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UWI GUILD Meeting Ends in TURMOIL

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(L-R) Guild President; Damani Parris, Law Rep; Daniel Davies, Guild Treasurer; Ital Spencer reviewing a student petition against paying tuition fees
(L-R) Guild President; Damani Parris, Law Rep; Daniel Davies, Guild Treasurer; Ital Spencer reviewing a student petition against paying tuition fees

While some University Students are worrying about the Governments new policy forcing them to pay tuition fees at The University of the West Indies. It was chaos and turmoil at The Roy Marshall Teaching Complex at The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus on Thursday night; for the convening of a Guild Council Meeting when once-removed Treasurer of the Guild, Ital Spencer was the centre of contention and disruptive behaviour forcing University Security to end the meeting prematurely.

Mr. Spencer, who was also the Guild Treasurer on the previous Guild Council was accused of manipulating his authority to obtain absolute power and threatening other council officers. These accusations, which offend the Constitution of the Guild and the University’s Code of Ethics warranted him a trial of ‘No Confidence for Recall’ at the hands of the student population resulting in his removal last November.

Sources close to the Cave Hill Guild Council have stated Mr. Spencer dod not submit financial reports, has been accused and proven of using the students’ Guild funds for personal benefit, for example, a first class flight to Jamaica last UWI Games among other aggravated offenses. To this end, the President of the Guild, Mr. Damani Parris, has suspended Mr. Spencer pending another Special  Meeting of the Student Body to affect the removal of Mr. Spencer.

On Wednesday, 25th September, 2013 the majority membership of the student executive voted ‘No Confidence’ in Mr. Ital Spencer and have therefore recommended to the student population that he be removed.

98 responses to “UWI GUILD Meeting Ends in TURMOIL”

  1. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    ac -go back to sleep , you old dry up crutch.I cursed you already and you backed off and now you come back for more. You are a glutton for bewsing mother harlot ? You wash youh stinking mout yet , you old piece o cunt.

  2. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    I like this. Corrupt politicians or politicians in way over their heads, should be recalled and removed. Imagine, every thing;utilities, bills, fees and taxes gone up under this DLP. Their original campaign ticket was to lower the cost of living, the citizens now recognize this was all lies. Just like in their last campaign for re-election they lied about,
    1-No layoffs
    2-The economy was on solid ground

    ——————————
    KEEP TALKING, YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB OF EXPOSING THIS STINKING DLP GOVERNMENT–USELESS AND WILL ACHIEVE NOTHING IN THE TWO TERMS–JUST MAKING EXCUSES ABOUT EVERYTHING AND DRAWING BIG SALARIES FOR FOULING UP.
    DOODS TOO GOOD FOR THEM

  3. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    St.John people are the most ignorant people on this earth. They say if you bring a frog and paint DLP on its back , they will vote for it.

    Now tell me , yuh could want people more ignorant more bewitched , more stupid than that ? cheeseeee!!

    The answer is NO
    However, where ignorance is bliss; its folly to be wise

  4. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    I want two things in the near future
    the formation of the WPB -Women’s Party of Barbados.

  5. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL
    …and if you (like Checkit-out) were contemplating an all female party as a possible alternative, ac and JUST ASKING just gave you a taste of what you can expect… 🙂 ….add Islandgal and Well Well to that mix – and Wax Palax….

    DOG DONE DEAD David….
    Stop looking for a Vet and let us get the shovel….

  6. Oilman Avatar
    Oilman

    @JUST ASKING
    I got a question fuh yuh. What is you view of St Thomas people?

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    You have been around this forum long enough to know the BU household will hold out hope until the end.

  8. ac Avatar
    ac

    @jus asssing. …………ac not afraid of anybody especially a slug like u just throw a pinch of salt and uh dead. the ST JOHn opeiple are proper and respectable people a community of hard workers who knows hypocricy when it stares themin the face . they neva gonna vote for a bunch of losers selfloathing gloaters like u .just let me remnd u of my promise it would be carried out u can,t hide i know of u . again have a shitty day. SLUG compliments of ac…………………….. DEMS NOW DEMS FOREVER.

  9. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    How can there be hope about anything if we reduce most issues to a party political broil? We can never be a solution because we are a sliver of the sickness.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    @Ross

    Not all of us are ignorant.

  11. John Avatar
    John

    I was trying to remember where and when I had come across the word ITAL.

    I thought my mind was playing tricks on me.

    Then I remembered.

    It used to be ITAL was Integrity, Transparency and Accountability Legislation.

  12. ac Avatar
    ac

    . Well why is jac.assing attacking the ST,JOHN people .they pay taxes like everybody else they are free to vote for whomever they bloody like please..i once resided in ST, John for many years and they are among the kindest and sweetest people including the Late PM DAVID THOMPSON. Now when Jac assing attack thsoe people . ac will respond accordingly. DEMS NOW DEMS ALWAYS .

  13. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | September 28, 2013 at 5:21 PM |

    It seems your addled brain has now been totally fried since Just Asking aptly described you as an “old dry up crutch”. But how can J A cuss you like that?

    Only the Bushman would know these rather “private” details about you, old girl.
    But seriously speaking ac how can you in one post refer to Fumble Stuart as the greatest PM Barbados ever had and who is dong great wonders in getting the economy going on all cylinders and the society high on the happiness index while in another post you refer to the illustrious David Thompson as the greatest thing Barbados ever had.

    One thing is for sure the cylinders in the safe lock are falling smartly into place. Sandie took over from the kindest sweetest man of St. John called Barrow and ended up being deposed by his own men. Fumble too took over the kindest sweetest man of St. John called King David and would suffer the same fate in months to come. But Dennis Lowe might just save his sorry as from this disgrace. H1N1 here he comes!

  14. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    It is only in Barbados that this issue can attract so much juvenile attention, mainly from second rate politicians and party political hangers-on.
    The basic point is that education is not ‘free’, somebody has to pay for it and it is the hard-working taxpayer, the vast majority of who never enter university.
    The point is how do we get eligible young people in to university, while remaining committed to offering opportunities to future generations.
    I have suggested that the Yale Endowment is the best repayment model we have so far. The others are taking out insurance cover to cover university fees, or paying privately.
    If Dr Beckles had concentrated on offering progressive leadership to the university rather than the stupidity of a graduate in every home, we would have been much further than we are. But empire building and his legacy took over where common sense should be.
    Now we have gangs of semi-educated young people prancing up and down talking about university fees and politicians who should know better, and loud mouths all joining in turning what was a cheap political statement by Barrow in to a so-called social contract.
    At some point as a nation going broke we must grow up and smell the coffee and stop living in a dream world.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Now would it not have mare a lot more sense for the university and government to engage on this matter and to have presented a united front on the issue of passing on tuition cost? Instead we have to witness the usual garrulous behaviour in a climate which doesn’t need it.

  16. Ping Pong Avatar
    Ping Pong

    So a Minister of Education who was once President of the Barbados Union of Teachers has issued a gag order on teachers! What irony! Does the new rule prohibit teachers in their capacities as Union representatives from talking to the news media unless they first get Ministry approval? Does the new policy mean that Mathew Farley has to get approval to publish his regular column whenever he focuses on schools and education policy? Will teachers face disciplinary action if they comment on a school matter say over the phone?

    Prof Hilary Beckles recent comments seems to signal that he will no longer resist recent Government policy re fees. Do his comments suggest that a fall in numbers of undergraduate applicants is to be expected? Can graduate entry make up the loss of income from reduced undergraduate intake?

  17. DLP (formerly CBC) TV Avatar
    DLP (formerly CBC) TV

    Well looka my cross doh. Up to 2007 the gov’t had no problem paying the commitment to UWI. Up steps the DLP, “FUMBLING” all over the place especially over the economy, creates an economic CRISIS and we are faced with a backward measure of students now paying for UWI tuition. I gine only ask what next. In the USA and other countries you got to pay for most medical services (through insurance or otherwise) so i bet the DLP gine come with this excuse so that people will not have medical services “free”. I feel the DLP forget that the people of Barbados are taxed to their asses so that certain things can be “free” to the people. We practice a type of democratic socialism so that our taxes can be used to cover the cost of health and education which i though would be priority. Well it looks like the priority for this gov’t is to sponsor a political football tournament and to subsidize DLP (formerly CBC) TV. The thing about CBC is that it generates revenue but doesn’t get a cut in its subsidy, but QEH must have its subsidy cut. If anything the DLP got its priorities wrong. I unlike most will not be fooled by the smoke and mirrors of the DLP because even in this time of “CRISIS” they are doing things for political mileage and not for the good of this country. I cannot rationalize why $800,000.00 must go to a football tournament but the reverse tax credit must be cut by half. Which one helps the “poor” more.???. it is this level of incomprehensible ignorance that the DLP is shovelling at the populace. However if one understands the Reverse Tax Credit was implemented by the BLP then one can get a better understanding why the DLP did it. The BLP also implemented free “tertiary education” a measure that has changed the nature of our labour force dramatically. But the DLP in a “CRISIS” is going to vilify UWI and screw potential undergraduates who’s parents can’t afford to pay.
    I’m gonna say that as long as the DLP is the gov’t, B’dos is in serious, SERIOUS trouble

  18. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    ac–another cunt

    You are a well saturated Johnnie who is intoxicated by the scent of your own filth
    Be off you wretch !!!
    You smell rank like a sheep dog–yuh cockrat !
    –
    This is what ac wrote above;
    It is the result of that intoxication I speak about
    —————————————————————-
    ” the ST JOHn opeiple are proper and respectable people a community -”
    ac
    ——————————————————–
    -The result of intoxication as noted above

  19. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    Now what the phuck is

    the ST JOHn opeiple are proper and respectable people a community ;

    Sign of a MAD head -SHIT HEAD
    that is what is
    one ac

    crazy bitch -!!!

    nuh wonder you support Fumble FakeSpeare , Big Mout Jones , Cigar loving-Jamican whore Lover and Breeder -Sealy and those of that ilk

  20. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ JUST ASKING | September 28, 2013 at 7:56 PM |
    ” the ST JOHn opeiple are proper and respectable people a community”

    You should ask ac if Leroy Parris is included in the above “proper and respectable community”.

  21. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    But the DLP in a “CRISIS” is going to vilify UWI and screw potential undergraduates who’s parents can’t afford to pay.
    I’m gonna say that as long as the DLP is the gov’t, B’dos is in serious, SERIOUS trouble

    ENDORSED BY JUST ASKING

  22. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    AC is an over saturated Johnnie who is intoxicated by the scent of her own filth..

  23. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    She is not going to answer any questions

  24. ac Avatar
    ac

    @jac….assing and guess what the ST.John people and ac ol crutch gonna vote for DEMS again. and not a damn thing u can do about it.u figgin parasite .DEMS NOW DEMS in 2018..What next u gonna call ac u slimy bastard…..

  25. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Post ’37 riots,Barbados has been fortunate to have good political leaders.The list of the good and the not so good:G Adams,H Cummins,E Barrow,J Adams,H St John,E Sandiford,O Arthur,D Thompson,F Stuart.History will record the good sytems of governance put in place during the regimes of all except Cummins,Sandiford,who will be forever remembered for thiefing the Water Authority nest egg set aside and husbanded by Nicky Sealy for the replacement of aged underground pipes,now estimated to cost BD$1 billion. Thompson who will be remembered for taxing bajans senseless and helping himself to CLICO nest egg that got BIPA pissing mad, and Stuart,who knows not his ass from his elbow and is notorious for being seriously untruthful.As can be discerned by all other than those who partake of the Feast of the Fatted Calf,the good and proper systems of governance put in place by Grantley A,Errol B,Tom A,Bree StJ,OA have been brought to a stage of ridicule and bombast,lies and deceit by non performers Sandiford,Thompson and Stuart.
    Stinking Dems from whom we pray for deliverance.Barbadians are being punished by the Great Architect for punching beyond our means not punching above our weight.The Quisling Boyce,the Buffoon Sinckler,the lying Stuart
    will sooner than later hear ‘Mene,Mene,tekel upharsin’ which is to say ‘Wunna en nuh good,get out de way and leh somebody dat kin handle this economy,do it’

  26. Tom V. Powers Avatar
    Tom V. Powers

    The politicians of tomorrow. They say university is the place where you mould your future self. Glad to see the chap already pursuant of a corrupted career so early: cooking the books, misappropriating funds, silencing people, etc.

    On another note: if it is ‘proven’ that he misappropriated funds, then why isn’t he expelled?

  27. NationBLPnewspaper Avatar
    NationBLPnewspaper

    Would someone please give BLP yardfowl Pat Hoyos some counseling?
    He is obviously having a hard time dealing with the results of the last election as evident from his post election column calling for Arthur to come back to his weekly partisan rants which the Nation newspaper is trying to sell as independent analysis.
    He is an extremely weak business writer who spends more time writing about politicians than intelligent business discourse, yet he keeps his job and is also given a column in the Business Authority and then people want to claim that the Nation does not have a political agenda. Get real.

  28. Keeping them honest Avatar
    Keeping them honest

    Sunday Sun-If an apt comparison could be made to illustrate the changes being pursued for Jamaica’s new path to economic progress and social stability, then Barbados in the eastern Caribbean would easily come to mind.

    Currently, while Barbadians are agonising over widening social and economic challenges — including criminality; rising unemployment; escalating food prices and the general cost of living — Jamaicans are increasingly receiving encouraging reports of a once very depressed economy now on the road to recovery.

    Having maintained, over many years, the enviable reputation as perhaps the most stable and best managed economy within the Caribbean Community, Barbados is currently going through the trauma that was once the norm for other Caricom partner states.
    ……………………………………………………………………………………….

    Would you imagine senile Rickey Singh is back writing this garbage on Barbados. Over the years the Guyanese refugee goes through periods where he ridiculously distorts Barbados to readers in the Caribbean. What rising criminality? International and local law enforcement repeatedly over decades note Barbados crime rate is low and flat with a spike (Campus Trendz firebombing) once in a while. There is crime but low compared to the Iraq/Columbia murder ,mayhem and beheadings that is the norm in Jamaica, Trinidad and St. Kitts for that matter. Yet Singh wants to convince readers Barbados long reputation as the safest island in the Caribbean is under threat. Poppycock and gibberish Singh. No one should rejoice at another’s problems Jamaica has been in the grips of the IMF before I was born Jamaicans are a wonderful people the same cant be said for their disastrous handling of their economic and social affairs. We wish them well but for Singh to give the impression that Barbados long standing low crime rate has moved into the Jamaica category is downright dishonest. As Kofi Annan said Barbados continues to punch above its weight Singh.

  29. ac Avatar
    ac

    like ac said the nation is good foir fish wrap, and attracts an audience that feeds on slander ! gossip, and malicious entertaintment using all of the above to sell newspaper.its reputation as a ethical and well informed paper falls well in the same catergory as gutter journalismThats is why in the last election their efforts to defeat the govtv fell like a overcooked pancake .until the natiion rise to a standard of truthfulness and unbaised reporting their efforts to defeat again would be fruitless.

  30. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ ac
    HUSH DO!
    What wrap what fish what?!?
    The NATION is doing an excellent job and fulfilling its obvious mandate….which is to bring Barbados to heel in pursuit of its owners “ONE CARIBBEAN” dream.
    Wunna people play wunna won’t listen to Bushie. The nation is NOT anti- DLP. Nor is it pro BLP……it is ANTI BARBADOS. Therefore they always side with the opposition and against government.

    Barbados is too uppity – and is holding back the union- just like England was a problem to the Nazis during World War 2.

    The people simply want a single market so they can make nuff money and that when they mash up one place, they can simply move to another one to live happily with their millions…..what so hard to understand?

    Their latest master move was to buy out Roy Morris, who was becoming a major threat with Barbados Today. Like most Bajans, he would prefer to wuk for foreigners than to run his own BAJAN operation, so he abandon his OWN project to go and wuk for the traitors…. Watch and see as soon as Barbados Today is no longer a threat (which will soon be the case) they will accuse him of looking at some young girl and skin his ass out again… BB!

    Thank God for BU David. The MAN!
    Um is BU that has put a MAJOR spoke in the Nation’s plans to mis-inform Bajans. Um is BU that sensible Bajans turn to for the FACTS; the real analysis; the reality….. Shiite then! We even have ac – the most clueless BB in Bim. BU has EVERYTHING!

    Thank you David.

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    On that note you have to thank Roy Morris HOWEVER for picking up on the job started by the BU familY concerning the over burdened and inefficient judiciary. Since his return he has approved or written at least three editorials confirming all we have been saying on BU.

    GOOD JOB ROY BUT WE ARE WATCHING YOU!

  32. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Give it some time David
    Don’t forget he still have a BT to go back to…
    Right now he is calling the shots even if he don’t know it….depending of course on the contract.
    The people ain’t dumb you know.

    They know when to hold
    ….know when to roll
    Know when to walk away …and
    Know when to run

    They don’t count their money
    While they are sitting at the table
    There’ll be time enough to count it..
    When the dealing’s done.
    🙂

  33. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea | September 29, 2013 at 8:16 AM |
    “Thank God for BU David. The MAN!
    Um is BU that has put a MAJOR spoke in the Nation’s plans to mis-inform Bajans. Um is BU that sensible Bajans turn to for the FACTS; the real analysis; the reality….. Shiite then! We even have ac – the most clueless BB in Bim. BU has EVERYTHING!”

    Well said, Bushie!
    You speak from your heart in saying the above.

    Even the politicians consult BU to get a genuine feel for the intellectual pulse of the nation (in the true meaning of the word).
    Many ideas and creative and practical proposals are raised and discussed here on BU which subsequently find their way out of the mouths of politicians on both sides or end up on the printed pages of their manifestoes and policy pronouncements.

    BU is certainly the People’s Forum: Balanced & Informative. Look even ac, CCC, Just Asking and the miller have their say.
    We can see the fall of the newspaper or rag sheet business in Bim in a few years. Newsprint and ink are drains on the foreign reserves and would soon be put in the ‘discretionary expenditure’ column when the forex rationing regime comes into force next year.
    Roy Morris’s rehiring might just be the game changer to spearhead the transition to digital propaganda.

  34. No-nonsense Avatar
    No-nonsense

    The truth of the matter is Mr Spencer doesn’t have a honest bone in his body. Check his history and see he was in trouble even before starting degree for misappropriation of funds; the Guild should check out persons before allowing them to sit on the board. The RBPF has a Liaison Officer, make sure checks are made first to avoid such MISTAKES in the future.

  35. ac Avatar
    ac

    Anti govt or anti barbados it all serve the same purpose that is to destablise and wreck havoc among the populace for whatever purpose. there job is to be informative and provide meaningful and knowelegde information based on facts and not pursue and be persistent in acheiving an agenda solely based on self interest.

  36. ac Avatar
    ac

    Say what u like miller being clueless is not all that bad it gives one an advantage of not having to be part of the norm. but allows one a freedom to express and dispense an opinion from a different point of view . yes ac like sticking out like a sore thumb an advantage that few can appreciate.

  37. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    You definitely stick out like a sore thumb when you say you will vote for DEMS come hell or high water. Give it a rest please. You are a DLP yardfowl period. If the BLP was in office you would have absolutely no profile with the Nation.

  38. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    lies and deceit by non performers Sandiford,Thompson and Stuart.
    Stinking Dems from whom we pray for deliverance.Barbadians

    ENDORSED BY JUST ASKING

  39. ac Avatar
    ac

    And David with NO APOLGIES……….signed ac …..DEMS NOW …DEMS FOREVER…………

  40. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    DEMS NOW; DEMS NEVER AGAIN

  41. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Oh gosh the dreamers remain in Wonderland, and as usual shoot the messenger. When you have become weightless, punching against your weight is insignificant. Are Messrs Sinckler et al back from their money trip yet?

  42. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Did not the hapless, crude,uncultured Sinckler accompany the capricious curmudgeon GoCB Worrell on a trip a few weeks ago to raise half billion US dollars in the UK?Is this an additional loan?Junk status suggest the possibility of the borrower reneging is in the region of 50%,therefore any success would have the concomitant punishing interest rate and conditionalities,serving to remind the electorate of Barrow’s determination of the famous japanese bullet loan negotiated by a former MoF in the mid 80’s.Stinking Dems at it again.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    Would appreciate if Ital Spencer can post a defense.

  44. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    So the Principal of the Cave Hill (C H) Campus is affirming the Campus would not be affected by the opening of other Law Faculties at the other two campuses?

    Who the hell does he think he is fooling except his overblown egoistical self?
    With Bajan students having to pay tuition fees for a degree in a profession already over saturated in the marketplace how can the local Law Faculty stand on its own without the numerically significant enrollment of other students from the region?

    Law is no longer a priority area of national development. As a matter of observation, it appears that the oversupply of lawyers is leading to a bottleneck that is seriously restricting national development. Just look at the state of the local judicial system for evidence to backup this claim.
    It can be argued that law is one area where students should be asked to bear the full cost burden. Let the Law faculty be a self-financing profit centre for the UWI with the government withdrawing any contributions to its economic upkeep.

    However there seems to be more in the C H Campus mortar than just the pestle of requiring students to pay tuition fees.
    The introduction of competition in the teaching of Law at the other campuses is just the thin edge of the wedge to downsize the C H campus to an extra-mural wing of the UWI. Without the Bajan government full financing support the C H campus has no future as a separate fully functioning campus. The Law Faculty has been its lynchpin in justifying its “Full Campus” status. Its removal would also hasten its collapse.

  45. Just saying Avatar
    Just saying

    Well said miller.

  46. Migs Avatar
    Migs

    @ david
    Ital Spencer’s defence or lack of is in today’s nation. I thought he would speak of the accusations brought against him but he solely speaks on the fact that the president cannot suspend him and he has hired a lawyer to prove it.

    But then again… How do you disprove the truth?

  47. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Migs, it is good to see that a few who challenged the BU blog on this matter can now read it in the. Nation newspaper. It is a shame that the Guild, Ital Spencer, sees the court as the final arbiter when the court itself has been preaching mediation. A shame!

  48. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS

    THE STUDENTS MUST NOT COPY , NOR BEHAVE LIKE THE DLP NOR BLP , AT LEAST THE STUDENT WERE ABLE TO GET OF THEIR MOF, WHO WILL GET RID OF THE DLP MoF?

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