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CLICO’s Leroy Parris approved a payment to Thompson & Associates on a false invoice

The Deloitte CLICO Forensic Report exposed to the world that a cheque for 3.333 million dollars was paid to Thompson & Associates by CLICO for legal services rendered. The invoice to support the payment was found to be a โ€˜false invoiceโ€™. Maurice King (lawyer)ย  is listed on the fake invoice as providing a watching brief in matters related to Abarco versus Grant Hotels Limited for $250,000. Maurice King is on record denying he provided the service itemized on the (fake) invoice.

Further, in the Forensic Report which was recently unsealed by Justice William Chandler, the former group financial controller, and at the time of the audit, President and CEO of Clico Holdings Barbados Limited Terrence Thornhillย  confirmed to the Deloitte Auditors the following –ย  โ€œHe believed that the creation, approval and submission for payment of a false invoice to facilitate a significant payment from CIL to Mr.Parrisโ€™ benefit (via PFS) and to conceal its true nature was an acceptable transactionโ€ (Deloitteโ€™s Forensic Report p.14).

Barbados Underground (BU) sincerely submits there is enough information for Director of Public Prosecutions to ACT!

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65 responses to “When Will the Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock ACT in the CLICO Leroy Parris Matter?”

  1. racehrse Avatar
    racehrse

    When he finds time to get off the golf course (Barbados Golf Club) where that 2 million government loan hasn’t been repaid.

  2. When Will the Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock ACT in the CLICO Leroy Parris Matter?

    […] By David […]

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

    He need to be replaced and the person who put him in that job,

  4. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    And to think this man David Thompson committed this fraud while he was the Prime Minister of this country.

    I followed David Thompson’s path in politics and I always knew he was a fraud…..I never trusted the man and to think he ran a campaign………I will not lie, cheat or steal! The bad deeds of this man have followed him beyond his grave!

  5. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Deeds,

    The DPP is a socialite!

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

    I know Charles Leacock has few friends on BU but surely the role of the DPP is to review police investigations and decide whether to prosecute based on the evidence produced. See clause 3.1 of this:
    http://www.easterncaribbeanlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Code-for-Crown-Prosecutors-July-2014.pdf
    Is it not the COP who needs to ACT?

  7. Petra Avatar
    Petra

    When will the CLICO pensioners get their pensions???????????????????. I am struggling to make ends meet.

  8. Blurpee Avatar
    Blurpee

    Somebody….I say, somebody come quick and save Barbados pleaseeeeeeee. All this shiit that happening can’t be for reallllllllllllll!!!!!!! peoples lives in the can and those who we pay high salaries to and have trusted won’t even move a lil finger to save CLICO victims from being unfaired. Where is the justice, where is justice?

  9. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    And there are some pensioners whose registered pension plan was hijacked from Life of Barbados to Clico and through no fault of the pensioners.The story surrounding this reality is that Duprey was made chairman of the board of the a company which was headquartered in Trinidad with a branch office in Barbados,and Duprey used his clout as chairman of the big company to move the administration of the pension plan to Clico.The plan is now in jeopardy because Clico is saying they have no money to pay the pensioners some of whom served that company for over 40 years.And that crook de leper in court everday trying to convince a judge that he destitute and can’t pay his bills.What about these workers who sacrificed 10% of their salary towards their pension and now in the twilight of their years cannot get ONE BLIND CENT from Clico because of the dishonesty of crooks like duprey and parris.Fuvckrs all.

  10. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Barbados Underground “(BU) sincerely submits there is enough information for Director of Public Prosecutions to ACT!”

    Dear David: Haven’t you heard that Leroy Parris is not a leper and that he is Prime Minister Freundel Stuart’s friend?

    In Barbados we don’t charge Prime Minister’s friends with anything.

    Was Rodney Wilkinson ever charged with anything while he was a Prime Ministerial friend?

    Stupseee!!!!!

  11. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    “Booking Return Flights”

    A very strange title to blog on as such relates to pensioners and retired persons receiving annuity payments for monies one has invested with all sincerity of receiving payouts in one’s golden years from the Ponzi Scheme run by Leroy Parris and Duprey.

    But here is the thing nuh about us ole fogeys.

    We isn’t on no return flights, we are on a one way trip to wherever…

    We can be likened to the Kamikazi pilots of the Japanese Special Attack Unit, whose aviation duties, towards the end of the war, were “to seek a glorious death” while dive bombing their planes into the decks of the US and allied warships

    And, in an effort to ensure that the aviators of the “Tokubetsu Kลgekitai” could not return, the Japanese command that gave the 3860 of them these duties, only gave them enough aviation fuel for a “One Way Trip”, NO RETURN FLIGHT!!

    The ole man reads that “only 19% of these Kamikazi were able to hit their targets but I would send out a cautious word to a few of you who have, and continue to benefit from these ill gotten gains of hard working people like the “petras” among us, remember that unlike all wunna young peeples dat “can book return flights” ours is a one way path now.

    You will do well to remark on the Trinidad Express article of January 20th 2012 which reads “CLICO agent Solomon Hem-Lee, who said he had received death threats as a result of the collapse of the insurance company, was found murdered in Enterprise, Chaguanas, just after midnight yesterday.”

    The longest day has an end for all of us……

  12. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Piece

    Talking about day…..
    Yesterday….Barbados’ esteemed PM…..Freundel Stuart rubbed shoulders and broke bread with the POTUS, Barack Obama.

    Great picture…….keep it to show your grandchildren!

  13. David Avatar
    David

    Didn’t the late David Thompson meet and greet the POTUS with his sidekick at the time Harley as well? What good has it done for the country or Thompy for that matter.

    On 10 April 2015 at 10:27, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

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

    Prodigal Son April 9, 2015 at 8:51 PM #

    Deeds,

    The DPP is a socialite!@ Hes nothing more than a Plug, that plug will be removed so the dirty water may drain out,

    He will pay for his sins on Earth or in hell, and hell will burn much brighter when he and the rest get there, The Devil will be happy for the extra heat.

    As long as we all stand for what is right and true nothing will allow them to stand for long , If you can feel , the feel is working against them and they feel it,
    Barbados is a much better place before there crooks came to be and much better after they are gone,

    The time for them is at an END, We dont type every thing nor say every thing , But we know More things, Its their turn and time to be replace ,,,,,,Thy Kingdom Come,

  15. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Hello David…..show some respect our former PM is not Thompy for you!

    Give him his correct title as he was then….The Most Honourable Prime Minister, David Thompson; QC, MP.
    And yes he did meet the POTUS along with his political adviser, Mr. Hartley Henry.

  16. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @ Fractured BLP
    How can you call for respect for any one of the in DLP, PM and Ministers and yard ducks like you of today lost the respect when they sat back and allowed David Thompson to thief the clico policyholders money to buy votes to win an election I forgive you and your kind that don’t know wrong from right and can’t even see how the curse is on the move , you are sick

  17. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    ………..Hello Davidโ€ฆ..show some respect our former PM is not Thompy for you!

    Give him his correct title as he was thenโ€ฆ.The Most Honourable Prime Minister, David Thompson; QC, MP…………….

    No honour among thieves. The only PM who was proven that he lied, cheated and stole while being in office……..committed fraud at the highest level……..created an false invoice for his friend and him to steal CLICO policyholders’ monies and even implicated a respected lawyer, Maurice King in the fraud.

    All he thief………look he dead and aint alive to enjoy a cent. The other partner in crime is today a haunted man, cant enjoy the loot and is going mad because some of it is frozen!

    Honourable???????That word could never be applied to a crook!

  18. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Watchman amd Prodigal…..you two should know better.

    Do not speak ill of the dead.

  19. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    As long as BU continues and until Leroy Parris is charged and if it were possible to charge the dead thief, we will continue to talk about the bold face crook. He was no more honourable than Gear Box and Gear never robbed a fellow.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    Unthinkable is happening, many Combermerians have been distancing themselves from the late Thompy.

  21. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @Fractured BLP
    I know it is said, speak no ill of the dead, but what David Thompson did to some of his own members of the DLP to reach the top, clico policyholders and Barbados by being a bold face thief , an evil person like he was, that dry up and dead, should be the talk in Barbados for years to come, because his curse is still alive in the D Loving Party, PM , Ministers, the yard ducks like you, that eat the curse cow

  22. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Prodigal Son please do not besmirch the name of the late Gear Box who at a point in his life contributed honorably to society as a mechanic.

  23. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Hants,

    I did not mean to. I tried to do a comparison with a man who conned people to believe he was honourable and who deceived Barbadians ………. and a simple soul to whom some Barbadians listen to and believed. People still talk about Gear Box and can laugh but mention the name David Thompson and you can hear the stupseeees!

    I would never understand how people still believe and trusted David Thugsom after the political stunt he pulled in 1994 when all during the campaign he told people that OSA made a deal with the IMF and he was going to expose it. Well, the whole campaign went on and he waited until the final night to woo people to come to Queen’s Park to hear of this deal. People were stupid enough to follow the liar. I have a friend who went because he wanted to hear of this deal, he could not believe that the man could be such a fraud. This was kinda like the Haggatt Hall meeting, well Barbadians believed his lies about OSA not knowing that he was the bigger thief.

    Dont speak evil of the dead……….Thugsom will know no peace as long as CLICO pensioners cannot get a cent in pension while his wife sits on millions of their money!

  24. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Fractured BLP April 10, 2015 at 6:27 AM “Yesterdayโ€ฆ.Barbadosโ€™ esteemed PMโ€ฆ..Freundel Stuart rubbed shoulders and broke bread with the POTUS, Barack Obama. Great pictureโ€ฆkeep it to show your grandchildren!”

    Dear Fractured BLP:

    I can assure you that our grandchildren will care nothing for Freundel Stuart nor for Barack Obama. You or Freundel can keep the picture and use it to line the bottom of your bird cage, or use it to wrap up fish.

    Wunna politicians, and moreso wunna political pimps does take wunna-self far, far to seriously.

    And de ting is nobody else does.

    LOL!!!!!

  25. Dee Ingrunt Word Avatar
    Dee Ingrunt Word

    @David at 6:06…Unthinkable is happening, many Combermerians have been distancing themselves from the late Thompy.==============

    Do tell!

    That Waterford school alumni are disowning their king, truly?

    That would be remarkable. Both the King and his Queen enjoyed sojourns there and both were well loved according to all reports

    Or is it just those self identified Waterfordites here on BU who have already lambasted him and completely distanced themselves.

    Like the other traditional older secondary schools the feelings tend to run deep for illustrious grads and can seemingly (oft’times) cut across political lines.

  26. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    David April 10, 2015 at 6:06 PM #

    Unthinkable is happening, many Combermerians have been distancing themselves from the late Thompy

    Too bloody late. There is an old Bajan saying ” If ya walk with the dog, then ya does eat dog food”

  27. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Mr. Caswell Franklyn

    In an earlier thread John Hanson/Deeds made a very insightful observation regarding the issue of a future administration relieving the DPP of his duties.

    De ole man was wondering if there was a procedure for such or under what circumstances that could be done.

    You are a man versed in these things so I said I would ask you since when I went searching for this I could not find it on de cvntputer.

    What I did find related to the statutory duties of the DPP in the UK and Wales and the ole man plagiarized the item and pasted it here because I am lefd to believe that Barbados Law and UK/Wales Law are similar, but I could be wrong.

    You and Ross can tell me if I am.

    “The chief function of the DPP is to bring prosecutions for indictable criminal offences. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) continue to have responsibility for prosecuting minor cases. The Department of the DPP therefore handles the prosecution of all indictable offences and such summary offences which are considered should be dealt with, including all offences arising out of the conflict, and also offences allegedly committed by non-civilians.โ€™

    The following process is then instituted:

    โ€˜Both in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland it is the duty of the Director of Public Prosecutions to consider the weight of the evidence against potential defendants. That consideration must be conducted without bias, WHOEVER THE POTENTIAL DEFENDANT MAY BE. The question which has to be decided is whether, on the evidence available, there is a reasonable prospect of securing a conviction in the Court which has jurisdiction to try the case.โ€™

    If a decision is taken to prosecute, the DPP decides what the charges should be and whether the defendant should be tried summarily or on indictment.

    THE DPP IS NOT LIMITED TO INITIATING PROSECUTIONS FOLLOWING RUC INVESTIGATIONS. He may also require the RUC to investigate incidents brought to his attention by some other channel. He also conducts prosecutions on behalf of government departments when required to do so in writing.

    But then again Mr. Franklyn, we are a banana republic so the rule of law will not obtain here and because our version of this Clico debacle is one step below that now being openly experienced in Zimbabwe, stoked by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini

    http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news/images/news_bKing_Goodwill_Zwelithini.jpg

    does not have bodies lying in our streets, and people arent being thrown out of their homes so blatantly, then we are more civilized than that republic.

    So hundred of the retirees who have received foreclosure notices dont equate to King David conspiring with leroy to undermine the bajan investors’ investments.

    Nor old people who have lost their investments not having enough $$ to buy food, pay bills and dying for lack of medical care does not equate to people being murdered on the streets of Durham

    That is the thing about murder Mr. Franklyn.

    If i hit you with a bottle or shoot you on your gallery in Butlers Avenue Spooners Hill for taking money from we igrunt guyanese for falsifying passports when i get caught that is murder

    But if i kill you with radioactive polonium in a meal, or by withholding medicine that is critical to your health at the druggist or not giving you your pension, NIS or Unemployment cheque or wages every month so that you, your chilren and grans can eat, that is not murder nor manslaughter, it is just the mismanagement of the “physical deficit”

    Only GOD can judge this world…

  28. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    St George’s Dragon April 9, 2015 at 8:52 PM #

    โ€œI know Charles Leacock has few friends on BU but surely the role of the DPP is to review police investigations and decide whether to prosecute based on the evidence produced. See clause 3.1 of this: Is it not the COP who needs to ACT?โ€

    You are correct SGD. However, this CLICO issue is not as simple as many are making it out to be, whereby the officer in charge of the RBPFโ€™s Financial Investigations Unit reading the forensic audit report and assigning officers to investigate with the intension of arresting and charging Leroy Parris, et al, for an offence.

    We must bear in mind that the CLICO issue is a private matter, and as such, despite the fact the forensic audit report revealed a number of financial improprieties, the onus was on CLICOโ€™s management, the Oversight Committee, Judicial Managers or the Court to have suggested the police be invited to conduct the relevant investigations.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    You are reminded:

    CLICO file for DPP

    Mike King,

    Added 07 April 2011

    CLICOโ€™s alleged contravention of an August 2009 order by the Supervisor of Insurance to stop selling new business is headed for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin told the DAILY NATION yesterday he had spoken with the Fraud Department head, the lead investigator, who is โ€œjust at the point where he is soon going to be referring the file to the Director of Public Prosecutions for guidanceโ€. Dottin said there were several people to be interviewed in the probe where CLICO is alleged to have sold 800 life policies in the first two months of 2010. โ€œIt is certainly not the run-of-the-mill case. It is not every day that you get a case of that nature. There is high public interest in the matter, and we are seeking to have the investigation completed as soon as possible,โ€ he said.

    – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/49138/clico-file-dpp#sthash.9JehFXs6.dpuf

  30. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    David April 11, 2015 at 3:00 PM #

    Although I understand the point you are trying to make, you must appreciate there are a few differences between the forensic audit report and the case you have outlined.

    Recall in August 2009 CLICOโ€™s subsidiary, CLICO International Life Insurance (CIL), was prohibited by the then Deputy Supervisor of Insurance, Vernese Brathwaite, from selling new business.

    1) It must also be noted that violation of an order from the SOI is a criminal act. Hence, any INDIVIDUAL ACCUSED of committing such an offence can be CHARGED UNDER Section 185 of the Insurance Act, Cap 130, and if found guilty is liable to a fine of $1,000 or a yearโ€™s imprisonment.

    2) Shortly before his retirement, Leroy Parris PUBLICALLY STATED the company, CIL, still went ahead and sold over 800 new policies, in contravention of the order given by the SOI.

    3) Being made aware of this development, Deputy Supervisor of Insurance, Vernese Brathwaite, through an official letter dated June 1, 2010, FILED A COMPLAINT URGING THE POLICE TO PROBE the sale of 800-odd life policies by CIL, in CONTRAVENTION OF A PROHIBITION ORDER from the Supervisor of Insurance.

    4) As a result of their investigations, the police were able to file โ€œcharges in the magistratesโ€™ court against former executive chairman of CLICO Holdings (Barbados) Limited, Leroy Parris, and current president Terrence Thornhill.

    In other words, the SOI prohibited CLICO from selling new policies, but the company, by contravening the order and selling over 800 new policies, committed a criminal offence. Consequently, Vernese Brathwaite invited the police to investigate.

  31. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    It’s noteworthy that both parties mentioned in the above two posts viz COP Dottin and SOI Brathwaite were both sent on leave and this court case is yet to be heard.What a joke country Barbados has become with these bag bline hoes calling themselves respectable,estimable,honourable.

  32. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    Are you confirming then that the Judicial Manager in the face of obvious fraud (fake invoice) has NOT invited the police to investigate the matter?

  33. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Artaxerxes

    In other words they the RBPF, have every avenue available to pursue this matter in a court of law AND, IF THEY DONT DO SO, would confirm the general belief that even though you are a criminal, thief orwhatever, once you have friends in high places, you are immune from being prosecuted in a court of law in Barbados.

    EWB said that poor people would do best to keep out of the law courts at Colerige Street.

  34. Dee Ingrunt Word Avatar
    Dee Ingrunt Word

    “EWB said that poor people would do best to keep out of the law courts at Colerige Street.”

    Pieces what exactly did EWB’s statement mean or intended to establish?

    After all he was a politician and big time local lawyer, himself.

    A big time lawyer who according to reports had a very lucrative practice, so if poor people per EWB’s admonition would do well to stay out of Coleridge St. then lawyers like him could only do well if rich people came into Coleridge St.

    So one clear interpretation from our esteemed national hero’s opinion is that the big boys played hard in the courts back then and certainly are playing with even more vigour in the courts today; and the small fellow still being squeezed.

    The powerful can afford the better attorneys with more resources and often they frustrate the powerless in their search of justice.

    EWB knew that well obviously and despite his gravitas and power positions was unable to effect any real change in that area.

    So why are we still ‘surprised’ by how these matters evolve today.

  35. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    David April 12, 2015 at 12:54 AM #

    โ€œ@Artax: Are you confirming then that the Judicial Manager in the face of obvious fraud (fake invoice) has NOT invited the police to investigate the matter?โ€

    Based on the fact that there isnโ€™t any information in the public domain relative to an investigation pertaining to the circumstances surrounding the fraudulent invoice and the subsequent payment of $3.333M, I will have to conclude the JM has not referred the matter to the police (as yet).

    What we have in this situation is, rather than referring the matter to the police, the JM has chosen to use the information revealed by the forensic audit report as the basis to file a CIVIL SUIT against Leroy Parris, Branlee Consulting Services and the estate of David Thompson, in the hope of recovering the $3.333M.

    We must bear in mind that one of the main objectives of the JM is trying to get a more advantageous realization of the companyโ€™s assets than could be effected on a winding up process. As such, perhaps the JM is more concerned with recovering the money, than to have those allegedly responsible for the fraud charged and incarcerated if found guilty.

  36. Dee Ingrunt Word Avatar
    Dee Ingrunt Word

    ” As such, perhaps the JM is more concerned with recovering the money, than to have those allegedly responsible for the fraud charged and incarcerated if found guilty.”

    Arta, “PERHAPS the JM…”. I like your writing style of understated cynicism.

    As you state this is about ‘advantageous realization of the companyโ€™s assets’ and thus a business revenue making op for Deloitte. This is not about wasting time on a pretend police investigation.

    The report is a public document and the Financial Services Agency (or whatever the name is) along with any police authority could act to start an investigation.

    There is absolutely no need – and has never been according to basic law -to invite the police anywhere at anytime to investigate a crime that is public knowledge.

  37. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Artaxerxes April 12, 2015 at 8:56 AM
    โ€œWhat we have in this situation is, rather than referring the matter to the police, the JM has chosen to use the information revealed by the forensic audit report as the basis to file a CIVIL SUIT against Leroy Parris, Branlee Consulting Services and the estate of David Thompson, in the hope of recovering the $3.333M.โ€

    Implicit in that statement is the suggestion that the JM is deliberately aiding and abetting in the concealment of illegal activities.
    In addition to the obvious act of fraud by criminal deception there is the associated acts of money laundering and deliberate tax evasion.

    What about these illegal acts or are witnessing the overriding of the law like an ass with the JM the chief punter in the donkey derby to get his share of the $3.3 million at stake?

    What is wrong with the J M (in โ€œcollusionโ€ with BIPA) making a complaint to the police and the DPP on behalf of the policyholders and in the interest of justice as is required of ordinary citizens? Donโ€™t the Crime Stoppers Ads mean anything and apply only to small people and petty criminals?
    Where is the justice in all of this for the poor policyholders other than the fattening of the JM’s financial bottom line?

  38. David Avatar
    David

    Are we saying not one Clico policyholder affected by the fraud have been driven to invite the Police to investigate?

  39. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ David April 12, 2015 at 9:53 AM

    And who would entertain their complaints? CoP Dottin or Randy G from the FSC?
    The policyholders have lost their money; some, their entire life savings. Why are we expecting them to now pay the ultimate price by personally going against a man with friends in the highest of places in the banana republic called Fumble land?

  40. Dee Ingrunt Word Avatar
    Dee Ingrunt Word

    Miller, excuse this example but it makes the point.

    If one of your properties was over-run with bush. And let’s presume the neighborhood watch group in the area got tired of complaining to you to cleanup and hired Bushie’s Whacker company to de-bush. Let’s further assume that like the JM whackers, Bushie’s team discovered an assortment of possible crimes: marijuana plants and a shallow grave with some skeletal remains.

    Now, Miller, remember the land tax receipt says this is your land.

    Bushie’s boys finish the job and get their money and ting. The fellows don’t smoke the tampy and really don’t give two hoots about the bones because they figure it must be some dead animal. But as is his business practice Mr. Bushman submits a detailed account of the tasks completed to the person/company hiring him.

    So he states how many pounds of weed and the acreage of land cleared and what he found and all such minutiae.

    Now sir, let’s further assume that this report is disseminated to all the 20 members of this neighborhood group. And to you too, because the folks want to get back their money from you.

    So all the details are now in the public domain.

    Oh by the way, of that neighborhood group one fellow is the police commissioner, one is the DPP and another is a civil servant in the fraud protection services.

    You still seriously placing any burden on Bushies’s boys to tell what they have reported?

    The report is public and every jackass and their mother knows what has been found.

    Any JAs can act if they WANT to.

  41. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Dee Ingrunt Word April 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM

    I enjoy your tour into the corrupt world of the frighteningly dangerous analogies of modern Barbados.

    Skippa, as our recently fired up friend Bushie the bush and ‘weed’ whacker would say, we are really dealing with a bunch of blind blasted burned brass bowls.

    Anytime a people allow the laws of their land to be the tradable currency used by politicians to manipulate their minds we all know what is next on the cards. Either a return to slavery and locally-grown colonization or riot and rebellion.

    I shudder to think what Barbados would be like in another 10 years.
    But Bridgetown the capital is a perfect indicator of what’s in store nationally.
    A dead fish rots from it its head down. So too does a corrupt country, if you get the drift of the analogous “comparison”.

  42. David Avatar
    David

    At the bedrock of our challenges is an article in today’s newspaper analyzing the use of social media and full page press ads by new president of the NUPW. What is laughable is that out of a ten thousand membership about the same number of public servants voted last election compared to time around, just over a thousand?

    JAs

  43. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    millertheanunnaki April 12, 2015 at 9:38 AM #

    โ€œImplicit in that statement is the suggestion that the JM is deliberately aiding and abetting in the concealment of illegal activities.โ€

    Please Miller, Iโ€™m not in any way suggesting or implying โ€œthat the JM is deliberately aiding and abetting in the concealment of illegal activities.โ€

    We need to be as rational as possible and take the emotionalism away from this issue. The question we need to ask is why the JM sought to file a civil suit against the alleged perpetrators of the โ€œfraudโ€ and not involve the police at this time.

  44. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Artaxerxes April 12, 2015 at 12:05 PM
    “The question we need to ask is why the JM sought to file a civil suit against the alleged perpetrators of the โ€œfraudโ€ and not involve the police at this time.”

    We are also wondering “why”. There is certainly more in the mortar than
    the J M’s management fees of a pestle on that $3. 3 million after deducting associated legal fees.

    So what is so โ€˜costlyโ€™ wrong with advancing the instituting of criminal charges against the parties involved in this “closed and shut” case of fraud, money laundering and tax evasion?
    The same way DNA evidence is used by the police and DPP to bring watertight charges against common thieves and rapists why not use the same forensically gathered accounting evidence to bring charges against white collar criminals Leper Leroy Parris and yes-boy Terrence Thornhill?

    Would such a move jeopardize the more ‘profitable’ civil case or strengthen it?

  45. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Artaxerxes April 12, 2015 at 12:05 PM

    Question: “The question we need to ask is why the JM sought to file a civil suit against the alleged perpetrators of the โ€œfraudโ€ and not involve the police at this time.”

    Answer: Leroy Parris is Prime Minister Freundel Stuart’s friend. And nobody likes to touch Prime ministerial friends.

    Did anybody touch Rodney Wilkinson while he was doing he do while being Prime Minister Owen Arthur’s friend?

    In Barbados being a Prime Minister’s friend is a licence to do anything, legal or illegal.

  46. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    And not a few of our Prime Ministers have shown extremely poor judgement in their choice of friends.

  47. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    Miller, policing and law and law enforcement is a little more complex than those who do not have an intimate knowledge of the criminal justice system seem to think.

    For example, letโ€™s look at a case of domestic violence involving a male (as the aggressor) and a female (victim). Supposed a neighbor, on hearing a dispute and seeing the victim is being assaulted decides to call the police. The police reports for duty on the scene of the alleged assault and upon arrival they see the โ€œvictimโ€ looking โ€œagitatedโ€. One of the officers informs the parties involved of the report they received and ask the alleged perpetrator to account for his actions in the situation, while another officer interviews the โ€œvictimโ€.

    If the โ€œvictimโ€ refuses to โ€œpress chargesโ€ against the โ€œperpetratorโ€, what powers of arrest do the police have in this situation, especially taking into consideration that, unless murder or serious assault is involved, domestic violence is not a statutory offence (unless this has changed recently)?

  48. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Dee Ingrunt Word
    “Bushieโ€™s boys finish the job and get their money and ting. The fellows donโ€™t smoke the tampy and really donโ€™t give two hoots about the bones because they figure it must be some dead animal. But as is his business practice Mr. Bushman submits a detailed account of the tasks completed to the person/company hiring him.”
    So he states how many pounds of weed and the acreage of land cleared and what he found and all such minutiae.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Skippa … what the hell are you trying to drag Bushie into now on BU…?
    Yuh…WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

    First, yuh got the wrong Bushie, cause as soon as illegal stuff is unearthed, Bushie calling the police, fire service, ambulance, defence force, red cross, the boys scouts, ……and Stetson Babb boss….
    Not a fella will be coming afterwards to claim that Bushie’s crew ‘planted’ any shiite on that lot …or that we ‘whacked’ AC and left her bones to rot….

    Second, yuh got the wrong Bushie cause when the data is documented, it won’t be going to no damn “person/company hiring him”
    … Think Bushie foolish?
    wuh who do you think is MOST LIKELY responsible for the illegal shit found? …next thing Bushie end up with the blame and the report get doctored….?
    Nah Dee ….. Bushie sending the report to BU for transparency…. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Thirdly, yuh wrong bout the tampy….
    wuh Cuh shiite Dee…. how would Bushie know it is REAL tampy unless he try a bit….? LOL ha ha ha

  49. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    The way you put and defend arguments is to be commended. It shows we can strongly disagree and engage at the same time. Some on BU should learn from you.

  50. Dee Ingrunt Word Avatar
    Dee Ingrunt Word

    Bushie, touchee! But be careful wid that tampy. In two twos it tie up the head and you can’t come bout on BU and parade!

    Mr. Artaxerxes, April 12, 2015 at 10:47 on a more serious note why compare a domestic matter to the white collar criminal matter at CLICO?

    Interestingly, Bushie has also made the point on these pages that a victim can refuse to press charges and thus stall a police matter. True dat.

    BUT, it is also absolutely true that the police can STILL – and have in many cases -proceed with a matter despite the reluctance and unwillingness of a victim.

    That is what the wonderful complexity of law is all about: getting to justice despite hostile victims, unwilling witnesses and so on.

    Simple Simon cites valid reasons why the JM went civil.

    But it is even more mundane than that and you answered it in one of your previous posts. The JM’s job was to recover monies/get the company in best shape to sell.

    In sum as you know their mandate was about business and making money not dealing with a purposely inept criminal probe.

    Cue Simple Simon’s remarks as the coda after criminal probe…that would never get off the ground and very likely gum-up their civil matter.

    Why would they do that especially here in Barbados. Why?

    These are publicly contracted revenue driven accountants not publicly contracted regulators or investigative policing accountants.

    There is no mystery re their motives.

    The mystery is and has always been with the Financial Services regulatory folks, the DPP and police. But even then that mystery ain’t shrouded in much fog though.

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