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Chris Sinckler,Minister of Finance has unveiled a $600 million stimulus program
Chris Sinckler, Minister of Finance has unveiled a $600 million stimulus

….what you waiting for? – Rouser

It is now almost two months and counting since the results of the 2013 Elections. By now, one would believe, that the euphoria of the occasion would have ceased and an awakening to reality ensued. Instead we were occasioned with the now accustomed, rather nonchalant and evergreen eulogy emanating from Church Village echelons that has obviously signalled the honeymoon is not yet over.

As one punter puts it, how much longer can Barbados remain out of gear? Could we then interpret the blank complaisant as a not knowing of what to do next or the calm before the inevitable storm?

Could the patient further afford the diapason. So far we have heard news of a $600 million instead of a once suggested $90 million stimulus package to help jump start the economy, but  nothing further as to the devil’s details. Could the privatization card be once more in the mix then? Could there be that yet another request for intermediated ‘silence in deals’ as with the recent $120 Million bond repayment?

Surely the populace needs to know more before imaginations again run wild. Are we rocking or rolling, galloping or strolling and to where?  As before, please do not leave us guessing again. Last time the bull was taken by the horns, popularity ratings soared. Less we fall back on old ways.

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  1. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Miller……………..I saw, it makes commonsense whether we liked Thatcher or not, the taxpayers were made aware of how much was spent on her funeral, and if she was a thief, the taxpayers would also been made aware of that……………why does Barbados who loves to copy all things British refuse to copy transparency and the punishment of corruption??

    AC………..yes, may Thompson rest in peace with all the CLICO policy holders stolen money.

  2. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    The DLP before the 02/21/2013 general election moved Integrity Legislation through the upper and lower house. Freedom of Information is still needed because Integrity Legislation is not enough and the Violet Beckles matter must still be resolved, likewise CLICO.

  3. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Look…………………i don’t know if they are capable of realizing it yet, but all the demons from their previous corrupt escapades, both parties, are now on the loose and refuse to be bottled……………..it is time for them to come clean and start fresh.

  4. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @Carson C. Cadogan | April 17, 2013 at 9:43 AM |

    PRODIGAL SON

    If her remains were given to the Miners they would have known what to do with them and it would not have cost the taxpayers of England 15cents by the time they were through with them.
    “”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
    You are a classless, cruel idiot.

    Wonder if you have given the CLICO policyholders the same advice had they known at the time that their monies were going into Thompson’s coffers as well as Greenverbs.

    I pity you.

  5. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Well, Well,
    I posted the above comment before reading yours expressing the same sentiments on this humbug on this blog called CCC.

  6. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Prodigal………..people with a modicum of commonsense would see the hypocrisy being displayed by Carson, et al, and we would all see it in unison.

  7. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    @ Carson

    Guyson Mayers was the chairman of the Rural Development Commission and a prospective candidate for the DLP. He is a DLP, so I do not expect him to write any different. Mayers is as politically biased towards the DLP as you and NationBLPnewspaper say Albert Brandford to the BLP. Six is still half dozen.

    Denis kellman and now Donville Inniss, have been repeatedly talking about entrepreneurship and the development of small businesses as the way forward for Barbados. Bearing this in mind, Steve Blackett and the directors of the National Assistance Board, having made the conscious decision to provide NAB staff members with uniforms, sought to have those uniforms made in Trinidad & Tobago.

    I guess these are the type of decisions the DLP make for the better of this country that NationBLPnewspaper was talking about.

  8. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    @ Carson C. Cadogan | April 17, 2013 at 7:36 AM |

    What economic growth?

    Carson, Jeptor Ince, Frank Alleyne or Hal Gollop must be write that post for you. All the time you have been contributing to this blog this is the first time you have posted anything with some sort of sense; except when you quote articles “off topic” or your now new found friend Guyson Mayers.

    This certainly not your style.

  9. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Thatcher Funeral: Goldthorpe Former Miners Burn Effigy Of ‘Thatcher The Scab’ (PICTURES)

    Residents of a former mining town in South Yorkshire have burnt an effigy of Margaret Thatcher inside a mock coffin, placed with a floral wreath spelling ‘SCAB’.

    Several anti-Thatcherites spat on the coffin as the flames took hold of the effigy, which was placed on a pyre behind a row of derelict terrace houses near the town’s high street, with many chanting “scab, scab, scab”.

    The effigy had been paraded through Goldthorpe earlier in the day, and fireworks were set off before it was placed on a pyre mid-afternoon on Wednesday.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/17/thatcher-funeral-goldthorpe-miners-burn-effigy_n_3101236.html?1366215017

    The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted: 17/04/2013 17:10 BST | Updated: 17/04/2013 17:15 bst

  10. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Artaxerxes | April 17, 2013 at 1:46 PM

    Go back and re-read the article again.

    I think your glasses need changing.

  11. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    hahahaha

    wunna see wah de miners do?

    “Thatcher Funeral: Goldthorpe Former Miners Burn Effigy Of ‘Thatcher The Scab’”

  12. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    A real pity the CLICO policy holders were denied the right to do the same to David Thompson.

  13. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    prodigal son

    hahahaha

    You call me a humbug? A good man like Me?

    You want your head examining. Check with Dr. Ermie Belle , George Bell sister. You do remember him , don’t you? The pollster who predicted a huge Barbados Labour Party victory at the 2008 elections .

    Wunna love polls, only thing is that they are always WRONG, AND THEY ALWAYS LEAD YOU ALL UP CRIPLE CREEK!!!!!!

  14. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Mrs Thatcher had a nice funeral with great music at St Paul”s Cathedral with beautiful renditions of some great music including an excerpt from Brahm”s Requiem.

  15. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Georgi Porgi

    Only someone like you would say the old witch had a good funeral.

  16. lemuel Avatar
    lemuel

    CCC
    I well remember dennis Kellman in and outside the House lamenting the woes of the poor man and ruing the day when he Kellman the poverty liberator would come to their rescue.

    Kellman was made Minister of Housing. The next moment Kellman wanted to know why the government housing tenants do not pay their rent and he Kellman would be putting them on the street. I always heard Caswell about the thing about the higher the monkey climbed. Kellman is a real monkey for trute.

  17. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Yes Carson.
    I was raised as an Anglican, and as a chorister, sang for many a funeral at CH CH PARISH CH, where at the tender age of 11 we sang BRAHMS REQUIEM I am proud of my upbringing.

    Why do you call Mrs Thatcher a witch?. SHALL WE HERE ON BU CALL YOUR MOTHER EUSTINE A WITCH TOO?

  18. ac Avatar
    ac

    Too busy to interact with wunna talking about the dead. Howevr on the business side among the living my confidence level is up ……..Our business is expanding and might have to hire a few assistants……………sorry to interrupt the dead conversation.

  19. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    oh, oh……………….some people are not as anonymous as they think they are.

  20. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    CCC
    will QUEEN ELIZABETH ATTEND EUSTINE”S FUNERAL
    WILL EUSTINE BECOME A BARONESS TOO
    wILL EUSTINE GET A CEREMONIAL FUNERAL TELEVISED ON THE BBC
    WILL EUSTINE RUN THE GOB AS MRS THATCHER RAN THAT OF THE UK
    WHAT DID MRS THATCHER DO YOU

  21. David Avatar
    David

    If local and regional politicians had one of Thacher’s ‘balls’…

  22. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    David | April 17, 2013 at 3:54 PM |

    If local and regional politicians had one of Thacher’s ‘balls’…
    ________________________________

    Hi David,

    You ain’t have any yourself ! Why are you scared to reveal the real truth behind Caswell Franklyn ?

  23. lemuel Avatar
    lemuel

    Fractured
    What is this real truth behind Caswell. I spoke to him about “outing” you; for I have strong views on that.

  24. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Lemuel,
    Any person who leaves one endeavour after the other under questionable circumstances…….what that tells you ?

    Caswell is a FRAUD. Plain and simple.

    He last tried the trick on a Mr. Stanton Gittens, former employee of Personnel Administration Division, who turned to him for help in a work related matter. Caswell demanded $ 5,000.00 from this lowly gentleman to represent him with the Chief Personnel Officer.

    Imagine Caswell walking around giving the impression that he is an Attorney at Law !

  25. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    The door of truth behind CLICO opened. The door of truth behind Violet Beckles also opened. Alike Al Barrack, both CLICO and Violet Beckles will continuously cloud Barbados. None of those three “embarrassing nightmares” will permandantly just go away; all three are cause and effect; they came into effect simply because of cause; someone made them a cause. Owen Arthur and the BLP caused the Al Barrack and Violet Beckles dilema. Both the BLP and DLP caused CLICO. The Supervisor of Insurance issued a cease and decease order against CLICO that was known by Owen Arthur and the BLP. Both Owen Arthur and David Thompson allowed it, CLICO to explode as it did. Don’t just hate the dead king for it.

  26. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    Prime Minister Stewart I know is afraid of confronting and attacking that Violet Beckles’ mess. It’s such a big and ugly monster. It additionally involves some of Barbados’ elite, Mia Mottley, Sir Richard Cheltenham, Charles O. Williams just to name a few He, Prime Minister Stewart knows this as does those individuals buttttttttttt Time to Chuck into a New Gear – resolve it because it’s not hiding, refuses to be dead and buried.

  27. ac Avatar
    ac

    magaret thatcher is a witch and any mothersbecoming leader of a country willfullyt choosing to implement some of the same dastardly policies which would devastate the poor as Maggie the witch” thatcher did then the name would apply .

  28. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    So what about Prime Ministers in Barbados stealing from poor taxpayers?, is that okay, as long as they are DLP??…………just asking.

  29. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Fractured BLP

    You know that is a damn lie. I represented the person of whom you speak up to the level of the PS Ministry of the Civil Service where we obtained a ruling in his favour. The CPO has not acted upon that ruling. I have never charged him one cent.

    Why don’t you tell people that you infected your female wife with something that you picked up from your male wife. The poor woman is extremely ill and you are telling people that it is cancer. Lemuel ask me not to reveal too much because your identity would be compromised. And I have promised David that I would not out anyone, not even AC. (She would understand 929)

  30. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    What about Prime Minister Thompson, Leroy Parris et al, stealing CLICO policy holders money and keeping millions of it in their bank accounts??…………is that okay, cause they are DLP and can do no wrong in the eyes of their supporting sheeple, even though these are criminal acts. CRIMES against the TaXPYERS…………….or does it not count in the eyes of the DLP sheeple, because it is black on black crimes………you all should be ashamed.

  31. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Wait……….i thought this was an anonymous blog, everyone seems to know everyone else’s business…………….JEESH

  32. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @Georgie Porgie | April 17, 2013 at 3:02 PM |

    Mrs Thatcher had a nice funeral with great music at St Paul”s Cathedral with beautiful renditions of some great music including an excerpt from Brahm”s Requiem.
    “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

    Very well done indeed, GB. It was worth getting up to see. Dignified and befitting the lady’s contribution, whether you agreed with her policies or not. Done in true British style and with class!

  33. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    Everything happens for a reason. Tourism in Barbados is near death and Government is financially unstable and struggling, borrowing to pay employees and has defaulted on VAT refunds to small businesses – years behind. There is surely a reason (s). All must be considered: One, the previous administration prior to 2007. Yes, the BLP and two, a non-aggressive leader – Prime Minister Stewart – honest but non-aggressive. The previous administration prior to 2007 is responsible for a lot of things that the current administration could not yield but prime minister Stewart does not exemplify aggressiveness as does President Obama. One cannot be a president or prime minister and be a coward or shy because a president and or prime minister is responsible for his/her county and masses of people. The iron lady Margaret Thatcher angered the British because of her actions what she did, implementing that poll tax. Prime Minister Stewart angers many in Barbados basically doing nothing or not enough. Prime Minister Stewart and the DLP moved integrity legislation through the upper and lower house. That’s not enough and not all the DLP promised Bajans in 2007. Freedom of Information must come forward. Prime Minister Stewart additionally must confront that Violet Beckles matter simply because it will not die and be buried. David Thompson made effort to investigate the Violet Beckles matter. Stewart should do the same. Time to chuck into a new gear.

  34. ac Avatar
    ac

    @caswell
    stupeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  35. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    @ Well, Well

    You should be more than sympathetic towards Mr. Franklyn. Being different individuals, we will from time to time, have differences of opinions. Fractured BLP has been attacking CasWell (Well) for months, continually hitting him below the belt, while not focusing on the information he brings to this blog.

    I think Caswell has responded appropriately.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    It is obvious DLP surrogates on BU see Caswell as a threat and intend to engage in personal attacks using monikers. It is ironic that pre 2008 we accused Arthur’s BLPites of doing the same.

  37. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    My goodness, NationBLP critic must be seeing red. Sanka Price’s article in today’s Nation is an excellent one.

    This government refuses to listen to commonsense advice because “we win, wunnah in opposition for five more years, deal with it”. They refuse to take heed. The sad thing about it is that ALL of us will suffer for the DLP’s pigheadedness!

    The old saying is so apt………………………..hard ears you wont hear, own way you will feel. Sad though that all of will feel the devastation!

  38. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    art……………..i noticed there are a few people who like to use Caswell as their scape goat………………however, it appears as though most of them know each other personally and have shared quite a few secrets and know each others identity onthe blog…..hence, when Caswell comments on something they don’t agree with, the knives are drawn and secrets pop out in the heat of the moment.

  39. Gabriel Tackle Avatar
    Gabriel Tackle

    @Prodigal and GP
    I agree with your comments.Pomp and Circumstance,impressive and the usual stiff upper lip precision.I loved the colour,the music,the Bishop’s address, Amanda’s reading of the lesson and the timing was almost perfect with the procession exiting the cathedral at exactly noon.I don’t recall hearing a psalm being sung.Maybe I missed that part of the service.Well done indeed.

  40. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    David

    Let me assure you that I have no party political agenda. Prior to 2003, I was a very ardent BLP supporter. I parted company with them and despite several invitations from the other side, I choose to remain non-aligned. I am only under the control of the Almighty and politicians hate that but I do not depend on them for my living so I really don’t care what they think of me. Mind you, I expect attacks because I can’t expect to offend people, even though unintentionally, and not suffer the consequences. I try to be truthful at all times. As Sandi said, I don’t tell untruths, well at least not deliberately. However, I do not believe that these people should resort to fabrications but that is their nature.

  41. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Sanka Price indeed has a great article in today’s nation …….DLP yardfowls should have a read.

  42. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    GABRIEL | April 17, 2013 at 6:22 PM |
    There was no Psalm, and unfortunately only a small piece of a descant in Love Divine which was sung to the tune Blaenwern, the Methodists love instead of the more beautiful tune IMHO Love Divine by Sir John Stainer

  43. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Hi Caswell,

    That ponzi scheme you are masquerading as Unity Trade Union will soon be disbanded.

    Mark my word.

    You have no staff employed, less than 20 members recruited, (unless Lemuel joined within the last few days !), no telephone number of repute for Unity to be contacted through and you constantly harass public officers to give you large sums of money for you to take up cases / grievances on their behalf.

    The Stanton Gittens case is just one of many. The documents are there to prove it.

    I am surprised you sought to ” shed light” on the Stanton Gittens case.!

    But ……only you know why ??

    You are being monitored !

  44. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Well Well

    They are not my friends: they are merely seeking to use me for their selfish ends. They don’t tell me any personal secrets: I have my sources, you wouldn’t believe it if I tell you so I wouldn’t. What I can tell you is that sometimes I even hear from jilted spouses. So I even know who pretend to be macho men but in reality they don’t come up to mark, but they pay good. For instance, Fractured BLP’s female wife was very angry when she discovered that he brought a policeman into the marital bed when she was out of the island.

  45. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Caswell………..all that stuff is deemed normal in Bim, you forever have to be watching your back for the next knife, it’s scary i know and dangerous. I was hearing recently about those private houses that host strippers and it’s amazing the people involved and the amount of money they pay for some very vile acts……………someone warned me that when I am in Barbados on the beach don’t stand too close to anyone in the water cause you never know what they are trying to wash off their skin from the night before……………..the island has turned into a real Sodom……….playground for the rich and filthy.

  46. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    @ Well Well
    Barbados you know is just a small area. A lot of things you think are closed shut are not, example: people’s identify on blogs.

    Some via silliness expose their own secrecies. I am not Bajan, never stepped down on Barbados soil and not interested. Of course you know this. I am a historian (North American Continent). I research things of interest and write about it/them. Made acquaintance with a cousin of Owen Arthur, Barbados Water Authority employee (purchasing agent) via a social networking site. The cousin like Owen Arthur is a nut case – lies all over the map, personal vehicle is a 1999 SUV, he calls it a van. Laugh, go ahead and laugh. He said “my credit is good, just over-extended, waiting for payment from my job (Barbados Water Authority) and I will be back in good health. Laugh, go ahead and laugh. He, the cousin made known fact that Owen Arthur is an ex-prime minister and now “was” leader of the opposition, but never mentioned fact that Arthur was a drunk and corrupt. He said “persons of my family has much influence”. Apparently not, Arthur a second time lost his bid for re-election to prime minister. Mia Mottley may indeed be gay but certainly got Arthur under her feet. He, Arthur attempted to dump her, Mottley on the DLP. His own party, Owen Arthur dumped him in favor of Mottley. What a laugh.

  47. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Look…………..it’s a comedy act.

  48. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Many small and medium sized businesses are in serious financial difficulties and are folding largely as a result of the destructiveness and backwardness of the fiscal monetary and financial policies of DLP/BLP governments over the years in this country. If these two old ramshackled disgusting parties are not removed by the broad masses and middle classes of people of this country, and in their places not
    any installation by the said people of very progressive developmentalist people-centered parties in the next five years, Barbados will become just like Jamaica was some years ago, in many regards, in the next 9 to 14 years.

  49. Gabriel Tackle Avatar
    Gabriel Tackle

    @GP
    You know the music indeed.Blaenwern is a Welshman’s setting and Stainers Love Divine is an Englishman’s setting.Coincidentally,Stainer was a chorister and went on to become organist and choir master at the same St Paul’s cathedral .Both these hymn tunes are popular at weddings with Stainers’ the more popular of the two in Barbados.My preference is Blaenwern.The tune gradually builds into a tremendous last verse unison with the opening chord taking the church heavenward assisted by a huge 32’contra bombarde or a similar 32′ stop to shake the foundation of the church.

  50. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Blaenwern is apparently the favorite tune of the Methodists [Mrs Thatcher was raised Methodist]. Sir John Stainer [he was knighted for his church music] wrote many beautiful hymn tunes in addition to his Crucifixion, which is very popular in Barbados. The tenor in Stainer”s tune is sweeeeeet!

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