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Bolt Solutions Inc, CAIPO registry # 37941, Category = company, date registered 2014-02-19 Bolt Solutions Inc, CAIPO registry # 37941, Category = company, date registered 2014-02-19 – see CAIPO Director document

Just like 3S and others we observe companies being registered on the face of it to be eligible to tender and receive government contracts. In the case of the above project being managed by the Ministry of the Environment (Denis Lowe’s ministry) we question who is BOLT Solutions Inc. It is the right of Barbadians to ask questions but more importantly the government promised to be transparent. We want to know.

We also want to know if Bjerkham’s company has tendered for a multimillion dollar contract if this does not represent a conflict of interest as a result of his membership on the Board of the Central Bank of Barbados.

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86 responses to “Barbados Government Not Committed to Transparency”

  1. lemuel Avatar
    lemuel

    Well Well:
    Well said!!

  2. MR.C Avatar
    MR.C

    This is the same old song that has been playing for so many years. First of all, the people that has been placed to help the people, for many years seem to be mostly helping THEMSELVES. You are constantly PROMISED, BUT NEVER DELIVERED. This has become the norm, and as long as the people don’t do anything but TALK, AND MORE TALK, NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE. Even mentioning the word GOVERNMENT, makes me laugh. Because they aren’t doing shit for the people, by the people, or for the people. Only a few will get. But the masses will continue to suffer.
    What need to have been changed over the years, is that before anyone is able to throw his, or her hat into the political arena, they should first make it know what they are starting with (HIS OR, HER WORTH BEING VISIBLE) But this is NEVER done because it would make it too easy to see how they are able to live large on the salaries being paid to them. I will die and go to my grave saying that NOTHING will change simply from words being said without steps being taken. It seems that the people has no say in making changes in regards to gaining a better life, and knowing what’s going on. The Government knows that the people are going to keep talking, while they do whatever pleases them. And at the end of the day, they are getting over like FAT RATS.
    It’s so interesting that they can lay people off, and does all this cutting back, but not one of them thus far has taken a pay cut, or has STOP spending money of unnecessary trips for conventions that can be done through modern technology, as so many other countries are using to save money for airfares, hotels and other things that the taxpayers are paying for.
    In all honesty, I don’t feel that THE GOVERNMENT really cares shit about the NEEDS of the people. IT’S ALL ABOUT THEM.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    Another document which show change of directors for St. Peters Bay, a principal is Bjerkhamn who sits on the Board of the Central Bank and who will work on the WtE plant. Conflict of interest?

    http://barbadosunderground.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=42840&action=edit

  4. Anti Corruption Officer. Avatar
    Anti Corruption Officer.

    Cannot see the document

  5. 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

    NEW YORK TIMES. JUNE 30TH 2014
    Washington, the United States attorney’s office and district attorney’s office in Manhattan, as well as the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and New York’s financial regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky — provides a template for prosecuting other financial misdeeds. In the coming months, the focus will shift to a number of big banks suspected of manipulating foreign currencies.

    In the BNP case, the authorities sought to send a message that no bank is immune from criminal charges, despite lingering concerns that financial institutions have grown so large and interconnected that they are “too big to jail.” The decision to require BNP’s parent company to plead guilty, coming six weeks after Credit Suisse pleaded guilty to helping American clients evade taxes, reflects a broader policy shift after decades of civil settlements and so-called deferred prosecution agreements.

    “This outcome should send a strong message to any institution — any institution anywhere in the world — that does business in the United States: that illegal conduct will simply not be tolerated,” United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said at a news conference on Monday.

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

    Basel 3 is set up to ensure a great degree of responsibility in the banks… no deposit can be taken or held without the corresponding documents to show the trail of the funds as this has a direct bearing on the liquidity of the system and the impact of that liquidity on interest rates and the net worth of the assets of the bank. So no funds will be moved through BONY or CITI or US banks from or to sources un confirmed.

  7. Anti Corruption Officer. Avatar
    Anti Corruption Officer.

    What is BOOT (build, own, operate, transfer)?

    BOOT (build, own, operate, transfer) is a public-private partnership (PPP) project model in which a private organization conducts a large development project under contract to a public-sector partner, such as a government agency. A BOOT project is often seen as a way to develop a large public infrastructure project with private funding.

    Here’s how the BOOT model works: The public-sector partner contracts with a private developer – typically a large corporation or consortium of businesses with specific expertise – to design and implement a large project. The public-sector partner may provide limited funding or some other benefit (such as tax exempt status) but the private-sector partner assumes the risks associated with planning, constructing, operating and maintaining the project for a specified time period. During that time, the developer charges customers who use the infrastructure that’s been built to realize a profit. At the end of the specified period, the private-sector partner transfers ownership to the funding organization, either freely or for an amount stipulated in the original contract. Such contracts are typically long-term and may extend to 40 or more years.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    @Deeds

    Really?

  9. Anti Corruption Officer. Avatar
    Anti Corruption Officer.

    BOLT arrangements are like Credit Card debt. At sometime living on credit will catch up with you. After 25 years how much will the $25M accrue to and what are the guaranteed monthly payments.

  10. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Caswell Franklyn July 6, 2014 at 6:14 AM “BU alright to talk but I just lost most of my $5 million to my siblings and I need to make it back.”

    Caswell or whoever: But the 5 million was never yours so you cannot lose what you never owned.

    And tobesides you (or who ever it is) shudda known that your siblings are as money grubbing as you are.

    But wait Caswell mudda ain’t dead.

    Whoever.

  11. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @ Caswell Franklyn July 6, 2014 at 8:59 AM “All of you can talk but how many of you know what it is like to lose $5 million of your hard earned bribe money.

    Simple’s reply: But bribe money is never hard earned.

    @ Caswell Franklyn July 6, 2014 at 8:59 AM “If you think that I going back to a point where court marshals looking for me with a warrant to commit me to Dodds for cock tax

    Simple’s reply: Wha kinda Lowe down rascal don’t pay he $50 a week cock tax?

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Caswell Franklyn July 6, 2014 at 9:24 AM “What would give you that impression? I would never say such things about an honourable gentleman”

    But iffing if he was neider honourable nor a gentleman,,,what then?

  13. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @MoneyBrain July 6, 2014 at 9:54 AM “What Bim MUST have is STRICT INTEGRITY Legislation combined with TRIPLING the PAY for MPs to attract the most Professional and CLEVEREST Bajans.”

    But what if we do this and get MP’s who are 3 times as greedy, and 3 times as dishonest and ho understand 3 times as well how to hide their greed and dishonesty?

  14. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Simple Simon

    You are having lots of fun but being broke is not funny. Now I have to go and build something to get back my money.

    >

  15. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Lemuel | July 6, 2014 at 8:10 AM |
    BOLT means “build” “operate” “lease” “transfer”. The company would design build and operate the building until they are repaid. The Government has been very incompetent in these deals and our eyes have jucked out for a number of these agreements.
    ………………………………………………………………………..
    For sure. The Minister responsible ,at the time Dodds Prisons were built, under this BOLT action, did not know if the quotation was in Bajan or US dollars.

  16. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    David did you go to your sports corner ?

  17. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Colonel Buggy July 6, 2014 at 10:00 PM “For sure. The Minister responsible ,at the time Dodds Prisons were built, under this BOLT action, did not know if the quotation was in Bajan or US dollars”

    Really? How could a Minister not know if a quote was in USD or BDS?

    If I go up to a taxman in town and tell him I want to go to the airport, and he tells me 25 dollars I will ask $25 USD? or $25 BDS? before I get in the man vehicle.

    How can a Minister accept a quote for a big-able prison and not ascertain whether the quote is in USD of USD?

    You joking right??

  18. Anti Corruption Officer. Avatar
    Anti Corruption Officer.

    Corruption Reporting Form
    https://intlbankforreconanddev.ethicspointvp.com/custom/ibrd/_crf/form_data.asp

  19. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @Simple Simon
    20 YEARS HARD LABOUR should discourage any MISCREANTS!
    STRICT not part of your vocabulary?

    The real problem in the Western World is that we have lost a sense of DISCIPLINE! U can murder 3 young women in Canada without any doubt about it and still live, that is NONSENSE. An Australian murdered an old guy in cold blood and received 20 years and was out in 10yrs! None of these types should be walking this Earth!

    The time has long come for REINTRODUCING serious consequences. How come very little crime occurs in Singapore??? Pols there know the Integrity Legislation WILL bite them hard in all parts. Singapore MPs make big $$$, over $2mn+/yr.

  20. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Lighten up.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    Have a read of The Fraud and Corruption Handbook for Civil Servants

  22. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Money….don’t care how much you pay greedy politicians, they will still find a way to collect bribes and be corrupt, that is why the Singapore government executes them when they are caught or just chop of their damn hands……it’s a wonderful reminder.

  23. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @WW
    Exactly why the Integrity Legislation gots to have viscous Great White SHARK TEETS! When dem clamps down pun ya U will feel nuff PAIN!

    I volunteer to be Chief PAIN CONSEQUENCES Executive!

    I have been very proud of Bajans and Bim for most of my life BUT the Pols UTTER FAILURE and CORRUPTION really “aggravates” me because the Bajan People are good peeps and dont deserve to be RAPED and PILLAGED by these CROOKS!

    Pols around the World think Politics is their path to Enhanced Net Worth and so should be put on a spacecraft pointed at the SUN and with no steering mechanism blasted in that direction with nuclear engines.

  24. 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

    MoneyBrain | July 7, 2014 at 1:07 PM | @

    YOU ARE HEREBY HIRED, STARTING DATE 7/7/7

  25. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Moneybrain………i feel your pain, but when you have intellectually weak-minded leaders like Fruendel Stuart who absolutely refuses to institute integrity legislation, which is the very first challenge to overcome before these stupid ass criminals for politicians can be arrested….nothing will happen

    There are many bajan whites that are horrified by the idiocy of Chris Sinckler who was not even aware that Bizzy will be getting the garbage FOR FREE……..while being paid millions to separate and get rich off same, and get this, on government owned land that i am sure he pays not one dime for……at this point only dumb ass politicians who would sign such a contract should be blamed, named and shamed…….Money, we could go on all day, and i am sure they will give us even more ammunition to go on and on into the future….black politicians are just weak to the nth degree.

  26. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @WW
    Far too many White Pols plenty CROOKED in the US I am told Finestein entered office with a Net Worth of less than $1mn and is now at $200MN???

    ON A Congressional Salary???????? Would gladly laugh if $$$$$$$$$$ grew pun trees!

    These mudder tuckers deserve some serious treatment!
    China WUSSER! all round the Earth!

  27. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    NATIONNEWS UNDERSTANDS THAT from today until possibly the end of the week, only emergency surgeries will be done at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).

  28. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Moneybrian:

    When have you not known American politicians to be crooked, criminality built America and they will go down with criminality……..as i was saying earlier, don’t care how many millions/billions corrupt politicians have, they always feel there is room for more, bribe taking is high on their list of greedy crimes…….true parasites, i have an intense dislike for politicians, they have always been stains on the earth.

  29. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @WW
    Pols have always been tending towards CRIMINALITY! Most humans that are interested in and thrive in Politics are Sociopaths!

  30. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    MB……you have to be a SOCIOPATH to even want to be a politician…..that is the truth.

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Thanks for highlighting, it is a serious matter. So where to begin, the 30 million dollar budget will not impact primary healthcare or Bajans need to buy what they need from private before being admitted to the QEH.

    On 7 July 2014 22:30, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

  32. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    My fellow Bajans in the diaspora should make sure they have medical insurance coverage when vacationing in Barbados.

  33. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    Yes $MN so they can be evacuated to Miami.
    I have set up for such coverage and it is not expensive.

  34. Tell me Why Avatar
    Tell me Why

    David, you can attest to my information:
    Way back in 2007, this blogger under another moniker was instrumental in the exposing of the builder of the ABC highway by 3S under this bolt agreement. Jonathan Danos, the head honcho of 3S started this company less than 4 months prior to the awarding of this massive contract. I kick hell with this transaction by the Bees and although in the final analysis based on the road building only, this project was completed less than 5 years. That’s a fact. I was concerned with the flyovers which were mainly ramps. I criticize the technocrats that the constant back-ups were caused by not having full time one-way roads into the city from north, east and south. This would have alleviated the constant back-up.

    My main contention based on the above subject is the BOLT system, which simply means Build, Operate, lease and finally Transfer. This arrangement would allow massive infrastructures to be built without the state injecting finance during construction. However, the “Operate” part usually include the maintenance of the project until the “Transfer” to the state. I cannot state if this really happen to Barbados’ BOLT arrangements.

    At the moment, after six years the tinkering of this highway is still continuing. Can the minister state to the Nation how much money is being spent on the highway since 2008????????? Ah waiting to hear from this cover-up.

    BTW, the operations in Vaucluse Waste Plant by one of Barbados’ business mogul is operating just like a BOL”T” arrangement. B – built by Williams, O – operate by Williams, L – we paying and supplying raw materials, T – will never be transfer to the state. Question; Why are we paying solid waste tax when the country will not be benefiting from its gain.

  35. Tell me Why Avatar
    Tell me Why

    ……and BUSH TEA you was my inspiration, you backed me in my every submission. That’s why I respect you and will challenge statements when you get out of hand. You intelligent Brassbowl.

  36. Concerned Citizen Avatar
    Concerned Citizen

    Cahill cleared themselves well while drawing fire to ease the anger directed towards government. Not a government member turned up at the Town Hall meeting. We are bulled for the next 30 years with no cheaper electricity and a project now at $600M with cost still rising.

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