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1. Sept meeting organized by the Future Island Trust (before this meeting organizers need to be briefed by Robert on how to organize the brainstorming […]to achieve these goals).

Need sponsors like the Rotarians, various hotel owners, Chamber of Commerce, farmers, university, Churches, B’s recycling, other waste companies, Zero Waste Barbados, Barbados renewable Energy group etc…

Need to brainstorm ideas for projects in the following areas and identify potential leaders, players and entrepreneurs. Throughout the discussion a high priority should be given to ways of maximizing jobs in each project area.

  1. Education for sustainability K 1 -12; University department for sustainability
  2. Sustainable Agriculture
  3. Sustainable and Clean water supply
  4. Sustainable Energy supply (Barbados Renewable Energy Association (?)
  5. Sustainable waste Management (Zero Waste Barbados; B’s recycling and more)
  6. Sustainable Tourism
  7. Sustainable transport
  8. Setting up a network of sustainable communities emphasizing both social and environmental justice.

2. These ideas written up to form basis for international summit in November (?). To be sent to all prospective participants.

3. International Summit for a Sustainable Barbados (dialogue between local ideas and international experience).

4. Results written up and the plan (a list of well-defined interlocking projects in the 8 areas) made available to all citizens via social media and the press. It will be an open question then whether the advancement of this plan will involve public or private money or a mixture of both. If government cancels Cahill project and opts instead to support this plan – then citizen-organizers will have oversight. If government refuses to support the plan citizen-organizers will be looking for local and international entrepreneurial and charitable support for each of the projects and overall orchestration of the plan.

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100 responses to “Citizen Plan for a Sustainable Barbados”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    What is happening with B’s? The public is complaining he is not paying for deposits? We seem to be going backwards.

  2. Susan Avatar
    Susan

    Would any minister of government be bold enough to accompany Cahill to a US Bank meeting and would it need to be sanctioned by the cabinet? Can FATCA help Barbados reduce graft payments deposited in offshore accounts and corruption?

  3. HAMILTON A HILL Avatar
    HAMILTON A HILL

    THE TWO MAJOR PARTS NOW SPLIT IN THREE, STRUCK BY SKULDUGGERY. Words taken from the 1989 classic by RPB called ”The Country Ent Well”. Susan asks about Cabinet sanction. My Dear Lady the word is that there are two factions that shout down each other, while the rest hang on for dear life. That’s what we’ve come to in Barbados. Rather than try to intimidate the young leaders of the labor movement, the Prime Minister should tell us if St James or Bay Street is the official residence of Cabinet. Then again….perhaps even he doan know!

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @Susan

    Are you suggesting a cabinet minister accompanied ‘players’ to a US bank to do what?

  5. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    David, surely Susan is asking one of these implausible rhetorical questions in order to highlight the absurdity of the situation!

    She must be indicating that the corruption is so blatant that the ministers involved might as well openly display the perfidy and continue to join hands with Cahill on a funding request.

    After all her thoughts can’t be any more far-fetched than the ideas and plans as presented to us over these last several months.

    If anyone had posed the scenarios visited here as questions like the one presented by Susan they would have been dismissed as implausible too, not so!

    They often say that ‘life is stranger than fiction’. This matter certainly validates that.

  6. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    “IN THE MUCH HEATED NATIONAL DISCOURSE on the waste to energy plant a very interesting concept of zero waste has been put to Barbados by Professor Paul Connett.” – See more at:

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/70874/finding-eco-intelligence#sthash.rLbeldNH.dpuf

  7. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    “Zero Waste Scotland is helping Scotland to become more efficient in its use of resources.

    The context in which we operate
    As a facilitator and enabler of change, we help to reduce waste, increase energy efficiency and promote responsible water use – all as part of a journey towards a low-carbon, sustainable economy.

    Our goal is to help Scotland eliminate waste. By waste we mean any natural asset which is not used to its full potential.

    To achieve this goal, we pursue activities aligned to two complementary approaches: circular economy and resource efficiency.

    The circular economy concept encompasses a range of strategies which ensure that materials are kept within productive use, in a high value state, for as long as possible, and that plant-based elements are returned to the biosphere in a sustainable way. It focuses on reshaping business and economic systems so that waste is ‘designed out’ of how we live.

    Resource efficiency is a much broader term, encompassing actions to conserve and maximise the efficient use of energy and water as well as raw materials. Its benefits are primarily about enhancing competitiveness and reducing the environmental impact of resource use.

    Our work supports the delivery of Scottish Government policy, including: the Climate Change (Scotland) Act (2009), the Zero Waste Plan (2010), Low Carbon Scotland (2013), Safeguarding Scotland’s Resources (2013) and the forthcoming national litter strategy.

    How we work
    We combine circular economy and resource efficiency strategies to help achieve our goal of eliminating waste in all its forms.

    All our activities address one of three core principles:

    Resources should be used as efficiently as possible
    Fewer resources should be lost to the economy in the form of waste
    More value should be added to secondary resources within the economy
    By taking action in these areas, our work benefits the Scottish economy as well as the global and local environment.”

    http://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/

  8. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    I wonder if the popo spends as much time spying and monitoring persons of influence and politicians as they do the ordinary citizens?

  9. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    The Zero Waste Barbados Movement will be promoting the circular economy to create employment with the help of Climate Colorado. International partners are lining up to donate time and expertise towards the new paradigm shift. We hope that Dr Denis Lowe will engage the movement is the most positive way in the interest of country

  10. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Kammie, regarding your question above the latter one, are you asking a direct question? Or is your query one of those tricky questions one usually sees on jeopardy nightly?

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @Kammie

    Goo stuff!

    Don’t be sidetracked by idiots.

    On 15 August 2015 at 14:19, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

  12. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Kammie it is the job of law enforcement in Barbados and elsewhere in the world to enforce the criminal code, and if that calls for spying and monitoring the citizenry, or the movers and shakers and power-brokers in Bridgetown so be it. When the national-security of a country is threatened, I would only hope that the law-enforcement-elements responsibility for ensuring the safety and security of all the citizenry, consider the high office official part and parcel of their surveillance protocol. Nevertheless, I have a question for you though Kammie: who is charged with policing the police that enforces the criminal-code?

  13. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    What is happening with B’s? The public is complaining he is not paying for deposits? We seem to be going backwards.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Bushie is trying to rationalise an environment where one entity is PAYING CASH to persons delivering items to their gates…

    …..while another entity is CHARGING a levy to the government (people of Barbados) for every ton of the same items received at its gate…

    ..and where the Government itself has just introduced a ‘tipping fee’ to anyone who dares to deliver said ‘items’ to the gates of the government facilities.

    Some shiite don’t seem right!!!

    Boss…
    If you put a jackass in the driver’s seat you would be shocked and the variety of ways in which common sense can be assaulted….

  14. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    We are behind you, Kammie!

  15. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Is there any other place besides B’s that takes plastic? I’ve been storing up all mine for months and was wondering why my regular guy hasn’t passed for them.

  16. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Donna
    Is there any other place besides B’s that takes plastic?
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Thanks to Stinkliar’s innovative tipping fee, Bushie’s best guess is that we will revert to the good old gullies…

    This shiite makes ‘Animal Farm’ look like common sense….

  17. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    You should be recycling plastic into something useful…like.. zip lock handcuffs

  18. ac Avatar
    ac

    People searching and scratching their brains trying to find sensible solutions to Waste and here comes this toothless pathetic moron bush sh.it givingvadvise to throw plastics in the gullies of Barbados ..all because his dead a.ss too cheap to pay for the upkeep of BBE planet. What a f king jerk

  19. RastaR Avatar
    RastaR

    If the Canadian scammer thinks she has ownership of all the garbage on the island for this plant of hers then how can we start the campaign to zero waste ???
    When does our garbage become her garbage???

  20. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Kammie,
    In a previous blog I asked who was behind the funding of the Future Centre Trust? Don’t we want transparency in everything?

    @Bushie,
    I have the original advertisement inviting Tenders for the establishment of a waste/garbage separation plant (Later registered as SBRC. Including the proposed fee fot the delivery of the garbage. Do you want me to publish it on BU? I think I will at the appropriate time.

    This “idiot” keeps copies of such things.

  21. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Bushie,
    I will copy the invitation to tender for the eventual SBRC, but since the Cahill matter is so much in the public eye, and since so many people seemed to be so surprised about Government’s intention to have a waste to energy plant constructed, here is the original invitation to tender from 2010.:

    TENDER

    Sanitation Service Authority In Barbados: Build, Operate, Transfer Waste To The Energy Plant At The Solid Waste Management Complex In St. Thomas, Barbados
    Funded by
    Other – Other
    Location
    Barbados
    Status
    Deadline
    Proposal due on 16 Aug 2010
    The Government of Barbados through the Sanitation Service Authority is requesting Expressions of Interest from contractors for the design build operate finance and transfer a Waste to Energy Plant at the Solid Waste Management Complex in Vaucluse, St. Thomas, Barbados. Bidders will be expected to construct and operate a facility which can convert between 300 tonnes and 550 tonnes of predominately municipal solid waste into electricity, to be sold to the grid operator. Bid documents comprised of the bidding procedures, bid forms, conditions of contract, specifications and drawings may be obtained from the Sanitation Service Authority between the hours of 0900 and 1630, Monday to Friday commencing Wednesday 16 June 2010 at the address provided below. Bid documents and background data are also available on the SSA Planroom website. Details and passwords will be provided to proponents upon registration with the Authority.

    Jump to: More Resources Keywords
    Country: Project: Financing: Abstract: Sector: Contract/Bid Number: Deadline: Contact:
    Barbados
    SANITATION SERVICE AUTHORITY
    Government Notices
    TO BUILD OPERATE TRANSFER A WASTE TO ENERGY FACILITY
    Waste Management
    Call for expression of interest to prequalify contractors; RFP# BAR WTEF 2010-03
    16 August 2010

    The Government of Barbados through the Sanitation Service Authority is requesting Expressions of Interest from contractors for the design build operate finance and transfer a Waste to Energy Plant at the Solid Waste Management Complex in Vaucluse, St. Thomas, Barbados.

    Bidders will be expected to construct and operate a facility which can convert between 300 tonnes and 550 tonnes of predominately municipal solid waste into electricity, to be sold to the grid operator.

    Bid documents comprised of the bidding procedures, bid forms, conditions of contract, specifications and drawings may be obtained from the Sanitation Service Authority between the hours of 0900 and 1630, Monday to Friday commencing Wednesday 16 June 2010 at the address provided below.

    Bid documents and background data are also available on the SSA Planroom website. Details and passwords will be provided to proponents upon registration with the Authority.

    Interested parties will not be allowed to visit the site without prior knowledge of the Sanitation Service Authority.

    Expressions of Interest should be submitted with the appropriate forms in sealed envelopes marked “Build Operate Transfer a Waste To Energy Facility” and should be addressed to The Chairman of the Sanitation Service Authority to reach him no later than 1600 hours, Monday 16 August 2010. Late submissions will not be accepted.

    A short list of prequalified companies will be invited to submit formal proposals following review of the Expressions of Interest.

    The cost of preparing the Expressions of Interest and subsequent Proposal will be solely that of the interested companies.

    Requests for further information or any queries should be directed to the Manager, Sanitation Service Authority in writing at the address below, or by fax.

    Interested parties should be aware that the Labour Clauses (Public Contracts) Act CAP 349 will, in so far as is applicable to the submission, apply to any contract made in respect of a future bid and the company will be required to submit a certificate of eligibility in this respect. Full details of the conditions of the Act CAP 349 may be obtained from the Chief Labour Officer, Labour Department, Warrens Office Complex, Warrens, St. Michael, Barbados.

    All interested parties must include with their submissions a copy of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation as evidence of the fact that the Company is an existing registered Company as at the date of submission. Failure to provide the Certificate of Incorporation will render the submission void. The Certificate must be in the name of the company expressing interest.

    Local companies are advised that the Certificate of Incorporation referred to above means a Certificate of Incorporation issued under the 1985 Companies Act of Barbados or where applicable a Certificate of Continuance and/or a Certificate of Amalgamation or a Certificate of Amendment. Certificates must be dated after December 31, 1984.

    Any firm incorporated outside of Barbados that is eventually awarded a Contract by the Government of Barbados must register in Barbados under the Companies Act of Barbados.

    No submission will be considered unless it complies with the conditions set out in this Notice and Request for Expression of Interest Documents.

    The Sanitation Service Authority does not bind itself to accept any submission.

    Sanitation Service Authority.
    2nd Floor, National Petroleum Corporation Building.
    Wildey, St. Michael, Barbados.
    Fax: (246) 436-2683

    The above is essentially the same as the original procurement notice.

    UPDATE, 15 June 2010:

    This notice was originally published on 11 June 2010 and has been updated on 15 June 2010. See addition in bold below.

    A non-refundable fee of BDS $200 is charged for each set of Bid Documents obtained.

    More Resources

    Bushie,
    More on this will follow later. You will notice that the terms never envisioned more than 500 tons daily (Between 300 and 500 tons). So those who were talking about 1000 tons did not know what they were/are talking about. The invitation to tender clearly states that it is to be a B.O.L.T. arrangement. Note also that there is NO indication that the Government of Barbadoa would finance the construction and/or operation. So those talking about it costing the people of Barbados over 700 million dollars (I think the figures (spread by rumour mongers) have reached over a billion dollars now) should note the conditions of the invitation to tender for expressions of interest. Not to do the actual building (construction).

    Did ANY local companies or entities explore this in 2010?

    I told you I keep copies of these documents, just in case.

    IDIOT!!!!

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

    Why did Mr Sinckler say that the project was not required to be tendered as it was a PPP?
    How many firms responded to this RFP, what were their track records and what technologies did they propose to use?
    Did Cahill respond to the RFP? What technology did they propose to use? What did they say their track record was?
    How many firms were prequalified to submit tenders?
    Was Cahill one of those firms?
    What was the basis of the tender issued?
    Did the tender conditions keep the waste requirement at 300 – 550 tonnes or did it change it to 1000 tonnes?
    Did the tender conditions keep the requirement for power to be sold to the grid operator or did it change it to Government purchase?
    When did the concept of Government providing king grass free of charge get incorporated? Was it in the issued tender documents, or was it added later?
    How many tenders were submitted? How did they compare commercially and in terms of proposed technology?
    Did a tenders committee review and recommend Cahill’s tender as the best on a commercial and technological basis?

  23. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    @Alvin Cummins, the Future Centre Trust operate from begging and is an apolitical environmental NGO. Its nefarious to imply otherwise just because you are a political operative. So damn disappointing coming from a persons who can do more than put political party before wellbeing of country.

    @Alvin Cummins, I know the document from whence you quote you can perhaps tell the whole truth and mention that Bizzy and other local groups were shortlisted then ignored

  24. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    What is the circular economy?
    The circular economy is an alternative to our ‘make, use, dispose’ culture which means re-using products and materials continually.

    https://youtu.be/V8us1Mk1Z8U

  25. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    Time is of great essense for the anteater who eat ants in abundance without compassion is soon eaten by the said ants. FATCA will be the friend of Bajans in the very near future under a political dispensation outside of B or D.

    https://barbadosunderground.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/bs-recycling-barbados-versus-cahill-plasma-gasification-waste-to-energy

  26. David Avatar
    David

    https://youtu.be/V8us1Mk1Z8U

  27. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    The European is a peculiar race. This group has brought destruction to our planet through their insatiable appetite for mother’s earth natural resources. This carnage and destruction has spanned a mere 500 years. Yet, during this short period they have brought more destruction to this planet than the totality of their predecessors since the creation of Adam and Eve.

    Sadly, there maligned influence has been assimilated and is now been practised by the vast majority of nations. Over the last fifty years there has been a kick back to this casual disregard to our planet. There have been many individuals and groups who have found alternative lifestyles in order to live in harmony with mother earth.

    When I hear the word sustainability mentioned I always raise my eyebrows. The Negro lived a sustainable lifestyle prior to the intervention of the white man. My grandparent’s practised sustainable living on their farm way before the word “sustainability” became a fashionable word used by so-called knowledgeable white people. When an animal was killed it was sold and distributed within their community. Surplus produce was given freely to family members and people from their village.

    I can remember when I first visited my grandparents they did not have any electricity. They lived within their means. They lived sustainable lives. They had the practical mind set of villagers.

    We do not need the zero waste Barbados movement or Professor Connett to educate and bamboozle us with their Johnny come-lately ideas. Barbados needs to revisit her past. The way forward is clear. We need to strengthen our villages and local communities. They need to become autonomous regions free of government and foreign influence and control.

    Left to their own devices a village and a community will find solutions to their problems; they will develop sustainable growth and will grow an appropriate local economy.

    http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/aug/14/five-eco-villages-around-the-world

  28. ac Avatar
    ac

    preach bro, the white mans greed has taken control of what is right in so much he forgets! convoluted! circumvent ! recycle ole messages into new packaging in his race to sustain his livelihood .
    We are where we are because of what they told us, Yes the old generation had it right, There were innovators and respectfully guarded and protected the environment.
    Just take one look around at the many high rise buildings concrete monsters that are supposed to provide adequacy for a better way of life which instead block natures apparatus of providing adequate cooling across the landscape by way of ocean breeze, Whose idea was that,? What happen to nature? Hmmm eventually nature always fight back inevitably reminding and taking us back to the past where we belong,

  29. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Kammie

    Good luck with your idealist dream because you’re in for a rude awakening if think for one moment that you can induce the Barbadian people to accept any idea overnight.
    It has been said justly, that there is food for the soul as well as food for the body; and the analogy may be pursued by remarking that it is difficult to induce a people to change its national diet overnight.
    Do you not know, or haven’t you not read that the fish in lake Baikal have taken thousands of years, it is said to transformed themselves from salt-water to fresh-water?
    And it will likewise take decades or probably centuries to convinced the Barbadian people who have been living on a national diet of ideas for centuries to seek the nourishment of solider ideas and beliefs and that the whole of their intellectual life will by degrees, be transformed and renewed overnight.

  30. ac Avatar
    ac

    zero waste an old concept being touted as new except that some of the driving forces were also the creators of what they say we are doing wrong today, ,innovators of getting a second a third bite at the apple, whipping up frenzy and fear with calculated intention knowing full well that the outcome would eventually revert us back to square one

  31. ac Avatar
    ac

    People are sick and tired of being shoveled back and forth in time, with philosophies that fatten and enriched a few ,while others having to retool and rethink convert and adjust to a “new” formula with unhappy endings.
    The time is fast approaching when rebellious ideas would enter having formulas that demands with unpleasantness which sanitize ! correct! and retool with a vibrancy of character to harness correct methods once and for all

  32. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @ Kammie,
    You said the Future Centre gets funding by begging. I have no doubt it does, and there was nothing nefarious in my questioning. You, and others always speak of transparency when it comes to Government, do not these same standards apply to NGOs? You still have not told us who is Behind the FCT.

    The copy of the Tender I posted on the blog was with regard to the WASTE TO ENERGY to be constructed. I have no idea who tendered for it. The other Tender ( which I did not post yet) was for the Waste (Garbage) separation plant. I have no idea who tendered for it, but to say that Bizzy tendered for it and was ignored cannot be true. SBRC got the contract, and as far as I know that is Bizzy’s company. Is this not true? By the way, since you know that a number of local entities were short listed, there has to be a great degree of transparency, not true?
    Again an important part of any tender is the government’s right not to accept any tender.

    “No submission will be considered unless it complies with the conditions set out in this Notice and Request for Expression of Interest Documents.

    The Sanitation Service Authority does not bind itself to accept any submission.”

    Are you like; or getting like, Bushie and the yard ducks? Because I seek to put the record straight it is immediately assumed that it is politically inspired? You are a scientist (I assume) so therefore you must be familiar with independence of thought. There was nothing political in asking who is funding the Future Centre trust. I told you already, I was there when it began. The operative word is, Transparency. I have my answer. Isn’t there someone else who is entering the recycling business; apart from government, destined to be serious competition for B’s recycling? My advice to Mr. Bynoe is to get these videos projected on local television (as advertising) consistently to educate the public. It is a message that has to be reinforced.

    @St. George’s Dragon, I do not know all the intricacies of the tendering process, but I DO know that the Tenders committee, made up of senior trusted Civil Servants, among others are very strict about the consideration of tenders,( They refuse to accept Tenders submitted even one minute after the closing time, all tender documents are put in a box and sealed and put in safekeeping until the Tenders committee meets and come to their decision.) and the award of the tender is transmitted to the winning bid, when everything is considered. Conditions of a bid cannot be changed until the bid is awarded.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    @Alvin

    You are correct that it ironic you, a Government apologist, resist calls for transparency by government but want to flip the script. Let all guardians of public private sector projects be encouraged to be transparent.

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

    There is a fundamental issue here. Did Cahill go through a tender process or not? Mr Sinckler says they didn’t have to. Alvin Cummins appears to be saying that they did.

  35. David Avatar
    David

    @St.Georges Dragon

    Not only did Sinckler said its their money therefore not necessary, Cowan admitted to that process as well or lack of. Alvin only knows what he reads in the online space.

  36. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @@David,
    “Alvin only knows what he reads in the online space.” You should add in other places also. It seems that other people do not. I submitted above the advertisement from the government; with a closing date of August 2010, but you people did not seem to read. The TENDER was for “Expressions of interest…” Cahill must have “Expressed interest” to be chosen. The other details would have been in the Tender documents. There is no conflict in the statements. I would not have been privy to any discussions between the parties. The government was accused of lack of transparency. I sought to shed some light on the issue.
    The following is from the advertisement copied above:

    Proposal due on 16 Aug 2010
    The Government of Barbados through the Sanitation Service Authority is requesting Expressions of Interest from contractors for the design build operate finance and transfer a Waste to Energy Plant at the Solid Waste Management Complex in Vaucluse, St. Thomas, Barbados. Bidders will be expected to construct and operate a facility which can convert between 300 tonnes and 550 tonnes of predominately municipal solid waste into electricity, to be sold to the grid operator.

    @St. George’s Dragon.
    It would seem obvious that they went through the process of EXPRESSING THEIR INTEREST in the project, which is all that would have been required in the initial stage. Since it was advertised in the newspapers it was open to ANYONE who wanted to be interested in the project.

  37. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @St. George’s Dragon what is probably confusing you about the tonnage is that the home page of SBRC makes mention of about 1000 tons of garbage daily aNd this is what the original fee for delivery of this garbage was based on.

  38. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @David,
    What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

  39. David Avatar
    David

    @Alvin

    What is the difference between and expression of interest and a formal tender?

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

    An expression of interest is advertised when Government is looking for firms to tender for something but prior to the issue of the tender. In theory it allows firms to produce information on their suitability to go on the shortlist of firms who will actually be asked to tender.
    Relevant information might include track record of similar projects carried out, financial stability and capability based on previous year’s accounts etc.

  41. RastaR Avatar
    RastaR

    I wonder how many expressions of interest the Cowan woman got from her CIM
    And how many formal due diligences have been done on PPA and the IA based on plasma ????
    All she needs is 1 to extricate herself from the mess she has created
    Pay off the 5 million she owes take a payout an a possible 30 year annuity all paid for by the people of Barbados

  42. David Avatar
    David

    An expression of interest is NOT a formal request for proposal.

  43. Mocking bird Avatar
    Mocking bird

    Any company or government worth its salt would have a pre qualifying form that needed to be filled in by all interested parties prior to any tender documents being released to qualified interested parties .
    If a pre qual doc were filled in by Cahill way back then they would have been automatically disqualified from the race…….
    They had no history
    No projects executed
    No balance sheet
    And in fact no company
    All the dancing around this issue boils down to one thing .
    It’s a money grab pure and simple
    And we the people are the ones footing the bill.

  44. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Mocking bird.(Look up what a mocking bird is).

    As David pointed out, “An expression is NOT a formal request for proposal. After persons have tendered their expressions of interest, the most qualified, based on the documents submitted to the tenders committee, would be invited to submit the necessary documentation for pre qualification.
    You have got to be kidding to try to imply that the CIVIL SERVANTS (P.S. etc, down the line, ) and the Tenders Committee who have been handling hundreds if not thousands of Tenders for all sorts of projects over the years, do not know what they are doing. All in attempt to vilify Ms. Cowan, Cahill, or to try to score political points against the government?

    Why do you try to denigrate your own people so much? You people are really sick!!

  45. ac Avatar
    ac

    Oh now the scavengers of the WTE plant with intent to demolish! oh No! they don.t want the truth, However in the final lap the truth wins out, There goes your fifteen minutes of fame mocking bird,

  46. David Avatar
    David

    Kammie has been pushing a litter tax for some time now. We see too much KFC, Chefette and other fast food litter all over the place. Make them pay. What about the enforcement legislation Low promised many months ago? We can to begin to fine Bajans by the bus loads. We need to fight back! There is an inbred mindset we have to fix.

  47. ac Avatar
    ac

    When govts make business pay they pass the cost on to the consumer, a reality which Zero waste advocates would have to confront as they try to sell this concept to govts of developing nations,

  48. David Avatar
    David

    Barbados Wall of Shame

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    On A Positive Note…..

    News From Around Barbados

    What a great turn out to RECYCLE yesterday in Atlantic Shores! We were able to fill a truck with plastics, glass, paper, cans and electronic waste. A great help to reducing what would go to the landfill! …

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    — in Atlantic Shores, Christ Church, Barbados.

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  49. Mocking bird Avatar
    Mocking bird

    You’re missing the point
    There was no tendering process for the tendering committee to review and approve .
    I wasn’t demeaning any of the worker bees here
    Due process was clearly not followed
    In awarding this sweetheart contract to a shell company

  50. are-we-there-yet Avatar
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    Alvin Cummins;

    I think the BU family should thank you for publishing the 2011 document in which the SSA invited expressions of interest for a 300-500 tpd WtE facility. That document, even without background documentation, has expanded our knowledge of the progenitors of the WTE project and would have hinted why Cabinet would have mandated that further action, after the signature of the Cahill document, should be taken out of the hands of the Ministers and lodged firmly in the SSA where prosecution of any WtE project at Vaucluse should have resided in the first place.

    However, you should recognize that in offering us that peep at the early document, you might have dug a deeper hole in respect of the apparent lack of transparency evidenced by the Government in subsequent prosecution of that fledgling project.

    It is clear, from looking at a chronology of the Cahill scam, that the Cahill plasma gasification project is an almost entirely different kettle of fish from the project for which SSA invited expressions of interest. Your conflating of the two projects is therefore inadvertently disingenuous.

    The scope is different.
    The technology is different.
    The scale is different.
    The apparent “tendering” methodology is different.

    Check the now voluminous information on the Cahill deal that is on BU.

    Perhaps what is now needed is for Government to become transparent on its WtE plans and perhaps let the people know exactly what transpired between SSA giving up on the proposed 3-500 tpd facility and the Government’s acceptance of the 1000 tpd Cahill project as is evident from Up-beat 2013 press releases and the facts released by ME Claire Cowan herself.

    But that, of course, is a pipe dream.

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