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Submitted by Anthony Davis

The Barbados Light & Power Company Limited (BL&P) has been warned that it will not be allowed to send home workers before discussing the matter with the Social Partnership. Any attempt to do so will be met with strong resistance from the combined forces of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) and Ministry of Labour, the union’s General Secretary Toni Moore cautioned today – Barbados Today

tonimooreI sincerely hope that this is not another empty threat by one of the trade unions in this country. Recently they are better known for their bark rather than their bite, as they have not represented their constituents to the best of their abilities because they were sleeping too soundly in their beds with this Government.

I take umbrage at the behaviour of the head of the BL&P when she states that it is either layoffs or a rate hike. Is she a member of the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) that she can make such an audacious statement?

In other words, does she have any say whatsoever in whether that company would be granted a rate hike?

What is the FTC’s take on that statement?

Why is the FTC’s silence so deafening on this matter?

I do not like the condescending tone of the head of Emera, because it seems to me that she thinks that Barbados is some banana republic! It is not even a republic yet – far less a banana one. Barbados is a sovereign and independent state, and if she does not like the laws of this country then she knows what she can do!

There are enough flights out of Barbados – she can even take a cruise to her destination – but we should not tolerate such an aloof stance from the powers that be at the BL&P.

It must be made abundantly clear to Emera that there is no getting around involving the unions and the Ministry of Labour.

“We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.” – William Reece Smith, Jr.

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106 responses to “Barbados Workers Union FACE OFF With Barbados Light & Power Company”

  1. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Observing April 19, 2015 at 11:18 AM #

    @all
    The unions have to keep some noise, if not their irrelevance would be known. Let’s see what happens if the employees accept the “package” rather than fight.
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………..
    Bobby Morris a long standing top executive of the Barbados Workers Union, could not stand up to EMERA, as the issues which are now being played out before our very eyes, were written on the wall, loud and clear, from the inception of EMERA’s take over. But now a condescending, arrogant and bullying Bobby Morris wants to rammed the Republic of Barbados issue down the throats of Barbadians.

    In 1979 when the Barbados Defence Force was established, it is said that the then Prime Minister JMG Tom Adams went into certain older secondary schools and recruited many Cadet Force Under Officers, to become officers in the BDF, with the view of given them their first break and their first pay packets, they would have become blindly loyal to him. And to a lesser extent he did the same when he sent his military emissary to West Germany to recruit retiring Bajan British Soldiers.

    Prime Minister Stuart, has taken a leaf out of Tom’s book, by re-employing those who have been rejected at the last and previous polls, by the people of Barbados. These people will remain blindly loyal to the PM.
    You are quite correct , FracturedBLP, the man is a General.

  2. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Barbados dollar is strong compared to the Canadian dollar. Emera shareholders are likely to be monitoring.

    http://www.oanda.com/currency/historical-rates/

  3. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Observing

    Mammoth silence in the trade union movement is not an indicator that the leaders are not aware of any particular issue. The major problem in the movement is that operatives of the political parties have infiltrated individual unions and operate them in the interest their party and for their personal benefit.

    The major players of the BUT have always been closely associated with the DLP. When the BLP is in office that union is most militant. However, when the DLP is in office BUT becomes a gathering of lambs. Also, when you see them agitating when their party is in power, you can bet that they are seeking to get one of their executive members or shop stewards promoted. And not necessarily promoted to a job that they are capable of doing.

    It is so bad at BWU that you can’t even get a job there if you are perceived to be a supporter of the BLP. In the last government restructuring exercise, that union talked tough but did nothing tangible for the workers in the end. They are now seeking to rebuild their image on the non issue of BL&P offering voluntary separation packages. If the workers felt aggrieved they would simply refuse the separation packages.

    If they do not get enough people coming forward, they would have to resort to lay-off that would have to involve the union. That process is now set out in law. BWU is only making noise in order to lift themselves out of irrelevance.

    Over the last ten years the NUPW’s president was a committed DLP adherent. Even though the president has no real power in the union, according to its rules, the president had been able to set the agenda because for most of those ten years, the general secretary was a weak incompetent fool. In order to hide his unsuitability for the job, he allowed the president to take the lead and the union was led to George Street. To be abundantly clear, the general secretary was not a DLP operative, he was simply a P.I.G. according to Bizzy’s definition.

    The executive of the NUPW for some time has been divided along party lines. During Maloney’s tenure the DLP held sway. The last election saw the BLP unashamedly pulling out all stops and funding the last campaign. That union is now BLP controlled which might lead to some militancy to benefit the party with the workers getting some representation, but for the wrong reason.

    By the way, has the new treasurer resigned the presidency of Santia Bradshaw’s branch.

    Observing, I said all that to tell you that the workers would only get representation if it suits the party that is aligned to the current executive.

    Sent from my iPad

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  4. David Avatar
    David

    Interesting to note 389 teachers voted out of 2000 on Friday.

    Amazing!

  5. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Sarah vs Toni refereed by Esther…….panty power fuh yuh.

  6. Dee Ingrunt Word Avatar
    Dee Ingrunt Word

    Colonel, that’s an interesting observation that, “…when the Barbados Defence Force was established, it is said that the then Prime Minister … recruited many Cadet Force Under Officers, to become officers in the BDF, with the view … they would have become blindly loyal to him. “.

    But as a military man isn’t that fundamental commonsense that any leader ensure a strong loyalty of his trained military officers to safeguard against coups or other extra-legal concerns from that group.

    There are many (too many) instances of those fellows trained at the top military colleges becoming too bored with taking orders from politicians and taking matters into their own hands.

    Although Barbados could easily have been put-down like a Grenada, surely Tom was smart enough not to put himself in the position to get anywhere close to that.

  7. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    Bush Tea….please!
    +++++++++++++++
    What David??!!
    It is true….!!
    …..not politically correct, but true…

    @ Hants
    One thing in the Emera plan that really caught my attention was their vision to make Barbados a model for the world, a true green destination and green economy
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Not sure if your tongue is stuck in your cheek or if you are being as naive as you are about the DLP…. but you should be careful of what you allow to baffle your brain….remember…..the easiest way to deal with a fool is to make them promises….

    Speaking of which…
    @ AC
    Bushie will be nice to you in future and will respect you as a woman. You are an intelligent, valuable asset to the BU family…..ours will be a model relationship for the world ….they will be green with envy….

    Raaaaahhhhha ha ha ha … LOL…
    ohhh shiirt!!

  8. Cruseo Avatar
    Cruseo

    I disagree with the title of the article.

    How can the Union have a face off with the BL&P when the union is busy with its face downwards and backwards looking to see where it left its BALLS?

  9. Cruseo Avatar
    Cruseo

    ‘@ac ”fighting an upward Battle going forward with an outcome that might have been already been sealed by the Company,”

    Already sealed by the Company? Ah, now you are basically and (likely correctly), inferring that the Union is impotent, rather than important.

    Hey lookie folks, something I agree wid ‘ac’ on……dang…looka da….wuh loss.

    Bushie, you like you been lathering ‘miss ac’ wid some of your rod of wisdom!

  10. Cruseo Avatar
    Cruseo

    ”social partnership?”

    Load of bollocks. Translation… a scheme to make the workers take what them who got authority wish to give them.

    Stupse.

  11. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Bushie,

    I posted the link to that comment. I thought the article was relevant and interesting. (Jerry Franklin is managing director of EnSmart Inc. Franklin is an engineer, energy auditor, equipment tester, and energy solutions provider.

  12. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea April 19, 2015 at 8:41 AM
    “The reality is that with the imminent alternative energy revolution, most of BL&P’s assets will end up as stranded assets. The future calls for a major reinvestment in new technologies and approaches.”

    You are implicitly arguing that the burning of fossil fuels is on its way out.
    So what are the implications for Barbados’s much vaunted offshore drilling programme? Would growing risk averse investors in the fossil fuels exploration business sink billions off Barbados and to sell to whom? Trinidad for on-sale to Barbados?

    Unless Emera gets what it is demanding to ensure it recoups its investment in that Spring Garden plant along with profits satisfactory to its shareholders it would leave it like an unwanted child at the doorsteps of the republic of Barbados.
    Barbados’s only hope is to make a major find of natural gas to feed an upgraded generation plant. Unreliable solar and wind will not cut it as far as meeting the country’s energy needs are concerned.

    The Government should be moving to put pressure on the BL&P to put many of the transmission lines underground in the urban areas of St. Michael, Ch Ch and St. James. What are they waiting for? A category 4 hurricane? Broad Street has always been without unsightly dangerous poles why not other areas.

  13. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/solar-power-surging-to-forefront-of-canadian-energy/article19786759/

  14. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://canwea.ca/wind-energy/installed-capacity/

  15. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @MOF,

    try posting using a different moniker. I am sure you are NOT an MOF.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @ Hants

    Forget MOF’ aka ac.

    On Sunday, 19 April 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:

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  17. ac Avatar
    ac

    @bushshite. Now here this ac would give you a negative vote each and every time u comment to confirm my degree of intellect..btw on a higher level of intelligence on a scale of one to ten your arrogance has reached a level far more superior than god u have more often than not attached a whole lot of words like corn kernel on a shoe string exuding with bombastic excitment that baffles and confuse even god.

  18. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    The ‘please’ was to continue your stellar comments and turn the other check to the idiotic comments from ac aka MoF. It detracts!

  19. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @david
    389 is a major improvement over past years. Lol.

    @caswell
    Understood. Rewind to the days of Adams and Walcott and we see that the more things change the more they remain the same.

  20. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Dee Ingrunt Word April 19, 2015 at 1:21 PM #

    There are many (too many) instances of those fellows trained at the top military colleges becoming too bored with taking orders from politicians and taking matters into their own hands.
    …………………………………………………………………………………..
    When we as soldiers salute, the full open palms of our hands are displayed openly to the front for all to see, indicating that our hands are squeaky clean, unlike those of most politicians.
    Some times we are forced to do a bit of palm scrubbing and degreasing.

  21. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Miller
    The Government should be moving to put pressure on the BL&P to put many of the transmission lines underground in the urban areas of St. Michael, Ch Ch and St. James.
    +++++++++
    What flight of fancy are you on? Do you expect that a company that throws around nickels like manhole covers will find the will to lay Hydro transmission lines underground through those areas? Or do you expect the Gov’t to pay the bill as part of its urban renewal strategy?

  22. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    It is a pity that Sir Roy Trotman, Toni Moore and the BWU did not display just as much enthusiasm in representing the former Transport Board employees who had to wait almost 9 months to receive their severance payments, as well as the former NCC employees who, after one year of waiting, are yet to be paid severance or their case to heard before the ERT.

  23. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Hants April 19, 2015 at 2:57 PM #
    According to the word on the street, the recent shooters and car wreckers are friends of MOF, the real one.
    Another long drawn out investigation ,if this is so?

  24. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Wait ! what is the status of the disputes which BWU have with Sandy Lane and Colombian Emeralds, or Royal Shop, whichever ?

  25. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Colonel

    Once there was a dispute with Cable and Wireless and some people got Blackberries and voila dispute settled. Just imagine the possibilities with those mentioned.

    Sent from my iPad

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  26. brad Avatar
    brad

    Solar at grid parity in most of world by 2017

    By Giles Parkinson on 12 January 2015

    Investment bank Deutsche Bank is predicting that solar systems will be at grid parity in up to 80 per cent of the global market within 2 years, and says the collapse in the oil price will do little to slow down the solar juggernaut.

    In his 2015 solar outlook, leading analyst Vishal Shah says solar will be at grid parity in most of the world by the end of 2017. That’s because grid-based electricity prices are rising across the world, and solar costs are still falling. Shah predicts solar module costs will fall another 40 per cent over the next four to five years.

    Even if electricity prices remain stable – two thirds of the world will find solar to be cheaper than their current conventional energy supply. If electricity costs rise by around 3 per cent a year, then Deutsche’s “Blue sky” scenario is for 80 per cent of countries to be at grid parity for solar.

    “We believe the trend is clear: grid parity without subsidies is already here, increasing parity will occur, and solar penetration rates are set to ramp worldwide,” Shah notes.

    Deutsche Bank says unsubsidised rooftop solar electricity costs anywhere between $US0.13 and $US0.23/kWh today, which is well below retail price of electricity in many markets globally.

    “The economics of solar have improved significantly due to the reduction in solar panel costs, financing costs and balance of system costs,” it notes. And further cost falls over coming years will come from improved panel efficiencies, and falls in balance of system costs due to scale and competition.”

  27. brad Avatar
    brad

    Barbadian always find it hard to see the light.

    Rooftop solar-$0.13-0.23US/KWh – ($0.26-0.46BDS/Kwh).

    Before oil prices fell Bl&P rate: $0.80BDS/kWh.
    Current rate: approx. $0.44BDS/kWh.

    Rooftop solar is grid parity in Barbados.

    Barbadians need to stop complaining & put their money in solar.Stop the long talk or you will miss the boat.

  28. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Brad
    Technology is moving in such a direction that, even apart from the correct financial analysis from Deutsche Bank, solar and wind energy is conducive to being individualised….where each home and business can conceivably own their own power systems.
    This is what has happened to public transport where in many areas, people have opted -often at much higher cost- to acquire their own means of transport rather than utilise the cheaper mass transport systems.
    This is now inevitable in energy.

    A forward thinking Power Company should have seen this coming and been moving towards this new business model. Instead, the Electric Company has been trying to fight against alternative energy promoters…. and are only now trying to develop utility styled solar generation when that fight was lost.

    Inept management thinking.

    Don’t be surprised if Bizzy is the man behind the new push now to put a power plant on every roof….. he has been preaching this gospel now for years.

    Where there is no vision, the power company will suffer….

    BTW….How many are leaving BL&P?
    Is tomorrow the end of an era?….when a Canadian company barely 20 years old, has been able to come to Barbados and effectively destroy a 100 year old Bajan success story through corporate greed?

    Sounds like Almond all over again to Bushie….

  29. David Weekes Avatar
    David Weekes

    Bush Tea..

    It is to be remarked that, even before Bizzy Williams came on the RE scene, we had our own pioneer, James Husbands, leading the Solar Water Heating market which, in my humble opinion, is the logical precursor of the RE industry

    I have a healthy respect for James but a few might ask why, having blazed a trail in the heater water charge, for so many years, why he did not go further in R&D and advance the thrust of renewable technology so many years ago?

    No international agency involved in RE would have refused his firm a grant in this sector.

    We always seem to follow but never lead.

  30. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    “We always seem to follow but never lead’
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Exactly….it takes a cultural metamorphosis to change from followers to leaders…
    …..and the major and extended investment in education was intended to change that.

    Unfortunately, the vision was hijacked and we have instead now reached the stage where, after that educational investment, we are now ACTIVELY inviting white people, especially rich foreigners, to rebuild a modern version of the old Plantation system.
    There is NO WAY that the kind of leadership currently at UWI can be depended on to develop REAL leaders when they themselves represent the epitome of mendicancy..
    …reparations Bushies’ donkey…always looking for easy money.
    BTW..
    Did Husbands even ‘lead’ the solar water heater thing…or was he a convenient front man…?

  31. David Avatar
    David

    The positive out of the imbroglio sparked by the scuffle on Mount Olympus is the scrutiny being given the education by John Public. There should be consensus we hope that some overhaul is required. The challenge will be how to execute if we ever get to the stage. We have never demonstrated the will to create a system which marries output from education to maximizing economic and social output to feed GDP and HDI in a sustain manner.

  32. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    There have always been formal meetings of Ministers of Education of the three campus territories with the Campus hierarchy.Is it possible that this is a thing of the past?How come Jones is not leading the charge?Or how come Sinckler and Stuart are appearing to lead the charge.Who feels intimidated by the ‘awesome’man of Mount Olympus,such that the Pee Em resorts to a cowardly challenge at a Sunday School bully pulpit to deliver his charge and run.Bullies and cowards cannot accomodate a tete a tete.They are hit and run specialists.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    @Caswell

    The BWU has won a victory if only moral by forcing BL&P to delay he layoffs slated for today.

  34. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Bushie wrote “when a Canadian company barely 20 years old,”

    Facebook is only 10 years old and worth $200 Billion.

  35. Due Diligence Avatar
    Due Diligence

    Bush Tea April 23, 2015 at 7:18 AM #

    Sounds like Almond all over again to Bushie….

    But Bushie, don’t forget the upside of Almond departure.

    Stuart, Sinkler and Sealy were able to induce Butch to take over Casurarina with only 40 years of tax concessions the ordinary Barbadian taxpayer will will have to cover, and the taxpayers gets to pay Bernie to manage Heywoods until Butch takes that over (if ever) with those same (or more) concessions.

  36. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    David

    A Pyrrhic victory indeed. It does not make sense. The BL&P acted within the law. This nuisance union and silly Minister still have not worked out that the procedure for lay-offs in the protocol has been superseded. They are only trying to give the impression that they are doing something.

    Who the hell do they think they are? An adult employee submits a request to accept an early retirement package and the union and this silly woman decided that the worker is stupid and must be protected from himself. If workers, who asked for early retirement, wanted the union’s assistance they would have asked for its help. If I were them, I would sue the union if BL&P withdraws the offer.

    The workers at NCC, NHC and the Transport Board needed the union’s help. Why did the BWU not vigorously represent the workers that sought their assistance but is now coming out making fools of themselves? Did the minister forget that there was a protocol during that period? They must all think that the average Barbadian is a fool.

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  37. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Hants
    …and your point is….?
    Those are simple FACTS….
    Facebook shiite…. In five years that will probably be a memory… Barbados NEEDS BL&P.
    Why did Emera not buy Ontario Hydro and scrap it like they are doing here?
    …because no where are there such brass bowls as Bajans….Not even next door in St. Lucia.

    @ DD
    Correct.
    As Bushie has said over and over (and will likely repeat least our bowls miss it…)
    We will eventually clean up the whole EMERA mess when our government (UWI educated);
    … buys out the BL&P abandoned stranded assets left when emera skips town
    ….pay to have it all dismantled and dumped (obsolete stuff)
    …borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to buy some scam stuff
    …give forty-year tax concessions to a new set of foreigners to take it over (possibly another one of Bizzy’s friends who he recommends to a minister..)
    …and start the whole process of being french connected (UK) all over again…
    Cause that is what brass bowls do….

    How does a Company which has NEVER experienced an operating loss in the last 30 years cut staff by 40% to “effect savings”….
    …and the government buys that explanation????? well THEY would….

    …and they do so by giving golden handshakes to employees??? …RIGHT!!

    OBVIOUSLY there is a hidden agenda….. Emera is simply looking for a way OUT …after killing the fatted BL&P calf and taking all the meat home to Canada…
    Their other alternative will be to invest at least $400M into new technologies here – in an environment where they will NO longer have monopoly status and guaranteed profits….

    LOL
    invest THEIR money into OUR future without absolute guarantee of recovery times ten..???

    Wait for THAT to happen…..
    LOL ha ha ha

  38. David Avatar
    David

    Was floored to hear the minister on the news confirming BL&P delayed the separations today out of courtesy because of today’s meeting but will likely go ahead anyway. All in the name of protocol we suppose.

  39. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    David

    Are you now convinced that this minister would more look the part if she were BLOND.

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  40. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    David April 24, 2015 at 12:33 PM
    What victory? I am certain that I heard Dr Byer, stating that , after the meeting, she supposed that BL&P will go ahead anyway and do what it has to do. Whose time are they wasting? Who are they trying to fool? Many men now have their packages in hand and are scheduled to part company ,next Thursday.

  41. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Caswell Franklyn April 24, 2015 at 4:02 PM
    “The workers at NCC, NHC and the Transport Board needed the union’s help. Why did the BWU not vigorously represent the workers that sought their assistance but is now coming out making fools of themselves? Did the minister forget that there was a protocol during that period? They must all think that the average Barbadian is a fool.”

    But the “average Barbadian is a fool” indeed. And they have a government that truly represents their ‘foolish’ interests.
    Judging from the promises made to them since 2008 do you think it is unfair to label them fools? Remember a promise is a comfort to a fool but too many broken promises
    can be likened to a backstreet abortion of his commonsense.
    Neither the government nor the Unions (except Unity, of course) has either integrity or credibility among the intelligent minority of Bajans, which includes you Caswell and, grudgingly, Bushie. LoL!!

  42. David Avatar
    David

    Those 68 are going home after all the huff and puff by the BWU.

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2015/04/24/blp-confirms-68-layoffs/

  43. brad Avatar
    brad

    It is cheaper for BL&P to buy rooftop solar from producers at around $0.39BD & then sell public at $0.44BD. Rooftop Sol. is cheaper than the Grid , this is the key.
    Power Companies around the world are closing coal, nuclear & diesel generators because even if the fuel to operate them was free roof top solar is still cheaper.
    BL& P will shut down / retire the older generators.
    Bl&P workers need retraining in renewables.

  44. brad Avatar
    brad

    Rooftop Solar Panels Are Cheaper Than Coal In the Philippines

    Carlos Jericho Petilla is the Secretary of Energy for the Philippines. He recently explained that rooftop solar panels are now cheaper than coal there. “As a simple example, the cost of electricity from a coal plant can run up to P5.50 per kilowatt hour, plus P6.50 for distribution and transmission, which amounts to P12.00. If you install solar panels on your rooftop, you will only spend P9.00 per kilowatt hour for generation and no cost for distribution or transmission. This already saves you up to P3 per kilowatt hour.” His statement appeared in a Department of Energy document titled, “DOE Sec. Petilla: Renewables Pave the Way to Energy Security in the Philippines.”

  45. David Avatar
    David

    Is the FTC prepared to trust the base load of energy to intermittent supply?

  46. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    When is Sir Leroy going to take the training wheels off his successor?

  47. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Colonel

    There is nothing wrong with Sir Roy staying on to help the new General Secretary for an extended period. To use your analogy of riding a bicycle with training wheels: we see it all the time, when a parent has a physically or mentally challenged child the training wheels stay on a bit longer. There is no difference in the BWU scenario.

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  48. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Mr. Caswell Franklyn

    Some would purport that the pejorative work in that bicycle is “riding” the bicycle but you are the consummate politician and recall that “fools rush in, where angels fear to tread..”

    I remember the beginning verse of a book i read long ago, purposely plagiarized her to make a point about aging warriors who do not know when to put down their “swords” hehehe

    “Long after his kindergarten schoolmates had gone home, Johnny remained in the sand pit playing proudly mindful that his father, Jose & Jose Truckers, had brought the sand to replenish his school’s sandpit’s dwindling supply…”

    My Credit Union, my bicycle, operative word “my”

  49. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    So much for Sarah bowing to the wishes of the BWU and the Minister of Labour ,and as the latter put it,”postponing any action while talks are ongoing” or words to that effect. Both unionised and non unionised employees accepted their packages and parted company with BL&P last Friday, 24 April.
    The Minister is fast becoming like the West Indies team, cannot win a match.
    With so many BL&P employees being retrenched, one wonders what is the future of the very vibrant BL&P Credit Union.

  50. David Avatar
    David

    BL&P plans to send home 50 if news reports are to be believed. This time they probably wrote to the minister. Was that our friend Mr. Worme who was offered a package which he accepted? Signs and wonders!

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