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The minister [Stephen Lashley] said for the much talked about Cohobblopot, there were two tenders for the hosting of the event, which was won by Rihannaโ€™s Loud Concert and Barbados Food, Wine and Rum Festival organisers Premier Event Services โ€“ Barbados Today

The news that the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) has awarded the right to organize Cohobblopot, one of the premier Crop Over events,ย  to Premier Event Services with just over one month to goย  is interesting. Has anyone bothered to ask who are the directors of this company? What is their history of staging cultural shows? Is there enough time for this company to execute one of the biggest shows in Barbados? How much money is tagged to this arrangement? It is all about demonstrating transparency which is (was?) promoted by this government when it assumed office in 2008.

The two people behind Premier Event Services are Jerome (Jerry) Ishmael and Faye Wharton-Parris. The company has a rich record of hosting high profile events. Of interest to BU is the fact that Jerry Ishmael is Chairman of the St. Michael South Constituency Council and Faye Wharton-Parris is the wife of the beleaguered former president of CLICO Holdings Barbados Limited. For some reason this arrangement has left a sour โ€˜aftertasteโ€™ in the mouth.ย  It seems when the two political parties are in office the party faithful are always the first at the trough to suckle from the udder of the fatted calf. Will we ever change the way we do business in Barbados?

Is it not sad that the Creatives who make the festival what it is are the ones who continue to wait for crumbs to fall from the table of the Minister of Culture? Why is it we see the same names every year clutching the manna? The Chetwyn Stuarts, Dorsie Boyces (DB Productions) et al. The Creatives must see the opportunities which abound to play a leadership role in Crop Over and other national events?

The members of the yardfowl brigade will all chime in to sing the same old song. We like it so!

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156 responses to “Premier Event Services to Organize 2013 Cohobblopot: There Is Still Meat On the Fatted Calf!”

  1. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Wasn’t Monique Taitt, daughter of Barnford Taitt, Leader of the Senate at one time, the CEO of the NCF?

  2. David Avatar
    David

    @Alvin

    She was Chairman.

  3. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    ************
    @ Bush Tea

    As stated earlier all the blimps on the radar are targets, ALL!
    ***********
    Right Boss!
    …and well said if Bushie may say so…

  4. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    I am a big fan of the idea that key positions should be held on a contractual basis, but of course this always leads to yardie picks … stupse. I ain’ nah fan of Cranston Brown .. so I gun hold my piece. Rather say nothing than pick pun somebody that I don’ like

  5. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    @ Adrian Loveridge | June 16, 2013 at 7:16 AM |

    “Also it has not been co-ordinated with the BDS$11 million Barbados Island Inclusive promotion which has a booking deadline later this week (22 June 2013).”

    Who are responsible for this booking deadline? Is this the BTA or the Min of Tour?

  6. Adrian Loveridge Avatar
    Adrian Loveridge

    BAFBFP,

    I would think the BTA, but I am sure the Minister of Tourism would have a say. Hopefully, some analysis has been done up until now to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the promotion.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @Adrian

    How were the participating merchants selected? Was it a collaboration with the BHTA?

  8. Adrian Loveridge Avatar
    Adrian Loveridge

    David,

    YES! The BHTA used their booking engine, but visitors could also go through selected tour operators. I sadly did not see any criteria of participation.
    The stated booking deadline is this week (22 June) so hopefully some evaluation is being done in the background to see how cost-effective the promotion has been so far.

  9. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Adrian. this is imagination to entice visitors.

    Eco-Tourism in Tobago and its Underwater Carnival
    by ivetteromero

    Trinidad and Tobago is famous for Carnival, its well-known cultural diversity, and its beachesโ€”such as Maracas Bay in Trinidad and Pigeon Point in Tobagoโ€”but it also offers much for the ecologically-curious traveler. Locals and tourists alike enjoy hiking and biking through the UNESCO certified Main Ridge Forest Reserve, the oldest protected reserve in the Western Hemisphere (where they may catch a glimpse of the white-tailed sabrewing hummingbird, a rare species endemic to Tobago), hike the 3-tiered Argyle Falls near Roxborough, or bird watch on Little Tobago Island.

    Tobago offers world-class diving sites, including the famed London Bridge and Japanese Gardens. The upcoming Tobago Underwater Carnival, July 22-29, 2013, presents divers with a chance to see all the treasures hiding beneath the surface in the waters that surround Tobago. Those who prefer catching fish to swimming alongside them can enjoy spear fishing, fly-fishing, big-game tournaments and deep-sea charters.

    As the Division of Tourism and Transportation writes, โ€œTobagoโ€™s coast is a haven for tarpons, turtles, sharks and even the occasional manta ray and the Underwater Carnival is designed to showcase this rarely seen habitat. Kaleidoscopic marine life and unique coral formations combine with engaging seminars and instructive dive sessions to create an exciting schedule of activities for both novice and experienced divers alike.โ€

    This yearโ€™s Underwater Carnival will present divers and underwater photographers with the opportunity to discover over 400 species of fish and marine creatures. Key events include an amateur underwater photography competition hosted by photographer, Ty Sawyer; a presentation by David Jones of the Plastic Ocean Foundation; seminars on several topics, including Life Saving Techniques and the โ€˜Try Diveโ€™ event which is perfect for non-divers who want to learn to dive.

    [Sigh, this is where I’d love to be!]

    For more information, see http://www.visittobago.gov.tt/tuc

  10. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    David. there were 2 bids according to you. What is the name of the other company that bid and what are their accomplishments in Event planning?

    How many event planning businesses are there in Barbados?

  11. Adrian Loveridge Avatar
    Adrian Loveridge

    Long stay visitors are down 16,151 persons or 6.5 per cent for the period Jan-May 2012 when compared with the same period last year.

    http://www.barstats.gov.bb/

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    The other bid has not been made public.

    Several Event Management Companies are listed. Why only two were concerned can’t say.

  13. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Miller
    re Parris;’ Is he?
    Mr. Parris would clearly be in breach of his contract if he was personally benefitting from his position as President outside the ambit of the business while approving and executing transactions on behalf of the same business.

  14. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Alvin………i think i am going to Trinidad and Tobago for the fall.

  15. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Miller
    What percentage of th emonied class in Barbados have profited from sitting as members of Boards with interlocking directorships? How many have profited from insider information? How many have cpntracts with the same conditions as Parris? I don’t know do you? won’t the same standards of morality apply in these cases?
    Tell me.

  16. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Well Well
    Enjoy yourself (still a long way off though) when you are ready I might be able to direct you to some people. Iwll wait until you inform me vie blog.

  17. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Nepotism in private companies? Check Williams Industries. Talk about hypocrisy.

  18. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Alvin…………I go there pretty often, was in Trinidad 3 times last year, just love it there, love the food, it’s fantastic.

  19. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    “This is one big mess and if you are not prepared to acknowledge the issues here you should sit this one out.”

    I would go further and say that Alvin needs to STFU!!! I am tiiired of the crap he serves up posing as intellectual contributions. Utter rubbish day after day after day. The man is a relic and is some how convinced he knows every and all things!!!

  20. The Dummy @ Dumo Avatar
    The Dummy @ Dumo

    Adrian
    Don’t you have a country to return to?

  21. The Dummy @ Dumo Avatar
    The Dummy @ Dumo

    Adrian
    You had your chance at the BTA, you blew it. You were fired for your unprofessional conduct.

  22. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ The Dummy @ Dumo | June 16, 2013 at 9:00 PM |
    “Adrian: Donโ€™t you have a country to return to?”

    Yes he does, racist! Just like the thousands of Bajans who have lived or still living in the UK and whose remittances over the years helped build this country for what it’s worth up to 5 years ago.

    If you want to deport people like Adrian who speak their mind why not do a fair exchange and expect to receive a thousand Bajans from the UK for every one of Adrian’s ilk, Dummy?

    We are certain that Adrian has earned more forex for this little rock in the Atlantic so that lazy ass jokers like you can live the big Western lifestyle than you or the likes of you would ever do in a million life times, lazy consuming nigger! How do you like being put in you black stupid racist place?

    It is people like you who are destroying this potentially cosmopolitan place. Ever since your kind booted out the hardworking and big spending Guyanese this place seemed to have attracted some kind of hex. Nothing is going right for poor Bim. EWB must be crying buckets of salt water in his watery grave of Caribbean integration.

    Yes, Dummy, carry on smartly with your insular small racist mindset reflecting the true size of your brainless intelligence.

  23. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    @Dummy Dumass……got tek a shoite and tek a dive in wid it an ask yuh wife to flush. Yuh piece of poop!

  24. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    @ Miller
    Don’t the self professed DUMMY…..probably Fractured, hurt and hiding from you after that Southern Exposure you gave him, a few weeks ago….yesterday we had Carson’s ass in a sling…he too maybe hiding today or went out eatin guuvernment food prepared for the occasion…

    Alvin and Bushie….took the white rabbit hole today….. Like i said an independent Contractor General needed bout here..

  25. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    corr : Don’t mind…..(letters dropping again David)

  26. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Me stfu? Never!! I am here like the ghost of christmas past to be your conscience. so get used to it. I am here until My flight is called. If you don’t like my blogs or their tenor, you are free to STFU. There I go using foul language…guilt by association.

  27. David (not BU) Avatar
    David (not BU)

    Alvin Cummins | June 16, 2013 at 6:49 PM |

    Nepotism in private companies? Check Williams Industries. Talk about hypocrisy.
    *************************************

    your lies know no bounds? what is the nepotism you see in Williams Industries? tell us do. you people are sick.

  28. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Alvin Cummins

    Your comments are descending to the realm of stupidity: Williams Industries is a private company and they are fully entitled to employ their idiot relatives if they choose. On the other hand politicians who behave similarly with public funds are corrupt and would be in breach of the law.

    A private person can spend its money as he likes. There are no legally binding financial and tendering rules to guide them. You are seeking to justify corruption because there is clear evidence that your party is engaging in such.

  29. The Dummy @ Dumo Avatar
    The Dummy @ Dumo

    Millertheannuaki

    You retarded moron, don’t you recall about a year or so ago (maybe more) Adrian in the newspapers saying he was pulling up stakes, selling his two bit grungy hotel and moving back to the UK?

    I never said anything about deporting anyone. This is half the blasted problem in Barbados, little pea brain whining fools like you believe that it is the hoteliers who earn all the foreign exchange for this country. You ever sit do and work out how small a portion the hotel accommodation constitutes of the overall foreign exchange spend by tourist?

    Why refer to me as a nigger? Chances are, you are not much different than me. You should be ashamed of yourself. The problem with you Miller is who think you’re a better black, a red skinned black and cannot fathom the idea of 5 more year of the DLP. Admit it you think the DLP is incompetent because the are regular bajan blacks and not red poles like the BLP.

  30. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    Dummy

    Man stick wid D thread do……red pole me ass….Miller is d annuaki….ya madd?What D brassbowl…a luv um !!!!!!!LOL

  31. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ The Dummy @ Dumo | June 17, 2013 at 7:24 AM |
    โ€œYou ever sit do and work out how small a portion the hotel accommodation constitutes of the overall foreign exchange spend by tourist?โ€

    You see how it feels when you are attacked because of the colour of your skin or racial or ethnic origins? You are seen as a stupid nigger because of your stupid arrogant insular mindset forged in the same petty minded racist Petri dish of hate and myopic ignorance as that of Carson Cadogan.

    Now take that as your first lesson in the class of Morality, Ethics & Equal Opportunity Promotion. Now to the other class of ignorance you seem rather keen not to be โ€˜superannuatedโ€™.

    The accommodation sector is the bedrock of any tourism industry. Without accommodation where would the visitors stay? On the beaches, down Emmerton Lane next to the sewage plant or would you accommodate them in your house, dummy?

    So if accommodation-based tourism is not an important forex earner what is? Sugar?
    We all know the international business used to make a huge contribution but under this current DLP administration the country has experienced falloffs and in some cases missed opportunities like US$ 1/2 billion in FDI and an estimated 2,700 jobs.
    Are these lies Dummy? Are these fabrications by the foolish miller and old onions?

    Why donโ€™t you do yourself a favour and buy the hotels off Adrian and change the ownership and management hue profile of the sector with your black colour scheme of control ? Or are you waiting for the Trinidadians to do it and then whinge like a โ€œwhining foolโ€ that the BLP, even though in Opposition, are selling out Barbados to those blasted hated foreigners?

  32. Konacat Avatar
    Konacat

    @miller@

    you is a igrant johnny for truth doh. people does attack adrian not becasues of his skin colour but becauses ALL he does ever do is complaint, and bout everything under the sun. you evah went and look at the dump of a hotel he got up there? man go have a look as see why he complaining.
    i gine tell you something doh millertheannuaki, you sound like you bent to me?
    you, justasking and old onions still can’t work out how the people of barbados reject the BLP.

  33. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Konacat | June 17, 2013 at 9:50 AM |
    โ€œ you evah went and look at the dump of a hotel he got up there? man go have a look as see why he complaining.”

    Well “corner a nigger cat in a barrel of black crabs” why don’t you do what the stupid โ€œbent igrant johnnyโ€ of a miller and take over Adrian’s hotel and show the redneck idiot how to run it by turning it into a 5-star premier inn called Noise & Wuk-up for blacks only?

    Why should we accept an elections result in which the country’s two most important law enforcement Constitutionally appointed officer claimed were marred by massive and widespread vote fraud? Who is the fraud and who is the hypocrite?

  34. Konacat Avatar
    Konacat

    …………………………………………but Millertheannuaki, the BLP has not contested the results, why not?

    The fact is the BLP paid as much money if not more than the DLP on election day.

  35. Konacat Avatar
    Konacat

    miller

    i aint want no piece of hotel.

  36. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Konacat | June 17, 2013 at 11:16 AM |

    Your response confirms that the elections were indeed fraught with fraud.

    How do you know that the BLP paid out more money than the DLP?
    So the elections were indeed bought, if not sold to the higher bidder?

    And to think your leader is an honourable man of the utmost integrity to have participated in such fraudulent acts!
    That kind of corruption and bold-faced law breaking should have been left to the likes of OSA and his motley crew; not reinforced by men of โ€˜sincereโ€™ integrity who said they will never lie, cheat or steal.
    But what do you expect from a ragtag dangerous lying pack (dlp) of incompetent hypocrites?

    Of course you would not be interested in a โ€œpiece of hotelโ€; only in a pig sty and cesspool of lies and rotten filth emanating from George Street, right TTP?

  37. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    @ Koncat
    you, justasking and old onions still canโ€™t work out how the people of barbados reject the BLP.
    ********************
    You fa real or just want to hear me mout?… your name said it all KonKat, now wanna ON N Poppin….wanna is thimble thumbs. Serve all ya right…and the fools dat tekk D money…

  38. The Dummy @ Dumo Avatar
    The Dummy @ Dumo

    Miller
    Name an election since 66 when money was not used to influence the outcome? Because the PM is president of the DLP and Chairman of Cabinet don’t me he knows everything that goes on. Wunna really don’t like to look in the mirror for truth, EWB was SO SO right.

  39. True Bajan Avatar
    True Bajan

    LEroy and his wife must always live live a king and queen. So you all can shut up. Dems now………Dems again.

  40. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ The Dummy @ Dumo | June 17, 2013 at 3:10 PM |
    โ€œName an election since 66 when money was not used to influence the outcome? Because the PM is president of the DLP and Chairman of Cabinet donโ€™t me he knows everything that goes on. Wunna really donโ€™t like to look in the mirror for truth, EWB was SO SO right.โ€

    So we can conclude, like a true Dummy, that what was written below as the mission statement for the DLP 2013 manifesto was just to trick the people of Bim into voting for a crooked dangerously deceitful lying party?

    Extract from the DLP manifesto 2013 page 1 โ€œLeaderโ€™s Messageโ€ (The biggest Lie ever told):

    โ€œWhy Good governance? Good Governance is
    characterized by the principles of participation,
    consensus, accountability, transparency,
    responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiency,
    equity and inclusion, and the rule of law. It
    assures that corruption is minimized, the views
    of minorities are taken into account and that the
    voices of the most vulnerable in society are heard
    in decision-making and the allocation of
    resources.
    I invite the people of Barbados, therefore, to join
    the Democratic Labour Party on this exciting
    journey to the creation of a Better Barbados. This
    journey emphasizes hope rather than despair,
    light rather than darkness, and movement rather
    than stagnation. This journey aims at human
    fulfilment and development. It does not aim at
    numerical worship and statistical purity. This
    is the true way of the Democratic Labour Party.โ€

  41. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Caswell
    Isn’t Premier Events Services a private company?

  42. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Alvin

    I can’t help you: you have difficulty understanding basic things. Of course PES is a private company: what does that have to do with anything? You were speaking about nepotism in private companies but the Government is not a private company and must follow the rules.

  43. The Dummy @ Dumo Avatar
    The Dummy @ Dumo

    Miller
    Nobody not listen to eunuchs so shut up.

  44. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Wow, the Commissioner of Police has been sent on administrative leave? Now we have to take that “crack heads” comment in its truest light now! Wow, look at Barbados now, cant believe what is going on in our country!

  45. Befuddled !!!. Avatar
    Befuddled !!!.

    @ Caswell Franklyn
    What are the rules in awarding a contract to some business / person to put on COHOBLOPOT that Government failed to follow this time around ? When you find out let us know.

  46. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Caswell
    This is where I need help. You implied that there was corruption because Peremier Events , one of few applicants for the contract was awarded the contract. As far as I know the tenders committee does not have politicians on it. Where is the implied corruption? Where is the nepotism here?

  47. mrcorrecto Avatar
    mrcorrecto

    if they had music like this i would go,but all that jungle music.not a chance.time to move forward with actual music not utter crap.
    is this soca music the best barbados can do?
    how about we invite these dudes down for a real show.

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  49. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    I see Owen Arthur once again has distanced himself from the ranting and raving of Mia Mottley.

    This time he has used the floor of Parliament to endorse the BRA.

    Just imagine 2 weeks ago Mia was howling against the implementation of the BRA on the floor of Parliament.

    Once again Owen Arthur by his action has declared that he has no CONFIDENCE in Mia Mottley.

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