Aye Aye Mr. Speaker Sir 30 Honourable Members Indeed
The 2016 Estimates Debate will be remembered by the BU household not for the high standard of contributions between members of parliament but for the decision by Speaker of the House Michael Carrington of Assembly to refer a matter to the Committee of Privileges (CoP). A Nation newspaper report offended Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite to the extent he felt compelled to ‘complain’ to the Speaker of the House – the reason: an advertisement placed by the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) that read, “BLP public meeting. The truth must be told. Come and hear who misled the House of Assembly…” .
This issue resonates with BU on many fronts. Underlying the decision by the Speaker to refer the matter to the CoP is the belief – mistakenly many are of the view – that honourable members of parliament are always honest in their postulations. At this point BU highly recommends the book The Gunslinger.
There is the adage action speaks louder than words. A few years ago it was reported that David Estwick M.P. brandished a firearm in the presence of Dale Marshall M.P. in the precinct of parliament and that matter was also referred to the CoP. BOTH sides conspired to frustrate the workings of the CoP – just like the PAC – and the matter died an expected death when the House was dissolved when the election date was declared.
Is this the same Attorney General who promised the House of Assembly that he would report on the status of Mia Mottley to practice law in Barbados? Why has he never been called to deliver on his promise by BOTH sides of the House? Can we the PEOPLE’s Court not deem the Honourable Adreil Brathwaite to have misled the CITIZENRY as well? Who are the three lawyers (including Mia Mottley) who received a waiver of the LEC all those years ago? Why the big secret?
Finally, is this the same ‘teefing’ Speaker of the House MICHAEL CARRINGTON who exercised good judgement by referring the matter raised by Brathwaite to the CoP? Seriously?
Barbados Underground 
Lord have mercy!
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This government is on record as the worse to serve since 1944.It’s worse than Sandy government by far.An ass for a MoF who can’t fathom the value of a dot among numerals.A PM who doesn’t know he is out of his depth and should be better off teaching at Princess Margaret school and as pastor of the Marchfield Church ‘O God.An AG who cannot understand the Law let alone the rule of our language which insists that subject and verb must agree.This AG affirmed by repetition that a plural subject and a singular verb are acceptable for the public airwaves.A Speaker of the House of Parliament who stole a disabled man’s funds and was forced by a High Court Judge to surrender the missing money to its rightful owner.I won’t bother grading the other incompetents but these senior 4 should step down and let the people decide the future of Barbados.
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Gabriel please interpret the following:
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I am at a loss.I saw it and can’t connect the dots between the 3 topics.Maybe the meeting tonight might reveal whether this is the voice of a depressed member or whether Mr Speaker is being addressed but remarks are otherwise directed ……….
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David;
Does BU have a link to the entire contribution by the Hon member for St John?
From the way this excerpt is cobbled together it appears that she is attacking the Hon. Mr. Speaker but that doesn’t make sense. Could it be someone else that she is addressing through the Speaker? If so, who could that be?
It is necessary to get the full speech to understand the context of the speech and what she is actually saying.
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She has surely bitten off more than she can chew with those remarks.
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Is this woman alright?
While she is asking questions of others………….asking them to account for funds, it would be helpful if she could answer some questions the CLICO policy holders have.
Lady, the CLICO policyholders would like to know how your husband who by all accounts only practiced law on a part time basis as he was a full time politician……and who was no top lawyer (piss poor if you ask me)…….how he could amassed so much wealth from his dealings with CLICO?
CLICO policyholders would like to know whether the funds your husband kept in Families First was their monies?
CLICO policyholders would like to know how comes one judge tied up your husband’s estate to their fiasco and a pro DLP CJ could untie it?
Do you think you could give them any answers because after all, we taxpayers who did not lick out a cent of CLICO’s monies are now left to carry the bag while you sit on their millions!
Give me a break, Mara, you are unfit to sit in our Parliament………your contributions are useless. You should never have been elected but the people of St John are blinded by DLP loyalty.
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Here is the full vid of her presentation, she obviously intended to take a bite out of Mia.
http://www.barbadosparliament.com/video/view/343
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Gabriel,
Last week during the estimates debates, I was at a function and all the talk was about these DLP ministers.
To a person, we all said, there is not one of the bunch that you can say is doing a good job……….except maybe the talker Donville, I would give him a pass.
The Lowman…………….garbage pile up alll over Barbados
John Boyce…………what a mess Health is in
David Estwick…………water crisis and 7000 tons of sugar but he wants a half billion dollar new factory
Ronald Jones…….Education in chaos while he has been in charge for 8 years. Education ministry has never been in such chaos as under him
Michael Lashley………….he messed up Housing and now Transport…. it is said that for him it is always what’s in it for me……. allegedly (he likes to sue) Only Mark Maloney, Jada and Innotech are seeing the fruits of our votes
Richard Sealy…………dont even get me started with that Sandals deal, GOL arilines and this latest BTII loan fiasco
Chris Sinckler……….best left unsaid…..a man who never studied economics can try to put down a trained economist at a time when he still has a job destroying the economy for 7 years
Freundel Stuart…………..a waste of time to talk about him….the worst PM in history
We could lump Mara Thompson, Jester Ince, Irene Sandiford, Patrick Todd, James Paul, Darcy Boyce, Esther Byer and Lashley (culture) in one barrel.
What a waste…………each one of them. If being incompetent at one’s job was a crime, they should be in jail.
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I do not like to talk about people’s children but Mara should check herself as the mother. The activities of “my children” are talked about in social circles and not in flattering terms at that.
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Rumour has it that the latter comment is a shot at MAM
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Gabriel,
Oh I forgot to critique the worst AG ever………….enough to say that I was at a function once where he was in attendance. A lawyer who does not practice here who had dealings with him said……..he may be a nice man but he does not know any law, he is out of his depths.
That sums him up totally…….someone from overseas come here, had to deal with him and in a short time was able to sum the man up.
And we are surprised? He was the one who shouted hurled an insult across the floor to Duguid………………”wait, Donville, you aint tell me that his wife’s childen are not his!” This caused Duguid to explode and then Duguid got all the blame when he was provoked.
That is the level at which he operates!
Did anyone ever explain how that race in St Philip Suth was called for Wood and then boxes turned up?
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Is that believable, Gabriel………..after all, these David Thompson’s children……..the apple does not fall far from the tree and we all know that that man was a nasty liar!
The only man that could lie more that David Thompson is Sinckler and that is because Sinckler is still alive!
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Can we leave the children out of the discussion?
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Prodigal
The man’s observation of the AG is spot on.A pleasant guy but not my idea of either a politician or a legal beagle.
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In answer to the question being asked “is this woman alright?” I would ask the Blohmaster, or any of you here, if you (i) have excerpts of sections where the lady spoke at previous Estimates and (ii) if you have excepts of when she was acting as Speaker of the House?
Then there is my final question.
At what point during the time that she serves as the Speaker of the House does she speak or more specifically make a ruling ?
So one has baseline data to see if she is intelligent and or intelligible NORMALLY.
One then has information regarding how or if she speaks when in another position which requires her to speak
And finally one has informations as to the content of such speech WHEN SHE DOES SPEAK.
While I am not in possession of any of the three at this time, de ole man might be inclinedm based on this excerpt to say that Mara is really a Dufus and is COMPLETELY OUT OF HER DEPTH!!
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David
She brought the children into it. Now what kind of idiot injects her children into madness and wickedness that is politics?
That is not her true position or feelings to Mia, …………….someone wrap that up and ask her to deliver it because the she is the only ‘piece-of’ woman on the Government benches. It was so out of character for her that she was bungled the delivery.
She should be keep her ass quiet and be VERY happy that no one is coming after her and the estate for her dead husband seeking recovery of the stolen money from CLICO.
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We berated OSA when he referred to our parliament as poorakey. My Gos!
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Having viewed and heard the entire presentation,it Is clear to whom the remarks are directed.The look towards the Speaker and the repeated casual glance to the right is loud enough.
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We agree, now what will the government do about getting the parasitic business people off the teats of the public’s purse…get rid of the corporate welfare seekers, they suck too much from taxpayers….who owe them nothing….stop giving out decades of concessions.
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/03/19/too-much-dependence-on-govt/
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And million dollar contracts to the same business people who have been getting them repeatedly for the last 40 yesrs, change up the dynamics….start being useful to the taxpayers…for once.
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Is it Palmetto Street or Nelson Street? 50 years of Independence and look wha we end up with. But this is what happens when the driver is taking is asleep behind the wheel .
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She brought her children into the public debate so they are fair game……But personally I am done with that.
The whole thing was done so clumsily that either she got cold feet and could not read the prepared script or that she could not lie like her beloved husband and get away with the bold face lie.
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Jim Cavaziel sought to depict Jesus the Christ in the a Passion of The Christ picture.
I say sought to depict purposely because while the picture was exquisite like Zoe I defer to the point about the absolute turpitude we are and will be when The Real Christ comes.
I get the impression that Mara is no oratorical firebrand and neither is she a brainiac either. She is not the type of person to resort to the gutter cussing so of the dead King, her husband.yet, in the only style that the DLP knows, the script sought to denigrate the LOO BUT Mara ent no cuss bird.
The piece like Jimbo, Gabriel and Prodigal state was a script that was given to her and Mara, when she read it, realizing that it Said Leader of the Opposition was afraid that it was too derogatory and, on the fly changed the object of the essay to the Speaker as opposed to the LOO.
Mara Thompson is not a politician she is a woman and mother whom the carrion that surrounds her, including the dead King, sought to corrupt and as executrix/ce of the millions, while not the customary scum, still ent so much of an Honourable woman to return the ill gotten gains to Clico since after all she still has daughters to endow.
We feel that GOD is a man to be tricked and hoodwinked of the things that we are entrusted as shareholders ergo $5m to mummy’s account and all the Isle of Guernsey accounts to process Me Clare who you proceeds but the key thing that Darcy and Mara fail to realize is like David of old, the too have their Absaloms and GOD DOESNOT SLEEP!
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iPads are odd things to use in the dark so please forgive me for subject verb disagreement-plural, nex ting peeple gine be saying is dat I went tuh school wid Adriel Bratwit!!!
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pieceuhderockyeahright at 3:13 AM….I know Mara Thompson only from public documents; her life as a daughter of a political family, student at UWI, nuptials to Thompson, work as a Phy Ed teacher at your alma mater etc. And too I only listened to part of her presentation.
So I can’t agree or disagree with your assertions that ” Mara is no oratorical firebrand and neither is she a brainiac” or that “She is not the type of person to resort to the gutter cussing so of the dead King”.
But I suggest you have lost the plot to offer “Mara Thompson is not a politician..” Really!
Politics is all about balancing well the shifting sands beneath your feet. Not only about bombast, oratorical skills or indeed skillful dissection of economic and legal briefs.
She has been absolutely expert on the shifting sands of CLICO, any liabilities of her husband’s estate and most importantly insulating herself from as much of that carrion and scum you mentioned by accepting and winning that seat in Parliament.
You do not live practically your ENTIRE life in politics as a daughter and a then a wife of political power brokers and not BE a politician.
So tell me sir as absolutely shrewd and damn sharp as you always are what bouncer trap are YOU playing at here!!!! LOL.
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The statement Mara is not a savvy politician music be given context by the fact she sits in the safest of DLP constituencies.
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Prodigal Son March 19, 2016 at 4:49 PM #
“Is this woman alright? While she is asking questions of others………….asking them to account for funds, it would be helpful if she could answer some questions the CLICO policy holders have.”
@ Prodigal
BOOM!!!
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A Speaker doing his work in the bastion of democracy in the free world.
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Actually Mara would have done well to build a legacy on being an advocate for transparency legislation to have been proclaimed by now. It would have given substance to the David Thompson legacy, instead he must rest in his tomb satisfied with the manufactured football tournament and the tainted partisan constituency councils and polyclinic.
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Sir from my vantage point which only gives me limited insight i believe that the courts have undertaken the task of directing and resolving the Clico matter and Mara has no input in the resolution of the matter
However the Dominican relief funds and questions which are being asked of the leader of the opposition as a proof of transparent accounting were funds which were asked of and collected through various public offerings at the management of the leader of the blp Mia Mottley with specific and plausible intentions
Although not funds accessed by taxpayers funding or govt sponsored relief programs,those funds should be verified and accounted publicly in lieu of the fact that the intent was to provide relief for a sister caricom nation and the public having trust in advancing such measured support for the original intent
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@ de pedantic Dribbler
What I mean to say is that Mara “is not a politician in the classic sense of slinging mud and delighting in aspersions” like the rest of the gang.
I put it to you AGAIN that this speech was and is not hers and reiterate that ” unlike her dead husband, she does not fight in the cesspool that characterizes Bajan oratory in the House of Parliament!!
I would put it to you that this script that was provided said something like the following.
[you, the speaker] what is your record as such relates to debates on violence against women?
[you the speaker] are noticeably absent from such debates
[and to close, you the speaker] are to keep your eyes off my daughters
Some years ago there were a team of charlatans who went around tricking gullible villagers under the guise of spreading the word.
One cud read but his assistant ways illiterate and after a time begrudged the educated man the adulation that he received and said that unless they could switch roles and he the non readers could be allowed to share in the praise, he would leave the Union od tieves
So it was agreed that Durant let us call the educate tief Durant would hide in the podium and read while Thompson, let us call the uneducated associated assistant Thompson, would hold the Bible so that Durant cud read.
On the appointed night the exercise in skullduggery begins.
Durant whispers “And the Lord said unto Moses” and Thompson repeats “and the Lord said unto Moses…” But inadvertently puts his fingers over the words
Durant whispers “move thy Thumb..” Thompson shouts “move thy thumb..”
Durant whispers ” man I never going bring you anyplace with me again…” Thompson shouts “man I never going bring you….blah blah blah…
De ole man pint?
Mara, a piece of lady, euphemism for not a brainiac, who also is not into de customary mudslinging, read the “leaders” AND DE TEXT FOR WHAT, IF IT HAD BEEN DELIVERED AS PROVIDED, WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE , AT MIA MOTTLEYS EXPENSE
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@Pieces, you smarter than me so I will accept your bible readings at 9:29 AM.
But I hope you realize that you calling the daughter of a former big-shot, long time political chess grand-master a neophyte (forget the wife part) TOO naive to read and spell for she-self!
You basically telling me that although she was steeped in gutter politics (all politics goes there) from a tender age in her formative years with an agile mind that see she old-man play soft-ball and hard-ball to suit de occasion….
… that she now unable to read de same type of balls off-de-pitch at this stage of she life…
Ok my bro, I will go wid your analysis of her batting ability …I just dribbling in ignorance!
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Then here comes Prodigal running around BU with the “bashing and slashing” cutlass in hand taking on Mara closing comments in Parliament. The woman words would only provoke anger from those who knowingly use Mia children as a stepping stone for political advancement
It makes me wonder if Prodigal is one of those( such) political scumbags
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Whuloss, Mia got children?
When?
Where? how?
Who is de Daddy?
Is dem also “fatherless?”
AC you is certifiably insane!
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pieceuhderockyeahright March 20, 2016 at 11:23 AM #
“AC you is certifiably insane!”
@ PUDRYR
No, Piece. In every group yuh does got some sporty people.
In the lower House yuh got James Paul, Mara, Kellman, David Estwick, Sinckler, Gline Clarke, George Payne, Trevor Prescod and Freundel, jest to mention uh few.
In the upper House, yuh got Todd, Irene, Maxine, Esther, Reggie and my sporty friend Jester.
Dis particular AC is not only BU’s resident clown, but is the biggest fool from the AC consortium of yard-fowls.
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@ Artaxerxes
It think that it is only fair thar the same time that Mia presenting that lawyer certificate she should be made to present the birth certificates of each of the children plussing provide de names of dem fathers!!!
Whuloss Artaxerxes suppose de fadders uh Mia Chilrun are is reading well turn out to be Ronald WeJonesing and Jerome Walcott???
Fatherless, suppose dat de same way dat Mia is godmother, sorry godfather, sorry I confused, but suppose de same way she is supposed to be godparent to one uh Stinkliar chilrun, dat he is godfather to one uh hers? you see how dat gine complicate tings when in de first 100 days of her rule in 2018, under the Integrity Legislation of the Troika, she got to lock up she childrun godfather?
You ent know Adriel Nitwit Bratwit does you? See if you cud get he tuh look into it, nooooo, not de medical part, de veracity uh de claim bout de kids en ting.
Maybe we cud get Rommell Marshall tuh go and tek pictures uh de childrun like he did tek uh Owen purported outside son at Eden Lodge Primary, whu you tink?
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Piece…ya killing it today…lol
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When we pause to discuss “30 honourable members,” should we refer to Dr. David Estwick as being “honorable” or is he, in the words of his esteemed leader, a “sanctimonious hypocrite?”
I am sure BU is aware of Estwick’s customary outbursts, threats to resign and his having a problem with the direction his administration has been taking the economy as well as Stuart’s leadership style.
In December 2013 began to vent his frustration with government’s economic and fiscal policies as well as the leadership style of the prime minister.
Estwick revealed his displeasure of government’s economic policies in an interview with Barbados Today during February 2014, by informing Barbadians that “the Freundel Stuart administration as using the “wrong medicine” to deal with the economic problems facing the island.
He said “while he understood the strategy being adopted by the government to turn around the ailing economy, it was not going to achieve the desired goal of fixing a BDS$1.4 billion current account deficit.
”So you can’t cut and tax out of that, which is the old budgetary tool, which is a classic IMF way of delivering it. I am not afraid to say what I have to say because I stand by my inferences and by my reasoning and my common sense. Where that leads me, it will lead me,”
In November 2014, Estwick told Stuart, via a private memorandum which was subsequently made public, that he should take action to solve an issue identified by him (Estwick) or he would resign from the cabinet.
Also, in December 2014, a few days after Stuart travelled to Cuba for the fifth Caricom/Cuba Summit, Estwick chose that time to inform Barbadians he was fed up over the non-implementation of his instructions pertaining to the Barbados Cane Industry Restructuring Project. He subsequently sent a seven paged letter to the prime minister, in which he warned Stuart “this is the last time I will raise this matter with you…”.
Despite his constant public outbursts, when the time comes for parliamentarians to vote on passing a bill in the House, Estwick always play the “party line” and “aye” with his colleagues even on issues he previously criticized.
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@ Artaxerxes
Jes til April, when the statutory requirements to secure pensions are met then we going see bulldog again, but at that time de pension secured so anyting going play, including “Not one Effing Seat”
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@ PUDRYR
Wuh part Mia gine get dem burf certificates from, Piece? And wuh is de meaning uh you mentioning Jones and Jermone in de same breaf? De two uh dem does do de same t’ngs………. am, uh mean if duh gots the same job?
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Sir glad you made mention of Mia not having children which brings my attention to the issue of barbados declining population growth which was part of Mia statement in parliament
Sir since you saw my error in making a reference by naming Mia instead of Mara.i am therefore forced to asked
If Mia sees the importance of having children as a necessary barometer for expanding the population of barbados why doesn/t she or why haven/t she explored the possibility of having offspring a necessary tool of rebuilding the population pool of this nation?
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AC….as a female you should know that having children is a personal choice regardless of one’s lifestyle, who are you to judge when or if someone should have children because of a declining population.
Barbados has some very serious and complex social issues, maybe if your masters were not so self absorbed and focused on self enrichment they could address, identify the causes and arrive at a solution to reverse the trend…but no, all they think about is million dollar bank accounts and big rides, big houses, lots of women and some say, men….all the wrong things.
Why dont you help out the depopulation by increasing the population with 6 more children..
We know why China has the problem, it can be traced back to decades of killing female babies.
We know why Japan has the same problem…that also has several different social problems attached.
But why is such a small island like Barbados having that issue.
About 3 weeks ago there was only one female born in the birthing area, for that whole Sunday………the previous days only saw male births…ergo, at that rate birth rates will fall even further in the next 20 years.
What does the government plan to do about that.
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Specifically for the Fool
Sir i am aware of my many errors
Unlike u i am not retired and have the luxury of time to erase or read with dilligence every word i write
Sir much of my time is spent administrating and managing a large company and at intervals would comment within a working enviroment that can be a cause for me to be distracted
This is not meant to be apology
In any case if you choose to become the policeman of the literacy i would not get in your way.. as a matter of fact i belive i might have given you an opportunity of becoming the first blog grammatical correctional officer…peace
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Errors…on a Sunday…you “manage a large company” on a Sunday, which large company in Barbados opens on a Sunday, one is lucky to get Massy Supermarkets opening unti 2pm on Sundays…Jordans does not open at all on Sundays..even your excuses are poorrakey AC..lol
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Wish some of you would not make all issues about ac, it degrades the blog.
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Piece, you had be dieing!! Lol!!
Like true ac flair – instead of doing what others do by correcting the mistake he gave a whole essay on why he shouldn’t. Gotta love ac.
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Lol @ well well
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So ac help me.
How should I interpret the closing comments of the Honourable member from St.John?
Methinks she was speaking directly to the person in the Speaker’s chair?
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I can’t for the life of me understand, if the people believe that this Guvment is worse than hitler, why can’t we pelt them out like we did Sandi. Stupse!!
All talk no go!
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David….given the seriousness of all these issues, we do need comic relief and AC fits the bill perfectly…lol
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In any case Mara as a mother has the right to protect her children against the poison arrows and thr despicable and disrespectful mouthings of those who rather do her children harm
@WW&C. You can google my reply Fool
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@AC
I have an admission to make.
I have a begrudging respect for you and your abject, albeit misguided loyalty to the DLP, even in the face of their obvious lack of skills and it taking them 10 years to learn how to attempt to run government
My problem with you does not lie in your English, or command thereof, speech impediments or grammatical correctness do not impair or diminish the concept delivered when the village idiot yells “fyah” and there is a fire going on.
You made a mistake, one of several that you make here, and I realize that you, rather one of you, is not a man of letters and were it not for the grans and me chilrun, I too would be similarly challenged.
You exposed your wicket and I dragged it out of the pitch but there are some things patriotic that you accept blindly which I cannot and will not.
There are some bloggers here who truly weep in the face of obvious incapacity to manage by BOTH OF OUR PARTIES, moreso yours.
Some of us make it very obvious that we love our country and when ingrunce happens, like tekking a whole school day and mekking de school chilrun are is reading well go to the Gymnasium to watch Edwin Yearwood, is ingrunce squared!!
We are old watchdogs who are disturbed whether it is B or D destroying the moral fabric of our society but we love our country and even though we have a hope of what our country should be, and a fond remembrance of what it was, we also realize that dependence on history is meaningless if we want to hitch 20 horses to a buggy in 2016, fondness of anachronism is detrimental to growth.
Holding fast to the Errol Barrow vision of free School Meals in 2016 is counterproductive if the nutritional content of the 1970’s menu incurs diabetes in 2016.
My point is that while what was done in Barrows day was visionary then, armed with what we know now, abject loyalty to that vision is idiocy at best and treason to our people at worst.
Take off your blinkers and support what is right for the people
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Exactly Piece…Barrows vision was created and implented for the 60s and 70s, by the 80-90s that same method had no place in the society, his time had passed, the island never produced another politician with his acumen, they kept using the same worn out template from either Barrow or Grantley Adams, none of which has no place in neither can they work in 2016, over 40 years after Barrow and Adams….
No other politicians ever came forward with new innovative ideas that would have prevented what we are now witnessing…the decay and degradation….which could have been avoided.
This lack of vision by DBLP politicians who insist on continuing to ape 50 year old traditions is destructive and continues to victimize the taxpayers.
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*none of which has any place in the present society neither can they work in 2016, over 40 years after Barrow and Adams….
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@ ac March 20, 2016 at 9:19 AM #
Sir from my vantage point which only gives me limited insight i believe that the courts have undertaken the task of directing and resolving the Clico matter and Mara has no input in the resolution of the matter
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Yeah right……………and she did not know of the 3.3 million dollar cheque that was laundered through her husband’s firm while she was office manager………….even though she signed the cheques to move around the money!
Give me a break…………she knew every shiiiite her husband was doing as office manager and during the long time he was sick. He would have had to let her know everything before he kicked the bucket.
The woman is not a politician and she is a poor liar!
By the way, this government has decided to take up the taxpayers’ money to settle the irresponsible destruction of a company raped by Leroy Paris and by the hugh legal fees paid to David Thompson.
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AC…did I mention to you that Chris Sinckler has been outted as a liar, a liar…there is written proof, that means no yardfowl isvcredible…none, not a one.
Have a looksee….AC..written proof, proof.
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/03/20/mia-wants-apology-from-sinckler/
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wunna like to mek nuff noise about any thing could not care less what you or anybody believes or think of what is my allegiance. In the meanwhile what i say or does n/t say and how it is said should not upset all of you yardfowls perched high on the blp fence, But it does ! the reason being that you are biases in your leaning for the BLP and just can/t help yourself to critique and respond to anything i say . But yuh know what ac does not give a rat a.sss.. move over or better yet keep moving on when i occupied this limited space on BU cause ac is not going anywhere any time soon and while you are trying to figure out what i said get used to my grammatical errors,
In this global world the barbadian mentality of portraying one of superior intellect has done nothing for the island ..Yet with all this superiority or so called intelligence ..society as a whole has offered little of nothing for the overall development of the island and mostly relying on outside influence to build the nation
While others prefer to leave the country armed with free education and give freelyof their education to other countries
So bro try not fly your intellectual kite too high cause their is always a high wind approaching to blow it out of the sky
better yet stick to what little yuh know and leave the critiquing for those who can actually perform
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Maria Agard did an excellent job in her presentation although being critical of govt her words were well grounded in fact
Another stellar example of disagreeing does not necessarily have to portray misguided and exaggerated untruths
personally after her presentation one of politeness filled with positive servitude to country i hope she would stick around even as an independent voice for the island
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Boo hoo…………who gives a rat’s tail what Maria Agard says now? Her fifteen minutes has passed.
She is now a lady without a party and will not be entitled to a pension!
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Has Agard’s case been heard yet?
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@ ac, “move over or better yet keep moving on when i occupied this limited space on BU cause ac is not going anywhere”
Since you are going no where, PLEASE use the little bit of intelligence that you have when blogging.
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@ ac March 20, 2016 at 6:29 PM
“Maria Agard did an excellent job in her presentation although being critical of govt her words were well grounded in fact”
Why don’t you and your DLP scallywags stop using that poor woman? OSA used her and now you lot are doing even worse by even abusing her.
If you see her as so great a contributor to national development why not stop treating her as a victim of Mia’s tyrannical acts and embrace her into the DLP’s inbreeding fold in need of much intellectually sound blood and moral sanguinity? She has already gotten the blessing and stated protection of the PM.
Why not advise Mr. Froon the fumbling fool to use the opportunity arising out of his much long promised and disgracefully overdue cabinet reshuffle to bring Ave Maria on board and out of the BLP cold by making her Minister of Health?
Now that would be a real slap in Mia’s face leading to lockjaw and the inability to neither speak nor bite.
The overly garrulous Johnny the Boyce can be sent to be Minister of Finance to implement the programme of privatization and currency adjustment while Stinkliar is sent to Agriculture where he will be so buried in bush he would not have the opportunity to cuss women or foreign people from the international world of finance and economics.
the neutered Bulldog can resign from the obese cabinet after April citing mental health problems.
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now blp operatives on a scale of one to ten Maria gets a nine for delivery and presentation and a ten for effect and facts
On a scale of one to ten Mia gets a ten for attending the debate ..a ten for a powerful performance of demonstrating effortlessly yardfowl propaganda and a ten for having no Solutions
MrS Thomas she is a clone of Mia and her rating broke the scale with her comical performance in the art of trying to be a diplomatic
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@ Retribution-things that make me go hum!
and to you i say use your free education to make some kind of contribution to the issues ,,other than that get out of my way before your dead a,ss gets run over ja.s
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@ WW&C who outed Sinckler Fool you are just as ignorant as Mia
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Do you see what BU household means? 5,000 comments of nothingness in 2015. Coming from a self confess BU hater. Of course this could not be fatherless from the truth.
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Good analysis lMiller but your pittance of advice is not needed on this side of the bench save all and sundry for Mia after the next election her head would once again placed firmly on the chopping block and handed to OSA for safe keep
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See what i mean now i turn up the heat hear comes David fire hose in hand, Early today he was licking his chops feeling comfortable that ac was beaten battered and bruise and down for the count after those blistering language attacks coming from the blp steel donkeys, LOL not so easy bro ac has recovered and kicking back in full stride ,
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You are a JA, just want noticing. If BU is a place of irrelevance for you explain your 5000 comments in 2015. You are a fraud and yard fowl par JA. Have not forgotten that time you lied about being in St.Lucia,
Liar liar feet on fire!
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David ac must be really frustrating u and i am liking it boyyyyyyyyy ,
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You may have the last word.
#acneedstoloossenherweaveandchangeFBpic
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ac warned all the blp operatives that the issue of Mia LEC would be spoken of in time . the issue was given a glancing blow during the debate
MIa needs to come clean on this issue
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Yes, AC, “Mia needs to come clean on this issue” about her LEC.
“According to the parliamentary recording, re-played on a jumbo screen for the rally audience, Sinckler objected at this point to Mottley’s claim and said, “I can categorically deny that I have any knowledge of, or information pertaining to any such matter between the Minister of Labour and the National Insurance”.” [Barbados Today, March 20, 2016]
But don’t you believe that Sinckler has to COME CLEAN when he allegedly lied about not having any knowledge relative to an increase in the stipends paid to members of the National Insurance Board, thereby misleading the House?
The information presented in today’s editions of the Sunday Sun and Barbados Today is compelling evidence to support Mottley’s claims. And I’m sure you will agree that this matter, whereby a member of parliament intentionally misleads the House is much more SERIOUS than a LEC?
But knowing the consortium of yard-fowls you will do your utmost best trying to convince BU that the document is fraudulent.
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ac March 20, 2016 at 1:32 PM #
“Sir much of my time is spent ADMINISTRATING and MANAGING a LARGE COMPANY and at intervals would comment within a working environment that can be a cause for me to be distracted…”
Hahahahaha… wuh loss….. murduh….. uh gine ded.
Wuh is de name uh dah “large company,”……. DLP Propaganda Co. Ltd.? Yuh mean dat de company word-processing program en gots nuh “spell check?”
Wunnah lie……
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@ ac March 20, 2016 at 9:31 PM #
“ac warned all the blp operatives that the issue of Mia LEC would be spoken of in time . the issue was given a glancing blow during the debate
MIa needs to come clean on this issue”
Why a glancing blow? Why not a full frontal attack on Mia’s honesty and integrity?
The same way people are stripped of their knighthoods why not strip Mia of her Queen’s Counsel designation.
Allan Stanford lost his knighthood why not the Queen of the Dishonest Bees Mia.
Go ahead and advise Lord Fumble the unmarried closet queer (odd) fella to do just that!
We dare you to open that Pandora’s box of truth and reconciliation.
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Art,
If a JA like ac runs a large company, we have to feel sorry for whoever hire she or he.
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Ac,
Tell the BU family of the 55 million dollars you nitwits paid for the British American building. That building is not only ugly but it does not fit in where it is.
It is a burning shame how indiscriminately you morons have spent the taxpayers monies.
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@David March 19, 2016 at 5:04 PM “Here is the full vid of her presentation, she obviously intended to take a bite out of Mia.”
Dear David: You are a naughty, naughty boy.
Aieeee!!! Aieee!!! Aieee!!! stop it hear.
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Somebody needs to tell the Honourable member for St. John that once the daughters are older than 16 anybody can look.
And if they are older than 16 anybody can touch (with their permission of course)
And ma can’t do a thing about it.
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@Prodigal Son March 19, 2016 at 5:37 PM” He was the one who shouted hurled an insult across the floor to Duguid…”wait, Donville, you ain’t tell me that his wife’s children are not his!”
About 5% of children in the world are not the children of the man whose name appears on the birth certificate (that is millions and millions of people, after all horns are a commonplace) and that might well include your daddy Prodigal.
I don’t know why you fellas worry about such things.
A child is a child is a child.
And often enough the child who is not your child is your very best child.
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@Well Well & Consequences March 20, 2016 at 1:23 PM “AC….Why dont you help out the depopulation by increasing the population with 6 more children..
Cuh dear Well Well. I an’t believe that you are advising ac to have more children, and 6 more too,
Are you mad?
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@ David [BU]
You do realize that since it became known to the Democratic Labour Party that the Barbados Labour Party and others heheheheheh were downloading copies of their videos for posterity that they have disabled ALL OF THE VIDEOS ON http://www.barbadosparliament.com/video/view/345.
Imagine that you could be sooooo dishonest that the very videos that chronicle how fantastic your estimates were/are that you now tek down from public viewing cause dem is national security matters!!!
The DLP is the single worse government this cuntry has ever seen, in fact, the are the worst the region has ever seen!!!
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so tell me how is it possible for Mottley to find all documentation whether legitimate or fraudulent to present to the eyes of the glaring public with instant haste supporting her allegations but cannot show proof oh her LEC
Now that is the million dollar question to be asked of Mia
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@PUDRYR
The videos are online.
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The LEC is just another “DLP red herring.”
The million dollar question is “why do members of this DLP administration continue to “tell nuff lies?”
Even the yard-fowls join the fray by writing their “time is spent administrating and managing a large company.”
Yuh hear lie, that is lie.
Mottley may the worst Opposition Leader, so far, in the history of Barbados. But she must be given kudos for waking up “Pit Bull Estwick” who remained silent or asleep through the many months people were complaining about water outages. It seems as though the plight of those Barbadians became apparent to Estwick only AFTER Mottley delivered a letter on their behalf to the BWA.
He responded by holding a “political spot meeting” under the guise of a press conference. Rather than empathize with the residents, he engaged in political posturing and the “political blame game.”
Estwick has now resorted to “propaganda tactics” by having CBC TV8 dedicate a segment of the “CBC Evening News” to the BWA.
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AS far as the BLP is concerned everybody is a Liar a long overdone set of unfounded allegations being told by the BLP which the public have gotten used to hearing and has lostmost of the public interest (with few exceptions mostly yardfowls ) and the intent for which these stories should purpose
Mottley of all people should be the last to be calling anyone that( is anyone) a liar afterall she served as a high ranking member of a cabinet for 14 years that not only lied but committed all kinds of nefarious under hand dealings openly without fear of reprisal
As for Mottley in her exuberant an excessive political diatribe she should not forget HER past and the many allegations some of recent where the past leader of the BLP OSA accused her of Theft and being a person of questionable character yes she should not forget that her history of being a politician is not squeaky clean and there are many pot holes laying in her pathway that can lead to her down fall.
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You are right Simple…what was I thinking, 6 more ACs in Barbados. Sorry, that was a moment of madness.
AC…you should be glad DLP will be thrown out on it’s ear from the people’s parliament shortly….. just imagine what the bloggers will do with Mi, when she thinks becoming a PM in today’s enlightened environment will be a cakewalk, there is no 3rd party remember, and her financial backers, the same corrupt backers of DLP will still be corrupt, will still want more million dollar contracts to rob the people, will still want a pass for not being arrested for their criminal activities…are you and them not tired being beaten to a pulp on social media…gluttons for punishment…ok.
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Again, kudos must be given to Mottley for not only exposing the lies and corruption of the DLP, but for providing DOCUMENTATION to SUBSTANTIATE her ALLEGATIONS.
Rather than hide behind the safe walls of parliament and using sly innuendos to accuse the BLP of “committing all kinds of nefarious under hand dealings openly without fear of reprisal,” the DLP is yet to present one shred of evidence as proof of any financial impropriety perpetrated by the BLP.
As I mentioned in a previous post, the DLP NEEDS to give any EVIDENCE they have of BLP corruption to the police and DPP in an effort to have those former ministers who were responsible for committing such acts charged and brought before the law courts.
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Artax
Oh no you don’t! You ain’t gonna make out the BLP to be any heroes in the latest unveiling of DLP nasty deeds. We appreciate Mottley’s efforts but we know she has no halo circulating her head. Ah ah, we ain’t forgetting hardwood housing, 3S scam, the Dodds mystery millions, the unaccountable money in the Greenland fiasco, Noel Instantly Rich buy a plantation Lynch, Gline Clarke land reclassification and more and more and more and more. Ah ah, hall and pull again sweetie.
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Houston, we have a problem.
One both sides of the divide we have so called different parties but the same melee as my gf SSS says.
The challenge that we face in 2018 is going to be one of keeping it real and having choices of principled men and women which, frankly, does not seem to be on our ballot cards.
“A Few Good Men” is a hollywood movie that de ole man watch some time ago but there is a scene worth watching that deals with “truth” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk and Jack Nicholson gives a sterling monologue in that.
The fact is that as a country we have a serious problem that the fumbling Stuarts and the megalomaniac Mottleys seem, based on their cloying histories, unable or unwilling to fix.
So we the people find ourselves tossed between these two forces of nature where, every five years we are placed in the eye of a storm that paused for the requisite ballot taking/counting then starts again, its gale force winds, in the opposite direction, and we are in the midst of that malevolence agains the people of Barbados.
This shyte got to stop and this 50 year landmark should be a wakeup call for our people but unfortunately like Bush Tea and WW&C always remind us it does not seem like it will, because we “like um so”
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@ SSS
My comment was intended specifically for the AC consortium of yard-fowls.
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AB has been made aware of specific instances of public servant corruption and has done nothing.
Complicit.
com·plic·it
kəmˈplisit/Submit
adjective
involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.
“all of these people are complicit in some criminal conspiracy”
He is at sea in a lifeboat full of cannibals and can do nothing about them, nor can he risk to fall asleep.
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pieceuhderockyeahright March 21, 2016 at 12:36 PM #
Houston, we have a problem.
This shyte got to stop and this 50 year landmark should be a wakeup call for our people but unfortunately like Bush Tea and WW&C always remind us it does not seem like it will, because we “like um so”’
”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’
The only time that things will ever change in this country is when Bajans start to behave like the third monkey on Noah’s ark gangplank. Meanwhile we will grin and bear it.
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