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The unfinished St.John Polyclinic (1991-2015)

It is an open secret the very close – who said incestuous? – relationship the late prime minister David Thompson and Leroy Parris enjoyed. They were pals, travel buddies, the two families had a financial relationship. Rumours abound about the content of Thompson’s will sized by some from 30 million to 70 million dollars. Also, the close relationship extended to the company Parris led, CLICO bankrolled the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) political campaigns in the amount of millions. Not to mention the hand me down motor cars and other items sold or given to DLP members of the political class.

The release of the CLICO FINAL FORENSIC REPORT raises several questions about the integrity and honesty of the late David Thompson.  So far it does not look good for the former prime minister who died at the age of 48 from pancreatic cancer. Given what is at stake Barbadians will be lucky to see justice play out any time soon – members of the political class from both sides supported by corrupt elements in the private sector will be the hindrance.

Construction of the St.John Polyclinic started in 1991 by a DLP government and in 2015 it is still under construction after being ignored by a Barbados Labour Party government from 1994 to 2008. For 24 years the polyclinic has been made a political football because of the ignorance of our political class.  Of concern to BU is the recent announcement by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart the St.John Polyclinic will be named the David Thompson Polyclinic promised again to be completed by mid year. Surely the Prime Minister is the most insensitive brute of a man to make such an announcement with litigation unfolding which may yet place Thompson in an ugly light. Any government committed to promoting fairness should see the commonsense position of not lending the name David Thompson for any reason to any national asset, not even an out toilet.

Another consideration is the fact the wife of David Thompson was recently named in a court filing in her capacity as beneficiary of David Thompson’s estate. The role of the Thompsons in the CLICO saga promises more airplay, so too the rise or fall of the Democratic Labour Party legacy.

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212 responses to “Late Prime Minister David Thompson’s Name to be Given to St. John Polyclinic”

  1. Late Prime Minister David Thompson’s Name to be Given to St. John Polyclinic

    […] By David […]

  2. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @David “Late Prime Minister David Thompson’s Name to be Given to St. John Polyclinic -.”

    Why, why, why???

  3. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    It is always a gamble to give national honours to someone in their lifetime because that person could do something to disgrace himself and the country, after the honours have been conferred. There are recent examples in England where knighthoods have been revoked.

    In Barbados, we are proposing to confer an honour on someone who is under a cloud of suspicion. Albeit, a person who is dead and cannot defend himself against any accusations of wrongdoing. It is therefore incumbent on the Government to take steps to ensure that the person upon whom an honour is being bestowed is a fit and proper person politics aside.

    If the DLP wants to honour Thompson before guaranteeing that he merits such honour, maybe, they should name one of their assets after him. Their auditorium at George Street could become the David Thompson Auditorium. If they do not feel comfortable doing so then they should rethink the St. John Polyclinic.

  4. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    “The “criminal network” succeeded “thanks to unobservant and/or corrupt supervisors, deficient or absent monitoring mechanisms and complicit or tolerant attitudes”, said Granma last week, when news of the scam was first published.”

    Sounds familiar? Well we’re talking about Cuba. A Caribbean country that has had enough of her high levels of corruption .

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-31993579

  5. John Hanson 1781-1782, I SERVE 1788-1792 BARBADOES, Avatar
    John Hanson 1781-1782, I SERVE 1788-1792 BARBADOES,

    Caswell Franklyn March 21, 2015 at 1:15 AM #@

    Look at Ralph Thorne made QC while he was crooking people in the middle of a BAR reported case,

    Look at National Trust Henry , Now Sir Henry another croook

    Look at Richard and COW , made Sir all person love to hide crooks with titles above their heads,

    There are also Judges but dont know the time line,David Simmons, Ex CJ

    Must feel that cant be touched , Judges pulling them self off cases for they also are crooks,

    The Queen of England need to Audit these Bitches and remove the people with poor judgment who Chuse these Bitches

  6. ac Avatar
    ac

    wunna kee underestimating this PM keep calling M Stuart an idiot, This man knows law ,have yet to be proven to be on the side of wrong. Just hold wunna horses DT will be exonerated of all these allegations,P M in arliament stated that DT name was being demeaned and besmirch those are not words from a man who does not have knoweldge of the political undertow that has swept a tide of doubt and confusion and retaliation against DT,

  7. balance Avatar
    balance

    “Of concern to BU is the recent announcement by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart the St.John Polyclinic will be named the David Thompson Polyclinic promised again to be completed by mid year”

    Some of us might say that Mr Stuart is disingenuous while others might regard him as humane given his about turn after having in the worst possible light held up MR Thompson’s political ambitious re-emergence to ridicule in a biting speech to the 2005 DLP annual conference. I do not believe that Mr Thompson was cussed so badly before or since. So the announcement should be treated as nothing more than another fraudulent political manoeuvre.

  8. balance Avatar
    balance

    “DT name was being demeaned and besmirch those are not words from a man who does not have knoweldge of the political undertow that has swept a tide of doubt and confusion and retaliation against DT,”

    Mr Stuart was the first to besmirch Mr Thompson’s name and sow the seeds of doubt and confusion against Mr Thompson in his 13 point indictment against Mr Thompson at the 2005 DLP conference.

  9. HAMILTON A HILL Avatar
    HAMILTON A HILL

    If he were talking to another group of persons other than Bajans this would indeed be seen as the height of insensitivity. Ours is a society where for the most part such behavior is accepted as commonplace. The persons and institutions best able to keep acts of malfeasance away from the public domain are only too willing to accept the fruits of their labor, the dumbing down of our society. At the very top of this page sits the evidence that lends support to my claim. As I read the forensic report sometimes one paragraph twice, just to assure myself that I had not misinterpreted any of these sordid details images of Bernard Madoff in handcuffs confronted me. That’s when I was overtaken by a bout of anger. Here sits the evidence of A PONZI SCHEME for which no one will be held accountable, yet attempts to generate discussion of its existence are being stymied by the use of, and might I add conveniently so the phrase SUB JUDICE. More like we need that revenue advertisements bring.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    The comment by Stuart is no more insensitive than Sinckler saying to the BHTA ‘good things come to those who wait’ after a 17 month wait. Good reputation and integrity is built on being able to trust the other person. Our politicians have trivialize what is truth.

  11. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    Well… at least they are naming it after a barbadian

  12. HAMILTON A HILL Avatar
    HAMILTON A HILL

    We saw the sham of outrage [and that is putting it mildly] by the motley crew in relation to the debacle of Speaker Mike ” de vacuum cleaner ” where other people’s money is concerned. During the recent debate of the estimates we heard Sinckler and the other buffoon claim that they can’t wait for there to be discussion on CLICO so that they can expose all. Haven’t we heard all that before? Is it only me, or do others as well accept that the DLP as well as the BLP mekking mocksport at we?

  13. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac March 21, 2015 at 6:28 AM #

    Far from being an idiot the man is a bold-faced liar and sanctimonious hypocrite. Certainly an idiot cannot be so ‘clever’.

    What do you think the man is saying other than the CLICO Forensic report is a pack of lies and full of misinformation. He knows how to fool people with his pre-election promises of no layoffs, no privatization, no payment of fees to the UWI, and the CLICO policyholders (including the holders of EFPA’s) would get back at least the principal portion of their investments.

    Now ac what should the man do if he fails to keep his promise of having the David Thompson Mausoleum officially opened by 30th June 20??. Request a list of the unpaid contractors who failed to meet this deadline?

    June seems to be the month of magic for this gang of DLP clowns.
    Tax refunds will be made by June.
    All the creditors to the QEH will be paid by June.

    How about finding the money by June to finance that $1.7 billion fiscal gap?

    Why not have elections by September if the people of St. John are unable to access a polyclinic and other civic facilities by July? After all, they have been given the assurance the equipment and staff needed to outfit a fully functioning polyclinic are on hand.

  14. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    The mistake we are all making is in expecting to reap sugar when we have planted river tamarind.
    Brass bowl idiots will be brass bowl idiots……

    shiite man….. what else do we expect from these JAs?

    If a set of monkeys can:
    …Buy an old abandoned hotel for $100M
    …pay millions to knock it down
    …borrow $500M to build it back
    …to give it to a Paradise pissing foreigner…. now also a bajan rum pisser…
    …give two lifetimes worth of tax-free gifts to this pisser of things bajan…

    and think that they have done something positive….

    WHAT THE DONKEY DO WE EXPECT?

    In all likelihood, Stuart is not even being insensitive in naming the Polyclinic…. Just being Stuart…
    The man is just not sharp …….OK?

    Bushie would not have been surprised if he named it after his non-leper friend, client, and benefactor.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Promises made by politicians mean nothing because they are never held to account by Barbadians. In any given situation we have become so ‘educated’ it is easy to rationalize all situations. For example, Speaker Michael Carrington brings the office into disrepute and given justification based on the fact he broke no House rules. One wonders if Arthur was Opposition leader if he would be so ambivalent. BU sides with the observation when he was on the BLP side he avoided debates, now he is on the government side as an Independent he loves to debate. This example among many exposes the sham.

    JA

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @Bushie

    Are you then saying his Cabinent colleagues have no say? They all agree to the naming of the clinic David ‘3.33 million’ Thompson given pending litigation. Did we not educate most of these men and women with ‘free’ education?

  17. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    Notwithstanding that Stuart has confirmed through this proposal that he is an unfeeling buffoon with absolutely no regard for decency, I think he might be on the right path here.

    It should instead be named the David Thompson, Mara Thompson, Leroy Parris Polytechnic with an exhibition centre containing artifacts proclaiming the misdeeds of these individuals in perpetuity as a reminder to all and sundry of the depths to which this Government has sunk under the guidance and leadership of Freundel.

    The names should be set in soft stone in a place outside the edifice and the citizenry should not be discouraged from throwing eggs and sundry other offal as well as to relieve themselves at and on the likenesses of the scamps whose names and likenesses have dishonoured Barbados.

    Tongue in cheek only, but such is the only sort of reverse honour that DT deserves.

  18. John Hanson 1781-1782, I SERVE 1788-1792 BARBADOES, Avatar
    John Hanson 1781-1782, I SERVE 1788-1792 BARBADOES,

    We can see every one want to go after DT, Fine,their is a lot other Names still alive that can go to jail for crimes and ongoing crimes,

    We also need to focus on the one alive now, We know dead people cant sue you for talking about them ,

    PM , AG , MOF and many other Ministers and bankers and lawyers are also Crooks,
    Let see if any one can also say their names on line

    All of these crimes would not be done with out the help of PM Owen , AG MIA, Sir COW and Sir Ham ,

    Clico was feed with Plantation Lands and False deeds with the help of Many Ministers of the day ,

    So we will wait to see who died next to talk loud and proud behind their dead backs,

  19. Togetherness Avatar
    Togetherness

    It is proper that the polyclinic be named after David Thompson of that there should be no debate. Were not Thompson’s life cut tragically short he would have become as outstanding a Prime Minister as he was an MP for St. John. Johnny Cheltenham sang Tom Adams praises at the Central Bank which is named after Tom Adams. Thirty years after he passed Tom is loathed by many his reputation still creates fear and disgust. Thompson is not in Tom’s league as a demagogue or wutlessness.

    Is Darcy Boyce the Minister of Energy? Has he ever muttered a word about the offshore oil and gas prospects? Foreign companies repeatedly gush on the potential offshore but Boyce appears totally disinterested in pursuing the offshore oil and gas option.

    The latest potential oil explorer company opines in Barbados Today not only they are certain there are hydro carbons but any find will bring Barbados billions . Why is Boyce not going after this option with zeal. The man talks about everything other than oil and gas exploration.There’s nothing to lose and all to gain. We are made to understand the exploration companies pay all the costs of drilling and so on. Its pathetic how lazily Barbados is handling this potential bonanza that could go a long way to solving our economic woes.

  20. St George's Dragon Avatar
    St George’s Dragon

    I think we should name Parliament after another well known Bajan. We should call it the Winston Hall building.

  21. ac Avatar
    ac

    @balance that might be true all things being equal and given the enviroment of the politics of the day.However what PM has set out to do is pursue a path where not only one version of events spirraling out of control are not held to scrunity

  22. David Avatar
    David

    @Togetherness aka waiting

    JAs must bray, it is an unavoidable characteristic.

    And ignorance has no bounds of course.

    On Saturday, 21 March 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

  23. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    To name this Polyclinic after Thompson is to exonorate wrong doing. However in the.business of drawbacks and deals the only one who finds it wrong are those who do not benefit from it. David Thompson committed no acts of wrong Stuarts eyes..Its all business. Now tex dah Stuart is saying to his critics. You all are just talkers

  24. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    Yes, I agree that the clinic should be named after the PM’s proposed honoree. We are now being told that this building will cost twice the original estimate which means that a lot of steal went into the construction – yes, I agree with the choice of name by our bright and beautiful PM. He nose best.

  25. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    I hope they name the operating theatre “The Ronald Briggs Operating Room” and D waiting room “The Jesse James Lounge” and the lunch room “The Charles Manson Lunchonette”……better stlll The Carrion Eater or “The Byer’s Cafe.”

  26. HAMILTON A HILL Avatar
    HAMILTON A HILL

    Owen Arthur has just accepted the role of Grandfather Of The Political Class. Unless it involves his obvious nemesis he is very much prepared to toe the line. It gets interesting very soon though as the cadre of clowns begin to implode as pressure is brought to bear on the shoulders of the minister who seems to be absent from his desk where the real date for the sugar crop is concerned. So as to forestall Mia’s ascension to rooms 36 through 38 at Government Headquarters, that spiteful old devil may very well not just ride off into the sunset but might just wrench Clyde Mitt Romney Mascoll, Kerry De Rascal Simmonds and others from within the bosom of the hive for after all blatant flip flopping is very much the strong suite of all the aforementioned.

  27. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    I don’t know if the late PMs name has been demeaned or besmirched but the JM report stated that the invoice he forwarded to CLICO had no basis in fact, it was a work of fiction. I would support the naming of the Clinic after him If and when someone disproves that substantiation.

    The PM likes his literature so I will quote the bard…… “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”, don’t let the Polyclinic became a monument to evil.

  28. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Togetherness March 21, 2015 at 8:42 AM
    “The latest potential oil explorer company opines in Barbados Today not only they are certain there are hydro carbons but any find will bring Barbados billions . Why is Boyce not going after this option with zeal. The man talks about everything other than oil and gas exploration.There’s nothing to lose and all to gain. We are made to understand the exploration companies pay all the costs of drilling and so on. Its pathetic how lazily Barbados is handling this potential bonanza that could go a long way to solving our economic woes”

    ‘Wait’ a minute there, Togetherness! Now who is right on this oil exploration business? You or Boyce the scam artist? Didn’t Boyce advised the PM in order for his MoF to state the following?

    “Off-SHORE DRILLING PROGRAMME:
    Finally, while I am on this issue of energy Sir, it would be remiss of me if I
    didn’t update the House on the off-shore drilling programme much vaunted by
    the last administration but which ran into {server} difficulties at the beginning of
    the economic recession when virtually all of the proposed bidders backed away
    from pursuing the investment. As you know Sir there were almost major
    deficiencies identified by several of these companies with the two pieces of
    legislation – the Off-shore Petroleum Exploration License Act and the Off-shore
    Petroleum Taxation Act. We have now completed the draft amendments and
    will very shortly lay the Bill in parliament foe debate and passage.

    I can also alert the House that we have reached agreement for an exploration
    with the one remaining company from the first batch of bidders, BHP Billiton,
    who will be free to proceed with its operations once the amendments are
    passed in Parliament. We expect that that agreement will be signed shortly and
    government will receive a signing bonus of US$6 million.”

  29. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    I must admit that I am most disturbed to see what OSA has become…..a JA.

  30. David Avatar
    David

    @Gabriel

    Why are you surprised? In the last 15 or 20 years we have caught up with Jamaica and Trinidad and partisan politics is now the order of the day. It does not matter how ‘educated’ we have become what matters is stoutly defending party colours and agendas.

  31. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    I must admit that I am most surprised to see what OSA has become…..a JA.The man has lost his marbles.What’s his problem?

  32. ac Avatar
    ac

    The Blp operatives would continue to demonize anyone who does not participate in the shell game version of Clico/DT. there ongoing effort is a classic reminder of how their party has operated with barb tentacles lashing out at their former leader OSA who now finds himself as junk status in the eyes and by the words of Mia Mottley as “a popular leader

  33. David Avatar
    David

    @Gabriel

    You know the answer; MAM must never be conferred the title Prime Minister. We have a rotten governance system which is compromised and there is no will to fix it.

  34. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    It appears that Stuart’s observation of a political class is a phenomenon to consider alongside Panday’s pronouncement that politics is possessed of its own morality.All this,mind boggling as it is do not augur well for the long term prospects of sustained growth and development of our societies.Its a dog-eat-dog-survival-of-the-fittest mentality.

  35. racehrse Avatar
    racehrse

    Arthur seems like he just wants to be the Dr Denzil Douglas of Barbados. What’s his real rift with MIa, does it go deeper than just politics?

    Buildings are just buildings. They only have significance in that their names remind us all of the good, or bad memories we associate with them. So maybe in twenty years the government can sell the naming rights for the right price.

  36. SuckaBubby Avatar
    SuckaBubby

    Why dont the pm at least get the blasted polyclinic finished first?

  37. just asking Avatar
    just asking

    This whole debate in parliament was so disgustingly without any bite, the only bit information that we had was that pensions would be paid on time, and even now all of the pensioners have not received their money. What a sad case of political rhetoric that went on, nothing of value. The only news that was of interest, not in Barbados was that three judges was sacked, one resigned because they were watching porn videos on their lab tops at work. Can we get something like a resignation from a politician for making them? This was in The UK that this happened, can we get anything like this happening here?

  38. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Barbados should build a Memorial wall in Independence square. The names of those who should be “honored” could be placed on that wall.

    Naming buildings and highways after dead people should stop.

    The morality of some former “stalwarts” was not without question. Those of you who are not hypocrites know this.

    Name the clinic what it really is. “The St.John Polyclinic”

  39. Ping Pong Avatar
    Ping Pong

    Stuart’s legacy in politics will be the maxim “Once elected, politicians shall ignore the electorate.” In the future, ALL politicians (B, D or whatever) will adhere to this rule.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    @Ping Pong

    Maybe so but adherence to that rule will lead to the inevitable.

  41. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Hants March 21, 2015 at 10:51 AM #

    Barbados should build a Memorial wall in Independence square. The names of those who should be “honored” could be placed on that wall.
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    And like the banana republic we have become, those people who face dishonour should be handcuffed to the same wall, blind folded, given a last cigarette, and ronald jonesed at dawn.
    BTW, Do not be surprised if Stuarts remove the name Tom Adams from the Central Bank building and replace it with Leroy Parris Personal Financial Centre.

  42. David Avatar
    David

    Check out LAWYERS in the NEWS Page.

  43. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    just asking March 21, 2015 at 10:36 AM #

    Can we get something like a resignation from a politician
    ………………………………………………………………………………………
    But we have ! This present administration, especially, has resigned………..that Bajans,in the majority, are a people who they are able to kick in the arse, from dusk till dawn, and from sunrise to sunset, knowing full well that they are going to come through smiling and asking for more.

  44. Sunny Sunshine Shine Avatar
    Sunny Sunshine Shine

    Someone said they are shame to see what OSA has become. HE is only what he always was: a slimy-wiggling-nasty worm. Immoral can only reveal what nastiness always dwell. The current Prime Minister is way up in that category.

  45. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Ping Pong March 21, 2015 at 11:08 AM #

    Stuart’s legacy in politics will be the maxim “Once elected, politicians shall ignore the electorate.” In the future, ALL politicians (B, D or whatever) will adhere to this rule.
    ……………………………………………………………………………..
    This is not anything new! we have always exercised our democratic rights to elect our Dictators.

  46. bajcan Avatar
    bajcan

    When the larger economies are moving away from oil; why should we bring that corruption into Barbados with all the issues that comes with oil and gas. We should be exploring appropriate non-toxic sustainable resources for future generations. I would prefer the current minister to work with a company that focuses on reusable energy and keep the poison and pollution away from our beaches and the air we breathe in Barbados. The billions brings more harm than good.

  47. David Avatar
    David

    @Bajcan

    Why can’t we marry the two strategies. BU is clear our appetite for fossil fuel will not wane in our life time. It is what it is.

  48. bajcan Avatar
    bajcan

    It is our responsibility to care for this earth. Our appetite for fossil fuel may not wane in our lifetime. But it our our right to set the path for seven generations to come. If we do not take responsibility; who will?

  49. David Avatar
    David

    @Bajcan

    This is the point, we have no regard for the environment. We do not understand or appreciate if we abuse it we will suffer the response.

  50. ac Avatar
    ac

    Arguably what OSA chooses to do with the remaing of his political career isdebatable.
    However what is most striking are those who have been his ardent supporters have choosen to disregard and engaged in the art of buffoning the relevancy of his contributions inthe Estimate.could it be for OSA day light has run it course or could it be that those whom he had rubbed shoulders and massage egos have shown their true colors.

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