Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler suggested during the 2014 Estimates Debate that Opposition Leader Mia Mottley has allowed her political soul to be host for “two political germs”. Sinckler has become known for his rumshop political lexicon but did he go too far or should his vitriol be regarded as part of the cut and thrust of politics?
Chris Sinckler:Political Germs Hosted by Queen Bee
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188 responses to “Chris Sinckler:Political Germs Hosted by Queen Bee”
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Sinckler is just a foul mouth little boy who has found himself in high office. You must realise that the office does not make the man. Whatever political heights he attains, he will remain a victim of his upbringing. Always remember, if you put a pig in a palace, you do not make the pig a king: you get a shitty palace.
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I hope no one votes here. Theatrics should be ignored by otherwise intelligent people
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“I hope no one votes here. Theatrics should be ignored by otherwise intelligent people”
I need to know what you really mean by theatrics before I can adequately respond. -
[…] David Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler suggested during the 2014 Estimates Debate that Opposition […]
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Caswell Franklyn, ya shoite-hound, you want to talk about somebody upbringing though, that’s why a crab of your ilk will always remain at the bottom of the barrel, beneath the detrius
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Caswell,
You are like a magnet…………..as soon as you speak, the pitbulls come out to attack. LOL
By the way, anyone of substance and class would ignore the down right mean spirited Stinkliar and his side kick Donville Inniss. I look forward to the day when these two no longer grace the halls of our Parliament.
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Difficult post this……
Everybody is right.
Those ARE political germs of the parasite class
…..and Caswell is also right….as is Baffy…What a thing……
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The average voter is not aware of the political relationships and manipulations at play. Yet they are expected to vote intelligently.
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Caswell
Good acts does not make a good man but a good man does good acts. Because moral nature is more radical than moral action. In conclusion: one should not judge a man’s actions before he examines his motives.
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Caswell,
Consciously or subsciously, we all are victims of our own upbringing whether we want to accept it or not. As Barbadians we’re enveloped in a culture which validates one’s sense of self – worth on the basis of: school of national reputation, esoteric- association and occupation- specialization. -
when one hears the blp yardfowls cackling about disrespect and moral values,,they should look back at their past leadership record and the many verbal abuse and political insults and assaults OSA unleashed on his own party members and any or all who dare chose to question,,,,,,,,he who is without sin…need i say no more…….there is enough truth in what sinckler said ,,,,,,time to unearthed and reveal those who would dare trade barbados integrity and domicile for thirty pieces of silver,,,,,,,,,,
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The trust of this post is to highlight how we have people in the shadows who manipulate the politicians we are willing to die for.This comment is directed at yardfowls everywhere.
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It has all become sadly, boring and at the same time disrespectful to the people of Barbados who placed these characters in high position…when will we hear and be able to blog about a most intelligent debate between our two political parties – one that removed itself from their particular egos, their opening of mouth before putting brain in gear, getting on with the real work entrusted to them.
When will we finally hear that they have all made mistakes and now having positioned Barbados at the bottom of the ladder with them, that they also have had enough and will now do positive things so that we can all climb back together to the top.
Instead, we have people out of jobs, crime rising daily, government screaming obscenities, opposition tied to being opposition and not heard, just lambasted at every second.
We have Ministers who one minute tell us there is no money, then announce a multi-million dollar scheme of nothingness or of firing top-dogs because they cannot pay their salaries and then announcing instead we shall no longer have one inefficient Board, but two inefficient Boards to try and bring in visitors. Wake up ‘dopie’s, you do not bring in more tourists by simply creating two BTAs – what you do is to make the one you have more efficient – get rid of the political hounds you have put there yes, the ones who would not know what a visitors wants even if that visitors screams it from the top of the coconut trees or even directly into their faces and who use their political appointments to give work to other political appointees forgetting the real reason they were employed in the first place. Sorry. I forgot they are doing what they were employed to do in the first place. So let me repeat. Do what they are supposed to do. Work..
Time to get people who understand what is required to bring our coffers back to the level where everything works again – forget the colour of skin that we also seem to love to blame on everything – see Barbados as an island overflowing with human beings not ‘colours of human beings’, with many very intelligent, very creative people who really love their rock and have good ideas, good scruples, good ethics – a background of efficiency that they would be happy to use if only, if only, they were chosen for the hallowed halls of many Ministries directly involved in tourism (and that is all of them) instead of a bunch of political idiots who just continue making our Parliament and thereby our people, shame – appealing to the masses, of course, who have been conditioned to love nothing better than rumshop dirty banter. And if this is not possible, meaning the use of brain matter to work diligently and putting Barbados back on the map, then get rid of yourselves making room for those who can.
I know for you, dear everyone in Parliament, it is a matter of money, mortgages, children who have tasted the good life of parties and designer clothes and the best schools and wives who pompasette under pretty hats. Well then, pay yourselves out, give each other a couple million more and get the hell out allowing those who can, to save this beautiful island that you are fast on making a mess of. No, that you have already created into a mess. Best we the people suffer the loss of some more millions but make it up with brain matter – in the end we will all be the better for it. Believe it when it is said Barbados has gone down. Very down. You know it. The people know it. You are all guilty. What happens to guilty people? Guess.
The time is passing for us to wake up, if we continue in this political slumber, we may soon never come out of this nightmare we are in.
Or instead we can just do what we are doing now. Go to the next rumshop, drink heavily, talk more shite and continue. It is exhausting even trying to make sense of it all.
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Haha what a ting! Clearly the “germs” are epidemic in nature: Avinash had a five year consultancy to restart Four Seasons with Sinckler as Minister of Finance; Bizzy admitted that after receiving a call from Maloney at Preconco he contacted Butch who then received a 40 year tax concession from again the Minister of Finance; and Hartley Henry got Sinckler the position of MoF. Therefore to vote would really be yardfowlish behaviour…dwl.
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The two political germs of which Sinckler spoke are Hartley Henry and Reudon Eversley
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@enuff
You get it.
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Bush Tea….
Agree with you 100%…and to the list I would add ‘Dompey is right and David is right’. Now we need Miller on ‘we expect too much of those in charge of us’…and he would be right too.
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Oh and sorry…now that I’ve read him again…’and So Chuped is right’.
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And now that I’ve read it all again…..’Dompey’s first post is so very profound and so very right’.
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@ So chuped
Brilliant…cuts like a hot knife thru the layered fat of low level intelligence that parades for leadership in the political circle but equally applicable to the other social partners and some local NGO s
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Why do we as a society tolerate the abusive, obscene, vulgar, plain brain dead as our leaders. Afterall, these are the people who define our society.
The people who vote for such people must also take some of the blame. -
Ac said:
“,time to unearthed and reveal those who would dare trade barbados integrity and domicile for thirty pieces of silver”Ac……..I could not agree more, so now is the perfect time to tell the DLP/BLP ministers, senators, opposition members TO STOP TAKING MONEY IN THE FORM OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS FROM THE LIKES OF BIZZY, COW, JADA, SIMPSON, SEALE, PARRIS, HARRIS, BAYLEY et al….that’s the 30 pieces of silver to sell out their own people We can now all agree that these business people are all germs and parasites on the people of Barbados, never mind the job creation, any ass can do that, create jobs for other people, it’s just that these particular asses that comprise the DLP/BLP are some lazy asses.
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@Well Well
You touch on an important point which is campaign financing. Should the government create x dollars to fund party campaigns and remove the influence of deep pockets? These are the issues yardfowls will never address.
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Isn’t taking money for a general election support a criminal offence? How about a law limiting individual contributions to, say, $5000 and no corporate contributions.
Any candidate found guilty of accepting more than the prescribed limit would get a mandatory six month sentence and barred from standing as a candidate for five years.
Anyone individual convicted of giving more then the legal limit would face a mandatory five year sentence.
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On the issue of ‘integrity’ which H Austin has re-discovered, I wonder what nerd gave Dompey’s first post a negative vote. It was not political but expressed a philosophical truth. What was there to be negative about? The vote was dishonest and is a paradigm of so much which goes on here where mouthing is cheap. This place is a window to the world. Why do we expect more of those who govern us than we expect of ourselves?
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@Hal
The candidates are suppose to spend x dollars per voter but it does not prevent coporates from generously filling to the party coffers.
At the mention of governance and democracy, it is interesting the NUPW was UNABLE to register 50 members yesterday which resulted in general conference meeting having to be postponed. Bear in mind the NUPW is stated to have 10,000 members. Also bear in mind government workers are being sent home.
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@ David
Plse send a food parcel to Robert Ross. On the NUPW, if a union which claims to represent public sector workers, 3000 of whom face redundancy, cannot attend a meeting on a Saturday, a non-working day for most, it says everything you want to know about the union and its members.
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David…….that’s the problem, when the politicians take campaign funds from deep pockets, they ultimately find themselves in debt and owing huge favors out of the taxpayer”s purse to these parasites…….i don’t often like to refer to US politics but there is a very valid reason why there are campaign laws in place so that parasites do not take advantage when they have a firm grip on politicians through the disadvantage of accepting huge sums of cash in campaign funds, case in point Parris giving 10 million of Clico policy holders money to Thompson in the ’08 elections, there was no regulation and the taxpayers had to pay it back, let’s hope it went back to Clico’s coffers and not the player’s pockets.
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Ah Mr Integrity…here you are…now would you like to explain why you repeatedly refer to the country of origin of the DPP? Why you allowed a blogger to describe you as “the chief editor of the FT” without correcting him. Why you didn’t check out the Notting Hill address. Why, as David has just demonstrated, you know squat about legal matters and yet pretend you do. Whether you think you have the qualities to run for office. Whether you believe you have ever had an original thought. Whether it was you who gave Dompey the negative vote. Oh and whether it is really true that you have no discernible neck so that your brain actually bulges through your belly. YOU don’t need food parcels that’s for sure.
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If politicians are so corrupt they accept largesse from equally corrupt business people, why do we expect them to behave ethically when in office?
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It is why when Albert Branford disagrees with Caswells reference to our system of government being a parody of the Westminster system he is being disingenuous,
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@ Robert Ross
Plse promise me you have had something to eat today? The DPP is Guyanese, is that not a fact? I cannot control what bloggers say so am not in the business of correcting them when wrong? I do not know what Notting Hill address you are going on about, in any case, I am not a postman.
I am not a lawyer, which anyone who can read basic English would have noticed I have said on numerous occasions.
I have no original thoughts; I have no political ambitions, in Barbados or elsewhere; I have a neck like Mike Tyson; yes, my neck protrudes through my belly.
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Poor fella……you DO suffer. You are so brave to live with all that and I do admire you for it. BUT can we now assume that whatever your other failings, which you honestly accept, you will no longer refer to the country of origin of the DPP other than when necessary for the purposes of the discussion? If so, there is hope for you and the word ‘integrity’ from your lips might just get beyond the ‘I’.
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I can promise that every time \I refer to the DPP I shall describe him as Guyanese, or Guyana-born. As to his competence I leave that to you lawyers.
Have you eaten yet Robert? -
res ipsa…….don’t pass ‘Go’.
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Again with the insults Chris? I mean for him to insult anybody right now is like a donkey looking at his reflection in a pool and telling it “boy you real real stupid boy!!!!!!!!”. I mean if Chris was “saying something” as a MOF People might pay him some mind but all Chris is is the biggest bag of hot air in this country right now!!!! I mean Chris probably thought that because his Ministry has some “weight” his insults might hit people like big rocks, but the reality is the only weight he has is that across his guts and his insults hitting like paper balls!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously Chris, this is the best you can offer to this country?. The Electorate suffering man we want to hear and see something meaningful from you, your ministry and the DLP by extension. People seriously care what germs he talking bout? Well let me inform Chris that the electorate regard him and Fumble as this biggest PESTS in gov’t. If I was to give some advise to Chris it would be to stop insulting people especially those of the “fairer sex” and resign from the MOF, at least he would still continue to have a life in politics with SOME of his dignity intact!!!!
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Speaking about Parris and millions, i understand he got a draft from the bank for his millions, was it the same campaign funds millions? and is unable to cash it at any bank in Barbados……my, my……..that is what happens when there is no campaign finance laws or regulations in place for politicians and their political financiers.
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Hal Austin | March 30, 2014 at 9:15 AM | wrote”The people who vote for such people must also take some of the blame.”
The people must take all the blame because “supposedly “there are no “good, honest, decent” people among them who are willing to offer themselves as candidates to become members of parliament.
Not a single “prominent” BU blogger is prepared to run for office. You are content to write shiite on BU and complain ad nauseum but sit back and allow others to govern Barbados.
I remain a supporter of the DLP who will remain in the “freezer” in a glass house and continue pelting bout big rocks..
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Gov’t pays 96 grand to public relations consultant
Dominica News Online – Thursday, March 27th, 2014 at 2:03 PM
Jong has a $96,000 one-year contract with the government of Dominica. Photo: stkittsobserver.com
The government of Dominica is paying some $96,000 for a one-year contract to a consultant who will be rendering ‘Public Relations and Information Management Services’, a document obtained by Dominica News Online has revealed.
The agreement between Charles Jong and the government of Dominica is in effect from November 1, 2013 to October 31, 2014.
According to the document Jong is “to coordinate the activities leading to the implementation of an Information Management System of which the Consultant has represented that he has the requisite professional skills and competencies and the technical resources to render efficiently the services required on the terms set out in this Agreement.”
“The Government agrees to pay the Consultant the total contract price of Eastern Caribbean dollars $96,000.00 payable in twelve (12) monthly payments in arrears at the rate of $8,000,” the document reads.
The contract was signed by Steve Ferrol, secretary of the cabinet, on behalf of the government and Jong.
The document put to rest the question of who actually pays Jong and who he was working for.
Recently Jong was the center of drama in parliament between MP for Marigot, Edison James and speaker of the house, Alix Boyd-Knights, after he was described as a “stranger in the house.”
James demanded to know who he was and eventually Boyd-Knights stated he worked with GIS and ruled that the matter be put to rest.
When James asked for more information, the speaker said her ruling was final.
When contacted Jong said he was not prepared to comment on parliamentary proceedings since he is not a member of the house.
A public profile on website, Linkedin.com, describes him as a Communications Consultant for Government of Dominica, a Marketing and Communications Consultant for the Barbados Labour Party, a Committee Member at St. Kitts Music Festival Marketing Committee and a Communications Consultant at Office of the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis.
The site also said he “has worked and continues to work in a significant number of election campaigns in the English speaking Caribbean (St. Kitts, Nevis, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent, Barbados, Cayman Islands).”
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Peter Wickam is a germs too.
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@HAnts
It is not that simple. There is a party machinery which has to be built and or a concerted strategy for likeminded people to infiltrate the two obsolete party systems and promote change. Running as a candidate is an end result years later.
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Political Consulting and lobbying is a growing industry in the Caribbean.
I should offer myself as a Fishing Consultant to the GOB given my extensive experience fishing in Barbados and Canada.
I could then hire Bushie as a specialist consultant on catching crustaceons in the rivers running through the bush and gullies.
I could even hire David to consult on creating and running a blog on Fishing.lol
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David I know It is not that simple but we should be concerned that with two functioning political parties in Barbados we still can’t find the “right” people.
The fundamental problem is that Barbados is small and incestuous.
Black people in Barbados are not hostile by nature and a revolution is just not going to happen.Politics in Barbados will not change in the foreseeable future. “we like it so”
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Ross sharing licks .. ha ha ha ha
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@David “we have people in the shadows who manipulate the politicians we are willing to die for”
CORRECTION: Politicians permit themselves to be manipulated
Most of us are not willing to die for any politician. Actually we are not willing to die for Barbados either.
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What is Avinash Persaud and his wife still doing ’bout in we country?
What have they ever done for us?
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Who de hell is Charles Jong? He eva pay any taxes ’bout hea”?
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@enuff “Butch who then received a 40 year tax concession from again the Minister of Finance”
WTF does Butch need a 40 year tax concession? And WTF did Minister Sinkler give it to him?
Don’t we understand that both Butch and the MOF will be dead, dead, dead long, long before 2054.
I will be too.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@ NEW ELECTIONS March 30, 2014 at 8:30 AM ” The two political germs of which Sinckler spoke are Hartley Henry and Reudon Eversley”
So??
They are no more germy that the equivalent DPL yard fouls.
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is it me or is it some malfunction in my computer ….some how on numerous occasion….i find that the” rate voting” mechanism which is credited to rate a comment is turned off,,, kinda suspicious also a under handing practice which lacks the very transparency one which stands high on the totem pole of barbados underground ….now it seems more likely than not ….he riggges the rating and voting process by locking out some bloggers who would like to participate in the rating process ,,shame on u DAVID,,,,,,,,shame on you,,,, for the past few weeks i have monitored this child’s play designed to pull or sway public opinion in favour of the BLP yardfowls with a rigged voting system one which can be easily interpreted as one of being supportive of one partry (BLP} and shutting out bloggers whose vote may be in dissent while at the same time (also) denying same process and even handiness to the DLP bloggers who might support each others comments SHAME ON YOU DAVID BU… transparency my foot i have the evidence to prove .
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