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Submitted by Anthony Davis
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Stuart pointed out that for all practical purposes, Barbados was already a republic. A Republican form of government stipulates that those run the people’s affairs should be chosen directly or indirectly by the people themselves. We already do that. Under republicanism, the persons who administer your affairs can serve during your pleasure. In other words, they should only be able to stay as long as you want them to stay – Barbados Today

Dear Mr. Prime Minister, please tell me where you will get the money needed to change around everything from the Monarchical system to that of the Republican one?

The Minister of Finance is always complaining about “low cash flow” when it comes to satisfying the needs of the poor, the needy and the vulnerable, and the institutions on which they depend. You come to us now with something which is nothing but another red herring to try to get out of the predicament you are in at present.

You state that there are three reasons why Barbados is “for all purposes already a republic”. However, the criterion for the third is null and void because the Speaker of the House of Assembly has not only been accused of misconduct, but found guilty of so doing. Fingers are still being pointed at him, but he has refused to step down and has this Government’s backing for so doing. Also, if Barbados is already practically a republic, why waste the taxpayers’ money for changing over to one?

The Minister of Finance says that there is still a “low cash flow”, and this will probably continue until the third quarter of next year.

Whence will the money come to change over to the republic system, knowing that it will all cost money? That money would be better being pumped into the QEH! We may need a republic, but not under such circumstances where it seems that you are only doing it for your own self-aggrandisement!

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135 responses to “Talk About a Republic Merely a Diversion”

  1. Talk About a Republic Merely a Diversion

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  2. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Mr Stuart forgot one factor that has already qualified us as a republic, like many of those in South America,Africa ,Central America, and the greatest republic of them all, the US of A, where policemen are able to shoot down citizens willy nilly,and the authorities pooh shark on one long drawn out investigation.
    I’ll risk to bet that the policeman involved is either a member of the DLP or a Lodgeman, or both.

  3. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    re I’ll risk to bet that the policeman involved is either a member of the DLP or a Lodgeman, or both.

    YA EN LIE SAH!

  4. ac Avatar
    ac

    these are the offspring of the older generation supporters of the BLP who gave the rght hon Erroll Barrow a tongue lashing when Barrow profoundly stated that Barbados Independence was inevitable,,now fast forward almost fifty years later and this generation of BLP supporters is talking the same trash with the same cockeyed reasonings , There ought to be a law against political perception and the bastardization of critical thinking a well know flaw the BLP has adopted. because every time these misfits open their mouths the howling sounds of negativity rolls across social media and the media airwaves on just about ever issue don’t you think that after six long years of re thread and boring mantra that people either have gotten used to these recitations or just simply closed their ears,

  5. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    “A Republican form of government stipulates that those run the people’s affairs should be chosen directly or indirectly by the people themselves. We already do that. Under republicanism, the persons who administer your affairs can serve during your pleasure. In other words, they should only be able to stay as long as you want them to stay..”

    Mr. Stuart please, Sir, (or do you want me to address you as Sir, the Rt. Hon Freundel Jerome, QC?) don’t make yourself look like an intellectual jackass devoid of a grasp of universal political concepts and practices.

    We can say the same thing about Canada, Australia, Jamaica and even the UK.

    Wasn’t the USA a republic under slavery and segregation? Wasn’t South Africa a republic under many years of Apartheid? Aren’t the countries that made up the old Soviet bloc republics up to this day? What about Cuba, China and North Korea?

    What about the Republic of Zimbabwe and the many other countries on the continents of Africa and Asia that call themselves ‘republics’?
    Are the leaders elected fairly and squarely by the people and serve at the pleasure of people?

    Get real, Jerome! The real issue is: Is it cheaper and more beneficial to have a republic or leave the existing form of democracy that has served the country well for the last 48 going 49 years even though the Anthem speaks of the Lord guiding the people for the past 300 years during slavery and beyond.

    Let your God be the leader and guide of the people instead of some republican dictator or monarchical demi-god. After all, isn’t the God who appointed the Queen the same God to appoint any future King?
    Why throw 376 years down the drain when a simple amendment from Her Majesty to His Majesty can do the trick and save you rewriting the preamble to the Constitution?

    Oliver Cromwell must be smiling all the way to the Ye Ole Mermaid Tavern with the final intention of throwing Horatio Nelson into the Constitution river, once and for all. Ask Trevor Marshall if you doubt me. He was at the séance.

  6. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    This is red alert talk, not the Queen English, the po po do shark pooh with some big up Bulls that in D love party and lodge too, all ulgy men in places that can help him get away, even if charge, may be the crook ran to po po because he knew he was going to safe arms, that held him many times before ,the po po try to get his hand in a Jamaican girl front at GAIA and the Barbados taxpayers had to pay about 60 plus k for it,see where the men got shot in the back , these ugly people like the back ,look how Barbados is going backward,

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

    We knew that already to get the talk away from CLICO and the House Speaker,

    Nothing new when dealing with Crooks , Liars and Scumbags of the DBLP governemnt

  8. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Freundel is smarter than a lot of people give him credit for. There are many people in this country: who can’t afford to put food on the table for their children: who can’t pay their bills when the become due; who are due termination pay from Government and have not seen a cent of it for as much as one year. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital has deteriorated to the point where it is difficult to call it a health care institution. Government has raided the National Insurance Fund to meet short-term needs thereby putting our future pensions in doubt. All of these are more pressing and the PM decided to engage in the politics of distraction to give the populace something to talk about other than what ails them. Worse yet, he has achieved what he set about to do. We can’t be that dumb to be deceived so many times without realising it.

  9. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Caswell,

    This jackass we have for a PM is not fooling anyone. The people have wised up to the DLP’s tactics. In the Nation, all but one person said the call for a republic was a diversionary tactic, the online comments were all of the same view.

    I wonder if he knows that he has to go to the people for such a mandate. We did not vote for that and Barbados is not a dictator,ship that he can impose his will on us. Ugly bastard, he seems to be getting uglier everyday….the more he speaks with such sarcasm and condescension, the uglier he looks! It comes from the inside, Bushie tells us!

  10. Sunny Sunshine Shine Avatar
    Sunny Sunshine Shine

    @Caswell

    This girl likes you bad. This girl thinks you have what it takes to govern this land only if you would find the courage to make the the big step. However,;one thing this girl does not understand is why you think the current Prime Minister is smarter than we think. This id the second time for me that you state he smart and that he is no idiot.

    The current Prime Minister has not achieve his objective to distract from the current onslaught he and his administration are faced with on a daily basis. What he has done is show forth how ignorant he is in thinking that people would be distracted. People wisely recognize his and his administration’s inability to manage Barbados and make timely decisions when necessary. The people recognize that the nefarious silence of this Prime Minister was broken when he had to defend his friend Leroy “the money leech” Parris by attacking the people who fall for the Parris Ponzi real estate scheme with he got a list talk. The people are not blind to the corrupt wisdom of this Prime Minister. The people are not blind to his defense of the immoral decision to keep the speaker of the house who is an immoral son of a bitch while showing the whole of Barbados that he the PM accepts immorality and will represnt it with his 31years as a lawyer.The öeople understand this PM well. The only one he fooling are his loyal subjects who have sold their souls to the devil for a few shiny things, a couple of Sir Grantleys, a few washing machines and the clearance of outstanding bills. You really think the people will forget that this corrupt PM saw vote buying, talk about it but turn around and accept it. Smart my ass Caswell all he has done is set up himself for more criticisms. And the criticisms are just in his case particularly the ones about his dictatorship behaviour and the need to cement it with the current going republic shite talk. Where is the smarts in that when all you have achieve is getting people to say: if he cannot manage the country, is the most hated PM in the history of Barbados politics, you think his dictator words of: Barbdos will become republic and disdain he showed towards the Queen with his words will distract. I HONESTLY BELIEVE THIS CUNT TRYING TO STIR-UP SOCIAL UNREST.

  11. balance Avatar
    balance

    “Barbdos will become republic and disdain he showed towards the Queen with his words will distract. ”
    I didn’t hear his Republicanism nonsense because I doubt Mr Stuart knows what is or isn’t a Republican form of governance but if indeed he did show disdain for our Sovereign lady in his as usual disdainful ‘playing to the gallery’ comments and expects the comments to go unpunished with laughter then he has another thought coming. Remember Jack Warner’s fairy tale world in which he lived for many a year without ne’er a hindrance only came tumbling down after he doubl-crossed to his own demise the unforgiving British after promising them his vote.

  12. Ready to Vote Avatar
    Ready to Vote

    Before we get rid of the Queen I want to see of these Clico people in Her Majesty’s jail. Any chance of having David Thompson exhumed?

  13. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    another brilliant idea from the govt, a tax break so that women can have more children to help to look after the elderly, What the fu>”<k. Where are they getting their financial advise from india. Mr President don’t worry about tax breaks the problem is bajans cant keep it in their pants as it is .

  14. ac Avatar
    ac

    thank god for PM Stuart had not for him the BLP would have nothing to talk about it,s as if there divided and fractured party would not be of a major concern going into the next election.

  15. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    Why not a tax break for women who live with the fathers of their kids, but mr president if you decide to go ahead with this money for kids scheme please encourage them all not to be rocket scientists like AC

  16. Sunny Sunshine Shine Avatar
    Sunny Sunshine Shine

    Every shite from this pimp is the BLP this the BLP that. THE BLP is no longer in power. They did their shite and contributed to the economic slide. The government in power is the DLP led by a benevolent dictator and a generator of absolutely nothing positive to the social any economic fabric of Barbados. An insulting condescending persona is he and an immoral defender of of wrong doing and wrong doers. Why do you contribute on here. Real real cunt hole.

  17. ac Avatar
    ac

    actually i do not see this as a B or D issue but an issue that dictates the necessity for fairness given that a person /persons collectively has a right to seek recourse for compensation for work done whether they be a joiner a welder or a teacher, it is not good enough to expect services rendered and an unwillingness by those receiving not to be equally responsible out of fairness to compensate on a scale that is measurable and justifiable with in the parameters of duty bound
    the bstu has laid out a reasonable case on which they have stated that a job when delivered must be compensated and any rationale thinking person would be hard pressed not to agree ,, as stated in their complain for over the years they have had excessive workload and their cries for compensation has been received with muted ears.
    The harm being done from the fallout of this stalemate should not solely be placed at those seeking compensation but at those who have closed their eyes and ears to fairness and responsibility,

  18. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    AC is the G S of the D loving party , ask Caswell he live near,

  19. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    As the next step towards Barbados becoming greater independent – politically constitutionally – of colonial rule, it is logical for Barbados to become a republic, and to move away from this foolishness called constitutional monarchy.

    However, it shall become totally disgusting and repugnant for either the Damned DLP or Blasted BLP to primarily take the country in that direction, fundamentally because neither of them has a vision, a blue print of the type and form of republic that is really needed and that is really relevant to the fundamental social political material financial needs of this country at this stage in its history of existence.

    The type of republic that Barbados must have is a People’s Republic of Barbados, in which the major people forming the major arms of government – being the people at the helm of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary – will have to be all elected by registered voters who will have voted for them on fixed election days, and using various voting methods for their election as between them, and ultimately for them to take up their respective public offices; where all those holders of such public offices will be totally accountable to the people of this country; and where all those elected public office holders will be subject to being recalled by a predetermined number of voters voting to do so at a designated time at designated places.

    In each instance of such people carrying such titles of Cabinet secretaries, legislators, judges, respectively, and performing their respective roles and functions, they shall be granted sovereignty and legitimacy to do so on the basis of the majorities of such voters voting for them.

    The stupid DLP and the foolish BLP must go or be forced to go by the broad masses and middle classes of people in this country in the forseeable.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    Does this talk being floated about a Republic has the support of the Opposition? The government needs their support to swing this right?

  21. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    It is not only a diversion for Fraudelein but for Mia and the BLP too. We could never understand why people would ever presume that politics is anything less than war, a war against the people. And in war truth is the first victim.

    We have a scenario, if recent polls are correct, where MAM is fielding at first slip to have the people of Barbados ‘out caught’. It’s like the frying pan and the fire. We see no measurable differences between the two!

    Remember, the BLP, for 14 years also had their fair share of diversions, propaganda, mis-directions. Had not for the objections of Whites in Barbados Owen would have done the same foolishness.

    We imagine that the Black lackeys must be lining up to get their knighthoods, QCs, and so on before less desirable ‘honours’ come into ‘bogue’. So for the next 30 years we will have a new manifestation of classism. Those with the real or foreign ‘honours’ and the minions with the local variety.

    Is this not animal farm? LOL

  22. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Inadvertence

    In the third paragraph from the top in the PDC post just above it should have been: ‘the major people being part of the major arms….’.

    PDC

  23. racehrse Avatar
    racehrse

    Lets revisit these two articles about what the DLP was going to do. Ask yourself this question: “are you better off now than you were four years ago?” …….. Ronald Reagan.

    ‘2008 DLP Manifesto:
    http://www.caribbeanelections.com/eDocs/manifestos/bb/dlp_manifesto_2008.pdf

    ‘2013 DLP Manifesto:
    http://www.caribbeanelections.com/eDocs/manifestos/bb/DLP_manifesto_2013.pdf

  24. David Avatar
    David

    Interesting how the traditional media has been manipulated to populate headlines with this Republic issue what should be underpinning this issue is the fact it was not a DLP Manifesto issue just 2 years ago.

  25. Anthony Avatar
    Anthony

    Anyone following Nigeria’s elections, it must be Barbados sister country as there is also major vote buying?

    http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/weve-buying-selling-votes-since-1960-jonathan-admits/

  26. Kevin Avatar
    Kevin

    I am still ‘young’ but I do remember this Republic talk being pushed by the BLP under Owen Arthur. I believe we were suppose to become a Republic on 1st Jan 2000 and sumthing (cant remember the year). It will be very interesting to hear what Mr Arthur and especially Trevor Prescod have to say about this, as he was one of the leaders of this movement.

  27. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Any comments by any citizen of Barbados about this country becoming a republic must never be construed by anyone as distractive. Such comments must however be construed by any reasonable person inside or outside of this country as being a necessary and inevitable part of a very important national discussion on the transitioning from one of the political statuses of our Barbados to another one.

    What though must be asked – and given the political constitutional importance of the office of Prime Minister to the political affairs of this country, and the capacity of certain sections of the local media to inform on many things the Prime Minister actually says generally and especially at certain times of national political material financial crises – is why the timing of this national discussion and what are the motives for the Prime Minister et al setting it in motion at this time.

    Well, the fact remains that at a time when this country has been going through its seventh successive year of dreadful political economic depression, the question of Barbados becoming a republic continues to be a seriously unresolved settled one, in light of the fact too that during the mid to late 1990s, during a time of the false propogation of the illusion of material financial prosperity in Barbados, there was much national discussion on the subject of republicanism for this country then too.

    PDC

  28. ac Avatar
    ac

    this is the one issue that would catspraddle the Bees as they fight tooth and nail against an idea that they overwhelmingly endorsed under OSA. just remember timing is every thing and the time is now, two thumbs up for PM stuart

  29. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    The question continues to be: what were the other major national issues in Barbados then when the matter of republicanism was being set in motion by former Prime Minister Mr Arthur et al? The issue of the increasing great amounts of money that so many Barbadians had to give to many merchants business houses when having got the identical number of commodities or the identical number of uses of services as before per transactions in the local domestic retail markets?

    The wickedness of the implementation of the dreaded VAT and its different destructive political psychological financial effects?

    The issue of the great number of foreigners having been taking greater control over many of our Barbadian land spaces, at a time when so many Barbadians did not have any land spaces here to put homes on, to plants crops, grow vegetables and to rear animals for their own purposes?

    The issue of many more of our agricultural lands having been transformed into residential and recreational developments, especially for the uses of the well to do, at a time when many Barbadians were, in some cases importing, and, in many more cases, using so many foreign agricultural and food and beverage items from elsewhere?

    What like hell??

    Surely the Damned DLP and Blasted BLP must be totally destroyed by the broad masses and middle classes in the very serious reengineering redevelopment of this country.

    PDC

  30. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    ac March 29, 2015 at 11:32 AM #

    “this is the one issue that would catspraddle the Bees as they fight tooth and nail against an idea that they overwhelmingly endorsed under OSA. just remember timing is every thing and the time is now, two thumbs up for PM stuart……”

    Thomas Paine:
    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”

    A quote applicable to Froon and the ACs.

  31. David Avatar
    David

    What this issue raises T&T again is the willingness of the political class to wrap every issue in a political perspective. Have we lost the capacity to distill an issue based on the benefits to be derived?

  32. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac March 29, 2015 at 11:32 AM #
    “this is the one issue that would catspraddle the Bees as they fight tooth and nail against an idea that they overwhelmingly endorsed under OSA. just remember timing is every thing and the time is now, two thumbs up for PM stuart..”

    It could also be argued that was the BLP’s position under the OSA dispensation.
    The same way the DLP has broken it manifesto pledges of “No Layoffs, No Privatization” so too can the BLP move away from any previous proposal of republicanism as a pressing matter for Barbados at this time.

    The current BLP can simply argue that it is a matter for the people to decide either by way of a clearly stated manifesto pledge in the next general elections or by way of separate Referendum to let the people vote Yes or No for Republican status.

  33. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Some in the PDC would well recall how in the middle of the first decade of the 2000s, the jackass BLP having gone and constructed a monument in supposed commemoration of the first free village in Rock Hall, St. Thomas, whilst at the same time under their period of gross maladministration and misrule more and more foreigners were having greater and greater control over more and more of our land spaces in this Barbados.

    What an idiotic inconsistency then and now!!

    The Dammed DLP and the Blasted BLP must be absolutely permanently removed from the parliamentary and political landscape of this country by the broad masses and middle classes of this country as soon as possible.

    PDC

  34. Anthony Avatar
    Anthony

    Barbados No2?

    http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/morning-after-the-day-before/

  35. NationBLPnewspaper Avatar
    NationBLPnewspaper

    The most shameful scam is the big ups at the Nation BLP newspaper telling Bajans that a new and improved Sunday paper was coming. ha ha

    Then we all realize that it is still the same BLP mouthpiece bowing to SIr Fred and the other masters in Roebuck Street. still biased Peter cussing the PM, still Mascoll cussing SInckler every THursday, still Mottley spokesman Tennyson Joseph cussing the DLP every Tuesday and Harry Russell cussing the DLP on Mondays and you think with BLP mouthpiece Albert BRandford that the Nation would try to have a little balance – maybe try to make it 95% BLP columns instead of 100%. You know who the Nation BLP newspaper bring back – Pat Hoyos and like a true BLP yard fowl HOyos hit the ground running.

    It gets worse- the only accountant the Nation BLP newspaper could find to contact on the CLICO issue is former BLP candidate and party treasurer Douglas Skeete.

    A note to Roy Morris _if you put lipstick on a pig , it is still a pig. Changing the front page and layout while the biases perspective remains is an insult to intelligent Barbadians.
    We know this current management at the Nation BLP newspaper is low on morals but they also have no respect for the standards of journalistic integrity.

    I am sure the BLP supporters would read this and agree

  36. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Now is the time more than ever before for the broad masses and middle classes of people of this country to show these two older intellectually and politically backward, bankrupt and discredited political factions, what time it is.

    Barbadians must get up now in great and unanticipated droves and multitudes and mash down and break up these two old jackass factions for all the political wrongs that they have over the years been doing to us in this country.

    Mr Prime Minister, Miss Opposition Leader and whom so ever else, it is you all that are responsible for the wicked and evil wrongs that you and your moribund decadent and corrupt parties have been perpetrating against the broad masses and middle classes of people of this country.

    It is YOU and your political cohorts, and it is your and their evil wickedness, and NOT any move towards REPUBLIC OF BARBADOS that have been destroying the lives of many of our people in this country, and causing them to live like paupers, grovellers and stragglers in this supposedly modernistic Barbados.

    It is YOU ALL that must go or be forced to go in any serious reengineering and redevelopment of this country.

    PDC

  37. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Both OSA and MAM have accepted that the matter of BIM embracing a republican form of government must be by way of a referendum.I recall Sir Sleepy Smith railing against republicanism during the reign of OSA.I know Sir Sleepy to be a persistent and consistent legal beagle and I would turn down my pot and know Sir Sleepy will call Brasstacks tomorrow self and announce he being an ardent monarchist,more ardent than Sir Cammie himself,that this Buhbaydus is not ready for a republican form of government and if Sir Freundel think he want to be remembered as the last PM under the monarchical form of government,that being his legacy,that he should go to the people first, either in an early election or in a referendum.

  38. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Re NationBLPnewspaper March 29, 2015 at 12:54 PM #
    Tell me sumting suh. I over in away, so I don’t nose all de facts but would you say that everyone who cusses thePM is biased?

    Does Mascoll have good cause for cussing SInckler every Thursday?

    Does Mascoll know wuh he talking bout or is he a moron like say the AC’s?

    Does Mottley spokesman Tennyson Joseph cussing the DLP every Tuesday and Harry Russell cussing the DLP on Mondays or Pat Hoyos just doing so cause they are cuss birds or do they have just cause to cuss? or wuss?

    Are you saying that anyone who cusses the PM or the DLP just cussing for cussing sake whether they cuss in Barbados Today or Barbados Underground or the Nation or pun de streets? or by Bussa?

    Are you saying that the PM or the DLP or SInckler have done nothing deserving of being cussed?

    Are you saying that they not worthy of being cussed chronically or daily?

    I not a journalist or a BLP, and as I say aready I over in away so I don’t nose all de facts and as you can see I aint too smart, so could you illuminate and explain the pint of the shite you rite?

    would you say that you biased too or is it that you are elephantic jackass?

  39. ac Avatar
    ac

    @ GRANPA (GP) I WOULD SAY THAT YOU GO BACK TO READING YOUR BIBLE AND FIND SOME MORE MORONIC COMMENTS BY YOUR HOMEBOY AND WUFLESS FRIEND KING SOLOMON THAT DEPICTS WOMAN AS WHORES WHICH BTW YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING HAS LED YOU TO BELIEVE IT IS ALL RIGHT AND GOOD<

  40. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Gabriel March 29, 2015 at 1:03 PM
    “…if Sir Freundel think he want to be remembered as the last PM under the monarchical form of government,that being his legacy,that he should go to the people first, either in an early election or in a referendum.”

    Ably, put Gabriel. Only a messenger of such high standing and close connection to the God of Truth could announce such a pre-condition for any change to a republican form of governance.
    After all A G (Angel Gabriel) the light of Truth lies not in any proposal wrapped in a tissue of lies and distraction coated with the fishy aroma of a red herring but in the very words regurgitated by a dangerously unfocused P M: “ A Republican form of government stipulates that those (who) run the people’s affairs should be chosen directly or indirectly by the people themselves.”

    Where is your mandate, Mr. P M, given by the people to take Barbados into republicanism? Where in your Manifesto of Good Governance did you indicate to the people your party’s wish to see Barbados adopt a republican form of governance?

    Why not in true republican spirit let the people decide by way of voting the same way you and your cronies from the Monarchical political class do in the HoA?

    Barbados did not achieve its ‘Independence’ through the barrel of a gun or regular civil strife and upheaval. Why not carry on that tradition and let the people have their say instead of ramming it down their throats because on their acculturated slavish subservience to imposed colonial authority?

  41. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    NationBLPnewspaper March 29, 2015 at 12:54 PM #

    “We know this current management at the Nation BLP newspaper is low on morals but they also have no respect for the standards of journalistic integrity. I am sure the BLP supporters would read this and agree…”

    Perhaps you should forget the Nation Newspaper a bit and focus your attention on the current management of the Barbadian economy and society.

    “We know for sure this current management of Barbados is low on morals” [check how they handled the Carrington affair; the CLICI forensic report; Byer charging over $800,000 for a $17,000 job without reprimand; Lowe and the embezzled millions; over one year after being retrenched, former NCC workers still awaiting severance payments while Denis Lowe’s constituents remain employed and this DLP administration boosting of having the largest cabinet in the history of Barbados; making sure ALL losing candidates get a pick in the senate or as a diplomat; using the constituency branch meetings to cuss ordinary Barbadians; now Irene has joined Reggie Hunte, Maxine McClean and Jester Ince in the senate to cuss people; Sinckler calling June Fowler a “bald pooch cat”].

    “But they also have no respect for the standards of journalistic integrity” (listen to the shiite that comes out of the mouths of John Lovell and Maureen Holder; the political content of CBC DLP TV and GIS programming; the shiite dat Douglas does write [ask Lisa Marshall, the DLP really went to the extreme bottom here with morals]; the Advocate reporting which has an obvious bias towards the DLP).

    “I’m sure the DLP supporters would read this and agree.”

    The poll results can also substantiate this, since it was DLP supporters who were recorded in the high percentages as being fed up with their party’s attitude.

  42. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    Georgie Porgie March 29, 2015 at 1:21 PM #

    Way to go, Georgie……. love yuh contribution.

  43. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    lets sing in honor of FUMBLE who plays dat he HUMBLE

    God STEW our STUPID Froon,
    long may we sing his tune,
    God STEW the Froon. (Music: Pum, pum, pum, pum)
    he’s low on morality
    devoid of integrity
    has no respectability
    God STEW the Froon! –

  44. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    TIME FOR A LIMERICK

    A CERTAIN PM CALLED FUMBLE
    PERFECTED THE ART OF THE MUMBLE
    HE STUMBLED
    AND HE BUMBLED
    AS HE PRETENDED TO BE HUMBLE
    THAT UGLY TWIT CALLED FUMBLE

  45. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    A CERTAIN PM CALLED FUMBLE
    THE SAME ONE THAT STUMBLE & BUMBLE
    HIS KNICKERS IN A JUMBLE
    THAT DEAR PM FUMBLE
    AS HE APROACHES A POLITICAL TUMBLE

  46. balance Avatar
    balance

    “ac March 29, 2015 at 11:32 AM #

    this is the one issue that would catspraddle the Bees as they fight tooth and nail against an idea that they overwhelmingly endorsed under OSA. just remember timing is every thing and the time is now, two thumbs up for PM stuart”

    Mr Or Mrs Ac do you think before you write or you just write for writing sake. The BLP’s last position on the Republic issue was that there should be a referendum so that the people could vote for or against it.

  47. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    The BLP cannot support the “minority” government’s attempt to change Barbados to a Republic.

    They would be supporting a government after calling for the speaker to resign and walking out and boycotting parliament.

    There should be a General election and a Referendum given that Barbados is still a “Democratic” country.

    And there is still the issue of FOI and Integrity legislation.

  48. ac Avatar
    ac

    again like i say this republic issue is going to catspraddle the new and not so improved blp

  49. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    What is all this nonsense about Freundel being ugly. Be that as it may; what is the problem? After all everybody can’t look like me.

  50. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @ millertheanunnaki March 29, 2015 at 12:26 PM #

    “It could also be argued that was the BLP’s position under the OSA dispensation.
    The same way the DLP has broken it manifesto pledges of “No Layoffs, No Privatization” so too can the BLP move away from any previous proposal of republicanism as a pressing matter for Barbados at this time.

    The current BLP can simply argue that it is a matter for the people to decide either by way of a clearly stated manifesto pledge in the next general elections or by way of separate Referendum to let the people vote Yes or No for Republican status”.

    ………………………………………………………..

    You are so right, miller.

    Since OSA said that the BLP lost its soul, this present BLP is not bound to anything he said or did when he led the BLP. Boo hoo!

    I quite remember the dead king kicking up a storm when the said OSA raise the idea of Barbados going republic. OSA had the two thirds majority to do this but bowed to the pressure from the thieving lying scum ball to seek a referendum from the people. Some how a question was floated about and the dead swindler and his lying band of scum balls poo poo the question and OSA backed down.

    And now the ugly man thinks he can swing this on Barbados and barely has a majority? Talk about tomfoolery!

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