Submitted by Beresford
Dennis Clarke, NUPW General Secretary (l) Walter Maloney, President (r) …NUPW praised fulsomely by the Prime Minister …
Un-godly. Ungracious. Unfair. Frightening.
Mia Mottley’s unapologetic and piercing summing up of the political anarchy, system disorder and personal degradation engulfing Barbadians, especially in the public sector, as Government continues its job cuts could not be more appropriate.
Not lost was the symbolism of her comments and the stance of the BLP, marking the Party’s 76th anniversary as its founding as Barbados first political organisation, which fell on Monday, the date set for the DLP to conclude its ravishing of the public sector.
History will record that as the DLP razed the economic base and social planks of the country, and betrayal after betrayal led the people to the abyss, and appeasers and DLP cliques forged alliances to excuse the violent abuse of country and citizens, the BLP spoke clearly to the whittling away of economic gains, conventions and laws; exposed Government’s sand-based prescriptions, contradictions and sheer nonsense, and stood unequivocally with those being stripped of their businesses, their jobs, the services and compensation which they are due on the back of massive tax impositions and their dignity.
The ideals and imperatives that led to the founding of the party in the first place as an institution to speak for the voiceless, stand against exploitation and what was simply wrong have been held firm and could not be needed than now.
There is no other way – except any number of condemnatory terms – to characterise the DLP Government’s wanton destruction of lives and storm of confusion resulting from the improper and, in fact, lawless terminations. The Government had time to execute its cuts in a much more palatable fashion and it was repeatedly warned of the consequences of its action and approach. The widespread anguished cries now reverberating through the land on the job cuts scream that the Government’s approach is inhumane, just wrong.
That the jobs cuts will hardly have an impact on the DLP’s own stated targets provides a backdrop of mockery that impales the Government on a spear of “don’t carishness” driven by numbers only, as Prime Minister Stuart declared, without a care to the suffering of citizens.
The cries for help increase amidst studied indifference and now strange, desperate statements from union leaders who steadfastly refuse to take any action against the Government, and now stand condemned by their inaction and praise from the same Government that, it is belatedly discovered, is “brutalising” workers.
In this topsy-turvy Barbados, where with a few salutary exceptions no one speaks out, it’s every man for himself, and deceitfulness now reigns, the question is, after years of warnings, who is fooling who?
The putrid disarray of just the last week alone this is but a small sample of the torture and torment unleashed by the DLP and the incomprehensible pompasetting in certain quarters.
The Government, the Prime Minister himself, repeatedly staked everything on no job cuts. Cuts now abound. No one knows how many people have been terminated – and how many to come.
Staff of the BTA learn of their terminations in the media – and these are not in the 3000; just as the 390 from Drainage are not.
Personal woes unfolded as workers got physically sick in the mayhem of the Barbados Revenue Authority. People locked out of offices! In Barbados! In 2014!
The same NUPW praised fulsomely by the Prime Minister for its support has said it still has not received any lists as promised or had any response to its proposals – all cited as reasons for its inaction on behalf of its workers. The NUPW now condemns the DLP’s action as “treating people like cattle”, “in the worst possible way”, ” wrong”, “downright cruel and unreasonable”, “inhumane”, “chaotic” and “sometimes a fiasco”.
Well thank you, NUPW!
But the NUPW still aint doing nothing!
People working for years in established posts have to revert, against the law, which states they should be appointed after acting in an established post for three years. The Government, which brought in the Employment Rights Act is now transgressing its own law.
The loss in income is wreaking havoc with people’s lives, suddenly faced with great reductions in salaries, rising taxes and the same money commitments.
Fifty-eight (58) workers at the Beautify Barbados programme sent home – 42 on holiday terminated by letters in the mail. No monies paid. All against a storyline that a new contract for the work has been given to a rich individual.
There’s the instance of the young lady who has been working for years and was given a job letter to start a new assignment on Monday, 31 March and while on the job, on the first day, given another letter abolishing the position.
The picking and choosing continues – the NUPW got offers for 7 (wow!) – to the new Barbados Revenue Authority. Like the few taken back at Transport Board and the political interference and juggling across the board. Talk about transparency!
Dennis Lowe, he of the Drainage Unit, grandstands that anyone sent home under him will be treated well. “Well” means the 390 in NEEP sent home on the last day of last year without a moment’s notice, taken and given hamcutters and soup, and up to a week ago not a cent from Government. This is the same Minister in charge of Beautify Barbados and talking about not supporting the tenet of last in first out. Of course not -the last in would be his people!
UWI announced the DLP instituted fees. From $7 000 to $18 000. There goes the dreams of children of parents sent home.
No facilities, as again promised, have been put in place for students to borrow money as promised. Meanwhile the DLP owes UWI $135 million, admissions down and students are already dropping out in a situation described as “catastrophic”.
Gasoline goes up by 24 cents a litre – almost $1 a gallon more – and Jones floats a new tax, another $80 million. A $270 million sugar factory for less than 20 000 tonnes of canes and the Minister does not meet with farmers despite a year of requests. The list of out of stock drugs moves from 40 to 76. White Hill and Mt. All communities continue their disappearing act down hillsides while a Government does nothing. And like so much else, the Sayes Court road, all 1000 metres of it, started in a huff to impress for elections remains a cavernous health hazard, lies abandoned for months.
There is no end to the madness and farce.
The correctness of Mia’s and the BLP’s actions, is the ongoing confirmation that the DLP is mind-boggling in its tenacity, exultant even, to be adrift and has absolutely no intention of changing course.
The ultimate burden of proof is the woeful cries of the people of Barbados for decent treatment and a change to their circumstances and the hourly reports of a country coming apart at the seams.
Dale Marshall’s offer of his law firm’s competence to represent workers is an example of the BLP’s unflinching position to support the people of Barbados.
The cries of the unfortunate and those being unfaired must be heeded.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The BLP’s annual Family Day & Picnic will be held on National Heroes Day, Monday April 28, 2014, at the East Coast Road, Ermie Bourne Highway, St. Andrew.
David can you ask Beresford to send this in again but this time in English.
Thanks.
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@Beresford “Dale Marshall’s offer of his law firm’s competence to represent workers is an example of the BLP’s unflinching position to support the people of Barbados.”
Dale you write this?
This is how they taught you to write at Harrison College?
Stupseee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dale Marshall’s offer of his law firm’s competence to represent workers is an example of the BLP’s unflinching position to support the people of Barbados
Nice to see Dale offering his services Pro bono ……wait a minute am I assuming too much?
It would have to be pro bono, causin’ lawyers in Barbados are not allowed to advertise.
Dale Marshall’s another lawyer SPY , looking to get in side information and then set you up for a Fall. Trust None of them , You can do for self with out cost, With same or better results,
Un-godly. Ungracious. Unfair. Frightening.
Mia Mottley’s unapologetic and piercing summing up of the political anarchy, system disorder and personal degradation engulfing Barbadians, especially in the public sector, as Government continues its job cuts could not be more appropriate.@
Oh Please MIA , You and Owen set up this Hire for Votes and now your PONZI under attack , You want to act surprised , You MIA and Owen is the top of reason we in this mess,
The DLP to dam greedy and crooked to tell the Nation what you all did,
For to do so will Prove PLANTATION DEEDS postings ,
“Not lost was the symbolism of her comments and the stance of the BLP, marking the party’s 75 th anniversary as its founding as Barbados’s first political organization……”
We continue to show evidence why the DLP and the BLP are two very intellectually and politically backward and discredited political disorganizations in this country that must go sooner rather than later, or be eventually driven by the broad masses and middle classes of people of Barbados from the political governmental landscape of this country.
Imagine a member of the BLP writing that the BLP is celebrating its 75 th anniversary of its founding as Barbados’s first political organization?
Could any one on BU imagine such crass ignorance?
Could any one believe this level of ineptitude?
Did that person not do a historical research on many political organizations in Barbados prior to and after -British settlement of this country to come up with the facts that the BLP was not Barbados’ first political organization, and far, far from being so, before writing such rubbish?
Even the Barbados People Progressive League was a political organization and out of which came the said ramshackled ramgoat Barbados Labour Party.
What low class ignorance indeed about the BLP being the first political organization in Barbados.
PDC
“Who Fooling Who”
Well I thinks the DLP and BLP both experts at FOOLING the stupid Bajan populace, they (populace) deserve what’s they gets.
The pot has not yet boiled over, suspect in Barbados it never will, Greeks, Cypriots, Venezuelans are all smarter, they know how to RIOT.
It seems as though a great number of Barbadians haven’t realize as of yet, that Harrison College is merely a high school. But what do I know? I am merely looking in with the foreign eyes.
@Simple
Correction, Marshall went to Waterford.
Speaking of the Drainage Workers–Isn’ t it about 13 weeks now the majority of these people who worked 5 years were sent home? Have they been paid their severance? Isn’t that the new law? Sweet talk ’bout giving people wha’ dem due and still them scrambling. Why wunna hol’ing back de people packages??? The Government, which brought in the Employment Rights Act is now transgressing de same law. DEM bastard antics! God help the fools who seek to fool themselves that DEM fooling others!!! The Unions is bear shite and all DEM want hosing down with nuff shit! Crime is on it’s way UP! I gine Jamaica and learn how to live in sufferation–cuzz right now when I look pon Bim gullyside I ent see nuffin to smile bout!
@ Anyone who knows
Is Walter Maloney a member of the DLP?
@DUMPEY (DUPPY)
“It seems as though a great number of Barbadians haven’t realize as of yet, that Harrison College is merely a high school. But what do I know? I am merely looking in with the foreign eyes”.
Isn’t it better for HC to be a high school than a low one?
We now know why there was the emergency cabinet meeting?
Tony Best is reporting on the fronpage today that Moody’s is believe despite the tough measures implemented by government we will see decline.
Lharp2014
I am sorry sir. I should have made is a little simpler for you. The American high school is the Barbadian equivalent of a secondary school.
Duppy, it doesnot seem that you went to either.
Lincoln Carrington Harper
Well, Mr. Harper, the conclusion that you have arrived at makes the situation there in Barbados worse than I first thought. Because if you have man who hasn’t attended neither high school nor secondary school as your analysis seems to suggest. But yet he is quite capable of discoursing at a level slightly above the average Harrison College gentleman and especially in the critical thinking area. Then most definitely Mr
Harper, we’re looking at failed school system in the infinitesimal nation of Barbados. But, I am patiently, awaiting your feedback on this one because it appears as though the situation there in Barbados has reached crisis level brother.
Lincoln Carrington Harper
But we have to keep on hoping against hope Mr. Harper. The adulation for those academic principles that produced the productive school system ought to be sought after at all cost. And it ought to be done for the succeeding generations of Barbadians, if there’s to be any hope for future progress. But, I gine keep my fingers crossed though because alone as we have Bush Tea with his Ten – Point Renewal Plan and Georgie Porgie with his Scientific – Brain, we gine be alright brother. Think so!
@Dompey et al
Please leave HC out of any Political Discussion as we should ALL appreciate that Politics is a very excellent example as to how the erstwhile highly educated are transformed in to bloody Idiots by their advent into Politics. Examples abound in the USA eg Bush, Clinton (not”understanding” the definition of infidelity), Gore just to mention a few.
Please refrain from comparing HC to any average high school in the US. The average US High School provides very questionable education quality. It is indeed a pity that such a rich country has a very poor record in every subject tested Internationally usually celebrating if they rank higher than the normal 15th -25th. Likewise in Health Care SAD!
Moneybrain
You ought to know that the American school system does not operate as a collective organism, as it does in Barbados.
The town within each state is directly responsible for the education of the children, who resides within that confined locality.
And what is so sad about this situation is that ,the richer the district the better your child education.
And the only was the federal government can exercise any authority over the school system in Amerca, is through funding. The [No Child Left Behind] was one such program implemented by the Bush Administration. An impractical program by any standard of judgment because if a child within a specific school fails to meet the desired expectations, the entire school fails on account of this one child.
So in order to indict the entire school system here in America, it’s important that you first ascertain a basic understanding of its operation.
Money brain
So given the fractionalization that is enter laced with the educational system here in the US. I am quite sure that there are schools here that performs above as well as below Harrison College.
‘The cries of the unfortunate and those being unfaired must be heeded”
History will not absolve the BLP for allowing interpersonal party strife to prevent them from demonstrating to the public that they were ready to re-assume the mantle of governance which would have enabled them to the same needs the party now laments.
We have been hearing more and more government minsters and others suggesting that some forces in Barbados have been desuading foreign investors from investing in Barbados.
On Sunday, 6 April 2014, Barbados Underground wrote:
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@Dompey
I know of what you say BUT the Feds should appreciate that Education is critical to continued success as a Nation. The Feds should have brought people like Gates and Ellison (top computer software guys) together with excellent Educators to develop software that can be used on PCs, cell phones etc to ensure top flight access to all. Hiding behind the current system FAILURE does not impress anyone with any brains or with partial lobotomy.
Clever, patriotic Leaders think about what is wrong and how to solve the problems to ensure a better future for ALL. US= EPIC FAIL.
HC has many Internationally competitive graduates in spite of limited resources. In my day Textbooks had no colour illustrations, I know what the equivalent US Texts looked like. There are few Public Schools in the US that could match HC, with the exceptions being State schools for the Gifted. My nephew attended such a school in North Carolina.
@David
Foreign direct investors will come to Barbados as soon as they have confidence in the various institutions. At present, as a Barbadian, I do not have confidence in them, so why should foreigners.
Would you trust the courts? Or the finance minister? Or the central bank?
@Hal
Exactly! It is sad that our homeland, with an excellent heritage of organisation and conservative values has degenerated into a dysfunctional kleptocracy with the corrupt leading the blind. Bim is very far off course given its legacy.
@Hal
BU has been preaching that this government can implement all the economic policies they want if it is not done in a way which engenders confidence we are back to square one. The constant harangue between the private sector and government for example, the constant tension between the unions and government and the withdrawal of the BWA from the social partnership. The unflattering report from the IMF in its article consultation etc, the court system nothing more needs to be stated.
On Sunday, 6 April 2014, Barbados Underground wrote:
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@ David
Absolutely. We cannot continue to blame others. We are responsible for our own predicament.
MoneyBrain | April 6, 2014 at 9:36 AM |
Please refrain from comparing HC to any average high school in the US. The average US High School provides very questionable education quality. It is indeed a pity that such a rich country has a very poor record in every subject tested Internationally usually celebrating if they rank higher than the normal 15th -25th. Likewise in Health Care SAD!
MoneyBrain | April 6, 2014 at 1:22 PM |
There are few Public Schools in the US that could match HC,
I CONCUR MONEYBRAIN
OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS I HAVE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO TEACH JOKERS FROM THE US IN BOTH ONLINE SCENARIOS AND AT OFFSHORE MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND ARE APAULED TO SEE HOW DUMB THEY ARE COMPARED TO LOCAL STUDENTS I HAVE TAUGHT OR THE ASIAN STUDENTS
THE USA STUDENTS I HAVE TAUGHT ARE GENERALLY OF A SIMILAR CALIBRE TO THE STUDENTS I TAUGHT AT ST LEONARD’S BOYS IN 1974
GOD WAS GRACIOUS TO DELIVER ME FROM THAT ORDEAL WHEN HE PERMITTED ME TO ENTER UWI MEDICAL SCHOOL
@dompey April 6, 2014 at 4:52 AM “Because if you have man who hasn’t attended neither high school nor secondary school as your analysis seems to suggest. But yet he is quite capable of discoursing at a level slightly above the average Harrison College gentleman”
Dear dompey: You are fooling yourself.
@Georgie Porgie “AND ARE APAULED”
Correction: And am appalled…
‘Pain with no gain”.
“That’s what Barbadians seem to be facing despite government’s efforts to turn the economy around”.
‘The agency contends that Barbadians may be facing tough economic days for some time to come as they do not believe government’s fiscal consolidation measures will bring much if any immediate financial relief”.
‘The targets they have set out for themselves are fairly ambitious. That said even their target of debt to GDP is not expected to peak for a year or two and even would only start to come down very slowly. The government will remain in a very precarious position for some time to come. It’s credit quality is going to remain materially weaker than it was prior to the onset of the global financial crisis for the foreseeable future”
Excerpts from Sun on Sunday
Simple Simon | April 6, 2014 at 3:07 PM |
@Georgie Porgie “AND ARE APAULED”
Correction: And am appalled…
THANKS
@GP
Hope you are one of the seven million signed up for Obamacare?…lol
On Sunday, 6 April 2014, Barbados Underground wrote:
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NO DAVID
I WILL COME HOME FIRST
I AM COVERED THOUGH
WHY ARE YOU LETTING THIS FOOL DONKEY TAKE OVER THE BLOG SPEWING ALL HIS AMERICAN STUFF?
HE IS WORSE THAN AC & CCC COMBINED
YOU OUGHT TO BE GLAD YOU DIDNT SPEND YOUR CAREEER TEACHING AT ST LEONARD’S BOYS
@Artaxerxes | April 5, 2014 at 10:41 PM |
@ Anyone who knows
Is Walter Maloney a member of the DLP?…………………………….
Dont know, Artaxerxes, but suffice to say he is either a chairman or deputy of a constituency council and only DEMS are associated with these councils.
Georgie Porgie
Could you possibly be the calysonian Adonijah Alleyne? He taught at St Leonard’s Boys for a short stint. And it was about that time I attended that school back in 1974 and beyond . Adonijah, was also a former Harrison College boy. Now, I quite sure you’re well aware of the Headmaster Mr. Daniel? He presided over that institution when you taught there in 1974. It all come together now brother (!) It’s no why wonder you quote the pages of the Bible so lackadaisically, most Rastafarians have a tendency to.
Georgie Porgie
I almost forgot: Adonijah also taught at the university level. You said you taught school in Barbados right?
@GP
Use the scroll bar, the BU household uses it and it works!
Here is a titbit for you, who is the Anglican priesf who visited Florida recently and ask the audience for donations to help Barbados at a difficult time? He did not get one red cent from a rather unforgivinv audience. One guess the name of the Church?
David, you’re in the presence of Barbadian intellectual royalty. I met this man when he came to St. Leonard’s Boys back in 1974. In those days he wore a very large afro.
David
re who is the Anglican priesf who visited Florida recently and ask the audience for donations to help Barbados at a difficult time? He did not get one red cent from a rather unforgivinv audience. One guess the name of the Church?
I AM UNAWARE OF THIS EVENT IN FLORIDA, BUT I HEARD OF A SIMILAR THING HAPPENING IN THE BAHAMAS
DONKEY
I AM NOT ADONIJAH
PETER ALLEYNE AKA ADONIJAH WENT TO HC BUT NOT UWI MEDICAL SCHOOL. HIS BROTHER DID—SIR GAO ALLEYNE, CHANCELLOR OF THE UWI
@Dompey
GP is not Adonijah!
Adonijah is a journalist living in Bim.
GP is——–GP!
Did not expect the above to cross with GP.
The Alleyne brothers were sure gifted and Peter had much to live up to.
MoneyBrain
THEIR SISTER, CYNTHIA IS A GIFTED ACTRESS INTERALIA.
WAS MARRIED TO A DR
THINK THEIR FATHER WAS ONE OF THOSE OUTSTANDING PRIMARY SCHOOL HEADS- THINK AT HOLY TRINITY.
GEORGE ALLEYNE WAS MY PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE
PETER ALLEYNE WAS IN THE BATCH AHEAD OF ME AT HC
“the constant tension between the unions and government and the withdrawal of the BWA from the social partnership. ”
What tension? with both Unions unequivocally stating that they will not be undertaking industrial action against the Government and with Prime Minister Stuart having just recently been invited to address the Annual conference of the leading Public sector Union and publicly thanking them for their support. The withdrawal of the BWA from the Congress of Trade Unions is much ado about nothing.
@GP
You were in with Willi Bourne?
I entered in 1967 but skipped Lower First because the Mof E were/ are a pack of Jokers under Sandy who prevented me from taking Part2 of the Test in 1966 because I was only 9. I had smoked Pt 1 and they told me to take a year off and come back in 1967. Naturally that made me Lazy but I still killed it in 1967 and Tank took one look at my marks and placed me in 1st Form.
I learnt how stupid some adults were at 10 yrs old! Got in with a bad crowd in 2nd Form and took 4 yrs Off until couple months before O Levels.
MB
WILLIE BOURNE ENTERED IN 1963- YEAR AFTER ME
HE ENTERED WITH MEN LIKE NEDDY IFILL BLACK PAWN BLENMAN DARCY AND JOHN BOYCE JOHN ALBERT CASEY AIRD ATHERLEY ETC
WILLIE WAS A VERY STRONG BOY EVEN THEN
BOWLED EXCEPTIONALLY FAST
INJURY STOPPED HIM FROM REACHING THE HEIGHTS
IF YOU ENTERED IN 67 YOU WOULD REMEMBER WE AS ONE WHO FREQUENTED THE DARK ROOM
I HAVE MET SO MANY CHAPS I DONT KNOW THAT REMEMBER ME FOR SPENDING SO MUCH TIME IN THE ENVIRONS OF THE LOWER FIRST BLOCK
@ Simple Simon you like your name are truly simple; if you can’t understand the article let me reduce it to one sentence……This DLP govt will go down in history as the worst government in the history of Barbados at least since independence!!!!!!!!!!. Can you understand that!!!!!!!. It is not an exaggeration by any means!!!!!!! I mean I would like someone sponsor Peter Wickham to do a survey where the one question would be which administration was the worst you ever lived through. Then you gine got ministers trying to distract people with iggrance like “Bdos should increase its population” and ” when we dismiss the workers we will do it humanely !!!!!!!” JESUS MANNNNNNN!!!!!!! Just unbelievable!!!!!
And if the retrenchments aren’t bad enough we got the NUPW whose “SUPPOSED” to be “REPRESENTING” the public workers and whose general secretary said publicly that temporary workers “don’t have a job” being a BLASTED patsy to this gov’t!!!!!!!!. I am going to ask the leadership of the NUPW how wunna expect to have the support of your members when wunna render yourself incompetent and theIr union irrelevant!!!! I am “disturbed” to say the least by DEM (the NUPW)basically talking nonsense in the face of gov’t “savagery” towards the public workers.
Really Barbados right now is like the old RPB calypso “the country ain’t well”. Barbados in de hospital in “critical” condition. This govt that supposed to be our “brain”, behaving like a invasive virus compromising its own body and vital systems. If no cure can be found Barbados will soon be dead!!!!!!!
Well said, David (not BU).
Read today’s lead story and it tells you all we have been saying never mind a yard fowl told me last week that nothing I say has been getting any traction and that I should lay off blogging…..even suggested that David should block me.
Well they don’t want to hear from miller or the prodigal but they had to call an emergency cabinet meeting to listen to Moody’s, though.
‘Freedman (Moody’s analyst) suggested that had the government moved aggressively and much earlier to address the country’s economic woes, it probably wouldn’t be in the difficult position in which it now finds itself.
Excerpt from Sun on Sunday.
@DLP (formerly CBC) TV “let me reduce it to one sentence……This DLP govt will go down in history as the worst government in the history of Barbados at least since independence.”
Thanks man!!!!!!!!!!
@David April 5, 2014 at 8:02 PM “Correction, Marshall went to Waterford.”
It figures.
Simple Simeon
How could you in good conscience even suggest that the DLP government is the worse government, the island of Barbados have ever seen? When the political process is a continuum. And as the old people used say’ ” You just live a little brother.”
You should never use an absolute to describe any particular situation; always stay in the middle- ground. Because you might just have to eat your words one day. Unless you’re talking about apodictic phenomena like God and death.
Many have said that this DLP Government is the worst ever but can they show in what ways.
The simple fact of the matter is that some Politicians are thieves- stealing people’s lands., money, time and other possessions and in so doing tend to be corrupt , clannish and covetous, egotistic, self centered and discriminatory. A lot of them just use the people to achieve dubious personal ends.
The people themselves have been lulled into a sense of dependency and they wait on the Politicos for handouts and favours of whatever kind. They also wait to be dictated to by the Politicos when they should be dictating to the Politicos. Similar situation to Union leaders such as Clarke and Baloney better called –Fart and Baloney-The two go together anyhow. They tell me that Clarke goes off and does his thing without reference to the members -agreeing to such things as wage freezes for the quid pro quo of no layoffs. The real issue here is the people who allow Clarke and other leaders to do as they please. One suspects that the changing demographic lends to the situation but crucially important is a lack of fight from the people themselves.
So Politicos and union bosses in Barbados are allowed to get away with nonsense and they are behaving as though they are Gods. The people seem unwilling or scared to take matters in their own hands much unlike the suffering persons of yesteryear.
Is the present DLP Government the worst ever ? The question remains and only time will tell. And what do they say about time ?
The worst Barbados Government ever cannot be extended into the future. So it has to be from Colonial times up to the present.
I agree totally that there was no other Government between 1960 and now which has been worst in any material respect of governance than this one. In fact, it will be very difficult for any future government here to approach this one in any objective measure of bad government in Barbados.
The problem has been top leadership. David Thompson was the worst PM in his short time at the helm until his death. Freundel Stuart has surpassed him totally in abysmal leadership.
With different leadership we would not be in this present dilemma. I wonder when they will see that the first step in doing better will be to have Stuart remove himself. CS has some qualities that might still make him a reasonable Minister in another Ministry and should remain a Minister if the DLP retains the Government.
But FS needs to go from Government leadership totally asap.
I read “Anguish in the Land – Who Fooling Who?” Submitted by Beresford – and political bias aside, I found it pulled a lot of the missing info together, in short as an overseas reader, I found it very informative. The first comment from Simple Simon | April 5, 2014 at 5:26 PM just highlights everything that is driving Barbados over the precipice and into financial oblivion.
Seem to me that you should all be worrying more about where the country will be in twelve months, and less about who went to school where.
@David April 6, 2014 at 12:58 PM |
We have been hearing more and more government minsters and others suggesting that some forces in Barbados have been desuading foreign investors from investing in Barbados”……………………………
David,
This is just a talking point from this inept incompetent government. To cover up their shambolic handling of this economy, this has been their refrain. Forces in Barbados do not have to tell any investor a word to dissuade them from investing a penny here, they just have to go to Standards and Poors, Moody’s or the IMF.
So who dissuaded people on the world market from investing in the billion dollar bond issue late last year and to early this year that the Stinkliar and governor had to withdraw because no one would buy the bonds? What forces were up there telling people do not buy, pass by!
Do not be fooled by the garbage coming out this administration, they have to blame someone for their incompetency!
But wait what happen then to the bonds that BNS were to float to help UWI and were told by the MOF and the governor to hold back?
@ dopey donkey or dompey or whatever you call yourself
If your comprehension skills were any good you would have realised that it was not Simple Simon who claimed that this was the worst party ever in government. It was another poster who made the claim and SS was only quoting that poster. But, it seems that your comprehenion skills as well as your written English skills leave a lot to be desired. I really wish you would improve on these skills before burdening us with your tiresome comments.
DE HOOD SIR
IF YOU HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO TEACH MORONS LIKE DOMPEY THE DONKEY AT ST LEONARDS AS I DID IN 74 YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND.
HE THEN WENT AND GOT A POOR EDUCATION IN THE USA, AND NOW BELOVES THAT HE IS A STELLAR SCHOLAR
De hood
De hood, or whatever alias you’re masquerading behind now. So I’ve made a few grammatical mistakes. BIG DEAL. NOW RUN ALONE WITH YOUR BROWNY POINTS. MAN PISS OFF.
@GP
Go easy pun Domps, he knows not what he writteth at all times BUT must be commended for trying. Lets exempt him from further persecution.
You BU bullies seem to like to beat up on somebody at times -LOL
You have chosen Dompey this time around
Man Give the man a break nuh !
@ Yagga
Hey, I’m not so concerned about the simple primay-level errors the dopey makes, it is when he tries to HOOD-wink us that he is the fount of all knowledge that he causes me to extend my eyebrows skywards.
@ G P
Hi Doc, its good to see you still dropping in here now and then. I always enjoy your discourses on medical issues as well as those of a spiritual nature even though, as you know, we don’t always see eye to eye on the latter. Still in charge of your med school?
@ Yagga Rowe,
Dompey is indulging in self flagellation by continuing to write tripe on BU.
The “BU bullies” will tolerate most things but when a pseudo-Intellectual uses “big words” incorrectly licks will share.
A good communicator does not need to indulge in sesquipedalian terminology that obfuscates an educational deficiency.
There you go dompey. Proof positive that anyone can write shiite regardless of where they went to school.
@Hants
Somewhat Gobblesque!
Gobbles would be very proud.
@ MoneyBrain,
School days were “fun” in and out of the classroom.
@Hants
So much sport, I never thought of seriously studying!
Hants & Moneybrain
Re Gobbles
I recall one day Gobbles decided to keep in this class for lunch, so when the bell rang, Gobbles declared…….
THE TINKLING APPELLATION OF THE SONOROUS METAL INDICATES THAT YOUR PERIOD OF NOURISHMENT HAS ARRIVED; BUT YE SHALL BE DEPRIVED OF IT. SO SUBSIDE.
On another day he addressed a boy thus:-
YOUNG LAD. ASSUME THE PERPENDICULAR; AND IN THAT POSTURE ADVANCE TO YON VENDOR OF EFFERVESCENT WATERS AND PURCHASE ME THE SMALLEST MEMBER OF THE COCA COLA FAMILY.
Once when we were in lower sixth doing Use of English, the bell rang. One chap sung out HEAVENS TO DING DONG ( we were into Snagglepus then)
Caller on Brasstacks is correct
DLP supporters should tell their ministers that what they are doing is wrong !-re education and I might add –all the other things
Why are Bjans accepting nonsense from these people
Yes Arthur is blaming everybody else
Caller is right
He is real true Barbadian
He supported the DLP of the past but cant support these clowns now
@GP
SWEEEEETTT memories.
Excellent recall.
Not smallest member but “peasant sized” member.
A certain future coalitional government of Barbados and of which the PDC will be a part shall ABOLISH INTEREST RATES in this country.
PDC
A good communicator does not need to indulge in sesquipedalian terminology that obfuscates an educational deficiency.
LOL -LOL-LOL -LOL
@Yagga Rowe | April 7, 2014 at 1:32 PM |
Caller on Brasstacks is correct
DLP supporters should tell their ministers that what they are doing is wrong !-re education and I might add –all the other things……….
Yagga,
You are right……………I thought that was one of the best presentations on Brasstacks today. I really think that Kellman should have been one of the government workers who should have been retrenched. He is so dumb and clearly has nothing much to do that he has time to call a call in programme. The dead king was really right about him.
No wonder this country is up the brown street!
i suspect that there are more persons like him just waiting for the opportune time
Barbados needs to be saved
Martyrs needed
Estwick has receded
Reputation depleted
Shite from Mout secreted
Proposal – decapitated