Questions for Clair Cowan of Cahill Energy and Government of Barbados
Submitted by Kammie Holder, Advocacy Director, Future Centre Trust
Clare Cowan, CEO of Cahill Energy
Tuesday October 27th 2015 will forever be etched in my memory for two reasons. One, it was the day members of the DLP who gained the government on a ticket of transparency and integrity squandered the mandate earned.
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The second, was the failure of the prime minister as head of cabinet and leader of country to invite alternatives to Cahill Plasma Gasification in treating to waste reduction.
I am extremely shocked that my friend Mr James Paul is quoted as saying “Bajans must welcome new technology.” Never knew Bajans feared technology, perhaps Mr Paul never took time to read the Cahill MOU, Implementation Agreement or Power Purchase Agreement or for that matter researched Plasma Gasification. Let me state for the record, environmental justice does not exist in Barbados if we consider Pegwell Boggs and the dust complaints of Checker Hall residents are considered.
I will take the time to present some pros and cons for the benefit of members of parliament who have followed four blind men to wreak havoc on Barbados financially, environmentally and socially.
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Cahill Energy Barbados seems to be a pot of gold despite no plant exist of the proposed 1000 tons daily for this new technology.
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Why all the operational Plasma Gasification Plants which are in operation are but demonstration plants?
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Why if this technology is so great and is a Harvard invention why no commercial plasma gasification plants exist.
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Mr Chris Sinckler is true that Cahill will be guaranteed $120M per year as free cash flow thanks to deleveraging for the first 5 years despite capital expenditure of $180M yearly, thus can you explain the maths?
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Donville Inniss as Minister of Commerce, are you aware From May 15th, 2014 – the start of “Power Purchase Agreement”, price charged to consumers for electricity will increase every 3 years to reflect the increasing operational cost?
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Why would Cahill burn GOB waste for $30 when hazardous watch can fetch $250 per ton?
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Who monitors air quality and who will in the future?
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What are the specific protocols for monitoring nanoparticles and PM2.5?
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Is it true the PM2.5 and nanoparticles cannot be filtered by lungs are linked to blood cancer and scarring of lungs.
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How will the 9 tons of Caustic Soda be treated to eliminate contamination of ground water and marine life?
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Will the residents of Sandy Lane serviced by the Molyneaux Aquifer experience greater water outage due to Cahill Water wells?
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Who builds a factory upwind of residents that will have to flare at times?
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Dioxins, Carbon Monoxide, NOx, acids, chlorides, fluorides, sulphates, phosphates, sodium and calcium?
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Which GOB department possess the protocols to benchmark Cahill?
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Name a plasma gasification plant that has met stipulated emission control limits?
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Can the Minister of Finance tell Barbadians if it’s true no commercial Plasma Gasification Plants exist in the US due to stringent environmental requirements?
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Can any person involve in the Cahill negotiations tell Barbadians if finder’s fees will be paid and to whom?
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Are there any laws that require all ministers to conduct government business using only assigned work emails?
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Can the Cahill Plasma Gasification, Dodd’s Prison, Hardwood, Pierhead Project and 3S stand up to international scrutiny of good governance?
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Where will the bottom ash be landfilled and who will monitor chemical composition?
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Will Cahill Energy Barbados provide cheaper electricity that the current provider BL&P?
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Who will maintain baseload during the Cahill 35 days off grid maintenance period?
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Can the Minister of Energy or Commerce tell Barbadians if Cahill will be regulated by the FCT in lieu of its guaranteed 2.5%
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Dr Denis Lowe, can you tell Barbadians if the waste falls below (12- 14MJ/kg) who will pay the 5 to 14% increased processing fees.
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Is it true if the GOB is unable to supply waste and biomass in accordance to the contract, it has to compensate CEB for its losses, including losses in revenue as per the “Power Purchase Agreement?
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Will the facility be a major source of hazardous air pollutants (HAP)?
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Does the Implementation Agreement include the process for adopting a new waste separation plan with public participation?
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What are allowable excess emissions from malfunctions?
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Is not Barbados part of international treaties which prohibit transportation of port waste outside ports?
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Can the self appointed Czar of Ship Waste Hon Denis Kellman who will monitor the ships lining up to provide Cahill with garbage?
Sad that the proponents of a questionable $700M Plasma Gasification Plant believe the garbage they spoke in parliament.
Barbados Underground 
ac October 30, 2015 at 5:15 AM #
“Mr. Holder You seem to be fighting a two fold battle………
Therefore govt is at lost in the manner with which you…. have proceeded to cast negativity yet have no problem doing the bidding of a privilege class……”
ac,
Like you, I have read every comment that Kammie Holder has written on this blog.
If I were asked to produce a synopsis of Mr. Holder’s contribution to the national debate on Cahill and the WTE project, I would say that he has highlighted some of the major risks that this project creates to living, and unborn Barbadians.
Given the fact that Barbados is only a small piece of rock, and given the existence of the real and dangerous risks inherent in the WTE project, Mr. Holder has recommended that we explore less risky, and already proven techniques to solve our garbage and energy problems. At least for now.
Mr. Holder’s approach does not come over to me as casting negativity. It comes over, to me, as a man doing what the people of Barbados have paid the ministers of government to do – think and come up with solutions, to our problems, that do not put our safety and well-being at risk.
Additionally, I have not seen any evidence to support the accusation that Mr. Holder is advancing these arguments in order to do “the bidding of” or create benefits for, a “privilege class”.
ac, you are speaking as a representative of the Government, and you are letting Barbadians know that the Government is diametrically opposed to what Kammie Holder stands for.
Since we clearly know what Kammie Holder stands for, all we have to do is to look at the position that is diametrically opposed to Kammie’s stance, and we will clearly see the true position being adopted by the Government.
Mr. Holder stands for minimizing long term risks. Those who are pushing for this Cahill WTE project, and who are opposed to Mr. Holder, are interested primarily in maximizing personal short-term financial gain. This is the position the Government is supporting.
If we were to get a list of the most lucrative contracts handed out by the government, and the amount of white-collar crime that is being committed in Barbados and going un-punished, we would be forced to conclude that the Government of Barbados is “doing the bidding of a privilege class.” You are therefore trying to deceitfully blame Kammie for a “wrong” that the government is perpetrating.
As for those working Barbadians whose incomes are being taxed away, those young promising minds that cannot pay UWI fees, those broke and desperate individuals who are not working and have no hope of finding a job, those young couples who are ready to start a family, but cannot find an affordable home, you have eloquently told everyone of them how the Government of Barbados feels about them by shouting in their faces the following words:
“Govt cannot be worried or bother about what levels of intolerance or pressure is being burden on you in order to implement meaningful policies”
If government’s policies are not “meaningful” to these people, who are they meaningful to?
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Do not give currency to idle detractors for they must sing for their supper.
@Peter Gilkes are you there?
@Alvin Cummins, do let Paul Bynoe take you on a tour of his plant. Perhaps, you would be amazed that B’s Recycling has a piece of purpose built German equipment which would have eaten cars for recycling, grind tires for tire crumb for road construction, extrude the wire from the tires for export and produce biodiesel from tires.
Ask Denis Lowe, for every month Mr Bynoe paying back a mutimillion loan for equipment lying idle.
Discussion of personalities is a sure sign of weakness. Lets stick to the issue of poor governance for Cahill is bigger than all of us and stretches across future generations.
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PODRYR
You an de grandson are getting really creative.
In case you missed it here is a link to a video featuring Mr. Integrity himself.
Barbados: How ‘paradise’ stays clean
Just doing the right thing!!!!!!!!!
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quote ”@ Well Well & Consequences October 30, 2015 at 11:45 AM # I have spent the last 2 weeks trying to wrap my head around this Cahill brouhaha …..Being a Canadian company they would have already tried all of the Angel Investors and gotten a NO, or they would have the money….Will we soon be hearing of RCMP involvement..; unquote
Well Well, I suggest you search the blog for previous discussions of Cahill Barbados.
It is NOT a Canadian company and is actually a Guernsey registered company.
The Guernsey company has been discussed as nauseum on the blog, with the one issue that , it does not appear that proof of the principals of that company is available.
This is so critical to the matter that I am shocked, as I noted above, that people are so engrossed in discussing the WTE plant, but not at the legal structure of the deal.
Bear in mind too, it is fairly obvious, that Cahill Barbados has NOTHING to do with the esteemed and well known Canadian company Cahill, the one noted in this link.
http://www.cahill.ca/markets-we-serve/#PowerGeneration
A simple phone call, would likely clear that up, if you are not sure of what to believe.
Likely whomever created the Guernsey company did not realise that they were using a name that is well known in the energy field. Bit of an error, that.
N’est pas?
And in business, knowing your client is particularly important, for many matters, including protecting oneself from unscrupulous individuals and for other regulatory purposes, such as anti-money laundering.
So, to KNOW who the principals of this company are, is critical to the issue.
Any business or government body, MUST, know those with whom they are dealing.
Is it basic, but essential.
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@Kammie Holder, ”Cahill is bigger than all of us and stretches across future generations.”
Indeed, well said.
It is not ‘just’ about a WTE plant. It is not ‘just’ about Cahill.
It is about the thought process, culture of actions, that brought us to this point.
A point where it would appear that decisions have been made before appropriate planning assessment, before appropriate due diligence, appropriate communication with the relevant parties, including the public, the citizens of our nation.
THAT is the bigger issue. And of course, embedded practices and ethics have much greater ramifications that for ‘just’ the one deal.
We are at a junction in the road to our future. A critical one.
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Crusoe….that is another problem with the Cahill, Guernsy registered company person or persons involved in this scheme, in the beginning if I remember correctly most people were led to believe it was connected with Canadian interest, before BU and others started researching and found out that it was a tangled mess of misdirection.
I am familiar with the Jersey Islands and why companies feel comfortable registering there, most of these companies are not reputable to say the least. That makes most people wonder even more why GOB feels it necessary to involve the island and people with such unsavory characters and not want to tell the people why.
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Well Mr Blackman
Unequivocally the WHO and the EPA holds Barbados govt to a higher standard based on agreements and treatise which barbados signed and agreed upon and with considerable hard stipulations including penalties if Barbados revokes,there is where it starts and where it ends
I therefore must say that based on such treaties which are non-negotiable or trade -able Barbados stands alone to be committed to regard and not disregard to respect and not disrespect all and not part of.
Therefore by acceptance alone of these standards govt would be foolish to partake at a level of high risk that subjects and mets out punishment to its people knowing the resulting ramifications from both sides with inflammatory or caustic implications
Mr, Blackman i am not here to argue Mr Holder concerns but the concerns of those carpet baggers who have attached their own agendas ,
For those of us who have given a second look to what has become of this issues an issue which has barreled down several highways and byways in the name of advocacy with relentless vigor, One cannot help but to seriously take pause and consider with much regard the invasion of the carpet baggers as a timely source to be viewed with questionable suspicion ,
Not since barbados has been a little rock have anyone seen a tidal wave of “so called interest “wash up on the shores crying the sky is falling and in abject fear
Not even when there was a need for such a cry of fear during natural disasters affecting people/s lives and the environment have any one seen or heard of this special interest group coming from far off lands to give aid or save the environment
Mr, Blackman You might see one representative called Mr Holder However i see many representations and representatives of mr. Holder all singing their individual song and Mr holder being caught up in a whirlwind of massive deception doing their bidding
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i can assure (ALL) that when all is said and done Mr Holder influence would had no significant effect ,The govt would have successfully barreled down the road with an effective green energy program and rightfully so.
the carpet baggers as for them a raging tide would have cleanse their souls washing back to sea placing them on a sea shore called North a place where they rightfully belong and empty handed of course,
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The plant will never run for a longer period than a year in any case. It is an untested technology which is not suitable for commercial use. However, it is more likely that the plant will never be built at all. What kind of investor is putting so much money into a prototype? If the plant goes wrong, the investors will bear the risk.
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The purpose of the project is to scam Bajans read consulting fees.
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Crusoe wrote, “Likely whomever created the Guernsey company did not realise that they were using a name that is well known in the energy field. Bit of an error, that.”
Lesson 101 in selecting a company name. Google it.
Like if I want to start a company called Bajan Brassbowls I would have to make a deal with Bushie. lol
Then check to see if the .com name is available.
http://whois.domaintools.com/brassbowls.com
Its friday night and at my advanced age I have nothing better to do by but write shiiiite and listen to Fleur East and Miles Davis and Chic and……..
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pieceuhderockyeahright October 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM #
“@ SSS
Please do no wear nuffin dat show your wrist, ankles or Dem Nandoris causing dat may only cause de ole man to experience de Rapture before…….de time….”
pieceuhderockyeahright,
Not “maliciousing” in your business, but it sounds as if something is definitely going to happen to you. Prematurely.
Worse case scenario is that you may GO before your time.
On the other hand…..
I can only wish the best “outcome” for you.
LOL
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@David, Kammie et al.
Mt Stinkeroo used to be a hole in the ground; this hole was well over 100 ft. deep. The “mountain” is now well over three hundred feet above ground…which is on a hill over 800ft. above sea level. So Mt. Stinkeroo is at least 100ft. Above sea level. Where else are you going to put that amount of garbage in Barbados; especially since we are now bigger generators of garbage than twenty years ago.
A plasma Gasification plant will destroy metal, cement blocks, tyres and separated waste. SBRC was designed, tendered for and engaged to do the recycling that Kammie talks about. They are already doing this. It however does not handle tyres, cars, trucks,; especially heavy duty trucks, and yet the country generates (at least SBRC’s construction was designed and built to separate and recycle over five hundred tons of garbage per day. Well Well, the largest Cruise ships; Oasis of the Seas, Norwegian epic accommodate three to four thousand tourists each., each trip. There are over ten or fifteen of these, etc, larger vessels operating the Caribbean routes daily. They have to get rid of this garbage when ever the check into port; they can’t discharge it at sea. If arrangements can be negotiated to handle that garbage, that is money they save and from which the country can benefit. There is MONEY in the solid waste business. The amount that B’s recycling can generate is small potatoes compared to the possibilities out there.The cars in Toronto that go to the junk yards here are crushed, and shipped to the steel making plants. A Plasma Gasification Plant, functions like a Blast furnace except that the blast furnaces usually use coal to power the furnace. In a Plasma Gasification plant electric arcs produce the temperature to reduce the metal to practically nothing except a glass-like solid that goes out the bottom of the “furnace”. This heat destroys dioxins, and other dangerous gases.
There is a “hole” at Vaucluse presently that is over 80 feet deep that is already being used by SBRC; in essence it is a landfill that is being “filled”. Are we going to wait until it reaches the height of Mt. Stinkeroo, and then start looking for another solution, or are we going to take the steps now?
Check Sweden, I think they use this process. Will check again.
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@Spectator,
That is why they are called VENTURE Capitalists. Ask Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (he is dead now) or many of those from silicon valley who started out with an idea and an untested prototype in their garages. Read of the difficulties the inventor of the television had. Oh ye of little faith.
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@Crusoe,
With regard to your comments about incorporation: “… It is NOT a Canadian company and is actually a Guernsey registered company….”
Are you aware of the terms and conditions of the invitation to Tender for expressions of interest to “Build, Operate, Transfer, Waste to the Energy Plant at the solid waste manage,net complex in St. Thomas ? some of them were:
…”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 C as of the date of submission Company. 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. Certificate must be dated.
Any firm incorporated outside Barbados that is eventually awarded a Contract by the Government of Barbados must register in Barbados under the Companies Act of Barbados”…
Are you aware that the date of this invitation to Tender was originally published on June 11 2010, it was updated on June 15 2010, and the closing date was closed on August 16. 2010?
How is it that there is all this hullabaloo, now in September and October 2015. FIVE YEARS LATER. Early on, I submitted a copy of the original Tender Notice to BU.
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ac October 30, 2015 at 9:15 PM #
“Well Mr Blackman….
Therefore by acceptance alone of these standards govt would be foolish to partake at a level of high risk that subjects and mets out punishment to its people knowing the resulting ramifications….”
ac,
Of course you should know better than to present such a line of argument to me in order to support your case.
Government accepted international standards with respect to how insurance companies should be regulated and protected. And yes, government was indeed “foolish to partake at a level of high risk” that subjected and meted out punishment, gripe, grief, and agony to CLICO policyholders. It knew the resulting ramifications of its actions, yet it did not care.
What has happened to make government care all of a sudden? A few “crooks” got rich quickly through the great CLICO robbery. Your argument does not convince me that the same thing will not happen with Cahill.
I am an independently thinking Barbadian. I am not representing any interest, and I have not taken a cent from a fella. I simply want to see programmes being put in place to benefit Barbadians and to help develop Barbados. There are thousands of others like me. How come, given all of our concerns, government cannot speak to us, educate us about this project, and try to allay our fears? How come that task has been left only to Clair Cowan to handle at a “spot” meeting, and you ac, to do your best on BU?
Do you really believe that those are the actions of a caring, responsible government?
Barbadians are voicing their genuine concerns, and you and the government can only concern yourselves about “carpet baggers”, and “special interest group coming from far off lands”?
So, looking through your and the Government’s eyes, Barbadians are either stupid, or have been bought by the “privilege class”? A class you and the government have created?
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@ the intelligent wring AC
please I beg you can you tell Alvin, talk shite Cummins to stop writing on this blog please. I am very close to breaking my promise to my peeps. I cannot handle any more of this pretensive fraud. Please Please please and I will be good. I actually upvoted one of your contributions that made sense. Please Alvin Cummins irks me to the core only because I know what he is. A two face hypocrite with a make belief agenda.
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If Cyber- Bullying isn’t a criminal offence on the books of Barbados, then it ought be because some people think that their are liberty to get on social- media and level threats at others without suffering the consequences of they actions.
It is about the most primitive of way possible to get another person to THINK and ACT as you do because in your mind, free-thought and self-determination have no place in a public discourse of this nature.
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Good Morning Mr, Blackman
The line of argument in reference to treaties and agreements , is perfectly and correctly positioned to the present govt
Certainly you are not being deliberate or clueless to be unaware that all of what happened and which formed the catalyst and final downfall of Clico took place under the past blp govt
Of Course you are not using the errors of the Blp govt to guarantee as an assurance and to cross reference as plausible examples one of importance to which a defining moment of proof should apply to future govts
Should we as a society not be cautious in our steps and not look back in the past for examples ,,Yes i believe we would be foolish not to do so ,
However looking back in the past should also be a teacher and cautionary foot note in avoidance,
The present govt has been cautious too cautious in making decision as many here on BU can attest to with an attachment of being perceived as slow and tedious in decision making
Hence against the backdrop of past errors one can argue that the present govt are now wise in their choice by simply using legitimate rules and guidelines which can be timely but effective in making the correct decision
Therfore i submit to you Mr, Blackman and without any fear that the present govt has so far by actions demonstrated an ability of movement to proceed with caution on all matters that govern the well being of this nation which may well be a lesson learned from the errors made by past govt with an assurance of holding fast to rules and guidelines which limits and prohibits but guides and dictates for good governance,
Those who now are using the lessons of fear to dictate and stagnate are foolish in their endeavors for fear retards and disturbs and a measure to distract when growth is necessary
An error which All must avoid.
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Cummins October 30, 2015 at 11:04 PM #
A Certificate of Incorporation alone is not adequate due diligence, nor does it explain who the PRINCIPALS of the company actually are.
As the documents shown, including such certificate on this blog, the principals are still unknown to the public. And neither do we have any evidence that the principals are known to the Government.
Again, unless the people of Barbados know who the PRINCIPALS of the company are, all of the discussion is moot as the project is running in a grey area, an area that without the full and complete due diligence, is unacceptable in this current regulatory environment and against accepted standards for due diligence.
As for why there is this current ‘hullabaloo’, obviously because most people, understandably, misconstrued, justificably, that Cahill Barbados was part of the esteemed Cahill group of Canada, having ‘assumed’ (however dangerous that is), that Government were entering into a contract with parties that they had done adequate due diligence on.
Additionally, five years ago, this Cahill thing was not known well to the public, the extent of the entry of arrangements into this ‘idea’ only became known to the general public a long while after that.
Why is THAT?
The casual observer might get the impression that this ‘deal’ was driven under the cover of the night, without knowing the details and the facts.
And there are not enough details and facts available to the citizen of Barbados, to drive an affirmation of the ‘arrangement’, even at this ‘late’ stage.
Quite a circumstance.
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@Crusoe
You should add also a key requirement to prequalifying a vendor or whatever you prefer to classify Cahill, financial standing/business reputation/track record is a key requirement.
@Walter
Please use your good intellect to add value to the blog instead of slamming your head in a wall built with yardfowl mix..
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MR. blog master i cannot help but view with disdain your temperament loaded with arrogance in the way with which you openly express your opinion to direct others point of view
Then to use same arrogance with full throttle explicitly to abuse and slammed those comments or commentators with which you disagree SAD but true
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You are a DLP yardfowl par excellence just like a few others on this blog.
We know you all even though we tolerance thine hignorance for a while..
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Alvin Cummins October 30, 2015 at 6:19 PM #
“What happens with the wrecked cars that can never be driven again? Have you ever visited Hamilton and had a look at the Blast furnaces that scrap metal is dropped into to become steel to make the same cars again, and the trucks that are turned into stel I beams? What happens to these “scraps” in Barbados? What can be done with them. How long can these things be accumulated in Barbados?All this is possible with a PLASMA Gasification Plant. I say no more.”
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Alvin Cummins, still waiting on a response to my question ” are you saying that the old cars and trucks and scarp metal will be put into the Cahill PLASMA Gasification Plant?”
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ac October 31, 2015 at 6:23 AM #
“Good Morning Mr, Blackman
ALL of what happened and which formed the catalyst and final downfall of Clico took place under the past blp govt”
ac,
As Bajans would say: “Lord Have Mercy!”
David Thompson, come and carry some of your thieves with you, wherever you are.
LOL.
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@ Walter
David Thompson, come and carry some of your thieves with you, wherever you are.
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David Thompson shiite!!
His ass is possibly too hot right now to come for them, but the fella called “KARMA” is never too busy for the job….
Bushie humbly suggests that you digest Psalms 37 …and reflect on such previous ‘high flyers’ as Sanford, Jack Warner and the FIFA millionaire top brass….
In fact, Bushie would STRONGLY recommend this Psalms as your THEME for your return to Bridgetown … 🙂
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Mr. Blog master as a matter of record I will resist and desist from replying to your insane and asinine annoyances
Sir and by all means remember your goal enshrined in the BU motto place directly above the comment box
Need I say more.Have a great day Sir
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Good, a reprieve!
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David October 31, 2015 at 7:18 AM #
“@Walter
Please use your good intellect to add value to the blog instead of slamming your head in a wall built with yardfowl mix.”
David,
Good advice.
However, using ac’s writing, I have just taken a couple of minutes off to refresh and reinforce a few facts:
1- Government is doing the bidding, and looking after the interest, of the privileged class.
2- The Cahill WTE “scam” is being visited upon Barbadians to provide short-term wealth for a few “crooks” at the taxpayers’ expense.
3. Some members of the BLP and DLP “stole” CLICO’s policyholders’ money.
These reinforced facts might come in handy when voters are trying to make up their minds in the next election.
I assure you that the conversation has now come to an end.
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@ac, morning. As a ex military I am sure you are aware of best practices when it comes to procurement. In addition, you know my questions have much merit. Thus to derail the topic from poor governance and transparency on Cahill to me is poor debate. There comes a time when you must say to your party they doing shite aka waste.
@Dompey, you are true to form as you hop from party to party and use your anonymity to attack persons rather that call for better governance. As a former business owner you know what corruption in the form of thieving does to a company far less a country. Are you getting a cut of the $131M? The directors of the Future Centre Trust are not paid one red cent as volunteers. Neither do we take bribes for all monies given are project specific and must be accounted for. We don’t want any of Claire Cowan money either.
@Carson Cadogan, have not seen you recently and please don’t let our differences of opinion destroy our friendship. De fellas doing shite on Cahill and it will not go away even if I die. FATCA is best thing in our favor. In 2018 there is no guarantee either the BLP or DLP will win the government. The so call monied backers are fed up.
@Alvin Cummins, it’s unbelievable you are an intervenor. Why do you skirt around the questions? You are ill informed on recycling in Barbados and what plans were in train. The Minister of Environment is also very aware the expertise and equipment is on island to divert waste from landfill and legislative curb side recycling will enforce such.
Sad you believe the garbage you posit while ignoring the governance issue and a lack of transparency on Cahill. Why the hell would the GOB enter into an agreement that provides more expensive electricity?
The other detractors are not worth the energy to respond, just idle noise!.
Peter Gilkes are you there, say something.
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Mr. Blackman my stamp of approval is based on the performance of PM Stuart who has held reigns of govt for the past six years to which he was appointed by David Thompson and subsequently reelected by the sound and prolific judgement of the people of Barbados.
The analysis which you proffer as an argument to stain or blemish is an over extension to insinuate and to classified with mischievous intent
Again I must remind you and all blp operatives that to strategize using the character of DT was a failed strategy and one which the citizens of Barbados rejected at the voting booth as sufficient not to re elect the Freundel Stuart administration
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Correction”as insufficient not to re-elect the Freundel Stuart administration.
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@ David
Good, a reprieve!
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What reprieve what!!??
AC is employed to write shiite…
LOL
No shiite …no pay….
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Mr. Holder where have I derail. On the contra there have been an unlimited amount of articles on the Cahill issue on BU stating and overstating others opinion on the subject of Cahill
What I gauged and have done is to give my opinion directly towards outside influence with special and self serving interest to derail govts program in green energy
Using mechanism to flogged hurt or punished parties or induviduals involved
Far from it to take away such a”sport”from a privilege few.
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Those who inflict pain on the weak weep like puppies when justice arrives for forgiveness.
The BLP has 3S and the DLP Cahill which all lacked good governance and transparency.
Claire Cowan has an idea that just an annuity she wants to collect on.
Port waste is not to leave port so how will they get it to St Thomas?
GOB has given Cahill a guarantee to purchase all electricity from them which will be sold to BL&P which with price be increase every 3 years to reflect inflation.
The protectionist party politics between the B and D. Unfortunately the two maximum leaders have kept their subjects in line despite governance concerns.
Our political system has failed us because we have allowed while selling vote for theatrics.
Are there anymore Maria Agard’s around to stand up to their leader?
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@Kammie
The BLP had Jonathon Danos and the DLP has Clare Cowan the difference is that the people booted the BLP out of office expecting a different course of action. These episodes, like a recurring decimal, should convince even the dullard – note yardfowls are lower on the totem pole – the system is rotten.
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@Ac, Cahill is not green energy its greenwashing. Plasma Gasification produces toxins such as dioxin and the 10% post gasification toxic residue needs to be landfilled. Thus what’s the biological carrying capacity of our soil with my t porous limestone.
Imagine, Claire Cowan said citizens can monitor the air quality in the absence of a monitoring department. Are we to take this project serious? Don’t answer.
Why have Denis Lowe failed to engage the country including UWI on the sustainable alternatives.
Unfortunately during the 3S time under the BLP social media was not at a mature stage. In 2015 every citizen will prosecute those involved in Cahill thanks to social media.
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Note is made that what constituted the main thrust of the FCT earlier this week regarding “the private email of the ministers appearing in the various Cahill email correspondence” has been abandoned for what it was, IDLE NOISE.
LOL ( I get that from one uh de great grans)
When your team sits down to send out “correspondence of interest” and hard hitting intelligence, to the general public, DO NOT UTILIZE the reasoning skills of the idjits amongst you, particularly as it relates to things that you do not know about.
Ask my grandson or Chris Halsall-like persons for email analysis and Toutapp trails, you know james Bond technology.
Wunna FCT people either too bright or too Duncy.
Look at The Blogmaster message above pun de right Say No To Cahill WtE. Simple and to de pint…
Lookah whu somebody write fuh you “Cahill Energy Barbados seems to be a pot of gold despite no plant exist of the proposed 1000 tons daily for this new technology.”
Whu does dat mean fuh de common man?? Anyone with a semblance of common sense would brek it down fuh we Bajans, whu dat mean??
Is it true the PM2.5 and nanoparticles cannot be filtered by lungs are linked to blood cancer and scarring of lungs.?
Dis is whu wunna should be talking bout all ovah Bulbados: The Effects of Fine Particulate Matter on Lungs as seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-gF0BPaKqE
All dis udder donkey dat wunna espousing heah ent mean kershyte…Holder
Show people whu caustic soda is, leh de residents in de community see whu Caustic Soda does do when it contact water and Aluminum
Wunna hoity toity peeples at FCT jes in dis fuh de glory, it does not mean a donkey to Harold nor Vivianne and even if that was what drove them I would believe that the PRO would be mounting a Public Relations Campaign against the output of the plant ONE THAT THE COMMON MAN COULD READ AND UNDERSTAND!!
Name a plasma gasification plant that has met stipulated emission control limits? I would have thought that you would not ask the minister one shyte bout those which ahve met the standards bout would have highlighted those that have not and detail what those are
Click to access thermal-treatment-of-waste-guidelines_2014.pdf
If Englant and Scotland still contending wid dese standards whu bout we who Barbados National Standards Institute still doan know how to grade de Cement dat COW williams sending to build de overpasses at 2015??
Dem tings will rest pun de average mand mind is you show dat we ent got de capacity to deal with dese tings, but in simple language so dat all de peeple in de real real rumshops kin tell Kellman and Donville and Downlowe dat dem pissioning we scvunts and doan come fuh no vote in 2018.
All de same dem dun know “Not One Effing Seat!!”
Stop focusing pun stupid ass questions bout “any laws that require all ministers to conduct government business using only assigned work emails” and do whu wunna does pretend wunna capable uh doing to the IDB and GEF man…
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@ Due Diligence regarding your October 30, 2015 at 8:26 PM post
In case you missed it here is a link to the video that you sent me featuring Mr. Integrity himself.
I doan know bout where you get yours but you is a high tech sleuth and would be able to research de veracity uh one video ovah de nex one
I was did tell de granson dat he shudda gone and get a job at CBC Reporting Lies..
You know anybody at de Nation? Since Vivianne and Harold gone I was did looking to get a pick and I tink dat de fack dat i doan publish lascivious news like Sankey Price I should still get a likkle piece, whu you tink DD??
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Alvin….export mount stinkeroos excess garbage to Germany, let them pay for the shipping,they would love to have it, what’s so hard about that. Then Bajans won’t have to worry about some fly-by-night company registered in the channel islands usurping their very limited precious water, poisoning their air or stealing their money via the greedy and dishonest politicians.
I am surprised that the bogus Cahill has not yet been sued by the real Cahill for some type of infringement re the use of their name.
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Dompey October 31, 2015 at 5:16 AM #
If Cyber- Bullying isn’t a criminal offence on the books of Barbados, then it ought be because some people think that their are liberty to get on social- media and level threats at others without suffering the consequences of they actions.
Are you referring to me? Because if you are, let me duly inform you that I have not threatened Alvin Cummins only hurl a number of disparaging insults at him. I provided some information on Alvin Cummins and I got more too. Now if you referring to me, you can provide your name and I am sure I would be able to open your closet secrets if you got any. Understand me Dompey, I do not like frauds and pretenders or any person who benefits from the suffering of others. I do not like anyone who supports skulduggery, hypocrisy, liars, pretenders, wrong doers in the name of bettering themselves, their families and do not give a wuk up or squeeze pooch about any body else. Are you one of them Dompey, hmm?
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Christ, AC, even I know what dioxin is. Alvin, you should be ashamed I am going to tell Cyril.
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Paul Connett sends greeting and will respond to Dr Denis Lowe’s calling him a blacklisted quack in the fullness of time.
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How Cahill get the $15M revenue guaranteed monthly
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So kammie you must realised that the green energy program is a comprehensive international program which negates and regulate how whenand where all sources of energy can and should be distributed and its impact on the environment and society
Are you asking everyone to believe that Claire Cohan got up from a dream with a brain storming idea an announced to the world that she is going to build a Wte plant
And that Mrs Cohan did not have to follow standards and practices necessary
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Great advice on integrity and transparency from Dr Denis Lowe in 2007. He can preach real good and stir the emotions of superficial.
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@ Kammie Holder October 31, 2015 at 9:38 AM
I am amazed and a tad disappointed in your persistence in believing this Cahill project would ever get off the ground to pose the health and environmental problems you so meticulously identified in your strident objections.
The Cahill project is just a scam concocted to be a ‘phantom’ project to line the pockets of crooked politicians like Denis the Lowedown and Darcy Quisling Boyce aided and abetted by people of absolutely NO compunctions or commitment to national development like the MoF and PM.
Which set of international investors would take up in excess of US$ 300 million to finance the construction of such in a pie-in-sky project based of unrealistic and impossible economics and raw material and operational resource requirements? How come these investors (allegedly still queuing up outside the MoF’s Office of Junk Bonds and Downgrades) are not willing to invest in other projects like the soon-ready-to-restart All Seasons, the Pierhead Marina and Cruise ship terminal? Aren’t these all foreign exchange generating projects?
Isn’t foreign exchange still the lifeblood of the Bajan economy and the foundation of the Government’s fiscal survival? Does the current administration think that issuing of junk bonds to unsuspecting financially naïve citizens will save the Barbados’s economic ass from ruination? Forex is the Elixir; not Junk Bonds.
The strategy is bilk taxpayers by way of consultancy fees, start-up and other developments costs and finder’s fees in respect of non-existent financial backers. Some of the payments to so-called consultants and developers would end up in the hands of corrupt politicians like the 5 & 10% kick-back where is my cut Denis Downlowe and their lackeys. The Pierhead marina redesign scam fits the Modus operandi of the political crooks and corrupt players behind the Cahill heist. Dividing up $40 million of taxpayers’ money by way of fees and other unproductive charges among crooked consultants and corrupt local politicians is the name of the Cahill con game.
Barbados is finding it rather difficult to attract funding for its more pressing problem of raw sewage management and disposal. Sewage effluence and chemical runoffs are having deleterious effects on the country’s potable water aquifers with devastating effect on the coral reefs thereby endangering the country’s only remaining viable economic engine of growth; that is tourism especially on the upscale West Coast.
It is in this area that priority ought to be placed along with serious recycling, plastic reduction and composting programmes. There is money available internationally to fund environmental and climate-change related projects, especially for developing countries like Barbados. The problems with Barbados is its lack transparency, accountability and poor implementation of such projects. As long as politicians and their lackeys cannot personally benefit from such projects you can bet they will never be seen as priorities, with the Bridgetown Housing Upgrade being a case in point.
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@ac, yes I believe she looked for persons who are weak to push her annuity on. Do you know how she ended up owing Liz Spencer? Do you know she attempted two similar projects in Europe which could not raise the finance.
Why would a minister accompany Cahill to bankers.
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@Sunshine Sunny Shine wrote ” only hurl a number of disparaging insults at him”.
SSS did you know a man get charged an tek to court fuh callin a senator ” a dog ” ? I read dat in a Barbados newspaper yestuhday.
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What bribe takers fail to understand that cameras work and so does cell phone recorders. Someone told me they paid a couple thousand of dollars to get something done and they would be willing to release recording online should any harm ever come to me or FCT directors.
This is the Barbados in which we live in where corruption is like a slow growing cancer which the political parties continue to ignore. Better can be done and must be done.
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Kammie
You must be commended for seeking to carry on the work of the FCT which began in 94 with the blessings of the GG BARROW, as an ofshoot of the SIDS conference.
The problem you will continue to face is that evil powerful men in Bim will oppose you, because they care only about themselves, and their selfish desires.
This opposition began when a collection of folk on the Sunday walks requested Colin Hudson to write Governmnt about a few matters. He was ejected forthwith from the home in which he lived at Edgehill for years to the lower house. Clearly the concept of FCT continues to me anathema to the Government.
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@ Hants
Woe is me, then I guess I should be taken to court then. Would, crook, thief, liar, hypocrite, deceitful, conniving, two face or plain old stinking crab be better alternatives? If a thief like Leroy Parris could walk around free for stealing and be praised, you mean you gine lock up the SSS for calling a person by their rightful name?
@ the seemingly intelligent AC who stated as quoted
”Again I must remind you and all blp operatives that to strategize using the character of DT was a failed strategy and one which the citizens of Barbados rejected at the voting booth as sufficient not to re elect the Freundel Stuart administration.”
AC, the outcome of the elections was decided by who was wielding the most money. There were claims that vote buying had several witnesses. I would think that since the victory was so close for the DLP that they were the ones with the most money to buy a lot more votes. This is evident by the fact that several of their campaign donors must be given all lucrative projects on the island in order for them to remain happy and be call upon in the time of need. That need could bare true in the form of Speaker of the house, Michael Carrington, who came up with over 100 grand plus interest or more, when it took him several years and a number of excuses to keep a poor old man fooled, because he took up what he knew he could not put back.
So AC, the people did decide but they had a little incentive to swing in favour of the D or B base on the biggest payout.
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Well said, miller! On point!
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@Georgie Porgie, thank you. FCT is coordinating a stakeholders meeting next week. 600 Chinese workers should be of concern to Unions.
Higher electricity bills will push up prices thus BARP has an interest as Cahill is projecting revenue $180M revenue yearly for first 3 years or $15M monthly.
Cahill is not going away anytime soon and those who break the law must be reminded 2018 is around the corner.
@AC, For the first time in our history a possibility exist that the DLP or BLP may not be the government in 2018.
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For the first time in our history a possibility exist that the DLP or BLP may not be the government in 2018.
INTERESTING1
THERE SHOULD BE MANY WORTHY FOLK IN BARP ALONE, WITH TALENT AND EXPERTISE WHO COULD START A WORTHY PARTY
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@ Sunshine Sunny Shine,
I was just showing how funked Barbados truly is.
A man get charged with calling a senator a dog but pullin gun or cussin wid words like muddacunt is ok.
Barbados has a back log of cases, giving murderers bail to go and kill again as happened recently but the police and the courts busy with a man calling a senator a dog.
I need to chill. I might say something that may cause me to get ban from BU and extradited so I gine shut to funk up.
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Kammie……..that recording should be released before harm comes to you or anyone, particularly to the international agencies. It is time to say enough is enough and prompt a new era of governance where local politicians learn first hand that they cannot do to the taxpayers whatever they feel like
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Mr .Holder please fore bear my indulgence but i do believe that there are two wheels turned (here) both to discredit Mrs. Cowan
One on a premise that Mrs Cowan financial stability is questionable
Two her other projects flunked
Now bearing those two discredits in mind
My question to all ..How does both discredits applied to Mrs.Cowan changes or alter the technological value of gasification to WTE projects?
For surely it bbecomes wishful thinking to propagate that one individual short comings would be a good argument as a presentation against the WTE project
If when stands alone is tested and reliable to be safe
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Back in time of the EWB and Sandiford led DLP, the few yardfowls were strong supporters but had a mind of their own, now since 2008 what ever was mix with the feed for these yardfowls they are compels to disseminate the DLP sick government
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Cowan should be discredited, she is setting out to poison an island filled with people with the help of the politicians. Dioxins are a combination of many poisons, they are manmade poisons found in waste incineration, did that old cow spit in ya’ll mouth AC.
As a matter of fact, I vaguely recall that there are international environmental protection agencies in existence, just for these types of crimes and they should be contacted by the citizens of Barbados, if this plant ever gets the money to get off the ground. Hopefully the first waste to be gassified would be Alvin, AC, all the politicians and Cowan. This is a disgrace..
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PODRYR
re yours @ October 31, 2015 at 10:28 AM
Thanks for your comments, but DD is no high tech sleuth. Just another ole guy who stumbled on the Mr. Integrity in Paradise video while Googling something else – Barbados offshore or something like that.
The updated video you posted is a big improvement. You and de granson are a dynamic duo (and quick too) – a wise ole man and a tech savvy youngster.
While we are on the subject of Mr. Integrity, I should point out a story in the October 30 edition of Barbados Today at:
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2015/10/30/enough-4/
Which includes the following:
“Again, in order to minimize any fallout, we have had to divert our already limited resources from use for developmental purpose to deal with this unnecessary new distraction,” Stuart said, calling on the Global Forum to join the fight in addressing the issue.
“The recent publishing of a list by the European Union deeming 30 countries, including Barbados and others in the region as ‘non-cooperative’ and ‘tax havens’, once again highlights the concerns of the region regarding blacklisting by international organizations,” Stuart told the opening of the two-day meeting.
“This type of action can have a devastating impact on the reputation of our countries. It increases our risk profiles and affects our ability to retain or attract new investment and also has the potential to jeopardize the ease with which investors can access funding,” highlighted Stuart.
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Mr. Integrity sure does have a way with words; but he may have been more correct if he said:
As word of the The Cahill WtE deal spreads beyond Barbados’ shores the effect have a far more devastating impact on the reputation of Barbados than the EU country blacklisting. It will increase Barbados’ political risk profile and affect Barbados’ ability to retain existing or attract new investment and also has the potential to jeopardize the ease with which investors (including potential CEB investors) can access funding,”
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Mr Integrity’s address to Global Forum
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Barbados hosts 8th meeting of the OECD’s Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes
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This week October 29-30th, Barbados hosted the 8th meeting of the OECD’s Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes. Present at the meeting were 250 delegates from 88 jurisdictions and 11 international organisations and regional groups. Barbados is the second Caribbean country (after Bermuda) to have hosted a meeting of the Global Forum and […]
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I too would be hesitant to invest or encourage anyone to invest in an island where the leaders, I use that word very loosely, are willing to jump into bed and do business with any and every criminal that crawls out of Europe or North America, they fail to realize that their actions impact heavily on the decisions to provide funding to small island states when their behavior is atrocious.
The politicians fail to realize or acknowledge that the leaders in Europe and North America are aware that their own people are criminals with very little or no conscience when it comes to acquiring millions, that’s why they are hunted and imprisoned. Small island leaders are not helping these countries when they join these criminals and enable them, they are in effect making investigations into these crooks more difficult, there is a penalty to pay for this stupidity, it does not go unpunished. It’s even worse when these scams are directed at the very people who the politicians are supposed to protect.
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I shudder to believe that one individual faults or failures are reasonable enough to implement policies that are beneficial
The fact being that gasification is widely used and accepted source of transforming waste into energy and has passed environmental recommendations
Facts and truths that no one wants to talk about
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Why don’t you AC’s simply tender the necessary proofs to show these working gasification plants that are benefitting many countries today that are like the one Cahill Cowan is planning to propose for Barbados. You just do not get it, where these plants are working, you fail to mention all the other things that are making the operating countries rethink or even put the yes to their closure in loud shouts. In fact, the proposed plant for Barbados and all the information that is not known about the project makes you believe that the projections electricity output and the advantages claimed that this plant will provide sounds like mere guesses or conjuring up of a set of facts to make it appear and sound technically beneficial.
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ac October 31, 2015 at 7:51 PM # The fact being that gasification is widely used and accepted source of transforming waste into energy and has passed environmental recommendations Facts and truths that no one wants to talk about”
Great, now we are getting somewhere re ‘facts and truth’ can the public be enlightened on:
who are the principals of Cahill Barbados-Guerney-whatever, not just those noted on the / articles of incorporation, trustees whatever
can the project be shown the due diligence study on Cahill-whatever , based on its officers, employees (it does have those , yes?) experience and expertise and its financial soundness?
can the public be shown the environmental impact study that was performed before the project came to be approved by the said Ministers (there was one performed, yes?)
can the public be shown the energy expert papers that confirmed that plasma gasification is a mature and viable energy source for a small island nation. I expect that UN has advisors with the expertise to give assistance in this aspect, where they consulted?
can the public be shown where the alternate tenders were rejected, after comparison to this tender?
can the public be shown the financial analysis of the project, the impact to the taxpayers over the length of the project, fifty years, whatever?
That is it for now, thank you for helping with the ‘facts and truth’.
Have a great day.
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AC…..I will simplify it for you as you are always at the head of the line complaining about whites taking advantage of and controlling the economy in Barbados, soooo, don’t you think that one Cow is more than enough for a small island such as Barbados, why are you so desperate for this Cow woman to gassify and destroy the air quality of the island, just so she can enrich herself.
10 more people on the island with your short term memory and we all see why the majority population have become numb and believe things to be hopeless.
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AC….must I simplify everything for you, have you no vision, the faults and failures to which you allude are those of the politicians to implement due diligence in investigating the criminals who arrive on the island before signing contracts and making agreements to sell the island and endanger the people. The faults and failures are those of the politicians for refusing to show transparency and let the taxpayers know every move they make that is, in this case is not, in the citizens’ best interest.
Those faults and failures by the politicians are a huge no, no in the international community. If the politicians continue to be stubborn about this, it will be glaringly clear that they don’t care and whose fault and failure will that be at that time, AC, I have very little patience and am now exhausted from spoon feeding both you and Alvin, both of you have a lot of talk and no useful brains.
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Crusoe let me start off on a lighter note , I take kindly to your spirited Version of “governance ” along those lines may i say that the captain of the ship must be given leverage and full control to navigate if not the ship faces the possibility of ship wreck and eventual doom,
There is directive call Process in governance a procedure that is necessary to verify and validate
Hope my response is enough to give pause to your questioning,
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And am telling both you and Alvin along with the 4 ministers who are supposed to be pushing this for the Cow, there are those on the island whom I care about, if, a big if, the Cow manages to fool some investor and the plant gets up and running, you do not know what rage is until I get going, let anyone I care about have their life, health or wellbeing threatened by a bunch of corrupt no good beasts and see how far i can reach. Better get it right the first time.
The ministers, if they are any, who disagree with this scam should be speaking up against it, it’s not like Fruendel can fire any of them, he is barely holding on to the government as it is
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“@AC, For the first time in our history a possibility exist that the DLP or BLP may not be the government in 2018.”
Stupse, wunna mekkin sport at people yuh!!
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