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... Barbados will be made to suffer till the next election ...
… Barbados will be made to suffer till the next election …

It is clear that the people of Barbados will be made to suffer till the next election with more DLP broken promises, mismanagement and quality political deceptions sure to come, which at this point one can say the DLP has mastered. Likewise many are very disappointed in the BLP’s obvious inability to settle internal matters which is rendering them useless as the opposition. Contrary to what MM says publicly the party is clearly divided with MM on one side and OA on the other with its minions running around clueless who to follow, in what appears to a battle of the good old BLP boys vs everyone else in the party.

Add to that unions in Barbados that have collected membership dues and have totally abandoned their members with a series of media stunts from time to time to give the illusion that they are doing something, when in reality not one job had been saved by their actions, as it’s leadership gets ready for a big time pick under the current government which is simply “shameless” and part of the grand deception.

So we “the Bajan people” are in a real mess on all fronts with an out of control government driving Barbados into the ground, an impotent opposition, weak media houses under freedom of the press attack, CB leadership who is living in the land of OZ, a MF who remind me of that guy from the old cowboy movies in the nice suit who sold medicine from the back of his wagon but none of the medicine ever worked, just like the MF’s management of our fiscal affairs.

And most damaging a PM who clearly does not understand “leadership” and “how to project confidence” and is willing to maintain his passive aggressive nature in dealing with all things … A just dont say nothing or as little as absolutely possible approach.

We are no longer acting like a Democracy …. We are however acting like an Idiotcracy .


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120 responses to “Poor Barbados … DEM got us in a real mess with more years of sufferation to come”

  1. 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 read back on PLANTATION DEEDS postings and now you are seeing what we have been saying,
    The PM know and knew what was going on under David PM , PM Fumble dont need to have a clue , He have the Facts and so does the Fraud Squad,
    Barbadians need to leave BARBADOS go back to BARBADOES.
    Back to being Bajan’s , to Claim our Birth Rights .
    remove the pimp title holders , crooks liars and scumbags
    Where is the Queen of England when her Knights , Sir, lawyer, Judges corrupt Her English with lies,
    We dont have to wait till next Election , End the PAIN now , We need to get back to Truth and Justice , Moon =Truth Star=Justice .
    The DLP /BLP = DBLP have lost their way and want for us Bajans to follow them into hell.
    Land Fraud records will show us all what the cover up is, We do not have a World credit issue , we have a Law and Justice Lawful issue, Telling Lies to the Bajans .
    When anyone finds lies in my post , please point them out.
    Barbadoes is own by Bajans no matter what fraud records are made up by lawyer looking to make money and fool us all
    We are telling you more truth than any books you will ever read on Barbadoes


  2. this article has been given an A + delivering enough slogans to make BLP yardfowls cackle…..,,jobby jobby…


  3. AC how much do they pay you to be on BU?


  4. An article based on the obvious, but none the less, a good one. I really like the reference to the unions, specifically the rotten union leadership that has been around for a while and has occasionally hijacked and blackmailed the Bdos economy without any big picture mentality, only a self serving one.

    And they even gave their leaders the “Sir” title to pacify them and inflate their egos. Hang them by their toes from street lights.

  5. Colonel Buggy Avatar

    Spot on! That’s about sums up our present predicament.

  6. Colonel Buggy Avatar

    It is now a daily routine to hear over CBC and VOB a list comprising most of the communities in St Joseph, St Thomas, St Andrew, St John, parts of St George, St Philip. St Lucy as being hit by water outages. And to add insult to injury we are being told to prepare for a hike in water rates. What has become of all of thosed millions that PM Thomson had given to the BWA just after the DLP came to power in 2008? Has those funds, like the water ran Lowe.
    As taxpayers and water rate payers we should be asking the Barbados Water Authority how much is being paid annually to Simpson Motors under the vehicle lease agreement. Must be quite a tidy sum.


  7. If we are discussion UP, gas prices will take a giant leap this week, NOT diesel.


  8. David:

    If you intended with this article to fire up the political pundits, you are going to get a cussing!! Sadly,I do agree, but when I look at the opposition, I do not see any hope either. Bushie is right the time is ripe for a third political party!!


  9. Keith Rowley just won an internal election to remain leader of the PNM in Trinidad. His opponent was Penelope Beckles who was woman Vice Chair of the party, selected as leader of the Opposition business in the Senate by Rowley himself and was staunch ally during the Rowley-Manning battle. This constant balking at the BLP is rather immature given the fact that factions within political parties (Obama vs Clintonites etc) is the norm not to mention our system of government nullifies Opposition parties’ ability to effect change. When the BLP tried, they were called power hungry, now silent (a position I support) they are still being cursed. Rather than focus on the Opposition, the PEOPLE should be the ones charged for sitting back and allowing the government to make the same unfulfilled promises, or lies, repeatedly without any remorse. I say to the BLP keep quiet and let the inactive, both the DLP and electorate, stew.


  10. @enuff

    What is your view that with all the faults of the DLP which the BLP have relentlessly exlose leading up to the last general election the DLP won. What does is say about the preparedness of the BLP?


  11. Enuff:

    Analyze what Abrams is doing and tell me if it makes political sense. If there is one thing that people do not forget is someone who takes food from their mouth. For a large opposition do you think they are doing a good job? Go and look at their contribution at the last estimates debate. it told me that they are in a worse position than the DLP to run the country!

    But they will not get to be in power by waiting their turn that style of politics has gone!!


  12. Enuff:

    If there was one thing I know that the BLP had was talent; where is it now that the country needs. This happens when a leader surrounds themselves with people they know they can control politically!!


  13. @David
    It says the BLP was too ready for a majority naive and immature electorate. Just look at ALL their predictipns coming to past–more debt, UWI fees, layoffs, no growth, privatisation and soon devaluation? How can disunity be the issue after 11 MPs wanted to oust their leader the PM? Or we are that hypocritical?


  14. @enuff

    Maybe but there is a view ‘more of the same’.


  15. @Lemuel
    That is why they should not forget it was the DLP and their mismanagement of the economy that deprived them of their bread.


  16. @David
    That is the mantra worldwide but of course Bajans believe God is Bajan hence Barbados is heaven on earth; therefore MPs and parties must be perfect yet very few are willing to join or start a party or other organisation to effect change. Again I ask, how many in here are involved in a political party, CBO/NGO?


  17. Colonel…
    “What has become of all of those millions that PM Thomson had given to the BWA just after the DLP came to power in 2008? Has those funds, like the water ran Lowe?”
    ++++++++++++++++
    On the contrary ….those funds are running high…. Building fancy new buildings to house the pack of incompetent jokers who have mismanaged the Water Authority for the past 30 years.
    What incentive is there for them to fix leaks or pumps?

    On the other hand, look at BL&P’s 200 year-old building in Bay Street……. and the lights work.

    ….but of course the Governments financial backers are into building construction are they not? …..not fixing leaky pipes….
    It is not difficult to see how decisions are made bout here….

  18. 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

    The real reason why we cant have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse:is because you can not post.
    thou shall not steal ,thou can not commit adultery , thou shall not lie, in a building full of lawyers and judges and politicians, It will create a hostile work environment .


  19. To the person/s who wrote the lead article

    Barbados has NEVER been a democracy – has NEVER been!! Barbados has been a plantocracy, oligarchy (which is the stage from which it is NOW evolving in a political pluralist society).

    Too, who so ever you are, you must get in the nooks and crannies, get in the trenches, get in the communities of this country and do better more for the country.

    You need a sufficiency of serious political education about the past and present of this country to help you/you all do so though.

    You failed to write about the widespread badness wickedness wrongness that the Owen Arthur BLP Government did for 14 years almost.

    You failed to refer to the enormous wickedness badness wrongness that took place from 1987 to 1994 under the Erskine Sandiford led DLP Government.

    Were you (all) born yesterday??

    Are you (all) some kind of Rip Van Winkle (characters)?

    Both these old jack o lantern DLP/BLP government have from time to time been inflicting great pain and suffering on especially the broad masses and middle classes of this country.

    Do you (all) really think that internal divisions within the equally stupid BLP are being looked at by the majority of politically conscious people, in Barbados, as a political problem? And that those same people who – let us assume would like to see better brighter for this country – are refusing therefore to give greater political support to a party that is so clearly – as a political problem too??

    Do you not think that there are substantial ideological political material forces that are contending and that are ripping apart these two corrupt factional disorganizations?

    The fact remains that despite your (you all) continuing to perpetuate this old mephetic miasmatic vulgar senseless DLP/BLP disorder in this country, there are these multifarious forces that are helping to properly destroy the DLP and BLP in this country.

    Indeed, it is not enough to type and submit a political contribution to BU and have it published.

    PDC


  20. @PDC

    1. you use too many words to get your point across, try making your points without writing a book and rambling all over the place.
    2. it appears that no comment on BU not your owe is ever good enough, good thing your not the BU administrator. Ya too restrictive in your thinking

    3. to your comment “it is not enough to type and submit a political contribution to BU and have it published.” ….I say >> why the hell not that’s what freedom of the press is so get over it …. just like we have to ensure your “looong winded” submissions and comments you can ensure other forms of expression from the BU community at large.

    And you represent a new party …. please …. you aint ready yet


  21. @ enuff | May 19, 2014 at 7:06 AM |

    ………………. When the BLP tried, they were called power hungry, now silent (a position I support) they are still being cursed. Rather than focus on the Opposition, the PEOPLE should be the ones charged for sitting back and allowing the government to make the same unfulfilled promises, or lies, repeatedly without any remorse. I say to the BLP keep quiet and let the inactive, both the DLP and electorate, stew……………………………………………

    Enuff,

    I could not agree with you more.

    I think it is disingenuous for people to keep harping that the Opposition is divided and is not doing anything. During the DLP’s first term, the Opposition, yes despite its problems kept pointing out that the DLP was taking the country down a wrong path. The DLP deceived the people with their lies that the MTFS was working and that the economy was stable and on a growth path. Now we know that this was blatant deception.

    The people chose to listen to the LIES of the DLP during the campaign……they witnessed an aloof PM who thinks he is larger than life and does not have to interact with Barbadians and yet they went ahead and re-elected the DLP.

    The BLP started to interact and inform the people with their “Rubbing Shoulders” campaign and this inflamed the ire of the DLP, prompting the famous outburst from one of the most offensive and abrasive minister ever…….”crack heads and shoot some people” statement.

    The BLP then went to the “People’s Assemblies”, next thing citizens were being investigated for treason and a Permanent Secretary writing a teacher to explain what he said.

    What the hell Barbadians want from the BLP now? They said they are afraid and will not come out to march to bring down the government. The private sector wants the BLP to bring down the government but do not want to come forward, they say they will support behind the scenes. If we judge from the actions of this fool we have for a PM, nothing will move him to step down and he will call a late election just as he did last year.

    It is said that Barbadians have short memories, I would say that they have selective memories. How many of these critics care to remember the horrible infighting in the DLP while it was in opposition in the days when the dead king was fighting with Dennis Kellman then Clyde Mascoll and with the present PM who wrote a stinging indictment on the same dead king. Give me a break.. ….

    As you say, enuff, I also say to the BLP keep quiet and let the inactive, both the DLP and electorate, stew. Wunnah voted for Dems now, Dems again…..live with it.

  22. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    @AC
    What the heck I tell you about balance views? The article is well written and balance. It summaries the marriage of all players in the Union of the UD-WCB. i.e. The Union of Deceitfully Wicked Corrupt Bastards. Yet you pelting stones at the corrupt in the BLP like if the brutes you serve are angels.he article should send a message to the DLP that many are not satisfied with the shitety performance since you are not label as bold face liars. I Trying hard not to call you by your favourite names because I trying with you but if you keep this up I am going to attack your ass more vicious than what transpire previously. I TOLD YOU THAT I DO NOT LIKE C….HOLE PIMPS.

  23. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    should be now label as bold face….Missing a T on The article should send….


  24. @enuff

    Sadly many NGOs have been infiltrated by both political parties. Many command no respector ability to achieve anything.


  25. umm..balance like beauty is in the eyes of the holder..if u throw out honey most likely u would attract bees…ac passed on this one


  26. @David
    You must have hear how the DLP pay for votes ,in the 2008 and 2013 elections you know the outcome of the 2013 election so my question to you and the rest, is what can the BLP do for the people now ,to stop them from suffering under the DLP .David my point is if I BUY something from you I can do what I want to with it, The DLP paid for a vote to govern Barbados for 5years
    The people have a choice next election


  27. Iโ€™m of the opinion that this was a well balanced contribution as the writer dealt with the issues that prevails the BLP, DLP, NUPW and BWU and the effects of these issues on the islands and its citizenry.

    Here we have an opposition that is seen as being the weakest that we have had in a long time; and the recent comments by Owen Arthur against his leader, Mia Mottley, have done nothing to enhance the image of or confidence in the BLP. However, itโ€™s rather ironic that Arthur continues to behave in this matter and the status quo remains the same. Surely if he was the Opposition Leader no one could have undermined him without feeling his wrath.

    Additionally, how can any rational thinking Barbadian not see anything wrong with the unions and government having reached an agreement whereby the last-in-first-out option was to be used as the basis to retrenched workers, and this policy being subsequently undermined by Denis Lowe and the National Conservation Commission. Then we have Sinckler declaring the LIFO was not anything written in stone, after it was revealed that most of the workers retained at the NCC, were hired from Loweโ€™s constituency since 2008.


  28. SSS

    You need to go easy on my girl AC because she is about the only support I have on this blog, with the occasional reinforcement from Mr. Ross. I kinda like you, but I do not appreciate the way in which you’re verbally molesting AC
    because she is exercising her constitutional right of free speech within prescribed limits.


  29. @Watchman

    If we accept there was a cash for vote that went down last general elections can we agree it was at the fringe and the vast majority of the electorate voted honestly?

    @Artax

    Let us observe if Alleyne throws his hat in the ring come NUPW time to replace Clarke.


  30. really ..dompey i got enuff sense to understand how the scum. always. float to the top ..been here long enuff to see how many choke on their own vomit…this article attempts to be balanced by using a political lens with intent to cut and divide…btw no amount of cuss words going change my opinions.


  31. there can,t be balance when the top and middle of a structure is missing. to construct all the necessary pieces must be put in place.putting a few pieces. joined together does not show the complete story.one can add or subtract for certain effects.words are powerful but those who knows the complete story can attest that many parts of this article is unbalanced …missing crucial information and misleading in facts and events….


  32. Part 1: Putting People First (page 7, DLP 2008 Manifesto)

    Lowering the Cost Of Living:

    โ€œThe Barbados Labour Party administration is ultimately responsible for the fact that ordinary Barbadians cannot enjoy a comfortable living in this country. It is the job of the government and the role of the state to intervene in the market to correct failings of the system and re-balance inequities therein.โ€

    โ€œEnergy costs have risen more often than they have fallen in the last 2 years and this has driven up the cost of production. A new DLP administration will examine the feasibility of removing the VAT on utility bills for households and businesses alike.โ€

    โ€œBarbados can and should rest assured that a Democratic Labour Party administration will do something tangible and meaningful about this vexing issue of the cost of living because we are beholden to no one.โ€

    Six yearsโ€ฆ. two manifestos โ€ฆ.. and the status quo remains the same. this administration has done absolutely nothing “to intervene in the market to correct failings of the system and re-balance inequities therein.โ€
    Far less than VAT being removed from utility bills, it has been increased by 2.5%, making the cost of living even higher.

    However, this administration must be given a passing grade for skillfully evading scrutiny by verbally abusing those who question their policies; while blaming the recession and the BLP for their inadequacies and lack of initiative for dealing with the economic situation.


  33. Why is it that if an individual has an alternative perspective on any issue in this country other than that which favours the DLP, that person is labeled as being a member of the BLP, a yard-fowl, unpatriotic, or being political? DLP ministers, members and supporters should be cognizant of the fact that Barbados and the opinions of others does not revolve around the Democratic Labour Party. The BLP, et al, should also take note of this as well.

    Perhaps if the writer had heaped praises upon the DLP and its leadership, while castigating the BLPโ€ฆ, maybe then ac would see this contribution as being fair and balanced.


  34. @ David

    โ€œLet us observe if Alleyne throws his hat in the ring come NUPW time to replace Clarke.โ€

    That would be very interesting indeed. Apparently, he held various position within the NUPW ranging from Senior Officer and Education Officer to Deputy General Secretary. He took a two year sabbatical from the union to take up the interim Directorship of the Urban Development Commission effective August 1, 2009. Alleyne has a MSc in Labour & Employment Law from the University of Leicester, which along with his experience, may qualify him for the job.

    However, David, you must remember that Alleyne went at UDC at a time when a large number of employees were to be retrenched, some of whom were members of the NUPW.

    Time will tell if he was forgiven for his role in these terminations as well as the stance he took on the NUPW on Barbados Underground in 2011 (re: “Director Of UDC Spearheading Effort To Bring Transparency To NUPW Operations”….. Posted on April 28, 2011)


  35. Artaxerxes | May 19, 2014 at 4:22 PM |
    “Why is it that if an individual has an alternative perspective on any issue in this country other than that which favours the DLP, that person is labeled as being a member of the BLP, a yard-fowl, unpatriotic, or being political?

    Are you a Bajan? Typically we are politically partisan and hypocritical. Ignore the critics and keep expressing your views.

    Just so no one forgets I am a DLP supporter so feel free to use me as a dart board.


  36. @Artaxerxes
    “However, this administration must be given a passing grade for skillfully evading scrutiny by verbally abusing those who question their policies; while blaming the recession and the BLP for their inadequacies and lack of initiative for dealing with the economic situation”…………………

    I could not agree with you more. The Dems have succeeded in putting their kind fear into Barbadians.

    People are afraid to speak out, the media is being savaged if they print the truth even the deranged governor of the Central Bank is even joining the wild boys in trying to frighten journalists.
    The journalists are being prosecuted, the police force from the top to bottom are supporting this inept incompetent government.
    The unions got into bed with them and the wild boys have now thrown them to the wolves and laughing at them.
    The Dems have mocked the opposition so badly that even the opposition seem to be afraid of the venom being spewed at them.

    Six years after getting the power they always wanted, they have destroyed the economy and after all the disastrous policies they put in place against all advice, they are still not taking any responsibility for their actions.

    Based on the leader’s action last year, we will have to suffer dems now, dems again………..for a long time. In the end, Barbados will be the biggest loser and these wild boys will have their big bank accounts and not even God would be able to break them!


  37. Prodigal…….always take into account the diseases, heart attacks, strokes, etc that are beyond their control and which renders them useless, the politicians, no money can help them then……i am sure the whole of Barbados already witnessed the 2010 episode and those before and since…..all that money does nothing for them and God just watches.


  38. It is clear that the people of Barbados will be made to suffer till the next election with more DLP broken promises, mismanagement and quality political deceptions sure to come, which at this point one can say the DLP has mastered
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………tthe above comment is not balanced ………..what the writer has done is to relays an opinion based on innuendos and small mouth politics which one hears daily in rum shops and social media which are not facts,,,,,, ..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,….It is clear that the people of Barbados will be made to suffer till the next election with more DLP broken promises, mismanagement and quality political deceptions sure to come, which at this point one can say the DLP has mastered
    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,again here the writer has made a conclusion……for the next six years based on perceptions and political rantings and ravings ..in an enviroment where an economy is driven by many movements,,when adjustments have to be made,,it is asinine to form or made such an outrageous assertion… balance cannot be formed or constructed simply by chery picking from one side or another,,,,
    this article failure to balance is in its efforts to compare a six year govt in a hostile ecnomic environment …with a opposition… who has differences in the way it is self managed,,,,but the true test of the balance is to weigh the negatives of past and present govt,,,providing a platform of a beginning while laying out the ground work built or inherited by both govts based on sustanabilty,,,,,ac not interested in the political ramblings,,,, bring facts and proof as to why there are failures or successes by both parties connected to this economy and the .. causes,,,balanced,,,,, nuff jobby for yardfowls,,,

  39. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    @Dompey
    First of all let me say to you this: The political divide has resulted in years of unwarranted, unchecked, unsupervised plundering of the government treasury by parties from both sides of the fence. My views will not be in support of blatant corruption and any benefactors of the free flow money train are as wicked as the salacious thoughts that run through my mind when I contemplate the balls that fit the boldness of the mighty AC.

    I do not attack the woman but the ideals of the woman. If she is a recipient of rewards than she has no choice but to do her puppet masters bidding. For that she will be labelled a PIMP. I see that she has the ability to espound with great articulation and ever so often write with great trepidation the axe that would smite all those who oppose the views of her commanding officers. Where is the substance amongst the ‘ many somethings’ that are posted in the partisan views of AC. Her diatribe has blinded her to her incumbent tribe’s short comings and short sightedness.

    Both dia-tribes remain relentless to exposed at the expense of the sinkhole growing under Barbados’ economic misfortunes. Barbados progression is thus stymied by corruption and direct and downright lack of political will and drive. This has resulted in low key representation that is cloaked in political presentations that are unrepresentative. The politicians of today are not hard working or hard thinking but hardened in vested interests and haphazard in their approaches to major institutional strengthening and with lackadaisical foresight and new vision in Barbados’ developmental index. The only politico who showed gump far beyond the nonsense of the others was Billie Miller in her city development project. Don’t mind I do not like the pompous bitch. She saw a clear vision of the development that Bridgetown needed in the proceeding centuries. Yet you have a ministerial prime that is as silent as that fellow who played in the movie “Silence of the lambs.” Barbados is left thus to wonder when this great thinker of silence will unfold his master plan that stir the economy in the right direction again. I am waiting with bated breadth for the day when I can say, ” This DLP government will label the best government to ever sit in the seats that reign over the controls of Barbados.”

    The will to engage in futuristic planning is replaced by shortsightedness in that our planning has always encompass a 10 to 20 year developmental drive that needs drive if the endeavour is to be driven. Now that we have a the much tooted Sugar Point Development coming on stream, you have a governmental approach that is putting the index at a greater than, than the less than approach that label our leaders and so call scholars as mere jacks in the box thinkers.

    Dompey, AC is intelligent and can right balance views but she is just a Saul waiting to be rename Paul. Soon she will count it all shite and be resurrected from dead into the marvelous light of freedom from divisional political bondage


  40. @Hants May 19, 2014 at 5:18 PM “Just so no one forgets I am a DLP supporter so feel free to use me as a dart board.”

    Wunna DEMZ is ta blame fa evatin’

    Whap.

    Dart in ya.

    LOL!!!


  41. @David
    Yes , the vote buying was on the fringe
    The peoples choice is DLP for 5 years
    and the only way to get this SET of DLP out of office now is if any members do what was done in 1994 and I don’t see that happening , not this set of men/ women that we have some of them didn’t even had
    a good paying job before. So my brother all we can do is have fun on this blog ( I like it ) used the power of praying and waiting this out , because in times like now , with the DLP doings , people may get KILL


  42. @ ac

    โ€œIt is clear that the people of Barbados will be made to suffer till the next election with more DLP broken promises, mismanagement and quality political deceptions sure to come, which at this point one can say the DLP has masteredโ€

    โ€œthe above comment is not balanced โ€ฆโ€ฆโ€ฆ..what the writer has done is to relays an opinion based on innuendos and small mouth politics which one hears daily in rum shops and social media which are not facts,,,,,,โ€

    Are you for real, or do you regurgitate the nonsense that your advisors tell you to spew on this blog.

    If you take a look at the DLP 2008 manifesto one will identify a myriad of promises that this administration has not kept. However, they have blamed the previous administration for them not being able to implement many of their policies. My argument has been and will always be that any opposition worth its salt would have had a Shadow Minister of Finance, whose duty it would have been to monitor Barbadosโ€™ economy and any prevailing factors that would affect it. As such, I have found it extremely ludicrous that this administration has blamed the recession for they not keeping the promises they made to the electorate.

    Letโ€™s take a look at a few of these promises taken from the DLPโ€™s 2008 manifesto:

    โ€ข Introduce Freedom of Information & Integrity Legislation and Ministerial Code of Conduct within the first 100 days in office;
    โ€ข Lowering the cost of living;
    โ€ข Removal of VAT from utility bills of households and firms;
    โ€ข Review the basket of goods โ€“ to increase the amount of VAT exempted goods;
    โ€ข In the first 100 days of the new DLP administration remove VAT from building materials on houses valued up to $400,000;
    โ€ข Establish a Home Ownership Revolving Fund for public sector workers, providing interest free loans to appointed public servants with 5 yearsโ€™ service who are first time homeowners. This fund will be capitalized with an initial injection of $40 million;
    โ€ข Provide 500 lots of land in five (5) months at $5 per sq foot for first time homeowners. These lots have been identified and land will be acquired by private treaty where necessary to speed up the process;
    โ€ข Provide 2,500 house spots for sale to low and middle income wage earners in the first term of a DLP government;
    โ€ข Commit to building 2,000 housing solutions per year in the first term of a DLP government. These will include rental units, terrace units and starter homes;
    โ€ข Increase the tax deduction for mortgages to $20,000.00 per year;
    โ€ข Give priority to achieving and maintaining a balanced budget while allowing for small manageable fiscal deficits where necessary to facilitate the development objectives of the country;
    โ€ข Implement taxation policies that reduce fiscal drag on the economy. We shall avoid taxation policies that act as disincentives to investment and productivity;
    โ€ข Require that public expenditure be kept under continuing review to promote efficiency and economy is the use of fiscal resources;
    โ€ข Seek any domestic financing from the capital markets in preference to the heavy reliance on national insurance funds;


  43. Watchman,
    Amen, you are so right!


  44. @ ac

    These are a few more:

    โ€ข Facilitate commercial and industrial development in country areas ๏‚•๏€ Facilitate and support the development of town centres in major residential areas ;
    โ€ข Complete the East Coast Road;
    โ€ข Improve the major roads in rural areas and complete all outstanding tenantry roads;
    โ€ข Introduce a programme to resurface roads on a regular basis e.g. major roads and highways every ten years, other roads every fifteen years;
    โ€ข Improve the visibility and traffic flow at several dangerous junctions;
    โ€ข Improve signage and road markings;
    โ€ข Put emphasis on improving road drainage, sidewalks and gutters;
    โ€ข Ensure road works are done with minimum inconvenience to road users;
    โ€ข A DLP administration will spearhead negotiations with CARICOM countries to invest in maritime transport to move large numbers of passengers and goods between the countries of the region;
    โ€ข Re-examine the Port charges with a view to significantly reducing these to manufacturers;
    โ€ข Introduce policies that will encourage commercial banks to work with local manufacturers to allow them greater access to, and a freer flow of, finance;


  45. @ ac | May 19, 2014 at 5:55 PM |

    So, ac you asked for facts, here are a few more of the broken promises; however, judging from the construct of this contributionโ€ฆ.. did you actually write it?

    The DLPโ€™s most blatant failure is in the area of good governance:

    Under a DLP government, the people will be kept informed of what the government is doing on their behalf through:
    โ€ข Regular press briefings following meetings of the Cabinet of Barbados
    โ€ข Press briefings by Ministries/Departments to inform Barbadians of major developments and changes
    โ€ข The publication of details of agreements and contracts involving the government and its agencies
    โ€ข Formal Ministerial statements at regular intervals on the progress of ongoing programmes and projects
    โ€ข A revision of and adherence to the rules regarding Parliamentary questions
    โ€ข A policy of formal reporting by parliamentarians to constituents on stewardship and issues affecting the constituencies.

    Immediately introduce integrity legislation requiring:

    โ€ข a declaration of assets by public officials,
    โ€ข a Code of Conduct for Ministers,
    โ€ข a new Freedom of Information law,
    โ€ข amendments to the Defamation laws and
    โ€ข new constitutional provisions to rationalize the powers of the Prime Minister


  46. Game set & match!


  47. Watchman, the BLP ain’t any different because in the 80’s, the Tourism Minister Aaron Truss, was a pro at the game of vote buying.


  48. hey arterexes

    i like the way how yuh put yuh facts to be implemented in six years when under blp rule nuh them facts were adresss,,in 14years,,,,,,


  49. Watchman

    Do you remember when AaronTruss office was located on Roebuck Street in the 1980’s? And how he used to bribed the poor people of Bush Hall, Bank Hall, Station Hill, Dean Village, and Waterford? Well, I do because I used to be one of those people who took his money and voted for the DLP. Sucker!


  50. Watchman, as a matter of fact … I vote for the former General Secretary of the Barbados Workers Union LeRoy Trotman, who used to be the DLP opposital minister in our area during the 1980’s.

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