@Adrian

Sad to say you are probably going to be made to suck salt before you get sight of those cheques. It is how unprofessional and vindictive we have become.

It is politics, pure politics sadly this is what Barbados has become, if you are not with the party in power then you are made to suffer and in your case the aim is to bring you to your knees. There is always political pimps around who are quite will to aid this process so it has no end in sight. Of course this type of action is hurting Barbados and hurting good business people.

Prodigal son

Maybe we should make dummy Ryan Straughn the central bank Governor?

Wah yuh tink?

Adrian

Truly, I empathise with your predicament but it is not only small businesses that are suffering from Government’s failure to honour its commitments. A number of persons have not received income tax refunds going back years.

Carson

Whose brain are you using to come up with the reasoning that you are projecting on BU. The same businesses that owe this $620 million are not the ones that are suffering from Government’s failure to pay its debts. In any event, when public officers attempt to recover these substantial arrears, the defaulters would make calls to government ministers and the officers would be called off. Sometimes they are even transferred or reassigned.

Government refuses to go after the big crooks who can afford to make illegal campaign contributions. On the other hand, they harass poor business people who try to comply. Some years ago, they audited a company in which I had an interest (directorship). After the audit, I had to write a cheque to cover tax, interest and penalty in the princely sum of $77. Mind you, the harassment does not only come from the tax departments. One day, I stopped to give a friend of mine a hand putting up poles on a parcel of land that he had rented. I was merely putting my shoulder on the poles to keep them plumb while my friend was packing stones around the pole to keep it erect. Less than two weeks later, I received an enforcement notice from Town Planning preventing me from carrying out any development.

David,

You will see on the Minister’s FaceBook page that I made an impassioned plea personally to him on 2 April 2013. Either he doesn’t read comments on his page or simply does not care.

@Caswell ”Carson Whose brain are you using ..’
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First mistake…

Caswell

Ask Adrian if all his guests leave without paying their bills how would he pay his?

Carson,
perhaps if your hotel had not had a near BDS$1 million subsidy from the taxpayer, we would have been paid. What do you think?

Why is there no real public outcry about the big business entities that have for the longest collected and kept for themselves vat receipts?Mr A L perhaps needs to consider campaign contributions.

Adrian,
I hold no sympathy for your plight, for one good reason!
You should have taken your business elsewhere rather than to have to deal with the bunch of retards, laggards and sloths.

If you had chosen Cyprus, think of it, you would be better off despite their current woes.
One thing, Cyprus will recover because resilience is the greater part of their nature.

You never know, there may be bias by Sinckler-type thinkers who think you owe them and are waiting for the ships and planes to arrive with reparations.

Still, they have no other strategy for advancement. Massa and the slaves died a long time ago but there are those who think they should sit on their bums and scream reparations for those who suffered, something perhaps the sufferers were to proud to ask for.

Begging, begging is all I hear. Begging the Chinese for cash to renovate Kensington Oval, begging for foreign aid.
I’ve read that the politicians have been donated laptops by the Chinese and I am sure their only use would be by their secretaries to receive email and write letters. One benefit to the Chinese is that they can keep tabs on what their Barbados government is up to all the way there in china.

I think that just like many posters here whose use of a computer can be directly compared to use by 3 year old’s, the politicians would fare no better using a simple PC.

@ sid Boyce what a bunch of racists crap who just spewed all because others have a differing pont of view.

What is evident is that we have lost all sense of what is right or wrong. They are probably more small businesses who continue to struggle with cash flow. BU is aware of several small contractors owed by the UWI which as we all know has government as its biggest debtor. Many large hotels received millions from government in relief and then still went out of business a couple years ago. Government boast of the hotel relief program yet we have some on this blog who would not support businesses by Barbadians like Adrian because he is a social commentator who calls a spade a spade. How blessed we are that we should feel we have a democracy where people can speak freely.

Vaswani said on CBC tv news that money in Barbados is no problem. I said to myself, if that is so why wont his private sector pay Government what it owes it.

SID

Are you a Jew?

ac,
it covers a 30 month period (15 VAT returns) and as we close during the summer we are still renovating and upgrading, so mostly its the VAT on refurbishment. It makes a nonsense of government saying our hotel plant is tired and old and then doing everything they can to discourage people like us. We have just paid $37,000 in corporation tax for the last financial year and if we had been one day late in paying, it would have been a 5 per cent (of total amount) and 1 per cent interest per month.

Well Well

“Adrian………this might be difficult to digest, but this might be the time to look for greener pastures”

Where are the greener pastures?

England, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Cyprus, Portugal, USA, Jamaica?

Or you trying to get rid of Adrian in a smart way?

i noticed the “racist” sid boyce did not respond to the sriousness of his comments issued on April 13 @ 8.49pm2013
If such rabid comments were issued by blacks against whites it would be food for fodder The notion that in 2013 such demeaning comments by Sid Boyce can be uttered and tolerated is “mindBlowing” I take such comments personnaly and asked that an apology by SID BOYCE be issued if not i would forever brand HIM as a “RACIST PIG”

Can anyone guess if Adrian was a friend of the MoF or MoIB what would be the result here? In Barbados yardfowlism is now entrenched in the way we do business. Of course the MoF had no difficulty at the stroke of a pen giving highly questionable concessions to Cost-U-Less. He had no similar issue approving the entry of Karib Cable which was immediately swallowed by FLOW. But it was election time and we know how these things go. Maybe next general election the sheple will be interested in the real story.

Forgot about the million dollar equipment which the Bynoe brothers brought MoF.

Adrian………..come on, you have spent enough years in Bim to know what you are suggesting is way to easy. There has to be a forced embarrassment at some point and then you will be painted the culprit and the government the victim…………….looks like you need to spend more time there to understand the method to the madness.

@ David…thats why I said that Adrian may want to consider making campaign contributions.@ Adrian…I doubt that anyone would see your public outcry as an attempt to embarrass anybody.When all is said and done a man does have the right to defend his money,and whether or not one is in agreement with any or all of the positions taken over the years,you have been in the vanguard of the effort to protect the industry.Good for you.

As a business person, I might be coming off as biased and blind…………….but i really fail to see how $30,000 owed to a small business owner could bankrupt the Barbados economy when paid. How much more trouble can the economy be in after that……

I take note of the language used by AL as he tries to defend his article By using the Word “Embarrasment” and attaching it to his intent. He did specificly say that it was not his intention to “embarrased ‘however his article did do such a job in a critical and provocative manner which AL does not deny and he even suggest that “embarrasement” was a necessary vehicle used to get govt attention having being ignored for a specific amount of time hence such articles.

@ Well Well | April 14, 2013 at 8:18 AM |

Ac and her hubby know exactly what they are talking about. This is the MO of the current DLP administration you will be witnessing in the coming months until the IMF intervenes and take over the running of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury as they did back in 1992/93.
BTW, what is the position with Al Barrack? Has his claim been settled by way of transfer of assets as the lying MoF promised before and during the elections?

It is advisable that Adrian seriously consider writing to the international credit rating agencies, the IMF, IADB, UK High Commission, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the various United Nations agencies responsible for human rights and all the international agencies and Convention bodies to which Barbados is a member and signatory.
This administration needs to be named and shamed in all international financial circles.
Maybe publishing such a “Draft” letter in the local Press might shame the Cabinet into action thereby having the same way local radio call-in programmes are used to good effect with respect to very poor service and maladministration by some public authorities and Utilities companies.

Hamilton Hill………………yes i want to hear more about threats so I can get a better idea of why the country continue to slide into a hole………..but not if it involves the BLP threatened this and threatened that……………..that would be putting me squarely in the middle of two corrupt lovers, and I know you realize by now I am not a party person……………but you can still carry on with your comments and opinions, I just might learn something.

David if hindsight was foresight we would all be for the better. Your analysis is after the fact. However my issue with your initial response is that it is not fair and of good reasoning especially given all the reasons which you clearly stated and outlined in your above comment as for the reason for Cost-U-Less.
The govt backing of Cost – U- less was for economical reasons to boast jobs and bring down prices and the basis on which govt made the decision and which you for whatever reason overlooked even though you had pointed out but however choose to ignore and proceeded to insinuate that AL problem could have been dealt with in similar fashion even though the two are not the same one being given precedent to the overall economy and as in AL case a personnal problem…………. After the fact is always easy to access and point blame, Not blaming You but in side of all of us is that little dirty bird called “YARDFOWL” wrecking havoc and presumably seeing things from a birds eye view.