back in the early 90’s and cannibalized by CLICO.
Are you conveniently forgetting the former white-owned import and distribution businesses sold out to Trinidadians under the OSA regime?
Even the BST was sold and ownership transferred to a T&T conglomerate under the DLP.

Man get with the black Bajan mind control programme and see who owns and control the current import/distribution houses in Bim. Are the East Indian, Trinidadian East-West Indians, Middle Easterners and late arrival Chinese products and descendants of Barbados plantation merchant classes?

@Miller

you seem to know and think for every one including myself,so carry on smartly.
Hope understand when one speaks about plantation society, one is not speaking about plantation ltd.

@ TO THE POINT | March 10, 2013 at 7:11 PM |
“Hope understand when one speaks about plantation society, one is not speaking about plantation ltd.”

Of course not! But it was set up and owned by the real cane producing plantations as the import and trading enterprise of the local plantation system.

But TPP I don’t want to deal with the past. Let us hear your views and proposals regarding the relevance of the Senate and its future role under a republican form of governance or you will be sent back to the cane fields for reprogramming of your plantation mentality after cussing the blog master David and accusing him of being a BLP sympathiser.

”Dr. Chandler has been one of the most vocal and active members of the last Senate”
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Do you need more explanation than that. And re GG choices, do you really think them independent????

Lol.

The reality, is that th current Senate is going to be moot anyway, so Chandler can better spend her time elsewhere. No significant legislation will pass with a 15-14 majority (excluding speaker.

Moot I say. Lol.