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Jack Warner will be recorded as one of the most enigmatic politicians of our time. His popularity as a politician in Trinidad belies the underhand dealings he has been associated with through the years in his capacity as Vice President of FIFA and Czar of the football operations in Trinidad.

The David Simmons report logged on BU blog World Cup 2014: Mohamed Bin Hammam, Jack Warner and Corruption @FIFA exposed Warner for who he is,  corrupt to the very core. BU unsuccessfully requested from Warner’s staff a copy of the Affidavit he (Warner)

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threatened to have filed against Simmons. People like Warner perpetuate the perception that politicians – especially when Black – are thieves and must not be trusted.

BU joins with millions around the world in the hope Swiss authorities will be able to make the charges stick.

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382 responses to “Jack Warner Arrested”

  1. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Messi to stand trial over tax fraud :

    “The court argued that lack of knowledge of the financial network in place should not mean impunity for someone who benefits from a structure that assists fraud, even if it has been designed and organized by others”

    In other words “ignorance of the law is no excuse”.

    http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/10/inenglish/1433935729_245719.html

  2. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    John Oliver ‘s request to Jack Warner in a 5 minute paid programme on T&T Television June 08, 2015

  3. ac Avatar
    ac

    Most certainly JW is highly capable of fighting his own battles irrespective of all that which has been said .Wish i could say the same for Mr.Transparency and Integrity David who hangs his hat so high that when high wind blows by it is easy to topple over.

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    AC, why don’t you keep quiet before we send Bushie ’round dey to do some whacking?

  5. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    I am not at all attempting to write on behalf of the facilitator of BU, but as a contributor, I feel compelled to comment on this issue.

    Co-incidentally, the comment: “Wish i could say the same for Mr. Transparency and Integrity David who hangs his hat so high that when high wind blows by it is easy to topple over”, could be attributed to another David who placed a particular interest in good governance, promising to introduce the relevant legislation immediately upon being elected. However, we all know he never held to his promise and eight (8) years after no such legislation has been forthcoming.

    The following excerpt was taken from page 49 of the DLP’s 2008 election manifesto:

    “Immediately introduce integrity legislation requiring:
    • a declaration of assets by public officials,
    • a Code of Conduct for Ministers,
    • a new Freedom of Information law,
    • amendments to the Defamation laws and
    • new constitutional provisions to rationalize the powers of the Prime Minister.”

    It is not surprising that the usual suspects have been repeatedly bashing BU with statements about ethics, standards, integrity and transparency, over a matter they alleged to have taken place on BU one (1) day ago.

    In the interest of balance, the manner in which these DLP yard-fowls have been constantly bashing BU, I would like them to exhibit similar zeal in bashing that political party for not embracing the same ethics, standards, principles of ethics, integrity and transparency (promised 8 years ago) they are so vehemently accusing BU of not practicing one (1) day ago.

    Why try to vilify one man and his blog for some injustice you perceived was meted out to you, when time could be better spent trying to convince your DLP to exhibit all the standards you alluded to in your comments of protest?

  6. David Avatar
    David

    Attacks by yard fowls par for the course. We are use to it from inception of the blog in April 2007. It is like water of the proverbial duck’s back. Ignore the clucking and continue to post your comments.

  7. De Ingrunt Word Avatar
    De Ingrunt Word

    AC what exactly is the point of your complaints to the Blogmaster?

    You have highlighted that there was an edited link to OCM and their involvement to this Warner scandal..all readers here have heard you. Methinks they can search the story online if they are interested in your perspective.

    If a reference was indeed culled from your blog post what is the big deal? Have you not still brought the issue to the attention of your intended audience.

    The blog’s most detailed writer Artax also wrote explicitly on what he thought was the paltry rationale of your referenced OCM/Nation/Warner link. Thus your ‘important story’ was again noted.

    And again any interested blogger could easily have searched to get more info if desired based on Artax’s commentary.

    In sum, even in the absence of this ‘edited link’ the declaration of its merits were highlighted, ventilated and clarified.

    So why exactly is one of the most disrespectful bloggers who pays little attention to conventions of ‘public disclosure/newspaper etiquette’ being so disingenuous about transparency and integrity when the blog master has in no way prevented your information from being disseminated on the blog?

    Do you grasp the concept of spitting up in the air when a stiff wind is blowing! Your spittle gets plastered all over your face. Use a napkin and move on do please.

    As I said you want fair play but yet always ‘play dirty’. There was absolutely no restriction of your right to express yourself. None. I gone. Back to the life’s real business.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    To repeat BU did not remove any link, your argument is therefore flawed. Check your inbox, are you able to retrieve any comment with the OCM link? This is meant to be a distraction of when BU has given wide latitude. At some point our patience will become exhausted.

  9. De Ingrunt Word Avatar
    De Ingrunt Word

    No David , not flawed. I saw your clear comment that you removed nothing. But to speak to AC’s continued ridiculous claims I adopted the hypothetical stance of “If a reference was indeed culled…”.

    Never claimed that it was…merely made the ‘hypothetical’ to suit my line of argument.

    For all intents and purposes, however, AC’s claims on this matter are frankly stupid and asinine.

    How can YOU suppress or censor from BU readers a story that is on the net.

    Clearly a fundamental requirement for political PR hacks is either a lack of commonsense or an inherent ability to be able to say absolutely stupid things while maintaining proper decorum and a straight face.

    Those with both attributes are most highly sought after, of course. The AC team were highly sought clearly!

  10. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    steupsss
    wunna can’t see when a woman getting menopause symptoms?
    ..de damn woman having hormonal issues..
    .. add that to chronic idiocy and um can’t be easy yuh…

    Bushie was asking David to ban she for two weeks (enough time to recover to her usual level of idiocy) in HER OWN INTEREST, but David, aided by Pacha, has allowed the poor woman to expose all she business to the blog….

    @ AC
    AC sweetheart, sit in front of the fan while sipping lots of ice water….
    ..and tek some deep breaths….

    Don’t worry, ….by the time your JA pal misreads his budget next week, you should be back to your normal idiotic self ….minus the current paranoia…

  11. ac Avatar
    ac

    if no one does not understand the principal involved with my complaints then there is no need for them to get themselves all bent out of shape because of what i have said, the point being that a story connected to the FIFA a story that rivets and consumes the imagination of an insatiable public wanting for more and for some whose only interest is on the hunt for blood, this link conected to the story should not have been excluded ! suppressed or delete in any form shape or fashion by the blog master, Especially for the lo many times articles on this blog have been an ongoing calls for integrity and transparency in the public domain. Therefore again my question being why would david single out this one link connected to the OCM and FIFA to censor or suppress .. IMHO there are under lying principals involved that should be address and which David has refused to deal with which ties into unusual and suspicious behave by which he made a”judgement call” if others believe that his action was correct so be it /but since i was the person who posted the link and after posting saw it mysteriously disappeared without as much as a warning prior or after to suffice,,,, i believe David should do what is right and for the preservation and integrity of his blog site state why he removed the link which in my opinion was not tied to libel or slander but tied to the ongoing scandal involving the FIFA personally i take it as an affront and a quick response by david to hoodwinked the classroom and suffice those whose interest was at stake in the scandal. Be that as it may i am entitled to my opinion like others have,
    BTW in my opinion no correction was made by an apparent attempt to downplay the relevancy of my complaint by the intervention of another blogger posting the article, the bottom line still remains relevant ! questionable and outstanding as to why the link was removed in the first place.
    Until such question is clarified in my mind my suspicions would remain as true as the reality of the removal of the link by David

  12. David Avatar
    David

    What a JA

    On 10 June 2015 at 21:17, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

  13. ac Avatar
    ac

    Firstly i check the inbox and nothing comes up from BU, secondly if you want to expose you bile ignorance by name calling it speaks more about your character and peels away the layers of ugliness that u hoards within your self/ ac knows that about now you have a dislike and disdain for myself because i dare to cross the line of abrasiveness to confront you and make you accountable for a bold faced and blatant action of suppression. Rather or not anyone agrees with my actions is par para dela course

  14. David Avatar
    David

    Ignorance is a curse!

    You may have the final word.

  15. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ AC,

    You have made your point loud and clear, now could you please move on.

  16. ac Avatar
    ac

    @ Exclaimer no Sir.madam….not without an explanation.. would you, In the heart and soul of BU the motto states

    For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that [BU] can do – George Linnaeus Banks

  17. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @AC
    T he mad cow virus is showing in you, poor soul you can’t help yourself ,take Bush Tea advise ,take 2 weeks and get a check up , better yet ask Mara for some of the antidote for the virus , oh the building in St. John in name yet

  18. De Ingrunt Word Avatar
    De Ingrunt Word

    AC there was a time long ago when people would actually be constrained to raise their voice to speak because they were concerned that they may appear uninformed and those listening would call them stupid or idiotic.

    Then came all this smart technology and voila everyone who could read and understand was emboldened and found voice because they could quickly check the details, review carefully and speak with a level of knowledge that prevented any cursing of stupidity.

    Please step into the second paragraph group!

    David said he DID NOT REMOVE anything and suggested to you that problems may be related to the origin of the link itself.

    But besides that, COMPREHENSIVE details of your story were highlighted on the blog and were readily available otherwise. And you still cuss and call the blog-master’s integrity into question.

    So if I were in his position I would forthwith ban any commentary from your email. Period.

    You would have to create a new email and come fresh. And if you come back with the same stupid attitude, I would ban your backside again.

    Your rant is baseless. And in that baseless folly you are calling someone a liar despite an explanation you can’t grasp.

    Seriously, you are absolutely missing vital brain cells. This is not about free speech but rather about you being an irritating, illogical threat to common-sense. I would ban you for that.

  19. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    But AC

    Don’t you see the larger contradiction between the exalted standards you seek to enforce on BU when compared with a government which has breached the highest duty of care to the people of Barbados.

    Certainly, we would have thought that you would have sought to remove the boulder for your DLP eye before you seek to remove the speck from the eyeball of BU.

    Seems that an oversized ego is getting the better of you. Yuh taking yourself too seriously. In any event not many here read what you have to say. Or if they do, nobody awards the seriousness you seem to believe you deserve.

  20. ac Avatar
    ac

    Am i to belive that after the link was posted for more than five hours that it disappeared because of its originality, then how come on other social media websites where the link is posted there is no such problem. do you think i am a jas fuh real who de hell you think you talking to a deranged person, ,the fact being that on the following morning when i tried to post the link and got no response i tried again and wordpress error stated that the post was a duplicate, so what does that mean well going by similar experiences where a comment was first posted and (then again) tried to be re-posted a word press error of that type would alter the blogger,,so this excuse that the removal of the link was from its originality i just do not buy, no one can convince me without empirical proof that the link was removed by other means, NO ONE

    Now you JACK ASS IGRUNT CAN CUSS ME ALL YOU LIKE STILL HAVE PRESENT PROOF AS TO HOW THE LINK WAS POSTED AND THEN REMOVE AFTER SEVERAL hours

    And since You are so SMART I ALSO MADE A COMMENT ABOVE THE LINK AND WHY WAS THAT DELETED OR REMOVED>

  21. ac Avatar
    ac

    look i have seen links removed ,but with a message saying why .in this case ac received no message from no one, this is blatant untruth which should be peeled back and uncover its originality

  22. ac Avatar
    ac

    David you said i could have the last word it take it Seriously..A way to go David A way to go. as they say Truth is stranger than Fiction

  23. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Bush T
    @ Sargeant
    How do you arrive at these analyses?

    +++++++++++++++++++++
    It is termed informed opinion not wild speculation of the kind you are used to which forms the basis of your conclusions (everybody is a brassbowl etc.)

    e.g. A few days ago I wrote that “no good deed goes unpunished” and that FIFA was a true democracy where all votes counted and this latest trouble may force a return to the European and South American nations having all the control. Today the Head of the German Football Association Wolfgang Niersbach has called for a clean-up at FIFA and said its voting structure should be based on the “size and sporting relevance” of its member federations.

    If that is adopted small nations may as well stay home.

  24. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    “It was part of the feeling at the time – it’s a good thing, this altruism (towards the African diaspora in the Caribbean). The question is going to be: ‘What was done to make sure that your good intentions – you as the giver – have been realised?” stated Mr Sexwale, a member of both the World Cup bid team.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33127146

  25. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    How on earth did this despicable little man accumulate so much power? I am shocked that the English Football Association entertained Warner to such a degree that even Prince Charles, the future King of England, was encouraged to invite him to one of his residencies in Gloucestershire.

    I am certain that you will find the below link very surprising:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3123019/FA-fear-FBI-probe-troubling-questions-FIFA-scandal-schmoozing-former-vice-president-Jack-Warner-trip-Prince-Charles-home-135-000-sweetener.html

  26. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    The Cayman Islands has also been embroiled in this scandal.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-33034191

  27. balance Avatar
    balance

    “Exclaimer June 14, 2015 at 4:45 PM #

    How on earth did this despicable little man accumulate so much power? I am shocked that the English Football Association entertained Warner to such a degree that even Prince Charles, the future King of England, was encouraged to invite him to one of his residencies in Gloucestershire.

    I am certain that you will find the below link very surprising:”

    Not surprising. If truth be told; Mr Warner’s troubles really started when he failed to fulfil promises made to the Englsh Fa for bribes taken either in cash or in kind. He forgot that Britannia still thinks it rules the waves.

  28. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    I should be surprised that people are surprised but many people only pay attention to these matters when they become front page news. I wrote earlier that bribery and corruption were endemic in FIFA and the IOC and the details are bubbling to the surface now that some countries didn’t get their way (didn’t go down well when Quatar was chosen over England e.g. and Russia over the USA).

    As for schmoozing with the Royals isn’t there a photo of Warner in the White House with number 44? The name of the game is how to win friends and influence people, the Brits and the Americans were trying to win Warner’s favour and handed out some goodies but they were back raised by others.

    I referred earlier to Atlanta and the 1996 Olympics, how about Salt Lake City and the Winter Olympics? Remember the corruption associated with that venture? How can we forget that an IOC official from Barbados was ensnared in that scandal?

  29. De Ingrunt Word Avatar
    De Ingrunt Word

    Sargeant, not only is it clear that “… many people only pay attention to these matters when they become front page news” but also clear that several others only feign outrage. Your remarks re the bribery and corruption scandals re those US events are an example.

    The simple fact of course is that at every level and style of governance the same thing applies.

    Officials in the communist regimes like China being executed and jailed for corruption; others in Russia living large from the bribes. Such is the cut and thrust of human nature when large sums of money are in play whether in those supposed people centric states or in capitalist ones.

    When it is reported, as it was back in 1986, that US government contractors had charged $37 for screws, over $7,000 for coffee makers and of course the impressive $600 sum for toilet seats that was rampant corruption too… deep seated, wink and nod, pervasive corruption.

    So for discerning readers the FIFA scandals should not be news because of the corruption but rather a recognition that there is just a fundamental changing of the guards with the same mentalities and desires.

  30. Lydia Avatar
    Lydia

    Anger or hatred is like a fisherman’s hook. It is very important for us to ensure we are not caught by it. – Dali Lamahttp://www.bing.com

  31. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    FiFA development grants being probed;

    http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?pbid=87ad6005-1972-4d63-92b0-8927eda53c7a&error=1&debug=87ad6005-1972-4d63-92b0-8927eda53c7a

  32. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

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