All we want to know is whos land they building on ? and where are the deeds,, Seem all land wide open is govt land? and can never show nor say where they get the land from ,COW now JADA , Every Minister like they taking turns making a deal to get 10%of the deal amount
If they build a hospital for 270,million with nothing on the inside to save lives, Better off popping tents and then to buy whats needed to save people.BLP/DLP make the deal and get 10% , in pocket as the amount runs over, do they also get another 10% on cost over run? What a way to run the govt and CROOK the people ,
And they still get a pay check on top of that ,,, need to be outlawed .
Let me stop you all add the rest……

That is BU’s clown prince!

“You ask why leaves fall it is in their nature”

Poor bare poxy foot breadfruit swappers come to a feast that they, in their wildest dreams, never imagined they could attend, what do you expect?

It is not a BLP/DLP thing either, all of dem (no pun intended) do it.

Let me see if I understand what you are saying Mr. Franklyn.

Integrity legislation, being promoted by men who have no integrity, as if on some hallucinogenic, (or in the case of Seethru on 110% proof) enacting legislation, which, in the event an MP or public servant decides to brek off a piece, lot of that other ting, tek de public funds fuh heself, dat dem gine loss dem pic, or get lockup, possibly bull, and dat fellow Fumble going do dat???

Las week we Pastor do a similar miracle, he did forgive uh fellow dat tief nuff money from *** en ask de church tto forgive he too and, since *** ent working he ask one uh dee congregation big wigs in the seat of the saints, to gi’ he a job in he finance department!!!

Man if you did dey to hear de snickers in de church. En de irony uh dis ting is dat dat crook first name is Cris too!!!

Talk bout asking de fox dat guarding de chickens to count dem!!!

You gots any mo’ good jokes?

When all the money dry up , the Ministers will not run for seats any more ,They not there to help the people but them self.
Church is another good crook all of them going to Hell.,Put up a tent and then build a wall Church and making money on the other foot.Lord knows they dont have a DEED either. When the MPs get out of office they will build a CHURCH to finish sucking the people dry with a Bible in their hands.
More lawyers made QC , to refill the ranks of WAR against the People

We need integrity legislation fast , Caswell @ We will not even get it slow to never, Election gone , crooks in the house again.Ponzi govt
Will have to wait till the US of A and Canada run them out , by cutting what ever FUNDING they may be sending to them.
Eric Holder Name on a Building ,He need to take the name off .

West Minister First Past the Post is a BUSINESS MODEL …. Barbados is NOT a society, it is a market…!

I tend to disagree with those on this thread, who argue and say, that politicians have no integrity.

Reason why ?? : Edmund Hinkson calls George Payne a crook and criminal to his face , his other BLP colleagues were within ear shot…….and not one of the BLPites, including Mia Mottley , has come out and told Edmund Hinkson…..he is LYING !

Edmund Hinkson indeed has INTEGRITY.

No tender process and the ghettoisation continues. Remember I said it here when it becomes a reality.

Both the DLP/BLP must be permanently removed from the political governmental corridors of this country within the next 5 years in Barbados if not the country will become just like how Jamaica was in many regards in the 1980s and up to now, in the next 9 to 14 years. If they are not replaced in the next 5 years by the “right” people.

Hence, there will be serious, and in many cases irreversible, deterioration and degradation in many of the social material financial conditions in this country. For instance,

1) There will be brought about by the interaction of many forces alarming levels of poverty and misery affecting the broad masses and middle classes in this country;

2) There will be tremendous widening in the gaps in remunerations and wealth between the rich and the poor in Barbados;

3) There will become the norm the incurring of soaring stratospheric so-called money debt in the governmental, personal and private and other provinces of the country;

4) The rates at which such so-called money debts overall will be increasing will be faster than they will be being settled;

5) There will be increasing levels of national remunerations going more towards so-called money debts than towards productive investment;

6) The real actual cost of use of local money will continue to skyrocket beyond the last calculated amount of 83 per cent for 2011 in 2012, in Barbados;

7) The real actual cost of use of foreign money will continue to balloon beyond the 76 per cent that was calculated for 2010 in 2012, to the point (close to 100 per cent) where and when there will be so-called devaluations of the Barbados Dollar

8)There will be prolonged periods of national political economic material and financial depression in the country – Barbados has – from late 2007 – entered its 6th year of this type of depression and decline;

9) There will be burgeoning dependence – to a point where it becomes chronic – by governmental and private sector people on private foreign capital and investment flows for much of the country’s survival – thus greater and greater amounts of foreign take overs and acquisitions of and mergers with local business enterprises, and greater and greater exploitation of many of the broad masses and middle classes of the country;

10) There will be excessive reliance – to a point where it becomes acute – by governmental and private sector people on multilaterial financial assistance for balance of payments support, private sector income and for even social sector (money) transfers.

The underlying casual, correlative and other factors giving rise to or associating with these social political material and financial conditions will also show that not only will Barbados become like how Jamaica was some years ago in those and other relevant regards in the next 9 to 14 years if the BLP and DLP are not permanently removed from the political governmental corridors of this country and be replaced by nationalist progressive people-centered coalitions of individuals, but that far from becoming a world class society and the number one entrepreneurial hub in the world Barbados will also be fast heading towards becoming a second rate Third World country on the present trajectory that the damned DLP and the. BLP have so stupidly thoughtlessly put the country on.

So, down with the Damned DLP and the Blasted BLP.

PDC

@ David

What PAC what!! I keep telling you people that the AG comments on what his auditors report. Those same auditors normally have axes to grind and tend to interview staff that are willing to boost their agenda. The office of AG should not be a public body!!!!

@enuff

Let us assume what you say is correct. Is the problem then the AG’s reports or the fact that the ‘system’ does not put the report under the scrutiny and rigour that would expose inaccurate information. After all the notes generated by the AG are based on figures,accounting standards and government financial rules.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/stop-thieves-article-1.1336628

Here is another question:

It is documented that the T&T government has been subsidizing fuel for CAL which mean LIAT will find it difficult if not impossible to compete on the regional routes they ply. From all reports this is wrong (illegal?). Here is the question, if it were Barbados instead of T&T would the other regional governments be howling in disgust maybe taking the matter to the CCJ?

Plantation………..has a point, exactly who owns the land that is go freely being made available for JADA to build their garbage dumps??

Does T & T not own CAL………they should be able to subsidize their fuel, LIAT is no ones cup of tea………was there not a cheaper Airline in the form of Redjet, what happened to it?

The AG is in barbadostoday.bb discussing building a new juvie hall for Dodds boys and he slipped in a little quote “well you know we are having some financially challenges”. What is so hard about the PM letting the taxpayers know the country is dead broke? everyone already knows, it’s just to make it officially known now.

@Plantations

Reference to AG above is to the Auditor General and not the Attorney general.

David……………….got you, still these are financially challenging times and if CAL is state-owned ( if i remember correctly, it is) Gonzales et al, does not have a leg to stand on , treaty of chaguaramas or not. What law could could prevent a state owned entity from being subsidized by the state, sounds crazy.

With reference to the AG, my mind was wandering on the super saver card, this card has to be maintained, i just stopped using the presto card because you are being charged a fee when money runs out on the card, in essence you are being charged to top up………….what is wrong with the PM saying government is broke.

I am struggling with words this morning, it’s freezing where i am, thought the winter was over…

I don’t see the islands involved having the money to bring the case against T & T, and they should not be wasting scarce tax dollars just to massage bruised egos, they should try to negotiate and come to some kind of mutually beneficial agreement, these islands are now past the stage of showmanship, they are just too broke.

What is wrong with us as a people. The money Bjerkman is spending on developments is largely the money he gets from public sector contracts – in other words, taxpayers’ money. I have made the point here on a number of occasions that the so-called wealthy on the West Coast are being subsidised by taxpayers. They are not bringing the so-called foreign reserves in to the country the politicians and civil servants will have you believe. Tell them to give us the evidence.
Are we fools or just brain dead?

In a post-TAXATION society in Barbados, nothing – like the scandalous foolishness that we are reading about in the Weekend Nation, Friday, May 10, 2013, where one representative of the Barbados Agricultural Society and another of the Barbados Manufacturers Assocation and the government of Barbados are holding hostage the local Subway Franchisee and many consumers of Subway foods in this country – will be found in this country.

For, it is absolute stupidness to have James Paul and Bobbie McKay support a TAXATION regime where 180 per cent duty on the income (not any damned critical import items as falsely believed by some people) (and not to mention any of the other duties) of the business of Frederick George is used as some kind of illusory pretext by them for helping to arrest the high food import bill in this country, when in truth and in fact it would be a number of consumers who will be deprived of such offerings, a number of Subway employees and other beneficiaries who would be hurt when Frederick George either scales down his operations or closes entirely in the future on account of this madness we are seeing happen in Barbados.

And, true to form – and under these jack o lantern DLP/BLP governments – there will still not be had by them this arresting and reducing of this high food import bill – which itself is becoming a most elaborate bogeyman for people of the ilk of Paul, in relationship to the practising of social political psychological mythology in Barbados!!

Also, we must condemn in the strongest of terms, this kind of gross inefficience and wastage of resources that is happening in this country behind this senseless madness called TAXATION, where consumers of some local commodities from manufacturers and agriculturalists are using to much of their incomes, payments and transfers, in order to ultimately get these commodities into their possession from the said manufacturers and agriculturalists – on top of such gross obscenities like TAXATION.

Finally, while we will wherever possible morally politically financially support the manufacturing and agriculture sectors of this country, we cannot – in this instance – support them and this jackass government and this illogical imposition of TAXATION or any other imposition of such on any person’s, business’ or any other entity’s incomes, payments or transfers in this country.

PDC

@Hal

Don’t you understand how it works by now?

JADA/Bjerkhamn is the deep pocket to replace CLICO.

Deep pockets or ill-gotten gains?

Has Jada’s son ever been brought to court for killing his young son? that alone should tell Barbadians what system of Government we have.

The Super Smart Card system has indeed been scrapped. The thing is it never really got started it was a lot of hot air. For many years the cards were just there at the TB not be able to be used, seems the technology was not working correctly. I heard the IT manager (the real one) did not recommend was was bought, seems he was over ruled. Also by July you should notice the machine not in the buses anymore (or at least not working) seems Simpson Motors was getting $90,000. each month for a system that was not working correctly anyhow. That’s over a million each year. I will shortly be giving manual tickets again, by July/August.

Can someone tell the new minister that when he appoints a board, send a sensible one, persons who can actual manage things, persons who have Barbados and the TB at heart, not thieves, crooks and persons only looking to get rich and their friends rich. We have had too much of that over the last 50+ years. Also tell him that the hub and spoke system in the north is not working, that we are giving away revenue to the private buses and that is why the people in the north are constantly angry with us. They want good service not only on weekends.

@Driver

Please clarify your point with the dates you mentioned,

Also by July you should notice the machine not in the buses anymore (or at least not working) seems Simpson Motors was getting $90,000. each month for a system that was not working correctly anyhow. That’s over a million each year. I will shortly be giving manual tickets again, by July/August.

The following article clearly shows then Minister John Boyce speaking to the coming of the Smart Card system and this was in November 2012!

http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=3Dlocal&NewsID=28186

@ ac | May 11, 2013 at 11:10 AM |
“Miller two question have been asked in the article . neither of which you have answered! So what are the answers “

Yes, Mr ac, I have answered them.

The GROTTO housing project contract- if it gets the backing of the bankers with any line of credit after the Coverley disaster and materialises in full- has been given to JADA by the DLP administration in return for campaign financing to buy votes in the last general elections and for lining the pockets of the two easily corrupted Sinckliar and Lashley the Garrison boys in the true sense of the location and urban lingo.

Your leader the Fumbler knows it and benefited from. The trade-off was to “ let me become PM again and I will turn a blind eye to your dastardly schemes with Jada. I the lying hypocrite of a fumbling idiot will take my share by way of buying votes in SMS”.

Where in the newspapers did you see tenders invited for this project?

Driver @ May 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM | has answered the second question.
What else do you want to know? If the person (s) awarded the contract is a friend of John Boyce or a DLP yardfowl like you?

The answer is obvious to you, isn’t it?