Henderson Bovell
Barbados now finds itself smack in the middle of a perilous fiscal crisis, which was triggered and manufactured by Dems for Dems and all because of some flawed fatted calf doctrine, which was intended to benefit Dems and DLP supporters. It backfired and the entire country is now being harass to make sacrifices for the Dems recklessness.
This failed-DLP-Government appears to be making the layoff of the thousands it engaged in the Public Service, during a recession (some even during the recent general election but all by stealth) as dramatic and as much a public spectacle, as its promise not to lay them off – once they had voted for the DLP but that’s really not it at all. It is a distraction.
People who are allergic to thinking for themselves will incorrectly conclude that the Government is showing compassion and social care but that will be yet another costly error. This is simply a deliberately orchestrated and carefully calculated and facilitated plot, to prolonged access to the same fatted calf, which was slaughtered for DEM, in the first place. More sucking on the nipples also means more dues for the union but more debt for the country and even more sacrifice for even those who don’t like beef. The DLP is simply tricking the country yet again but its job is being made easy. Maybe Bajans like it so!
But while the country is being easily distracted with froth, as usual, the DLP is using the occasion to give its people (for whom the fatted calf was slaughtered in the first place) an extension and more time to feed and suck even harder on the already sore nipples. The country does not even realise that being distracted – will cost taxpayers a further $14m up to the end of this month of January – to pay the same dems that the dems engaged, as part of the Dems fatted calf doctrine. So the dems win, with the union’s assistance and the taxpayers foot the bill, for yet another $14 million.
But bloating the Public Service of Barbados with such and alarming an unjustifiable number of people for no sensible purpose but simply to satisfy some fatted calf doctrine and silly belief that the resources of Barbados should be shared among DEMS, is such a reckless act, that it ought to be severely punished as a crime against the society.
In his August budget, the Minister of Finance admitted that the DLP is borrowing $14 million every month to pay 7,000 casual workers. Up to this point, both the DLP and local trade unions have remained tight-lip about how many dems the DLP has engaged in the Public Service of Barbados, since January 15th 2008. Even more vulgar, this country is being asked to swallow, that in a day of technology – a ‘Ministry of the Civil Service,’ cannot tell you off-hand – the total number or the exact starting date of every persons engaged in the Public Service of Barbados, since January 15th 2008. What new low standards! How did it come to this?
Is this a gimmick to allow the DLP and the Unions to: now sit and hand-pick those not considered worthy for a serving of the fatted calf and, to rewrite industrial relations best practices, as it relates to last-in, first-out – in order to validate and advance the same DLP’s Fatted Calf Doctrine, which caused this mess in the first place? What happens when this new industrial relations example is adapted and followed by the Private Sector?
The local media too – do not think it important enough, to demand an answer, as regards how many people have been engaged in the Public Service of Barbados since January 15th 2008 – despite Government’s admission of increasing the national debt by $14m monthly, to facilitate its flawed fatted calf philosophy and in circumstances where that amount – ONLY relates to casual employment expenditure within the Public Service and does not include: Constituency Councils, Free Bus Rides, Political Football or Summer Camps.
While all this drama is taking place in Barbados, the country allows itself to be distracted with PURE FROATH and gossip! But we like it so! I thought this was a time for serious people; serious policies and serious politics but I was wrong! In the meantime, the country sinks further! All that is required now is for the DLP to hold a FETE but we like it so!
‘leff dem’, the Bajans got the government they deserve. They should not complain now.
BLP claptrap
you really have no shame? You really got the nerve to be attacking the DLP? Why you dont spend your time helping your party repair the damage they inflicting on each other??
When this excretion of Bovell who is known to the Courts of Barbados as a Rapist and a thief appears on BU and is given space a known Rapist and a Known Thief we really gone downhill at a phenomenal rate of decent.
@. David
As a public service you could really do this man Bovell (as well as the BLP) a huge favour and refuse to publish his articles…..
His contributions are better placed on the BLP website.
He comes across as a scorned little girl whose best friend took away her boyfriend…..
Let’s face it, they all are a bunch of crooked, incompetent, brass bowls…and we have seen through their scams…
These political contributors need to take a more balanced approach if they hope to be entertained on BU….Both B’s and D’s….
Bushie. Within a democracy, everybody have the rights to express themselves – regardless of partisanship or balanced. What we have to do is read between the lines or totally ignore the writer.
The writer like most of the commenters are questioning the Constituency Councils, The Football Competition, the Free Bus Rides, The Free Summer Camps and the pinpointing of partisan never-heard about cooks supplying food to our children. Bushie, what’s wrong with his views or are you silently showing your political preferences.
Will the delay in the sending home of the promised public servants give the Government time to pinpoint people from the other party. How de hell will the selectors know if the people being sent home are actually the bread winners? Something sounds fish. Will the people’s representatives have the tenacity to confront any irregularities or these people singing in the same choir? So Bushie my friend. Every idiot do have something to offer.
Remember “stultus habet aliquid quod offerat”
Waiting for the fete. Coming soon January 21st 2014 at a location near you.
As a public service you could really do this man Bovell (as well as the BLP) a huge favour and refuse to publish his articles…..
How about starting with you. Would you complain about being silenced.
@Bush Tea
It is not so much about the article and it being partisan, it is more about betraying the tenet of freedom of expression.
On 16 January 2014 15:51, Barbados Underground
@ Tell me Why | January 16, 2014 at 11:51 AM |
You should note the same hypocrite Bushie will never make a similar call regarding those ‘timely’ propagandistic submissions by “Douglas”.
If he, the misogynistic hater of the majority of Bajans just because of their gender, can identify any differences between the two writers we would be inclined to make sense of his call to ban Bovell.
But we leave him up to the irrepressible ac, the woman he could never control despite their shared political orientation.
Call the landfill for Bovell’s verbal garbage. This is the kind of waste that Mia Mottley is harbouring?
No wonder Owen Arthur has lost confidence in the current opposition leader. A piss poor opposition.
DLP MANUFACTURES A FISCAL CRISIS THAT WILL NOT END AND ONE THAT IS TIMES WORSE FOR BARBADOS, THAN ALL OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS THE WORLD HAS HAD – COMBINED
The Global Financial Crisis of the 1920’s was said to have been bad because (up to that point) the world had not seen anything similar. Then came the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009, but the world was slightly better prepared. In fact, ‘The Global Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’ concluded that, “the financial crisis was avoidable” but that “little meaningful action was taken to quell the threats in a timely manner.” Sounds familiar?
It further concluded that “the government was ill prepared for the crisis, and its inconsistent response added to the uncertainty and panic in the financial markets.” Again, are they talking about the DLP or the then US Government? In essence, America before President Obama or Barbados today – under weak and failed DLP mismanagement? Difficult to tell, right!
The Global Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission further concluded that “the government was ill prepared for the crisis, and its inconsistent response added to the uncertainty and panic in the financial markets.” It went on to say that: “key policy makers . . . were hampered because they did not have a clear grasp of the financial system they were charged with overseeing, particularly as it had evolved in the years leading up to the crisis.”
IN ADDITION TO NONE OF THE DLP MINISTERS NOT HAVING ANY EXPERIENCES, isn’t true that in Barbados’ case, the DLP tried to substitute sound economic management and leadership with some silly and vulgar belief that the economy is not important that the society is, which was compounded by its flawed: “Fatted Calf Doctrine?”
Doesn’t it strike you as shocking and absolutely unbelievable – that: “this never-ending-fiscal-Crisis,” which was triggered and manufactured by our failed-DLP-Government, WILL CAUSE MORE PAIN AND HUMAN SUFFERING; POVERTY; UNEMPLOYMENT; FAILED ENTERPRISES AND BROKEN FAMILIES IN BARBADOS -than the Global Crisis of the 1920’s and the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009, combined?
AND EVERY DAY, BECAUSE THIS COUNTRY IS ALLOWING A FAILED DLP GOVERNMENT TO BLUFF ITS WAY; MAKE-IT-UP AS IT GOES; INFLICT MORE PAIN WITHOUT A MANDATE; WASTE MORE TIME AND CONTINUE TO LOITER ON THE JOB – THE CRISIS GETS WORSE.
Imagine! The people who lied and caused this mess, expect to keep their jobs and I am just waiting to see if “one innocent person” (anybody employed in the Public Service of Barbados before December 31st 2007) will lose their job.
@ henderson bovell | January 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM |
“The people who lied and caused this mess, expect to keep their jobs and I am just waiting to see if “one innocent person” (anybody employed in the Public Service of Barbados before December 31st 2007) will lose their job.”
What else do you think is causing the delay in implementing the IMF mandated hatchet job? You can bet that all temporary workers hired before January 2008 will be at the top of the list. The current DLP administration doesn’t care two hoots about the rule of law or proper and decent industrial relations practices and conventions.; only driven by the fatted calf syndrome.
Have you heard anything recently about the establishment of the Central Revenue Authority with the expected loss of many administrative type jobs not part of the 3,000 batch?
We shall see how this jokey administration handles the restructuring of the statutory boards and other non-central government agencies.
Many other NGO’s depending on central government subventions to stay afloat will also be coming under the axe resulting in further loss of white collar primarily parasitic positions.
@Bush Tea, now you understand why independent minded persons have so many questions regarding the rules, regulations and general framework of your PUB. You seem to be an intolerant person with a dictatorial attitude, who believe it must be your way it by any means necessary. Luckily, we have AC watching your every move like a hawk!
We can become sidetracked by histrionics but the bottomline is that the system is broken, it is not relevant to a 2014 global market in which we need to sustain our competitiveness. We need to brainstorm to fix it. Disagreeing with BT is not the issue, what is important is to generate ideas and let them collide. The ac’s et al are good at criticizing ideas but non the wiser putting any on the table.
@Vincent
50 years! What is a reasonable shelf life before idea atrophy takes root?…lol
@ Bajan in NY | January 16, 2014 at 3:28 PM |
“You seem to be an intolerant person with a dictatorial attitude, who believe it must be your way it by any means necessary”
Baje in NY, not only that but his PUB or ‘PUP’ would be like a post office made up of all ‘males’ (play upon words here) and no women given his known dislike of women participating in public life. Sounds more like a gay club to us.
You must forgive the use of the ‘homophonic’ word ‘male’ instead of mail but given Bushies’s rabid homophobia it might just be appropriate in order to peep into his closet.
@David,
I directed an enquiry at Henderson Bovell, asking about the 1.4 billion he wrote about and which he has never answered. Was there a reason it was not accomodated?
I am writing again asking him to advise us on those involved in the 1.4 billion dollars in foreign exchange that was spirited out of the island that he knows about and refuses to enlighten us on it..
@ David | January 16, 2014 at 4:00 PM |
“We need to brainstorm to fix it. Disagreeing with BT is not the issue, what is important is to generate ideas and let them collide. ”
Totally agree.
But you just cannot offhandedly dismiss over 50% of your population from the melting pot of ideas and suggestions.
Therein lies a fundamental divide that must be bridged if Bushie is to be taken seriously.
David…..
We do not lack for ideas…..we lack implementation…..are you aware of how many studies in all areas that have been done with in the past 50 years and to the best of my recollection very few if any meaningful ones have been implemented.
Chuckle….
David….Henry Ford did a study and made a Car a certain way,that way with modifications is still in existence today.
An example in 1967 Vivian White in charge of the Soil Conservation unit in the Scotland District submitted a study on the that area,suggesting that it serves as the bread basket of Bim……would you care to tell me if the shelf life on that idea has expired?
@Vincent
One would have to peruse the report to accurately answer your question.
On 16 January 2014 20:42, Barbados Underground
Here is an opinion from an expert (Martin Wolf associate editor and chief economic commentor at the Financial Times) on the new global economy. He tells us that, ” Good markets need good government and unfortunately, good governments are not easy to find.” He further states that, ” In developing countries, governments are grossly incompetent, corrupt, or both.” I haven’t heard any mention made of the political systems of these developing countries. He seemed to have made mentioned to the performance and conduct of the leaders of these developing countries.
David…
….and your answer has always been the problem…..do you know since that study about 5 more were done with the same answer…..that it was viable……chuckle……and you want to do another one……..implementation deficit,,,,,,afraid of your own shadow….now we know why we are were we are.
@Vincent
Your flawed thinking is that ideas (new) must be about generating newer ideas (reports). New ideas can also be about how do we conquer our implementation deficit.
On 16 January 2014 21:00, Barbados Underground
Alvin……..so what do you think should be done with the 3 senators whom you alluded to in your words “everyone knows what they are doing but no one wants to say anything”…i would imagine that includes the PM, Leader of the Opposition, all the sitting Ministers and senators, in other words all the parliamentarians, none of whom have contacted the police, and most of the yardfowls, I suspect everyone knows except the taxpayers who pay the same senator’s and everyone else’s salaries……..????.
So Alvin………what do you think should be done with Harris (who has replaced Parris) and the politicians from both sides of the divide BLP/DLP who has now partnered with him to eventually outdo Parris (since Parris is now neutralized) with the only victims being the Bajan public…..what do you think should be done with them and as with your 3 sleazy senators all the above suspects know and most participate and as with your 3 senators, none are saying anything or informing the DPP about these irregularities that are more than criminal???
@Vincent
We can agree to disagree but the simple point is that we are challenged to implement and we need to brainstorm how to clear this hurdle. What report what!?!
@Bushie
Dis you hear Peter Laurie on VOB’s 630 program?
http://vob929.ocmnet.net/VOB/Programming/PublicAffairs/630.aspx
David…
You have created your own straw man to shoot down…
I shall reiterate what I said…..ideas are not the problem as myriad ideas turned into reports already exist…..implementation is the problem…..
….now you want to do a report on implementation…..carry on smartly
Hadn’t heard it before David…. Just did thanks to your link.
Bushie’s response….a predictable set on wishful thinking as would be expected from someone from within the flawed establishment.
Has all the makings of a nice sounding speech for a politician, sure to attract some applause…but essentially a set of bullshit….that will achieve not one shiite.
1 – creating YET another body to offer advice to the existing set of jackasses is but an exercise in frustration. The joke politicians MUST be dispensed with….BUP!
2 – working with the social partnerships and NISE? … This man serious. Steupsss
3 – Laurie needs to retire properly and keep his outdated opinions to himself. Anyone who sets targets at 2020 to improve performance by 50% has to be some kind of Victorian age relic… 2020?
Bossman…these kinds of improvements can be achieved next week.
By 2020 the world will NOT BE RECOGNIZABLE compared to what now exists…. 50% improvements indeed!
Altogether and exercise in wishful thinking, but well articulated and presented.
@Bush Tea
Admit that there is a point of agreement i.e.the need to transform our governance system.
David
Even the government concedes that.
Bushie has met NO ONE (except yard-fowls,) who does not see the urgent need for transformation…
The issue is change to what …and how….and how urgently it is needed…2020?
….by 2020 there would be nothing left to change….
@ Bush Tea | January 16, 2014 at 7:52 PM |
“Has all the makings of a nice sounding speech for a politician, sure to attract some applause…but essentially a set of bullshit….that will achieve not one shiite.”
Couldn’t agree with you more! I have already expressed what I think about the entire ‘shite’ called some ‘Eminent Persons’ group.
Most of what Laurie said is totally impractical under the present system of governance and model of bureaucracy. His recommendations are more suited to a modified form of BUP aka a revamped version of Bushie’s model of governance but with a wider cross section of citizens represented (including women of course). LOL!!
The bipartisan system in USA got Obama can’t even appoint a circuit judge. Is the problem the system or the people? Are the people reflective of our society as a whole? I say yes!!!
David ….Report belongs to you……for the umpteenth time,stop getting sidetracked……we need to implement,what we know is needed.
Tawk yuh Tawk Hendy !
The problem Barbados faces is greater than we are being told. This was what was discussed quite recently at a forum that I was at. This problem is so bad that it is alleged that a certain seniour minister in government has shipped his family out of the country, even at a critical point of their children education; they have all pull up stakes ans gone overseas PERMENENTLY
@ Tell me Why
Just saw your “stultus habet aliquid quod offerat”
Skippa, Bushie does not want Bovell censored….Bushie just suggested that David do him and the BLP a favour…..
But if wunna B’s feel that his postings are an asset to the party then Bushie humbly withdraws his call….
Knock wunna selves out….
The only BU body that Bushie would really like D to censor is ac 🙂 …but that is a personal love/hate thing between Bushie and his ex…. LOL
Wuh looka Bushie used to put nuff licks in Old Onions and now missing the so-and-so real bad…..
@ Bajan in New York
What ac watching Bushie what? 🙂
When Bushie make the big move – ac will be putty in the Bushman’s hands….
Wunna people REALLY think Bushie care ’bout BUP?
BUP is just the VERY BEST option available for wunna sinking ship Titanic.
Bushie’s real passion is much more complex than BUP and sinking ships….and contrary to popular BU perceptions, the Bushman has no interest in any role or benefits from any such arrangement.
LOL…any contributions from the Bushman to BUP will be TOTALLY pro bono and academic in nature….
Wuh BUP don’t have any bush whacker vacancies ….Ha Ha
Unions Gloat About Helping The DLP Hand-picked The People To Be Sent Home
Workers may feel betrayed by local trade unions but that is no big thing. In fact, local trade unions are delighted to let the country know that they met in three-and-a-half-hour-long-meetings with the DLP and are even more contented that they played a key role in having serious discussion and handpicked the very persons who are now to be placed on the breadline by the DLP. Each of them so want the lion-share of the glory, that one union is now saying that it was no joint-meeting! The Unions’ assistance for the DLP, even before and during the elections – is no secret.
During the February General election campaign, the DLP alleged that if it was elected, the BLP would layoff 10,000 people. Of course that was a ‘horrible lie’ but at least there are a few things the entire country now agree – the DLP is good at! That number might not have been pulled-out of a hat because all during the election, the DLP had sound labour advise from a “campaign management” perspective. It is why that number: “10,000 layoffs” should register with the public now as much as their believed the DLP gossip, then.
I think is it a disservice that neither the Unions nor the media seem interested in asking the DLP, exactly how many people were engaged in the Public Service of Barbados since December 31st 2007. This is important! The DLP seems only interested in token concessions, as regards it fatted calf doctrine and seems prepared to concede only on the labour component and not on the structural elements such as: Summer Camps; Free Bus Rides; Constituency Councils and Political Football – all of which are serious political entitlement programmes, which constitute unjustifiable recurrent expenditure on the public purse, hence a vulgar cost overrun.
And since the DLP is not willing to entertain any discussion on that aspect of its political entitlement programme (even though financed with taxpayers’ money) then labour (workers) will be called upon to make an greater sacrifice, in terms of expenditure cuts. The unions have no objection helping-out its friend, the DLP.
We already know that $14m X 12 months is $168 million and not the $143 Minister Sinckler mentioned recently. The expenditure for the DLP’s political programmes then have to be added to that $168m and could be another $60m, say: $210m in all, which is perhaps the payroll cost of the same 10,000 jobs, the DLP alleged the BLP was going to send home.
If the DLP were to now tell the country that it is some global financial crisis or even the BLP that has caused them to send home 10,000 – you could bet that the country would believe that crap, even though it would be a horrible lie!
That’s why it is so important to know how many people the DLP bloated the Public Service with since December 31st 2007. If the DLP is merely rolling-back all the damage it has done to the Public Service since January 15th 2008, then there is nothing wrong with that. It would simply a case of dems cleaning-up the mess made by dems for dems.
But “IF” and “WHEN” this failed-DLP-Government starts laying off people, other than the dems it brought-on because of its reckless mismanagement of the economy, then the Opposition should “block,” especially since the unions are gloating that it might have taken over three-hours but they had serious discussions and helped hand-picked the people who will now go home – while DLP Minister keep their jobs.
a c is a man
@ henderson bovell | January 17, 2014 at 1:50 PM | ‘
H B, despite your detractors here on BU it seems you have a very senior DLP member in your corner. Sir Frederick is calling on the PM to trim his Cabinet in keeping with the sacrifices his administration is demanding of the ordinary people.
In keeping with the numerous calls made by Caswell Franklyn, the miller and other concerned bloggers Sir Frederick told the PM in no uncertain terms his Cabinet is really too large for such a small country and the concomitant shrinking economy unable to support so many incompetent parasitic supernumeraries.
Now that the Fumbler has heard it straight from the Sleeping elder’s mouth we shall see how stubbornly useless and arrogantly out of touch the man is. If the man would only listen to reason instead of depending on Ronald Jones to advise him on cracking heads and shooting people the bitter medicine he forcing down the throats of the population would appear a little bit less unpalatable.
millertheanunnaki on January 17, 2014 at 6:10 PM …
Jesus, man. Didn’t anyone ever teach you anything about adverbs?
Adverbs are not your friend. You are addicted to adverbs, wondrously and pointlessly. In your version of prose, they add nothing.
Try to write the whole thing again without the adverbs. Is it weaker? How is it weaker? I it stronger?
Lose the adverbs, man. Your prose will thank you for it, er, thankfully.
@ Jack Boman | January 17, 2014 at 6:38 PM |
what the ‘fcuk’ have I told you to do?
Piss off and go bother Bushie and Zoe. You and I are really not in the same classroom.
Say something of value and we could just about start to entertain your little piece of jump-up shit. Understood?
@Fair and Balanced | January 16, 2014 at 1:02 AM |
“When this excretion of Bovell who is known to the Courts of Barbados …we really gone downhill at a phenomenal rate of decent”
the fact that u went to low class level, to bring an allegation that has NOTHING to do with his blog just shows how utterly scared u are. it also shows that u are one of the ministers of the DLP but above everything else, it shows that u know that his comments are true and u have to apply gutter rat tales to try to shift focus. u should know by now that even the stupid sheeple who chose to believe the lies of the DLP are crying shame on their actions..
wow!!! something is wrong here. my previous blog was submitted
7:20 p.m, Jan, 17, 2014
this one is submitted at 7:29 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
What strikes me as disingenuous and hypocritical and partisan is Sir Roy’s feeble attempt to explain away queries as to the lack of inaction by his Union against Government’s decision rightly or wrongly to displace 3000 public workers whereas in recent times he was belligerently threatening to close down Barbados when Lime offered to send home less than 300 and with handsome packages as well.
Henderson Bovell a commentator accused you of being known to the courts on the serious crimes of rape and thieving . Will you clear the air on those grave allegations? Its difficult to believe a person who is in trouble with the law. If you are innocent come clean don’t mislead. That sleazy scum bag look on your face doesn’t help either.
balance did Sir Roy not do the same for the Royal Shop workers?
he is worst than the girls on Bush Hill.
The question still is, who is the senior DLP minister who has alleged to have shipped his/her family out of the island quite recently? Does he/she know something we don’t know? Why were the children were alleged pulled out of school abruptly especially now that one is about to sit the CAPE examinations
The Fan | January 17, 2014 at 8:04 PM |
Henderson Bovell a commentator accused you of being known to the courts on the
Fan
you are an ASS
DEAL WITH THE FRIGGING ISSUES ASSHOLE
Barbados On The DLP’s Rocky-Road to Poverty; Human Suffering and Hopelessness
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those who have money and interests to protect, are quietly taking action. As usual – the majority will wait until the last minute – when it’s already too late. The entire world know and is concerned about the sad state of affairs in Barbados but the majority who live here, do not seem bothered, even though the country has been downgraded to “junk” and is now staring a devaluation in the face.
Meanwhile, our failed-DLP-Government is being given the green light to continue to waste time, even as it embraces its silly notion that it is better to, “wait and see,” or “do nothing,” and the crisis (which it manufactured) will end and things will get better.
There has to be serious reasons why slavery lasted from 1640 to after 1834. I have often wondered, how – less than ten (10) German soldiers (even if carrying a rifle and a side-arm) -were able to hold thousands captive in a camp! Can you imagine hundreds of slaves on a sugar plantation all across Barbados and less than ten whites in any plantation house, yet the majority were the slaves? Just like Hitler’s Germany or the African Slave Trade, fifteen (15) DLP Ministers are also holding a country of more than 267,000 – hostage and in economic bondage.
But the DLP’s dismissive arrogance and refusal to be held accountable for this crisis, is understandable, even though it is intimately responsible! This failed-DLP-government is the one who pulled the trigger and now holds the smoking gun, but it was the Unions who passed the loaded magazine. SOME local private sector officials and entities are also liable because they passed the rifle-scope and the tripod. But in all this, it is the Church and political church leaders who made Barbadians “an easy target,” by laying-on-hands and behaving as though they had personal cell phone calls that the DLP was ‘sent.’ If so, to do what?
What role did the Church play in the manufacture of this crisis? When it should be seeking absolution and paying penance, it makes a dash for ‘credit and media attention’ by holding a media conference and stated publicly – that it is now being called upon to provide meals – thereby denying that it played a major role and must share the credit for this crisis, which is already resulting in serious human suffering. What a reverse role for the Church!
Look what a handful of people on Wall Street also did to an entire world of billions! Democracy can be a very dangerous thing, especially where the majority opt to busy themselves with froth and gossip! Clearly the lessons of history are not being learn! Maybe that’s why Alice chased that Rabbit (which was wearing a white waistcoat) down that rabbit hole, instead of listening to her sister tell her about the history of the world.
When you think about it, Bussa is really deserving of being recognised as a National Hero. He was focussed! Incidentally, all of this country’s National Heroes are known for strong leadership, even in times of crisis. In 1816, Bussa had no access to Facebook, the Internet or Cell phones and yet, look what he was able to coordinate. Perhaps, because everyone then – ‘knew and accepted’ that they were not “FREE” and that the existing system was not working for them. Still: remarkable analysis and conclusion by so-called slaves in 1816: that better is possible!
All available evidence now show that the Barbados economy continues to shrink. In fact, it is so frightening that people who know what they are talking about, now say that the Barbados economy in 2014 – is smaller than it was in 2006. The QEH does not have basic medicines and Polyclinic seem to have ran-out also! This the Barbados in 2014, not 1937!
You could relax if that was all and as bad as it could get! No such luck! The rate of poverty and unemployment continue to rise; the fiscal deficit is out of control; the national debt continues to worsened; the foreign reverse is tumbling, businesses and people continue to literally collapse; the Government is printing money; for the time being it can get short-term-loans but at ridiculously high interest rates and the public sector is in crisis.
That the deficit is unmanageable, while there is a balance of payment crisis; with Sectors failing and more Enterprises on the brink of extinction – is nothing to wink at but for the majority in our society – it is business as usual and they are going about their ordinary business, as if what is being done to Barbados is acceptable and of no concern to them!
Was Marcus Tullius Cicero, correct when he said: “Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.?” Incidentally, the jews knew what was being done and what their “fate” would have been, yet they did nothing. Some may disagree and argue that they chose a coward’s death. I think it is Shakespeare who said that ‘a coward dies many times before his death.’
This country is addicted to allowing this failed-DLP-government tell it froth, even though it is clear that the Government is bluffing its way and continues to making-it-up as it goes. It has no credible plan and no idea “IF” or “WHEN” this crisis will end.
Our failed-DLP-Government cherry-picked Sandals for a-sweetheart-deal and tries to justify its massive giveaways by hood-winking the country into believing that having Sandals in Barbados – will be the miracle this country, the DLP and the economy needs. Nobody is pausing to think or even seem to realise that there is a Sandals in Jamaica, yet that country can still be regarded as the currency devaluation capital of the region.
This is what frightens me!
But, there are things the Government can do, to ease the pressure on Sectors like tourism and households, especially since it is the poor judgment, bad decisions and flawed policies of this failed-DLP-Government, which is to blame for this DLP-Fiscal-Crisis, which is times worse for Barbados, than the two global financial crisis, combined.
And with this DLP-crisis worsening, the Government continues to ‘make-laughing-sport’ at the country. We were told that the economy “stable” but that same so-called stable economy was downgraded to “junk.” We are now hearing the growth will “accelerate slowly.” When “accelerate” mean a sudden increase in speed. The DLP brought a budget in August, 2013 and all DLP parliamentarians in the House agreed with and voted in-favour of it but within weeks – were criticising it as flawed policy. And Bajans are accepting such crap!
Its position on any policy or issue – depends on what time of day or which day of the week, it is! In addition, the DLP has tricked this country, several times now! Its words cannot be trusted and yet, the unions believe its “discriminatory hog-wash” that no teachers will be going home; that there is room to negotiate; that nothing is “cast-in-stone” and that they (unions) can cause and adjustment in the number of people going home, when in order to get foreign loans the Government badly needs, the DLP has to stick to the script of that “Letter of Intent” it read to the IMF on ‘black Friday.’
And while they distract the majority with gimmicks and froth, things continue to spiral out of control because Government’s policies (even if they work, which is doubtful because none haven’t so far) will not ensure growth but merely represent an unwilling “pull-back” of minor aspects of the DLP flawed fatted calf doctrine and yet – DLP Minister are being allowed to: keep their jobs and, inflict more unnecessary pain on the country, for no logical out-come, even though they have no mandate to make people suffer or to layoff anybody.
“O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason!”
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nice quote HB
That is exactly what Bushie was saying about your writings… 🙂
The Fan | January 17, 2014 at 8:04 PM |
Henderson Bovell a commentator accused you of being known to the courts on the serious crimes of rape and thieving . Will you clear the air on those grave allegations?
Wait Bovell you take us back to slavery and Hitler and did not answer that straight forward question. Boy go and join OSA in he traditional breakfast of white rum and Mottley bashings. It looks like you are a scumbag after all. You’ve been weighed in the scales and found wanting. Be gone nobody has time for a man who is accused of serious crime and does not defend himself.
You family to the cockroach Just Asking?
Fire A Minister: Seems Sir. Federick and the “Eager 11” are on the Same Page.
Sir. Federick “sleepy” Smith is a straight talker! And at his age, why shouldn’t he be! He is also a Former Attorney General and Judge and knows the law.
Leading-up to the 2008 general election, he offered Barbadians some sound electoral advise. He told the country then, that it should give the DLP a chance and if they do not like how it performs, the electorate should ‘kick them out!’ Many feel that the country should have heeded Sir Federick’s advice in the 2013 election, but you know how it is with Bajans!
Now, obviously as disappointed as other patriotic Barbadians are – with this oppressive and failed-DLP-Government (which presides with pride over a close-to-billion-dollar deficit) Sir Federick overrules his previous advise to Barbadians and instead – has called on Prime Minister Stuart to fire a Minister!
That is remarkable, precisely because it is the same idea that the “Eager 11,” share. Some may be tempted to ask: “cut what Cabinet” you mean: the entire DLP should resign! They may feel that firing a single Minister is a token concessions since it is already too late given the perilous state the country is in ! Not so and Sir Federick makes yet another timely and brilliant point! He seems to be saying that it is entirely who is the Minister being fired! Sir Federick, like the “Eager 11” therefore makes an excellent suggestion and it seems that the “Eager 11” should act now, in the national interest!
Some may see Sir Federick’s advise as a distraction but it constitutes yet another public expression of “no confidence” in this-failed-DLP-Government.
I have long argued that the DLP has no moral right to tell anybody about “productivity” and given that the country has been downgraded to “JUNK” – the pay Ministers and DLP operatives are receiving monthly, is an “unjustified cost overrun” to the Treasury.
Meanwhile, the list of people who are frustrated and have no confidence in this failed-DLP-Government, is getting longer. But the DLP is still the Government; Barbados is still on the wrong path; the crisis worsens and the country could sinks further into the darkness!
So, why not, “fire a Minister” as the “Eager 11” wanted to do and as Sir. Federick now advises?
@Well Well,
I was not talking about Barbadian Senators. I was talking about the three Wenators of Canada; Walling Duffy and Brazeau, who committed malfeasance and were only slapped on the wrist(los of salaries for a short period) and no criminal charges brought or expulsion from the senate. You said earlier that “in Canada” they would go to jail.