Well Done Freundel
Submitted by Douglas
Saturday, 21st February, will mark two years that the Democratic Labour Party, under the leadership of Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Freundel Stuart, Q.C., M.P, was re-elected to serve the people of Barbados. Every day over those two years we have kept our commitment to the people of Barbados to deliver on our promise to develop a Barbados which is: socially balanced, economically viable, environmentally sound and characterized by good governance.
Our Prime Minister, his Cabinet and members of the parliamentary team have shown that they are capable of managing the affairs of Barbados in the most challenging period that this country has ever gone through. We wish to commend our Prime Minister and party leader for his mature leadership style. He has handled every challenge faced with a fearless resilience and integrity.
Over the two years we have had to make some tough decisions to stabilize the economy of Barbados. The people of Barbados, recognising that this action was indeed necessary, kept the faith with our Prime Minister and the members of the Democratic Labour Party.
Now as we enter our third year in office we can see the signs of recovery on the horizon and we know that our labour was not in vain. The Barbados economy is on a growth path and this Democratic Labour Party administration is assiduously working to deliver on our commitments from the 2013 manifesto.
Last week the Freundel Stuart administration delivered two master strokes. The first was the announcement of the approval of $3 Million in study grants for UWI students. The Second was the announcement by the LIAT shareholder governments that Barbados will become a primary hub for the airline.
When the government asked students to carry a small portion of the cost to finance their education at the University of the West Indies, this DLP administration promised that we would make the bursaries available to students who needed a helping hand. Finally, the support offered by this government to students in need of assistance is available.
This DLP administration has always kept its commitment. The process may have taken longer than originally anticipated. However, we need to do things by the book. Those students who will receive the bursaries, I am sure will be grateful for the assistance even though it was delayed.
After the meeting of the shareholder governments of LIAT on Friday it was announced that LIAT will be taking some strategic steps to reduce its expenses and return the airline to profitability. Among these strategic steps was the decision to make Barbados the primary hub allowing the airline to capitalize on the lucrative southern market. The Caricom market is the third largest market for Barbados’ tourism. As the largest shareholder government the success of LIAT is important to Barbados. The strategic move to bring the employment numbers in line with the size of the fleet being operated as well as streamlining the fleet with one type of aircraft will help to reduce the overheads of the airline and place it on a growth path.
These two initiatives show that the Barbados government is moving strategically to bring about crucial changes which will have a lasting impact locally and regionally. Team DLP is on the job and continues to deliver positive results 2 years after our 2013 election victory. Compare this to the idle members of the opposition Barbados Labour party, who are into their second year of consistently trying to retard the progress of development in this country. A callous and idle opposition into its 40th day of being paid for doing absolutely nothing.
Pop Quiz – Trip down memory lane
The 2007 Auditor General report provided a review of the construction of the Police Station at Crab Hill St. Lucy. The following conclusion was provided:
The construction cost of this project has been rising steadily as a result of the discovery of additional defects, and the current estimated cost is $3 million. When this is added to what has been paid to the previous contractor the total cost of the project will exceed $4 million and this is over $2.6 million more than the original contract.
The Project Manager in a report dated 28th February 2006 noted the following: “This contract suffered for two reasons: lack of competent construction personnel, and finance. In short, a company which is not a construction company is trying to operate in a field alien to its capabilities.”
The payment to the contractor for poor construction work constitutes a waste of Government’s funds, which could probably have been avoided had more care and attention been given to the company’s track record in this field of work, and a more pro-active approach adopted by the Ministry to monitor the work of the contractor. (Source: Auditor General’s Report, 2007, page 72.)
1. We ask the Barbados Labour Party to name the incompetent contractor who was awarded the contract?
2. Provide the name or names of the “sanctimonious hypocrites” who presided over this fiasco?
Barbados Underground 
Recall the laptops approved by the Speaker for delivery to members of parliament? Who accepted and what are they being used?
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Does this “Douglas” person actually write this stuff, or just cut and paste from http://www.dlpbarbados.org/site/
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David
Your link to Chinese spyware story did not work – for me
Try this
http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/headline-Chinese-spyware-discovery-revives-Caribbean-cyber-security-fears-24900.html
And this
http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Caribbean-governments-may-be-at-risk-from-donated-computers-18431.html
Just imagine all those cyber-spies in far away China reading the writings of the Members of Parliament on the spyware loaded PCs generously donated by China.
I bet they have some emails the CLICO JM would like to get his hands on.
The Dragon is going to eat the (flying) Fish.
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Douglas is a brave man but I think he should stand in the corner with his hands on his head or get Fumble to arrange a visit to Black Rock – for them both.
This well-trodden path leading nowhere is really only fit for fowls to pick at.
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Douglas
Man you got some nerve…. $1,000 for 3,000 students and a ONE TIME OFF SHOT…..Is this how this compemptous Govt intends to further humiliate us with LAUGHTER?….In all honesty this is an insult on you to be including such in your thread…Have you noticed that ridiculous condition of our roads? For which your Govt collects on average 115,000 X $650 (average) $75,000,000…..EACH AND EVERY YEAR???…..You got some balls.
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Well done Freundel for insulting fellow Barbadians every time you open your mouth.
Well done Freundel for destroying our economy and steering us on the road to a failed state.
Well done Freundel for allowing our hospital to deteriorate to the sad state it is in……read the back page of Barbados Today two days ago. That’s a lot to praise Fumble for!
Well done Freundel for destroying the hopes and dreams of so many young people after you promised them that they would always have free tertiary education.
Well done Freundel for destroying the lives of 6500 public workers whom whom swore to two years ago that their jobs were safe.
Well done Freundel from the people who cannot get a bus to get to work or to get home daily.
Well done Freundel for the lack of sanitation trucks to pick up garbage all over Barbados.
Well done Freundel for not returning the income tax refunds and VAT returns to the long suffering people of Barbados.
Well done Fruendel for supporting your MP’s Carrington and Mara with ethical challenges
Well done Freundel for supporting a colleague whose siblings claimed that he hid millions in their mother’s account.
Well, done, well done!
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Prodigal
Well done
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Methinks Douglas had intended to name this thread..”Shame on you Fruendel”…and printers ERROR came to the rescue…
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Waste! what waste those things the blp would rather be swept under the carpet all of which are in part contributors to the high deificit
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still with all the crticism and the doom and gloom and the prospect of barbados economy hitting rock bottom .the only issue the blp misfits can muster is one of clico.every other issue relating to economy has remained dormant and a well kept secret
The blp has taken the approach of “pig in bag” politricks while screaming !kicking! and hollering the govt not doing enough.
The people would not take kindly to such politricks
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@DD
Douglas is obviously a moniker used by a DLP surrogate.
On Saturday, 21 February 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:
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ac
since you cant refute ANYTHING—–ANYTHING AT ALL–cited by Prodigal Son February 21, 2015 at 1:58 PM # above /below …SHUT UP!
Well done Freundel for insulting fellow Barbadians every time you open your mouth.
Well done Freundel for destroying our economy and steering us on the road to a failed state.
Well done Freundel for allowing our hospital to deteriorate to the sad state it is in……read the back page of Barbados Today two days ago. That’s a lot to praise Fumble for!
Well done Freundel for destroying the hopes and dreams of so many young people after you promised them that they would always have free tertiary education.
Well done Freundel for destroying the lives of 6500 public workers whom whom swore to two years ago that their jobs were safe.
Well done Freundel from the people who cannot get a bus to get to work or to get home daily.
Well done Freundel for the lack of sanitation trucks to pick up garbage all over Barbados.
Well done Freundel for not returning the income tax refunds and VAT returns to the long suffering people of Barbados.
Well done Fruendel for supporting your MP’s Carrington and Mara with ethical challenges
Well done Freundel for supporting a colleague whose siblings claimed that he hid millions in their mother’s account.
Well, done, well done!
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Why would it have taken the story on the back page of the BT to trigger a full scale investigation by the QEH/James Boyce? Do we have Bajans who complain daily about the same damn thing?
On Saturday, 21 February 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:
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DAVID
THESE FOLK DONT HAVE ANY VISION
DONT YOU MAKE A PERIODIC INSPECTION OF YOUR PROPERTY INCLUDING YOUR FRONT AND BACK YARDS TO SEE IF THERE AR TERMITES OR WHAT EVER NEEDS TO BE FIXED?
IT IS NOT THAT HARD TO MANAGE THE QEH
THE LATE JAMES WILLIAMS & NEVILLE MILLINGTON DID OK —–AND THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY FANCY DOCTORATES, THY WERE JUST DEDICATED CIVIL SERVANTS
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@GP
The story as reported by BT has some holes we are not comfortable. Yes the QEH is in a shambles and BAMP is readying for strike action, again but it is unfortunate some of the accusations leveled. Unbelievable actually.
On Saturday, 21 February 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:
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Gp
ac learned all the recitations i need to know way back in school.no need to learn another one GP(GranPa)
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@Vincen
The Prime Minister assured the sugar farmers on the 28 February 2015 at the BCCI luncheon the monies to mobilize the sugar harvest was forthcoming. Today is the 21 February, almost one month later, still waiting?
On Saturday, 21 February 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:
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David,
Reading the article, I do think some things may be stretched a bit especially the part with the person who died but to tell you the truth, there is truth in the modus operandi described.
I had similar experiences a few years ago when a relative of mine had to be rushed to A&E suddenly. People were just there lying around, doctors running to and fro from the STAT room and an African doctor walking around asking ….who are you here with? My relative spent over 24 hours in A&E, the wait was long, I would not really blame the doctors, they try hard and a lot of the wait has to do with waiting on test results. To get a private ward after being admitted to the crowded public ward was another story in itself……..that took hours.
QEH is a mess. What ever happenend to the hospital that Donville promised to be built at Kingsland?
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Donville is busy taking on all comers, the latest the CCJ…LOL
What about the issue of Barbados beer entering St. Lucia he promised to wrestle to the ground?
On Saturday, 21 February 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:
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How can one commend an abysmally inept government for so called brilliance in managing the economy of the cvntry based on implementing a bursary program 4 months late and a decision by the collective governments of member states regarding a failed airline?
This article congratulating Fumbles can be likened to the cuntributions of a man with a full bladder peeing into a urinal on the 52 nd floor of the burning World Trade Tower on 9/11
It means nothing to the state of the economy of the cvntry…do you understand???
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…The Prime Minister assured the sugar farmers on the 28 February 2015 at the BCCI luncheon the monies to mobilize the sugar harvest was forthcoming. Today is the 21 February, almost one month later, still waiting?……………………
Add this the list of well done Freundel!
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david
the BCCI meeting was in January and the farmers are being paid on Wedensday next week.
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“we would make the bursaries available to students who needed a helping hand”.
Well you didn’t. You made them available to anyone who chooses to apply, rich or poor.
They should be means tested to target them at students who truly need them.
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@Norst
Wrong month, an honest error. The substantive point stands whether the payment is paid on Wednesday or not.
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@David February 21, 2015 at 3:22 PM #
Sad,sad,state of affairs…..you would have noted that the money is in the Govts. hands according to what was stated in the media,yet the Planters have received none……I suppose somewhere along the line you will hear about righting past injustices……so we will throw out the baby with the bath water……..Crusoe’s statement about “the lunatics running the Asylum” may be worth investigating.
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“…throughout the day he has heard stories of people exchanging money for votes. The Prime Minister said this is an ugly practice which digs at the roots of democratic structures.”
He clearly wasn’t concerned enough about it to do anything. So much for “fearless resilience and integrity”.
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Submitted by Douglas, @ What an Ass , good that David show the fools that sold out to the back up master mind of CLICO , and all things that was given by ex PMs of Barbados as soon as they are dead,As with Beatice Henry or Violet Beckles as soon as they die these bitches steal from the dead, What will be stolen from the poster when he is dead?, none of these crooks will run to England when the Queen dies to see what they can take for self,
Vote buying Bitch for a PM, AG and DPP who know nothing about law,, Just fraud and long talking, Time will go by fast till the next Elections ,,,,, What you build for others will be waiting for those who belong there,
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VAT of 15% in 1997 and the UDC , Now VAT 17.5% and there is only UDC by office,So where is the VAT going Today? Crooks,
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You know face with the difficult situation that Barbados has found itself in, every right thinking person knows that measures would have to be taken, belt tightening measures, to turn around the state of our dismal affairs. This government did what they had to do in order to plug the hole that was threatening to plunge us further into the murky waters. We criticize them for the shite that they have done and can’t seem to find any praise for them because the shite like it does not tend to stop. And let me say here that the shite started with the crooked BLP. But what angers most right thinking persons, not those political pimps that no matter how bad the fart smells, for them there is nothing more aromatic, is that this government has no respect for the electorate, and some segments of the electorate are so into the money that no matter how much wrong is done, their respective parties have done right by them. (Bunch thieving indifferent crooked ass brutes).
This government through many statements shows that self serving interests and failure to lead by example are the priorities high on their agenda. Their tongues are not bridle when criticism is laid and so the gutter and Nelson street mentality tends to come out from a few who try so hard to behave in their adopted roles as status quo figures. They, like their, counterparts on the other side waiting to rob again, make promises and assertions for the sake of making them and break them at will because they know how to get the bread and certainly know how to spread the butter. Yet the crooks in this government want to appear as saints when they know their are saint-less. Has the thieving stop under the Fruendel Stuart administration? I would love Leroy to answer that question. Because I want to see the paper work and accounts for the 10 million that Parris got and I want to know how much was given to his now decease dead pal.
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These “Douglas” articles are satire…reminscent of The Onion.
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@enuff
The DLP need need to recall Hartley Henry. There was some connection to reality in his pieces.
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Everyday I wake up read a news article like dlp celebrating ??…and feel I have to pinch myself . These yellow bellies should adorn their bodies in funereal black as they oversee the lasts rites if this once aspiring nation. Headline like this only serve to rub salt in peoples wounds.
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@Annie
What you meant to write is that it shows a lack of empathy.
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@ Douglas
.Last week the Freundel Stuart administration delivered two master strokes. The first was the announcement of the approval of $3 Million in study grants for UWI students.
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A MASTER STROKE…?..To whom HIMSELF?…I just had to get a another good laff this morning hence the cut n paste….
The average 300 page text book at Cave Hill cost $300……so am amm 3.5 books,.. do the maths Doug?
@ Enuff……this is not satire….more like comedy. Let’s not get things twisted .LOL
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Well done PM Stuart and Team DLP. Many on this BU site said your government would have collapsed right after Feb 21 2013.
Little did they know that it was the BLP those idiots were referring to.
What has happened to BLP since 21 Feb 2013?
Owen left the BLP!
George Payne got Edmund Hinkson in court!
Mia Mottley ready to pelt way Maria Agard
…because Maria refused to “hand up’ anymore to Mottley!
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To demonstrate further folly…..Mia and the BLP now abscond from doing the people work in Parliament.
Mia Mottley would never be PM…..she is family to Whicker……!
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@Fractured BLP
Ignoring your gutter sniping was it the Opposition who scheduled next House for the 10 March?
All you guys are clowns and have succeeded in making Barbados the laughing stock of the Caribbean.
Why was Stuart’s voice missing from the calls to Denzel Douglas recently. Why is a rookie PM in Gaston Browne calling out a decision made by LIAT shareholders of which Barbados is a major shareholder.
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Seems like affa having done THE MASTER STROKING…..out pops Fractured. Timely indeed…..LOL.
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Back page of the Sunday Sun today. Freundel Stuart on the leaking of court documents:
“……we have spent too much time building [this society] to allow the vandal hands of a small coterie of people ……. to destroy all that”.
I assume he is talking about the DLP; is that right?
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Following the debate, well not debate but rather discussion in parliament one couldn’t help but chuckle when the Clown Prince of Cabinet, none other than ”Kelly” sought to put a price for the dispensation of justice. Kelly told us in not so many words that we were paying the way for the CCJ. Kelly ya blasted clown ya! How much we pay for LIAT and is the service we get commensurate wid what we pay? Why don’t you and the haughty Dick from tourism go and answer the upstarts in Antigua? Both you and Donville sound stupid as shite. Just shut the hell up….or better yet follow Mia and crew and stay away.
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Isn’t the CCJ the original jurisdiction for all of Caricom including a few with observer status?
In other words, all members of Caricom gave a right using the logic of the DLP clowns to demand a seat at the CCJ Ztable.
JAs
On Sunday, 22 February 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:
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I don’t know why we continue to take these posts by world class comedians seriously. We should have realized that it was a skit from Saturday Night Live (SNL) hence the date on which it was posted. Any other explanation will draw me to the conclusion that an idiot (s) submitted the article.
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Here are 21 objectives out of many others that the PDC – being part of a certain future coalitional regime in Barbados – will help to bring about in this country:
1) The Abolition of Taxation;
2) The Abolition of Interest Rates;
3) The Abolition of ALL so-called Exchange Rates Parities ‘with’ the Barbados Dollar;
4) The Abolition of Motor Vehicle Insurance;
5) The establishment of a National Currency Board to manage currency flows within the country, and into and out of it;
6) The making sure that the Real Actual Cost of Use of Money in Barbados is substantially reduced in the medium to long term;
7) The making sure that the money turn over rate is substantially increased in this country;
8) The making sure that there is almost total freedom of interaction between the incomes, revenues and transfers of individuals, businesses and other relevant entities, and the remunerations that are made to the entities that would be charged with running the business and corporate affairs of the Seaport and Airport and at all other points of entry in this country, where there is the transacting of commercial goods and services entering Barbados;
9) The making sure that exporters of goods and services are remunerated in the equivalent amounts of local money that are in like cases used up by local consumers whenever they get local goods and services;
10) The introduction of a regime of the assembling of aircraft, motor vehicles, missiles, satellites, the building of ships, etc for Barbados;
11) The introduction of Partnership enterprises in every instance where there would have hitherto been any business enterprises in operation in this country – and with two or more persons involved in them, and whereby these incoming partners will be the part owners of these enterprises – hence, the substantial elimination of the work system/culture in Barbados;
12) The establishment of a Hire Purchase Relief Fund for persons who have genuine difficulties in giving over monies to the relevant hire purchase enterprises;
13) The ensuring that NO foreigners are able to own land spaces rights in this country – only that they may be permitted to lease such rights.
14) The institution of serious regime of rent control over all residential, commercial and social accommodation in this country;
15) The building of a modern efficient railway system for Barbados to run back and forth on what is now the existing ABC/Ronald Mapp Highways;
16) The introduction of specialized secondary school education – the Abolition of the Common Entrance Exam – the introduction of an appropriate national continuous assessment program – and the introduction of full zoning for Barbados, with some exceptions;
17) The building of a modern acute care 200 bed hospital for the north of the country;
18) The implementation of a proportional representational electoral system, to take the place of the first past the post one, where necessary;
19) The removal of the Queen as head of state of Barbados – and the creation of an executive coalitional republican system for Barbados;
20) The institution of Constituency Assemblies for Barbados – one per constituency – and whereby within them constituents will have all opportunities to initiate, debate, and pass the laws of this country;
21) The election of Judges to their Supreme Court positions.
PDC
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Does anyone know who signed the cheque which cleared the debt for Mr Crook?
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Here are seven objectives out of many others that the Dragon Party – being part of a certain future coalitional regime in Barbados – will help to bring about in this country:
1. The abolition of illness and disease (except for people who disagree with us).
2. The abolition of death (again, except for people who disagree with us).
3. The abolition of having to get up in the morning and go to work.
4. Free $100 bills for everyone, although the Real Actual Cost of Use of Money will still be substantially reduced in the medium to long term.
5. Free Banks for everyone, although we will change the name as we don’t like banks because they deal with money, and that won’t exist any more.
6. The introduction of a regime of designing and making faster than light space vehicles, cures for AIDS, quantum computers and other currently yet to be invented things.
7. Free hallucinogenic drugs for everyone; so the same drugs we were on when we wrote this.
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They say self praise is no praise at all. Well done my ass!
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@ St George’s Dragon
Steupss
Bushie was about to commit his vote to your party
…until it became clear that by ‘free banks’ you did not mean beer…..
oh well
….back to PDC’s manifesto for Bushie…
LOL ha ha ha ….Ohhh shiirttt!!
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The People’s Democratic Congress February 22, 2015 at 4:37 PM #
1) The Abolition of Taxation;
From what source do you plan to get financing to achieve:
10) The introduction of a regime of the assembling of aircraft, motor vehicles, missiles, satellites, the building of ships, etc for Barbados;
12) The establishment of a Hire Purchase Relief Fund for persons who have genuine difficulties in giving over monies to the relevant hire purchase enterprises;
15) The building of a modern efficient railway system for Barbados to run back and forth on what is now the existing ABC/Ronald Mapp Highways;
17) The building of a modern acute care 200 bed hospital for the north of the country;
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4) The Abolition of Motor Vehicle Insurance;
How will accident victims be compensated for their injuries, injuries to third parties and car repairs?
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5) The establishment of a National Currency Board to manage currency flows within the country, and into and out of it;
“A Currency Board is a monetary authority that is established to remove the central bank from its discretionary role of adjusting money supply and interest rates, as well as making decisions about the valuation of a nation’s currency, specifically whether to peg the exchange rate of the local currency to a foreign currency, an equal amount of which is held in reserves. The currency board then allows for the unlimited exchange of the local, pegged currency for the foreign currency. A currency board can only earn the interest that is gained on the foreign reserves themselves, so those rates tend to mimic the prevailing rates in the foreign currency. By using a currency board a country is no longer in control of its monetary policy.”
Essentially, this National Currency Board clearly contradicts:
2) The Abolition of Interest Rates;
3) The Abolition of ALL so-called Exchange Rates Parities ‘with’ the Barbados Dollar;
6) The making sure that the Real Actual Cost of Use of Money in Barbados is substantially reduced in the medium to long term;
7) The making sure that the money turn over rate is substantially increased in this country;
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11) The introduction of Partnership enterprises in every instance where there would have hitherto been any business enterprises in operation in this country – and with two or more persons involved in them, and whereby these incoming partners will be the part owners of these enterprises – hence, the substantial elimination of the work system/culture in Barbados;
So by eliminating “the work system/culture” everyone in Barbados will become entrepreneurs?
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@Douglas “lack of competent construction personnel, and finance. In short, a company which is not a construction company”
In short a BLP Yardie.
And the DLP has its own yardies too.
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@Douglas “1. We ask the Barbados Labour Party to name the incompetent contractor who was awarded the contract?
Provide the name or names of the “sanctimonious hypocrites” who presided over this fiasco?”
Dear Douglas:
I am sure that you know the name of the incompetent contractor, so why don’t you tell us or are you a sanctimonious hypocrite also.
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It seems as though once again Donville consumed too much alcohol or mind altering substances at Friday and Saturday night karaoke sessions, which puts him in the frame of mind to talk shiite at the DLP Sunday evening constituency branch meetings.
The suggestion from three businessmen to implement laws forbidding politicians from bribing people to vote for them, seems to have brought condemnation from “The Don”. He is reported as having said, “You need to strongly, not subliminally, but boldly state that any businessman who provides money to a politician to buy votes should also be locked up and heavily punished.”
But we all know Donville is a man who loves the attention he receives from the press, as well as constantly contradicting Stuart, or implying that he’s a liar.
Recall, shortly after the February 2013 general elections, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite confirmed to the news media that is was distressing to him that “some” Barbadians sold their votes during the recent general election.
This was also confirmed by Freundel Stuart, who is on record as having voiced his concerns to CBC reporters, about the stories he heard throughout election day, relative to people exchanging money for votes, which he described as an “ugly practice which digs at the roots of democratic structures”.
Yesterday, while addressing a joint branch meeting of the St. Michael Central and St. Michael South Central constituencies, Inniss told the audience that the three businessmen has spent their time and energy writing a letter to him BASED ON A RUMOR AND ALLEGATION and expected him to believe they are serious.
So, if what Donville say indeed true, then I suggest he should tell Fruendel and Adriel at the next cabinet meeting, to apologize immediately for misleading Barbadians “BASED ON A RUMOR AND ALLEGATION.”
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Douglas & ac are the sanctimonious hypocrites because who will use a cricket ground for other uses than cricket, especially when so much money as they are proclaiming, for other purposes than cricket. If one look at other cricket fields in the world , they are sacred, especially the pitch and surrounding areas, if other functions are done, they are outside of the cricket area. We have enough other areas in Barbados for other functions. Leave Kensington Oval for cricket !!!!!!!!
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/63915/punish
Now if only Inniss had the balls to call the names of those businessmen and women who bribe politicians in Barbados…..lol
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“You need to strongly, not subliminally, but boldly state that any businessman who provides money to a politician to buy votes should also be locked up and heavily punished,”
lol, lol rotflmrao,lol, lol,rotflmrao,lol
In the land of brassbowls, politicians are kings.
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Stuart brings upbeat message
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/63849/seen-north-stuart-brings-upbeat-message
….more than 200 Bajans braved the biting cold winds of a February evening to hear what Prime Minister Freundel Stuart had to say about the state of the island’s economy, problems at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, reported prospects of a currency devaluation, the frequent shootings, some of them fatal; and the Government’s inability to pay some of its debts.
But when he spoke at the annual “cocktail sip”, a fundraising event sponsored by the Friends of Barbados (DLP) Association, he didn’t focus much attention on many of those issues. Indeed, he hit upbeat notes, concluding that “Barbados was alive and well”. Some said afterwards they would have preferred to hear more about what the Government planned to do than devoting so much time to the past.
“Contrary to what you may read or all that you may hear, Barbados is still 166 square miles. It is still the most easterly country in the Caribbean. Children are still going to school. Buses are still running. Families are still going to church. Supermarkets are still open and all of the dynamics of everyday life are still intact,” Stuart told the gathering.
“This is in spite of the fact that like every other country in the western world, Barbados has been experiencing some challenges as a result of the global financial downturn which began in this country in the last quarter of 2007.”
The poor economic conditions in the United States and Britain had triggered Barbados’ economic decline and persisted for seven years. That is until recently, he asserted.
Stuart mentioned the rich countries to illustrate their economic importance to Barbados, pointing out that they were the leading sources of tourists and foreign direct investment.
Hence, his question: if it had taken the world’s most powerful country, the United States to wrestle with the financial crisis, “what would it take for small countries” like Barbados and its Eastern Caribbean neighbours to come to grips with it?
The answer, according to Stuart was: much longer. –
Well done Freundel???????
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@ Artaxerxes February 23, 2015 at 11:29 AM #
I posted a response to that hypocrite Donville Innis on another thread before I saw your post. Good as always! I will post it here to follow yours!
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I am beginning to believe that Donville Inniss is aiming to become the Clown Prince of this Parliament, a title I gave to Dennis Kellman.
Donville seems to believe that he is a maguffy and all I can think is……look what David Thompson unleashed on the people of Barbados.
Donville seems to believe that he is an authority on every and any thing in Barbados. No one is exempt from this man’s tongue. You open your mouth and say anything he does not like and he thinks he alone has the right to speak. No other person has a right to say a word he does not agree with otherwise you will feel the sting of his tongue.
It therefore did not surprise me at the outburst from the front page story yesterday. Donville knows that that story mashed the DLP’s corns so he had to get out front to lead the attack.
I would like Donville to deny reports that at sometime after two pm on election day, it was clear that his voters were not coming out and that he called the Stinkliar in a panic (Stinkliar apparently had most of the money allocated to buying votes……and allegedly said to him ….Chris, Chris, I am in trouble, I cannot lose my seat, I need re-enforcement. Chris allegedly replied……hold on, hold on, re-enforcement is on the way. The rest is history, Donville won his seat handsomely.
Donville knows that the last election was won by massive vote buying in his constituency, Stinkliar’s, Adriel Brathwaite’s, the ugly PM, Blackett, Mr Crook, Richard Sealy, John Boyce, Dennis Lowe, the education minister and James Paul. These are some of the areas where most of the vote buying was concentrated.
Donville, you are supposed to be highly educated, why would you touch that topic or do you think that if you attack, these people would shut to hell up and dont annoy you?
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@ Well Well February 23, 2015 at 11:46 AM #
“Now if only Inniss had the balls to call the names of those businessmen and women who bribe politicians in Barbados…..lol”……………………………
Yea right, Well well………………..I dare him to do so! That would be put an end to the power ride he is on!
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Due Diligence,
Dont forget, Fumble was speaking to Dems, party faithful, who would swallow his every lie!
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Well Well February 23, 2015 at 11:46 AM #
“Now if only Inniss had the balls to call the names of those businessmen and women who bribe politicians in Barbados…..lol….”
Prodigal Son February 23, 2015 at 1:49 PM #
“Yea right, Well well………………..I dare him to do so! That would be put an end to the power ride he is on!”
Remember Donville was reported in the press as having said, “You need to strongly, not subliminally, but boldly state that any businessman who provides money to a politician to buy votes should also be locked up and heavily punished.”
On Wednesday, March 16, 2011, while making his contribution to the 2011-2012 Estimates debate, Freundel Stuart, with his precise diction and pellucid style, described Leroy Parris as an estimable gentleman, long-time friend and one-time client who he was not prepared to shun or disown, because “he’s not a leper.”
But we all aware that, Leroy Parris of CLICO fame, has made financial contributions to the election campaigns of both BLP and DLP. Surely Donville won’t expect Leroy to “get locked up”.
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Moderator Dennis appeared to be at pain to argue against pointing a finger at Parris and big salary earned. Not sure his point though.
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@ David February 21, 2015 at 3:22 PM #
“The Prime Minister assured the sugar farmers on the 28 February 2015 at the BCCI luncheon the monies to mobilize the sugar harvest was forthcoming. Today is the 21 February, almost one month later, still waiting?”………………………………
The problem is that the dems cannot help lying. Fumble boxed himself in by saying that the loan was available and that the farmers would get monies. Apparently the PM nor his advisers knew that the loan funds cannot be used for that purpose, to use it for that purpose would violate the terms and condition of the loan…..hence their predicament.
This is where you end up when you lie and cheat. But there again the dems do not care how many times they are showed up for their bold faced lies, they just do not care.
How will they find monies to mobilise the sugar cane harvest is anyone’s guess…..maybe the Central Bank Governor can print some bills….that should help!
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Prodigal Son February 23, 2015 at 1:49 PM #
“Yea right, Well well………………..I dare him to do so! That would be put an end to the power ride he is on!”
Strange enough, we did not get a similar reaction or response from Donville when Ralph “Bizzy” Williams made a similar suggestion.
On Thursday, June 19, 2014, while addressing the annual First Citizens Investment Services Market Outlook Panel Discussion at Frank Collymore Hall, Williams recommended that “reforms to change the governance system in Barbados, especially in light of allegations of vote buying that dogged the last general election.”
He also suggested that “Vote buying should be punishable by imprisonment and disqualification from holding public office in Barbados for life..”
But interestingly enough, Bizzy’s suggestions came against the background of previous comments he made during his speech relative to:
“Even Barbadians looking around and they are not believing what they are hearing simply because of the track record of those who are speaking. When you go and tell people you are going to do this and then you do something different, people lose credibility and confidence in what you are saying.”
“And when your leadership is not believable and they don’t operate with the kind of integrity that you expect, you have problems and that is the thing I believe we are facing here . . . .”
Now, juxtapose Bizzy’s above comments with Froon. Recall, for example, Froon said, tertiary level education will remain free and no civil servant will be retrenched, but the opposite occurred.
So, Douglas, according to Bizzy, “when your leadership is not believable and they don’t operate with the kind of integrity that you expect………”
Well done, Fruendel!!!!
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@Prodigal
Are you for real?
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David,
I too did not understand Johnson’s point. Did you miss it when he said that there are some advertising execs who make more than the PM? Was that personal? Just shows you that having loads of money does not equal happiness.
How can any one justify being paid $80,000 plus perks per month in this small economy? CLICO’s monies was just like my godchildren’s play doh…….a plaything for Parris and Thompson. Well the money run out, didn’t it and now 35,000 poor policyholders are screwed, one of the perpetrators is dead, the wife is not talking, part of the other criminal’s assets was frozen, he still has millions more but saying he is facing hardship.
Only if I had the power to lock the bastard up and let him see what real hardship i
looks like!
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Meaning what David?
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@David:
So let me explain. If I have a contract with SNI that says I shall receive 25% of gross revenues – whether SNI makes a profit or not – that is what I expect to receive. If, however, the person who prepares my cheque for the 25% states [on the payment voucher] “for repairs done to studio 3” and there were no repairs done to studio 3, [nor was I involved in any matter involving studio 3] and the figure happens to be the same as the 25% I said was due to me, we are dealing with a matter that is not about “my big salary”, but HOW I went about getting it.
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@Prodigal:
Nothing personal in that comment either. For me, the issue with CLICO was the perks and salaries that were seemingly not connected to the realities of the countries in which it operated. Rather, it seemed to be whatever the executives thought they were worth. And whatever that was, was seemingly approved. Either by Directors or Mr Duprey himself.
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A brilliant article and predictably the BLP yardfowls are all out cackling.
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We have a prime minister that anyone can criticize without fear of intimidation and victimization.
However, if anyone says anything about Mottley you can rest assured that her motley crew will come after you. It seems Mottley only wants the public to speak out if they are not critical of her. Kerry Symmonds said he is not a Mottley clone and he gets ostracized. Mottley will bring nothing new or refreshing to the table. If you think so, you are fooling yourself. Ask Owen.
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Anyone can do better than this current crop…even the PDC!!
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The People’s Democratic Congress February 23, 2015 at 5:29 PM #
The People’s Democratic Congress (PDC) wishes to publicly morally and politically support – to a fair extent – the efforts of Mr. Andrew Bynoe, Mr. Andy Armstrong and Mr. Patrick Frost, in campaigning against vote bribing and treating in Barbados.
According to the Sunday Sun, February 22, 2015, these three “elders” had prepared a document which sets out their position, and which includes calls for stiffer “legislative penalties for those who sell or purchase votes, or attempt to induce their sale or purchase, in any election”.
Also, it is true that in the last General Election and in its immediate aftermath in this country, there were “many allegations in public of persons having been persuaded to cast their vote in a particular manner” and of they having been given and having been in receipt of money and other things, on the understanding that they vote in that particular way. And too it is true that after the conduct of that General Election – notwithstanding those countless allegations – not one prosecution by police came about.
It is pellucidly clear that as much of the politics of this country must be devoted to almost totally elmininating these unfair and corrupt practices which have had the effects of subverting the election process in this island and destroying the will of the people of this country.
While we in the PDC entirely morally and politically support the efforts of these Barbadian “elders” to write and speak out against such illegal and immoral election practices, we do not support their reported approach (in the same Sunday Sun news story) “of delivering the document outlining their desires to the Prime Minister and to the Opposition Leader, because they feel that those office holders can make a difference and can cause a difference to happen”.
We disagree entirely with such an approach given that they and their parties have been the primary beneficiaries of such alleged vote corruption of elections in this country, over the years, and they and their parties, especially when at the helm of government in this country, have as yet to do any thing substabtially legally politically for a very long time about such voting improprieties and transgressions.
What the copied document in the Sunday Sun failed to do is to point out that the three “elders”, with their tremendous access to the public of Barbados and to money and resources, are going to commit themselves to getting many of the relevant publics of Barbados more aware and educated about the dangers of such illegal voting and vote bribing activities in this country, by their initiating a serious and concerted mobilization, aggregation and articulation of public feelings and sensitivities on these very important issues, with a view to their creation of another new party to fight illegal voting and vote bribing and wider corruption in Barbados.
What the said copied document in the Sunday Sun also failed to do is to point out that there is an urgent need for the modernization and simplification of the existing Election Offences and Controversies laws of the government of Barbados.
For instance, CAP 3, Section 41 (1) of the Election Offences and Controversies laws, reads: “At the time of presenting an election petition or within three days thereafter, the petitioner shall give SECURITY for ALL costs which may become payable BY HIM to any witness summoned on his behalf or to any respondent”.
Section 41 (2), reads: “The security shall be an amount of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS and shall be given in the prescribed manner by recognizance entered into by any number of sureties not exceeding four or by a deposit of money, or partly in one way and partly in the other”.
Section 41 (3), reads: “Within seven clear days after the presentation of the petition, the petitioner shall serve on the respondent in the prescribed manner the prescribed notice of the presentation of the petition and of the nature of the proposed security and a copy of the petition”.
Section 41 (4), is read as: “Within five days after service of the notice referred to in subsection (3), the respondent may object in writing to any recignizance on the ground that any surety is insufficient or is dead or cannot be found or ascertained for want if sufficient description in the recignizance or that a person named in the recignizance has not duly acknowledged the recognizance”.
Section 41 (5), is read as: “An objection to a recognizance (earlier dealt with in another subsection) shall be decided in the prescribed manner”.
Section 41 (6), reads: “Where the objection is allowed, the petitioner may, within five days of the allowance thereof, remove it by a deposit (ANOTHER ONE) in the prescribed manner if such sum as will, in the opinion of the Registrar, make the security sufficient”.
Section 41 (7), reads: “Where no security is given as required by this section or any objection is allowed and not removed as aforesaid, NO FURTHER PROCEEDINGS shall be had on the petition”.
Now, clearly from any serious analysis of those particular provisions any national effort to educate the various relevant publics of Barbados on the need for positive modern changes in voter attitudes and values towards vote bribing, treating and corrupting, must also take into consideration that there is an urgent need for serious reform in the laws speaking to the governing of the conduct of any persons petitioning against candidates that have been unfairly and wrongly elected into any electable public office in this country on account of such gross improprieties and transgressions.
PDC
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OK DJ understood, was listening with half an ear.
The matter brings into play the role of the Directors through the years and how they discharged their responsibilities read having the interest of the company at the center of decision making.
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4) The Abolition of Motor Vehicle Insurance;
How will accident victims be compensated for their injuries, injuries to third parties and car repairs?
Artaxerxes,
There will be set up a joint private public sector program to deal with such cases.
Once they are genuine vehicular accidents and losses on any public roads, highways and on any other delineated accesses in this country, and too on property that is controlled by the government, this program will be activated to make sure that these persons who have suffered injuries or fatalities to themselves, or damages or losses respectively to or of whatever types of properties – any vehicles or conveyances, houses, shops, and any other permanent or temporary structures adjacent to such public accesses or government controlled properties, resulting from such accidents and losses, that in the case of fatalities, the spouses and dependents will be given agreed to amounts of money over specified amounts of time to help them recover financially, upon their priorly and properly submitting claims for financial recovery to the program, and with these claims being successful to whatever extents; and in the cases of personal injuries or damages to or losses of the types referred to above and of the nature spoken to by the would be enabling legislation then, that they are given money over specified times or lumps sums to help them recover financially, upon their priorly and properly submitting claims for financial recovery to the program, and with these claims being successful to whatever extents, from out of the national money stock – which would be managed and held in stock by all core financial institutions in this country.
Such a program will eliminate the dreaded onerous circumstances whereby the relevant owners of motor vehicles will continue to be burdened financially with wicked, disgusting and totally unnecessary motor vehicle insurance premiums, and will definitely free up money for actual uses by thousands upon thousands of vehicle owners in far, far more important commercial business provinces in this country.
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5) The establishment of a National Currency Board to manage currency flows within the country, and into and out of it;
“A Currency Board is a monetary authority that is established to remove the central bank from its discretionary role of adjusting money supply and interest rates, as well as making decisions about the valuation of a nation’s currency, specifically whether to peg the exchange rate of the local currency to a foreign currency, an equal amount of which is held in reserves. The currency board then allows for the unlimited exchange of the local, pegged currency for the foreign currency. A currency board can only earn the interest that is gained on the foreign reserves themselves, so those rates tend to mimic the prevailing rates in the foreign currency. By using a currency board a country is no longer in control of its monetary policy.”
Essentially, this National Currency Board clearly contradicts:
2) The Abolition of Interest Rates;
3) The Abolition of ALL so-called Exchange Rates Parities ‘with’ the Barbados Dollar;
6) The making sure that the Real Actual Cost of Use of Money in Barbados is substantially reduced in the medium to long term;
7) The making sure that the money turn over rate is substantially increased in this country;
Artaxerxes,
The National Currency Board that shall be set up by such a coalitional governmental regime shall be fundamentally different in the nature of its composition and structure, and in its overall mission and mandate, from the nature of the compositions and structures and missions and mandates of the various national currency boards in some other parts of this world.
As is implied by us in the 21 objectives highlighted earlier up, but as is so contrary to what you are suggesting should be the role of the National Currency Board that we will inaugurate, this proposed Board will play a substantial role in the regime’s setting and managing of our monetary and currency policies for the country – most of which (policies) will be premised and crafted on the Board understanding and accepting the role that it will have to play in helping to secure – by means of properly assisting in the carrying out of the ideological and philosophical and practical purposes behind the establishment of those particular kinds of monetary and currency policies – the deeper and wider revolutionary spiritual, social and political objectives of those policies themselves.
PDC
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@PDC
What if an accident victim wishes to seek remedy form the Court?
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David,
The appropriate legislation will speak to the Supreme Courts jurisdiction only on appeals by claimants or by representatives of the program on disputed points of law or facts, as they relate to issues of fairness or unfairness, adequacy or inadequacy in the amount of financial recovery granted by the scheme, issues of interpretation and application of any aspects of the appropriate legislation by the program or prospective claimants, issues related to the administration of the program, etc., from the program to them, wherein leave to appeal to the Supreme Courts will have to granted by the Supreme Courts.
PDC
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dennis johnson February 23, 2015 at 4:33 PM #
@David:
“So let me explain. If I have a contract with SNI that says I shall receive 25% of gross revenues – whether SNI makes a profit or not – that is what I expect to receive.”
Dennis,
In a “normal” business, calculating 25% of gross revenue is relatively straightforward. Unfortunately, up to this very day, Lawrence Duprey still doesn’t know that insurance is not a “normal” business. As for Leroy Parris, if I were to misspell the word “insurance”, he wouldn’t even know.
Let me give you a simple example to illustrate my point.
A policyholder, age 30 years, purchases a whole life insurance policy (face amount = $100,000) from CLICO in 2008. The policyholder pays a mythical monthly premium of $150 and the policy is fully paid up at age 55.
Out of the $1800 in premiums paid by the policyholder in 2008, how much of it should go towards reserves? How much of it should go toward the cost of providing insurance protection to the policyholder? How much of it should go towards company expenses? How much of it can be viewed as “gross revenue”?
A properly run insurance company seeks out professionals who can competently perform the calculations which are needed to answer these questions.
CLICO was not a properly run insurance company. In insurance companies that are not properly run, here is what would possibly happen to any policyholder’s $1800 premium:
A corrupt, ignorant, uneducated, “thiefing” person would decide that “25% of that premium is mine”, so a contract would be quickly rigged up merely to hold on to $450. To get that $450, without regulatory oversight or annoyance, a cheque would have to go to Seymour for $100. Howard would discover what is going on, and, one day before elections, would tell the people that Seymour has received $10 of the policyholder’s money.
“Pick me instead of Seymour, and I will make things right”, he would promise.
He would be picked, and Seymour would be sidelined. But instead of setting things right, he would now join the corrupt, ignorant, uneducated, “thiefing” person and proceed to plot and plan how to steal the full $1800 of the policyholder’s premium. The ill-begotten gains would be used to live a jet set lifestyle, and, one day before elections, Seymour would tell the people that “Howard has received almost 45 times as much of the policyholder’s money as I did.”
“Pick me instead of Howard, and I will make things right”, he would promise. The people would keep Seymour sidelined, and every cent of the policyholder premium would be eventually stolen.
Eventually, Bush Tea’s BBE would put a whacking upon Howard, and a semi-literate jackass would get up in front of the people and boast about how ‘large’ Howard lived on the stolen policyholder’s money.
As time goes by, all of the damage done to the policyholder’s premium would be disregarded and forgotten as ‘intelligent’ persons start discussing whether an uneducated thief should get what a rigged contract says he should get.
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dennis johnson February 23, 2015 at 4:37 PM #
@Prodigal:
“For me, the issue with CLICO was the perks and salaries that were seemingly not connected to the realities of the countries in which it operated.”
Dennis,
When it comes to the operations of an insurance company, the process of setting perks and salaries (i.e expense levels) in a responsible manner technically has nothing to do with the realities of the country in which the insurance company operates. Almost everything in insurance is based on science – actuarial science.
Regardless of which country you operate in, if your level of premiums and demographic risk profile constrain you to expenses of X, and you ignorantly continue to spend or steal X + Y, the insurance company will eventually collapse.
That is true as John 3:16.
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@Walter:
And after following the tangles web in T&T with company execs giving themselves million dollar loans, and awarding million dollar bonuses, I am convinced that policyholders wont see much [if any] of their hard-earned bucks as long as we continue to pursue this matter from the “he paid himself too much” angle.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/23/investing/hsbc-ceo-swiss-account/index.html
Check the link. see the angle that was pursued?
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look the blp not interested in pursuing justice for the clico holders their only focus is using clico political spoils to gain an advantage towards winning the next election. but far from having the perceived advantage that they are awaiting, the opposite would be swift and forthcoming as the revelations of the many revolving doors which were opened by clico and that were advantageous to the blp . that too would be sufficient cause for mia to have another committee of privilege to investigate yuh think so
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” the spouses and dependents will be given agreed to amounts of money over specified amounts of time to help them recover financially”
And where would this money come from since your No 1 objective is to abolish taxes?
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dennis johnson February 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM #
@Walter:
“I am convinced that policyholders wont see much [if any] of their hard-earned bucks as long as we continue to pursue this matter from the “he paid himself too much” angle.”
Dennis,
I am just as convinced as you are that the chances of CLICO policyholders seeing much of their hard-earned bucks are rather slim.
However, I don’t agree with you that the slimness of the policyholders’ chances has been caused by someone continuing to pursue the CLICO matter from the angle that Mr. Parris “paid himself too much”.
By now, it should have become clear to most Barbadians that CLICO was deliberately raided and stripped of its assets. The assets were stripped by using “techniques” such as outrageous salaries, gratuities, allowances, perks, legal fees, consulting fees, payments to companies set up by Parris and others, money to politicians, money to political parties, bogus and illicit transactions involving at least one PM of Barbados………..
Let us now look at the efforts made by the Government of Barbados so far to safeguard the policyholders’ interests.
Barbados and T&T shared similar CLICO raiding experiences. In an effort to determine the extent of the damage done and to accomplish the eventual creation of a “new “company, the Government of T&T utilized the services of an actuary. The Government of T&T announced that the damage done amounted to $TT 22 billion.
The Government of Barbados decided to use propaganda. After no more excuses could be found, and after all the touted potential buyers evaporated, the sextant was then summoned to the church to start ringing the funeral bell. The Judicial Management process had now begun. Funeral rites were being held fror the last remaining batch of consulting fees.
Whereas the Government of T&T put in the money needed to get the “new” company up and running, the Government of Barbados shifted into higher gear by “promising ” the JM that they would contribute some money in the not-too-distant future. In actuality, they gave the JM not one red cent. When the JM ran out of money and decided to auction off the assets (the CLICO corpse was to be taken to the gravesite), the Government of Barbados found a higher gear still and provided the name of a company, and the name of its directors. In essence, the government told the JM: “There is no need to auction the company, pay your bills with these names.”
That approach to date, my friend, is what suggests to me that the CLICO Policyholders will not “see much of their hard earned bucks”.
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Well done Freundel (FM)
You have succeeded
in taking Barbados back to the good old days
When free tertiary education was hard for poor people to attain.
Back pass the days when you grew up and saw class distinction and class discrimination.
You have successfully championed the cause of the Political class at a time when we should be looking to get rid of “class” distinction and class discrimination.
True to form , you have supported those who you consider to be in your class even though they have committed “sins” AGAINST Society’s moral code . Leroy Parris and Michael Carrington
Congratulations
You are an FM
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