Just by the way.

Barbados Free Press has not been updated since 7 May 2013. Barbados Underground next?

@Pachamama, Dr. Love, Bushie et al.
Suggestion on how to reduce our health costs begining with Dentistry. I a sure other similar “health costs” can be reduces. India has a number of such “thriving industries.” Bangladesh also.
So maybe we should change our lifestyles and adopt this model..

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=WR8tIjTykbE&feature=youtu.be

Carson
Mia is not even going to recognize the hand holding the sword that cuts her political throat. Owen will never forgive her for selling out the BLP in the dying days before the general elections. Be careful Ms Mottley your enemies are many and they are encamped about you with the most ill of political intentions.

David

I must admit that I created quite a stir with the revelation that the Government is planning to lay off temporary workers. Without listening or understanding what I said the two sillies from NUPW came swinging. Firstly, my claim is that there was a meeting at the Ministry of Finance last week Friday where they were making plans to terminate the services of temporary employees. I never said that NUPW was present at the meeting. I said that it was revealed at the meeting that the unions were aware and understood Government’s position. Mind you, that is true since Dennis Clarke was on radio last week making out a case for lay offs.

In any event, today, I have singlehandedly saved the jobs of hundreds of temporary officers in the Public Service by revealing their plans prematurely and forcing the Government to come out and deny what I have said. It is now back to the drawing board for these clowns to find another method of balancing the books that does not involve redundancies.

I would like to suggest that they collect the $25 million in VAT from Courts as a start. Then they can go after all the other VAT thieves that politicians have illegally intervened to protect from public officers who are just doing their jobs.

@ Yagga:
Carol Roberts and Dennis Johnson are praising some songs
with excitement and enthusiasm
Giving unfair bias to
the Lil Ricks and Edwins
Stop it !
The two of wunna doing bare foolishness”

Totally against my grain, I respond.

I am one person. I am not “and anybody”. I have not enthusiastically praised “Lil Ricks & Edwins”. Today, I praised Ras Iley for his offerings. Stick to the subject matter of the blog and leff me out nah.

Thank you

You see me … I is one person that glad as shite to see the back of Owen Arfter … Anybody that claims to enjoy the “cut and thrust” of politics is someone to be wary of and scorned.

Ga long Arter, and don’ ever come back …

Why do we have to abuse politicians after they have served the country? Can anyone truthfully say that Owen did nothing for the 14 years as PM?

People that abuse systems and populations for a living deserve no sympathy. In any event the making of a fair assessment requires a netting off of the pros and the cons … Should the result be negative or zero then there is nothing to talk about now is there

Hal Austin,

The VAT is also imposed on the incomes of these business people ( Subway, Burger King, etc) at the level of the Barbados Port Authority whatever the transactions, unless it is waived by the government.

We do not think that that was referred to or included in the Nation newspaper stories on the 184 per cent charge, not it would have been made clear in the stories.

Note that there was not any controversy generated by the relevant business people over the VAT ( Might be because, for them, it is only 17.5 per cent rather than 184 per cent).

Yes, in many cases these particular business people are forced to hand over the VAT out of their incomes to the government, or in many cases the VAT is forcibly handed over by the relevant business people to the VAT office via actual debit transfers to the said business people by financial institutions. In many cases the VAT is wrongfully taken by the VAT office from out of the accounts of the businesses at the apposite financial institutions via cheques that the business people against their will are made to make out to the VAT office.

Where these businesses are concerned they then at the restaurant level are required by the government to charge and hand over to the government this evil VAT amounts which beforehand are themselves to be stolen from the customers by the government, with the actual amounts that are being wickedly stolen being so nastily inseperable from what these particular businesses are getting as their incomes – inclusive of what represent mark ups – from what said uses of monies (numbers included) the customers are having for these inseperable tax purposes and business incomes purposes, the former which relates to the VAT and still the businesses securing the latter, and the latter which relates to former and still to the monies the customers use for helping secure for themselves and or for those relevant others the passing onto themselves and or to those others of the use of those offerings from the use of the business people themselves.

So there you go, Hal.

PDC

AC

How are you old fool? I can lay claim to saving hundreds of jobs in the Public Service by my revelations on Brass Tacks simply because that is what I did. Let me explain to your simple mind: there was in fact a meeting at the Ministry of Finance on Friday and they did make plans to terminate the services of temporary officers. This plan was supposed to be secret up until the last minute. I revealed those plans and forced the Government to backtrack, ergo, I saved jobs. I can’t make it any simpler for you: I am not qualified in special education.

David

It is not only those workers who were bribed with election jobs that would have been going home: they were also planning on sending home longstanding employees who are styled temporary, some of whom have been employed temporarily but continuously for as much as 10 years. As a matter of fact, I had it confirmed from two schools that the Secretary/Treasurers were compiling their list yesterday (Tuesday).

They can deny all they like: I am confident that I presented factual information on Brass Tacks.

caswell . So what is the big problem. If there is no further need for these workers . then would it not be “efficient ” for these ” temporary workers to be laid off. and also the need for you to “test drive” what the govt is doing or going to do is nothing new even do as in this instance you were wrong.

Don’t take my word for it check and you will see that the lists were being prepared. I don’t think that these lists were being prepared for the heck of it. I am even told that one person had already been sent home from the Government Printing Department after five years service.

Published on May 21, 2013. Is this genuine? Where did this relaunch idea emanate from? Double your money in six months guaranteed by a follow up rights issue? Is that even legal?

@ David
That chap looks like dishonesty personified…. LOL
No doubt we will be doing business with him…. 🙂

Carson, Carson, Carson,

I recommend a trip to Our Lady Queen of the Universe to see if the priest there can exorcise your demons.

David,

The government of Barbados has never been, is not, and will never be the highest moral force in Barbados. Therefore, it is in no position to determine what individuals should or should not consume, although acting on what it puts out as in the interests of the protection or preservation of public health, national security, etc in the country, it can – as it has already done – put in place appropriate measures to prevent what is consumed by individuals sometimes.

Well, the point that you are making about the quantities and qualities of ‘not so good’ processed foods being taken in by many individuals in Barbados is another area of concern to the PDC as well, but not of enough concern for us to support the banning of them or in any case to TAX the remunerations of individuals or groups of individuals to secure some reduction in their uses – as surely that is not ever the intention of government in such cases though it may say so.

Furthermore, the remunerations of nobody must ever be taxed on some false fallacious basis that the government is protecting the health of the country against the adverse health consequences of individual personal intake of certain foods, when in truth and in fact nobody knows WHAT money proceeds come from WHICH remunerations that are EVILLY WICKEDLY TAXED by the government, when all of these monies go through certain processes whereby they are eventually put or brought together by individuals in the Central Bank of Barbados and sent back out to the various financial institutions for use in various ways.

So, a person who does not eat such foods will find that he does not know if the money proceeds resulting from the EVIL WICKED DEMONIC TAXING of his or her remuneration has actually gone to the transferring of monies to a government employed doctor treating such persons who are suffering from such life styles chronic diseases at the QEH, or has gone to be used as transfers to a useless inefficient government minister.

This kind of situation demonstrates clearly why this DEMONISM called TAXATION has to go: it substantially forces ‘the good and purposeful’ to in relevant ways be almost always supporting ‘the bad and the indifferent’, put simply. What rubbish!!

In Barbados, it is the grossest and most vulgar and most blind distorter of the allocation of monies into areas where these monies go to support severe inefficiencies maladministrations in government, and which can only be treated with serious reforms or the removal of the sources of such problems.

David, that is why at anytime a coalition government of which the PDC will be part of comes to office in Barbados there shall be greater emphases on the creation of greater private sector enterprises in health, education, transportation, road building/repairs, etc. in the country.

Also, where it happens that such a coalition comes to office in this country, it shall not compromise on the delivery of social, social welfare, security, physical, and foreign affairs facilities and infrastructures of the people and for the people’s uses, but wherever necessary still in these areas, and so as to make individuals have a greater appreciation than now for these facilities and infrastructures, and the extent of the real actual cost of/ use of money to get persons to help manage provide for them, they shall either continue to be made or begin to be made to use reasonable portions of their remunerations to ultimately secure the uses of them or the services provided therein.

PDC

@PDC

Why do we have laws on the book which deals with public morality?

The man di’n even shave then … fresh out of lock up. His is the face of the Irish mob.

Maxim to follow,”If it sounds too good to be true, it generally is”

First, we do not seperate individuals, who comprise the state/government, and their own ideological political thoughts and deeds, from those of the government itself – which is also that power and authoritative collective of individuals, papers, computers, machines, tools, etc – that in our minds form and interrelate to themselves as different elements of the government itself.

For, within the state/government there are also political power plays and influences and such like by many of these government individuals over various other government individuals and for various things within the government, and even over various other individuals and things outside the government and in the wider Barbadian society.

Second, these kinds of ideological political public policy processes have for donkey years thrown up many individuals among whose primary intentions of becoming at the helm of the state/ government or at the helm of different departments of the state/government is to use what is potentially/powerfully legally hierarchically top downwards about this same apparatus and what is potentially/powerfully legally hierarchically top downwards within it, to essentially control and manipulate many others and to see them behave like them in many ways according to their ( the putative controllers) own beliefs and practices. Hence, these particular people are essentially there in the institutions and processes of government to have those particular or general others do as they say and do as they say, or else.

Hence, what ought to have been the governmental institutions and processes for determining for many individuals inside or outside of government of Barbados what is right or wrong, good or bad, fair or unfair, about the deeds or actions of government in or of itself, are primarily substituted by institutions and processes that involve many persons asserting or proclaiming their own individual or group or movement’s identities, beliefs, positions, claims of what was, is, or ought to be, and not those specific general identities, beliefs, positions, claims that are as a result of what is right or wrong, good or bad, fair or unfair based on a logical scientific dialectical consensual process of finding out, deducing or constructing the truth (facts) or truth (fact) claims or truth ( fact) positions, and that would necessarily, in a properly functioning polis, be driven by those moral forces to the point where there is the establishing of the required institutions and processes based on and that are for determining, in the main, what is, ought to be morally right or wrong, good or bad, fair or unfair in Barbados.

Third, where there is so much individualization and personalization of what ever little moral affairs that are found to be in the government, there is bound to be the taking of such to higher or deeper levels where there is use by such personalities of the historic legal power authority of the government to either attempt to or to pass laws and regulations that would otherwise be the laws regulations of their own individual group movement’s in the symbolism of the name of the government as the laws of the government and that are to be obeyed by those whom they are made for under the threat or use of governmental sanction when they are found guilty of being in breach of them.

So, what these three situations speak to is that it is found in the provinces of government the highest legal political forces or expressions of such in the country, and not highest moral forces.

PDC

PDC it seems as if you are advocating “corporate goverance” wherby the elimination for a need of any political party with the replacement of private entities fully in control of the system.

Hal……………the market is a disgrace with the Simpson monopoly sucking the life blood of the island, the government needs to start doing like Bermuda and put a restriction on car imports, that would let the air out of the simpson monopoly, but they are so under this guy’s thumb they probably cannot even breathe or fart.

@ Well, Well

You are right. I have called in this forum for a one car policy, but this government will not do any such thing. The other thing is that customs, which ministers cannot control, is using its power as a restriction on trade, with enormous tariffs on second hand cars. As a result it has created an oligopoly for some local traders.
There is no effective consumer protection, no competition legislation of any significance, yet our politics are dominated by lawyers.
This is the nation that we have created. The people do not protest, so they deserve whatever they get.

We see that people are talking about a ‘one car policy’. We fear this would only represent a minor inconvenience and would nothing to really solve anything. In any event it is an old fashion idea and we all know that these types of measures never really work anywhere in the past. The results that you seek may better to attained if you suggested some type of modern mass transportation network ( high speed rail service etc) or something, coterminously. Then we can tax individual vehicle ownership out of existence. By itself, this is waste of time akin to picking peas out of shit.

Pacha……………….if they can’t manage to get a small bus system like the transport board to run on time or efficiently, or the ZR and yellow bus system regulated properly to stop endangering lives and destroying young children’s minds, what do you really think will happen with a high speed rail service?…………..what have you been drinking today, i want some.