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caribbean_export_agencyIn the earlier published articles I & II, while making reference to the novel “Things Fall Apart’, a parallel was drawn between Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and the fact that it was on the verge of falling apart due to mismanagement by the Executive Director and executive officers.

In reviewing the remarks on previous submissions it forced us to examine these records we were sent and it suddenly hit us like a rock, how the CE and its officers are simply establishing themselves as the owners of Caribbean Export; a regional trade, and investment agency composed of 15 CARIFORUM Member States.

And with that realization it became clearer what this document’s focus HAD TO BE, to clearly detail how, in the absence of any controls, how the Caribbean Export version of Animal Farm is manifesting.

The Council of Ministers of 15 CARIFORUM countries, and the EU, had a vision to establish a Caribbean trade and investment development agency therefore The Agreement Establishing Caribbean Export was ratified. Caribbean Export was to be the Caribbean region’s response and mechanism to enhance trade relations, technical capacity and exports for 15 countries.

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98 responses to “Things Fall Apart Pt. III – The Establishment of Pamela’s Palace”

  1. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Wow…..

    “We should mention that Pamela and Christopher, in that ongoing misdirection effort, made it their business to declare to their bilateral agency counterparts that it was “former disgruntled employees who were contriving these lies” with the unfounded? hope, that this would deflect the EU (Brussels investigation) that has been commenced to investigate “Pamela’s Place” (Caribbean Export).”

    It is clear that the ministers in the 15 member caricom states also have jurisdiction to do something about Coke-Hamilton and her gang, so why have they not started doing anything.

    At least the EU has started an investigation because it would be even clearer to them that no good will come from releasing the mother lode of €134 million in Euros to another corrupt, thiefing Caribbean lawyer…they are not that stupid.

    These caricom ministers and officials are very suspect by their silence and non-action in this whole Coke-Hamilton, Caribbean Export affair.

  2. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Does anyone have reliable information about the internal controls the EU have over funds passed to Caribbean Export? To other supported organizations? These situations cannot happen if proper controls are in place.

  3. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    Ammmmm Chad 1 digit less that 100K, surely you jest?

    I, as an ole man, took several sittings to read this document.

    As slow as I am, I can’t understand your statement “These situations cannot happen if proper controls are in place.”

    Here on earth, there are rules and regulations “in place” everywhere and, in some instances, incredible as it may seem to an alien life form, they have been codified and are called laws.

    Among us earthlings, even with laws “in place”, people conspire and break them break them.

    I think that what you meant to say is that “These situations cannot happen if existing controls are enforced” is that correct?

    @ David [BU]

    You are a boss though.

    How you does get these things?

    When will you upload the supporting “confidential documents” It will be interesting to see what is in those reports.

    I can’t believe that the CE got her length of service changed like this blog suggests.

    Can you get your several sources to confirm this? that is just too incredible to be true but if that simple accommodation was made then it is obvious that the European Union itself cannot stop this train.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @PUDRYR

    Good to see you about the blog.

    The source is good and we expect to load the supporting documents soon. You have noticed BU created a page and a sidebar widget linked to it. We will load the documents to the page.

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @PUDRYR

    Hope all is well with you. Glad you are blogging again.

  6. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    It is very easy to compel authorization in advance for any significant spending — its called a budget process — plus submission of detailed invoices to support reimbursement claims, especially for travel and entertainment expenses. Auditors should check the ownership of vehicles and obtain explanations for any spending on other fixed assets, which are tracked by VID numbers, serial numbers, etc.
    If Pamela is guilty of the behavior she is accused of, the fault is almost as much on the donors as on her.

  7. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Chad
    You must be quite young and largely innocent….
    When you have a chance to review some more documents (like Board minutes) you will come to see what the REAL problem is….

    @ Peice
    How many other local organisations would you wager, could have their names substituted for ‘CE’ in the referenced document ..and the name of its boss for Pamela … and the document remain largely accurate?
    …any guess less than 50 is laughable…..

    Nothing has been (or likely will be) done about this situation …because practically ANYONE who has responsibility to deal with it, is VERY LIKELY similarly compromised….

    In MOST organisations, there is NO commitment to efficiency or meritocracy, …it is just a playground for current leadership to facilitate their particular fetish and pastimes….

    The ABSOLUTELY BIGGEST JOKE is the expectation that ‘auditors’ would somehow ferret out dishonesty and graft….. LOL ha ha ha
    Auditors do what they are told by management in order to get their fee, move on to the next job, and hopefully get that fee again next year..

    In Bushie’s world, Dodds would be filled with politicians, lawyers, auditors and church leaders….
    ….the usual ‘everyday criminal’ would get a ‘cut-ass’, six months of HARD community service and a final warning….

  8. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    @Bush Tea

    You are the one who is innocent. I wouldn’t say young.
    The taxpayers and donors have a Board of Directors that is responsible for hiring and firing the ED. If she disgraces herself by misappropriating assets, the Board is ultimately responsible, because they appointed her, and they hire and fire the auditors. Auditors are accountable to the Board, not to management, and if management controls the auditors, that too is the Board’s fault, and they should be made to accept the blame in the media. This system of governance works in places far more sophisticated than the Caribbean. It will work in the Caribbean if individuals understand their roles and responsibilities. We don’t have to trust anybody.

  9. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Problem with that Chad…none of the players want that system of governance or management of such agencies to work according to designed protocols, you will note that most of the accused have law degrees or are practicing lawyers, it’s not that they dont know any better, it’s just that it’s not in their best interest for the system, as it is designed, to work….that also applies to most levels of individual systems across the divide…hence the reason it has all gone to hell in a handbasket.

  10. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Very smart Chad…you are learning from Dee Word…

    You started with “how very easy it is to compel….”; ‘what auditors should do…’; and how the donors are at fault…
    When challenged,
    Now you are (correctly of course) saying that the ‘responsibility’ is with the Board and that they must take the blame…

    BUT..
    The problem is not with the ‘responsibility’… that is ALWAYS easy to see. The problem is with our inability to achieve desirable results …DESPITE having clear lines of responsibility.

    We all know who are responsible for CLICO, Four Seasons, The Sugar Cane disaster; CAHILL; the tipping fee; the shiite tax; transport..
    …and yet no one seems to know why nothing works…..

  11. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    @ Bush Tea

    I am not learning from anybody. I’m a professional accountant and auditor.
    Let me invite Barbadians to think of all the control systems that may have failed in order to lead to the Pamela story.

    Her parents, and her teachers at primary and secondary school, and at two universities may have failed if they did not find a way to provide her with a sound moral compass and high ethical standards.
    The Board may have failed if they appointed her as ED of the Export Agency when they could have picked more trustworthy candidates, or if they failed to supervise her spending. The Board’s failures mean that a dozen governments in the region, who have their representatives on the Board, have inadequate systems of control over the spending of public funds. Foreign donors likewise are to blame for inadequately controlling the way their financial contributions to the Agency are spent.
    An audit firm may be to blame if it did not detect inappropriate spending, or if it understated the extent of the problem in its reports to the Board, etc.
    The media are to blame for focusing on Pamela and Chris alone, rather than on others who are responsible, such as the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of the Agency, and the politicians who sit on the Board.

  12. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Chad
    Boss…
    If our parents, and our teachers at primary and secondary school, and at universities were able to provide us with a “sound moral compass and high ethical standards”, then there would be no need for auditors, policemen, lawyers, judges or even BU…

    The REALITY is that these institutions are all comprised of brass vessels…. unable even to instil such high virtues in themselves – far less in the youth. Furthermore, as a society, we have NO INTEREST in seeking out the (only) true source of such virtues.

    In these circumstances, some alternative arrangement NEEDS to be implemented if our society of brass vessels expect to see any positive indications.

    Now Bushie is NOT calling on us to seek God guidance….. or any such thing… because everyone knows that we are ‘too educated and advanced’ for such an approach, however we SURELY need to come up with some kind of logical initiatives to address these deep rooted problems.

    Executing all those found guilty of such economic crimes and of betrayal of public trust is an approach that has been adopted by our new favourite role model (China)…. and indeed it IS a logical step…

    …a step too far perhaps….?
    Perhaps we LIKE people like Leroy and Pamela….
    after all Brass is a funny metal…

  13. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    @Bush Tea

    Even if we are all selfish, amoral creatures, we still have an interest in preventing these scandals because every tax or foreign aid dollar wasted by a spendthrift agency on personal entertainment and such is money taxpayers have to make up for with additional tax payments today or tomorrow. Most of us are not and will never be on the gravy train.

    Incidentally, on YouTube, Pamela comes across as an exceptional talent – composed, confident, articulate, experienced. An excellent public speaker. She may only need the proper corrective authority to restrain her unruly impulses. There are ways to design institutions with checks and balances to minimize corruption, regardless of how evil the people in those institutions may be.

  14. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    @ Bush Tea

    I agree with you Bush Tea that the numbers would easily go into the hundreds should an examination be conducted on all of our government agencies without the investigation team even breaking a sweat.

    Whenever we reach this point where the amoral, the selfish, self interested vices come to the fore, as is the nature of man, it always comes back to GOD, Deity, Allah or whatever we wish to call the Causeless Cause being the final denominator and reslover (or as that idiot George Bush said “the Decider”) to remove the graft that we are all crafted in.

    Public executions of those who betray the public trust that they are afforded seems harsh but it seems to work in China according to the PRC reports about corruption

    “STAY HONEST OF GET DEAD”

  15. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    Or,,not Of OR GET DEAD

  16. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    @ Chad 99999

    I see that you did a gentle recant of your first position regarding the VIDs and the check and balances that “SHOULD BE IN PLACE at the CE and by extension other institutions”

    However before you fully convert to being like de ole man “an incredulous believer” that this could be happening in Barbados and not a man doing Jack Sh*t, let me give you this incredulous story

    I dont remember the name of the hotel near Mullins that was in the news with the Barbados Water Authority but, you being a younger man, may recall that a particular hotel had not paid a water bill for 14 years or some ridiculous time.

    Now if i apply your reasoning to the role of its directors or board of management, specifically what is a management control matter gone terribly wrong, we arrive at the same position where, the management whch should be utilizing the checks and balances, seems to have erred in their duties.

    Is it the responsibility of a director of that hotel to walk the lent of the property, and see if there are illegal connections to the BWA mains that allow that hotel to experience operational efficiencies due to having no water expenses or do i keep my mouth shut and enjoy my increased salary/dividends?

    I am going to answer some questions that you posed earlier though in a different way so I ask you and my buddy De Ingrunt Word to bear with my non-prolix style in my response to the first part of your query

    ” Does anyone have reliable information about the internal controls the EU have over funds passed to Caribbean Export? To other supported organizations? These situations cannot happen if proper controls are in place.

    Since you are an auditor and an accountant I do believe that you can and will easily confirm this information that i submit here.

    CE was established with the financing support of the EU. You can do a google and it will show you like it has shown the old man that like all CARICOM regional organisations, CE has an Operational Manual and procedures to govern all aspects of its operations.

    I started to read the document CE Agreement and while I got lost when it started with them accounting, procurement, travel, staff (appointment, dismissal, relocation, duty free things dem, what is pretty obvious to a smart accountant and auditor like you is, there are very extensive “controls.

    Caribbean Export is contractually bound by the Contribution Agreement they signed with EU.

    Again, Chad one digit less that 100K, (I was trying to understand your handle though, why that number ( I was figuring that it was a birthdate 9,September 1999 but that only made you 17 and that did not match with your credentials. When you retired you ent go nuffin to do but to sleep and lay down and die)

    Anyway, as an accountant, and an auditor, you would be better able to read these things and determine if there are ‘clear’ programmes, budgets and reference points that set out the basis upon which the programme is funded.

    One of me sons pun de madam side, is an accountant too and he does work at *** and dem does do audits and he point out that CE is audited by the EU appointed auditors at least twice per yea. Something to do with “the duration of the funding programme being implemented and he say that the CE Board requires an Annual Report.

    But here is the thing while CE is required to prepare annual expenditure budgets/reports to Board Members, respective government and the EU Delegation it is noted that the governments may not get detailed records of the various contributions by CE agencies nor do the agencies get detailed reports of the other contributing agencies nor the individual governments.

    So in that “controlled” environment where all these “procedures” exist, it has been possible for one of the Board Members to walk up and down the hotel property for 14 years and not see how someone, obviously not the hotl Managing Director, or anyone in the hotel, hooked up plumbing to the Water Works mains and teifed water or in this case seem to have misappropriated funds, given contracts to friends, etc.

    But you are right Chad 99999, “the Board Members have complete control of the ED and the Agency’s operations.”

  17. flyonthewall Avatar
    flyonthewall

    @Chad
    If I am reading you right, what you are saying is that this is a case of piss poor corporate governance all round. But if a CEO has sufficient “friends” on the board, and if they are also benefiting from her operating style, this kind of behaviour can go on for a very long time. As an auditor you should know that unless they are specifically mandated to do a forensic audit, auditors do not ordinarily function as whistle-blowers. They must work with what is supplied to them by senior management. The most they can do is signal their dissatisfaction with the quality of the information supplied. And they can do this by “qualifying” their opinion on the financial statements.

  18. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    @flyonthewall

    If the Board members are politicians from various islands, they are in breach of their legal responsibilities if they allow this (admittedly good-looking) woman to divert taxpayer provided funds for her personal use. There is some risk and not a lot of benefits for them in such negligence. Ditto the auditors from the EU.
    Incidentally, all auditors are required to design audit procedures to detect red flags that may indicate fraud. If there are red flags, they should be talking to the Board about whether there should be a full investigation. All audit teams are supposed to have conversations with the Board, behind management’s back if necessary, about management’s “operating style”. Get it? There are a thousand ways for them to be “whistleblowers,” and in this kind of situation there would be no excuse for them to spare Pamela.

  19. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    As it is and since over the last few months there has been much exposure of Coke-Hamilton and the illicit activities at Carib Export as outlined by many involved with the agency, information now in the hands of EU delegates…. I very much doubt that the EU will release the 134 million Euro as the last draw down, unless there is a thorough audit and invertigation of what goes on at the agency….the party may be at an end.

  20. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    LOL at non-prolix.
    Good sir, the BoD are usually a bunch of “yes” people who are only too happy to get a cheque and not ‘rock the boat’. Election to the BoD either pads their ego or their resume, depending upon the person. And meeting selection sites help them amass travel points, and stay and eat at places ‘befitting their status’.
    Why the ass do you think “directors Insurance” was created? So if they failed to ask or seek answers to questions which might be obvious to others, their liability is insured.
    And at CE, the BoD is a bunch of civil servant bureaucrats from Caricom, most of whom don’t even know the right questions to ask, because they work in the world of public finance magic. You see anybody from the EU on the BoD?
    What a friend of mine would term “a circle jerk”

  21. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    @ Chad 99999.

    You then went on to sate

    “It is very easy to COMPEL AUTHORIZATION” in advance for any significant spending — its called a budget process — plus submission of detailed invoices to support reimbursement claims, especially for travel and entertainment expenses. Auditors should check the ownership of vehicles and obtain explanations for any spending on other fixed assets, which are tracked by VID numbers, serial numbers, etc.

    If Pamela is guilty of the behavior she is accused of, the fault is almost as much on the donors as on her.”

    I will say Chad that you are a very persistent fellow.

    Either you are (i) a plant on BU to find out what is known about this matter and then that info be used by Pamela and CE to clean up their tracks, (ii) a plant by the EU in Brussels to assist them in your current investigations to see where to look to unravel this misappropriation travesty or (iii) in fact a real Bajan taxpayer who is concerned about donor funding being diverted from needy local/regional businesses and spent on big party bashes.

    I too read the information provided. all 7 pages, but unlike you, where you are hoping that she is innocent, ole menses like me, and Bush Tea, do not have such fallacious hopes, but what I am awaiting is the supporting evidence that the Blogmaster has assured us is coming

    You, and and Sam Poochie, can read and google all the publicly available information that we like.

    My step son can tell me whatever he likes about “the audits that they do at these regional firms” but I am still waiting on the evidence that will show me that, with all the procedures that you would protest that CE has in place, I want to see how they have neither been enforced and know for a fact that that smooth talking dugula Pamela has been “in the cookie jar” with those lips of hers (Hants, de old man was sick, not dead…yet).

    Don’t mind the inferences about Chambers and Mcnair being in “the Coke jar”, heheheheheh, we are all men and we will take some “sugar” sometimes, but what I want to see is evidence showing how Pamela and her management team not only refused to “comply” to use your word but seem to have subverted the process, falsified documents or not submitted documents to authorities and auditors, and as others have said are destroying documents by the shredder.

    One of the issues Chad 99999 which you, in your experience as an accountant and an auditor, would have experienced is that in this development agency sector, with all of the money that floats around, even with “checks and balances”, it seems easy to try a ting and have people teifing money. Look at the fellow at TIFA, or Jack Warner or Wolfowitz!

    I am sure that as an accountant you have heard of rigging in the procurement of the services of a consultant or supplier?

    Well you man, it is certainly NOT TOO HARD for Pamela and her management team to selectively identify a contractor/ supplier/consultant and just tell them what cost to submit in their proposal to CE.

    It appears that this is what is being said here. I agree that if Pamela is guilty then all who have supported this misappropriation are JUST as guilty but at the end of the day that sweet talking dugula Pamela is the head of CE and must be held accountable.

    I will go further Chad 99999.

    Suppose that as you seem to be hinting that Pamela “is not guilty” and that it is a clique in the organisation that has been doing this teifing. You don’t feel that as a boss for 5 years and as a lawyer, (it appears like if all dese teif is lawyers, whu you is again? Oh an accountant and auditor) you dont think that she should already have disclosed the people responsible and get them fired?

    Looka I going share something with you and you are not to repeat it cause if de madam find out I in de dog house and now dat I recovering dat would kill de ole man.

    I like Pammy, like you I taken in by how she does talk and ting, and I do feel dat it ent she dat do all of these things. I really feel that it is that fellow McNair dt does interfere wit all the staff and the accountant fellow Bradshaw/Deflon. (Sorry Chad it appears like if your profession is in the limelight too)

    Pammy look like a Christian girl who, causing de husband lef she, like ** husband lef that lady to go to Arizona, had a few emotional issues. and in an effort to keep de man do dat tummy ting. We does do foolish tings like that Chad when we have emotion attachment.

    I feel that, while she was out of office, she has assigned the roles and responsibilities of the Executive Director position to Deflon and it may just turn out that those members of management or staff who the ones who were not complaint with CE’s procedures.

    That is what I feel but again like I told you the ole man have a liking for Pammy

    Like you I feel that all the CE Operations Manual rule breaking was not done by Pammy the “exceptionally talented, composed, confident, articulate, experienced” person that you describe but this teifing was done “by the rest of the team” while she was off the campus grounds and all the procedures were modified by others and she is not party to their actions and/or wrong doings.

    Chad 99999, what you feel?

  22. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Hants
    you been giving PUDRYR fishing lessons?

  23. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    @Northern Observer

    Directors insurance shields directors, in certain circumstances, from personal liability for payment of financial penalties to government or payment to third parties arising from litigation. That is not the issue here.
    Your post does not make sense because directors are named to the Board of CE by their governments. They are not appointed to the Board by Pamela. She cannot get them removed from the Board. Why should they help her commit fraud? They will be on the Board enjoying their travel and entertainment perks whether she commits fraud or not. In fact, if they can keep her honest, there should be more money left to spend on their travel and entertainment than if she is pigging out at the trough.

  24. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Chad
    “because directors are named to the Board of CE by their governments”….exactly. They are not there to help anybody commit fraud nor are they there to stop anybody. They are just there. Happy to be there in bliss. A typical bureaucratic circle jerk. Why rock any boat?

  25. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ NorthernObserver,

    PUDRYR does not need fishing lessons? He can afford to buy fish and have it delivered.

    Too besides ( or in bajan….tobesides ) tings go better with Coke…..or Fleur…. lol

  26. David Avatar
    David

    The Board minutes of the 28th Board of Directors meeting posted to the Things Fall Apart Page.

  27. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @ piece

    Welcome back, notice you fall in love with Pamela,

    @ chad99999

    The board members are lackadaisical johnnies-come-lately

  28. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Only one member of the Board needs to be paying attention – the Chair of the Audit Committee. That person should be trained in accounting, auditing, or finance.

  29. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    @ Hants.

    I only got one ting to tell you. A Rose (fleur) by any other name would smell just as sweet”

    @ Watchman

    I cyan help me gonads, I tries but….

    @ Chad 99999

    Whey Chad is?

    I jes start reading de minutes jes de first page and whaplax in de ole man face!!!

    “The Suriname Dircdor informed that due to late arrival of documents his participation in the meeting would be limited.

    He reminded the meeting that documents were supposed to arrive 21 days before scheduled meetings….”

    Whey Chad is? Whuloss

    I gine back and read dese minutes boasie

    Whuloss, Oh Lawsie

  30. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    Wait wunna reading dis???

    Blogmaster you is a Boss Dennnn!!!

    You leh all uh we soak up all dis information fuh 2 or three days and talk a beriffle uh pup and den you leggo dis bomb shell

    Oh lawsie

    “He (the Suriname Member) also stated that THE TERM OF CHAIRMAN had expired and queried the validity of the current Chairman, chairing the meeting. He cited Article 5:2 clause

    4_ He reiterated that the Chairman should have been elected at the end of the previous meeting.

    Wait dese peeple ent serious!!

    Whey my accountant friend Chad 99999 ???

    David Blogmaster

    I notice dat dese is minutes uh meeting in 2014 Man leh we see de minutes uh 2015 as man

    I now see why Sherri Veronica try to impugn your character.

    Man all uh dese peeple gots to hate you guts man fuh exposing dem like dis

    Whuloss

    I gine back to de document

    I got to control meself doah, de doctor tell me no excitement

  31. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    No say it ent so.

    ”
    The Executive Director apologised for the late delivery of the Board papers and shared that all future documents would be uploaded to the internet site to be accessed for Board Meetings.”

    In this modern day wif de internet and with CE talking bout Internet Portals en ting, dem sending documents by snail mail?

    Whu even if Kellman “Lucy Son” from St Lucy was to get pun a Moses at Moon Town and row for 21 days (across de watah dat de same Dennis say dat “if you tek de salt from de sea it will make sure that small island Devloping States will not be flooded with the Ocean Rising) Kelly wud get to Suriname befo’ de minutes

    Whu Pammy, my sweet dugula, say dat she implementing a Portal fuh de Caribbean!! I wonder whu sorta “Portal” dat is dat she talking bout?

    Hants?? dat musseee a hairy Portal whulossssss……

    I would like to get …. looka let me not finish dat sentence cause fellows like Lawson and Hants gine tek a picture uh de cuntputer and den I gine be in trouble AGAIN

  32. David Avatar
    David

    It seems the ED has great influence over the meeting when compared to Board Directors as a collective. If the rules call for circulation of the Board books x days before the meeting is held then the meeting should have been postponed to observe the rules. How can the meeting be productive if the Directors are not fully sieve of matters to be discussed.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    The concern by the ED about the arrears by some members negatively that had affected the Agency’s financial state does not gel with the culture of generous spending/salary level by CEDA.

  34. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    Wunna read di??

    Whey Chad 99999??

    I now see whu de article part 3 mean when um say bout de might watchman!

    Girl you pretty enough doah but you dangerous whuloss

    “On a point of clarification the Executive Director stated that the rules and procedures for establishing the agency requires that once the Board has agreed there are certain changes which can be made without returning to the Ministerial.”

    This was one such instance.

    “However the overall agreement with changes on the agenda will have to be agreed and go back to the Ministerial for final approval.”

    I ent understand dat

    De ole man slow but leh me explain me slowness.

    “Certain changes can be made without going back to the Ministerial but the overall agreement with changes, on the agenda: will have to be agreed and go back to the Ministerial for final approval”

    What is de agreement dat dem contemplating changing which interesting enough only she, and not even the chairman to be selected to chair the said meeting, are incapable of speaking to?

    Wunna see how Chad 99999 was talking sh*te when he was saying that the CE Board is dis woman boss??

    Man she got more doggie that Fumbles man!!

    I like i change my mind yuh, cause dat is one dugula dat doan get f****** she does do de f***** and like she did doing it to 15 CARICOM Board Members and them DRAOs and de EU, whuloss dat is alot uh iron.

    De ole man still wants to drink soup….I still pun page one doah and I dun tell wunna dat I is a slow reader.

    De madam at Prayer Meeting so I free to ramble all ovah cyberspace but i going dun commenting pun de Blogmastah site so me name doan fill up all uh he recent blogs

    De nex ting you know my buddy DIW get me ban for not being Prolix!! I still feel dat Jeff C mex up dat word wunna know lawyers, sorry Jeff sorry…

  35. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    “In response to a query on the ABSENCE OF CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENT Mr. Bradshaw referred to the Auditor’s report separate consolidation of all non EDF programmes and EDF programmes.”

    Is this the same Bradshaw that features in all of the documents about things fall apart?

    Chad 99999 explain to de ole man why would these financial statement not be ready for a meeting of this nature all the way in Belize and does this not send a signal of purposed inadequacy of documentation in light of “the ED not having provided the minutes 21 days before the meeting”.

    In your professional opinion does this seem to be an attempt to ensure that all of the Board is not seized of all of the details and iformation through which they would be able to make and informed decision?

  36. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    @ David [BU]

    Could you ask your source to explain what is the CE Inc?

    I have not heard of World Bank Inc nor IADB Ince not EU Inc, it Brings to mind a novel I heard of called Murder Incorporated Inc.

  37. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    Get a load of this!!

    “The Executive Director stated that THE NEED TO SEPARATE THE (CE) AGENCY FROM EDF FUNDING WAS THE REASON FOR AMENDING THE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING THE (CE) AGENCY”

    WOW! Incredible.

    The Executive Director then goes on to state

    “This amendment would also ELIMINATE concepts such as the Executive Committee which gave the EU THE RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHO WOULD BE THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR!!

    He in black and white is the one thing that I did not expect to see.

    My ““exceptionally talented, composed, confident, articulate, experienced” dugula that had me all thinking that it was Bradshaw and McHair, a freudian slip t be sure, who were trying to railroad Pamela Coke Hamilton.

    and then she says “…that the time to change the structure of the Steering Committee would be when the 11th EDF is signed.

    WOW!

    And we stupidly believe that CARICOM and its 15 Member states are running the Caribbean Export right?

    More Power to the Hairy Portal!!

    Where is that fellow Chad 99999 though?

  38. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    Chad 999999999999999.

    look at page 13 man and give me some feedback.

    Wunna see how slow de ole man are?

    “Page 8: Article 5.2 Paragraph 5- ‘The Board shall function for a term of’ two years he replaced by ‘ONE YEAR”. Based on rotational basis which was adopted by the board in 2012.”

    De Ole man dun, de front gate opening and I hear de Madam calling me name…

    All solitude and pease to read these statements of self-enthroning now pass over to a next time when dem ent heah.

    Dat will be Sundey definitely but i ent know if she going to help dem vagrants tomorrow.

    Wunna notice how we ole peeples does be all up in de Church when we getting ready to die and missing during we hey days?

    We feel dat we serving a man in Heaven who cyan see all of we trickery under de shadow of the pulpit

  39. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @piece

    I told you the ED has POWER at board meetings

  40. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    And Chad 999 when you get this just go to the minutes and focus on pages 14 and 15 where the executive director changes her term from 2 to three years and that of her bosses from 2 years to one year.

    She effectively does not have any continuity of the Board and the institutional history nomally accorded your bosses is effectively diluted

    Then in addition to the she changes the quorum from 2/3rds to 1/2 of the directors

    This is unbelievable and it is in writing and 15 member states, their Board representatives, the HoG, the Secretary General and the 26 million citizens have all sat back and let the Hairy Portal do this??

    I forgot the European Union and all the other donor agencies

    I gone she just press de bell Hants I nearly said hell

  41. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @ Piece

    You think an ED going to allowed board papers to go out with knowing the answers, when uncertain, hold papers till last few days , back to photocopier, rush job mistakes can happen,trust me I know, see it all

  42. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Chad
    how long it is since you lived bout here?
    Most direcckers don’t even crack the agenda envelope far less read them. You want one bureaucratic board member to do something which might be viewed as ‘rockking de boat’. Enjoy the food, congratulate all around you, nuff sweet talk, and gah back home.

  43. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Northern Observer
    Chad is still a young fella… you must excuse him.
    He probably still thinks that there is SOME way that we can all get to ‘live happily ever afterwards…’
    It takes YEARS of patience and dedicated study to come to an appreciation of the idiocy of brass bowlery with which we are afflicted….

    Bushie warned him from early …to await the minutes….but.
    It HAS to be hard for a bright young man like Chad to grasp the level of brass bowlery to which we have sunk….

  44. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Piece….I am glad you saw first hand how a bunch of dumb ass 15 member state Caricom leaders, most of whom are males, all of whom are filled with all this self importance, degrees, honorary degrees and too much pretentiousness, just sit back and let Hamilton-Coke screw up everything with her greed, swollen head and stupidy, which could put people who need those grants at risk of not getting any, when donor countries and agencies pull the funding because of a bunch of people who have paper degrees and no commonsense.

  45. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @WW&C
    dey got nuff females too, the chair is/was a Bahamian lady.

  46. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    You fellows just don’t get it, you get put on the ship , you go the distance, rock the ship you go down with the ship, I told piece that from part 1

  47. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Northern…I did not leave them out, yes there are many females, they also sit on their hands and let Pamela with a shitty title ruin things for people in the Caribbean, you just cannot give black people a bunch of keys or titles, they make a mockery of everything, get powerful foolish and dont hesitate show everyone that they are idiots.

  48. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    There has to be some law about taking advantage of old men and women on the pretext of helping the needy and the less fortunate.

    Wunna believe that I has to get up at 5.45 to help pack sandwiches and other things for the less fortunate?

    Anyway de Madam gone for the day wid the food/cake sale at *** so I back wid wunna till she call back wid some task fuh de ole man.

    Whey Chad is??

    @ Chad 99999

    oh oh oh wait wait wait befo’ i gets to Chad i got sumting to say to Hants and de Blogmastah

    Wunna too selfish wid wunna diaspora corner doah and wunna Slow Motion R&B tune doah.

    Wunna wait til i gone way and in horspital and sharing all sort uh goodies an ting

    And Hants looka you leffing out you buddy and keeping tings to youself and pretending dat you concern fuh me palpitations!

    Man I did feel hert dis morning when I see de double delight jes dey and when dem lean back gainst de wall wunna see de curvature? whuloss anyway

    Den to add insult to injury dat one got de gumption to say “…Barbadians who live abroad navigate to BU to share experiences, search for news about what is happening on the Rock…”

    Hants you see whu dis heah coming to? dem search fuh news bout me…and you encouraging dem.

    I hope dat one uh dem fish conga tings hold on pun you when you fishing and gi you a likkle nibble man causing you ent moving right I hurt man hurt anyway i gine back to chad

  49. David Avatar
    David

    Was the headquarters agreement resolved mentioned on page 18 of the minutes?

  50. Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!! Avatar
    Piece uh de Rock yeah right!!!

    @Chad 99999

    In your earlier post you suggested that Bush Tea was “the one who is innocent. I wouldn’t say young” and went on to make some statements about the taxpayers [my comment you mean the EU taxpayers because as we read the document the Caricom Member States seem not to be paying their share] and donors have a Board of Directors that is responsible for hiring and firing the ED. If she disgraces herself by misappropriating assets, the Board is ultimately responsible, because they appointed her,….”

    Now that you have read the minutes I believe that you owe Bush Tea an apology because as is there in black and white how management has the Board by the curliesand this talenented articulate woman is tugging them hard.

    Generally, in normal circumstances as you point out a Board of Directors is responsible for hiring and firing the ED.

    Does this whole thing make you scratch your head and ask “why has the Board not done anything about this?

    Well, you need to examine the relationship between the ED Coke Hamiltonand the Chairman of the Board (Collin Murdoch) who gave her this 3 year contract in the first place. Then, and what you need to concentrate on here is the attempt by another BoD member to hold her to some standard of accountability.

    You see that the new Chairman Christopher Lewis requests that Coke Hamilton account for her performance, but, not only does she refuse to provide such but, is aided and abetted in her refusal by BoD members from The Bahamas, OECS, Dominican Republic and Jamaica.

    They openly question why Pamela must provide this information.

    What does that confirm Chad? It clearly shows that there is no accountability at Caribbean Export, which these writers ( I feet there are about 4 of them) now are calling “Pamela’s Place” when the very people who are to have oversight over her are incapable of reigning her in.

    But hold on a second and read carefully the actions of Bentley Gibbs, the Representative from Barbados which has refused to give the CE International status.

    The DRAO in Barbados sees the invoices and has heard of the practices and like anyone of the PSes going towards retirement is leaving well enough alone for he understands well that if his employee (pamela) is in fact buying paintings from the wife of the EU Ambassador to the Barbados Delegation, he would do well not to rock the boat when it is apparent that so many of the BoD are in bed (figuratively) with my sweet dugula.

    Then you continue with your comment about “Auditors, accountable to the Board”.

    This is why bBush Tea referred to your youthfulness and inexperience for, even as an auditor, it would appear that you that you have never heard of expenses not be placed on the financial records “until they have been sorted out”. (Sorted out in this case being commingled artfully so that the auditors don’t see that they are shifted to another expense line AND it is said that the BoD gave sanction to this move.

    Look how it transpired that at the 2nd of the annual meetings in Belize that COO Bradshaw was unable to present financial statements, does that sound strange to you?

    Does this sound like if, in addition to having the lacklustre oversight of her BoD that the CE might also have the “appropriate” support of COO Anthony Bradshaw, CE Office Manager Christopher McNair and other members of the management team and a possible willingness willingness to falsify documents at all levels?

    One is slowly seeing by the documents that the Blogmaster is sharing that CRONEYISM and NEPOTISM. mixed with the talented articulate qualities that you pointed out earlier seem to be carrying the sway over supposedly wise men.

    As man Chad, whu you would do if a curly hair chick talk nice to you and smile in your face?

    As one man to a nex, when we getting up deah in age, and a (relatively) young ting got we tinking bout “honey”, (even if it supposed to be artificially tightened, heheheheh) and seducing we with the prospect of mo EU money (See how the man from Haiti say dat EU $16M fuh he observatory ent de right amount? And you see how she tell he “sen in de right amount”? Dat man gone back to Haiti and double de money! How much one EU dollar worth Chad?

    You read de minuted Chad? You unnerstan now how Pammy changing she “roles and responsibilities” downstream and it is she who rewriting she job description or terms of reference” You unnerstan did? De ToRs of de night watchman which dem same directors and de same EU dat had a hand in choosing she, you musee see whu happening heah?

    Now heah is de ting Chad 999999 Pammy, Juris Doctor in Law from the Georgetown University School of Law in Washington, DC, and a BSc in International Relations and Economics from the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica formerly serving as the Regional Hub Coordinator for the Caribbean in the Integration and Trade Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and as the Director of Trade and Competitiveness at the Organization of American States (OAS), also having worked for the Government of Jamaica in its Ministry of Foreign Affairs den a major law firm in the good ole USA and finally having chaired numerous Boards and Task Forces on international trade and export, would you not feel dat wid dem illustrious list of activities behind you dat we dealing wid a “responsible and trustworthy” person who understand “employee employer relations?”

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