Submitted by Beresford
Not satisfied with forcing Barbadians into resignation of their harsh economic fate by a witches’ brew of lies, scorn and ineffectiveness, the Government continues its rabid behaviour by fermenting a new platform of statements so stupid the instant reaction is to stupse and dismiss them.
Dennis Lowe continues to distinguish himself as one not fit to hold any position at all of authority. In shooing away the massive piles of garbage, his answer is that this “is not unusual” at this time. And in support, Lowe references garbage collection in July, in the heat of Crop Over.
Lowe does not know much, but he should know this is the end of September. If Crop Over garbage can be picked up, and quickly, too, the Minister of Confusion in Every Area should find some commonsense to know that with much less garbage, we are facing a serious issue.
Have the trucks off the road been repaired? New ones bought? Or instead of looking after the most basic health provisions, long established in Barbados and for which citizens are paying for through their teeth, the DLP Government prefers to waste money journeying here, there and everywhere.
Which brings us to, as Barbadians say, “igrant” statement No. 2.
Each DLP member can rightfully lay claim to be at the top of an asinine class. Even so, the Minister of Education – what a ting! – Ronald Jones shines in folly, when it is not pure viciousness, all by himself.
He defends the wasteful trips by Freundel, Maxine McClean, who has her own special badge of nothingness, by invoking his grandmother, who would say ‘because you are poor, you don’t have to look poor’. No Jonesee, you make yourself even poorer by spending what you don’t have, borrowing some more, and continuing to spend foolishly.
No grandmother in Barbados, none of Jones’ reference group, would be caught dead doing the foolishness of the DLP Government in the first place. They believe in budgeting properly. Saving for a rainy day. Spending only what they could afford. Their advice would be ‘cut your cloth to suit’.
It would help if any of these wonderful round-the-world safaris were helpful. Not a fella interested in SIDS except as another talk shop. Can the DLP say what Maxine McClean and Stuart have gained for Barbados for all these trips? Can’t they miss a few for the sake of their countrymen?
Hear more foolishness. Freundel ready to fight to maintain Barbados’ reputation as a financial centre.
Engaging other countries? This is the same DLP Government which could not even be bothered to make a few adjustments to some treaties with Canada resulting in Barbados losing millions and millions in international businesses as companies picked up and moved to other Caribbean jurisdictions?
More from the incredible Jones. He comes and promises 3 000 bursaries for students. Today not a single person, not one of the 1 695 applicants have received one. And he cannot say either if they will get or when they will get. But Jones is lambasting Barbadians who have been sent home to pay his salary – the 4000 plus by Government alone – for the temerity to ask what is going on here.
Being lost in this is the savage hole that the DLP has dynamited in the foundation of education that has been the backbone of individual progress and national development in this country. For along with the less than nearly 4000 who did not even bother to apply, it means that of those who did and were accepted, another 2000 need money desperately to start or continue their studies.
This is the sad state of affairs in our country today. People can’t afford it, they are not being helped and the rest are simply dropping out.
‘Mouta’ Jones can find a way to back into every single issue in Barbados. But can find no time to deal with what will likely become, even more than the economy, the most deadly defining nefarious act of this decadent DLP Government.
Sinckler, the architect of all economic pain. Are the hotels getting their concessions or are they still mired in the typical back and forth with anything to do with Sinckler over signing the MOUs with the Barbados Agricultural Society, (BAS), and Manufactures Association, (BMA) – or are they smarting over the whipping they got even as he was announcing the concessions tied to numerous conditions? But they are not Sandals. And they were only asking for the concessions for years.
Enter John Boyce. He declared the QEH has been a “fairly steady ship over last year”. He spouts savings “with the clear understanding we do not want to see any deterioration of services. We do not want to see any loss of expertise of specialist procedures which are available”.
My, oh, my. The same QEH out of drugs? Out of the most basic items? That baby care at risk? That could not treat cancer patients. That had doctors appealing to God for help?
Are these people living in the same Barbados as the rest of us?
Incredible ignorance at….. .well, not the highest level, the level occupied by those occupying positions of power.
Welcome, to idiot’s paradise – DLP rule in Barbados.
The rulebook – the dumb-ing down of a nation.
But this calculated behavior, laced with venom on one hand and pleadings for understanding, on the other, even as they cut cruel, is a continuation of the DLP plan to sink Barbadians into non-engagement and inaction to save themselves. The BLP will not fall to this mass of propaganda. The country must not.
It must not be forgotten that Sinckler promised $450 million in cuts to take effect over 19 months and a dreamboat of projects to come on stream. The projects remain a dream. And with only $50 million in savings for the first quarter and six months remaining in Sinckler’s plan – there is only one outcome – more pain.
It is time to save ourselves from this dirge of piffle.
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