Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart
Fellow Barbadians, it would be reprehensible of me not to comment on the Ministerial Statement On Government’s Fiscal Consolidation Programme 2013-15 presented to the House of Assembly by The Hon. Christopher P. Sinckler, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs on Friday just gone. It gives me and my government no pleasure to have sanctioned the firing of 3,000 public workers which will be executed in January 2014.
As you know the global economy continues to experience challenges and my government remains committed to do all that we can to ensure Barbados manages this economy the best we can in the circumstances. In this regard I take this opportunity to throw my full support behind my ministers especially Minister Chris Sinckler and Richard Sealy who have done an exceptional job in challenging conditions.
My Cabinet took the decision after our meeting with the IMF on their recent Article IV Consultation and the NUPW that we should advise Barbadians about the retrenchment at this time. The fact that Barbadians are about to celebrate the Christmas season was not a consideration to delay the decision because I wanted you to know we have taken proactive action to arrest the deteriorating fiscal position.
Barbadians have always demonstrated a level of maturity how we have managed our affairs. The reality is the best laid plans have to be changed based on factors outside of control. Yes promises were made during the recent general election campaign that my government would have protected public sector jobs. Regrettably the Treasury and a widening deficit cannot support this position any longer.
On behalf of the government of Barbados please know that we commiserate with those of you who will have to make the sacrifice for your country by being asked to relinquish your jobs. In solidary with your plight my Cabinet will take a 10% salary cut.
DEMS now, DEMS again!
ALL the talk on BU makes no difference to Freundel Stuart and the DLP. It changes nothing and this piece of fantasy is even more ineffective.
Bajans nowadays are a bunch of cowards hiding behind talk and text and not facing the music , not forming Liberation groups,pressure groups mounting soap-boxes—
Oh for a Tim Hector, Eric Sealy, Haddock and men of that ilk.
Caswell Franklyn should be filling the Eric Sealy void
Well by Jove I thought it was Frundy talking.Sounds so much like what he would say when the time comes.What a poor performance by Mr Primus inter Pares leaving us all to stew in the mess of the DLP.
You would be surprise see how much more the Barbadian people are able endure…… You should never underestimate the RESILIENCE of the human spirit brother……
Just Asking
I can’t fill all the voids that exists out there, just to mention a few:
Who will enforce the electoral laws to ensure that the vote buying is eliminated? Who will enforce the law when election candidates knowingly file false returns? Who will ensure that there is no corruption in the tendering process? Who will ensure that a particular black widow is brought to justice for insuring her husband’s life and then benefitting from his demise after paying one premium when the police and insurance company did not even suspect.
I am trying to fill the void that exists in the trade union movement. I am trained for that: I am not trained for governance or gadfly.
Dems now, Demas again???
You cannot possibly be serious
Thank you Caswell –Good Response
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No Gabriel
NOT
Mr Primus inter Pares leaving us all to stew in the mess of the DLP.
BUT
Mr. Primeminister into Paris
Why do you think the PRIMUS aint married ?
JUST ASKING
I came home Mr. Prime minister and voted for your government because I felt that the time for that other thieving lot should come to an end. Each time I voted for you, you have inherited an economy on the brink of doom and gloom resulting in austerity measures and retrenchments. Please tell me something. how it is that those other crooked rats over there in the BLP camp could miraculously pull the economy out of trouble using the same resources at their disposal and you cannot? How is it that that corrupt lot produce a formula of recovery over 14 years and you cannot. Believe me when I say i do not like none in the BLP camp because there are ruthless is shite but tell me how comes under that lot Barbados has been able to prosper and under you it suffers? There are a lot of negative rumoUrs surrounding some in your camp Mr. Prime minister and if the alleges are true I really do not like your party nor you anymore because when you thief in the midst of pain, you are telling me that do not give a shite about the average bajan but only about yourselves. I got a f….king problem with that….I do not care what happens to you all now I will give my vote to those other crooked sons of bitches because at least with them the pain is not as great as the one being experience at this time now…SHAME ON YOU FOR BRINGING US BACK TO THIS SHITETY SITUATION AGAIN:::BLASTED SHAME.
David,
This is not the time for you to be coming up with such an infelicitous and inappropriate concoction.
This is the time for serious and concerted democratic political action to be taken by the broad masses and middle classes of people of this country against the DLP and BLP for all the evil and wicked wrongs that they have – over the years – been doing to so many people in this country.
Hence, this is not the time for fantasizing; not the period in this country for this kind of imaginary stuff to be put out on blogosphere with a view of hoping that the Prime Minister will say something about any public sector layoffs.
Now is not the time for this kind of word play either, and to merely elicit comment on this network!!
NOT AT ALL!!
NOT when multitudes of people in Barbados are fuming; are mad; are fulminating; are screaming hollering loudly; are in various states of panic and uncertainty about these thousands of layoffs that will come about in the public and the private sectors of this country come the first quarter of the new year and immediately beyond.
NOT when these same multitudes of people in this country are sitting in their homes and workplaces, and are walking the roads and streets scared that there will be greater and further rumblings, collapses and ruins in the social, financial and material sectors of this country, and that these adversities will be bringing with them unprecedented wholesale damage and destruction to their social ontological wellbeing and welfare at this juncture in the historical development of this Barbadian society.
NOT when hordes of people in Barbados are looking and searching for new, inspiring, visionary and reassuring leadership to emerge from out of these very tragic circumstances in the nation; such a leadership being necessary to help motivate and guide them through these great perils and troubles sweeping this once fair land; that is necessary in helping inter- communicate with them and in their multifarious places about the journey better traveled ahead; and that is a leadership that is bound to lead them onto this path of greater safety, security and stability in their and others’ lives in this country.
As such, David, this is the time for you to take your role as a journalist and a citizen journalist more seriously and begin to use this medium to help stir the broad masses and middle classes into the realization and acceptance that this is the time for mass democratic political action to be taken across the country, and with an absolute view of the permanent removal of these two wicked and evil factions from the political governmental landscape of this country.
PDC
Sunshine, you ought not insult our intelligence with your preposterous claims of being a DLP supporter. Because we’re not that unintelligible to interpretively extrapolate from your statement that you are and have been a BLP proponent. And have you given any thought to the fact that the DLP might be encountering a different set of economic circumstances; unprecedented in our country’s history?
Mark Fenty | December 16, 2013 at 6:58 AM |
“Sunshine, you ought not insult our intelligence with your preposterous claims of being a DLP supporter. Because we’re not that unintelligible to interpretively extrapolate from your statement that you are and have been a BLP …”
is it difficult for u DLP supporters to comprehend that some brave souls, when they pluck their heads out of the sand, can see and understand fully what is happening? no wonder this party was returned to power…it seems to me that u bajans are diehard cowards
@david
man you hard ears or wha? D nex ajess from d pm gine b d xmas message! Watch um.
@caswell
how many mps and ministers got training? Lol. It like d west indies team…..can’t do any worse.
Just observing
@ Caswell
You could fool the others with that pretty talk bout how you can’t be all things to all men….but you can’t fool Bushie fuh shiite….
What “You are not trained for that…” What!!!
So what the hell do you think happened the last 50 years?
You thought that there would be a course called “training for national duty in Barbados after the BLP and DLP fcuk up the place ” …?
You better recite the school song and haul your tail and start moving “UP AND ON”…. 🙂
Look back at all the great leaders and see what they were trained in… HONESTY, FAIRNESS, STREET SMARTS, and TESTOSTERONE….
…any thing else you need, Bushie will back you up….
Now get your donkey on parade!
@ Caswell
….see if you can remember this…….
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He who would valiant be ’gainst all disaster,
Let him in constancy follow the Master.
There’s no discouragement shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim
Who so beset him round with dismal stories
Do but themselves confound – his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.
Since, Lord, Thou dost defend us with Thy Spirit,
We know we at the end, shall life inherit.
Then fancies flee away! I’ll fear not what men say,
I’ll labor night and day to be a pilgrim.
****************************
….Understand what you need to do yet…?
That was a low blow Bushie, using my favourite hymn against me.
>
Caswell
…so you feel Bushie didn’t know that…
Desperate times calls for desperate tactics … 🙂
up and on ..up and on
Isn’t this remarkable MR. FUMBLE IS IN A WORLD AND A CLASS ALL TO HIMSELF FOR HE CAN NEVER BE COM PAIRED TO ANYONE ELSE BUT HIMSELF. What President like this Uruguayan President would live so humble like HIM they surely would get the respect and support form the nation but MR. FUMBLE AND HIS ELECTED DICTATORS CAN LIFE IN A SHEEP PEN FOR ALL I CARE and WIPE THEIR ASS WITH GRASS, CAUSE THEY SELL US OUT THEM AND THEIR SO CALL OPPOSITION. They will never IN ALL THEIR lives allow one salary in their HOMES, GIVE BACK some of the same people wanna want to send home payments form ALL OF YA ALL SALARIES. these people have mouths to feed too.YOU SORRY BUNCH OF JACKASSES.
50% CUT OF ALL A WANNA SALARY AND NOTHING ELSE THAT’S WHAT YOU ALL SHOULD GIVE BACK. DAME IT.
I agree with u pinkrose, dem should have gotten no less than a 50% pay cut, dem would still get up to $9000 a month to carry home. Dem needed to lead by example!!
Than is the first thing the bajan public should down right demand!!! 50 % cut. Anybody know how we can go about this?
Mark Fenty
I do not speak to political yard-fowls because all you do all day long is cluck cluck cluck. I came home and voted for democracy not for DEM or BEE. I call a spade a spade and do not waste time with a superfluous baseless articulations like the ones coming from your yard-fowl mouth. When you start to thief and dabble in the corrupt i will insult your ass…B or D…I am not like you… A POLITICAL YARD FOWL: You will defend nonsense even though the obvious is staring you in the face.
bush tea
since caswell wont step up to the plate I will have to do so
i am naming you as my deputy
meet me by nelson on friday at 8 am and we will proceed!
tell me how to identify you
A must listen to is the Hon. PM’s statement as broadcasted at 12.30 p.m. on VOB today….very interesting.
@vincent
out of curiousity, which part interested you the most?
It seems clear now that all of the major unions have accepted the scalping scythe in silence and seeming servitude. Sad, sad sad.
These are the same unions that accepted a full wage freeze on the condition that no one be sent home.
Social Partnership my arse.
Just observing
Anyone; What did the PM say on VOB at 12.30 today?
Barbados Debt Higher Than Cyprus Prompts Firing of 3,000 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-13/barbados-debt-higher-than-cyprus-prompts-firing-of-3-000.html
Learning from our mistakes
12/16/2013
ECONOMIST Tennyson Beckles struck an important note last week when he offered some suggestions on what ought to be the policies the country must pursue to bring the economy out of the rut and towards more sustainable economic growth.
Beckles is of the opinion that Barbados has to move investors away from investing in non-traded areas of the economy and into the traded sectors.
In other words, such economic sectors as Tourism, International Business and Financial Services, Manufacturing and Agriculture must be the areas targeted for investment, rather than wholesaling and retailing and the like. This has been the rallying call for many years especially when in the past, economic growth was led only by Tourism (of the traded sectors) and Construction and Wholesale and Retail (of the non-traded). When one looks at it closely, only Tourism and International Business and Financial Services are attracting foreign direct investment and it has been that way for decades. The tragedy of this is that given that type of framework, the country is exposed to an eventual crash simply because in the event that those two come under external pressure as has been the case since 2008, then Barbados finds itself facing a rough patch – and through no fault of its own.
10 A good leader motivates, doesn’t mislead, doesn’t exploit. 11 God cares about honesty in the workplace; your business is his business. 12 Good leaders abhor wrongdoing of all kinds; sound leadership has a moral foundation. 13 Good leaders cultivate honest speech; they love advisors who tell them the truth. 14 An intemperate leader wreaks havoc in lives; you’re smart to stay clear of someone like that. 15 Good-tempered leaders invigorate lives; they’re like spring rain and sunshine. 16 Get wisdom – it’s worth more than money; choose insight over income every time. 17 The road of right living bypasses evil; watch your step and save your life. 18 First pride, then the crash – the bigger the ego, the harder the fall. 19 It’s better to live humbly among the poor than to live it up among the rich and famous. 20 It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in God.
Proverbs 16 (The Message)
Seems that Professor Stan Reid was very correct in his statement of many years ago that the Caribbean lacks management.
Learning from our mistakes
12/16/2013
ECONOMIST Tennyson Beckles struck an important note last week when he offered some suggestions on what ought to be the policies the country must pursue to bring the economy out of the rut and towards more sustainable economic growth.
Beckles is of the opinion that Barbados has to move investors away from investing in non-traded areas of the economy and into the traded sectors.
In other words, such economic sectors as Tourism, International Business and Financial Services, Manufacturing and Agriculture must be the areas targeted for investment, rather than wholesaling and retailing and the like. This has been the rallying call for many years especially when in the past, economic growth was led only by Tourism (of the traded sectors) and Construction and Wholesale and Retail (of the non-traded). When one looks at it closely, only Tourism and International Business and Financial Services are attracting foreign direct investment and it has been that way for decades. The tragedy of this is that given that type of framework, the country is exposed to an eventual crash simply because in the event that those two come under external pressure as has been the case since 2008, then Barbados finds itself facing a rough patch – and through no fault of its own.
http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=editorial&NewsID=33893
COLUMBUS has to be BAJAN!!!!
Two statements;
…..That they held off for as long as they could….
and
…..In response to the question as to if the numbers of laid off workers could be reduced….he stated that the unions would be listened to…..then negated that by saying that their is a systemic problem,based on the amount out of every dollar that had to go towards paying of wages for govt workers which is untenable…..
I am wondering why it took the IMF to tell him that as well as why Sir Frank Alleyne,who stated in the press that “we have the answers and do not need the IMF”….I find the contradiction interesting,especially as systemic(PM’s word)has a long gestation period.
@vincent
how long does it take to detect a systemic problem….I’m certain not six years. Far less when you ignore advice from all corners and further exacerbate it. this is akin to admitting that Straughn et. al. were right from the beginning.
btw, linguistic generalities and seeming contradictions have always been the style of the PM.
What I found worse was Clarke’s comments. The unions are clearly out to sea on this one and the workers will have to sink or lay afloat as long as they can.
@david
did the 12:30 news qualify as a statement from the PM? lol.
Just observing
@ Bush Tea
Regarding GP’s invitation to Nelson I would suggest that you not go down there for the following reasons
1. You will be standing just a stones throw away in the prying eyes of the parasites at the HoA, LEGION, or BLP & DLP AND if gun totting David Estwick see you, you may get a gun pull pun you and, unlike Smiley Teets Dale Marshall, not survive the outcome
2. The “Feed my Sheep” sheeple from my church does be down dey pun a Friday and if dem see celebrities like you Bush Tea dem may rush you and “you may not survive the outcome”
3. If the venue is changed from Nelson to Nelson Street, and the hour changed from 8 a.m to 8 p.m. you might go down there and you and Georgi Porgie might be tempted by the environs and “you may not survive the outcome”
Not that any of this might make any difference becausing Fumble has spoken and has addressed the nation and many uh we bajans like the 3,000 dat Sinkliar sending home, “may not survive the outcome”
LOL @ GP
Wuh you mussie think Bushie is a poppet GP…. 🙂
Thanks hear Piece….!
1 – as Pieceuhderock so well puts it, bad choice of time and location.
2 – you ain’t got de patience to deal with this bassa bassa GP – you too dread bozie… We can’t give you THAT pick…
3 – Bushie can’t be your deputy. One o’ the two uh we would end up ded in no time….. We ain’t even sort out the Trinity thing yet…. 🙂
4 – you would need no move down Morgan Lewis Hill to access the amount of goat milk that it would take to get the size cajoles needed for this mission….. Um ain’t going be easy….
5 – Bushie already committed to a major assignment…..(the bush whacker pick…. 🙂 )
Man No!!!! This is Caswell’s mission.
He ALREADY have 50 years of preparation; adequately sized balls; knows all the rules and regulations…and right now, he ain’t got one shiite else to do…. 🙂
Welcome back Observing…
Ah see someone put some lashes in ya tail on ya own blog LOL Ha Ha 🙂
@Bushie
Does Caswell enlarged balls or stones…lol.
@Observing
Did not hear the statement.
@david
it should replay at 4:30
@bushie
Thanks, missed the verbal jousintg. Btw, the only lashes that I get are from the common law significant other…and I kinda like dem ones. 😉
Just Observing
BUSHTEA
RE 2 – you ain’t got de patience to deal with this bassa bassa GP – you too dread bozie… We can’t give you THAT pick
YOU WANT THE THING FIXED OR NOT?
RE Caswell ………..He ALREADY have 50 years of preparation; adequately sized balls; knows all the rules and regulations…
THIS IS A JOB FOR BRAINS NOT BALLS
all the rules and regulations WILL BE CHANGED UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE ……..IN ONE YEAR MAX
E.G FUMBLE WILL BE SENT TO CLEAN TOILETS AND TALK INTO THEM
MIA WILL BE TAKING REAL WOOD INSTEAD OF GIVING DILDO
OSA WILL BE CONFINED TO DRINKING WATER ONLY AS HIS SEE THRU
AC, CCC ETC WOULD BE BANNED FROM BU
DAVID WILL GIVE DAILY LECTURES AND TRAINING TO WOULD BE JOURNALISTS
EXISTING JOURNALISTS LIKE CARL MORE WILL BE SENT TO KEEP THE DUMP FROM SMELLING
ALL CURRENT POLITICIANS AND THEIR WIVES WILL BE SENT TO DAILY DUTY KEEPING BARBADOS CLEAN AND SYSTEMATICALLY SORT THE GARBAGE FOR RECYCLING AND/OR CONVERSION TO THE NATIONAL GRID
BUSH TEA WILL BE GIVEN THE TASK OF ENFORCING THESE THINGS BY SELECTION AND USE OF SUITABLE TAMARIND RODS- THESE WILL BE THE BUSHWHACKERS
@ GP
…as Bushie said
You are TOO dread! You can deal with the MOH LOL
Case closed.
@Sunshine Sunny Shine
But really and truly, you are a Fifth Columnist operating under the code name berestford leon padmore. Nevertheless the message is true.
Boy Blue
I do not know to whom you refer and I certainly do not write any columns. I work for Nestle Munich and have no interest in agendas. What my interest in this matter is affixed upon is the fact that both BLP and DLP are crooked and rotten with a number leeches and parasites feeding on their back hand deals. Now tell me how the heck crooks focus on personal profit will invest in projects that do not bring them personal gains. Take a look at the shite both these parties spend money on and tell me what are so sensible about what both did. Both are crooked and lied but under the BLP the country was not too bad off. I do not have to be rocket scientist to see this for myself. What the BLP did the BLP do to achieve that the DLP are failing not to do when they are in power. I am mind-boggled by the governance of this party…Either they are good or they are simply piss poor and the way things are with them now I stand to concur with the latter.
@ Sunshine Sunny Shine
I think I can answer why the DLP fails when it comes to economic matters. It is simple. Their approach to governing is not attractive to investors period who are primarily “wealthy foreigners”. We hate hearing it but look at the West Coast. You think those establishments from Black Rock to Speightstown were erected by poor people? Once the government changed those projects stopped that were in progress. The Investors HOLD tight when this group is in charge and history shows it. The DLP has had generally good intentions with their social and infrastructure programs. The conservation projects (for ex: the Holetown coastal conservation project) made lots of sense since they are putting in infrastructure for the future. But to me it seems like the DLP dance to the wrong songs with the wrong people. After accusing the BLP of selling Barbados to wealthy foreigners (who are the investors) would you expect them to invest when the DLP is in power.
During one of my visits the then PM (RIP brother) was saying in the Nation News that the St Ferdinand project in Six Mens was on hold and that they were looking into it while at the same time I saw bulldozers eating down Maynard’s’ Hill working 7 days a week. Then I knew that something was really wrong with the DLP. Say one thing and doing another. I couldn’t believe he was being critical of the project in the media while the project was going on without issue. Mixed messages to the investors and money holder don’t work and this is their main issue with the DLP.
One last note. Tell Peter Wickham to shut up with all this foolish talk about not laying off the 3000 workers. The 3000 is an understated figure if he can do basic arithmetic. The government may need to lay off 5 to 6 thousand within the next 18 months, raise taxes and cut wages on the civil servants. Peter Wickham needs to just shut-up like right now..
Listened to the Prime Minister’s analysis with great interest. Where he missed the plot is that he did not thread his statement with the promise from Mr. Integrity (himself) that they would be no layoffs. Guess he like most politicians put wining an election first but who can blame him.
“Where he missed the plot is that he did not thread his statement with the promise from Mr. Integrity (himself) that they would be no layoffs.”
He is NOT a man of integrity. He should be more aptly be referred to as
“Mr. Disingenuity”.
What is he planning to do with the myriad of consultants feeding from the same fiscal trough that has poisoned the fatted calf? What does he intend to do about the size of his bloated and incompetently obese Cabinet full of Billy Bunter type characters?
Would someone tell this fool he needs to change his position against privatization? He needs to be proactive and drive the inevitable privatization process before it is ‘forced’ upon him making him humble pie and look like a damn idiot as he is projecting with the current ‘Layoffs’ fiasco.
We shall see if fool he continues down the stupid road he has embarked upon with this ‘NO Privatization’ nonsense. What will he say when the MoT or the MoF is left to pick up the pieces and shamefacedly has to announce the sale of the GAIA to some foreign entity at a knockdown price of PARO valuation just to feed the country’s addicted beast of consumption with its forex fix?
Would Barbados be paying for its oil from Trinidad next year by way of sale of the country’s ports of entry?
It is incredible how passive bajans are! Whu do we prefer to sit around and grumble? Why do we choose to punish this current aministration with an ex. Turkey, Brasil, Ukraine, Chile, Egypt, USA you name it, the people march, they protest, they stand up for what they believe in. But noooooooo barbadians will grumble behind the scenes. So sad. It is not about bein partisan, I would suggest we do the same thing if the government of the day happen to be blp. What we have is a dangerous situation playin out, minister of gvt threatenin to crack heads
Smh, I agree and we can even look closer to home -Port of Spain and Kingston would be light up wid marches if they were in our current position.
This DLP has the unions in their back pockets, the unions are not going to do a thing.
On Friday, it was announced that 3000 public workers were going home and up to now not a union fellow can go on record and say a word. Cedric Murrell was the only one who said unbelievably that he did not know anything about the layouts………….and he is head of the social partnership?
Now we heard that the NUPW met with the PM today for 1.5 hours, still they cannot say a word. Now if I was a union member, forthwith, I would have stopped paying dues especially since I was reliably informed that the president has again racked up a huge cell phone bill. He could not be living high off my monies.
The unions are in a serious bind as they went behind the members backs and agreed to a wage freeze with this inept incompetent bunch in exchange for no layoffs. Now they kept their end of the bargain, not asking for any pay increases but the government has broken its promise. No wonder the same thiefing vote machine the Dems had in place for the election was put to work in the NUPW elections to make sure the status quo remained.
I am of the opinion that there will be no marches like in the nineties. This lot will just have to implode like the economy on their own. And let us not forget that some where in Barbados there is a 40ft container waiting for the contents to be put into action, maybe!
David; Re your 6.52 post, you said
Guess he like most politicians put winning an election first BUT WHO CAN BLAME HIM> </I? (my emphasis)
Most thinking persons in the BU family should blame him.
He knew the dire status of the economy when he presided over the incredible policy of month after month allowing the NIS to be used to fund current transfers, salaries and wages etc. that was sure to eventually land us in exactly the spot we are now in.
FS knew the dire status of the Barbados economy when he led an election strategy that was replete with lies and misdirection re. layoffs and several other matters and that following that path could lead to ultimate calamity for the Nation even if it propelled his party to a win. In previous cases where parties followed that path they either lost the elections or made swift corrections to their lying electioneering strategies after winning. Some examples are Bernard St John, Tom Adams and Erskine Sandiford. FS did not appear to have the prescience to change his strategy on winning. Indeed, IT is quite possible that he did not think that he would win.
After the elections, he did nothing to change those strategies to ones that stood a chance of steering Barbados away from the economic rocks. Instead, he seemed to have modified key strategies that the MoF was trying to implement (even though they had his and Cabinet’s ostensible blessings) and which appeared to stand a good chance of softening the landing to ones that were totally incoherent and unlikely to be successful given the declining state of our reserves and the continuing widening of the fiscal revenue-expenditure gap.
In the face of every indicator screaming for urgent policy changes, a situation which even the most purblind of former PM’s would have urgently acted on, this PM, as is his copyrighted wont, did nothing.
Waiting until the last minute to act was, imho, not done to extend the period of employment of those who will unfortunately be laid off since the trade off had to be serious damage to most workers public and private in Barbados . I think It was instead an unthinking act done almost entirely to save the DLP and the PM’s face re. their no layoff’s policy and was also a natural consequence of the FS model that has shown, without a doubt, that any action required of this PM and his Cabinet will almost certainly be done at the last minute or too late. The BU files are replete with examples that solidify the inherent accuracy of that model.
There must be significant changes in the leadership of the governing party for Barbados to stand a chance of getting out of this economic gully we are now in.
Oops!
Re. my post above; I don’t know how I got Bernard St. John’s name amongst those others. He is well recognized regionally as perhaps the most honest and technically effective of politicians that this region produced. He actually eschewed pre-election padding of workers and other staple electioneering tricks in the one election he led for the BLP.
Bush Tea | December 16, 2013 at 4:06 PM |
@ GP
…as Bushie said
You are TOO dread! You can deal with the MOH LOL
Case closed.
EXACTLY! THATS WHY I STAY HERE AND WATCH ON IN AMUSEMENT AT BIM’S PLIGHT.
@GP
But the PM has correctly stated today in his surprised bout with the media that we have been here before and our resilience has shone through so what is the problem?
Resilience my ass. In the face of crisis survival ignites desperate acts. An desperate people will do desperate things even if it means, steal, kill and destroy. They all knew that the darn economy was in trouble and therefore urgent and stringent measures needed urgent and immediate attention. Not delays to save face. Look what is happening now; do the end justify the means…HELL NO…All they have done is bring their party and their reputations into major disrepute. They blundered big time and lied large.
And why am I not surprise that those crooks in the BLP camp will oppose a pay cut on the grounds of a technicality….stupppppppse. A CRISIS IS AT HAND AND THESE TWO JACK ASS PARTIES STILL WANT TO BE POLITICALLY DISTINCT AND SEPARATE WHILST THEIR YARD FOWLS CLUCK AWAY THEIR INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT
David; re your 11.43 pm post last night where you said
But the PM has correctly stated today in his surprised bout with the media that we have been here before and our resilience has shone through so what is the problem?
The problem is that when we had problems like this before we also had Leaders and a Government that did everything that it could to correct the situation and did not think only of the consequences to the political elites or their political parties to the exclusion of the country. We also had leaders who could think strategically on solutions to the ills of the country.
Alas, today we have a leader who, to paraphrase Lambie Craig’s immortal words, “should be charged for impersonating a prime minister” and a Cabinet and Government that seem to have been cowed into relegating the interests of the country to second place behind their party’s and their own interests.
The problem is also to a very large extent that only some yardfowls have any confidence that this leader and this government has the capacity to get us out of this situation.
We need leaders and not jackass rulers .Rulers fear the masses Leaders embrace the masses thus the container of bullet proof vest and rubber bullets. No wonder Special Branch so active on Facebook and the blogs
This whole situation has dampened my spirit and my preparations for Christmas. I am one person who look forward to Christmas every year, I get so excited, love the Christmas carols, the preparations for the big day and this whole situation has me so downcast. I am just going through the motions. My heart bleeds for Barbados and for those who were deceived by this Damn Lying Party.
May God help us!
i am really surprise with the PMs statement that 54% of monies go towards the wage bill…if that was so why then did his cabinet hire all those workers just before elections?
Pinkie.they did it to one up the BLP…….see how it backfired, they should be hanging their heads in shame, instead they are telling the taxpayers they held their hands for six years and lead them into a suicide mission……..with leaders like that lot, bajans and Barbados certainly does not need any enemies, they have them right in the hen house.
December 17, 2013 MARKETWATCH
MORE SEX – HIGHER WAGES!
Employees who have sex more than four times a week (not necessarily with other employees!) have salaries that are 5% higher, on average, than those who are less sexually active.
Those who have no sexual activity average 3% less income than those who are sexually active.
Possible reason: Sexually active people may have more self-confidence or may be in better physical or emotional shape than other employees.
More frequent sex may make people more productive and creative at work.
Or the connection may work the other way—people receiving higher wages may have more sexual desire and more money to do things that encourage sexual activity.
HERE’S A LESSON FOR BAJAN POLITICIANS, PERMANENT SECRETARIES & OTHER HIGH LEVEL CIVIL SERVANTS…
ROTFLMBO!
David | December 16, 2013 at 11:43 PM |
@GP
But the PM has correctly stated today in his surprised bout with the media that we have been here before and our resilience has shone through so what is the problem?
THE PROBLEM IS THAT FUMBLE HAS NOT READ OR DIGESTED THE PREDICTIONS OF REVELATION 18
@Pinkie
If we are to believe the PM he asked for the report from the Director of a finance in June.
Just Asking
The MP for your favourite parish, St John attacked the BLP today, she said that the BLP did not restructure the economy, did nothing about reducing the dependency for fossil fuel and on and on she went. I leave her to you.
She like she lives on planet Mars as she dont seem to understand that the party of which she is a part has been the government since 2008. If she know that the economy needed restructuring why did she not ask her husband to do when he was PM or ask her party to do so when she became an MP?
Joker who should never be in our parliament.
Wuh GP….if he ain’t even finished the CLICO report yet (and still think Leroy is no leper…) when you think he woulda get round to Revelations 18?
BT
HE SHOULD HAVE READ REVELATIONS 18 WHEN HE WAS A CHILD IN SUNDAY SCHOOL
NOW HE WOULD REALIZE THAT IT IS VERY RELEVANT FOR TODAY
Please tell me something. how it is that those other crooked rats over there in the BLP camp could miraculously pull the economy out of trouble using the same resources at their disposal and you cannot?
TO SUNSHINE SUNNY
It is about time people like you wake up and realize that this bunch of politcians are nothing but a bunch of greedy rats.
The BLP has a tricle down effect, their style of politics is prosperity, not proverty. (give a man a fish or show a man how to fish) choose which goverment you want.
zena phillips | December 19, 2013 at 9:22 AM | @
Both are she-it . no more D or B , both now a unity government .
The Unity Government of the DBLP Masters of fraud , PONZI , one took over for the other and now the cover-up that fail. PONZI land deals run out of money .As England watch Her GG, SIrs, QCs Lawyers, run a Nation under the Earth , lawless liars, crooks, scumbags ,
Look how many lawyer in this DBLP and they can not fix nothing. Only thing yo fix FRAUD is Truth, which none is willing to say , new or old Minister, We will see if the woman have more Balls than the men ,
The World is watching and knowing the bajans are sleeping