Caswell…………that is called chickens coming home to roost, years of nepotism, cronyism and favoritism along with lodgism has brought them down. Shame and disgrace.

The Transport Board is a place that a lot of people would not understand. There are a few qualified and hard working people there. But, there are also some lazy, persons who prefer to gossip, Sad thing is most of our managers love gossip. Imagine over the past few years to get a promotion you had to have gone to Combermere. We had about to of our worst workers promoted by the Chairman just because they went there.

Our current GM has aligned herself with persons who are hell bent on helping themselves and not the organisation. Again, loving too much gossip. Imagine last election a worker was sent home for wearing a BLP Tee shirt to work, but there are two workers who wear DLP Tee shirts daily and no problem. If fact it is working for them. One has now been made gardener.

Simpson motors, TransTech, killing the TB and no one will speak out on this. Some managers and supervisors are also getting rich from deals being made at the tax payer’s expense. Do you really believe that the cheapest things are being bought? But then again, ministers as well as board members get rich from making these deals too. Too much money is still being stolen from canisters and from the revenue dept. still.

The TB will be better if it has proper management, proper internal controls. .No greedy minister. No. greedy board members. The minister said it will be rebranded. If he does the above then that is a step in the right direction.

Look at the routes, look at the scheduling, look closely at the qualifications of top management and supervisors, Look at HR and Accounts. Look closely this place can be better.

ALSO WE NEED A PENSION OR GRATUITY PLAN….
So many persons close to retirement are killing this place.

@ Well-Well

Well Said. I couldn’t have put it better myself!

Driver………….i am familiar with politicians and their petty greed and since there are no laws in place to discipline them for receiving all manner of bribes to the detriment of the people, they have over the years done exactly as they pleased………..problem is they have now arrived at a place where they will have to make choices, they will either have to choice between unrest and riots or appeasing the minority of leeches and vampires they have on the island…….it’s up to them, i really never thought that they would be so visionless to allow it to reach this point.

@ Well-Well

I concur.
So what will it be Bimshire? Do we remain like the complacent sheeple that we are and wait to see how the stupidity of our “elected officials” plays out to our nation’s detriment? Or do we take action by going to the streets and DEMAND reform as loudly and cohesively as possible? The choice is yours…

I know that I am dreaming of a better Bimshire! The same goes for David (B.U.); Miller The Annunaki, and Well-Well. What about you????

@ Brother Well-Well
You and I both would hate such a fate; while Grantley Adams and Errol Barrow would be groaning in their graves right about now.

Bruddah……………..i have a feeling it’s for this same very reason Barrow preferred to be buried far off the island’s coast, he did not want to have to groan.

sell the buses to the drivers at nominal costs
allow ordinary vehicle owners h to transport people in their cars and private vehicles at nominal licence fees if any at all
Issue more Taxi permits
Remove the ban on cars over 4 years old so that more poor people can buy a good cheap vehicle from Japan. 9You can control it however you want to
Introduce Zoning in schools
Abolish the 11 plus exam

then you will neeed NO TRANSPORT BOARD

The PDC holds the unshakeable position that the Barbados Transport Board must be closed down and in the process of that taking place there shall be the evolution of a partnership entity within the context of the establishment of a wider larger state partnership enterprise that shall be charged with managing the entire state apparatus ( drawn from the SMFD/PDC 2006 pre-election manifesto)

Indeed, the legislation that shall give effect to this state partnership enterprise shall most clearly state that such an entity will altogether replace the crown, the ministry, departments, statutory corporations, government run companies, and other entities of the present governmental dispensation.

This particular legislation shall also state that in respect of the statuses of workers, ministers, etc within the government sector, that upon the taking of effect of it itself, that such statuses shall be abolished and with that, the creation instead of the statuses of partners within this state partnership enterprise.

This legislation shall also state that such partners shall be part-owners of this enterprise and the only owners of it too.

Such legislation shall make sure too that there is spelt out the principle that there shall be an elected executive coalitional cabinet for Barbados and which, according to the number of party positions vied for; according to the number of non-party positions vied for; and according to the number of independent positions vied for within the cabinet respectively, shall see the formation of this Cabinet based on the highest to the next highest pluralities of votes that shall go to the particular candidates in the respective positions from the voters massive in Barbados, under such a variant of a proportional representational system.

What must be hereby said too that is that this executive coalitional cabinet will be at the helm of the said state partnership enterprise.

With regard to the partnership business that will run the affairs of the commercial transport arm of state partnership, this entity will also mirror, to some extent, what shall take place in the wider larger state partnership enterprise, in that, the statuses of workers will be no be possible to bring about, as that the statuses of partners will be carried on in it. With regard to the statutory board format, this will not be even a remote slight possibility in regard of running the day to day affairs of this partnership business as that there shall be a partnership board that shall be elected by the said partners of the particular arm to run the day to day affairs of the partnership.

Such organizational changes will also take place in the context of the entire rerationalization and reorganization of the mass transit public transportation sector in Barbados and the creation of a stage based fare system in this land.

PDC

@Old Onions

Not sure what you are seeing.

stupse, we all know what needs to be done, we just skirting around the issues, every day, every month, every year, every election. We as Barbadians need to show both the DLP and BLP that they have been doing SHITE for years and are the reason why we are in this position today. The refusal of both parties to bring effective laws,and enforcement, is the main reason why greedy politicians, and the ticks that accompany them can get away with all the ‘tiefing’. We need a new governance structure, and or a new party, along with new laws. We supposed to be an independent nation? Why the hell cant we think for ourselves, when these distasteful politicians are done wrecking the country, they can fly out to Miami or where ever. Im not saying that all are the same, but the overwhelming majority, and on both sides of the house.

Funny how nobody has mentioned UCAL as part of the TB problems. That is a real can of worms.

bk,

Well said. Hope to see many more of your comments on here. That is the type of pellucid penetrating perspective that many people must come on here with. Keep it up.

PDC

Something here is definitely wrong….

onions,

Look how the Stinkliar exposed himself! Caswell never called a figure last Monday about how many persons were to be sent home………….he said that he heard that there was a meeting out of which recommendations were made which the minister had to sign off…….Caswell never gave a number. Out came the buffoon yesterday and exposed himself.

I hope has a hole to hide in when all the things he said will not happen, happens! Time will tell!

It is a given that political parties reward their supporters with jobs when they are victorious. I have no problem with this if the persons are qualified and suited for the positions they are put into.

This GM of the TB is a clear case of a square peg in a round hole. Not only is she incompetent, she is out of her depth and she must know that. Has she no conscience drawing a salary knowing that she is not doing her job? But that is what Dems are like. She wears her Dem tee shirts to work without shame!

@ Prodigal Son | May 30, 2013 at 1:24 PM |

Prodigal Son, you have to bring me up to speed on what the lying idiot Stinkliar is now up to.
Has he made public the number of people he must send home?

It’s just about 100 days since making an unbreakable pledge to the gullible voters of Bim that the DLP administration headed by the deceitful lying fumbler will never under any circumstances engage in any programme of layoffs or privatization of any functions under his administration’s control.

Those ads about the DLP being totally against laying off public sector workers (unlike the BLP which would have sent home 10,000) or the privatization of any functions (remember the Transport Board ad with the old lady politically used and abused and soon to be refused) must be thrown back in the face of that dangerous lying deceitful party.

The Opposition must stop giving this lying administration an easy time.
MAM must put aside her personal association with both Stinkliar and Fumble and expose these lying bastards for what they are.
Five more years is too long a period to allow this arrogant incompetent lying deceitful administration to continue to destroy this country that our fore parents work so unthankfully hard to build up to make it a place worth living in.

Don’t be surprised if the PM recedes further into the background because he cannot appear to contradict the MoF who appears to be running the government.
The hypocrite Fumble selfishly got want he wanted and the devil can now take the hindmost as far as saving the country from further economic meltdown

“Where there is no vision the people perish”. And suffer will poor Bajans do in the coming months.
All we got is sea water and sand. The day those tourists don’t come to Bim, crapaud eat sea crab shite and Baje begin to starve.
The miller’s apologies to Hollis U.L Liverpool aka Mighty Chalkdust.

miller,

Here’s a joke for you.

In today’s Nation, an old lady is featured who had her electricity cut off. Guess what a Carson Cadogan came to her house during election along with Steve Blackett, asked her if she had any bills she wanted paid, took the old lady’s bill, did not pay it and now the lady whose utilities were never cut off before according to her son is without electricity. When the son contacted the Carson Cadogan, he told him the grant run out. Steve Blackett’s secretary told the son to pay the current charges.

But we all knew and now we know for sure that Carson Cadogan is a real political pimp. He tricked the poor old lady! And the DLP is for the poor black man!

@Prodigal

Interesting, the question is, does it merit a blog.

We will have to wait to see how the minister digs himself out of this dark hole he is digging. He has to know what is going on more than us, why is it that no one believes the dribble he is shovelling?

Even his friend Peter Wickham said today that “we all know that something is happening”. We will wait for the shoe to drop!

Caswell, you should post the letter on line (blocking out the personal details, of course) for everybody to see as the minister called you a liar twice ….in St Lucia and yesterday! Show him up for the liar he is. We have never in the history of Barbados had a minister of finance whose words could not be trusted and in whom no one had any confidence. We hear the same story all the time……..Chris Sincklar is a liar. We cannot trust him nor the governor of the Central Bank.

This is not good for our country!

@David Greenwood | May 30, 2013 at 12:40 AM

The Greenwood report is still mentioned till this day at the Transport Board, I understand that nothing in it was really used. The managers etc had too much political connections for them to go. I also heard that a certain Operations Manager wanted to put some licks in you for telling the truth. (Sadly he is still there)

@David
It’s the same question I have for Bank mortgage lenders who have their own list of valuers who give a valuation on a finished property which the mortgagee pays for but a copy of which valuation is never and will not be given when requested,to the property owner.

I remember Ronald Jones saying in Parliament that ‘in order for the Transport Board to make a profit, bus fares would have to be around $5 to $7 dollars. But the loving and caring government of the DLP will not impose that fare on Barbadians.’

And as I remember when the BLP was in government, the Transport minister Anthony Wood wanted to increase bus fares but former PM Aurthur did not allow it.

If busfares are increased it will really affect the poor and middle of this country. I would get downsize some of those in management that drawing big bucks because its really the payment of salaries and benefits that are running up the cost of the TB.

Bruddah-Bim@ Welcome to BU.
All the headings is all part of the same PIE.
Fraud and if this Forde,, is like any of the others, then she is no dam good. I have not met a Forde as yet that is not in some she-it. If she is the same Blood line as Sir Crook Henry Forde , You then will know why things are they way they are.
Do a name tree of who in office and in head government departments and you will see a clear picture.
Forde land tax
Name them and then see them ,,,,