L-R): Edison Alleyne (Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment), Margot Harvey (Chairman, Sanitation Service Authority), Dr Denis Lowe (Minister of Environment), Clare Cowan (CEO of Cahill Energy), Christopher Sinckler (Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs), Denis Kellman (Minister of Housing, Lands and Rural Development), Senator Darcy Boyce (Minister of Energy in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Caribbean News
However, she acknowledged that a number of other companies are involved in the process. Technip [BU’s emphasis] is an international engineering firm that has done extensive work on the project over the span of the past two years and the company has already done a site visit at Vaucluse – cahill energy website
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Cahill Energy Limited leaked documents (see below) give insight into a contract signed between Cahill Energy Limited and Technip in April 2013. Technip is a global Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) service provider to the energy industries. – see profile. Here is our read of what the memorandum between Cahill Energy and Technip conveys:
The contract netted MECC €650,000.00 or CAN950,000.00 in cash payments in April of 2013.
Although Technip is a large multinational EPC contracting company, it appears to have been clutched by Cahill Energy and Cowan as they [Technip] try very hard to secure the EPC linked to the building of the gasification plant at Vaucluse. The lukewarm response given by the Barbados government in recent weeks to the project begs the question – what financial obligation binds Barbados to agreements signed by four rogue ministers. Concerned Barbadians continue to be optimistic the Prime Minister will address the people on recent Cahill developments before…
Here is a question for CEO of Cahill Energy Clare Cowan – tell us more about the two projects mentioned in the leaked document located in Glasgow and Stara Zagira?
The moral of this the Cahill Scam is that if a large global company can by duped by MECC, so too a few ministers in Barracuda!
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79 responses to “Cahill Barbados SCAM Continues [TECHNIP]”
Caswell Franklyn
I don’t want any more information on Cahill to convince me that indictments should have been drafted long ago.
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St George’s Dragon
2nd document 2 not found
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Gabriel
We will see what the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition ,MA Mottley QC.,speaks on this private resolution before the House and in the name of Her Brittanic Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11.Similarly we look forward to the ensuing debate of Her Majesty’s Loyal Government of Barbados headed by the Prime Minister,FJ Staurt QC.,The truth and nothing but the truth so help you God.
If Stuart has balls he would prorogue Parliament and call an election and catspraddle Mia and the BLP.The Bees will be caught napping and will be minus their dynamic trusty economics guru OSA.
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josh
I cannot vote in Barbados and thus have no particular affiliation to either political party. However, my view at this point is, the people of Barbados are too sexist and homophobic to vote Mia in. My comment is not a reflection upon Mia and her competence but how it is. Calling for an early vote therefore may backfire and reinstate the current bunch unless a more credible opposition is forthcoming.
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Galactic Misfit
What a scam.
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Crusoe
Caswell Franklyn October 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM #
What you said. You are right. It is not rocket science. This thing is practically hilarious if it was not so serious. Bold faced as heck.
But, the arrogance, to think that no one would realise that Cahill whatever-it-is-called-and-however-it-is-setup has nothing to do with the real Canadian company with a good reputation, is mind-boggling.
The only surprise to me however, is that the real Cahill group has not initiated a cease and desist order against this whatever-company, for clearly using its name in what to the uneducated like me, appears to be a passing-off. But I could be wrong, maybe one of the learned lawyers here can enlighten me.
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Gabriel
Josh
That is just the point.Both parties will be forced to bring new candidates.I agree with you on the Mia issue.Strong in her bailiwick but unacceptable in the country as a leader and its nothing to do with competence.The Afro Caribbean got a mindset on certain moral issues,right or wrong it’s almost an unforgiving attitude to certain lifestyles.
The stage is being set nicely for Mia. She has the opportunity to give the government a bigger Cahill black eye.
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Hants
@ David,
This will be a defining moment for Mia.
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Galactic Misfit
Mia will do the whole puppy when Parliament reconvenes.
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NorthernProwler
Lost. The more of these so called leaks I read, the more amazed I get.
This so ‘mickey mouse’ its becomes almost ‘unbelievable’…..I wonder. This large firm is going to pay rebates to Cahill, without first in the document ensuring they get paid? No Fu**ing way. The Advisory Board? That has no power or teeth, just show. And MECC signs this with no date? Surely no lawyer ever reviewed this, which is almost standard operating procedure for large firms.
So on the face of it it looks like she duped Technip into a 3 project deal
And they paid for the pleasure !!!!!!!!!!!
The €650k in 2013 was worth about $C880k which should have been more than enough to get this project moving .
The other 2 projects never existed so Technips rights under this contract ( which is the flimsiest contract I have ever seen ) expire in April of next year.so good luck with working on those jobs Mr Van Slott.
The question is has crazy lady entered into acontract with Technip for the EBEP
A term I’m not familiar with which looks like a precursor to a FEED package for €2.38million which is simply €7.14million ÷ 3 or are they looking to recuperate the whole 7.1 million as loss of revenue? Again good luck with that.
Here we are over 2 1/2 years since this contract was signed and Cahill have nothing to show for the money they got for technips payment to get into the game !!!!
I have never seen anything like this in my career …
How could captains of industry and ministers of government be taken in by this middle aged woman with no visible means of income and Zero track record in the EPC game .
One final ?
Who was the bigger idiot here??
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Crusoe
”Mockingbird October 12, 2015 at 6:02 AM # ”How could captains of industry and ministers of government be taken in ”
Oh PLEASE…. ‘taken in’
Hah, yuh really think yuh dealing with choirboys? More like the ‘what’s in it for me’ brigade.
A lesson to the youngsters reading here.
When you see folks driving big vehicles, large house (s), living large…. don’t envy.
Many of them got it by being shifty…
And what you sew in this life, you reap in the next (if you don’t reap in this one).
So, they don’t really gain anything.
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Mockingbird
@crusoe
Taken in is the wrong way to put it
How did she slip through these companies and government governances ?????
Technip were set to buy a 350 million contract for €650k and you can be sure the €650k was buried in the costs of the job
Sales guys are usually pretty ruthless in trying to secure work but to overtly sign a contract to PAY for this is highly iregular.
Facilating work is one thing being stupid enough to sign a contract with this woman without checking her credentials is absolute nonsence .
The government signing contracts now there’s a “rabbit away”
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Bush Tea
@ Mockingbird
So you are assuming that these large international companies are not just as crooked and as contaminated with schemers as is our government?
There is probably a whole other crooked story there too….
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Mockingbird
Their internal approvals are “usually” more robust than what appears here.
They either though they could amortise their ” contributions and turn it into an equity stake in this project or they plain and simple F’ed UP big time.
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Violet C Beckles
All of those crooks, liars and scumbags in one nice MOST WANTED POSTER , and the POLICE still cant find them and dont know who they are?
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Bajan Taxpayer
If the Government was fooled and taken in by this woman then you can bet that a warrant would already have been issued. It is more likely that it is she who was recruited.
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Willie’s
Bajan Taxpayer
The Government was not fooled. If anything it was Darcy Boyce who told them the basis of the scam and also coached the other Ministers on how to pretend to be have been fooled.
The TRUTH is that BOTH the PM and the MoF have been lying publicly now for YEARS.
..about UWI fees, about CLICO, about Four Seasons, about deals with Bizzy and Maloney, about seeing vote buying…
It is clear that there is NO integrity among that lot…
ANY LEADER OF INTEGRITY WOULD NOW RESIGN – upon having be so blatantly exposed.
shiite man!!
In some countries, he would fall on his sword…. but here it is business as usual.
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Hants
@Bushie, Resign ?…….and give up de chauffeur an de maids an de fetes fuh de visitors an all dt privilage an sweetness?
you is a idiot or wuh !
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Sunshine Sunny Shine
THe Prime Minister, the honourable disrespectful and deceitful speaking rat did not lie. He simply manipulated the truth with articulation and finest. big Differencence
but wunna such hypocrites, for fourteen longggggggg years wunna put up wid lying and thieving and all kinds of corruption and didnt say a dam thing or maybe wunna jjust did not care as long as wunna belly was full.,. wunna dat now find time out of wunna sleep and slumber to talk more shit bout change need a blow torch up wunna a,ss fuh being bold faced liars and double faced hypocrites, eeven the devil find wunna crocodile tears offensive and nauseating,
guh back to sleep do! wunna just a bunch of long mout self serving imbeciles looking freeness
bush shite if you know all that why don.t you and your group of intellectual groons filed a civil /class action law suit against them
under the Constitution you have such a privilege,
but the again you do not have the balls
you can use your 10 point plan as an advantage to prove your case against them
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Artaxerxes
ac October 13, 2015 at 7:40 PM #
“but wunna such hypocrites, for fourteen longggggggg years wunna put up wid lying and thieving and all kinds of corruption and didnt say a dam thing or maybe wunna jjust did not care as long as wunna belly was full….”
Nonsense, AC, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY SOMETHING NOW.
After all, the Democratic Labour Party PROMISED a system of GOOD GOVERNANCE (Item 22 on page 46 of the DLP’s 2008 election manifesto), which included the introduction of ITAL, adherence the recommendations of the Auditor General, “The publication of details of agreements and contracts involving the government and its agencies,” “a declaration of assets by public officials,” and a code of conduct for ministers.”
The manifesto also stated: “Good Governance assures that corruption is minimized, the views of the people are taken into account and that the voices of the most vulnerable members of society are heard in decision-making.” [page 46 DLP 2008 manifesto]
You told us it was “time for a change,” we accepted and voted you into government, because we EXPECTED CHANGE.
And instead what we get?
Borrowed more money that the BLP did in 14 years; manipulation of economic data; similarly to Owen Arthur, Freundel Stuart has continued to cuss people; CAHILL; Auditor General completely ignored; no declaration of assets; no code of conduct for ministers; no ITAL; no publication of contracts; and a continuance of corruption. In 7 years, the DLP has done just as much damage to Barbados as the BLP did in the 14 years you alluded to.
NO CHANGE, AC, THE STATUS QUO HAS REMAINED THE SAME.
But then again, politicians always say “government is a continuum,” so the DLP has continued “wid lying and thieving and all kinds of corruption.” And you are a hypocrite for refusing to acknowledge this fact.
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Frustrated Businessman
Except Artaxes, what they have also done is lost control, lost direction and stopped facilitation. With the BLP there was business facilitation; the economy boomed because everyone was getting ahead. With FooFoo’s crew no-one gets ahead but them. Businesses in BDS have turtled; pulled arms, legs and head in to wait out the mismanagement. BDS’s worst previous two recessions lasted two years; we are now in the seventh year of Fumble’s Fukkery. Stinkliar can talk all the shite he wants, there will be no economic turnaround in BDS until this crew are gone. Until then, the business opportunities belong to the bribers and lackies.
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RastaR
@FB
Here Here!!!!
They have been Fear mongering and stealing from the people for longer than I care to think about .
Roll on next week
FB you clearly and unwittingly made my point without much effort or even trying to explain or excuse the illegal and illicit behaviour done by the blp govt but as an individual you were willing to accept those ends justifiable enough to support the means.You ought to be ashamed of self especially knowing that a great amount of what happened under the blp have now cause great harm to the Barbados economy and its debt burden which all must pay.
FB
It’s a simple word Stuart doesn’t understand.CONFIDENCE.Investors will not put their money in this Barbados with Stuart as the PM.The fact is the Eager 11 realized it long ago and the discerning among the people knew it based on his performance while he waited on the dead King to expire.Excuses from morning from Mr Donothing.
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Frustrated Businessman
AC, surely even you realise than blaming the BLP eight years into DLP rule is too stupid for even the most uneducated among your following to still believe? Get off the crack for your childrens’ sake!
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Frustrated Businessman
Gabriel, even the current DLP lot aren’t stupid enough to take FooFoo into the next election. I predict a retirement on health grounds next year.
Even ac understand that setting an agenda is important to the message.
In as much as the BLP members and their foot soldiers would prefer all to forget their role in lack of preparedness for a rainy day
Well yes FB that rainy day came and with all the previous years of decadence and happy times there were few plugs available to stop the leaks.
With burdening debt the govt had to take steps to control a financial tidal wave cause by overspending and waste which was brought to shore
With growing concern the most popular solution offered by the NLP was Privatisation a solution which was rejected by the populace and cost them the election
Since then no other solution has been proffered with an exception to cry and bellyache
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Bush Tea
@ Frustrated B
Get off the crack for your children’s sake!
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Boss, AC is even more stupid when off the crack….
Thank God for small mercies
AC, that is the smartest thing I have ever read from you.
Yes, the answer to putting BDS back on competitive track was privatisation. And yes, new owners would have streamlined or broken up corrupt statutory corporations. And yes, the unemployables that have been employed in these places for decades would have suffered job losses as a result of improved efficiencies. And yes, they knew that and voted for more Gov’t freeness based on the election platform lies from the DLP of ‘no layoffs’.
Unfortunately for all the slackers, it is still the only solution to get gov’t spending under control and when it comes later this year and next year, it too will cost you the election.
But if it had happened five years ago, we wouldn’t be in the state we are in now which has not yet reached bottom.
I think what people like you fail to realize is that the business people in Barbados who drive this economy are not as stupid as the average voter and we don’t rely on election platform, central bank or minister of finance bullshit to guide our decision making.
And like I posted here over five years ago, there will be no increased business activity under this DLP gov’t other than by the bribers. That means there will be no more corporate tax income. That means VAT and Land tax will have to continue to increase to keep the slackers employed and the corruption funded. That means the average voter will continue to suffer and suffer more in the next 18 months before the collapse of our economy.
Like it or not, your gov’t created this whirlpool.
Somewhat off-topic. Just heard of the death of yet another elderly CLICO policyholder whose wife now does not know if she will be able to keep their house. Hope you are having a nice day Parris!
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Artaxerxes
What a coincidence, the DLP has not presented any solutions to Barbados’ economic situation, other than manipulate the economic data to give the impression that the economy was recovering.
Unfortunately for the DEMS, the IMF discovered their bluff.
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Artaxerxes
According to the Attorney General, starting next month, Stuart will hold monthly media briefings.
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Mockingbird
The IMF on one hand and BU on the other
This Cahill Scam will go down in history as the straw that broke their back.
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Hants
“THE NEW SAM LORD’s Castle Barbados will be a Wyndham Grand Resort.
Yes the Privatisation gimmick still stuck in the craw of the blp foot soldiers
Since it seems that the foot soldiers confidence level for such a remedy remains at an all time high
Is there a possibility that Privatisation would become another political plank in the up coming election in light of the fact that after six and a half years nothing that the blp leadership has said or done has not been persuasive in the efforts to bring down the govt.
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Artaxerxes
ac October 14, 2015 at 12:44 PM #
“after six and a half years nothing that the blp leadership has said or done has not been persuasive in the efforts to bring down the govt.”
The government has been doing a fantastic job bringing themselves down.
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Artaxerxes
The government has been in discussion with the BWU over an issue pertaining to the outsourcing of certain functions of the BRA.
Outsourcing, to Mark Moloney, the duties performed by former NCC and Beautify Barbados employees is privatization.
I hope you know that “outsourcing” is a fancy word for privatization.
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Frustrated Businessman
Art, you are right except that the DLP’s version of ‘outsourcing’ gets the job done by the private sector lackies while still employing public sector workers to do nothing.
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pieceuhderockyeahright
As much as someone will probably be able to show the “benefits” (euphemism for KIckbacks) that accrue and have accrued to Lashes as a result of this special breed of Privatization, ONE SIMPLY CANNOT FIND FAULT WITH THE ABSOLUTE, METICULOUS CONDITION OF THE ABC HIGHWAY from Grantley Adams International Airport to Mile and a Quarter.
Work effected by 1/100th of the NCC staff compliment, IN LESS TIME, and consistently immaculate.
It just goes to underscore the point that Mr. Caswell Franklyn and others here are saying, it is not that we do not have the rules to regulate what is done or the people to effect those rules properly, but when we put the management of those affairs in the hands of Dufusses we blish to get jobby pun we clothes…
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