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Robert Clarke, Attorney-at-Law led a march recently and many hope it is the start of more to come.
Robert Clarke, Attorney-at-Law led a march recently and many hope it is the start of more to come.

Dear Sir,

Re: Request for permission to march from Independence Square through Bridgetown and back to Independence Square on Saturday, July 5, 2014

I hereby request permission to march from Independence Square on Saturday, July 5, 2014 from 10 am to 1 pm.

a) Organised by: Robert L.M. ‘Bobby’ Clarke

b) Purpose of march: To demonstrate the people’s concern in relation to the hardships they are experiencing

Lack of information on the hardships that people are going through and the apparent non-concern as shown by the Democratic Labour Party Government and the BLP

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151 responses to “ANOTHER Request for Permission to March Under the Public Order Act‏‎ by Robert ‘Bobby’ Clarke”

  1. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ GP asked..
    bush tea
    me and money brain and hants coming to tek over things
    are you going to march wid us?
    ++++++++++++++++++
    Who?!…not Bushie bozzie….
    …and then as soon as a fella get up and shout too hard ..wunna up and gone long back to white-man-land?
    Uh unn… Not Bushie

    The bushman marching when Caswell form BUP and vow that there will be transparency and integrity and that all crooks will be relocated to Dodds ….or hung…..
    ….or if Islandgal going be there ..and going home with Bushie afterwards to do a postmortum ( 🙂 )

  2. Frustrated Businessman Avatar
    Frustrated Businessman

    As I said in the first blog comments, there is no identifiable purpose to Bobby’s march and he alienated too many groups. The message should be simple: march for new elections and let all the competing parties convince us they have solutions. I doubt there is any more money available to buy votes so the outcome should be fair.

  3. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    Then don’t think of it as a people march. Call it what it is – a PEP/PDC rally. Anything less than that is dishonesty.

    Bush Tea

    Sorry – ‘leave Bobby alone’ – and this from YOU? Christ.

  4. ac Avatar
    ac

    the barbadian got it right the first time ..and so it would be the second time around …love of country would be the trump card dealt.a card which will shift and refocus the importance of putting country first above all else…..which will keep barbadians away in droves…and putting a final closure to all other calls for mass protest

  5. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    The Bushman said:
    “It is for OTHER VOICES to now collectively join to create a genuine BAJAN movement against the BLP/DLP shiite….”

    And that is the whole point of any future marches on the island.

    Ross…..Westmonster??…….i like, i like..lol

    Ross…….It should be thought of as a people’s march, leave out all the shitty acronyms, they sound just like the pimphood titles out of buckingham palace, and look at all the sociopaths they produce……These are marches by the people for the people……leave the idiots completely out of it, just pretend they are faceless.

    Piece……you are way too much for one gal….lol

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  7. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    The antagonists are vilifying the protagonist of this protest by falsely stating, in innuendo and otherwise, that he and his intentions are being ratified by the BLP. However, Mr. Clarke has cleared the air on that matter, and now these naysayers/DLP yard-fowls are attempting to associate patriotism as the main factor preventing a larger participation in the protest.

    I honestly believe Barbadians are scared to join the “march” out of fear of being victimized and more so in a climate where jobs are in jeopardy and victimization is at an all time high. The DLP politicians have also contributed to this fear by the behavior they exhibit to those who dare to criticise them…… using their constituency branch meetings as a forum to lambast critics. We heard how Sinckler at his St. Michael North West constituency branch meeting abused David Ellis, Dennis Johnson, Peter Wickham, Corey Layne, Nefatari Caddle and other VOB moderators.

    Such treatment is also extended to callers to Brass Tacks. We have heard stories of victimization from individuals such Anthony Wiggins, Denis Lowe’s former branch secretary, the “Historian” and a few others who voiced their dissatisfaction with the performance of the DEMS. Even big business men have been included….. with Bizzy and COW crying foul.

    Skepticism will also prevent people to gather in their numbers lest they are recognized by DLP agents as having participated in the “march”. As such, the fear of losing one’s job will prevail, emanating especially from those who are employed by statutory corporations and employers who support the DLP.

    If we remember 1994, the variables associated with those “marches” were significantly different as opposed to the ones that are currently being organized. In 1994, the protests were endorsed by the island’s largest trade union movement the BWU and involved to some extent the NUPW. This in itself brought a perceived level of security of tenure to employees, i.e. protection of job and from victimization. Any fallout from that event affecting employees would have seen swift action being taken by these unions, and the consequences of such action would have “reverberated” throughout Barbados.

  8. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    David, ignorance is bliss my big toe.The fact of the matter is the march was a Colossal failure because it lacked a focused aim. There is alawys a silent discontent within the masses awaiting an opportunity to release its dissatisfaction with the ruling party, but Clarke unfortunately, failed miserably, in his efforts to aroused this segment of the conscience of masses.

  9. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    David

    One can’t help but to think that the PM is laughting his butt off, knowing fully well that this march has validated what he has being articulating all along. That we’re experiencing one of the worse economic melt down in recent times, and despite this reality, his Ministers performed exceptionally well given what their have had to deal with.

    David, it is disingenuous to blame the masses for a march which was poorly organized from the get go. We obviously have to thank Bobby Clarke for his efforts in bring awareness to the suffering of the Barbadian people. But the Barbadian people already know that their are suffering and therefore are looking for immediate solutions to address their immediate concerns. The people probably anticipated HOT AIR from Bobby Clarke and decided to looked and listened rather than rather than to actively participated in the march.

  10. kentusmaximus Avatar
    kentusmaximus

    ask permission? do dont ask! then as long as you all stay peaceful
    you will see what you are really up against.!
    see if the army or police beat or arrest people for a peaceful protest.
    film it. it is the only way you will ever know.!!!!

  11. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    It may be time to show some creativity. Everybody talking about marching, who was there and who was not. Who should lead and who should follow. Why people went and why most did not. And the usual suspects, lacking the ability to interpret events vex like hell with some of us.

    But marching is only one means to determined ends. In some ways marching is old fashion and like war one has to face one’s nemesis up close. There could be other non-violent actions that could better interfere with business as usual. There could be refusals to pay taxes. Some may decide to hack important communications systems. Other may carry this government to international tribunals for human rights violations. Yet others may refuse to recognize this government and have nothing to do with it. Etc!
    There is no need for one-dimensional thinking

  12. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Art said:
    “Even big business men have been included….. with Bizzy and COW crying foul.”

    So what is bizzy and cow crying foul about since they have both benefited mightily over the last 20 years from all the extortion, bribery, favors given practiced by both political parties BLP/DLP on the island, they have managed to amass land wealth, businesses etc through all that corruption, the only thing could be bothering them is that the free contracts they got at the expense of numerous local contractors island wide over the years have run their course and dried up AND these two clowns despite their wealth believe the should still be getting all the contracts and the numerous small, black contracts should still get nothing.

    I also suspect that since Peter Harris is buying up much of Barbados, even though both Bizzy and Cow are now candidates for Depends diapers they are as usual displaying their greed and selfishness believing they should be the only wealthy people on the island………pure nastiness from cow and bizzy as usual, there is no foul there, only greed and bad mind.

  13. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    But most of us are 1D, it must be B or D.

  14. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    To reiterate, should read:

    AND these two clowns despite their wealth believe the should still be getting all the contracts and the numerous small, black contractors should still get nothing and should continue to work for cow and bizzy, do these two asses ever look at themselves in a mirror, from where i am sitting they are both ugly in mind, spirit and body.

  15. ac Avatar
    ac

    where did all the brow beating chest thumping .blp yardfowls go….i guess reality is beginning to set in to the demented nuggets ,,,,with the reality that bajans would not be lead to be mislead but knows where and how to settle the score every five years… which seems to be a problem for the malcontents and frothy mout blp yardfowls would prefer guts and gore by any means necessary for the satisfaction of a few beast of prey and political hound dogs

  16. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    @ac
    Sit to phuck down…talking shite all day everyday on the blog stuuuuuuuuuuuuuupse.

  17. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    On the blog talking sewage whilst the BCC workers on for not being paid and the BTA office in Miami shut down–brekkk not a cent!!

  18. ac Avatar
    ac

    enuff,,who de hell lis you to tell me what to say and when to say it batty boy……

  19. GEORGIE PORGIE Avatar
    GEORGIE PORGIE

    Enuff | June 26, 2014 at 5:46 PM |
    to say that is talking shite is being redundant

    what else does ac talk?

    you must say ac talks
    all day everyday on the blog stuuuuuuuuuuuuuupse.

    we understand that it is shite that she talks

  20. David Avatar
    David

  21. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Nice old school calypso David.

  22. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    Well Well

    You have a point. Let’s see how it unravels.

    Someone suggested that the march be video taped.. Good idea.

    Dompey

    The first march was NOT a “colossal failure”. Those are your political leanings talking. It was the beginning of a movement. The question now is which way it all turns.

    Concern has been expressed about victimization. Given the track record of meanness of spirit, I think the threat is real. The more reason, then, for the ‘people’s march’ to be as broad based as possible.

    Islandgal

    You were at the first march – well I think you were. Please give your ‘take’ on the second.

  23. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    Pacha mentions human rights violations – I assume he means discrimination against gays. But yes, there are other options but if a ‘mere’ march is problematic how on earth do the masses orchestrate the “multidimensional” approach? Is HE proposing to hack into the PM’s personal emails? Or the PEP? Is Bush Tea proposing not to pay his taxes or the big boys in the PEP/PDC coalition? Should Commissiong bury his head in the sand after saying ‘I don’t recognize you. Kick my ass if you like’? Is David going to plot it all and assign roles?

  24. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    We see Mrs. Snide is at it again. She knows well we have no brief for that. If words are to be put in our mouths they should relate to reparations, empowerment. They should relate to UN cited crypto-racism in Barbados. We can’t understand how when these post slavery problems are still with us and all manner of distractions can take priority over them. Let’s fix these older problems first.

  25. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ David
    The artificial B or D divide is a fairly recent phenomenon. 60 or 70 years ago it might have been the Conservatives and the …….. But we need not defeat ourselves by something that seems hardwired into the culture today. Systems rise and fall all the time. You think the Bees and the Dees aint reading this blog and are not petrified with the frontal assaults they are getting from nearly all quarters. Truth be known, they have no answers. And they know that a lot of people now know this too. So the centre is under immense pressure. The centre cannot hold! Somethings must give!

  26. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    I don’t imagine that Fumble or Mia give a monkeys what a small bunch of know-alls, malcontents and crypto-racists have to say anonymously in cyber-world about anything very much. The proof of the pudding is this – how many of that bunch were at the first march? How many stepped out into the brave new world behind an old man with a stick?

    Sorry is that “snide”? OK. Live with it..

  27. Frustrated Businessman Avatar
    Frustrated Businessman

    BAMC staff got a ‘notice’ in the form of a slip of paper this month saying there is no money to pay them. No letterhead, no signature. No sugar industry. Yet a $300m sugar factory is in the pipeline to grind cane that does not exist and without the cane no rotation crops to feed Bim. I was recently told the ‘consultants’ fees’ on the factory are $20m so even if the factory isn’t built, the crows will get their carrion. March for new elections Bobby, let it all come out in the campaigns. Too many people suffering this idiotic mismanagement quietly.

  28. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Bobby Clarke

    The following Utensils are needed for the next March

    (i) Representative from the UWI Guild and the protesting Students
    (ii) your own website to protest the injustices and to chronicle the issues – suggestion you reach out to David [BU] for assistance in this regard. Use some uh de money dat you fleece you clients of and get a Youtube site for the video recordings. name de page something like ” A New Barbados – Because We Care” or “Barbados Must Change or we die”
    (iii) NCC workers and other disgruntled citizens who have been fired under disturbing circumstances
    (iv) your own cameramen and videographers who are interspersed among the group to capture scenes and remarks and to record any external formentors who will be sent to agitate and roit
    (v) email addresses for you to blitz with (1) the invitation leading up to the event and (2) your newsletter which should accompany and follow the event once per week – one pager only – people attention span will not tek two pages. Mek sure and bcc the list of your email/newsletter recipients unlike them next two asses Commisingsong and David Denny dat does send out mass mail wid everyone name showing

    While it is painfully obvious that I have issues with you personally, what you are doing resonates with be as a Bajan who seek my cuntry going down the drain led by the biggest cvntts our cuntry has ever elected to the Halls of Parliament EVER!!
    (vii) get a small truck speakers and a mike to broadcast the message during the demonstration. Axe David Commissingsong to get de same open back truch he use pun he victory lap post de last election when he did de onliest person pun he truck tormenting de residents uh de constituency, Mek sure only peeple with a coherent message get to use de microphone to speak, let the common man speak and rotate the microphone among the common man so that it is evident that it is the Peoples Rally and not the PEP or, LORD FORBID, those tow madmens from the PDC
    (vi) have de placards showing the specific issues

  29. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    Pieceuh

    Great. Thank you.

  30. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Excellent.
    You like you is a pieceuhanarchist yuh…. 🙂
    But then again…

    -The DLP jokers are such idiots that they have provided incentives for EVERYONE to join this march…
    -The dismissed 6000
    -The CLICO losers who still don’t get it….
    -Trotman – whose big trip they tek and give to Depeiza
    -The British American Insurance losers
    -The UWI students
    -Sir Cave Hilary and the UWI workers whose free ride days are numbered
    -The Credit Union savers whose assets will be shaved
    -Property owners who must now pay a SHIITE tax…
    -Renters who will have the shiite tax passed on..
    -Carson Cadogan – who like he tired defending the indefensible…
    ….shiite man – even Bizzy and COW may march – since they are not getting their bribe money’s worth….

    Wuh um look like only Negroman, ac, Dompey and the NUPW people in the DLP good books….

    LOL…Wuh you think Piece….? Those three truckloads of soldiers that Islandgal saw may well have been going down to join the march hear…?

  31. Passing thru Avatar
    Passing thru

    Wait Bobby marching again isn’t there a Crop Over event in the city at the same time. Lets see how this one goes. The bets are on numbers ranging from from 50 to 150 comprising anarchists, malcontents, communists and a few curious tourists.

    Haven’t got over Mascoll comment that government got it right with the foreign reserves hence there is no threat of devaluation. That’s the first positive Mascoll said about his country that educated him free of cost from primary to tertiary. If he takes a break from writing crap weekly in the anti-government rag and coax his cronies Don Marshall, Jeramy Stephens and the useless UWI cabal to shut to f*** up he would do his country a great service. We don’t need egotistical economists with repetitive drivel we already know their dire predictions. Time for them to do some real work and help the real people tackling the crisis put the country back on a sound footing.

  32. Passing thru Avatar
    Passing thru

    The unemployed would hardly join bobby and Commissiong these are people who looking for work and don’t have time to waste shuffling up and down town behind two pig headed so called lawyers.

  33. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    Passing thru…I just passed you out and flushed the toilet. Stay down in the cesspool and don’t float back up you piece of shoite!

  34. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    Wunna get wunna second land tax bill yet? It is double my land tax. Wunna gine pay um? I can’t afford to pay um I am pleading hard times.

  35. ac Avatar
    ac

    dont pay taxes ..go live in haiti and see wuh hell is like.

  36. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    AC ……you can afford to pay this shite tax unless you still renting after all these years. Don’t worry we will pass Haiti on our way down as she rises out of the ashes.

  37. OMG Chris Avatar
    OMG Chris

    A friend just got the Municipal Tax invoice on his property valued at $3M and he needs to pay $9000. How will he find $4500 by July 31? Where are the taxpayers educated lawyers in Barbados who should be fighting this unjust imposition? Many will go to the mad house those unable to pay will become criminals and many will loose their properties.

  38. are-we-there-yet? Avatar
    are-we-there-yet?

    OMG Chris;
    Yuh sure ’bout dem figures?
    Yuh talking ’bout a commercially active very rich friend?
    Or about a farmer with a small plantation dat in bush waiting for a change of use of the land?
    Or about a pensioner with nothing coming in except the pension?
    I wonder why dat site value looks somehow contrived?

    Anybody else got some real figures dat doze of us who en get de notice yet can gauge what the damage is likely to be?

  39. are-we-there-yet? Avatar
    are-we-there-yet?

    OMGChris;

    Or he just rounded off the figures to make the calculation easy to understand?
    I suspect the median site value of a typical house in Barbados is about $48,000. (i.e 4,000 sq ft @ 12.00 $ per sq ft). A 0.3% tax on that would be $144.00 or $72.00 $ per instalment.
    For a Bushtea with a site improved by a hut and storage for his lawnmowers, lets say the site value could be about $480,000 and that would attract a tax of $720.
    For a COW Williams type with, say, improved sites totalling 4,500 acres @ lets say a total site value of say $9,000,000.00, the tax would be only$27,000.00. Eminently payable by a businessman of that ilk.

  40. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    The municipal tax on agricultural land is approximately 33% of the land tax.

  41. ac Avatar
    ac

    ddon,t worry about how ac live..the fact is that i live.and if i want to live in a palace.i must be prepared to foot the cost..or be contented to live like a pig..or live like bush tea in the bush..where there is no cost..

  42. David Avatar
    David

    Government entities have to pay the tax should assume the MoF will waive the tax, the government is broke.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    Are we reading right? Is this what we have been posting on BU for years?

    Third oldest Commonwealth parliament wants to dump British political system

    June 27, 2014

    The Parliament Buildings (Bridgetown/Barbados); photographed in october 2007

    The Parliament buildings in Bridgetown, Barbados (Credit: Caribbean360/Bigstock)

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday June 27, 2014, CMC – With experience of the Westminster parliamentary system for 375 years in their consciousness, Barbadian politicians are saying they want a change from this adversarial mode of governance.

    Speaker of Parliament, Michael Carrington, on Thursday said the one reservation he had regarding Barbados’s Parliament is that the adapted the British Westminster system, which, “appeared to pit Government and Opposition inexorably against each other in aggressive, contentious and oftimes seemingly unnecessary confrontation”.

    Carrington, an elected member of government, was speaking at a joint meeting of the two chambers of parliament – House of Assembly and Senate – to mark the 375th anniversary of that institution in Barbados.

    http://www.caribbean360.com/news/third-oldest-commonwealth-parliament-wants-to-dump-british-political-system?utm_source=Caribbean360%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=4dd669d4a5-Vol_9_Issue_128_News6_27_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_350247989a-4dd669d4a5-39425505

  44. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ are-we-there-yet
    Shoot man….you have to talk out Bushie’s business so?
    You know how many malicious people duh got here on BU?
    ….good thing you ain’t know bout Bushie’s REAL assets… 🙂

    LOL
    The next thing that Sinckler will tax will be those treasures that Christians like GP and Zoe have stored up in Heaven….. 🙂

  45. GEORGIE PORGIE Avatar
    GEORGIE PORGIE

    sorry BT those punks cant get my inheritance at all
    1 peter 1:3-5
    3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

    4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

    5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

  46. are-we-there-yet? Avatar
    are-we-there-yet?

    Bushtea; Sorry, that should be $720 per instalment. I didn’t check the figures.

    I was referring to a much less well endowed bushtea type than the original. Of course your tax would be much higher than that befitting a man with your direct connections to the BBE.

  47. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    A future certain coalitional regime of Barbados and of which the PDC shall be part will ABOLISH ALL TAXATION in this country, and replace it with the right and appropriate strategies, policies and programs for the government making far, far greater use than it is currently doing of money, resources, assets, partners coming within its embrace in this country.

    PDC

  48. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ AWTY
    …don’t mek sport… $1440 per year…? …pon a bush hut?
    Shiite man….Bushie may be forced to sell the damn Benz…. 🙂

    @ GP
    You better hush…. If Sinckler could figure out how to calculate a percentage of the mansion that Jesus gone to prepare for you …..your ass would be grass boss…

    @ PDC
    Boss…wunna beginning to sound good yuh!! Since Sinckler come up with this shiite tax and Credit Union asset raid – wunna tax policies beginning to sound rational – compared to the DLP’s…

    …answer these questions for Bushie ….and PDC getting the bush vote next time – instead of the sleeping Shakespeare….

    1- WUNNA WILL SCRAP THE SHIITE (money city pull) tax?
    2- WUNNA putting back the Credit Union money that Sinckler thieving?

    …if YES to these, …wunna vote count going straight to 9 – with Bushie and the mistress two votes…. Next election.
    (Unless of course Caswell decide to BUP….)

  49. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @ Enuff | June 26, 2014 at 5:59 PM |

    On the blog talking sewage whilst the BCC workers on for not being paid and the BTA office in Miami shut down–brekkk not a cent!!……………

    Add to this Invest Barbados in London shutting down by month end!

  50. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ David, you said
    ‘Are we reading right? Is this what we have been posting on BU for years?”

    That was exactly our response. Seems to us as though these political placeholders are ready BU all the time and have benefited from our general trajectory. ‘Our logic is undeniable’, said the robot to the computer in the movie by the same name starring Will Smith. We happen to know more than a little about plagiarism and we recognized the wholesale lifting of the language of some BU people coming from the mouthings of the donkeys that are currently leading the lions. But this is not merely in the political sphere. In economy, the same is true. Our so-called private sector leaders have long lost their way and that needs radical transformation too, as the Indians and others are gearing up to challenge White dominance in Barbados. Our goodly colleague, Bushie will not share this view, but in religion or matters spiritual, the same is true. ”WE ARE INDEED, THE ONES THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN WAITING FOR!.” Rise up and make a stand! Any stand.

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