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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. Fractured
    in my time i have hunted; hunting should not be done for sport, especially when one intends to hunt another human being. You have more to lose in this instance than Caswell; you should also remember he has military training which enforces the code “take no prisoners”. You would do well my friend not under estimate the capacity to unmask you from a to z. I believe this effort of yours has taken on a sinister mode; i hope you can handle the fall out. There are things that money shall not protect you from. this is simply my humble opinion. We say hard things to each other here but I believe there is a line. The line that you are currently mashing my friend.


  2. The People’s Democratic Congress………………….that is why some of us have been beating back the yardfowls who would prefer things to remain as they are, some through ignorance and others through selfishness. However, if there is going to be real change by throwing (retiring) out these two useless parties, you cannot have new parties with same old mentalities.

  3. Gabriel Tackle Avatar

    Stainers Crucifixion has been sung here for umpteen years.So also Olivet by Maunder and 7 last words by Dubois.In the recent past we have been hearing a lot of Faure’s Requiem,Vivaldi Gloria and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.Such beautiful music and we used to hear a lot of it on Rediffusion.I would make sure I am in time to hear the Epilogue on Rediffusion every Sunday night just after 11 o’clock news.Always well sung and said usually by a collegiate choir a capella..Short and sweet


  4. Yes Gabriel, you tell the truth! Yes I too listened to the Epilogue on Rediffusion every Sunday night, Sunday Symphonette produced by Doris Provencal Kirton at 8:30,every Sunday night Music to Remember produced by Alfred Pragnell after 2pm during the week.You could not beat Rediffusion for Classical Music Programmes.
    Maunders tune for Just as I am is my favorite tune for this hymn.


  5. Caswell Franklyn is the 21st cetury Joan Benjamin a humbug of Sahara desert propotions. Which leads to the question whats become of Muhammed Nasser the grasshopper addict. Nasser the Dee, Bee, NDP, Black Muslim, Muslim, Bee, Dee, Bee, described Joan Benjamin as a hairpin it would be interesting to hear his outlook on Caswell Unity Franlklyn. I guess Nasser must be blue vex he wash away Barbados in BLP posters and dirty red cloth boldly certain of an Owen landslide. No doubt he was promised much in the end Nasser lost , Owen lost the Bees lost. Two pennies for how Nasser feeling now.


  6. This is dedicated to Carson, AC, Waiting as well as all the other known and unknown DLP yardfowls and the Opposition who too would have had a hand in helping the island to reach this stage (world wide economic pressures not withstanding)……………..AC, read it and weep… this link below.

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2013/04/17/no-new-international-business/

  7. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    watching

    I like that piece about Gary Husbands(Muhammed Nasser ).

    I had not seen or heard Gary Husbands(Muhammed Nasser) for a while until he turned up in a newspaper article, during election time, lambasting the Democratic Labour Party for encouraging its supporters to knock down one of the Barbados Labour Party bill boards which he had erected.

    My wife turned to me and said , Husbands like he is holding onto Owen’s coat tail again. We both know him to be a Political Pondfly and we were distressed that the Democratic Labour Party had welcomed him back into the fold.

    The fact of the matter is that the fallen BLP billboard that he was ranting about was actually blown down by the wind. He had erected the bill boards in such a poor manner that they were either leaning back or leaning forward. As a result BLP misfits had to go around at a later period and use stabilizing planks on them.

    Husbands would have known that but he used the occasion to try his best to vilify the Democratic Labour Party and to sing for his supper just like CASWELL FRANKLYN was doing on BARBADOS UNDERGROUND.

  8. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Former Cayman premier used govt credit card in casinos

    GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — According to charges now filed in court in the Cayman Islands, the territory’s former premier McKeeva Bush is accused of making cash withdrawals of more than $50,000 from casinos in the United States on a number of occasions during his first year in office, using a government issued credit card.

  9. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Carson

    Why don’t you leave me alone. I have exposed you to be the fraud and fair-weather friend that the DLP does not need. When you were under the impression that the DLP would have lost the elections, you were trying to enlist my support to form a third part. Do you remember saying that that both parties have become irrelevant. And now you want to give the impression that you are more DEM than Barrow. Don’t you have any shame left? Man get thee hence!

  10. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Caswell Franklyn

    Don’t you see that I am ignoring you on that false statement that you keep repeating?

    Don’t you think that they is a reason for that?

    Check yourself, If I pass you in the street tomorrow I don’t even know yout!!!!

  11. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Carson

    You are a liar as well. There were witnesses who saw when you called me into the little alcove where you were cracking chicken bones. When you worked at the Advocate, we interacted on a regular basis. Deny that as well.

  12. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    CASWELL

    Continue to fool yourself, you are very good at that.

    Final word.


  13. CCC
    I hope you are not having a Peter moment. Pointing at Christ he said I do not know him for the third time.

  14. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    lemuel | April 18, 2013 at 4:31 PM

    Lemuel, if I pass Caswell in the street I don’t him.

    Also I am cognizant of the fact that third parties are a waste of time, energy and money.

    If you doubt me ask Richie Haynes, David Comissiong, Mark Adamson or go into the cemetery to Ernest Deighton Mottley.

    Third parties are an exercise in futility.

    I am sure you can remember the day when Richie Haynes walk into Parliament and announced that he had the majority on the opposition side and therefore he is now the opposition leader. How long did he last as opposition leader?

  15. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Lemuel

    BTW is Richie Haynes still alive?


  16. CCC
    I am listening. Maybe Caswell is mistaking you for the wrong person. I accept your comments on the matter. At least admit that by his picture on BU you would know him by sight.

  17. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Lemuel

    I am not so sure about that.

    I have an idea who he is referring to as that same mistake has been made by many others on this blog over the years, but I would usually say nothing in way of correction.


  18. Caswell
    Leave CCC alone.


  19. Some people on the internet yield just “too much information” sometimes willfully but sometimes forceful. The accused, Fractured BLP infected his female wife with something he picked up from his male wife. That was forceful. This, this though was willful. Carol Boyce (LaSalle Quebec, Canada) was/is intimately involved with a Bajan. He is 125 lbs or less IMPOTENT and lives in Barbados. She definately doesn’t get hard rock candy but apparently something worth her trouble. She journey from LaSalle Quebec, Canada to St. Lucy, Barbados just for soft candy. Must have been raised on a monkey farm.

    None of the above stated links to the topic but the DLP granted another five years must chuck into a new gear. It now has to prove itself. It can no longer hold it self up on the BLP crutches, what they did and didn’t do for fourteen years.


  20. Carol Boyce is 275 lbs, didn’t mention that.


  21. Hee, hee!!!


  22. I really don’t think it is a matter of having a third party………..way past that stage……………..tried and failed, too small minded too corrupt………….I think it’s a matter of getting rid of the two that have become leeches on the taxpayers and retiring the names of both parties.


  23. It’s called FRESH START……..new blood, new ideas, new mentality.

  24. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Lemuel

    Carson C. Cadogan outed himself on BU when he was complaining about the things real and imagined that Owen Arthur had done to him. This man is delusional. Tell him to put down the rocks: he is in a glass house. This traitor is attempting to fool the DLP that he is a loyal son but he is fooling no one. I leave him to Freundel.


  25. Agree, fresh start. . . . new blood and new ideas – both parties (BLP and DLP).


  26. LOOK | April 18, 2013 at 5:32 PM |
    Agree, fresh start. . . . new blood and new ideas – both parties (BLP and DLP).

    nonsense talk fro LOOK
    Nothing wrong with the parties
    Fresh start my ass
    Yo get one or the other and this varies from time to time as to which one the people choose. In the end Barbados is run by the Civil Servants


  27. Justing asking……………..so what are the taxpayers paying the politicians for???


  28. @ Just Asking

    I’m not Bajan and don’t inhabit the Barbados island. That’s your thing. Do what you wanna do. I can’t tell ya who to sock it to.

  29. Gabriel Tackle Avatar

    All these Caribbean islands have become ungovernable,wasters of their human and material resources,spiritually adrift and we are going nowhere.Look at them all.Bahamas,Cayman,Turks and Caicos,Jamaica,Cuba,
    Hispaniola,St Christopher,Nevis,Anguilla,Antigua,Dominica,St Lucia,St Vincent,Grenada,Barbados,Trinidad and Tobago,Guyana,all in deep trouble.
    There must be a better way. For example, the former British colonies should explore joining the Canadian Conferation similar to the Maritime Provinces.

  30. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Gabriel Tackle

    In other words they were only good when they were under the Colonial masters?

    No wonder you love Thatcher the witch so!!!


  31. It’s good to know Trinidad is doing something about their thieving CLICO bosses………what is Barbados doing???

    http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Duprey-Monteil-have-to-testify-203707611.html

  32. old onion bags Avatar

    Now you see what is about to happen here when politicians do the wrong things just for votes…thinking they have beaten the system …until one day it arises and bite them in the ass….We all know the MOST RECENT…but we won’t go there today…instead….B’s Recycle….Have you all heard the law suits in the making that will eventually include action against Govt?….as Mr. Bynoe will not have have enough money….We talking millions ….
    Carson …HUSH do Caswell got you ‘wiki’ in a mouse trap….you lucky DEM doan boot ya….


  33. Old Onions……….they probably will, it’s every man (goose) for him/herself going forward, it’s all starting to unravel.

  34. old onion bags Avatar

    @ Well Well

    Is way about time the legal concept of Vicarious liability be applied here….in this case to bind the politicians …like “way my cut”…who by these nefarious acts …bind the taxpayer to suffering….How could you allow a dump swap to occasion this now embarrassment?…But there again Mr. Big Stuff thru Clico and what’s left in the registry…makes the low dung bettle look a mere cocka-rochie…whalosss ! Talk about Integrity Legislation now el burro Carson…..

  35. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Onions

    You have to wait for 2018 to see if you will get that High Commissioner to England job!!!!


  36. Okd Onioins…………hee, hee!!!

  37. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    onions

    You are in poor health now, how old will you be by 2018?


  38. Gabriel Tackle “For example, the former British colonies should explore joining the Canadian Conferation similar to the Maritime Provinces.”

    You remind us that some BU bloggers can sometimes emulate a Jim Carey movie appropriately titled to suit you.


  39. @Gabriel Tackle
    There must be a better way. For example, the former British colonies should explore joining the Canadian Conferation similar to the Maritime Provinces
    **************

    That is not so far fetched as this idea has been floated previously as a form of political union primarily with the Turks and Caicos (probably wanted somewhere warm to go in Winter) but the idea never got past the wishing stage. I don’t think that Canada wants to take on any new provinces/territories now it probably wishes it could get rid of a few.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Caribbean_relations


  40. @Sargeant
    Thank you for the reference.Given the state of our Caribbean polity so called, we are up the creek without a paddle.There is an abundance of modern pirates and buccaneers in our politics from all sections of our societies.Even the spiritual gurus are unashamedly dizhonest.The COP is now under the spiritual influence of the dean of the cathedral of St Michael and All Angels and we know that Michael defeated the dragon,so Dots might meet his waterloo.
    Barrow says the Public Service was an army of occupation,did noting about it except amend the constitution to place his party supporters in the controlling heights of the Public Service.Adams railed against it successfully,dethroned Barrow for good or evil,and himself left the new Act intact.Hence there is no Public Sector Reform to this day.
    Barrow says if you want justice keep out of ‘Coleridge Street’.Well we have left Coleridge Street and gone to a brand new spanking building in Whitepark and the mindset remains leading Alair to raise his tail in frustration at a judge.Neither Barrow nor Adams both eminent legal luminaries did anything to make it easier for the average bajan to have the notion that justice is served in our courts without fear or favour.All talk,talk,talk.


  41. There is a reason why there is a separation between church and state in certain jurisdictions…….but i see the churches in Bim are now jumping into politics with both feet.

    Gabriel……………Barrow, Adams, et al would have known about those laws in the earlier days but sat on their behinds enjoying their lives of debauchery and did nothing…………. so much for working for and helping the people.


  42. Well Well
    The last time the state and church came together like hand in glove, we got the Roman Catholic Church. Just read any chapter in European History.


  43. Lemuel……….they have never been able to get rid of them, now they are the richest most powerful corporation on earth.


  44. @ Well Well

    Barbados wil never get rid of those corupt lawyers, politicians, etc. they turned them loose to produce widespread damage there (Barbados) and did: Owen Arthur, Mia Mottley, Dale Marshall, Gline Clark, George Payne, David Thompson, Sir Richard Cheltenham, Charles O. Williams, etc. Corruption in barbados have infested itself in corporations, organizations, government affairs, the police, the judicial system too (Sir David Simmons) etc. and like a roach army continuously growing. Unlike Turks & Caicos’ dealings with Michael Misick, Barbados government is powerless and too weak to fight. . . . handicapped itself, too nonchalant and or just don’t have what it takes to persecute, incriminate and imprison those fat high elite vagabonds. We can say that Cyde Mascoll’s reply to Owen Arthur’s 2004 budget started the ball rolling. Send him a thank you card. The DLP just recently moved integrity legislation through the upper and lower house but freedom of information is nowhere in sight – not yet. Hopefully, it’s on the way.


  45. @ Well Well

    I’m a historican, also a collector (antiques and fine art), black lady. Did you know John David Rockefeller, collected art from all over the world. LOOK, sometimes, the New York Metropolitan museum.


  46. Look………..Politicians are proudly and inherently corrupt, let’s hope this bunch die out and take their sick mentalities with them.

    Yes I have been to the NY Met……….Rockefeller, their goes another story.


  47. Politicians/lawyers are in a special class by themselves, that’s the reason why special laws should be put in place for them when they are that bent on corruption and criminal practices. The lawyers from the old school are mostly old, sick men and women who are borderline Alzheimers patients, though they are still practicing, there seem to be no regulation of lawyers in Bim.


  48. Apparently not, no regulations for lawyers in Barbados.

  49. old onion bags Avatar

    Caswell writes…at top
    Carson
    You are a liar as well. There were witnesses who saw when you called me into the little alcove where you were cracking chicken bones. When you worked at the Advocate, we interacted on a regular basis. Deny that as well.
    ***********
    Carson….I give you fair warning….I spoke to ona ur ppls and have learned that you are but fighting to save grace with them…Time you stop comin here and playin off as part of the plantagent…..loser you!

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