The 50th Anniversary Letter
As part of the 50th Anniversary celebration the following letter will be mailed to Barbadian households. On the face of it there is nothing wrong with the Prime Minister communicating with his people about what it should mean to attain Golden Jubilee status (50 years of Independence). The question Prime Minister why not communicate with the same vigour about other matters of public interest. This is the reason many are disappointed and have labelled you as just another politician who has seen an opportunity to pursue political self interest. Almost 8 years in office and how many press conferences have you held? How many Q&A briefings after Cabinet meetings?
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3- PM sends a letter for Barbadians to join in 50 years of celebration amidst all that island faces. What an insult to add to peoples already bleeding injuries. This is what is important to the Prime Minister. All other matters are not the concern of Barbadians. So Piss Poor.
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Any idiot (well perhaps AC excepted) can write a letter, have it vetted, and, after multiple reviews, come up with a reasonable document that sends a decent message.
So far, this PM has not managed a single public presentation where he has not come across as a complete jackass…
Starting when, on winning elections, he pronounced on ‘vote buying…’; peaking with having a list of CLICO policy owners; and up to his idiotic speech on the very launch of the year-long celebrations, the man has confirmed his unsuitability for ANY leadership position.
Obviously somebody advised him to stop making himself look foolish by trying to speak to the public ..and to have his staff send these letters instead…
After all, it is better to be silent and be considered a Froon, than to come in public and confirm it….
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Where did the money coming from, and how much was it to send these letters? You haven’t the money to issue ‘2014 tax refunds, but you have money to waste on such foolishness. Let us hear from you on the issue Mr PM, where the 50th celebration trumps the welfare of the citizens……………
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RETURN TO SENDER!
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@ David
Is that the same signature as the one on the CAHILL document sent on the PM’s behalf about the agreement that ‘had not yet reached his desk’…?
Clearly we can now see what is happening… Just like with Caswell’s signature, Public servants are sending documents as they please and attaching signatures gleaned from the Driver’s License scan to authenticate these documents.
Perhaps Froon was being honest about his ignorance about CAHILL after all…
Soon we shall likely see a document from Caswell declaring his union’s support for the 50th anniversary celebrations and endorsing the “excellent work being done” by Froon and his band… duly signed…. LOL ha ha ha
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David;
Very good post from Bushtea above. Is it possible to repost the Cahill document with the FS signature here so everyone can compare it with the one on the PM’s letterhead above?
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Very good insight especially knowing the sources of the documents linked to ND
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@Are-we-there-yet
Is the link you and Bush Tea requested?
https://barbadosunderground.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/cahill-energy-scam-and-local-connections-exposed/primeminister_letter_to_cahill-1/
https://barbadosunderground.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/cahill-energy-scam-and-local-connections-exposed/primeminister_letter_to_cahill-2/
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Same signature, unless Stuart is to ashamdd to say his signature was replicated or copied and pasted unto the Cahill scam, very doubtful though.
AC….you fraud…lol
The money Fruendel is taking to bullshit the electorate re an elaborate independence celebration…..taxpayer’s money…would be better spent fixing all those bad road in St. James and other areas on the island and fix all those street lights that are not working and can cause people to be attacked by criminals at night…that’s what Fruendel should be doing, no one wants to hear your nonsensical and unnecessary supplications to a god who has nothing to do with the crap going on in your pathetic system of governance.
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Bush Tea February 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM #
Skippah……ah duss got ah bone to pic wid BBE&yuh….PM tanking ‘e for ‘e guidance&blessing……yuh meen um is BBE dat create duh BBs dah got we in dis doo doo an’ yuh still wacking fuh ‘e…..shame,shame pun yuh&BBE.
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David;
The signatures appear to be a match. Is this why there has been no apparent pushback to the BU documents?
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I always read such political offerings with a cynical mind. So what jumps out at me…”We must continue to make the transition to real independence”
What I ask is “real independence”? Republic?
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From my vantage point the two signatures does not match . for one the lettering and formation although close shows breaks in attachment and completion.There are even more clues suggesting fraud
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Got mine already. An extraordinary piece of nothing; as limp as a piece of cooked spaghetti.
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ac – as a lawyer the PM therefore has a good case for a lawsuit for the fraud etc. Perhaps you should draw it to his attention for action. After all, he advised the Speaker to hire a lawyer.
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What surprised me about these letters, to my household , is that they came from two different sources,which I am not familiar with.
(a) ” 50th Anniversary of Independence Secretariat”
(b) ” ?????Natural Heritage Department.” ( first word illegible)
This government found it difficult to maintain employees of Beautify Barbados, but could form ,no doubt high paying jobs, for a song and dance.
General Election canvassing starts here.
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I also noted the “transition to real independence” and concluded that it was a veiled reference to becoming a republic. Does this mean that Errol Barrow failed to get true independence for the country?
On another note, perhaps the academics can explain whether the use of “signature moment” is more appropriate than “signal moment”. Just asking!
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LOLL, are we serious….If in fact there is some alleged fraudulent cut & paste taking place wid “Public servants … sending documents as they please and attaching signatures gleaned from the Driver’s License scan to authenticate these documents” how in the name of commonsense will we be able to glean that the sig. is fraudulent if the damn thing was originally AUTHENTIC????
Does the PM or other people sign docs which they know are in the public domain differently than those more securely held….I think not!
Many smart people use various tactics (like that basic one) to try keep their signature ‘safe’ but how widespread is that and how effective are the tactics really if a scammer is truly skilled ?
So do we perceive that a PM whose sig, is all over the place, can really forestall that level of basic fraud!
Obviously there are other checks and balances (level 1, 2 and forensic as the experts say) to be able to determine if documents are valid but in this modern electronic era where ‘everyone can be a CIA document spook’ comparing on face value a possible stolen signature is NOT one of them.
Just saying.
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Hopi February 24, 2016 at 9:20 AM #
RETURN TO SENDER!
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Venezuela Is Running Out of Toilet Paper.
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Why are we discussing Barbados moving to a Republic. Has the PM informed the nation this is where he is headed? Has he solicited the support of the Opposition given that a constitutional amendment is required?
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One has to be able to pick up code words. There is a difference between entering into discussion about and drawing attention something perceived.
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Agree, then why is the traditional media not calling out the government on it?
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@Are-we-there-yet
The Cahill documents are authentic. Don’t you see the government is unable to manage a coherent response to Cahill? The huff and puff from the minister is obviously to buy time to facilitate an exit strategy.
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A scan signature can easily be detected use particular software digital scan signatures. Also differences can be determine under magnification that can easily distinquish between the scan and the wet signature. The Cunt that is the AC is an incredible palin cock. 3- PM has proven himself dishonourable and the cunt AC continues to holla like a palin cock.
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Lol..AC, I am going to state the obvious because you refuse to. If the PMs signature on the Cahill scam is fraudulent, why did the PM, not call in the fraud squad, falsifying a PMs signature is a serious criminal act, just like buying votes and seeing it but doing nothing In the way of calling in the police.
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@David
you know exactly why the ‘traditional media’ do as they do. They would like to keep their jobs. Waking sleeping dogs, especially when you know they are Dobermans, is never smart?
The best strategy is occasionally to do or say nothing. Hope it gets lost in the clutter. Or something very positive happens which makes past faux pas’s less important.
@Col B
seems to be THE
http://www.heritage.gov.bb/
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one woulds not expect a thief to convict themselves the fact that you guys are putting up a defense says a lot
the other issue in the letter which was brought up in parliament were segments of significant missing details excluded from the letter documented on BU and ND
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The traditional media fall short on many counts. That is why BU’s role is so important in raising awareness. Thank you.
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Has the PM offically asked Cahill where the letter came from ???
Neither party confirmed or denied the authenticity of the letter ??
If Cahill validates it’as authentic the the PM should resign .
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@Redfactor
Why don’t you call Claire to ask for an update on the project.
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David February 24, 2016 at 3:29 PM #
“Why are we discussing Barbados moving to a Republic? Has the PM informed the nation this is where he is headed? Has he solicited the support of the Opposition given that a constitutional amendment is required?”
@ David
Although this article is not about “Barbados moving to a Republic,” your above comments caused me to remember certain comments General Secretary of the DLP, George Pilgrim made relative to the 50th anniversary celebrations and republic status.
According to the Monday, March 23, 2015 edition of the “The Guardian,”:
“Freundel Stuart, the prime minister, tells colleagues that island nation will have its OWN HEAD OF STATE by 50TH ANNIVERSARY of INDEPENDENCE in 2016.”
“GEORGE PILGRIM, GENERAL SECRETARY of the DLP, CONFIRMED the DEVELOPMENT and said the CHANGE was EXPECTED to COINCIDE with the 50th anniversary of Barbados’s independence in 2016.”
Pilgrim further mentioned that a draft bill proposing the Queen’s removal will be voted on by Parliament.
“We don’t expect any opposition coming from the opposition party.” “This will move the country through to the next major step in the process of nationhood,” he added.
David, why would George Pilgrim reveal this information (as reported in the international press) if the DLP was not planning to move Barbados to republic status in November 2016?
It makes sense……. Barrow is REMEMBERED for moving Barbados to INDEPENDENCE in 1966. Therefore, 50 years later, Stuart wants to be REMEMBERED as the PM who moved Barbados to REPUBLIC STATUS.
It is interesting to note that the yearlong celebrations can be described as a “DLP thing” and not a national event, since the organizing committee is predominately DLP and does not include members from the civil society or the Opposition.
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@Artax
Good comment.
How are we (the people) expected to grow pride and nationhood if a PM is reluctant to communicate/speak to his people.
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@ David
I just did and it went to voice mail
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Such poor forgery representing official signature of the PM signature on the Cahill document also excluded in the printed undersigned signature is the RT Hon
the official stationery and letter heading on the Cahill letter missing important insignia documentation representative of barbados goverance
Using the smallest of untrained eye it can be now concluded the Cahill letter was fraudulent
David why did you join forces with con artist and scalliwags to bring down the govt
The govt is patience and indeed giving you and others enough rope to hang yourself !
Peace
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David February 24, 2016 at 5:41 PM #
@Artax
Good comment.
How are we (the people) expected to grow pride and nationhood if a PM is reluctant to communicate/speak to his people.
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They say that communication is a two way street. We may also communicate to the Prime Minister via the avenue of a Frequent Visitor. We had the Adopt-a Kilometre project. Perhaps we should start an Adopt-a -Frequent Visitor programme , if we want the echo of our voices to be heard.
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I got my letters already. One for every member of my household, many, many sheets of paper, including one member who has lived thousands of miles away for the past 13 years. I don’t know about wunna, but I glanced at mine briefly, balled it up and chucked it in the garbage. And then I wondered how come the government has money to send silly 50th anniversary letters to every damn person who is on the electoral roll and yet has no money to buy toilet paper for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
If you doubt me try using the visitor’s toilet which is on the ground floor to the right of the main Martindale’s Road entrance.
We really need t get our priorities right.
Toilet paper before letter paper, since most of these letters are going straight into the garbage anyhow.
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@Artax
It makes sense……. Barrow is REMEMBERED for moving Barbados to INDEPENDENCE in 1966. Therefore, 50 years later, Stuart wants to be REMEMBERED as the PM who moved Barbados to REPUBLIC STATUS.
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The difference is that Barrow was in a Forward gear,overdrive . Stuart is moving between Neutral and Reverse,
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@ Hopi February 24, 2016 at 9:20 AM #
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Ha, ha. ha….friend of mine did just this.
I threw the three that have come to my home so far in the garbage…….did not bother to read them neither have I read the one posted. I just am not interested in anything the PM would have to say. If he cannot address the people of this country on any matter why should I read anything he condesended to write to us.
What annoyed me is that this government does not care how Barbadians feel , they do what the hell they like with the attitude …….like it or lump it, we have the power to do as we like, there is nothing you mortals can do about it.
The QEH does not have basic supplies like toilet paper, hand towels and disposable gloves but these morons have money to buy quality paper to write tripe. Some government offices do not have enough stationery to do their daily jobs.
Would an ad in a Sunday Advocate not be cheaper? they could have done this as for sure not too many people buy the Advocate!
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@ac
Are you the official voice of the PM
If so please post a letter from the RT Hon man with all the bells and whistles on it so we can compare it to the other examples.
You are a sad sad sycophant.
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@ Prodigal Son,
Why throw the letters in the garbage when you could make paper air planes with them ?
You ent learn dat skill when you did a boy ? lol
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@ ac February 24, 2016 at 5:56 PM #
“The govt is patience and indeed giving you and others enough rope to hang yourself!”
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So are the people of Barbados……..we are patient, we are waiting on you dems.
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And don’t tell me that the people/visitors/staff/patients steal the toilet paper. These same people/visitors/staff/patients also visit the fast food restaurants and say what you like about the fried grease merchants there is ALWAYS soap and toilet paper in their establishments.
Maybe the QEH/ministry of Health should ask the fast food merchants how they manage to keep basic supplies in their toilets.
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LOL, Hants!
I am still waiting on my 2014 tax refund.
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It is a form letter. Everybody knows that a form letter has no value as a collector’s item, prime Minister’s signature or no.
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@ Prodigal Son February 24, 2016 at 6:07 PM
Prodigal, Barbadians are only getting what they deserved. They elected this DLP administration will full knowledge of what they did and what they were capable of. Nothing but to lie to and deceive the innocent and naive people.
You were one of a very few who saw through the whole Fumble & Co scam but where did it get you for outing the liars and crooks other than being branded a prophet of doom and gloom?
How could Bajans reelect a government headed by a man who made it clearly known he is an intimate friend and admirer of Leroy Greenverbs Parris?
It’s a pity the innocent fools have to pay for the wicked guilty.
But I am aware you are a person who holds strong to the view as expressed in your book of guidance that whatever a man sows so shall he reap. In other words karma is a bitch that bites the wicked in their tail.
Fumble the liar has achieved his lifelong ambition of being someone of ignoble importance. It’s time for his exit. Liars and deceivers end up only one place. In a reincarnated web of spinning top in hell:
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
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@ Artax February 24, 2016 at 5:27 PM #
……………Pilgrim further mentioned that a draft bill proposing the Queen’s removal will be voted on by Parliament.
“We don’t expect any opposition coming from the opposition party.” “This will move the country through to the next major step in the process of nationhood,” he added”……….
Artax,
I was told that the BLP are not about helping Freundel Stuart to create any legacy, much as the party had agree to take the country to republican status. The DLP led by David Thompson gave the BLP such a hard time that OSA backed down……and the dems think that the BLP is going to help them now? Maybe OSA and Agard can help them out.
The PM has been a piss poor PM and he is now looking to change the fact that he is the worst PM this country has ever had……………..and that is a fact!
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Amen, miller!
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@ Redfactor101 February 24, 2016 at 6:12 PM
“If so please post a letter from the RT Hon man with all the bells and whistles on it so we can compare it to the other examples.”
And this is to a man who doesn’t know his elbow from his arse where “Republicanism” is concerned.
Does the jackass of a colonial ape understand he will no longer be able to assign himself the title of “RT Hon” after his dabble with the republic project called Barbados?
How would Lord Muttley be preferred to be addressed? As the Lord Most High Pontificate of Marchfield and its colony of Barbados including Ilaro Court and Bay Street?
Come on King Stuart, you just can’t have your bread in a fit of thirst and ask others to eat cake because of hunger.
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It is the height of (h)ignorance if the government has not engaged the Opposition on the matter of moving to a Republic IF true..
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AC…are you threatening BU and Naked Departure on behalf of the Stuart government, have you never heard about people who live in glass houses should not be throwing stones or in this case giving anyone rope…..just saying.
“The govt is patience and indeed giving you and others enough rope to hang yourself!”
Read your nonsense again.
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A regular caller called into Brasstacks sometime ago and queried why the public/Government don’t offer more support; such as security etc. to past PM’s and Ministers’s – This is one PM that does NOT deserve to be mentioned as a past PM of Barbados – NO RESPECT. You get what you give. All HIGH things MUST come down.
Send the letters to who voted you in!!
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@ac
This government may govern
But don’t forget .. People rule.
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This DLP government is so thin skinned, selfish and ignorant that it would be beneath them to include any BLP or independants in their plans for this 50th celebrations.
They see this as DLP thing, plain and simple. They see this as a way to calling a snap election right after the goody, goody feelings after the celebrations. So the morons had no intention of including anyone else but I guess the poll results from the weekend has catspraddled whatever snap election plans they had. Fumble prides himself in the fact that he believes no man can read him.
They must be concerned with the poll. It was not conducted by Peter Wickham so the usual sabouteurs are seemingly silent…………..oh never mind, Kellman has spoken…..once it is nothing to do with his ministry, he has an opinion on it!
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At least they are climbing off their lofty high horses and taking some advice.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/78225/ellerslie-hosting-panel-discussion-republic
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Dear Mr PM,
I received you letter while my dog was shitting
Due to the scarcity of grass
I used it to wipe his arse!
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Prodigal
You are on the ball.George Pilgrim came out not defending but acknowledging that the poll is a wake up call and that is a departure from the usual dismissive rhetoric we have become accustomed to hearing.It would be interesting to know who sponsored it.
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islandgal February 24, 2016 at 8:02 PM #
Dear Mr PM,
I received you letter while my dog was shitting
Due to the scarcity of grass
I used it to wipe his arse!
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You better hold onto that piece of paper, cause if this government is given another term that is what the Bajan dollar is going to look like.
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The members and supporters of this DLP administration are doing all they can to bring down the government themselves.
We have a situation in Barbados where several Transport Board buses REMAIN PARKED at the Weymouth Depot because the Board has been UNABLE to LICENSE and INSURE those units.
During his last budget presentation, Sinckler announced that EFFECTIVE January 2016, the VAT threshold would be increased from $80,000 to $200,000 per annum. As at today, Wednesday, February 24, 2016, the government has not taken the necessary legislation to parliament to be DEBATED and RATIFIED. As a result, businesses that fall UNDER the threshold must continue to collect and file VAT returns.
Under these and other circumstances, Barbadians are being “patient and indeed giving (this administration) enough rope to hang (itself).”
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The next Cahill-style disaster is around the corner, maybe BEFORE next elections. Mark my words!
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“We have a situation in Barbados where several Transport Board buses REMAIN PARKED at the Weymouth Depot because the Board has been UNABLE to LICENSE and INSURE those units.”
Art..why is the government unable to license and insure these buses, hope is not a matter of having no money, since they have millions of the taxpayers dollars to waste on independence celebrations and they refuse to raise bus fares, which would help make up the short fall…and with their usual political poison of buying votes using taxpayers dollars and compromising taxpayer funded entities, they also refuse to make the school kids pay at least 50 cents for the daily bus service, which would also make up that shortfall…..so why are they unable to license and insure the buses…bunch of political idiots.
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LOL @ Well Well
“…hope is not a matter of having no money…”
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Bushie can just imagine such a bunch of idiots ….’having no money’ for their left hand to pay their right hand for licenses.
However a fellow who does not grasp the difference between .07 and 0.7 very likely would insist that the Transport Board physically pay the license fee with cheques drawn from the Consolidated Fund into the Licensing Authority ….to be deposited into the Consolidated fund….
These are the kind of people who withdraw their bank savings every month and count it to make sure all is well…before redepositing the money.
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Lol…..if those are whom the electorate consistently choose to represent their interests, maybe that is what thry deserve, they are getting what they paid for…….Bushman.
It’s interesting to note that despite the knowledge of the government that the insurance carrier for Transport Board buses CGI is the direct cause of the massive liabilty on that taxpayer owned entity, the government absolutely refuses to do anything about and this is also despite CGI being given their contract of destruction by the previous government and despite CGIs owner Peter Harris being close friend and confidante of the opposition leader Mia Mottley….now just imagine what will happen in 2018 when, as people are predicting, Mottley takes control of the government. ….what is the inaction of the present government in relation to saving the transportation sector managed by government telling us, especially with Michael Lashley currently at the helm which would put him in direct contact with Harris…..a paradise of corruption.
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@Well Well, come on, get SERIOUS. ” CGIs owner Peter Harris being close friend and confidante of the opposition leader Mia Mottley” So is that to suggest that he was not a close friend and confidante of deceased DLP power brokers and surely remains close and confident to those still alive.
The Harris’ of the world are not interested in THE personality they are interested in those who control the power…wherever and whatever party they call home.
That’s as plain as day. Linking Harris or Bizzy to one party is irrelevant, of course.
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De Word…how could it be irrelevant. ….they are not linked to one party, but to both political parties and are both corruptors of the island and enabled by corrupt politicians of both parties, hence the reason we are all, including yourself, on here discussing the corruption that has effectively destroyed most everything that is good about the island, reducing it to laughingstock status….so enlighten me De Word, how is none of these relationships relevant to the brutal truth.
It is as plain as day that you dont see the significance of the damage those corrupt relations have caused…so justify them for me so I can see the positives.
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It beats me why the Government has no money to pay for the insurance and licensing of the Transport Board buses. The term “Money for old Rope”, aptly apply to what the Government is doing to vehicle owners in this country. They collect scores of millions of dollars from motorists, via road tax, driving licenses, over-inflated costs of petrol and diesel, VAT on insurance and replacement parts and servicing. And what do we get back? Sweet FA, but potholed roads which wreck our tyres, brakes and suspension parts ,on which we must pay VAT,and dark highways, as government is unable to replace street lights.
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The cost of all the paper used for this useless letter that people threw into the garbage could have insured a few buses very well!
Priorities……..his government does not know anyhting about priorites……maybe only anything to do with lining their pockets and the few whites who allegedly have them in their pockets!
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Minister Kellman’s quick and arrogant dismissal of the recent Poll results, tells us what Kellman and his government think of Barbadians. Like the poor,as Jesus lamented, this administration believes that the people of Barbados will always be there for them.
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Just wondering if our brother includes us as well?
http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld-africa-35663018&h=JAQGpgfYv&s=1
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@Well Well & Consequences February 25 at 8:34 AM… your speed reading and multitasking blog posts definitely affected your comprehension re my earlier post.
I said that “The Harris’ of the world are not interested in THE personality they are interested in those who control the power…wherever and whatever party they call home.” And concluded that “Linking Harris or Bizzy to one party is irrelevant,.,”
Reread leisurely and reflect that my remarks and YOUR “both political parties … are both corruptors of the island and enabled by corrupt politicians of both parties” are saying the same thing.
Harris or Bizzy or Parris or whomever entreats the power-broker…thus it is IRRELEVANT what is the name of that broker or which party.
No disrespect or illegal imputation intended with this remark but to reinforce the point. If Bostic or Hinkson was in charge in Roebuck St then they would be the one courted with the money and favors… if Jones or whomever on the other side same thing.
You write too much. Stop and read leisurely sometimes!
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POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK!
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Alex Macdonald on television lying again where is the proof that OECS workers are more productive than local workers. The unemployment rate in the OECS averages 25%. Grenada is as high as forty percent. Barbados unemployment rate is around 11% that static helps to debunk Macdonald’s nonsense. Starting with demitting office at Bartel or LIME without giving Sir Roy the apology he promised this power hungry boy thinks Bajans foolish. We dare you to bring proof on your ignorant productivity comparison.
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LOLLL @ Dr. GP. Touché. I will take that under your careful medical advisementation!
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De Word…if you reread my very first post I too started out by linking Harris to both political parties, so nothing re the relationships between the political parties and the corrupt business people could be irrelevant…..it’s well known they are all in bed together, have been for well over 2 decades.
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Dont tell me how much to write, I have seen your long winded posts and just scroll past them, never tried to edit any of them or correct you because I feel I know more, I just comment without making waves…De Word.
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David when is the BU classroom going to see fresh news reels consist of letters and fraudulent documentation on the Cahill issue??????//// a little birdie told me to ask? but also informed me that your presence around those who might have access and participated in such fraudulent activity would not be welcomed because your are a snitch and can no longer be trusted
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@ac
This proves you’re a mouthpiece for the Lowe life’s
They can’t talk or write for themselves?????
Sick sycophant!!!!!!/!///
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That’s how the ACs get when their well orchestrated set up of the BU folk don’t work…that is no joke, all that hard work of psychotic yardfowlism yesterday was for nought..she must be exhausted this morning and cant put in an appearance until later.
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Colonel Buggy February 25, 2016 at 3:07 PM #
“Minister Kellman’s quick and arrogant dismissal of the recent Poll results, tells us what Kellman and his government think of Barbadians.”
If you were to read Kellman’s comments relative to National Housing Corporation’s debt of over half billion dollars, you would also give you another idea what he thinks about Barbadians.
In the Sunday, February 14, 2016 edition of the Sunday Sun, the minister is reported as having said: “You DO NOT have the BANK FACILITIES. You do not have the LOAN FACTOR [nor] SUBSIDIES coming from Government but yet the projects are being completed. They might not be completed at the pace that people would expect but it is one thing to think anything from a theoretical point of view but I have to be very practical,” he said, noting that progress was ATTRIBUTED to more EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT.
The new report went on to state that Kellman said the DEBT WAS NOT CREATED by the CURRENT BOARD.
Kellman says he is an accountant, but even a 17 year old who has done CXC basic accounting would know that, if the NHC gave away units free of cost, thereby reducing income by significant amounts, and in the absence of bank facilities, loans or subsidies, the corporation would OWE suppliers for materials if it completed the projects or OWE third party contractors for constructing the projects. In other words, under both circumstances, the NHC completed these projects “on credit.”
Mr. Kellman should tell Barbadians how was the over $40 million the NHC received in monthly advances WITHOUT PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL, was disbursed.
He should also account for the $87,945,336.13, which, according to items 2.40 and 2.41 on page 26 of the Auditor General’s Report 2014:
“There were a number of advances for the financial year for which THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE that they were made from any capital appropriation.”
“There was no EVIDENCE that these ADVANCES were VOTED by Parliament. It should also be noted that these entities are wholly owned by the Crown and HAVE LITTLE OR NO MEANS OF GENERATING INCOME TO REPAY THESE ADVANCES.”
Is this what you call efficient management, Mr. Kellman?
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Wunnah see wuh I tell wunnuh? The ac consortium is nuff, nuff idiots, hear.
If BU’s CAHILL INFORMATION is FRAUDULENT, then “those who might have ACCESS and PARTICIPATED in such FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY” would not have ANY REASON to FEAR David being a “snitch” and suggest that “he can no longer trusted.”
As such, common sense would suggest that if the “participants” believe David is indeed a snitch and can no longer be trusted, it obviously means the information they gave him HAS to be AUTHENTIC, and they may be experiencing some anxiety because he RIGHTFULLY exposed the documents for Barbadians to read.
Additionally, no one from this DLP administration (well….. except the ACs) has gone to the media or any other forum to refute CAHILL allegations or presented any proof to substantiate that the CAHILL documents are fraudulent.
HENCE, UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, WE CAN CONCLUDE THAT ALL INFORMATION PRESENTED TO BU PERTAINING TO CAHILL IS AUTHENTIC.
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No comments, no progress on the project, no investors, no construction in sept as promised by Cahill,no EIA submission or publuc notices, no communication, and WHY???????
Because all the proof of the scam published by BU is correct and true.
Face it AC/ac you’re handlers have misrepresented everything related to this Cahill monstrosity and you the mouthpieces of the lame duck ministers have been duped also.
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David et al
This week on Brasstacks someone keeps calling in and saying that a company is about to fold due to debts of 50m thereby creating more unemployment……..does anyone know about this?
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I hope you all appreciate how caring this govt is….The MoH has found land for squatters at $5.00 a square ft,this is a great help……just a minor matter of qualifying.
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And the same dismissive Minister of Housing is about to purchase land in the Church Village area to establish yet another White Elephant, like those at the Grotto, Coverley etc etc. I would advise the squatters in the Belle and elsewhere to move onto the lands at Church Village as soon as Kellman purchases it. A precedent has already been set pertaining to squatting in Church Village. Leroy Parris has some $5Million of poor Bajans money squatting in the vaults of the Central Bank.
Who owns the land around Church Village which is being offered to Kellman? Indian, Dlp-ite or Bizzy?
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Since Leroy Parris has finally been seen by the high court as using fraudulent means to steal policyholders money and bank it in various commercial banks and the central bank…..will the DPP and police now get an arrest warrant for that thief and arrest him for theft and fraud, they can only file so many appeal documents, until the court says….no more, give the Clico judicial managers the money for the policyholders and lock Parris the hell up.
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http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/02/25/watson-all-for-waste-to-energy/
Who is that dude Watson and does he have qualifications as an engineer to make these statements….being a senator dont mean squat..
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I want to be fair to Senator Watson. Barbados Today is well known for taking a comment and completely turning it around to mean something else. I think they must have after-hours sessions when they take turns to find a twist. I would never make a statement of any kind to that publication, and even though Senator Watson was a little naïve in his comments, I do not believe that he is “All for WTE in the form of plasma gasification for Barbados”, or words to that effect.
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What has he looked at ???? A desktop study??? There is no other plasma gasification plant this size any where in the world that is operational NONE!!!!!!!!!
He is right about a few things 1.there isn’t enough garbage to feed the beast.
2. The substantial maintenance will be enormously expensive as it won’t work
Clearly he hasn’t been watching AIR products Tv1 TV2 in the UK…..
Plasma gasification at this scale is totally unproven … Arewe to be the guinea pig plant for alter NRG??? Who have stepped away from Cahill.
Clearly he has no clue about the use of plasma gasification at this scale
Other key questions are. why did he look at the Cahill project ?? And what did he look at???
There is not enough info for any meaningful review to take place.
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WW&C
Did you also note that, along with confirming the original order for holding the $4.5 million at Scotia Bank along with the $3.3 million that DT was primarily responsible for placing in LP’s coffers in the first place, that the Judge has removed DT’s estate from consideration for returning part of the 3.3 million, at least, to CIL.
I wonder how that will go down for LP?
Will we see a future headline where LP will ask for the DT estate to pay the funds which DT might be considered to have extracted from it? After all DT will have been asked to pay that amount twice if he loses the 3.3 M along with the fees already paid to DT.
Will he willingly bear the brunt of the judgement or will there be some other accomodation made?
Is there something more in the mortar here than the LP pestle?
Did the Nation report fully and accurately the various aspects of the judgements so far?
Also, could any other party, eg. the BLP, be expected to pursue the DT estate aspect of this matter in the court of public opinion on the basis that LP did not, on his own, cause the 3.3 million to magically move from CIL to LP’s now frozen account, with some attrition on the way, that somehow might have found its way into DT’s estate coffers and now seems to have been excluded from the calculations.
I suspect that the game is now afoot.
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I forgot to add above that it seems to me that the opposition parties now have enough ammunition on this matter to keep the Government on the defensive until whenever elections are called and thereby consign the republican talk to the dustbin, if they are so disposed.
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Are we there yet…very good questions indeed, I did not bother to mention it and like you will watch the outcome, one can also get a copy of Justice Gibson’s decision to read what the Nation Newspaper nelected to say on that Thompson Estate matter, since it’s now public record.
Don’t hold your breath on oppostion leader Mia doing or saying anything to rock the Leroy Parris boat re who will pay for what, seeing as she is god mother to Thompson’s kids, at least one or two of them and Mia, Harris, Parris are all be in bed together……they will be busy dancing around the whole issue with legalities.
I do believe they are all B & DLP extremely afraid of each other and just watching to see who will unleash first…lol
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Well Well & Consequences February 26, 2016 at 3:13 PM #
Who is that dude Watson and does he have qualifications as an engineer to make these statements….being a senator dont mean squat..
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Having Engineering qualification in Barbados does not stop some of them from talking crap. Take the engineer ,who a few weeks ago advocated the banning of all American type toilets , because of its design, with a fallible flapper valve. He was taken to task by two hands-on technically qualified Plumbing Technicians,and quite rightly so.
Over the last week we heard Ministers Kellman and Lowe, severely criticising some of the best trucks to come out of the United States, just because their Government failed to carry out its due-diligence procedure when purchasing equipment,and subsequently neglecting to properly maintain same equipment.
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And these are the guys the 4 amigos will get to maintain the plasma monster.
A toilet flushing guru and a back Street low cost bike mechanic mascarading as a plasma guru because he owns a 60″ plasma TV.
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Colonel…they make you tired with their stupidity.
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