THE AUDACITY OF LEROY PARRIS, claiming that since the freezing of $4.5 million of his $20 million assets, he can’t meet living and business expenses. The Prime Minister allegedly gave advice to the Speaker recently. I wonder if he offered any to his pal Mr Parris?
I certainly can’t advise him, but if I were in a similar position I would be hiding in the nearest hole, thanking my lucky stars that Bajans have traditionally been peaceful and hoping they remain so.
June Fowler’s fears that the resolution to the CLICO saga might be derailed by certain alleged and sometimes acknowledged friendships are well founded. And to those who don’t see why Government is becoming involved, have they forgotten that successive governments failed in their regulatory function?
Now to the sugar money: Another promise but until farmers have the cheques in hand, they continue to live in hope.
And, in response to questions asked of me in the Saturday Sun, I wasn’t aware I defended the “sugar planter class”, whoever they are, but I’ve defended and will continue to defend the sugar cane industry and agriculture in general, and those who are committed to its success. Success depends not only on the field aspect, mostly owned by private farmers, but also on the processing aspect owned by Government.
As far as I know, farmers plan to improve yields (of sugar rather than cane per acre) by using slow release fertilisers and improving soil biological characteristics, decrease costs and increase efficiency by testing various labour-saving machines and methods like strip tillage and monitor sugar output per acre from various variety/soil combinations, while seeking a fair price for their product.
I don’t understand what’s meant by “what has been done to keep production going year round”. Cane is planted around October and reaped 16 to 18 months later. Ratoons are harvested, grown for 12 months and harvested again. All this, of course, depending on when the powers that be allow harvest to start – which in fact has been another cause of the industry’s demise. Owners have diversified their farms by growing and processing vegetables, which keeps labour employed year round.
Reducing processing costs is Government’s responsibility. What I’ve never understood is why sugar costs $4 100 per tonne. Farmers supply the raw material (cane). If it takes say 11 tonnes of cane to make a tonne of sugar and farmers up to now have been paid $60 per tonne, that’s $660 in raw material. Can the Barbados Agricultural Management Company (BAMC) account for the remaining $3 440? Is it part of the $2 million per week needed to run BAMC?
The acreage sold by plantations for development over the past 40 years is considerable, but the Town & Country Planning Department is better able to give an accurate figure and say why it gave permission. I’ve often commented on greedy developers, masquerading as farmers, seemingly running land into bush to make a case for development. Interestingly, there’s a farmer on one side of a particular road claiming agriculture doesn’t pay, and on the other side of the same road one who is a role model in agriculture.
Should the Barbados Foundry and Plantations Ltd have been investigated? Maybe investigations are still going on, based on the speed at which CLICO’s investigation is happening.
While some money Government took from the industry went towards pensions for those not eligible for NIS pensions, the majority was used for reasons totally unrelated to the industry.
Regarding treatment of plantation workers over the past 50 years, these years coincide with independent Barbados. Are you saying that the “colonial masters” treated agricultural workers better? Interestingly, about 70 plantations were owned by descendants of slaves since the 1940s. I agree that agricultural workers don’t enjoy the comforts of many other workers, and I’ve always admired their resilience under trying weather conditions, but rural people are more resilient, and in fact part of the industry’s problem is that there’s an increase in “urbanised workers” with no tradition in agriculture.
I’ll conclude by paying tribute to Leslie, an outstanding worker who has recently emigrated to the US. If all workers in the industry possessed his talent and work ethic, agriculture in Barbados would be miles ahead.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/64021/worth-parris
Dr Frances Chandler is a former Independent senator. Email fchandler@caribsurf.com
128 responses to “Sugar Monies Paid on a Promise”
Walter Blackman
It may well be a fact that DT brought disrespect to the office, but does that give people the right to disrespect the office? Again, you need to understand the difference between the Office and the Holder.
And you Norst need to appreciate the office of the Third Estate of the Realm and the disrespect meted out by the Political Class to this group in society; the citizenry.
David
I am not disagreeing with you just think we are on dangerous ground when we start promoting or justifying the respecting of the office of PM.
Similarly I am of the view that Michael Carrington should have vacated the chair of Speaker of the House in that he brought office of Speaker into disrepute by his actions, whether by his public or private life.
@Norst
You are entitled to your view it has become patently obvious you are being mischievously provocative.
When you get a chance tell us about BNB Capital Inc.
Mischievously provocative? Now why would want to be so unkind to me? Iut can’t say for sure. would imagine they are a merchant bank b
David
Can you explain this conundrums…..30% of sugar lands owned by independent farmers,who to know have not been paid….we sign off on a MOU without consultation with the said farmers to start work on the new Factory at Andrews’ old site and this project is guaranteed for success……something is not adding up in this…..can you help?
@Vincent
What is the % of the input sugar will be required to make along with river tamarind and other inputs?
What area of land do we need to have under cane for the new factory to be economic?
What area of land do we need under river tamarind for the new generation plant to be economic?
How much will the Government pay farmers for cane and river tamarind?
Will they grow it for that price?
Have they been asked?
Have they agreed?
Why has the Government signed an agreement on the new Andrew’s Factory when these obvious steps have not been taken?
Where is Inter-Sugar Partnerships registered?
Is it true that $60 million gets put through ISP for “services”?
Who are the beneficiaries of ISP?
@David February 26, 2015 at 5:29 PM #
Who gets the sweets? February 26, 2015 at 7:47 PM #
David,he put the points better than I did ……….these questions need answers……we are making sport with our future..
There will be a new festival this summer….The Crap Over Festival! BTW When will the harvesting of sugar cane begin??? Next Year????
Walter Blackman February 26, 2015 at 12:15 AM
“Norst the Invader,
If you were only allowed to select one person, from the following list, who we all know really disrespected the office of Prime Minister of Barbados, which one would you pick and why?
1. David Thompson
2. Patrick Bethel
3. Ed Clarke
4. Frances Chandler”
Norst the Invader February 26, 2015 at 6:15 AM #
Walter Blackman
“It may well be a fact that DT brought disrespect to the office, but does that give people the right to disrespect the office?”
Norst the Invader,
Your selection of David Thompson from the list I gave you is an excellent starting point for further discussion and I commend you for your honesty.
Recognize therefore, that Messrs. Bethel, Clarke, and Chandler should neither be the target nor the subject of our discussion related to disrespecting the office of Prime Minister.
In two short lines, you have brilliantly told Barbadians how to determine the amount of damage done to the office of Prime Minister of Barbados:
1. Focus on the persons holding (or who held) the position of Prime Minister
2. Identify the ways in which the Prime Minister “BROUGHT DISRESPECT TO THE OFFICE”.
Disrespect is brought to the office by the office holder.
Just to give us a little clue as to the extent of the damage that has been done to the office, you named practically all of the Barbadian Prime Ministers and then implied incessantly that they were all liars. Again, I commend you for your honesty.
@ Norst the Invader February 25, 2015 at 8:40 PM #
“….. the office of PM deserves a certain level of respect. You may disagree with the PM and his administrations policies but that does not give you the right to trample of the respect due to the office and holder of the office.”
Norst the Invader,
Let us look at a few other words you wrote:
Norst the Invader February 25, 2015 at 9:04 PM #
“Mr. Integrity has an election to win, he (or his advisors) were quite smart in painting him a(s) capable of walking on water compared to his political foe, OSA. Its politics……………..its all fair.”
I interpret “painting him a(s) capable of walking on water” to mean lying. Lying is not a behavioural trait that brings respect to the office of PM.
In fact, Miller gave an example of what happens when people perceive the office holder as a liar:
“Respect due to the office holder?? Don’t make my donkey cry with laughter! Not when the holder is a pathological liar ………..
Name an instance where the holder of that office has kept his word given to the public?”
It is the holder of the office who brings disrespect to the office.
@Vincent et al
What is your view on Agrofest? This exhibition has been running for several years BUT how has it added to GDP and growth in the agriculture sector.
@David February 27, 2015 at 6:46 AM #
It is visionless exercise….purely a PR op.
@ Vincent
Its value maybe in exposing the young ones.
“You may disagree with the PM and his administrations policies but that does not give you the right to trample of the respect due to the office and holder of the office.”
A certain blogger will tell you that respect is not a right; it must be earned.
@David February 27, 2015 at 7:53 AM #
A once a year event does not meaningfully expose the young ones.
You establish mentorship units in all the villages/heights/terraces on the island,sharing the latest knowledge,using computers,explaining the respective permissions for ag. in the areas…….it is not rocket science we were successfull with it in the 60’s&70’s,with a brief revival in the 90’s.
In 2000 a joint exercise was looked at between community policing and 4-H ….it never started for a number of reasons…..I wonder what the level of crime&violence would look like today if it had,as well as food import bill…….the programme would have cost very little to implement.
David
Where did you find that bogus Thompson & Associates document from? Showing no date. ?
Shame on you!
@Fractured BLP
We got it from Mara.
Can’t you guys see that the scam involving Inter-Sugar Partnership Limited (ISP) is just another ploy to swindle millions of dollars out of the Bajan taxpayers by way of large consultancy fees and kickbacks to ministers and other corrupt politicians?
What has become of the Pierhead marina project? How much consultancy fees were paid out for this non-existent project?
What is the position with the Sugar point Cruise terminal? How much has been disbursed in consultancy and other fees?
How about the Four Seasons fiasco? Didn’t Persaud milk a few millions from this dead cash cow?
What about the much bragged about WTE project that was to bring tremendous benefits to the island and save millions in forex through the generation of electricity enough to power a little Las Vegas? How much money was paid in fees to Cahill with Denis Lowedown 5% kickback included?
Why do you think barking Bulldog Estwick is now a silent poodle? Because he stands to benefit from this sweet cream of fees and kickbacks from another dying industry.
The boy Esses with be set for life. No wonder he and the PM are even now closer than David and Leroy Parris ever were.
Now here is how the deal went down:
“Estwick, why don’t you just stop embarrassing me and my Cabinet demanding you want to be Minister of Finance and in return Chris and I would allow you to go through with this ISP scam to make a few easy millions by way of kickbacks. You can check with Denis Lowe how things are done.
I am sure the stupid timid Bajans, despite all the loud mouth and hot air they gas off, would see us as estimable gentleman worthy of emulation even by the great prince of scam Leroy Sunny Pokey Parris. Just look and see how they have taken both the Leroy Parris and our boy Carrington crooked stiff pricks up their moral behinds without a whimper of a scream for justice to be meted out to soothe the pain of public outcry for a Gilead balm of decency and honesty.
You will see how easy they have forgotten what your nemesis and Grand Master of Lies, Chris Sinckler, said in his August 2013 Financial Statement & Budgetary Proposals while frothing a farrago of lies as believably weighty and valuable as a tonne of burnt bagasse.”
Just listen Chris Stinkliar ruminating like an ugly pig while grandstanding in full show dressed in his bullshit of lying colours:
“Major Agriculture Reform:
In the area of agriculture our principal focus in the next eighteen months, Sir, will be the initiation of the major restructuring of the local sugar cane industry. As is well known, this industry has been on a steady and sure decline for many years now, having suffered not only from a dismantling of the preferential arrangements with Europe but also because of serious internal challenges relating to financing and excess cost over the ability to earn.
And in the face of a failure by the authorities to do a serious restructuring of the industry it has now come to a juncture at which an ignominious collapse was awaiting.
This administration has however designed, and successfully sought financing to advance, a major restructuring of the industry over the next three years, starting next year, in what is the Barbados Cane Industry Project.
Funding for this exercise (which will see the re-engineering of an existing sugar factory so as to allow it to engage multiple applications, including the production of bio-mass for the co-generation of electricity) has been agreed with the Japanese Bank of International Corporation and Japanese commercial banks for up to US270 million dollars.
Negotiations with all stakeholders including the workers’ representatives have already begun and the Ministry of Agriculture will be making a fuller pronouncement of the details of the project in the coming weeks.
It is expected that this project will begin implementation in the first quarter of next year and run for three full years. It will radically reform sugar agriculture while having very positive spin-off effects on non-sugar crop production.
With this process well on the way, it is government’s intention to forge ahead with other initiatives in the short term to give a boost to the local agriculture sector including the creation of a 2 million dollar grant initiative specifically for small farmers to engage in crop production. This initiative will be established and run by the BAS in consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture.”
millertheanunnaki February 27, 2015 at 7:18 PM #
“Leroy Sunny Pokey Parris”
millertheanunnaki,
I am trying to get a visual of what you are talking about, but the sun is in my eye.
@David February 27, 2015 at 6:31 PM #
Chuckle…..When will you and others realise that the knowledge is here as far as turning Ag. around………the Elephant in the room is the Merchant class…….loads of money can be made by selling on as opposed to setting up plants that take about 10 years to show a profit…….chuckle…….then the merchant class wonders how the country is like it is.
Vincent
wuh if those fellows shut down the simple sweet drink plants in favour of bringing in the poison from Trickidad, you feel that there is ANY way that the foreigners that own us would EVER consider investing in any shiite bout here other than hotels and stores?
…after you, (led by Owen Arthur) sell your asses to to foreign interest (sorry assets) you have to be a Peter Wickham to expect that decisions will now be taken in your strategic interests…
Of course if you are flexible and willing to bend over as needed you may be able to extract some consideration from our benefactors…. Just remember to smile and look grateful and don’t feel that you can demand anything…
When we reached the stage where we can only reap the canes by borrowing more money that the damn canes are even worth …it must be clear that some shiite is SERIOUSLY wrong…
Obviously AC-types have been running things ’bout here….
Agriculture is DEAD…. as is our dream of an independent Barbados.
Permit me if you please to analyze the ‘facts’ surrounding the CIRP that are currently in the public domain and hopefully shed a little light on the burning issues.
25 MW of electricity generated, 65 MW of waste heat suggest an input of 85MW and system efficiency of 30%.
30,000 tonnes of sugar suggest 330,000 tones of cane and 100,000 tons of bagasse of which 33% will be used internally for process steam and electricity. 67% will be converted to electricity that will be exported to the grid.
This level of exported electricity from bagasse is equivalent to an average of 5.4 MW. This means that approximately 17MW will be required from river tamarind.
To acquire 17MW of power from river tamarind requires approximately 150,000 tons of river tamarind.
Based on the best agronomic practices, it is possible to get 100 tons per hectare for fuel crops such as river tamarind with the proper plant spacing. These crops have a 3-5 year cycle. The best we can get from sugar cane currently is 20 tons per acre.
6.When BL&P looked at this project back in 2012, their costings were based on a reference or base price of BDS$10 per million BTU’s for locally produced biomass. This works out to about BDS$120 per ton. This means that bagasse and by extension river tamarind would be worth more per ton to the farmers that the $60 per ton they are getting for sugar cane.
Finally, for those who would listen this is not a cane industry restructuring project but first and foremost an energy project. Barbados no longer has a sugarcane industry.
“When BL&P looked at this project back in 2012, their costings were based on a reference or base price of BDS$10 per million BTU’s for locally produced biomass. This works out to about BDS$120 per ton. This means that bagasse and by extension river tamarind would be worth more per ton to the farmers that the $60 per ton they are getting for sugar cane.
Finally, for those who would listen this is not a cane industry restructuring project but first and foremost an energy project. Barbados no longer has a sugarcane industry.”
How does this all fit in with the Solar power generation ?
Will Barbados have enough labourers to plant and harvest this expanded sugarcane/river tamarind venture ?
It wouldn’t affect solar power since this project is already part of BL&P’s integrated resource plan. BL&P in in the process of retiring its two steam plants, so this plant which will supply 20% of our electricity needs will provide the retiring steam base load. BL&P produces an average of 105 MW of power.
There are special harvesters used to cut and chip the fuel wood automatically similar to the sugar cane harvester.
@ Tony ‘Kite’
Your analysis speaks to the VIABILITY of a project of this kind.
No one seriously doubts its viability – especially in a high energy priced environment.
Are you aware that 90% of the failed projects in Barbados in the last 30 years were eminently VIABLE?
shiite boss… nothing can be more viable than sea island cotton…
….except perhaps black belly sheep…
No …wait…
How can ANYTHING be more viable than using sugar (which we make) and water (which is in the ground waiting to be pumped) to make sweet drinks (which jokers buy and drink like maniacs – even though it is killing them)
ALL FAILED….
Get Bushie’s drift?
Le’s not even mention CLICO….
The projects fail because people STEAL the damn money.
They fail because politicians pay they lawyer friends $700,000 for ‘legal services’
We fail because no one consults with CRITICAL sectors – like the damn farmers expected to grow the stuff.
We fail because politicians only care about the short term…..once they “get their cut”, it becomes some other crook’s problem
So if we can’t do a CARSICOT, tell Bushie how this energy thing will actually work…
Sounds a lot like the cardboard project the Canadians started awhile back…..
@ Bush Tea
I can’t agree with you more. It is alright for a project to look good on paper, but it is an entirely different story when it comes to implementation. Sadly, governments have a very poor track record in executing projects successfully. The importance of the financing and the role of the many private stakeholders will make this project very difficult to execute successfully.
@Bush Tea February 28, 2015 at 12:42 PM #
Well said…..
David February 27, 2015 at 7:53 AM #
@ Vincent
Its value maybe in exposing the young ones
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Have you seen the number of jumping tents and play stations on the Weymouth pasture? Its like a mini Coney Island. Any interests the young ones might have gained at the actual exhibition, are lost when they see and enjoy the products of Agro Disneyland.
For the longest time we have been grumbling that we do not have a a proper Sugar Industry Museum in Barbados. This new MPF , in about 10 -15 years after completion, will provide us with the most expensive and up-to-date Sugar Museum.
Colonel Buggy
There is limited Agro in Agrofest. As you observed it is like a Coney island intersperse with some animals. It is a waste of time. Imagine ten years now and there is no improvement for educating the children that go there on the Friday. Mr. Paul knows that it is money making affair inviting all the schools from Nursery to Secondary. Children just walk around looking but they cannot get information because no one is around to give the info. There are no posted info on the animals. Where are the aquaponics people with their innovative designs? Where re the large vegetable producers who use shade technology? Where are the new technologies used in farming? It was disappointing day. The Ministry of Agriculture did save the day with their educational booth.
The Cane farmers will, with some luck, be paid shortly. But what about those workers at the now DEAD Andrews Sugar factory who were sent home over two years ago, and many, if not all are still to be paid severance.
The CLICO and Leroy Parris syndrome , to many Bajans , is more crippling than Chick V.
The assumption is made that the bitter, disrespectful white woman Chandler was in that group looking for Harris. We are pleased they found her but the large numbers of Caucasians on hand on horse with drones etc. was an eye-opener. Some of them curse the Nation reporters for taking pictures of such large numbers of white people searching for one of their own. It would be disappointing if the reporter didn’t curse them back . If photographers can take photos of policemen being taken to court and every accused who the hell Ben Harvey-Read and Jodie think they are. The color issue in Barbados hasn’t moved on an inch from the nineteenth century. If you doubt that ask the heiress of the plantation manor the Chandler woman.
@ My Two Cents
One of the questions which needs to be answered , is what are the regulations governing the operation of a Drone in Barbados. Are they any different to those applicable to model aircrafts
David
Any news on the start of the crop yet?
@Vincent
In all seriousness can there be a ‘crop’ this year?
David March 2, 2015 at 2:19 PM #
@Vincent
In all seriousness can there be a ‘crop’ this year?
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Depends on what the objective is……..
(a)Political…….yes
or
(b)Develop a lasting sustainable cane industry……no
@ My Two cents March 1, 2015 at 8:46 PM
“We are pleased they found her but the large numbers of Caucasians on hand on horse with drones etc. was an eye-opener.”
Why the jackass don’t you get off Dr. Frances Chandler’s back? While you are trying why not get the black monkey off your own back?
Don’t you know Dr. Chandler is more “Bajan” than you can ever be with your sick-ass nigger syndrome?
Since you are so observant didn’t you also see a few house niggers wannabe pale skins in the search party?
Why don’t you attack the black authorities who gave permission to deploy the resources of the Defence Force and the Police for a woman who went to visit a black stud and got so caught up in the heat of the ‘rapture’ she lost all semblance of time? Just like the post-menopausal white women of yore plantation days and the ‘modern ‘discarded white women from UK and Canada.
Millertheanunnuki
How you know where the woman Harris went and for what purpose? Is that what you reduce black men to, nothing but a stud?
@ Norst the Invader March 2, 2015 at 7:09 PM
The same way you see Dr. Frances Chandler as a relic of the old plantation master/slave arrangement trying to keep up appearances to the manor born so too should you see the young heavily-hung black buck in the cane fields fulfilling his nocturnal duties as the old white hags slip away to visit.
No there you go, what else do you want to know, inchoate Mandingo?
Some years ago the owner of the Manor at Grants, opposite Easy Hall plantation yard, came to the rescue of the Sugar Industry with a gift of many thousands of dollars. Perhaps the new owner who is believe to be ,Double M, should follow in the tradition of the previous Lord of the Manor.
Miller you are one confused person you’re doing your Uncle Tom impersonation on the one hand mixed with a large helping of BLP yardfowlism. With the next hand you’re accusing the white woman of having a canfield fling with a country Mandingo. You can see why you and your ilk cant convince voters to give reins of government to your leaders Mia, $15,000 Nicholls, litigants Payne/Hinckson and that lot. You relentlessly accuse the government of inertia and corruption you my friend are the epitome of confusion and a tortured soul. Observers irrespective of political leanings have long commented on Chandler’s disrespectful manner of speaking about our black leaders. She may not be racist if she isn’t she needs a crash course in not sounding like a backward bigot. The white people who unsurprisingly came out in masses to look for one of their own would never do that for a black that is a fact. Barbados Today’s editorial is insightful the division along race lines is never far from the surface in this little paradise. Think of how much progress we would make as a nation if we came together and worked as one instead of the demonstration this weekend of whites turning out with drones, suv’s, tracker dogs to look for the white woman who you said was looking for a black stud. The police in Barbados are the Caribbean’s finest they must be careful that they are not seen as more concerned for certain racial types than others. The Caucasians of BIM are locked in the mind set of the pre emancipation era. When and a big if they cross over that Rubicon the entire country benefits.
@ My Two cents March 2, 2015 at 10:09 PM
First let me ask you which of us come across as more racially “confused”, paranoid and schizophrenic?
The miller who has used his name consistently on this blog or a lying fool who has to resort to multiple monikers (“Togetherness”, “My Two Cents”, “Waiting” and a couple others) to peddle his lies and hypocrisy?
Here you go again with your racist monkey on your back attacking Bajan white people.
One wonders what colour or race you would apply to the owners of Jada and Maloney.
Up to now you have not commented on the fact that there were also black people in the search party and that those State resources could only have been deployed with the permission of the black authorities.
Would you put COW and his brother in the same category as Dr. Chandler? What about Sir Henry Fraser?
Don’t you realize the Bajan white people are a dying group who no longer control the economic life of Barbados? What colour or race would you ascribe to owners of Neal & Massy, the numerous second hand vehicles and parts importers, the fast expanding distribution and retailing food and household items businesses formerly controlled by the same dying white Bajans especially those of the Closed Brethren variety?
Are they black Bajans that have allowed their share of paradise to get lost?
One wonders if Leroy Parris was a Bajan white man what would you be saying today.
Do you think the “finest police in the Caribbean” would go after him with similar vigour as was demonstrated in the case of the missing “Bajan white lady”?
And please, Sir, just stick to one moniker and you might just become a bit more convincing in your hatred of Bajan white people even those that support your dangerous lying party.
@ The Anunnaki
I wondered about that “vacillating nom de plume” syndrome and to be truthful couldn’t understand the rationale
Now take me for example.
My real name is **************. In my real real life I am as ascerbic as I am here, without any social graces, lacklustre full of hot air, you know, an ole man with nothing to do but enjoy the grans, and tell lies bout exploits when I did younger.
Because de alter ego in de church and ting, I does doan use dat name here, you unnerstan but if I did I would try to vacillate between “good cop bad cop” sort of thing.
One man posting under 5 names, unlike 5 men/women posting under one name (Legion) is patently dishonest because the emphasis is not on same views by different people on the same topic but same views by the same person on the same topic!
Why woul one body do that “unlessing dem was trying to deceive de audience dat Nuff Peeple has gots de same opinion!”
There is something disturbingly psychotic about that practice and ongoing use of multiple monikers in keeping with the many faces of Eve and may be the signs of an underlying multiple personality disorder. Maybe Dr. GP would comment.
I would leave you to ponder the words of wisdom from the Book which some consider fallacy but which I am opiate intoxicated
9And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. Mark 5:9
@millertheanunnaki March 3, 2015 at 8:03 AM #
You have allowed yourself to be sidetracked by an ignoramus……
Ag. is the subject and where it is going,starting with the Cane industry,monies,factory,new areas/markets/products…….this area is too important to be allowed to be sidelined.
Have the Farmers been paid yet?
Why hasn’t David made the raging controversy over the ‘missing white woman’ a topic for discussion? We can only guess why not because if Froon eases a fart in the men’s room on Bay Street it’s a big topic on BU. Not only that miller, prodigal Artass and the Bees yard fowl troupe enjoin to roundly cuss Froon for doing what comes naturally and farting.
Miller you must stop directing stink bombs at Froon and direct them at the voters. Froon didn’t place a gun to anybody’s head to vote DLP. We are not sure how BLP candidate Nicholls drummed up his votes there is after all a claimant who insists he borrowed $15,000 from him on Election Day on Deacons Road. Enquiring minds cannot resist for the umpteenth time asking why and what for?
The voters gave Davey then Froon their X on their own accord not once but twice in past 7 years. That means its the voters who are telling the likes of miller, prodigal, art, to eff off. Its not Froon who caused you all to be the biggest losers its the voters. Crucify them not Froon. Miller you are either not playing fair or you are a frightened coward not to call out and lambaste the good folk of this country for voting Froon in 2008, 2013 and most likely 2018.
Back to the missing white woman the Nation should name and shame the three white men who went after Vincentian watchman Sam with a rope. His story on the front page stirs up images of the KKK out at night looking for a n&%$# to lynch. This is a sad commentary on life in modern Barbados albeit among a wealthy minority. The Police should investigate the watchman’s story with the same vigor they looked for that woman. They should bring charges if their investigations lead to laws being broken.
@ Vincent Haynes March 3, 2015 at 1:47 PM
Agree but the blogger with the multiple pseudonyms provide priceless comic relief.
Do you think if we ask him if the cane farmers have been paid he would respond with the same alacrity as he did @ My two cents March 3, 2015 at 4:41 PM.?
Indeed I would have to ask you Vincent if the sugar cane growers have yet received their monies as promised by no other than Chairman of the Board of Barbados Inc, Mr. High Integrity.
If they have not yet received their monies promised since January there must be a “genuine” reason for the delay.
Everything is now due to a computer fault. Maybe this is the reason for the late payment to the farmers.