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George C. Brathwaite
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By personal choice, I have not written recently on the social, political, or economic factors heavily impacting on Bajans, but I have observed the callous and perhaps reckless approach to governance by the DLP. The DLP regime has targeted the poor, the middle class, and there has been concerted effort by Cabinet to dismantle the gains achieved under the BLP. I am concerned, and particularly over the assault on Barbadian workers and their livelihoods. Nonetheless, the latest pronouncements and ensuing policies that have emerged from the DLP’s political machinery and from within central cogs of the Barbados Cabinet demand unfettered commentary. This I owe it to my fellow men and women regardless of their political persuasion.

I begin by stating my ‘critical’ bemusement at the ridiculous phrasing employed by the Minister of Finance, Christopher Sinckler. In his Ministerial Statement delivered to the Parliament of Barbados on Friday, December 13th, 2003, Sinckler said to the Lower House that he was “mindful” that the beleaguered DLP Cabinet had “completed the first three months of implementation” of the ‘restructuring programme’ which he had announced previously in the contentious budget delivered on August 13th, 2013. Sinckler, strikingly claimed that he was “happy to lay, along with this [Ministerial] statement, a report in matrix form, outlining the progress we [the DLP Cabinet and administration] have made to date on the implementation of the measures” announced in the August budget.

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158 responses to “Only in Barbados: The Minister of Finance’s Happiness and the DLP’s Political Deception is a Sadness for Bajans”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    @George

    The explanation from the Prime Minister less than 2 weeks ago that the government would examine alternatives before resorting to layoffs as a last resort is the kind of political immorality which Barbadians ignore, we don’t challenge the politicians when they make these nothing statement. We deserve what we are getting.

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  3. Back in Time Jack Avatar
    Back in Time Jack

    It does the BLP and its supporters no good to be constantly harping and calling for ‘fresh’ elections. Oppose but do so constructively and when this term is over the people will hold you in the balance again and maybe then they will be sucessful.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @ Back in Time Jack

    Agreed because we the people have to select the better of a bad two.

  5. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2013 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2013 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    DBLP government has a fear of the Truth,

    Beatrice Henry and Violet Beckles massive Land FRAUD PONZI ,

    The IMF nor the WB will support Massive Land Fraud well about MAdoff and Standford,

    If you George C. Brathwaite , see this truth , you will write a different Heading and POSTING , Until you looking into PLANTATION DEEDS WORDS , All of your long talk means nothing,

    Lets hope they dont shut your mouth when you see the truth like the News Papers, and some reporters.

    The truth is coming to the street of Barbados get out the way.
    PAIN is what is needed to be felt for the people of Barbados to ACT.
    Pain is on its way , brace your self , 3.8 earth quake getting closer

  6. Caribbean Vibe Barbados Avatar
    Caribbean Vibe Barbados

    Reblogged this on CARIBBEAN VIBE – Whats News.

  7. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    This is the time for the broad masses and middle classes of people in this country to categorically send the DLP and BLP back into a state of non-existence for all the evil and wicked wrongs that they have – over the years – been doing to great numbers of people in this once fair country.

    PDC

  8. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    George
    Regardless of circumstances your conclusions are the same – centrally the return of a bankrupt BLP to office. In your universe and regardless of the pseudo-intellectual packaging of your missives you would want Bajans to resort to a party whose failures are still fresh and when such a mis-direction cannot be in our best interests. We suggest that George is smart enough to known this. We can only surmise that certain other interests are guiding him in this direction. Those interests may be a misplaced sense of loyalty to the BLP and maybe other real benefits that extend therefrom. Therein lies a real and imminent danger to the national security of Barbados. George’s loyalty to the BLP surpasses any consideration to national interests – only when the BLP is in ‘power’ is there support for a narrative that goes beyond party by BLP hacks – the DLP hacks are no different. In fact, BLP and DLP supporters have more in their common interests that their have with the rest of us. That is a quintessential element of a political duopoly. Our calling must be to break the stranglehold of this near fascist formation which the DLP/BLP and their yardies have on the national personality.

  9. Reid Avatar
    Reid

    @PDP,which bajan middle class you expect to raise a voice despite many living on biscuits and sardines. Many too puffed up to care with their false sense of security only a month away from eviction!

  10. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Ignore the detractors, George. This is an excellent article.

    The DLP and its supporters will wake up when there is not a cent left in foreign reserves and when Stinkliar and Worrell cannot lie anymore because the stark reality will be there staring everyone in the face!

    I feel sorry for those who will be laid off even for those who believe the DLP lies in February and voted for them! After Stinkliar’s happiness in laying the statement in parliament, these people are left without hope!

    PM Stuart, may the good Lord have mercy on you, the Stinkliar and Worrell, three nasty liars!

  11. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    The Canadian govt has trimmed back 20000 jobs since the march budget and we are a prosperous country so don’t think Barbados is the only place feeling the pinch. When times are good you can afford to extra hire but when there bad, heads are going to roll. The problem is , is it the right heads, with nepotism, patronage etc believe it or not the govt may be in a worse state of affairs after the cuts than before , not monetarily but intellectually.

  12. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Ried,

    We have said the BROAD masses and middle classes of this country.

    We are incapable of being (too) particular here.

    Anyhow, let us focus now.

    There must be a concentration by many people in Barbados on all possible actual social, intellectual, political, financial, material and other strategies and methods that are needed to be implemented at this juncture to help get the rid of these intellectual politically bankrupt and discredited DLP and BLP in this country.

    PDC

  13. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Reid,

    Our apologies to you for that typo in the spelling of your name. Of course, it should have been – Reid.

    PDC

  14. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    @Prodigal 8.15am
    You spoke for me Prodigal.I support your point of view 100%.The programmes and policies of the BLP are more in keeping with solid nation building and best use of the scarce resources at our disposal.The DLP and the SSA are not mutually exclusive.Waste is their modus operandi.Fear not,the londest day has a end.

  15. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Got that right, only in Barbados could a Prime Minister try to convince taxpayers that the government held their hands for 6 years…SIX…instead of applying preventative medicine to the economy’s ills as Bahamas, Bermuda, St. Lucia, Grenada did, has done for their countries in the very same six year span, but instead of doing something the DLP leaders held Bajan’s hands until the country fell right over the cliff in a suicidal fall…….AND……he is saying all of this with a straight face, what unmitigated gall and huge gonads. By the way, those same countries are seeing a slight change in their circumstances, while Barbados’ has only very recently acknowledged they have fallen on their rear…..

  16. Equal Rights & Justice Avatar
    Equal Rights & Justice

    the DLP help compound the problem by continuing spending heavy knowing full well they were getting less revenue coming in to govt ,then they tried to tax themselves back to growth and got even less revenue ,all along increasing the size of the public service and then tearing de ass out of bringing on ppl just to win an election ,i say remove them from office and and take the lesser of the 2 evils cause there is no 3rd alternative right now

  17. Equal Rights & Justice Avatar
    Equal Rights & Justice

    these lay-offs should have came in 2010-2011 along with ah cap on unnecessary govt expenditure , ,but it was party and pension before country ,and hence the lack of solid leadership and vision ,compounded by ah amateur MOF speeded us to where we are now ,

  18. Sith Avatar
    Sith

    Most of the problems would have been be solved by having a free trading currency without restrictions. We would then have been paying for the things we consume by increasing GDP. If we did not increase GDP our standard of living would decrease to the level which the GDP could support. The IMF is not a charity. It is going to bring us to the point of balancing our FX reserves. How that is done is yet too be seen. Deficits lead to leaks of FX for cars, TV’s. smart phones, gasoline and energy and food. A great amount of the deficit is always spent on imports thus decreasing FX. No doubt that the current hope is that these layoffs will stop some of the outflow of FX funds. If it does not then there will be more layoffs and likely a devaluation of the dollar in support of making Barbados a better value to invest in and travel to This is only the start of the correction. If the FX reserve decline does not stop by April, there will be more drastic steps taken to deal with it. The imporys have to be paid for and nobody will accept payment for them in Barbados dollars.

  19. Equal Rights & Justice Avatar
    Equal Rights & Justice

    we need to get into medical marijuana tourism its ah new billion dollar industry ripe for the taken we have an advantage seeing we have the perfect weather ,Verla said on national TV that we started the research in the 70’s and its still there ,cant we see the world is changing ? the old ways are now becoming ah thing of the past

  20. Bag Juice Avatar
    Bag Juice

    Currency under threat
    December 16, 2013.

    A leading regional political economist today warned of a very “rough and painful” road ahead for Barbados, while predicting that a currency devaluation was on the horizon, as well as another stringent International Monetary Fund (IMF)- supported austerity programme.
    Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Neville Duncan, spoke to Barbados TODAY against the backdrop of last Friday’s announcement by Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler of 3,000 impending layoffs in the Civil Service between January and March next year.
    Duncan, who is the former head of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) and respected voice on regional economic and political issues, said while he generally sought to be positive in his assessment and outlook on the island, on this occasion, he really could not help but be negative, given its now obvious economic reality.
    He noted that in response to its current problems, the Freundel Stuart Government had already moved to abolish free tertiary education, which had been considered a Holy Grail, by way of a significant cutback in its funding to the UWI.
    “That was a severe cutback, so they would have earned some spending room; but obviously it is not enough and to lay off some 3,000 workers in Barbados is an extremely significant drop in employment given the population,” said Duncan.
    He went on to suggest that with the loss of each job in the Public Service, about five to six other people would be impacted per household. This has nothing to do with other layoffs which could be pending as the private sector is impacted by the Government cuts.
    “. . . So it is a crisis situation,” surmised Duncan, who lived and worked in Barbados for several years but is now based in his native Jamaica.
    He also expressed serious concern that Barbados, which previously entered into a structural adjustment programme with IMF to stabilise its economy in the early 1990s, was headed right back into the clutches of the Washington-based financial institution once again.
    However, he said that situation right now was even more dire than it was back then.
    “It is worse because these are now actual layoffs. At that time, the Government could have called upon public servants to say, ‘Hey, look, take a pay cut and we will pay you back with interest when the time comes, when things get better’.
    “That was an excellent strategy at the time. [Now] there is no promise like that that can be made because you can only make that kind of promise when you are sure that the initiatives you have taken will yield new jobs, new types of jobs to keep the Barbadian economy going; and it seems obvious to me that there hasn’t been that new and added dimension yet to the Barbadian economic development strategy,” the professor said.
    On the issue of a currency devaluation for Barbados, whose dollar has been fixed at its current peg of at two to one against the US dollar since July 5, 1975, Duncan was asked directly whether he felt it was a real possibility.
    He responded: “I think it is, but I don’t know how they [Government] are going to undertake any activity that can really prevent that. There has to be some adjustment [to the currency], but even that will be painful for people too, because the income they earn will be depreciated by the value of the food imports.
    “Food imports will get more expensive and in Barbados you import way too much food, and so it is going to impact negatively on the people of Barbados as well,” he added.
    Duncan also compared the economic situation to that which faced by banana-dependent Dominica back in early 2000 when it was forced to go the route of the IMF. The professor said Barbados was definitely worse off than Dominica was at the time. He also listed it among regional economies in trouble, like Jamaica and Guyana; but he pointed out that in Guyana’s case it was mineral-rich and had enough food resource to feed itself in its time of need.
    The same, he said, simply could not be said for Barbados which he suggested had wasted precious time in diversifying its tourism-reliant economy and in recent times had been slow in reacting to the needs of a changing world economy.
    And while there is more than enough blame to go around for Barbados’ economic troubles, he warned that the country’s problems did not develop overnight, as he urged trade unions, the private sector and the political Opposition to get on board with the Stuart Government as it seeks to manoeuvre through an extremely painful period.
    In direct reference to the unions, which have been against the sending home of workers, Duncan cautioned them that they could make all the noise they wanted but there was simply no way of saving the 3,000 jobs. He also expressed doubt that the current situation would be any better if the Opposition Barbados Labour Party was in Government, saying now was the time to pull together a national Government in the best interest of the country.

  21. Sith Avatar
    Sith

    @equal Rights & Justice

    Greal ideal. Medical marijuana in extract form is going to be a major industry. Perfect export for Barbados. Small amounts attract large dollars.

  22. Can't wait Avatar
    Can’t wait

    No Professor Duncan, I do not agree with your last paragraph which suggest that if the BLP were in power things would not have been better. You do not live in Barbados anymore to know what is happening on the ground. The dramatic slide in the current economic situation in Barbados has to with lack of CONFIDENCE in the current administration. You would know better than a lot of Barbadians that it was the lack of confidence in the Michael Manley government in the 1970s that led to the country to go the IMF.

    Powerful private sector people took out their money and posted it overseas and up to now, Jamaica has not recovered. The same thing is happening in Barbados, “capital flight” is the order of the day. The BLP has proven to be better managers of the economy and the business people who supports the party would not have taken out their money. We have a Jamaica and Guyana in the making. You past student or perhaps former colleague Peter Wickham said in Starcom network on Sunday that the Opposition party should not cooperate in any rebuilding effort.

  23. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Bag Juice,

    That is a very good news story on Barbados Today ( December 16, 2013) on Professor Neville Duncan’s view with regard to the inevitability of so-called devaluation of the Barbados Dollar.

    We have said it on here and in other places that the amount of foreign reserves that the Government has long been claiming that Barbados has been having is not the amount that it really has been having at all.

    In 2011/2012 we researched and discovered that the government of Barbados only had under US $ 200 million in foreign reserves.

    Such reflects one of the reasons why the political economy and services industry sectors of Barbados has at this stage reached such a very calamitous perilous state.

    It is clear that this so-called devaluation of the Barbados will happen in the foreseeable future.

    However, the reported line, attributed to Duncan, that the Opposition, the trade unions, the private sector and the government must come together is really a very vulgar and unstudied one, as that, it is primarily the DLP and the BLP, and secondarily the leaders and managers of the private sectors, trade unions, et al, that have helped to put Barbados in this great political material financial catastrophe.

    The current majority of outgoing main dominant social political status quo variables and their relationships must come to an end too in the foreseeable future, and other incoming main dominant very progressive social political status quo variables and their relationships take their places in order to help take Barbados upwards and onwards out of this catastrophe.

    PDC

  24. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    I agree with you, “cant wait”. The professor is not here and does not know of the callous way in which this inept incompetent bunch has run the affairs of the country since 2008.

    They did as they bloody well like especially with their stupid statement that Barbados is more than an economy, it is a society. Well there sure as hell built up a dependent society, put nincompoops in charge of the economy and now they chickens have come home to roos.

    I would advise the BLP to let Fumble and Stinkliar stew in their fire of hell. They did not want any advice from “wunnah” so let them get out however they can! They knew everything before 2008.

  25. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Did any one hear the 12.30 news and listen to Mara Thompson?

    Look, every time this woman opens her mouth, she feels she must attack the BLP.

    Woman, the BLP is not the government. Your party has been in power since 2008, your party and your party alone has balls up this economy when the man whom you married ordained that an idiot should be the minister of finance and an equal jackass re-appointed him to continue to on his suicide mission destroying our economy. Well he has finally completed your dead king’s mission.

    If you knew that the economy should have been restructured, why the hell did your party not do it in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 or 2013?

    Instead of you, Mara, trying to distort history, you could have a conscience and give up some of the ill gotten gains your husband left you that belong to thousands of CLICO policyholders who are hurting this Christmas. My friend’s dad has nearly half million dollars tied up in CLICO, the man needs a full time nurse to care for him and they cannot afford it yet he is supposed to be a rich man. Have a heart and give up some of the money in Families First account.

    You can talk what you like but the BLP has a record that speaks for itself and nothing you say that detract from that. Where were you during 1994-2008? Did you ever see such hopelessness and despair among Barbadians during this period?

    Political clown!

  26. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    And the truth is this that when one looks at accumulated numbers derived from data – not actual accumulated amounts – for the entire year, that US $ 200 million is what it would have been over that year, and not what would have been representative of the actual daily/monthly numbers held.

    Therefore, for that particular time for an estimated average – it could have mean that for a given month it was US $17 million.

    US $ 17 million dollars had for a month (estimated)

    PDC

  27. Bag Juice Avatar
    Bag Juice

    Yes Prodigal Son, I heard idiot Mara.. Don’t worry Clico clients’ ‘eye water’ will either catch up with she, or she children. Injustice do not go unpaid. That is why the dead is where he is at right now. It is only a matter of time.

  28. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Prodigal Son | December 17, 2013 at 1:23 PM |

    Isn’t it a rule of the HoA that members are not allowed to read speeches that are not ministerial statements or the Opposition’s main reply to the budget but can only refer to their ‘notes’? Why is she allowed to break the House rules without the Speaker’s censure?

    That woman is joker. A jezebel who sees nothing wrong in living off the proceeds of fraud and thieving from the CLICO policyholders. How does that witch sleep when the night comes?
    In order to compensate for the wickedness and thievery of her husband why doesn’t see give the lucre stashed in the Families First Account to charities especially those involved in the feeding of the poor and- soon to be put on the breadline- the 5,000 and more from the public sector?

    That woman should be made aware that ‘the sins of the father are visited on the children’.

  29. Colonel Buggy. Avatar
    Colonel Buggy.

    As if CLICO was not bad enough, we read in yesterday’s Nation where the NHC pocketed a wash of peoples money, under the guise of selling land to these prospective buyers knowing full well that the courts had given the land to another government sponsored victim, Al Barrack, as part settlement for the multi-million dollar requisitioned building in Warrens.One man who was reported to be on the brink of tears, was taken by the NHC for some $47,000.
    Who can Barbadians trust in Barbados? First it was Trade Confirmers, then CCCB of Pakistan , then CLICO ,then the 3 two-arm bandits from Bulgaria. Now an arm of our very own government has stepped into the business of jucking our eyes out.
    Whats next .?

  30. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Agree with you Bag Juice and miller,

    I say that Mara Thompson should be holding a cell up Dodds not a seat in our Parliament.

    If the same DPP who is now finding causes to charge the Nation staffers for doing their jobs, he should surely find a cause for Mara Thompson to answer since under her management of Thompson Associates, and with the knowledge of her husband according to the CLICO report, she helped Leroy Parris launder 3.3 million dollars belonging to the policyholders. Both she and he should be up Dodds!

    And she has talk for the BLP? Give me a break!

  31. Pompasettin Pearlie Avatar
    Pompasettin Pearlie

    Ya see, wunna does get and mek laughin sport at de ole girl. I axe de question de other day and nobody en tek me on, but lookhay now I see in de papers that just like Pearlie de reporter want to know ef de lickrush BLP MPs gine tek a pay cut too. I waiting quiet quiet and see wa dem gine do cause dem had nuff mout before. Bunch a hypocrits!!

  32. Back in Time Jack Avatar
    Back in Time Jack

    David

    For my part I think the Minister of Finance has intentionally misled the Cabinet government of Barbados as well as the people of Barbados. The conflicting positions between the PM and MOF suggest that even the PM was hoodwinked as to the true state of the Barbados economy.

    I feel the PM should prorogue Parliament (without a dissolution) and reset the Parliamentary agenda for a new term of Parliament and select a new Cabinet, reduced in size and absent the Minister of Finance anywhere near Bay Street.

  33. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Why you dont take a pay cut yourself?

    Did the BLP create the mess we are in now?
    Do you know how many people the politicians are going to have to help now after the disastrous manner in which your party has governed this country?
    Why dont you ask the idiot for a PM to cut his cabinet, most of whom have nothing to do? Look how much time Donville Inniss has since he got the half day ministry that was created for Kellman in exchange for his vote for Fumble? Donville now has time to be the PRO as well as the general secretary of George Street.

    You could really hush!

  34. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    The above post was directed at the lady who is confused!

  35. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Back in Time,
    I tend to agree with you. As late as last night the”igrunt” PM was still talking as if he was not going to lay off people. He seem to be confused in June too when the lying Central Bank governor told him that they had to cut 400 million dollars urgently.

    Talk about a confused man who is out of his depths and far out to sea without a life line! But he is still blaming the BLP!

  36. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Pompasettin Pearlie | December 17, 2013 at 7:16 PM |

    The BLP MPs should only agree to a cut in pay when Fumble cuts the size of obese bloated incompetent Cabinet to 15 ministers including himself.

    Here is a list of those who can easily go without any loss of managerial acumen or expertise or any thing of intellectual value to the governance of the country:

    Darcy Boyce. (Supernumerary in the PM’s office where his administrative duties could be done Todd or Ince).

    Denis Lowe. (Elements of his current Portfolio to be taken up by MTW and MoH)

    Maxine McClean. (to be placed by Stinkliar).

    Esther Suckoo to be replaced by Steve Blackette. Blackette’s workload- if you can call it that and since there is much overlapping and duplication- could be spread between Stephen Lashley,and the PM with some carried over to the Ministry of Labour & Social Security.

    What do you think, Pompous Pimping Pearlie, deal or No deal?

  37. Bag Juice Avatar
    Bag Juice

    @Prodigal Son or Millerthe……have you all heard any further up date on the CLICO/CIBC law suit that appeared in the Sunday Sun two weeks ago or so?

  38. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @ Bag Juice
    Haven’t heard anything since the report. I asked a source in FCIB and they said they heard nothing in house.

  39. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @miller,

    I have a longer list than you:

    Irene Sandiford Garner……..all she is doing is flying about the world

    Harry Husbands…………a waste of time

    Partick Todd…………..there is so much death around, he could help out a funeral director

    Jepther Ince……………. any man who said he is a financial analyst and could refer to the country’s fiscal deficit as a physical deficit should be no where near Barbados’ finances especially since he had a hand with Walter Blackman in setting up the ponzi scheme at CLICO

    Is Patrick Gollop still a consultant? Is he well?

  40. Bag Juice Avatar
    Bag Juice

    @ Prodigal Son . Thanks

  41. boy blue Avatar
    boy blue

    @Prodigal Son
    Patrick has been a consultant to Mr Arthur for ages,….. Alleyne Arthur.

  42. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Ha. Ha, boy blue!

  43. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    Jepther Ince……………. any man who said he is a financial analyst and could refer to the country’s fiscal deficit as a physical deficit should be no where near Barbados’ finances especially since he had a hand with Walter Blackman in setting up the ponzi scheme at CLICO

    @prodigal son,
    For the record, Jepther Ince and I have never worked for any company together.
    I worked as a life insurance agent for CLICO from May – Dec 1986. In those 8 months, I surfaced as the 3rd highest producer in the company. However, I had observed enough to convince me that something was seriously wrong, so I educated the life insurance agents in my unit and the entire company about how an insurance company should function. I also informed Lawrence Duprey to his face at a company-wide staff meeting that I would never sell an insurance policy for CLICO again. And I never did. Personally, I had bought a policy and I promptly lapsed it. I called all of my policyholders and told them that I had decided to terminate my career as a life insurance agent. I was pleased to see my efforts at educating the other agents pay off. My whole unit decided to quit selling, and a mass exodus of CLICO agents occurred company wide.
    Any prized idiot would quickly see that your libelous, defamatory writings do not match up with the facts.
    I have detected a serious character flaw in your psychological makeup.
    If you don’t make a deliberate serious attempt to treat other people’s reputation with fairness and respect, then, in the words of Thomas Hobbes, your life will be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.

  44. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Walter Blackman,

    Well rendered just above.

    There are so many idiots on this BU network. And ones too who have no real contribution to make to the Blog.

    Indeed, were we the lead posters on here we would have got the rid of them from off the blog every since.

    We mean, they make no real contribution whatsoever to the educating of fellow posters, knowledge enrichment, dialectical understanding, logical postulating, etc. They simply make nuisances of themselves!b

    PDC

  45. Common sense is not common Avatar
    Common sense is not common

    Walter Blackman

    That is Prodigal Daughter/son.She is the most vile purveyour of slander and gossip and character assasination on this blog.Always coming here with somebody tell me and I have a relative who say and all that jobby.

    On here she has a platform to spout her useless BLP propoganda and lies and it is truly sickening.

    I believe that government should get rid of all these personal assistants to ministers of government and also get rid of staff in the opposition office who have nothing useful or productive to do but come on blogs all day writing junk.

  46. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Back in Time Jack | December 17, 2013 at 7:24 PM | David
    For my part I think the Minister of Finance has intentionally misled the Cabinet government of Barbados as well as the people of Barbados. The conflicting positions between the PM and MOF suggest that even the PM was hoodwinked as to the true state of the Barbados economy

    I feel the PM should prorogue Parliament (without a dissolution) and reset the Parliamentary agenda for a new term of Parliament and select a new Cabinet, reduced in size and absent the Minister of Finance anywhere near Bay Street.
    ———–
    You cannot be serious. Because of a MOF could hoodwink a PM and the Cabinet, what does that say about the PM and Cabinet?? You think a MF could hoodwink Barrow, Adams, St.John, Sandi or Arthur???

    Secondly, the PM cannot form a new Cabinet and omit someone…remember 16-14??? Each a dem got one another balls in grip.

    Lol.

  47. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    @ Common sense…. are you a Minister?

  48. Ju Avatar
    Ju

    @ Walter Blackman
    I am disappointed that you find something written by prodigal son worthy of response. however as a general observation : a little less : I did this ; i did that ;i was the first to suggest this ; I was the first to employ that …and on and on in your efforts to establish that you are the brightest son ever produced in this land should make your contributions a little more palatable. Just a suggestion for what it is worth.

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    Ju

    @ Common sense
    I too am amazed that the government subsidies can be paid to personnel in the leader of the opposition’s office for doing nothing but writing on this blog all day long . There must a better use to which scarce taxpayers’ money can be put .

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    Back in Time Jack

    Crusoe

    All of the PM’s you reference were also MOF ‘s themselves (except Sandiford) so your argument is rendered a nonsense.

    The Cabinet was told as late at July that the economy of Barbados was recovering and this was done by Chris Sinckler, The Quisling and Worrell.

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