Michael Carrington,Speaker of the Barbados House of Assembly
The Presidency is preeminently a place of moral leadership,โ Franklin Roosevelt observed in the midst of the Depression; but that was then and this is now. What has changed? โ The Moral Authority of Government
A wholesome society many will argue is built on the pillars of law and order. Barbados like many others is a society built on law and order. But is it enough to enact and enforce laws if we want to build the optimal society? What role do human values play in the quality of life we aspire to -values likeย honesty, integrity, empathy, humility and the like. How are societal values modified over time to sustain the optimal society. How does a society mesh the individual values of the citizenry to honour the many. Importantly, who should be the ones responsible to codify changing values as time passes.
There was a period the citizenry acted based on norms and values influenced heavily by the world of the non secular. Today there is great haste to separate non-secular influence from how we govern. Have we been able to grow basic human values rooted in the society we have become to fill the vacuum previouslyย influenced by Christian values ?ย Hmmmm
Through the years the BU household has posted several blogs about the weeds which have run amuck in the manicured lawns. When they were sprouts we ignored them because we were distracted by the appeal that is derived from social relativism. Underpinning the breakdown in the Bajan society has been our willingness to surrender and deprioritized Bajan values. Nowadays Barbados has become the warehouse for anything and everything.ย Again we are not willing to defend a damn thing that is Bajan. Errol Walton Barrow must be a disappointed man observing from across the Rubicon.
An apt analogy which describes the potta Barbados finds itself is that of the ZR/Minibus culture. Almost three decades ago voices in the proverbial wilderness sounded the alarm to alert the authorities we needed to address issues in the sector. Because of greed and ineptness of the authorities they have mismanaged the sector and in the process exacerbated the social ills of our country. Why should we worry though, after all, we are a society first and then an economy.ย ย If ever one wanted a definition of political rhetoric, there you have it.
Of all the immoral acts which have been perpetrated on Barbados by a public figure in Barbados in the last decade, it must be Michael Carringtonโs refusal to pay an ordinary citizen his money.ย He had to be ordered by the High Court to pay a 70+ year old man his money. What makes the act so egregious is the fact he is the Speaker of the House of Assembly. The fact he has not resigned is bad enough, the fact this most ignominious act was defended by Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart caused every sinew in the body to go numb of all right thinking Bajans. The Michael Carrington matter now raises the issue of the moral authority of any government in the building of the optimal society.
Michael Carrington you are a cad and Barbadians everywhere should be so ashamed about what you have done to puncture the good reputation of Barbados. All the while the Leader of the Opposition is silent. The media is silent. His colleagues are unsurprisingly silent. And the PEOPLE are silent.
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104 responses to “Michael Carrington’s Immoral Act Goes Unpunished”
Sunshine Sunny Shine
Wow! I wish I could be as pleasant and dignified in my responses to Alvin Cummins as you are Walter Blackman. How do you, Mr. Walter, keep it so cordial when talking to manipulators like Alvi Pelvi? I have a policy, if I know who you say you are and you are not pretending, I have no problem engaging you or consulting with you. But, if you are a pretender, manipulative and psuedo, I have no respect whatsoever for you. Alvin Cummins is here to fullfill an agenda, and it certainly is not the promotion of honesty, openess and telling the truth. So as far as he is concern, there is no overwhelming set of proof so damaging enough that warrants the removal of the speaker of the church. As far as he is concern the incident involving Michael Carrington is separate and distinct from the speaker of the chair. Michael Carrington may be dishonest, immoral, and sychophatic in nature, but the speaker of the chair is moral, astute, honest and patriotic. As a result, the former has no baring on the latter. The policies of the Democratic Labour Party and the held philosphy of Alvin Cummins.
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Well Well & Consequences
Which makes Alvin very dangerous presently to the wellbeing of the people, future generations of Barbados and the very island itself.
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Artaxerxes
โEnvironment Agency chairman Sir Philip Dilley, who was criticised for not returning from a family holiday during the recent floods, has resigned. Sir Philip remained in Barbados as parts of northern England, Wales and Scotland were deluged by record rainfall over the festive period.โ [Sky News โ Monday, January 11, 2016]
Something as simple as what occurred in the above scenario was enough to make to make Dilley resign from his ยฃ100,000-a-year part-time role as Chairman of the Environment Agency.
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Donna
Alvin is more dangerous to himself than to anybody with half of a brain. What is he really saying – that times and moral standards have changed so who decides what is right anyway? That theft is common worldwide and nobody sees anything wrong with it anymore? That we should give up trying to bring big thieves to justice because they don’t care what we do and it’s not going to work anyway? That we are powerless against politicians so just shut up and like it?
What exactly is he trying to say?
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Donna
If I ever become as depraved as the acs of ALL varieties I hope somebody would be kind enough to shoot me.
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Artaxerxes
Alvin Cummins January 31, 2016 at 11:12 AM #
โDoesnโt BU show, almost with every post, the photo of Gregory Nicholls, accused of MISAPPROPRIATING clientsโ funds, and he is still held close to the bosom of the party he campaigned for?โ
Your above comments are incorrect. Gregory Nicholls did NOT MISAPPROPRIATE a clientโs funds.
According to court documents, Nicholas Alleyne, of Callenderโs Crescent, Christ Church, filed a civil suit against Nicholls for basically breaching a verbal agreement to repay the sum of $15,000 Allyene loan to him with the expectation of being repaid two weeks from the date of the loan.
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Well Well & Consequences
Art….there was another case with Nicholls, which he is on bail for, if I remeber correctly, the sum was 600,000 of someone’s funds, but be that as it may, Alvin does not see anything wrong with stealing as long as it’s a politician stealing, as long as it’s his party accused, he’s trying to justify DBLP thieves by saying ‘”wuh DBLP got thieves too and they still embrace them”
Alvin does not and will never accept that politicians/lawyers stealing from taxpayers is a crime in Bim. That is how him and those culprits were socialized, that is what makes them all so dangerous.
Walter, Glad to see you are “back home”. Kindly give my regards to the “Atlanta Connection.” Pay no attention to sss, (I certainly don’t) she does not KNOW me, so I expect her diatribe all the time.
I have no objection to people voicing their concerns, reminding those in authority of their moral duty to uphold the dignity of high office, and I wrote about such in my book: ‘THE ROYAL Palms are Dying,” so I should not be accused of supporting this behaviour. But I have to condemn the attempts of some; (yard ducks?) to adopt a holier than thou attitude,(forever?) just because he is from a different political persuasion. There is no doubt that the bloggers (some of them) do behave like Inspector Javert. Michael Carrington is certainly not Jean Valjean, whose crime was similar to the scenario you presented, but more like being kept in the stocks and subjected to ridicule, longer after he has served his sentence and made to pay further penance.,
Well Well, Michael Carrington “kept” money designated to be forwarded to the recipients of an estate settlement, from the recipient. Where he kept it is pertinent, because if he kept it in an Client’s account , which attorneys at law are entitled to do. If kept in this account, there is no malfeasance. Although the length of time kept may have been inordinate. He was ordered by the court to hand over the money; after the recipient requested the court to order him to do so. He did. As far as the court is concerned that is the end of the matter.
IMMORALITY is NOT A CRIME.
The perpetrator may be censored etc. , but he has committed no crime.
Did you know that there is no provision in the Constitution for a position of Speaker of the house? It is a convention, and the Speaker is chosen by both the winning party and the opposition, and they both escort him to the chair, when he takes up his role as Speaker?
Arta; One hundred thousand Pounds a year, as part time chairman of anything, and you remain in the salubrious beauty of Barbados is deserving of criticism. Would you not consider this tone an outrageous sum?
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Walter Blackman
Alvin Cummins February 1, 2016 at 11:06 AM #
“Well Well, Michael Carrington โkeptโ money designated to be forwarded to the recipients of an estate settlement, from the recipient. Where he kept it is pertinent, because IF he kept it in an Clientโs account , which attorneys at law are entitled to do. IF KEPT IN THIS ACCOUNT, THERE IS NO MALFEASANCE (my emphasis). Although the length of time kept may have been inordinate. He was ordered by the court to hand over the money; after the recipient requested the court to order him to do so. He did.”
Alvin,
Fair enough.
Let us continue to play the “IF” game which you have started.
Please share your views with us on what should happen:
IF the money was removed from the client’s account.
IF the money was used by someone other than the client.
IF the money had to be repaid by someone other than the Speaker.
IF the judge ordered that an account, showing movement of the money, be rendered so that no “IF” games would have to be played on BU or anywhere else.
If the Commissioner of Police is apprised of these “facts”.
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Donna
IF Alvin would stop serving shiite a la yardfowl……..
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Hants
@ Alvin Cummins wrote ” Although the length of time kept may have been inordinate.”
Yet you try to defend Carrington.
Do you really think that the speaker should wait until ordered by a Judge to do what is ethically and morally right?
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Donna
Hants,
What is it about the term “yardfowl” that you do not understand?
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Well Well & Consequences
You want to play the IF game Alvin, re Carrington..ok.
IF…the wheelchair bound gentleman had not put Carrington before the Court would he ever get back his money which was owing for more than 5 years, maybe even more than 10.
IF…Carrington had died, he did come close twice, would his estate had paid the gentleman.
IF…the gentleman had died…would Carrington have paid his estate, doubtful, since he had to be brought before the Courts while the man was alive.
IF….Justice Cornelius had not got fed up with Carrington ignoring the court proceedings and not even having the respect as a lawyer and officer of the court to attend or defend himself, would the gentleman get his money.
IF…….Justice Cornelius did not give a judgement, would this man ever see his money Alvin.
IF…..the money was still in the client’s account why did Carrington refuse to hand it over.
We can IF all day, dude cannot be trusted with client’s money….let’s hope people stay well away from him with their legal matters.
Why did Carrington have to be ordered to hand over client money that he knew did not belong to him.
Alvin….it was not only money from an estate settlement Carrington stole from the man, it was also money from the sale of property.
Immorality leads to what we are seeing unfolding on the island, bribes, corruption, pimping out of children and young people, stealing clients money etc…..immorality is the practice of wrongdoing. Of course you see nothing wrong with immoral and criminal acts practiced against the innocent….yep, dangerous.
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Prodigal Son
It galls me to see this man still sitting in the Speaker’s chair in that august chamber and to hear people refer to him as honourable.
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millertheanunnaki
@ Prodigal Son February 1, 2016 at 4:33 PM
The same hypocritical member who can pull guns on other members and get away with it. The same hypocritical member who can break the Road Traffic laws and still has the gall to castigate school boys for wearing their trousers below their waists.
What a whole lot of palaver and hypocritical grandstanding! A clear case of: โDo as We say but not as We do.
The leaders of Barbados have no moral ground to stand on in advising others how to behave. And that includes Leroy Parris.
@’The right”
I guess if this were an earlier age, he would have been hung drawn and quartered. Let’s clothe him in tar and feathers, drag him through the streets and serve time in jail. which still would not satisfy you people. Just last night I watched Sixty minutes, and the subject was money laundering and income tax evasion, in the US. It discussed the many ways in which shell companies are set up in the U.S. and the ways Lawyers there protect their clients’ money, through those shell companies, and how they evade taxes, because funds held the lawyers’ accounts are not subject to the same scrutiny as if they were held in bank accounts. I tuned in late so I did not get the full stories.
Put Carrington in jail, would that satisfy all of you?
He that is without sin, cast the first stone. A famous “pure” man once said that, But even He was Not sinless for he ADVISED HIS DISCIPLES, BEFORE HE ENTERED THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMiNY TO ARM THEMSELVES, AND EVEN BEFORE THAT WHEN HE ENTERED THE
TEMPLE he resorted to violence.
What Carrington did was wrong, but he paid his price, leave him alone. Have not all of you fallen and come short at some time?
What price did Carrington pay? You see no problem with him occupying the Speaker’s chair? Do you know if he had done same in the UK or even the USA his ass would have been asked to resign. What can our young people learn from you?
@David and Walter.
Walter,
You say you have never studied Law. Neither have I , but I have acquainted myself with the legal aspects of some features of everyday ;life. Some years ago I used to spend pleasant friday evenings at Pelican Village in the company of a number os scholars, politicians, and other imminent persons. We usually had long and energetic discussions on a number of topical subjects. I understand that Tom even attended one or two of these sessions. Branford used to be there sometimes quite regularly. At one of these sessions the question of “Judges’ Rules was discussed. I acquainted myself through recourse to the Law Library. I also sought the Solicitors’ Rules etc through the same medium. These rules govern the behaviour of Attorneys’ handling of clients’ funds etc. I commend them to you for your perusal.
David,
Why do you want to hold up either the US or UK as standard bearers for morality?I know you know better, but just to make a point (moot) you are trying to give the impression that their officials are paragons of virtue, while denigrating our own people.We have a society that we are constantly trying to denigrate, especially if the constituents are on the “other” side. What sort of example is it for our young people when all we can pursue is vindictiveness, spite, envy, un-forgiveness, revenge and all these negative traits. What types of people are we, apart from being hypocritical?
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Bush Tea
@ David
Surely you know the dangers of arguing with an idiot…. someone who is immune to logic and common sense will usually be a master at shiite talk…
You REALLY feel that it is worth it….?
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Peltdownman
I’m with Bush Tea on this, except to say that, if the money was in the Client’s account, why did Carrington need baling out by all his friends? The fact that lawyers in the US are used to protect their clients’ money to avoid tax is immoral, yes. But try and imagine what would happen if they refused to pay it back.
Bush shit don/t u ever get tired of repeating the same rhetorical crap over and over again. Is there
any place on this earth that would make you happy. Bring solutions crticism can be bought a dime a dozen or better yet stop hiding behind the computer and step up to the wicket and show what steel you are made of jack rabbut
Here is a solution, Carrington should be asked to resign because of the egregious and immoral act he perpetrated on an old man. If a criminal case was brought his ass would possibly be in jail like now so. Further, similar acts by public officials should have to.suffer the same fate. Now there is a solution. You punish a child for not picking up a sweetie wrapper and you let Carrington go free.
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millertheanunnaki
@ Alvin Cummins February 2, 2016 at 7:45 AM
โSome years ago I used to spend pleasant friday evenings at Pelican Village in the company of a number os scholars, politicians, and other imminent persons. We usually had long and energetic discussions on a number of topical subjects. I understand that Tom even attended one or two of these sessions. Branford used to be there sometimes quite regularly..”
Alvin, why don’t you stop with your names-dropping? We are not impressed whatsoever.
What โeminentโ persons what! There has been only two eminent persons from Barbados. The Right Excellent Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers and Robyn Fenty aka Rihanna.
How come you have not included Leroy Greenverbs Parris in your list of โEminentโ persons?
Your P M certainly has assigned such lofty categorization on that estimable gentleman.
What impact have your โeminent personsโ made on the socio-economic landscape when the economy is still controlled by non-black and foreign interests with the political class functioning as yard-boys to those in control?
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Artaxerxes
@ Alvin Cummins
The reason I posted that contribution relative to Sir Philip Dilley RESIGNING as the UKโs Environment Agencyโs chairman amid criticisms for not returning from a family holiday in Barbados during the recent floods in parts of northern England, Wales and Scotland, was to illustrate the meaning of accountability.
Michael Carrington with-held John Griffithsโ $210,000 for two years and, according to Griffiths, the lawyer REFUSED to RESPOND to his e-mails and phone calls during that time.
If you, for example, gave me $300,000 to keep for you and when the time came for me to return the funds, I refused to respond to your requests or other methods of contacting me over a PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME, would you not ASSUME I STOLE your funds?
The only reason Carrington was not charged with a criminal offence was because Griffiths took the โcompassionate routeโ of FILING a CIVIL SUIT against him. Others would have involved the police.
Under these circumstances, surely you must agree that Dilleyโs lack of EMPATHY towards his โconstituentsโ during the floods in the UK and subsequent criticisms were enough to make him resign, then Carringtonโs actions warranted his resignation as Speaker of the House of Assembly as well.
Interestingly, in defense of the Carrington, Stuart said: โMichael Carrington is an HONOURABLE man. Thereโs no criminal conviction anywhere against him. Heโs an excellent Speaker of the House of Assembly, but like every lawyer at some stage HE JUST HAD A DIFFERENCE WITH A CLIENT.โ [Barbados Today, February 10, 2015]
The following was one of the responses to the article, which I found very interesting as well:
โFiona Waldron: February 10, 2015 at 1:51 am: I always wonder why people call on you to speak up? Your words always fill me with incredulityโฆ.. Please continue to trivialise issues and withhold your empathy from the people of Barbados, we are a patient people and we shall not forget you in the next electoral roundโฆ.โ
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millertheanunnaki
@ David February 2, 2016 at 9:48 AM
“You punish a child for not picking up a sweetie wrapper and you let Carrington go free.”
Well said! That snippet of wisdom represents the kernel of immorality and hypocrisy in Barbados.
It leaves to wonder what Maureen, the prostitute of call-in programmes, would say about that!
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Well Well & Consequences
Alvin….I have never stolen money from a disabled man in a wheelchair, it appears you have since you defend the crook Carrington. Do you have any idea if Carrington has stolen from others, do you think it’s his first time, after all lawyers in Barbados do carry a very bad reputation, of their own making.
Need I remind you as immoral as we all know US can get, lawyers who do what Carrington did, when caught, as he was, go to prison and cannot hold public office particularly when enabled by a president, in this case PM Stuart…..on that I will defend the US.
PM Stuart is another dishonest person, a lawyer holding on to my money is not a difference of opinion with a client…..the lawyer is thiefing my money and refusing to release it….dude is a thief and Stuart is an enabler of thievery against clients, in this case a disabled , elderly man.
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Hants
De minster vex as wrasse whole yuh!
โThere is one, itโs a blog. Itโs one of the worst, the most depraved that I have seen coming from Barbadians. Sometimes I see the media use it for reference and itโs scandal, destruction of people. The nastier it is, the more silly it is.
โAnd some of the people who put things on there are totally mad. I am serious. I donโt talk about how Barbadians say that he mad, meaning that his behaviour is a little erratic. I mean certifiably, psychiatry-proven mad,โ Jones said”
Hants…lol Heather Cole is right, Jones as psychiatrist, just sent the whole island to beg or borrow a computer to read all about him and others….he knows there is nothing he can do legally, but did he just shut up and stop reading the blogs so often, oh no, the new psychiatrist Jones had to highlight the whole thing..
Some of the things posted people just pass over those things that are not important and read the important stuff, but not Jones, he reads everything…lol
Maybe if they make an effort to stop some of the things that they can control and for which they are responsible from happening….there would be no toxic information available for anyone to post…time for them to start doing what the taxpayers are paying them a salary for……
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Prodigal Son
@ Alvin Cummins February 1, 2016 at 11:06 AM #
“Well Well, Michael Carrington โkeptโ money designated to be forwarded to the recipients of an estate settlement, from the recipient. Where he kept it is pertinent, because if he kept it in an Clientโs account , which attorneys at law are entitled to do. If kept in this account, there is no malfeasance. Although the length of time kept may have been inordinate. He was ordered by the court to hand over the money; after the recipient requested the court to order him to do so. He did. As far as the court is concerned that is the end of the matter.
IMMORALITY is NOT A CRIME.”
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For a man who claims to be so much in the bosom of what goes on in the DLP you are really clueless.
The crooked lawyer did not have the man’s money, he spent it. In clients’ account my eye. If the money was is in the clients’ account, why he could not repay Mr Griffiths when ordered by the courts. You really believe that the crooked man would have procrastinated so long if he had the money. My goodness to endure the embarrassment of the Sunday Sun front page and the weeks of constant criticism?
Why dont you ask your buddies in the dlp who put together the monies to save his sorry hide.
For your information, the money was put together by the newly rich and those who has a vested interest in the DLP to continue feeding off the fatted calf.
Immorality is not a crime………….the man has no morals.
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Prodigal Son
…..oops……….those who have a vested interest in the DLP.
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Sunshine Sunny Shine
God these politicians really believe that their intellectual capacity is at height that is unreachable. They really are losing what little credibility they have left. They would wish that bajans continue to remain docile, ignorant and blinded. They do not like their names being called. Well, if Jones is so upset with the blogs all he has to do is tell his government to provide the level of governance that would show their ability to do better by Barbados. Too much lies told to believe anything that comes from their mouths. Until that time, he could really shut his rip hole and do what he and his administration has being doing best i.e continuing their silence and using the fear factor bull cow approach to keep the frigten section of the Barbadian public in check.
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Well Well & Consequences
In the meantime all their rear ends will be exposed…lol
@Well Well’
Wrong again!! I have NEVER made any such CLAIMS.to be in anyone’s bosom.!!! Slandering as usual.
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Prodigal Son
Look, so many things are going wrong in this country, you just cannot keep up.
In all the nonsense that is being passed for governance the latest gimmick has galled me.
Can you imagine that disposable gloves, toilet paper and paper towels are in scare supply at the hospital but this insensitive government who clearly has its priorities wrong, wrong, wrong………..can find money to buy reams and reams of A4 paper to print a letter signed by the Fumble which is being mailed to Barbadians….my children got theirs yesterday. They steupsed and promptly threw them away.
I am not saying that they should not celebrate 50 years but would it not be cheaper to put out a full page ad to say what they are saing in the indivual letters. Just think how much it cost to buy so many reams of paper, the cost of the ink to print them and the cost to mail them. This is democracy gone amok. These people just do not care what we say or think……. and Stinkliar got angry recently when a reporter asked him about the cost of the launch.
Business are crying out for their VAT returns
Barbadians are crying out for their income tax returns
Barbadians cannot get a proper bus service
Barbadians cannot get a proper garbage collection service
Barbadians cannot get proper health care at the QEH
Barbadians cannot get a proper water service in the rural areas
The roads are in a mess
The Police are crying out for basic supplies
They have imposed tuition fees on Barbadian children thus in a stroke of a budget depriving hundreds of children of an UWI education…………………..yet they can find money to promote their dlp agenda.
@Prodigal,
You are sick, to begin with. If you don’t think fifty years of independence; considering where we were before Independence, and where we are at this stage, then you are truly sick.
You say Businesses are crying out for VAT returns…Pre Independence we did not even have businesses; except those controlled by the Roebuck Street merchants and the Plantations (the white people)
You say people are crying out for their Income Tax returns…Pre Independence few people had incomes…if they were fortunate enough to find a job, the wages were so meagre they had no income tax to pay. In 1958 a Long Grade Clerk in the Civil Service worked for $120.00 per month.
You say Barbadians cannot get a proper bus service….Pre Independence the last bus to St. George left out by the Olympic theatre; in Marhill Street at ten o’clock, If you missed that you had to walk home.People living in St. James going North had no night bus.You say Bajans can’t get a proper Garbage collection service..Pre independence garbage was collected by stuff trucks, and carts.. There was no Sanitation Service Authority. The Sanitation services office was in church village out by where the car park for the central bank is.
You say that Bajans can’t get proper health care at the QEH. Pre Independence children suffered routinely from Marasmus; a condition due to malnutrition. There was no QEH, The buildings where the old hospital is located served the entire country.There were NO Polyclinics
You say Bajans can’t get proper water services in rural areas. Pre independence very few people had access to water except by the standpipe in EACH VILLAGE. Villagers bathed at public baths. Everybody carried water in buckets from the standpipe.
You say the roads are in a mess. …Pre Independence few villages even had roads, they had tracts.
You say that they are charging tuition fees “depriving children of a UWI education. …Pre Independence all children fortunate enough to get into secondary school HAD to pay school fees; the amount was determined by the school you went to. In large, or even in small families, choices had to be made as to which child would be paid for. The rest had to go work on the plantation, for pennies a day.There was no University to go to unless you went overseas. ..Now students can go to university and government pays for it.
If you are so sick of this country,, find another country to go to which will be better and go there, if you can get admitted.
Be thankful for where you live, and especially after fifty years of independence, what you have.
It MUST be celebrated because this country has confounded all the critics who predicted, before Independence, that the country would not last ten years.
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Well Well & Consequences
Alvin….what would ya’ll do without laws to claim slander and libel…..but time is longer than twine. Yardfowls before you used to spew that nonsense, long after you are gone, yardfowls will still be spewing that nonsense, it’s all yardfowls know.
You said you were in Barbados recently, how does the condition of the roads grab ya, particularly in the Haynesville, St. James, Donville area. That is what taxpayer’s money should be doing, fixing roads or are they waiting for next year to lie to the people in those areas, as usual.
Heard some tourists who were recently in Barbados complaining about the condition of the roads.
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Prodigal Son
Alvin,
I will leave you to Bush Tea and Sunshine Sunny Shine …..they have your number. Your response exposed how ignorant you are.
I wrote of the urgent things that need addressing in this country rather than spending tens of thousands on paper and postage to further the dlp agenda and talking nonsense about what we did not have prior to independence.
Well guess what you forgot to mention, Barbados had people who managed the country competently……..not like the morons now whom you support blindly.
Why dont you serve God like you serve the dlp…….your reward in heaven would be secured.
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Prodigal Son
Another thing, ac, I am a Barbadian and I have a right to complain about this incompetent government. …..you don’t live here so you can shut to hell up.
I am sick of you.
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Prodigal Son
Why am I wasting time responding to a JA who condone a dlp member who withheld his client’s monies for more than a decade and then had the gall to say that immorality is not a crime.
That speaks to your character.
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Well Well & Consequences
Alvin…if you were progressive and positive you would know that you are really introducing negative energy to the island. The people enjoy a certain quality of life because they worked for it post slavery, none of it was given to them…..your ignorance is glaring….they do not have to be grateful for mediocrity but always strive for better and better…they do not have to accept bribery and corruption from politicians or condescending asses like you telling them they never had it better and should not complain or say anything when they see wrongdoing.
The people’s tax dollars paid for their education and they should speak out against what makes them uncomfortable, they are no longer illiterate and lack understanding. If you can understand that, you wiฤบ know you are wasting your time trying to reduce people’s intelligence level.
@Prodigal and Well Well,
\As I said Prodigal, you are indeed sick. If you believe the scam perpetrated on ignorant people about a place in heaven, then you are more ignorant than I would give you credit for. I am not worried about where I go when I stop breathing.
Well Well, You are always talking about tax dollars paying for x,y, and Z. The people’s tax dollars go to pay for the services they get, and the average person does not pay very much in tax dollars equivalent to the services they get. Slavery was abandoned in the late eighteen hundreds. We got Independence in 1966. Prior to that we were “owned” by the white people. Many of us still are “owned ” by them.You would not have been alive in the pre independence debates to know the social conditions that existed then and the negativity of those debates when elements of the society still argued against it. So don’t try to tell me who worked for it. The arguments propounded regarding bribery and corruption is based on rumour, supposition and innuendo. Bring proof, name names, produce evidence.
So called “peoples’ intelligence level is apparently guided by the perception yard ducks attribute.
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Well Well & Consequences
“Many of us still are โowned โ by them.”
Yes Alvin…..speak for yourself, many of you still want to be owned by white people and in the same instant, believe you own each other and actually believe their should be no more progress, but just be content with a corrupt government owned by a few whites on the island and a few crooked foreign whites…..it’s sickening Alvin……sickening….so do not blame the white people, blame yourselves…do you remember the Cowan/Cahill contract signed by your government giving away the island to a crazy white woman and her crooked advisors whose Jacob Securities company is about to be dissolved in Canada, this just recently happened, you should never forget, you were upfront trying to convince everyone and close the deal, selling out your people…shame on you…..
You should read today’s newspapers…..your pal Leroy Parris has to repay the over 3 million dollars him and your deceased prime minister David Thompson stole from Clico policyholders….the supreme court gave a judgement just yesterday…..that is not rumor or innuendo, it is a fact…..hope you were not involved in that….as top yardfowl.
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Gabriel
Prodigal
Don’t waste time responding to the JA’s like Alvin.He’s what Bree referred to as a Stinking Dem,they have no love for the people of Barbados,they have no interest in the development of this country,they have no vision.They only care about feathering their nests.Look at all of them BMW’s and Mercedes Benz with Kyffin laughing all the way to the bank.These peeps are not accustomed to any thing and now they think they have the opportunity of a lifetime,they have become the most corrupt politicos in the history of Barbados.
When I cleared my mail at the post office,I opened one of five copies sent to my household.I read a few lines,realized what it was and from whom it came,walked over to a refuse bin,tore them up and hurled them into the bin with a vengeance.Another waste of public funds.Bloody fools.They can all rot in hell.In a way I am sorry the Clico fiasco with Parris and Thomp[son did not make it to open court.We might have heard if there is truth in the story going the rounds that Thompson left 39 million dollars in real and personal estate.
@Gabriel,
If Kyffin Simpson died tonight, how much money in real and personal estate would he leave? How much is Sim;son’s Lear Jet worth? Mercedes for politicians, how do they compare? Are you saying that Politicians should not drive Mercedes? Are the Mercedes they drive their property or the property of the government?
If Paul Altman died tonight, how much money would he leave in his estate?
Alvin
You prove what a JA you are once again.I did not hear Simpson nor Altman offer themselves as a representative of the people nor did they say they will not cheat,lie or steal nor did they say in 1987 that they had a plan and showed a piece of paper to the moojins of St John,a development plan for the parish,nor did they join with a leper to defraud the policyholders of Clico of their investments.You should compare Thompson with Lowe,Lashley,Boyce,Byer of the Caves notoriety,Carrington and such like 21st century hooligans,pimps,liars,charlatans and criminals.Eff off simple fella.Wuh Gaul bline yuh.
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Well Well & Consequences
Alvin is a piss poor, bottom feeding yardfolw, who does not mind Thompson or any DBLP politician stealing from Clico policyholders, as long as it makes them look rich. He condones stealing from taxpayers….39 million, where would Thompson get that money to leave in an estate unless he stole it….but, Alvin is against the sale of medical marijuana to help the economy, a bottom feeding piece of rag.
U.S. legal marijuana sales were $5.4B in 2015, higher than Trumpโs net worth and several times the cost of the Space Shuttle
BY TOBIAS SALINGER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 9:15 PM A A A
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Marijuana plants are shown at an Illinois medical marijuana cultivation center. Legal weed sales jumped 17% last year.
Americans spent more money on legal marijuana in 2015 than Donald Trump is worth, research revealed Monday.
The $5.4 billion in legal pot sales outpaces the magnate and presidential candidate’s $4.5 billion net worth and dwarfs the $1.7 billion cost of NASAโs Space Shuttle Endeavour. And weed sales will overtake the price of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in a few years.
Analysts from ArcView Market Research and New Frontier Data unveiled their annual report on the size of the legal pot market Monday, showing a 17% increase over 2014.
The marijuana market researchers predict overall sales will grow to $21.8 billion by 2020 at a compound annual rate of 30%. Voters in at least seven states will consider allowing adults to get high legally this year and 86% of Americans now live in states with some form of legal marijuana use.
Legal pot sales in U.S. outpaced The Donald’s $4.5 billion net worth.
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Legal pot sales in U.S. outpaced The Donald’s $4.5 billion net worth.
โMany in the business and financial sector have taken a โwait and seeโ approach to the legal cannabis industry,โ the publishers wrote in an introductory letter. โThe data in this report confirms what pioneer investors and entrepreneurs suspected: legalization of cannabis is one of greatest business opportunities of our time and itโs still early enough to see huge growth.โ
Yet the figures already lend themselves to fun comparisons. They may never add up to the $710 billion Americans spend each year at bars and nightclubs or the $400 billion projected overall cost of the Department of Defenseโs most costly and ambitious fighter jet program.
But the 2015 sales would buy 33 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, based on the Government Accountability Officeโs estimate. And when legal weed sales grow to $12 billion in 2018, the proceeds would be more than enough to pay for the city-sized USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier currently in the works.
Weed sales dwarf the $1.7 billion cost of NASAโs Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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Weed sales dwarf the $1.7 billion cost of NASAโs Space Shuttle Endeavour.
One choice stat from the Euromonitor market research group cited by The Washington Post also places the figures in context. The $5.4 billion in legal weed sales last year were well above the $4.9 billion Americans spent on Doritos, Cheetos and Funyuns.
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millertheanunnaki
@ Well Well & Consequences February 4, 2016 at 9:14 AM
Now you see why it will remain ‘illegal in the American’s backyard called the Caribbean?
Can’t have those Jamaicans and others from the sunshine islands of premium cannabis cutting in on our legal business.
Why canโt the nincompoops like nitwit Braffit explore the possibility of exporting hemp to China? The sea island cotton has failed why not try the high premium โgrassโ.
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Well Well & Consequences
Miller…if the nincompoop Brathwaite really wants to….nothing can stop him…the ooliticians more than likely wantvit for themselves and their corrupt business partners, they are breaking down the people’s courage and confidence from now, they know only too well how to do so.
Jamaica now has a growing export industry, no one can stop them, they already let it be known…..politicians in Barbados care nothing about the island’s economy and the people’s financial welfare, only about their own pockets and putting on a show, talking a good game to fool the outside world..
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Sunshine Sunny Shine
Lord have mercy. Alvin Cummins. Does not cease to amaze. Imagine Alvi just confess that he does not believe in heaven, and as such does not believe in God. No wonder he can defend crooks and justify wrong doers. When you shut your eyes, Alvi, remember the words you utter. Can’t even sing nearer my God to thee. You do not believe in God. Ssssshhhh what said ass state you must be in.
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