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David Estwick - Minister of Agriculture
David Estwick – Minister of Agriculture

We have had hints posted to BU in recent days that Dr. David Estwick is not a happy camper sitting in the ministry of agriculture far away from the ministry of finance and economic affairs. It must be clear to Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and his cabinet if they were not aware that Minister Estwick is not happy at events currently unfolding in Barbados. BU goes further to state that Estwick has been fuming since the late David Thompson banished him to the ministry of agriculture. BU is aware it had to take heavy language from DLPites to coax Estwick to accept the ministry and in the process the DLP was able to avoid embarrassment.

Any government which has to administer austerity measures will not receive acclaim.    What must NOT happen however is for the government to be perceived as divided on the issue of it’s economic strategy. Minister David Estwick’s maverick position today will only add to the lack of confidence currently affecting Barbados. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart must demonstrate he has a firm grip on his cabinet. With a 2-seat majority in parliament it is difficult to believe Stuart will be able to exert any influence of note on Estwick.

Estwick’s statement even if construed to be a bark has has done damage to the government by conveying to the Barbados public, and internationally, that the stability which Barbados has been known for over the years does not exist.  Unlike other political commentators who have dismissed Estwick’s public utterence, BU believes this Stuart government has been placed squarely on the defensive.

How long can the Barbados government continue to manage our affairs in an acrimonious climate?

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232 responses to “Minister David Estwick Yelps Again”

  1. Equal Amongst First Avatar
    Equal Amongst First

    seems to me that both of them accept that CS is incompetent.

  2. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    Well Well | January 31, 2014 at 11:10 AM | @
    There is no time limit on Fraud, So sooner or later , We will be able to pull all that was taken by Fraud, Fraud dont stand in one place , It grows and grows out of control . As with Madoff and Stanford, DLP and BLP, Arthur Anderson and other accounting companies, When the PONZI run its course People then will look for answers.Medici Bank,Mississippi Company,
    South Sea Company,Texaco,Bank of Credit and Commerce International,Nordbanken,Equitable Life Assurance Society,Enron,Bear Stearns,Washington Mutual,Royal Bank of Scotland Group,ABN-Amro,AIG,Dynegy,Schlecker,Arcandor,Anglo Irish Bank,CLICO, there wil be a few more added , DLP/BLP, First Caribbean and others ,
    Who ever want some of the Massive Land and bank fraud let them come and get it , Everyone can google or do their own home work before they spend to invest.

  3. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Plantation…..wait until the agencies I like to refer to as the alphabet soup gets a wind of all of this……….everyone will be riveted while the culprits will have shaky hands and shit-stained drawers.

  4. Equal Rights & Justice Avatar
    Equal Rights & Justice

    now is not the time to turn our backs on the ganja business by being pig -headed, are we going to wait until our hand is forced by our former masters ? ppl on de bread line from today.Ganja is de new cash crop and we should look to be the leaders in the region when it comes looking for source markets to export this crop cause we need the foreign badly.

  5. Equal Rights & Justice Avatar
    Equal Rights & Justice

    *foreign exchange

  6. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    Well Well @ We spoke to Minister The Dr David Estwick , We spoke to the good Doctor face to face , He said he look in to it. We sure by not he seen a lot . Just dealing in his area . Now to sit with the crooks, liars and scumbags face to face in the HOUSE , Knowing they telling lies to him and the People of Barbados,Remember the Minister is dealing with land and land have roots and root titles , Only the government and the owners will have some type of Proof of ownership with their name on them .
    Remember http://www.plantation.bb website was pulled and the book at the archives was changed and have STOP dates, Books rewritten at the LAND REGISTRY .DEEDS written on different pages and out of sink.
    So he know what they are doing but stopping short of saying any thing , Byer Sukoo , MOF, Hammy Lash, Lowe,Todd, All the non lawyer know , And all the lawyer know ,So see why no one want to make a move and that is just on the DLP side , BLP was with this first,
    Is seem the ones that know the truth and look to make moves are the ones that was PUSH out by the DLP.
    How can they sleep at night ? 1 . drugs , 2, food

  7. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @ Equal Amongst First
    You said politics has it own morality do you think the men and women in the DLP have two sets of morals?

  8. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Equal Rights & Justice | January 31, 2014 at 2:11 PM |
    “now is not the time to turn our backs on the ganja business by being pig -headed, are we going to wait until our hand is forced by our former masters?”

    You should know by now Bajans are some of the biggest hypocrites on their own God’s earth.
    Can we suggest to you we should be employing the word “hemp” instead of ganja or marijuana for our deceitful audience?

    Even the likes of Senator Depeiza are having good things to say about the ‘plant’ which has been on the planet before human beings and will be here long after.

    Who else in the ‘big-up’ sections of the fake society will be jumping on the ‘hemp’ growing bandwagon?
    We shall soon be hearing how the currently overgrown-with-bush fields- once beyond recall and planted in another “evil” but dying plant call sugar cane (after tobacco of course)- should be swaying in the tropical trade winds with an industry producing up-market hemp by-products as a source of animal feed and as finished products in the form of natural (not synthetic) medicines, human foods, cosmetics and health care products.

    We have not yet considered the possibilities of satellite industries like the manufacturing of a new range of clothing and fashion accessories for the coming eco-living age.
    There should be NO shortage of human hands for the ‘new-age’ industry. No need to import labour from the West Coast of Africa with so many people to be laid off from the false economy and many willing hands and mouths sitting on the numerous blocks.

  9. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Plantation……now it’s time for the good doctor to come clean and be damned if he is related to Mia or whatever connection with the other ministers…..he will sleep a lot better.

    By the way, Mia and Peter Harris are also thisclose…………so you see, none of them have clean hands….yes, the economic situation worldwide is having an impact, but in reality it’s the CONCENTRATED CORRUPTION of both political parties bringing down Barbados, very successfully I might add.

  10. Clone Avatar
    Clone

    How can one with fifteen years be laid off when it was said that those persons cannot be touch.
    Why would a person of fifteen years not be appointed?

  11. waiting Avatar
    waiting

    How do you get to be the CEO of a big private sector business. It must be an ethnic qualification. It cant be intelligence. John Williams is boasting he told the government two years ago to cut the wage bill i.e. send home the 3000 workers back then. In what world could government send home that number of workers unless its back is against the wall like it is now. Two years ago that action would have brought the trade unions and the anarchists like George Belle, Wood, Bovell, Bobby Clarke, Caswell franklyn et al out on the streets and made the country ungovernable. John Clown Williams doesn’t think that deep however. When you listen to him and people like Richard Cozier only conclusion can be drawn it is’nt the grey matter that got them to the top . It is more the white matter. Loud arse stewpsss.

  12. ac Avatar
    ac

    Couldn, agree with u more “waiting” all this man has done is to kiss the butt of the private sectir arss .and pretending to be concerned about the public sector. i still have to hear him decry those in the private sector to pay what they owe govt..however his parting salvo was to drive a stake in the heart of those to be laid off saying that they asses should have been thrown out eight years ago. never mind that his sector have defrauded govt of miiions monies necessaRy to keep govt afloat

  13. Warinka Avatar
    Warinka

    ac

    In case no one else is prepared to tell you, let me you’re a JACKASS.

  14. ac Avatar
    ac

    Yeah JohnBOY diid it smash uh corns.. UH think that the social partnershipo did a good job for all sectorrs. why uh squirming…uh think bajans fool. the nerve u and uh lot talking about throwing people arss in the streets long ago. wunna bunch of hypocrites.. f off jerkk

  15. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @ac
    David Thompson send you back ,without, programing and rebooting you
    he still have lots of $$$$ money he thief from CLICO, but he must think , by now, that you are a LOST CAUSE can NOT, be repaired

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @Warinka

    They are just partisans. What John Williams said was that the issue of the economy was more dire than the government was prepared to deal with it. For selfish reasons attributed to winning an election corrective steps were delayed.

  17. ac Avatar
    ac

    and again i asked why have john BOY never suggest or decry those in the PRIVATE SECTOR that owes billions of dollars to govt n,,isn;t that money that could help with some of the finances some of which is part and parcel accumulative debt,, he seems to have suggestive thinking only when it applies to those without financial clout,,,,,,,that negro ought to be told that he owes the taxpayers of barbados an explanation and an apology for not holding his sector feet to the fire by allowing and bypassing such actions monies owed to govr furthemore never asking them to give accountability,,, warinka i suspect you are one of those frauds,,and the truth hurt

  18. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ David

    They could never have been any measures. The only questions was always “when”. When the Ponzi scheme of Keynesian economics will come crashing down.

    Otherwise you talk about poverty. The poverty in Barbados goes beyond mere economics and a mal-distribution of incomes and wealth. .

  19. Warinka Avatar
    Warinka

    One gets the feeling that PM does not appreciate that his house is about to implode.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Warinka

    Implode how? Not according to Wickham and Bell or are they goading?

  21. Warinka Avatar
    Warinka

    They have a job to do if they are to achieve the objective

  22. ac Avatar
    ac

    “pick of the day” trash talk by warinka about DLP imploding….boy u really taking a fart to blow down high wind ..uh must be crazy,,,,i know estwick gotta to be laughing at the likes of u and the other BLP brigade,, Implosion not gonna happen tek it from me ,,,,,,,now go see if u can convince some of uh big up friends to pay the govt what they hope and stop pissing all over poor people repeating the same crap about putting people out of work earlier, the pm is a human and he understood the reality . people like u and John Boy Williams got wunna bread cover on both sides so don;t understand emotional and financial pain……brownnose.

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    Didn’t you say that this government would not be sending home workers?

    Did you also say this government scoffs privatization? Well guess what is going to happen next.

    There is no confidence in this government. The private sector has no confidence and they will not invest.

  24. Mark fenty Avatar
    Mark fenty

    Watchman, you ought not concern yourself with my moral – outlook because I am entitled to express it in whatever manner I so chose. And I only hope your cognizant of the fact Watchman…. that one’s moral – outlook changes from time to time? unless you’re one of those self – righteous “(———-dickholes——-)” who sees everything through an infinitesmal set of twisted values? You’re certainly in no position to unilaterally, espouse what standard of moral directionality one should or shouldn’t advance. Watchman, you’re assuming a title that is too big for the chemical soup which circulates in that small brain of yours.

  25. ac Avatar
    ac

    u think the people gonna forget that the BLP were the cheerleaders and architects laying the foundations and giving instructions six years ago to have people thrown out on the street,, now talking with fork tongued and sympathetic hypocrisy….. bajans not fool, and JOHn boy Williams with his arrogance on the day when govt is stressed at having to make that painful decisions of sending home workers couldn;t help but skin he white booty at these workers , not even a word of sympathy and this egotistical jack rabbit was head of a economic organization that was “supposed ” to be neutral .. wuh dam wid friends like him who need enemies, guh long JOHN You won’t be miss amongst the poor and lowly.,

  26. David Avatar
    David

    Who do you think the 3000 to be sent home along with the 392 from drainage going to be voting for next time around?

  27. ac Avatar
    ac

    yeah David i said that and do i regret saying that Hell NO! the time was not six years ago ,, and repeating the same shit for six years would have serve no purpose,, the govt hold strain until it could do no more, do i feel good about the lay offs Hell NO,, however i did my part by not screaming fear and insecurity in the hearts of these people for six years unlike those who did the opposite,… Hell Yes i feel dam good by the methods and comments i made in supporting No lay offs when the govt said so., would i say and do the same again under the same circumstances HELL YES cause it serve a good purpose,,

  28. George C. Brathwaite Avatar
    George C. Brathwaite

    @ David,

    Let us say hopefully a majority will vote for the BLP. My mind tells me that apathy will cause many more to stay home than usual unless the Bees can inspire while the DEMS go and consider why their leadership failed to listen or act in the peoples’ interests.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Whatever happens ac it will be fun to observe the DLP managing a mess which they ignored in order to win an election. This is where Estwick loses credibilty, he went along with it.

  30. David Avatar
    David

    @George

    Therein lies the rub. That 40% currently disengaged from the system will not get smaller. And this is the problem which our governence system faces which discourages good citizens to serve. A look at the BLP slate of candidates reveals the same old same old. Jesus!

  31. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @David | February 1, 2014 at 7:39 AM |

    Most of them will vote BLP because unlike Canada there is no safety net with unemployment insurance and free retraining programs.
    They will blame the DLP for their demise.

    The next election will likely be won by the BLP because they will have the most money to spend on corned beef an biscuits (and fridges, stoves and big screen Tvs)
    The masses want to go back to seeing nuff new bimmers an benzes on the road even though they will not be driving them.

  32. Mark fenty Avatar
    Mark fenty

    Listen! We all have agreed that there’s obviously enough blame to go around the entire island of Barbados. But blaming Tom, Dick, and Harry can do little to advance a social debate that has obviously been interlaced with language which I could only term as distasteful. We ought and must focus our debate on constructive as well as well thoughtout solutions to this rather unprecedented economic happenstance, here in the tiny island of Barbados.

  33. ac Avatar
    ac

    look David belive it or not the possibility that if the economy recovers any thing is possible,,,but do not underestimate the psychology under this decision… one of which the govt supported these unemployed people under strenuous circumstances when others were asking to have them thrown overboard,,now the question to U would would U sail with a CAPTAIN WHOSE first decision…was to feed u to the Sharks when the boat was sinking without first looking for alternatives to keep u alive,,that is the dilemma the BLP face going into the next election no it is not going to be an easy election win for the BLP because they have thrown a card one of insensitivity on the table ,,one that people cannot relate,,,, Barbados is more than an economy it also a society,,,and in a society when one hurt all hurts,,throwing people overboard should have been the last option and the govt did so in a most demonstrative way and the employees would not forget,,

  34. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    The sad thing is that after six years the masses remain in the same state. We have not learned. We have not shown any ability to be intelligent. We seem forever hooked on the koolaid, unable to break free.

  35. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    David politics in Barbados is not about serving.

    It is about power and for most the opportunity to hob nob with the upper class and the rich and famous.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    But we have reached a point where there are no winners. The Titanic is going down.

  37. George C. Brathwaite Avatar
    George C. Brathwaite

    @ Mark Fenty

    Perhaps you are right that the focus should be on ‘constructive’ discourse and ‘solutions’ but therein lies the problem. We are actually constructing, day in and day out, bigger problems that people seem to want to close their eyes to and hope that the issues go away. Quite positively, we need political forthrightness and the will to do things. We should be always putting the people first. The political party or its supporters cannot be the first order of business. Talk about the negatives and positives of the society and economy are empty unless the necessary political decisions are part of the solution.

  38. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ David | February 1, 2014 at 7:39 AM |

    Aren’t you inadvertently underestimating the magnitude of the possible job losses (both from the public sector and the symbiotic private sector) that will ensue from the fiscal quagmire Barbados is in?
    The 3,400 odd workers to be sent packing during the current phase of “economic restructuring” (to use the PM’s euphemism) do not include the many to follow from the merging, consolidating or elimination of the many departments, divisions and statutory corporations and bodies both the MoF and PM have promised.
    We trust the Central Revenue Authority will be part of this grandiose plan and indeed can meet the April 01 deadline as promised by the MoF. The question is which April fool’s day is he committed to?

    You can bet the net loss of jobs resulting from this ‘massively implementable divestment/privatization/closing down project will have significant spillovers to the private sector whose core mandate of importing and selling would be tremendously affected by the associated steep drop in demand for consumer goods and services.

  39. Mark fenty Avatar
    Mark fenty

    Hants, it is an useless endeavor to use the tactic of blame, in an effort to gain points on a blog which have been designed with that specific purpose in mind Sir.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    Six years late we have people offering the position that Errol Barrow’s party is for poor people when the party is comprised of different players today. Ironically the same party is sending home poor peoplen the very people they promised a few months ago they jobs are safe because the economy is stable. And we talk about social contract? BU will be observing the national discourse very closely. A pack of hypocrites and liars!

  41. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Not underestimating one thing.

  42. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    David the problems Barbados now faces is no political party had the vision to diversity the economy and plan for survival when the world economy is in recession.

    As great as all the former PMs were they all relied on Sugar,Tourism and the spending by civil servants to be the backbone of the economy.

    Whichever party wins the next election should focus on diversifying the economy. Yes keep supporting tourism and Financial services and Sugar but we need more baskets with more eggs.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    And are we hearing this conversation from the government in waiting? Hell no!

  44. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    David wrote “The Titanic is going down”

    Well David I am in trouble because I have more “assets” in Barbados than in Canada.
    Fortunately I can continue to live in Canada and may have to live here until I get planted..

    I am over 60 and am less concerned for myself than for those on the Titanic

  45. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Some are not on the Titanic, we will rebuild.

  46. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | February 1, 2014 at 7:46 AM |
    “…Hell Yes i feel dam good by the methods and comments i made in supporting No lay offs when the govt said so., would i say and do the same again under the same circumstances HELL YES cause it serve a good purpose..”

    Ac now you have come to grips with the inevitable reality of the “layoffs” are you prepared to spare yourself the ignominy about to descend on you as the DLP administration embarks on it next phase of disingenuous breach of faith and contract with the people especially suckers like you?

    Are you prepared to give your late but grudging support to the pending privatization programme?
    Or are you going to continue to be stubborn in your ways and cuss the miller to high heavens for exposing the Fumbler as a stranger to the truth and a most insincere untrustworthy peddler of deceit when he is forced to back down from his anti-privatization stance the same way he has done with university education and layoffs?

    But what we expect from an “ac” (an adrift cat) who would continue to follow a fumbling blind man around a dark room looking for a black bald-pooch cat which has fallen into an economic cesspit full of financial shit accumulated over the years and about to hit the fan?

    PS: You should have listened to Ryan Straughn the genuine rat catcher instead of those three blind mice Worrell, Sinkliar, and Sir Frank who has conveniently left the scene of the battle and reticently retired to his rat hole.

  47. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Hants | February 1, 2014 at 8:16 AM |
    “Whichever party wins the next election should focus on diversifying the economy. Yes keep supporting tourism and Financial services and Sugar but we need more baskets with more eggs.”

    Care to offer any specific alternatives to “tourism and Financial services and Sugar”?
    Here is one that can be put on the table that can replace sugar cane and attract visitors to a possible tourism niche market.
    What about the cultivation, processing and exporting of hemp and its by-products?

  48. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    “Some are not on the Titanic, we will rebuild”

    Wait Skippa!
    Dat is you up front there in Bushie’s lifeboat wid the laptop? 🙂

  49. David Avatar
    David

    BT the BU family has been doing what good families do, protect the foal.

  50. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ David
    Now you going and get Enuff and Miller vexed with that kinda talk….
    Dem fellows don’t believe in no family thing yuh! Them boys are CSME boys … Open the doors and let all and sundry in….
    What protect what family what?!?

    Well Bushie tired warning wunna…. Since BU started ….
    Sorry for all those virgins who don’t have oil in their lamps….
    …cause LEHMUHTELLYUH …the hour is near…

    Um would be nice to hear MME’s take now …ya think…?

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