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David Thompson’s Punctured Legacy

The FIFA corruption scandal has confirmed the nature of humankind and our ever present  fallibility. The  epicentre of the investigation struck close to home with key decision makers in CONCACAF  – including former Vice President Jack Warner[…] indicted by the FBI. Warner  […] given notice he is prepared to squeal, a decision which gives an…

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The Thompsons
The Thompsons

The FIFA corruption scandal has confirmed the nature of humankind and our ever present  fallibility. The  epicentre of the investigation struck close to home with key decision makers in CONCACAF  – including former Vice President Jack Warner[…] indicted by the FBI. Warner  […] given notice he is prepared to squeal, a decision which gives an appreciation of the wrongdoing individuals are prepared to guard for reasons of greed and spiritual wickedness. As the FIFA saga unfolds Barbadians wonder if local officials will be mentioned. The unfolding scandal caused BU to reflect on the meaning of legacy.  There is a type of legacy defined by money and there is a legacy defined by respect. The BU household, by our living, will want our legacy to be one where we are remembered with love and respect. This is something all the money in world CANNOT buy. The late prime minister David Thompson encouraged former President of the Barbados Football Association (BFA) to not relinquish the post although he was a sitting Cabinet member. One is left the question why, it appeared to be a nobrainer, if not a conflict of interest, certainly a distraction from the more important responsibility of minister of education and human resource development. Allegations continue to fly about FIFA dollars used to finance the general election campaign of  Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner was chairman and co-leader of the United Nation Congress Party (UNC).

Back to the late David Thompson: What legacy has he left for his children? There is sufficient information in the public domain to support the conclusion David Thompson colluded, manipulated, and masterminded the swindling of CLICO policyholder’s funds. This is difficult for BU to admit because we held high hope for the Thompson led government on the 15 January 2008. Why should Mara Thompson and company be able to spend monies siphoned from CLICO companies. The time has come for Mara Thompson to be asked some very hard question.  Although she was named recently in a court filing by the CLICO judicial manager greater pressure from the citizenry must be brought to bear by highlighting one of the greatest injustices perpetrated on thousands of Barbadians.

Many, including BU, have started to question the length of time this government has taken to provide remedy to CLICO policyholders after five years of dillydallying. It must be purpose work!

122 responses to “David Thompson’s Punctured Legacy”

  1. ac Avatar
    ac

    Pacha why would ac be scraping the barrel facts are facts,, that is what i have presented to you deal with them. being dismissive not going to change them
    The govt presently is sitting in the drivers seat after six years of being told about doom and gloom at the country doorsteps yet the blp mongrels would want one to believe that nothing has changed what a heap of balderdash

  2. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ AC

    OK you have our permission to continue to exist in Lalaland.

    That is one of the seminal characteristics of Dictators. Presenting ‘facts’ to tell the world …………………… are you going to believe our lies or your very existence.

    Of course, you’ve opted for the former.

    We cede the last word to you.

  3. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    I am starting to believe that the vote buying the PM said he witness during the election was all participants from his party. That is the main reason why they won the election by a nose and the reason he why alluded to seeing it because he wanted it to appear that the BLP were the only ones doing it. He, Fruendel Stuart knew the importance of those stirring votes and there sought to buy them to assure the DLP’s victory. The idiots that are the Barbados Labour Party are trying to use an old formula to convince modern thinkers that they are better than these pissy ass clowns led by a medieval Latin Liar with a good few money grabbers. The shites over yonder can’t even use the darn forensic report to their advantage because they all know that Leroy masterminded many deals for these just as corrupt bitches. So silence is golden on the sides of both administrations to ensure Leroy is protected and that he remains silent.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @SSS

    Your submission is not acceptable, wasn’t Stuart given the title Mr. Integrity?

  5. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ AC,

    It is interesting that you and many others on BU are now including links from The BBC, The Guardian and other UK publishing houses. This merely highlights how irrelevant the Barbados media is and explains why your politicians and business leaders feel emboldened to carry out their nefarious activities in full exposure for all to see.

    If the UK were to parachute in a couple of half-decent, British journalists onto your corrupt island the likes of The William’s clan, Mara, Owen, Stuart et al would be running for cover.

  6. ac Avatar
    ac

    Exclaimer here is another bowl of confidence
    enjoy . but save some for the other BLP misfits

    http://www.noodls.com/view/EB8E81E5BDF559DB97668DCD79925DAA0EDB7449?6087xxx1402705638

  7. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ David June 7, 2015 at 4:21 PM

    One wonders who awarded that title to “Mr. Integrity” the hypocrite from Molasses Hill?

    Barbados has seen its share of political enigmas but this guy Stuart takes the cake to mesmerize all theories on political eugenics.

    We shall soon see if he is able to manifest himself into a political Houdini by actually having the David Thompson Memorial Complex open for business by June 30th ????.

  8. ac Avatar
    ac

    YES Pacha Facts are Facts ,,hard to argue with. the only issues the BLP have going are Perceptions, but hell yes everybody can create a fictional story ,and perceptions are easy as hell to ignore

  9. ac Avatar
    ac

    miller slow does win ,remember the story of the hare and the tortoise, Strategy ! wink! wink Strategy

    and the memorial would open just in time for your next medical visit on june 30th ,would not want to disappoint a blp

  10. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ AC,

    Do as you please. Keep posting your feel good, made up stories that give comfort only to fools.

    The fact that you feel compelled to churn out this propaganda tells me that events in Barbados are probably worse than anyone can imagine.

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Wasn’t there a poll which included this measure in the instrument?

    @Exclaimer and Pacha

    Debating the ills of the Barbados society with those whose views are shaped purely from political partisan considerations is useless. Don’t you get it?

    As it stands Barbados has nearly 13% unemployment, tax refunds are over one year overdue, student population at Cave Hill has dropped significantly, crime is up and there is a erosion in the social fabric of the society. Let us come none to work to share ideas to rescue our society from the hole it is in at the moment.

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  12. David Avatar
    David

    And to top it off, we have a DLP which had positioned itself as the party of zero tolerance for corruption, a promise to rollout transparency legislation but instead produced a Prime Minister David Thompson we must be describe as nothing more than a man who was part of the CLICO Swindle.

    @Miller > > Wasn’t there a poll which included this measure in the instrument? > > @Exclaimer and Pacha > > Debating the ills of the Barbados society with those whose views are > shaped purely from political partisan considerations is useless. Don’t you > get it? > > As it stands Barbados has nearly 13% unemployment, tax refunds are over > one year overdue, student population at Cave Hill has dropped > significantly, crime is up and there is a erosion in the social fabric of > the society. Let us come none to work to share ideas to rescue our society > from the hole it is in at the moment. > >>

  13. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ David

    You’re right! But then society remains with a problem.

    That problem goes to the types of people we have produced. Not only at the top but more so at the bottom. That a purportedly ‘schooled’ individual or sets of individuals will choose to believe the opposite of clear and lived realities is more than troublesome. They are a threat to all that we are, think that we are!

    It indicates deep failings, at the centre, of what it should mean to be Bajan. By itself it is the main reason we cannot be a better society. It is a perverse type of tribalism, not based on ethnicity, but more virulent. Not based on race or religion, but more despicable. Indeed, it is a type of societal degradation, destruction worse than any of the above.

    So our society has produced a product. AC represents a uniqueness, patented for reproduction by the DLP as patent holder.

  14. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    David;

    There have been so many examples of lawlessness in this society that I would hope some sociologist would try to link the events. The latest one is the lawlessness enshrined in our TV stations allegedly selling pirated USA programs (allegations by the US authorities).

    I have little doubt that a strong linkage can be made with leadership at the national level and its recent proclivity for looking the other way and indeed engaging in or condoning blatantly unrighteous activity and that such examples have been used by others to justify their own acts of unrighteousness.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    If you have a problem with the top it follows there will be an issue with the bottom. Some how it goes back to a lack of teaching civics and history to thread a strong identity. Our people are married to what is easily sold to them rather than processing information and ideas to inform a position.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @AWTY

    Could not have stated it better. We measure success nowadays only in economic terms.

  17. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ David,

    The Jack Warner affair was the first news story on the BBC tonight. This is a first. News from the Caribbean region is a rarity over here. We get the occasional news about Haiti, Jamaica from time to time and hurricanes and that is about it!

    I would hope that with all this focus on your region that you guys will become emboldened and start to report your stories to the international press.

    The Caribbean region (her people) is generally viewed in a positive light. There are papers like the UK Guardian that could bring international shame to Barbados provided it was fed the appropriate information.

  18. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac June 7, 2015 at 5:21 PM

    Yes, ac, the miller was locked away in a dark room and now in need of medical attention.
    But you know what ac, unlike the blind fumbling Freundel the seeing miller found that ‘two-footed’ black cat not on rundown Bay Street but on the bonnie banks of Lock Lomond. Do you know where Lock Lomond is, ac?

    I promise you this, ac, should that fumbling liar called Mr. Integrity keep his word (for once in his prime-ministerial life) by having the DT Mausoleum completed and fitted out and ready to accept the miller as its first customer by June 30th I would make a philanthropic donation of 200,000 Scottish pounds “Stirling” to its upkeep.
    If he fails, He Laird Fumble Stuart on Molasses Hill under Ben Nevis, will have to demand Leroy Parris pays the back taxes on that $3.3 million swindled from the poor CLICO policyholders to make the opening of the Mausoleum a reality.

    BTW, girl child, what has happened to the construction of the Sugar Point Cruise Ship terminal scheduled to start since January 2014? Has it been delayed by the overpowering impact of the Sargassum seed weed. Look on the bright side; at least fishermen can expect a bounteous catch of fish in the coming months

  19. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    I cannot help but to echo the resounding words of the old Pagan philosopher, who exclaimed many millenniums ago that: ” When man is disillusion, bewildered and beset by fear, his thinking becomes illogical.

    And I am afraid to say this is what we are witnessing today, in a world paralyzed by the uncertainities, and vicissitudinous circumstances of the modern life.

    But as I pensively contemplate a response to the question, I am reminded of the fella who asked a substantive question several weeks ago, and of I do intend to ask this evening regarding this new found revelation about the late Prime Minister David Thompson.

    Question: in what way does this new found information- regarding Mr. Thompson’s illegal activities, summons the will of the people, and incentivize them to actively seek meaningful and lasting change in the current state of affairs in Barbados? ( isn’t that what we are aiming for when we seek to inform the collective-conscience of the nation?)

    Now, I quite certain that some here can speak much more authoritatively about Mr. Thompson’s irregularities and improperieties than myself. And quite frankly, I do believe that there is a germ of truth with respect to what has been expressed here about Mr. Thompson’s illegal dealings. Which warrants in my estimation, some introspection from those of us who seems to think that our political leaders cannot do no wrong.

    Nevertheless, it is a benumbering repression of common-sense on the part of some the proponents of the BLP, who spread wide a veil of incorruptibility, round and about the feet of certain members of the BLP.

    And lastly, this is the central question we ought to ask ourselves: what is the moral -tone of the Barbadian people, that their would show no aversion to the jaw-dropping revelation about Mr. Thompson?

  20. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Who will summons the will of the people and arouse their collective-conscience, if we are to emerge from this sea of corruptibility- which has and is making itself known in every facet of the Barbadian society?

  21. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ Dompey, June 7, 2015 at 8:45 PM ,

    Your statement at 8.45 is shockingly profound.

    “And lastly, this is the central question we ought to ask ourselves: what is the moral -tone of the Barbadian people, that their would show no aversion to the jaw-dropping revelation about Mr. Thompson?”

    Could someone please provide the readership with an appropriate response?

    Your time away from BU has sharpened your cognitive abilities. You are now writing at the same level of Pieceuhderockyeahright, Bush Tea, Pachamama and your tormentor from a previous life the “incomparable” GP.

  22. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ Dompey,

    Perhaps we need to look at what is now taking place in Honduras.

    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/thousands-rally-call-honduras-president-quit-150606111914364.html

  23. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Exclaimer, forget me sir if by any chance I do appear egotistical because I am certainly not. Your observation, I do appreciate, but might I warn you that I am not looking cheering team mates neither do I seek the approval of rallying supporters as some here have done and continue to do. I care little of or about the consensus of opinion because my mere objective here on BU, is to separate FACT from FICTION, in an effort to arrive at a position which best appeases my conscience. I hope you do not take affront- regarding what I stand to believe, and continue to express here on BU. Have a great morning sir, and let’s hope and pray that the sea does overflow, and wash the infinitesimal island into oblivion.

  24. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Sorry… I meant …doesn’t overflow … it is yet early …. have a great moring sir.

  25. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ Bushie

    This is what you said, above. We disagree strenuously!

    ”’We need to reflect and to institutionalise righteousness in this country or our ass will be grass…
    CLICO, Bribery, Barrack, DEEDS land theft, taxing poor widows – to fund white millionaires, taxing waste haulers while businesses are allowed to import a lotta shiite…..”

    We remember when the Anglican Church was ‘the established’ church in Barbados. This was the result of a checkered British history and attempt to, as you say, ‘establish righteousness’. As if that era of human history did not give us unparalleled atrocities. These included the inquisition, hundred year wars, a BBE based global racism, the destruction of African peoples, need we go on!

    Your christian righteousness has no more relevance to us than a Buddhist righteousness, an Atheist righteousness, an Islamic righteousness, and so on. It is WRONG empower anybody’s religion. Any set of notions of righteousness. The reverse should be true. These attempts at spirituality should be removed from the public square, all together, and located in the home, as they are!

    Last week this writer was in a world capital for a business meeting and some Christian idiots decided there should be a prayer before we started, as though we should all recognize his god. We interrupted and asked to be excuse ans were called back when the superstition was over.

    Bushie, you are hereby indicted for attempting to set up a Christian dictatorship! For this you are to be burnt ……………… at the stake.

    We have to be careful that in our shared desire to radically transform society we are not minded to recommend remedies which are worse than the chronic societal disease.

    Certainly, we would not want a world where some Pope somewhere, or an Imam from the Holy Mosque will presume to tell us what some god somewhere pleases.

    And certainly we would not want a fictitious Bible, written with the hands of man, a wicked man pretending to be God’s inspired, to be the constitution anywhere.

    Your notion of righteousness is indeed a Christian notion. A notion not shared by most of the world. That will lead to more war, not peace, not justice………war! It never failed to so do in the past!

    In short, we would prefer to burn forever in this present hell than to be transfered to the hell you are designing.

  26. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Pacha…
    One wonders at what point you will admit that you don’t know one shiite ’bout Bushie….
    ..you think you is David…? 🙂

    When did Bushie say ANYTHING about the Anglican Church exemplifying righteous example? …YOU are the one associating righteousness with such an institution…NOT stinking Bushie…

    Indeed, by providing CLEAR examples of UN-RIGHTEOUSNESS, Bushie would have thought that a learned scholar such as yourself could easily deduce the bushman’s concept of righteousness….”DOING THE RIGHT THINGS…”

    JUSTICE…swift and transparent.
    FAIR TREATMENT FOR ALL
    OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY
    LOOKING AFTER THE WEAK AND VULNERABLE
    EDUCATING THE YOUTH…
    RESPECTING WISDOM
    IGNORING FOOLS…

    Boss….if you have a beef with the Anglican Church check with Ms Donna …not stinking Bushie bozie….

  27. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ Bushie

    Come on Bushie, there were two concepts in your piece. One was ‘establish’ and the other was ‘righteousness’. Separately, you may be able to make such a rejoinder. But together, there is a large history that these are pregnant with.

    In fact, we don’t need any righteousness at all. What we need is the end on blind faith in anybody, here or in the other places. And there are simple governing systems, short of a faith in any rightness, or its expectation. We should assume that people by their very nature will not do the right things. For example, a right to recall a government, any government, at any time.

    And don’t try to palm me off to the Anglican Church. All Christians, jointly and severally, must accept the judgement for the atrocities of the past. You can’t hide behind denomination. In fact, ALL Christians, in most of the world, are Roman Catholic, accept it or not.

    Muslims are the same thing too. One sect arguing that the next one are the terrorists and that they are not responsible for their crimes.

  28. ac Avatar
    ac

    Hi guys and gals ….hope u bought your slice of the barbados dream the bonds aré a good investment especrally in helping to establish a firm foundaation for the education of your children

  29. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Pachamama

    Christians jointly and severally, must accept the judgment for the atrocities of the past- writes Pachamama. Man you’re off your rocker for you to arrived at such a conclusion brother. Perhaps, you ought to read the Bible, where you would suddenly discover that we’re now living in the Dispensation of Grace. And to address your second point regarding the conduct of people. No! People would not do the right thing unless their are force to do so. And the reason being: man’s passions and desires would not conform to the dictates of reason and justice unless he is force to do so brother. No with respect to God’s morality as its relates to right and wrong; I will pose this question to you sir: without God, without the Church, without the Bible, what would stop you from just doing whatever you want? What keep an atheist like you yourself from Killing, Raping, and Stealing? And please done employ the atheist antiquated argument of Empathy because if you employ such a premise, then my next question to you is this: where does Empathy comes from?

  30. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Pachamama

    What judgment does Christians have to accept- since in your mind the concept of God is an ancient mythology. You seem to be implying that there are consequences to be had, but who will administer these consequences? Since in your mind God does not exist? You’re beginning to sound very contradictory and confounded in your failing attempt to explain away the existence of God.

  31. David Avatar
    David

    What is not bring discussed is the Treasury Note issued at a rate of 4.25% for significantly greater than the 10 million savings bond issue. What the treasury note will tell us is the mood of the business community. Some of us will not buy the PR gimmick unless the Governor is honest with the information.

    Who heard the Trinidadian woman today?

    >

  32. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The current and divine judgment of Pachamama!

  33. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Pachamama

    You know how the atheist love to throw around the word Empathy as his code of ethics, or as his band-aid for for employing the concept good? Will let me ask you this final question though: where does the compass comes from that tells you that murder, rape, and stealing are wrong, if not from the Judeo- Christian- Theology? And if Empathy for one’s fellow-man was or is congenitally interwoven in our being, why didn’t Primitive -Man made better used of it?

  34. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @Dompey / AC
    You and the ACs are really obedient to your DLP dead king after eating the fatted calf , you apply force to a cause even when no force is need, you all are compel to come on BU and unload, go seek your God , oh sorry,your god dead

  35. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Pachamama

    Here is my last and final question: if empathy for one’s fellow human being is the unversal standard for secular morality: why has it kept the Headhunters in Papua New Guinea from cutting of their neighbors heads, of which their have being do for many centuries? And this is before the Europeans penetrated this part of the world and imposed their brand of Christianity on the natives of Papua New Guinea. Where was your Empathy then-which ought to have told the native Papuan that thou shall not kill?

  36. Treatz Avatar
    Treatz

    Who dem people is name bajan hydrocarbons? The gine drill of oil off-shore too in Barbados?

  37. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    David June 8, 2015 at 1:47 PM #

    “Who heard the Trinidadian woman today?”

    I listened to her contribution when she, in melancholy tone, expressed her disappointment that the DLP has essentially lost its way from being perceived as builders of society to being “in bed” with the rich private sector.

    She also mentioned that there is basically no cohesion in the government, since each minister seems to be doing as they pleased, thereby throwing collective responsibility through the window.

    Essentially, though she tried as hard as possible not to agree with Ellis’ suggestion about the perception of both DLP and BLP, further coercing from him made her admit that there was no difference between the perception of the BLP pre the 2008 general election and the DLP now.

    Ironically, this same “Trinidadian woman” was at the forefront on Brass Tacks as an advocate of change when the BLP held the reins of government. Now, though she admits the DEMS has lost their “soul”, she is not suggesting a change of government, but for the DLP to return to the “slogan”, “Barbados is more than an economy, it’s a society.”

    However, those of us who know her by her real name (M.S), also know she is a member of the DLP and was an ardent supporter of David Thompson.

  38. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @ Artaxerxes June 8, 2015 at 4:13 PM

    Do not pay her any mind, she used the call in programmes effectively prior to 2008 to lambaste the BLP and helped to get the dead crook elected.

    So now that she is so disappointed in them, she has to speak out lest she be called a hypocrite. Up to a few months prior to 2013, she was still begging for a break for the incompetent morons posing as ministers, playing the old broken record……..they were still new to the job, they had to clean up the mess they found, they had to deal with the loss of the crooked dead king.

    I heard her rant but dismissed her……..too late, Barbados is in the black hole and cannot get out. Who knows if she has lost her place at the table feeding off the fatted calf and is now angry?????????

    A dem is a dem is a dem!

  39. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    A dem is a dem but the 2008 dem that eat the fatted calf is curse and brain damage, David Ellis hand pick dem for brass tacks, an offer was made to the Trinidadian woman too, for years Ellis plays the devil advocate

  40. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Watchman
    I was totally surprised yesterday to hear Ken ‘de bull in de china shop’
    Husbands,de wan-dan ownlee,thank former VOB microphonist Stephen ‘the egoistic shortnee crutch man from the parish with the most retarded people in buhbaydus’Lashley. for reading the 8.30 am newscast.Well,blow me dung,Lashley,Maxine McClean,Harry Husbands,Steve de Blackestt,Ahcumtoluv Corbin,Tony’Bowels’Marshall,Dawn Marshall all these notorious members of the fatted calf brigade actually given a microphone and a bully pulpit to berate the then GOB led by OSA.VOB,a nasty piece of work now owned by trinidadians and may have benefitted from Jack’s largesse.All nothing but hungry,barefoot hoes and plimps.

  41. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Why do you all chide the name of this Trini DLP supporter. I want you people to understand that the SSS believe in the Democratic process under a Democratic Led Government. What the SSS does not believe or hold true too is this DLP government led by Stuart Little and his band of rats. Everything that the Democratic Labour Party stood for has been rolled over by these bitches who are now champions of the rich and scorners of the poor. The SSS hates the ground that the BLP walk on but would cast her vote for the Motley crew in vengeful move. The BLP are a nasty bunch but these cunts in the DLP have made the BLP look like better black angels. The fact that the Trini DLP supporter can criticise her beloved DLP just goes to show how deep their shitety trail goes and the pain she feels at being placed in an embarassing position to support a party that is way off base. I feel the same just like her.

  42. Peltdownman Avatar
    Peltdownman

    Why would ac and Dompey praise the issue of high interest Central Bank bonds, and encourage their purchase, when they have branded as “greedy” those investors in CLICO who sought similar rates of interest? And the Apes Hill PR piece? Is it really that so many foreign investors are building, or is it a sign of desperation that so many years after the recession, so little has been invested there?

  43. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Apes Hill trying to attract locals by offering $1.3 million homes,that is what that PR is about

  44. balance Avatar
    balance

    “Why would ac and Dompey praise the issue of high interest Central Bank bonds, and encourage their purchase, when they have branded as “greedy” those investors in CLICO who sought similar rates of interest? And the Apes Hill PR piece? Is it really that so many foreign investors are building, or is it a sign of desperation that so many years after the recession, so little has been invested there?”


    Good comment, poignant to the core

  45. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Treatz June 8, 2015 at 3:23 PM #

    Who dem people is name bajan hydrocarbons? The gine drill of oil off-shore too in Barbados?
    ………………………………………………………………………………………..
    The report said “onshore” . They will be scavenging the abandoned wells for these hydrocarbons. Reminds me of years ago after the crop,going ‘Mashing trash” to find abandoned canes, or sprouting potatoes,from a previous potato field. This puts a new meaning on the term ,’Scraping the bottom of the (oil) barrel.

  46. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Clico and the Canadian.

    http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150608/news/ex-clico-ceo-gets-173m

  47. ac Avatar
    ac

    why even compare govt secured bonds to Clico a private investors who bilked the govt and citizens out of million of dollars ,,so silly.

  48. mitchlans Avatar
    mitchlans

    Careful ac! I hope you are not accusing your boss’ non-leper friend of bilking the govt and citizens out of millions of dollars! Wow! You had better claim that was a Freudian slip and not at all what you meant. Maybe you’d better ‘get a lawyer’!

  49. ac Avatar
    ac

    Hi guys and gals athird round of bonds would be put on the market .hurry and buy before you miss out on your slice of the barbadian dream.can,t blame the govt for your loss if you listen to the antagonist and prophets of doom and gloom with their exhibition of bad manners and a lack of disrespect in helping to rebuild the economy. Have a nice day

  50. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ AC

    Are you now a financial advisor? Do you know that being not so qualified and delivering such advice has legal consequences? Do you know anything about calculating bond prices? Are you qualified in risks analysis? And we can go. Of course, we would expect no direct answer from you, not unlike your government!

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