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The People’s Manifesto of Barbados

On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther posted the ninety-five theses, which he had composed in Latin, on the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany. At the commencement he stated the following: “Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred…

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Submitted by Heather Cole
Submitted by Heather Cole

On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther posted the ninety-five theses, which he had composed in Latin, on the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany. At the commencement he stated the following:

“Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on them in that place. Therefore he asks that those who cannot be present and dispute with him orally shall do so in their absence by letter. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”

His manifesto was the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. The aim of this manifesto is to be the catalyst for governance and political reformation in Barbados; to protest against political abuses, against mismanagement of the funds from the public purse, against corruption, against inequality, against burdensome taxation and against obstruction to free and fair elections.

Read full text of – The People’s Manifesto of Barbados

140 responses to “The People’s Manifesto of Barbados”

  1. Jeff Cumberbatch Avatar
    Jeff Cumberbatch

    Thanks, David.

  2. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ Jeff, I concede to the removal of the word “Entire.” The challenge still remains for the number 1 of the proposed reformations. I am looking for to you accepting the challenge.

  3. Jeff Cumberbatch Avatar
    Jeff Cumberbatch

    But Ms Cole, I will need you to be more specific. Which parts of the Constitution do you want reformed? The appointment of judges? The appointment off the Leader of the Opposition? A reduction in the powers of the Prime Minister? The abolition of the Upper Chamber pf Parliament?

    To mimic the meme….”One does not just….reform a Constitution!”

  4. Everton Rowe Avatar
    Everton Rowe

    I delight in reading the numerous contributions made to BU. Sometimes, it leave me with a heavy heart, but it is a pleasure to see good men and good women striving to improve the quality of life on the island.

    I am not in Barbados and so I am more of an observer than an active participant in the discussion,
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    Could it be that after 50 years, the two-party system (D or B) is so ingrained in the consciousness of the average Barbadian that there is a fear or reluctance to let go of what has become a ‘comfort’ blanket and embrace changes.

    Having seen members of the losing party forced to wander the desert for at least four years, the average citizen has decided to hitch himself/herself to one of the two large bandwagons (political parties),

    I admire those who will urge others to cross the Rubicon, but can it be that citizens are afraid of the unknown that lies on the other side. This has made it difficult for a third party to gain ground as the electorate has adopted the philosophy that it is better to select ‘one’ of the devil you know than a devil you don’t.

    It is good to see that passion and patriotism exhibited by my fellow countrymen and to see the abundance of ideas that are generated by a desire to improve the conditions within the country, but are there enough men and women who have the courage and embrace and implement the required changes.

    Without the required numbers, there is only the two-party system.

  5. Everton Rowe Avatar
    Everton Rowe

    and embrace=to embrace

  6. Everton Rowe Avatar
    Everton Rowe

    I should have added.. A great contribution from Heather Cole.

  7. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    @ Heather

    One of the biggest obstacle to a better Barbados is the Civil service, start changing this and we will be on the way to a better Barbados, a bad politician has 5 years as it stands now, a civil servant can moved bad behavior across the civil service for many years

  8. Everton Rowe Avatar
    Everton Rowe

    Still exploring the idea of a third party.
    If we assume that they will not attain a majority in their fist contested election, then there are questions that they must ask themselves

    1) How long can we sustain this effort? One, two, hire or more elections?

    2) How will we support ourselves during this period?

    3) If we cannot achieve a majority, but have the numbers to be President-makers, do we align ourselves with one of the parties?

    4) If we align ourselves with one of the parties , what are we prepared to give or to ask for? (Animal farm alert)

  9. Everton Rowe Avatar
    Everton Rowe

    hire=three… must be some auto-correct button that I can turn-off

  10. balance Avatar
    balance

    “Jeff Cumberbatch February 5, 2016 at 6:54 AM #

    “A COMPLETE reform of the Constitution….The ENTIRE legal system to be reformed…” Nice sounding hyperbole….but how? By whom? Let us get real if we are to get anywhere!”

    Thanks these were the words I was looking for to sum up Mr Skinners critique of the education system. your comments would have been useful.
    in this case however, the road though paved with good intentions would obviously have potholes in its way. Now is not the time for critique Jeff but using the vast intellect with which you are endowed to advance the cause.

  11. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ balance
    Never underestimate the value of intelligent critique…

    @ Jeff
    We all know that Barbados is blessed with an abundance of ‘genuinely decent people’ .. otherwise somebody would have burned down the Parliament right after the CLICO expose..

    The PROBLEM is that a minority ‘political class’ – comprised mostly of lawyers (empowered by those of your ilk,) have manipulated the system to their own advantage – and to the clear disadvantage of the vast majority.
    Every five years they present Hobson’s choice …and then laugh their tails off as the two set of yardfowls bicker ..and the BAFFY crowd of abstainers withdraw….

    Lotta shiite!!

    Actually, all that is REALLY needed for a MAJOR revolution would be for a group of talented, genuinely decent citizens (who can be trusted to keep their promises) to conceptualise a vision for the country, present a plan of action …and commit to executing on the people’s behalf…

    Bushie offers the vision in the form of a CO-OPERATIVE democracy based on the collective principles as espoused in the co-op (Credit Union) movement…

    WHY?

    Because NOTHING has been more successful FOR ORDINARY BAJANS over the past 40 years than has been the CREDIT UNION MOVEMENT.

    It really works…
    ..Excellent financial growth
    ..exemplary governance
    ..Strong Asset growth
    ..Exceptional PEOPLE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
    ..outstanding education in interpersonal and entrepreneurial skills

    …and look at Co-operator’s General Insurance – surely a model company – and OWNED 100% by Bajans…thousands of us…

    Cuhdear …. It the cooperative model has PROVED itself to be so acceptable to Bajans in Credit Union development – Why not bring the philosophy to even more important areas of national governance….?
    …mean we must keep on copying white people – even when the results are so shitty…?

    The 10-point plan simply outlines how, with the RIGHT people, the right vision and the right MESSAGE, BUP could offer hope to the brass bowls….. 🙂

    As Bob Marley says – brass bowls need to ‘wake up and live…’
    ‘RISE – ….you mighty people….’

  12. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    The situation we find ourselves is much like that of the frog who found himself in a large pot of water from which he could have easily escaped……………but he was comfortable.

    As the temperature of the water was gradually increased he was unaware of his danger……..but he was still comfortable.

    At last, and alas, the temperature reached the level where his enzyme proteins became denatured and he could not function.

    There was a time when we were poor, but generally content.We had little but we were comfortable with our lot. We adapted to whatever we had to face

    Then gradually things became better and we became more comfortable and our offspring less adaptable etc. We were reasonably comfortable….indeed so comfortable that we failed to notice that the tide of declining leadership was sweeping us out to sea.

    THEN SUDDENLY the temperature reached the level where OUR LEADERSHIP enzyme proteins became denatured and he could not function., THINK 2008 WHEN THE CURRENT TWITS CAM IN TO POWER.

    NOW WE JUST LIKE THAT BLASTED FROG.

    THERE IS MUCH MERIT IN WHAT HEATHER AND BUSHTEA HAVE PROPOSED BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE A QUANTUM LEAP TO BE ABLE TO INITIATE THESE IDEAS

    WE NEED SOME SERIOUS SANE BOLD MEN TO STAGE AN OVERTHROW OF THINGS AS THEY ARE JUST AS THY DID IN GRENADA IN 1979

    TROUBLE IS WE ARE TOO NICE
    SO LET US DIE QUIETLY LIKE THE FROG WHO REFUSED TO JUMP WHEN HE COULD

    OR WILL SOME OF US FIND A AWY TO RIS UP

  13. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Jeff Cumberbatch February 5, 2016 at 5:28 PM
    “Do you really still believe that we shall ever see ITAL and FOI legislation in our time on this mortal coil? If so, I have a bridge going cheap…hell, I will even throw in the river!

    There is no constitutional impediment…no negative tax implications for the citizens. It just is not part of the culture of the local political class. You view this as an essential element of democracy in a republican state. Is it not equally an element of the current system now too? Yet I hear no popular protest at their absence …indeed, no one talks about these matters except on BU.

    The representation you have quoted from the DLP manifesto remains just that…a mere representation. If you have acted on it… perhaps you may try instituting an action for fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation, but some free legal advice…You are bound to fail.”

    That’s a serious pot shot you have taken at the political class.

    Are you implying that the current political administration disingenuously induced (tricked) the majority of the electorate into voting for it?

    The first occasion in the offer to implement FOI and ITAL might have been ‘coloured’ with the marketing guise of an ‘invitation to treat’. But after the last minute still-born attempt to pass some handicapped version of Integrity Legislation during the first term of office surely you must advance the contractual process to one of offer, acceptance and consideration in the form of reelection.

    Now if the failure to follow through on the inchoate act of implementation cannot be deemed a breach of contract and a disrespectful violation of the people’s trust what else can be said to clearly reject any proposal to take the country into formal republicanism (where the people reign supreme) with such an untrustworthy lot as the drivers of the necessary Constitutional change.

    As you quite rightly pointed out the two pillars of democracy- the right to receive good governance free from ‘significant’ corruption by State officials both elected and appointed and the right of access to information to monitor the suitability of these officials to hold office- are sine qua non whether under a republican dispensation or the current ‘regimen’.

    Now that weakens your case for any major thrust towards any change to republic statehood.
    As the saying goes: ‘if it is not broken why change it’.

    What additional benefits would accrue from the change? The country is already controlled economically, financially, culturally and legally (by way of the many treaties and conventions signed onto including the CCJ) by “foreign” agents so what would be a name change in the Head of State represent other than window dressing in the form of changing the title of a mannequin.

  14. David Avatar
    David

    There is a disinterest in governance and civic type issues shown by Barbadians that makes it scary as hell. They will have to be brought kicking and screaming to the table. The state of things makes one question why do we bother to invest heavily in education. Was it Jeff who stated these types of issues are only discussed in BU on a regular basis?

  15. Jeff Cumberbatch Avatar
    Jeff Cumberbatch

    You have stated better than I ever could, David. It is not discussed on the call-in programmes…not in the letters to the Editor…not in the rum shops…not in the streets…only here.

    @Miller, I must have said it a thousand times…there would be no inherent change since we are already a de facto republic in nature

    To use your language from last night…at least it will be OUR mannequin!

  16. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    Very powerful analogy of the frog and the pot of water…absolutely apt to the apparent psychology of the Bajan “disinterest in governance and civic type issues”.

    But how does Bushie’s or any other plan takes us purposefully out of our comfort zone.

    The merits of a cooperative movement are unquestioned … so any plan based on that must have much value. BUT, didn’t the modern financial cooperative movement EVOLVE from the work of the Honorable Errol Barrow and his chief cohorts like Sir Frank Walcott?

    Was it not their ability to harness that labor collective into a political and social power structure that set a tone for positive ‘people power’ ? Was it not their cooperative efforts that forged “group[s] of talented, genuinely decent citizens…” into a colossus.

    Change is needed. Plan A or Plan B could work in ‘principle’ but realistically there is absolutely no truly NEW governance model under the sun.

    @Bushie no plan can foretell the future — there are failed cooperatives worldwide and locally. Your plan is as sound as you want it to be or as simplistic as the newest reincarnation of ‘More Power to the People’.

    There will always be talented folks so the absolute need – as it has been throughout time- is “genuinely decent citizens” to take us from this pit…

    Did Grenada not show us that as enlightened and justified as we are to truly demand change from oppression, that we can just as quickly devolve into another cabal of oppressors too!

    We know well that decent people can be disguised as a Coard or a Gairy; or a Barrow or a Walcott. It’s the results from those powerful cooperative minds that tells the final story…

    So let’s look for our Bishops or Barrows but let’s us not forget that the Coards and Thompsons are just as charming and talented AND understand the cooperative power just as well!

  17. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    @ Bushie, reading the older posts I realize I was nominated to your ‘cabinet’…oh lawd..not me sir. At this stage of life I am too easily disturbed by BS and tend to speak too bluntly in response.

    I would likely not last beyond the first meeting…well maybe unto the second at which point someone will seek my removal on the grounds that my reality check was ‘out of order’

    Thanks for the pick, but I quietly remove myself.

  18. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Same old, same old focus on the institutions rather than the quality and quantity of people running them. Of course there’s the ever present delusion, insularity and hypocrisy like the poster calling for ‘people’s rights’.

  19. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    CITI STRATEGIST WARNS OF ‘OILMAGEDDON’
    Global economy trapped in ‘death spiral’
    Published: 10 hours ago

    A CNBC article posted Friday as the top headline on the Drudge Report warned that the global economy is trapped in a “death spiral” dubbed by Citibank strategist Jonathan Stubb as “Oilmageddon” – referring to the dramatic drop in world oil prices and the possibility of a global economic meltdown, or “Armageddon.”

    “The world appears to be trapped in a circular reference death spiral,” Citi strategists led by Jonathan Stubbs said in a report Thursday, as reported by CNBC.

    “Stronger U.S. dollar, weaker oil/commodity prices, weaker world trade/petrodollar liquidity, weaker EM (and global growth) … and repeat. Ad infinitum, this would lead to Oilmageddon, a ‘significant and synchronized’ global recession and a proper modern-day equity bear market.”

    Whether the economy is up or down, Dave Ramsey’s “Total Money Makeover” is a proven plan for financial fitness

    Stubbs noted crude oil prices have tumbled by about 70 percent since the middle of 2014. The dollar, meanwhile, has risen about 20 percent against an international basket of currencies, with the prospect the world economy will grow sluggishly, increasing only by 2.7 percent in 2016, half the growth Citi projected only last month.

    Minimum wage jobs and foreign workers

    Meanwhile, popular economic blog ZeroHedge.com took the air out of President Obama’s announcement Friday that unemployment has fallen to 4.9 percent by pointing out that 70 percent of the job gains in January went to minimum-wage workers.

    ZeroHedge.com further reported that 1.4 million relatively high-paying manufacturing jobs lost by the U.S. economy since December 2007 have been replaced by 1.6 million relatively low-paying waiter and bartender jobs created in the U.S. economy.

    Since December 2007, considered by many to be the start of the current prolonged recession that ZeroHedge.com suggests has the possibility of developing into a second Great Depression, all job gains in the U.S. economy have gone to foreign-born workers.

    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, since December 2007, the U.S. has added just 186,000 native-born workers while adding 2.5 million foreign workers.

    Reasons for the 2016 stock market crash

    What appears to be shaping up as the “Crash of 2016” is being blamed on a historic drop in oil prices and the fall of Chinese currency.

    The price of crude oil has plunged to $26.30 a barrel, its lowest since May 2003. The problem today clearly is a global oil oversupply that has discredited the “peak oil” fears of previous decades that the world was exhausting the supply.

    In January, China allowed the biggest fall in the yuan in five months, causing trading in its stock market to be suspended twice. China’s currency has continued to drop since a 2 percent devaluation last August touched off a global stock-market selloff that prefigured what global equity markets are experiencing in January.

    On Feb. 2, Bloomberg reported the Chinese government is stepping up efforts to ward off a potential economic crisis in which an estimated $1 trillion in capital outflows left China last year and mounting bad debts threaten to cripple the Chinese banking system.

    On Dec. 16, 2015, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee decided to raise rates for the first time since June 29, 2006, increasing the target federal funds rate modestly, from zero to 25 basis points (0.25 points).

    WND has reported analysts’ warnings that the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy – under which it printed money to buy U.S. Treasury debt – was an artificial means to contain interest rates at near zero that would backfire in a broad stock-market selloff once the Fed began to raise benchmark interest rates.

    As WND reported last month, William White, the Swiss-based chairman of the OECD’s review committee and former chief economist of the Bank of International Settlements, has warned that the global financial system has become dangerously unstable, facing “an avalanche of bankruptcies” worse than 2007 at a time when central banks have run out of “macroeconomic ammunition” to fight downturns.

    “Debts have continued to build up over the last eight years and they have reached such levels in every part of the world that they have become a potent cause for mischief,” White said.

    “It will become obvious in the next recession that many of these debts will never be serviced or repaid, and this will be uncomfortable for a lot of people who think they own assets that are worth something,” he cautioned.

    White noted European banks already have admitted to holding $1 trillion of non-performing loans.

    “The only question is whether we are able to look reality in the eye and face what is coming in an orderly fashion, or whether it will be disorderly,” he said. “Debt jubilees have been going on for 5,000 years, as far back as the Sumerians.”

    Read more at http://www.wnd.com/

  20. ac Avatar
    ac

    Question to ask politicians when canvassing

    What has led you to pursue the job of politician? What is Your educational background ?

    i believe that based on a democratic governance any one has a legitimate right to pursue the highest office in the land .
    Such questioning is obtrusive and hampers and retards the mechanism which is simplistic in its equality giving an assurance that no one is denied a privilege of being instrumental in shaping the system.
    Unnecessary questioning which smacks of classism and elitism a daily occurrence which needs to be weed out of the many so called intellectual in barbados society

  21. balance Avatar
    balance

    Bush Tea February 5, 2016 at 10:05 PM #

    @ balance
    Never underestimate the value of intelligent critique…

    Never Bushie would i ever underestimate the value of intelligent critique but Ms Cole challenge to Jeff to accept the challenge has merit and still stands.

  22. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    We live. We go to the eternity of death.

    A few very popular musicians died recently but with the news of the death of Maurice White founder of Earth, Wind and Fire it brought home a few truths…

    Age,being one but moreso I was reminded that like today’s youth who are into their genres of music that EWF was a seminal pop music sound back then as a lad.

    To reflect now on the utter banality – but then nirvana – of dancing or listening to ‘Reasons’ ‘Fantasy’ or ‘I Write a Sound for You’ shocks me back to the reality that life moves on so ‘rapidly’…

    The interesting Album covers with Afrocentric imagery and symbols…a strong message in pics and sound.

    To a time never to be recaptured. to the men and women who made sweet music that soothed our daily troubles and gave us joy, even as they educated us…rest in peace!

  23. ac Avatar
    ac

    Another question taking from the manifesto

    Are You a peoples person?

    To many of the lower class in this society this type of questioning is a turned off as it seems to imply and divides with indifference to what you have and what you do not have ,with a wrong message being sent to those in the lower tier of society who might not be intellectual savvy but might have meaningful ideas that can help reform and re build a society for better with a result one of shutting them out

  24. David Avatar
    David

    @enfull

    Not following your last comment. The focus here appears to be on building awareness of governance issues. The discussion maybe about achieving this by forming a new party but there is also the opportunity for existing parties to integrate the message based on advocacy from the society. Further, some are arguing the current model needs to be overhauled based on performance of government in the last 50 years. In fact, if you read the manifestos of both parties you see promises made (never kept) about implementing integrity legislation, breathing life into the PAC committee etc. The political class has shown itself to be very loyal a system that breeds mendicancy. We need to overhaul the system by inserting an ethos where accountability is an everyday expectation. It is good we are discussing this concern on BU, we are ahead of the national conversation but it must begin somewhere. What is disappointing about the local media, it allows itself to be led by popular news.

  25. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    In a nutshell–systems depend on PEOPLE.

  26. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    Laboring and Prospering WITH the Lord.

    “UNLESS the LORD builds the house ( Nation, family, economy) They labor in vain who build it; UNLESS the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.” (Psa. 127:1) Emphasis added.

    “Righteousness exalts a NATION, But SIN is a reproach to any people.” (Prov. 14:34)

    There is such a thing as corporate righteousness, which brings corporate benefit!

    Its not just our political landscape that needs radical reform; but our social and cultural behaviour that is in the gutter of debased immorality!

    I fear that we are in the season, generation, era, of the End-Times of God’s linear timetable, and, without a radical reform of RIGHTEOUSNESS, which can only be obtained through God in Jesus Christ, in ALL areas of our national consciousness, there, really is no hope for us to ENDURE to the soon cataclysmic END!

  27. David Avatar
    David

    An people design systems.

  28. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ Georgie Porgie February 5, 2016 at 10:46 PM,

    Your analogy of the frog who finds himself inside a large pot of water is proof to me that you remain a puzzling enigma and one of BU’S most formidable and controversial contributor.

    I agree with your comments that we need a paradigm shift in direction as to how Barbados is governed. Heather’s contribution as always is excellent. This lady is Barbados equivalent of France’s Joan of Arc and England’s Queen Boadicea.

    @ Heather,

    I do not have the time to give a full commentary on your manifesto. I read it and was impressed with your lateral thinking. You appear to be a genuine, serious lady with big ideas on bringing change to Barbados. However, your manifesto is grafted onto an existing corrupt political foundation which has been subsiding since the days of Errol Barrow. We can only bring real change to Barbados by undergoing complete transformation.

    How do we bring change to Barbados and show that we are serious players? I would suggest that we should critically evaluate the works of all of our Prime Ministers whilst they were in power. If it can be proven that they were corrupt and colluded with businessmen and women at the expense of her citizens then all parties concerned must be sentenced, and be stripped of ALL their assets.

    This would just be a start.

    There is only one way to bring change to Barbados: disassemble her structure brick by brick; dismantle her foundation and then rebuild the country.

    The Battle of Algiers:

  29. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ac
    Don’t you read the contents of a bottle or the label on a package a box or a tin to see its contents before making a purchase? Women shop around, checking prices and try on clothes before making a purchase. When investing in a car does not a person ask the salesman all the relevant questions and then test drive it and ask their mechanic for an opinion? When purchasing a house whether it is new or old, does not a person make all the relevant checks and inspections and ask all the relevant questions? Prior to conducting business or hiring a new employee it is a standard practice to interview that person and if they are suitable do a background check. Why should a politician that the people are hiring be an exception?

  30. ac Avatar
    ac

    What good is Reform when those seeeking change builds a framework to exclude the ordinary person views and ideas disguse under an umbrella of betterment

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @Heather

    Why waste a good argument on Wayne Dread?

  32. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Simple reason Hearther..politicians and their yardfowls do not see ministers of government as servants and employees of the citizens, they need stripping of the notion that they are “elites” a most stupid word that can ever be ascribed to a politician.

    Politicians need to be returned to their place by reminding them that when elected by the people, they are being hired, as employees, to work for the people, therefore they must be INTERVIEWED for their jobs, just like any potential employee who will be paid a monthly salary, with perks, by their employer……these particular jackasses do not see it in that light, it all gets lost in that arrogant glow of “victory” after they have been hired….elected….and have the new found status and new found friends which enables them to commit political mischief.

    Although we already know the politicians will lie and tell the electorate what they think they want to hear, to get that job.

    Yardfowls do not function in reality, they live in the comfort zone of delusions.

  33. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    *Heather……

  34. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Zoe February 6, 2016 at 9:24 AM
    “I fear that we are in the season, generation, era, of the End-Times of God’s linear timetable, and, without a radical reform of RIGHTEOUSNESS, which can only be obtained through God in Jesus Christ, in ALL areas of our national consciousness, there, really is no hope for us to ENDURE to the soon cataclysmic END!”

    Now when will the end come? On Monday 8th February, the start of the Chinese New Year of the Fire Monkey?
    The only end time from above will be in the form of a comet or a rogue asteroid ten times bigger than the one due to do a flyby of Earth around March 5th.

    But my dear Zoe if true “RIGHTEOUSNESS” can only be obtained through your Jesus Christ where does that leave the millions of Jews, dead or alive? After all the people whom you defend to the hilt are also your god’s chosen people.

    Zoe, you are sitting on a nest of hornets while being gored by the horns of your own dilemma.
    Can the Jews today be your god El’s chosen people even though they continue to worship the bull and the ram instead of the fish?

    One is indeed shockingly taken aback when you make reference in your cut and paste robotic style to anything to do with ancient Sumeria. But we would let sleeping dogs lie, unless you want to pull at its tail instead of its coccyx.

  35. David Avatar
    David

    Many of you keep retreating to the comfortable arguments of blaming politicians. Look to strengthen the governance system to hold the actors accountable.

  36. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ ac
    You missed the section under communication as well as re the environment. Read the entire document again. At present your government does not talk to the people. If it did, there would never have been a Cahill WtE and I can go on. Stop nick picking.

  37. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ ac neither do they speak with the people.

  38. David Avatar
    David

    To borrow a quoted from the academician in our midst.

    “we subsist in a theatre of the absurd.”

  39. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    millertheanunnaki February 6, 2016 at 10:57 AM #

    Chuckle….now why did you not let sleeping dogs lie…came across the below and must agree….never truer words spoken.

    https://www.facebook.com/a.revolt.digital.anarchy/posts/1304049202945876

  40. Violet C Beckles Avatar
    Violet C Beckles

    Jeff Cumberbatch February 5, 2016 at 5:28 PM #

    https://www.facebook.com/Coalition-of-Unified-Parties-Hon-Alex-MitchellEl-President-427129324101550/?ref=hl

  41. Jeff Cumberbatch Avatar
    Jeff Cumberbatch

    To defend one of ac’s points…what indeed would be a satisfactory answer to the question concerning educational background? Seventh Standard? High School? Associate Degree? UWI? Master’s? Doctorate? Post Doc? Academic? University of Life?

    Ms Cole, I clearly understand and sympathize with your concern for good governance, but you need always to be more specific…

  42. David Avatar
    David

    @Jeff

    Have we not had the very same ac questioning the qualification of Mia Mottley? Have we not had others questioning the qualification of Denis Lowe? Why not create an avenue to deflate these kinds of distracting arguments. All it does is to feed political rhetoric, polarize and soak up energy.

  43. Jeff Cumberbatch Avatar
    Jeff Cumberbatch

    Thanks, VSB! Appreciate it.

  44. Jeff Cumberbatch Avatar
    Jeff Cumberbatch

    David, I don’t think that we disagree. I do not think that governance is essentially an intellectual exercise,… just goodwill and empathy for the plight of one’s fellowman is needed in my view. Why then a question as to educational background?

    AC is just being AC and the others similarly!

  45. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    @exclaimer
    How many years , do you think it will take to prove the PM, Ministers, MP, PS, Top civil Servants or any top Businessmen/Women in Barbados is corrupted and who in Barbados will be the Commissioners? who will appoint then? the PM ,HA,HAHA, our Government establish systems from 1966 were asked to focused on a sketch of EWB imagination of a better Barbados, but that sketch over the years developed too many blurred outlines to defined, mainly because of the myopic persons that run this country

  46. David Avatar
    David

    There are those  words Governance and Accountably.

    Accountability and Good Governance

    Can a State bring an action in tort for misfeasance in public office? Florencio Marin v. Attorney General of Belize, [2011] CCJ 9 (AJ) highlighted that two former ministers were alleged to have transferred land to a company owned by one of them for something of sufficient value in return (consideration). Remedies include dismissal from office, disciplinary actions, prosecution, and the imposition of legislation for a breach of trust and integrity.

    https://caribbeantradelaw.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/5720/

  47. David Avatar
    David

    Folk cannot have the cake and eat it too Sir.

  48. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    David February 5, 2016 at 5:52 PM #

    I agree with you that for CUP to be relevant,they need to do more than the fb page,which I just looked at.Other than corruption and land fraud what else is it about?

  49. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ Jeff
    Generalization or not, it is time that the people take control of that political exercise where a candidate turns up at their door smiling sweetly, they tell you what the party is willing to do and you meekly accept without asking any questions. I hope my suggestions to question them and make them sign a legally binding contract with you will start the ball rolling for a new era in politics in Barbados. It cannot be business as usual.

  50. Violet C Beckles Avatar
    Violet C Beckles

    David February 5, 2016 at 5:52 PM #

    You guys push CUP on BU and FByet there is no website like Solutions Barbados for example to disseminate your manifesto or philosophy. You are not on the radio shows, neither do you write articles to traditional media etc. How will people hear about CUP and know what you represent if you want to achieve mass appeal?

    On 5 February 2016 at 21:39, Barbados Underground wrote: @@@@@

    By Now David BU , You may know that what we hold in our hands can change this Nation for the Better. Many of the sitting Ministers including the PM, AG, MOF, COP, DPP may have to see jail time for these crimes,

    Along with many heads of the Government Departments, Most of the Land holders including the CHURCH and many Banks like FIRST CARIBBEAN AND CLICO .

    When the power was placed in our hands, then to the COP Dottin under PM David,AG Freundel Stuart, The crook Ass PM NOW,
    The Nation,CBC, VOB, Brass tacs? Barbados Today, after Roy Morris leave for the Nation After the last Election of 2013 buying votes we were shut down,
    The DBLP and COW and family seem to SHUT us out “CUP”, CENSORED for all new media in BIM,

    What backs ALL money loan in and out side Barbados is based on Land titles, Plantation Deeds is root Title, So until People in BU and other Places stick this in their Bell Housings, Nothing they write or talk of can change.

    We do not have to re-write the laws , We just have to enforce them no matter the Pimp titles of the crooks,

    We can show more than 70 years of Clear Title lands, over 90% of all land dealings in the Media with the IADB 60,000,000$ in the City or even 160,000,000 $ dealing with FOUR SEASONS, NHC AND UDC lands. COW lands he move on and sold.

    Our records even say the MOH/ NHC will not pay out unless you can show CLEAR TITLE. But yet Barbados is run on good title , that is not equal,

    By the time you go to get your CLEAR TITLE land to be paid , these bitches REMOVE THE RECORDS FROM THE Archives and the land Registry,

    Best Lawyer posted on Naked Departure is Samantha Cummins, of NHC then to Land Registry then moved again as we were told? NHC again?

    SO this is DEEP BU< So dealing with the Most truth we know the CUP will push and apply the law before the ACT of 166 pages to launder land,, All Land have an owner ,,,Most of the People and lawyer today do not own what they have papers for, The BLP frig up this and the DLP looking to make this their turn to take what they can get,

    WHAT IS TAKEN MUST BE RETURN, WHO will benefit from this will be the People and not the lawyers and Ministers, So we are looking to remove them ,

    Beatrice Henry and Violet Beckles leave running Orders that We have to apply too,

    All those with us who look to sell out their plan , Now are All DEAD ,, even her Son Dennis,

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