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Dear Sir or Madam,

I can not find a way to post on your site so I am submitting this article for your consideration and hope that you will post it

L’attitude beach bar and grill, Speightstown – how is this illegal operation allowed to continue?

L’attitude is situated on the Speightstown board walk behind Jordan’s supermarket. It occupies a vast space, illegally and on crown land. This establishment has no planning consent or permission to be there and yet it continues to exist even after several local business owners have made complaints to the department of housing and lands and town and country planning.

These departments must be applauded for their speedy actions in removing the gentleman who set up an illegal operation on the constitution river project, and for their slightly less swift actions in removing the gentleman with a café and rock dundo and the illegal structure in front of sandy crest medical centre.

No one should be denied the right to earn a living but surely if anyone can just come and set up a business on government land then we are headed for a state of anarchy.

So how is L’attitude being allowed to continue? Enquirers have been told by a gentleman at housing and land that the business owner, Canadian Pierre Spennard, has friends in high places and were anyone else to do what he is doing they would be shut down immediately Who are these friends? From what I am told they include professor Henry Fraser and former prime minister Owen Arthur. Does this seem right to you?

To add insult to injury it turns out that Spennard bankrupted his former company, Jusco Holdings Ltd and shut down Mangos restaurant, owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to his landlords and just about every food and beverage supplier on Barbados, None of them have been paid but he is allowed to set up next door and carry on.

I believe that none of this should be allowed to happen and that action needs to be taken sooner rather than later.


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140 responses to “L’attitude Beach Bar and Grill, Speightstown – How is this Illegal Operation Allowed to Continue?”


  1. Listen! A White friend of mine said to me just a few minutes ago: You know Dompey….you’re a nice friend to have around…. And I said to him: sure pal…. but let me ask you this question though: many slaves did you family had around back in the day? And you should have seen the expression on this poor White guy’s face… it was as red as Tom Adams’ face, when dat madman run off with the annual budget back in the 1980’s.


  2. why are these things allowed to happen in Barbados, appears no one is doing due diligence, what are these ministers and public servants being paid for?

    http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/no-bwa-bills-for-10-years/


  3. Maybe they are being paid with bribery by people like Spennard and that is better for them than the good of the island which they don’t seem to care about at all.


  4. David did you follow the link provided by Well Well | August 8, 2014 at 3:57 PM |

    THE ULTIMATE UNLEGISLATED APARTHEID.

  5. Life changer + Avatar

    @ Well Well.
    “In a functioning democracy the public must have faith that its representatives owe their positions to the people, not to the corporations with the deepest pockets.” It seems again, an invester / Bajan has got hard evidence of a money trail. This needs to be documented With all associated paperwork. If the mans Canadian the report it there. If 21 people from England can take the Bajan Government to Court (HARLIQUIN) then I’m sure a few form investors Canada can.


  6. Most recently the BWA lapsed ,for one month ,in sending out bills to many consumers. The next bill came out with the threat in big red capitals. DUE OF DISCONNECTION. I’ve had the service for 30 something years and have always paid my bill on time,and I was also threatened with disconnection. There was no error in the BWA not fitting meters to these upscale homes in Mango Bay. Like Sandy Lane Golf course where a lot of unauthorised connection were discovered, some one at the BWA got his/her personal bank account inflated. Someone at the BWA is very rich indeed, when you add the kickback received for not metering these places, added to the kickbacks received from the fictitious water that Bizzy William was supplying from his ionics plant to the BWA . There must be many more places like this all over the island. But it is always the poor in Barbados who suffers. Imagine the people of St Joseph and some of the other northern parishes had to go without water for up to 4/5 days on end, and still had to pay for the service. Some of those affected people also got disconnection notices. But I’ll bet that the residents in Mango Bay who were freeloading ,did not suffer any such discomfort ,as the BWA, like all of the other utilities in this island, go out of their way to ensure that those residents in upscale areas, including Cattlewash are well looked after,and to hell with the rank and file
    After 47 years of independence , we are still loitering under the evergreen tree in the bottom yard. No wonder the Trinis and rich people from across the world are queuing up to get a piece of real estate in Barbados.To put it mildly, Barbados is the last bastion of the capitalists.


  7. Lifechanger…….it’s becoming increasingly difficult to give the DLP/BLP ministers/senators/civil servants in Barbados the benefit of the doubt when we can clearly see that they are gleefully practicing corruption to the detriment of the majority on the island.

    Someone is the BWA took bribes not to meter that gated community, it’s stink and appalling, the person responsible for metering is not even there anymore to question.

    Something has to give in Barbados, it’s all coming to a head…..it’s disgraceful.

  8. Life changer + Avatar

    Until Freedom of information legislation is implemented worldwide, and until transparency is accepted as a basic democratic right here in Barbados to all there will always be an element of threat to personal and professional safety for both journalists and sources involved in exposing corruption. Which should be headed by a seemingly suspect prime minister.


  9. Western politics has always been predicated upon the self-interest, over the collective-interest. And no amount of checks and balances or transparency legislation, will deter the desires and passions of sinful man.


  10. Who is the bigger crook? The one that pays a bribe, or the one that demands it?

    Discuss

    My money is on the one that demands it.


  11. Firbear………..i do see your point, in 2014 you have black politicians demanding bribes from whosoever will without a thought to how it impacts on majority who pay their salaries and on whom they depend each and every election to elevate them to the status of leaders of the island……it’s appalling, in saying that, i would definitely like to see the bribers imprisoned, they lock up poor people for small infractions in Barbados, but their bribers commit crimes of vast magnitudes against the same taxpayes and these bitches DLP/BLP help them, it’s sickening.


  12. Life changer

    You’re an idealist in the true sense of the word because what you’re suggesting could quite possibly be realized within the deep domain of the human imagination. And how do you expect an imperfect system to bear perfect fruit? in any instant, I try to look beyond the superficiality of any given issue, in effort to substantiate it validity. So therefore, it undermines the basic premise of fact, to even conceive for one moment that any type of transparency legislation will rectify the faults, failings and potential corruption, which belies man’s nature.


  13. An exemplary post for the standard rant….’he said, she said, what the soldier said………’

    ac has it right.


  14. but then again ross this is the BU version of The Court Of Law ,,,,,every Jack and jac as ..s is judge and juror ,,,


  15. Simple Simon your contribution to this post has been remarkably informative. I was taken aback by your detailed and personal analysis of the historical context of those who “owned” the land and the plight of their sitting and exploited tenants over the centuries.

    I have drawn a clear conclusion from all those who have contributed to this post: Barbados has, sadly, become a festering, corrupt, cesspit governed since the days of independence by two morally bankrupt political parties egged on by an equally despicable wealthy elite (of all races and nationalities).

    We speak and procrastinate whilst the wealthy elite, the business elite and their partners in crime – the government – plot against the citizens of this country. Put simply the bastards are looting the wealth from this country and laying siege to it.

    So what is the solution? We should put on a united front from all disparate groups and parishes irrespective of our backgrounds. This government’s mismanagement of Barbados is no accident; plans were put in place sometime ago. Are puppet government and the one before it was instructed by their puppeteers that Barbadians were meek and mild mannered; and far too dumb to defend themselves against naked aggression? Well they were wrong!

    There are many ways to reverse the status quo in Barbados. If only 10 percent of the population of Barbados were to march directly into Bridgetown and headed towards the Parliament building the government would understand that the times were a changing! There should be no hiding place for these scoundrels, political whores and malignants.

    This protest would be peaceful and should last for three days. The objective of this protest should be clear: Barbadians will not permit or allow the wealthy elite, the business elite or its corrupted political parties to continue their looting of what belongs to the people. Those who gained from corrupt practices must be held to account and those gains must be returned to the people.

    PS. Please reference my reply to Colonel Buggy under the Emancipation Message post at Exclaimer | August 6, 2014 at 7:54 AM |


  16. And beneath the usual rant, there are freedoms we too often take for granted. Freedoms Such as: intellectual-autonomy/mental-freedom/ cognitive-freedom/ self-determination/ self-perfection/ self-realization/self-actaulization, and all the above, these freedoms are limited or exercise a greater measure of lattitude by the fundamental of all freedoms; political-freedom. And it is only through political-freedom that all of the above mentioned freedoms are realized.


  17. Wunna worry about a beach bar when de politicians tekking money for capital works. Cheupse.


  18. Just like Mia who mekking noise about a rescheduled NCF event while she make $8M from the Four Season Hotel deal her friend Chris Sinckler signed off on last week. Mia, how much is Chris Sinkler cut for having you as de lawyer.


  19. One of your papers carried an article some years ago of this west coast hotel opened in 1987 and up to 1997 had not paid a water bill .The elitist in Porters know how to get around BWA.My sister recently had her water disconnected for 121dollars although she paid the bill. Have to pay a reconnection fee.Elitist ain’t paying only poor -man.


  20. They will come a time when the poor man like a cat whose back is against the wall strikes back viciously.


  21. Barbados has been at 5 minutes to midnight for a long time. 1937 will be repeated if the powerful are kept from prison for wrongdoings.


  22. Nothing is going to happen because the mature people on the island will simply talk about it, and do nothing, and the young people on the island will ignore it and continue partying on their parents money.


  23. About 10 years ago just about 400 meters from the dry watercourse where Jah See’s home was demolished on the orders of Town and Country Planning in late May 2014 two toddlers drowned in a swimming pool of a European (Austrian or German or something) a musician called maybe Dr. Mehter. The pool was foolishly fenced by horizontal easily climable bars, and the house may be illegally situated in the same 1 zone 1 as Jah See’s home and as Desmond Hinds’ home. That house was build there in the late 70’s or early 80’s long after zoning came into effect.

    Was there a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of these infants?

    Did the coroner make recommendations?

    And have those recommendations been implemented?

    And other questions, who gave permission for that white foreigner to build his house there?

    And who gave permission for a pool to be fenced with horizontal bars?

    And if Town and Country Planning gave permission why did they do so?

    And if Town and Country Planning did not give permission, how come the house is sited there?

    And if Town and Country Planning did not give permission how come they have not moved to demolish the white foreigner’s home?

    Almost certainly those children would not have drowned if that house was not sited there, right next to the home of poor black people too poor to fence their yard, and too poor to hire a care giver so that a tired mother could rest for a while.

    And so the children died.

    And how come nobody has gone to jail for the deaths of those children?


  24. @GEORGIE PORGIE August 7, 2014 at 9:29 PM
    Henry Fraser is no sweet bread…He will get the knighthood he craves soon enough though.

    People duz still knighthoods?

    Especially people past 75…who are waiting in life’s departure lounge.


  25. Simple Simon…I saw the demo of Jah see’s home the day it was done I felt real sorry for him. I heard that his family own most of that land (nuff acres) . Their family had owned a nearby plantation. His brother Natty ted was giving me the story even though Jah see and him don’t gree.. It is sad when you own land and can’t build on it.

    The same thing is happening on some land in My Lord’s hill. The owners can’t build on it but some squatters came and done just that. When the owners asked them what they were doing there they were told that the minister sent them there.

    Justice is only for the rich


  26. @islandgal246 “It is sad when you own land and can’t build on it”….and the *successive governments which dispossessed you of the use of your own family land in 1962 does not compensate you for the land use, does not provide you with an alternate spot, and forcibly removes you from the only place you call home.

    *and here I include the British colonial authorities under whose watch this was done in 1962.


  27. You must write a book Simple simon it will be an eye opener and a Best seller. These stories must be told and not be forgotten. What I can’t understand is the lack of support these poor people have from the communities. In other countries like Jamaica those big houses would have been razed.
    I remembered an Englishman telling me that he lived on the West Coast and that he moved to sugar Hill because the neighbours on the coast were a nuisance.I asked how were they a nuisance ? He said that he lived in a condo close to Lone star and that his neighbour who lived in a small wooden house would drink and become noisy. Only to find out later that the same Englishman was the one buying the rum for the neighbour.

    I have also been told by some of these mansion owners in gated communities that they love where they live in Barbados (if only for 3 months of the year) BUT they don’t like the look of the village beyond the gates. I told them that is a reminder that they are in Barbados and that those villages were there long before the gated community was built.


  28. The unpaid and underpaid ancestors of those same poor villagers made the English rich. Very, very rich.


  29. If the English visitors don’t like the look of poverty thaen they can pay the long overdue reparations.

    I would use my money to buy a mansion in a fancy gated community..and live the life my beautiful grandmother was denied, and denied, and denied.

    I could live and I would live like a rich Englishman.

  30. Life changer + Avatar

    @ Dompey.
    Corruption has grown so widespread and sophisticated that it threatens to undermine the very fabric of Bajan society. It seems like almost nothing gets done here unless a palm is greased. A bribe / sweetener to the right person will enable one to pass an exam, get a driver’s license, land a contract, or win a lawsuit. “Corruption is like a heavy pollution that weighs on people’s spirits,”

  31. Life changer + Avatar

    @ Simple Simon.
    Aside the corruption, would you say its not the choices we make its the choices that make us.
    Firstly, my parents tended to be not only frugal, but well-disciplined. My parents came from middle-class backgrounds. My mother first worked in a factory and my father worked as a Carpenter. They progressed to law and Engineer. My parents were not wealthy, but somewhat comfortable. They told me that they never felt embarrassed by where they lived or the type of home they had. To a considerable degree, it is the uniquely Bajan upward socioeconomic mobility that fuels much of the hyper-consuming engine of the market for luxury goods, prestige products, upscale brands, expensive homes and so on here now.
    Income one’s vocation has much to do with accumulating wealth. Educators, engineers, business owners and retail store managers here on the Island have a tendency to live below their means and to be quite efficient in transforming their income into wealth over the years with there somewhat anti social lives.


  32. How did this thread migrate from a Canadian setting up an illegal bar to Englishmen exploiting Bajans?
    Surely the question at hand is who facilitated the bar, why is it not pulled down, who is protecting it?
    The owner is apparently only doing what comes naturally in Bajan business dealings, he is bribing someone in authority. Who can blame him? It is the norm here, Bajan administrators expect it as a perk of the job.
    However, NOTHING will be done about it because every time the issue is raised the focus is shifted from the bribery and corruption to how whitey Brit abused us.
    The bribe takers love it ‘cos they know they safe.
    We nee to focus on the bribe takers, they are the ones undermining our society. And guess what ethnic background they are from.


  33. “And guess what ethnic background they are from.” Has anything changed in 400 years? Is betrayal of one’s own people a genetic trait or learnt behaviour?


  34. @AJew
    Nothing changes regardless of genetics.
    While the administrators can keep the emphasis on the black/white thing it leaves them free to rob us black. Cos they black it seems to be ok. If they were white it would be a different story.

    Cue lots of rants about whitey and how they done exploit Bim for centuries.
    Before you start, just remember, shit falls with gravity and it black shit coming down.


  35. @Firbear

    Just have a look at BU forum which is mirror of Bajan society, what do you see?


  36. @David
    I see articles about crooks and charlatans in positions of power destroyed by continuing the black/white debate.
    It seems that as soon as the posts get into the executive thievery that is endemic in Bajan society, someone starts on about some white Brit etc,etc,etc.
    It looks suspiciously like deliberate sabotage sometimes.
    The past is the past an we cannot change it. Let us clean up the present so that we can leave a better future for our children. At the moment we wallowing in our past and using it as an excuse for all of our ills.


  37. @Firbear

    It is because of our past that we will be challenged with the present. Bear in mind in predominant White countries the same problems exist. There will be no nirvanna, always the struggle to be better.

  38. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926TO 2014 MASSIVE FRAUD LANDTAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS, BARBADOS DLP/BLP MASSIVE PONZI FRAUD Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926TO 2014 MASSIVE FRAUD LANDTAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS, BARBADOS DLP/BLP MASSIVE PONZI FRAUD

    MoneyBrain | August 8, 2014 at 7:49 AM |

    @Simpy
    Part of the problem in Bim is that we were reliant on Sugar and the price fluctuated ridiculously. In the last 40yrs the World price has been between 62 and 2 cents. Many plantations went out of business in that time period. Life was tough for the vast majority, my father had to leave Combemere in 1920 at 13 to go to work to help support his siblings.@@

    MoneyBrain @ you also have History, The Sugar Prices as posted before did drop due to WW1 and WW2, Information that use to be on line by the Barbados Archives that was removed will show that 1914, 1924 and 1947 over 90% of Plantation change hands due to sugar prices,
    Many Whites leave the Island and Beatrice Henry born a Jemmot bought up what was for sale from her cus Auction man D Scott.
    There are only one that have COW Canefield of 238arces 1970 and no more a one more or 2 for 2006.
    Now the records gone missing , but we copy off the net all we could before it was removed, At this time we have more information than the Archive, Library,and land registry.Also book from 1920 to show what and who did and own Sugar,
    DBLP talking but have no proof to show base on fraud and cover up , believe the un-belive-able to see your way to the truth.. Everyday in Barbados its lies and cover up ruling with Master of Fraud,
    MB , I can see you now.


  39. Deeds
    MB, I can see you know—

    I dont understand what U saying there?


  40. firbear | August 9, 2014 at 7:15 AM |
    “How did this thread migrate from a Canadian setting up an illegal bar to Englishmen exploiting Bajans”

    My thoughts exactly. Would be nice if someone had something relevant to add. Maybe it’s not illegal at all?


  41. It is definitely illegal – call the department of housing and land and ask them – they will give you the full story. I have already done so and they have confirmed that this establishment is operating illegally and that they are trying to get it shut down but it’s owner has friends in high places that are protecting him. They regard him as a serial offender as he has done so many things without permission.


  42. “Stealing us black” should read “Stealing us blind”

    Sorry


  43. @ Newman
    Foreigners behavng badly in Bim has been going on for at least 70 yrs. My father used to keep these fellas on a very tight rope in terms of giving credit.
    The hoteliers used to run up credit and if they got into financial trouble go to to the airport with foreign cash in their briefcase and bye bye!

    Always some idiot to trust foreigners and get bun bad!
    CASH is for real! Sometimes that is counterfeit.

    CORRUPTION in the land.


  44. @ M Newman.
    Seems your right.
    There’s a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that; you pay with your soul. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don’t have the nerve to star in their own fucking movie, let alone direct it. He’s got some secrets of his own, doggy bastard, has no more palms to ply.


  45. @firbear August 9, 2014 at 7:15 AM “We need to focus on the bribe takers, they are the ones undermining our society. And guess what ethnic background they are from.”

    Oh dear firbear.

    Here is your ethics lesson 101

    HE/SHE (but truthfully, mostly he) WHO OFFERS A BRIBE AND HE/SHE WHO ACCEPTS A BRIBE BOTH ARE EQUALLY WICKED.


  46. AJew | August 9, 2014 at 7:37 AM |

    “And guess what ethnic background they are from.” Has anything changed in 400 years? Is betrayal of one’s own people a genetic trait or learnt behaviour?

    We can now safely say that betraying ones own race by blacks is both a genetic trait and a learned behavior, it has been refined so that the leaders maintain the betrayal for decades which can lead to centuries.


  47. @Life changer + August 9, 2014 at 5:23 AM “Corruption has grown so widespread and sophisticated that it threatens to undermine the very fabric of Bajan society.”

    Dear Lifechanger+ let me give you ethics lesson 101.1

    Ethics lesson 101.1: Barbados was born in corruption.

    How can you look at slave society Barbados and post-slavery Barbados and see anything else except corruption. Slavery was always morally wrong It was legal only because those who made the laws made a law for their own benefit saying saying that is was legal to enslave others. If they had been guided by their supposed Christian values slavery would never have been legal, so here is:

    Ethics lesson 101.2: Barbados is not now and has NEVER been a Christian society.

    The old rascals die, and leave behind a generation well taught in the ways of evil, and it has ALWAYS been so in Barbados


  48. @firbear August 9, 2014 at 7:15 AM “How did this thread migrate from a Canadian setting up an illegal bar to Englishmen exploiting Bajans?”

    Don’t be fooled. I am not on the side of the Canadian fella (if he has set up an illegal operation.) I am not on the side of bribe taking politicians (if they take bribes) and civil servants (if they take bribes)

    I am on the side of righteousness.

    And righteousness. is not something to be done in Church on Sundays.

    Ethics lesson 101.3: Behaving ethically, living righteously is what we must do everyday.


  49. There are bad behaved people in Barbados. Some are white, some are black, some were born here, some have moved here.

    But we can’t embrace one truth, we while ignoring other truths.

    Ethics lesson 101.4: All truths are equal. All truths are good.

    And since I am in life’s departure lounge let me tall you another truth.

    In the early 1960’s an elderly wealthy white American man by the name of McGuire hired Theodore Branker, long time MP, long time speaker of the house, knighted gentleman to persuade my father to sell him his land in zone one, because this elderly wealthy white American man wanted to buy 2 acres “to grow sugar cane.”

    My father finished school at 11 but he was not deceived by the combined brains of the elderly wealthy white American man McGuire and Theodore Branker, long time MP, long time speaker of the house, knighted gentleman.

    To their faces my father said “I need my land to feed my children” and refused the offer to sell his land. And indeed that land feed his children and fed them well. I have never been hungry a day in my life. I never missed an excellent meal in my childhood.

    Behind their backs he said almost certainly the elderly wealthy white American man McGuire had no interest in growing sugar cane on 2 acres of land. Almost certainly he was in a position of influence with Theodore Branker, long time MP, long time speaker of the house, knighted gentleman, and highly influential member of the DLP and almost certainly Mcgure would have received permission to build a mansion or two on the land. I can’t tell you how many times those 2 men came to my father’s house. I seemed like years when I would come home and there were always there annoying the old man while he and my mother tried to get on with their domestic chores and the working of their land.

    The land still belongs to us today.

    And every now and then we hear foolish talk from members of Parliament (who weren’t even born when my parents bought this land) talking about abandoned land, and threatening to punish those of us who own land in zone 1 and have abandoned it.

    That beautiful lot in zone one 1/8 of a mile from the sea is NOT ABANDONED.

    As of this morning the land tax owing on that “abandoned” land is ZERO.

    So the Barbados government can haul.

    Ethics lesson 101.5: Things are not always what they appear to be. There are facts, and there is the truth. If you are confused go for the TRUTH.


  50. But in every country of the world the politically powerful and the financially powerful are in bed together.

    Ethics lesson 101.6: There ain’t much love in the world, but the thing between the politically powerful and the wealthy is real true love.

    In Barbados, over there, everywhere.

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