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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?


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95 responses to “Aye Aye Mr. Speaker Sir 30 Honourable Members Indeed”


  1. Lord have mercy!


  2. 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.


  3. 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 ……….

  4. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    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.

  5. St George's Dragon Avatar
    St George’s Dragon

    She has surely bitten off more than she can chew with those remarks.


  6. 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.


  7. 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


  8. 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.


  9. 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.


  10. Rumour has it that the latter comment is a shot at MAM


  11. 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?


  12. 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!


  13. Can we leave the children out of the discussion?


  14. 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.

  15. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    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!!


  16. 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.


  17. We berated OSA when he referred to our parliament as poorakey. My Gos!


  18. 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.

  19. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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/

  20. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.


  21. 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 .


  22. 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.

  23. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    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!

  24. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    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!!!

  25. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    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.


  26. The statement Mara is not a savvy politician music be given context by the fact she sits in the safest of DLP constituencies.


  27. 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!!!


  28. A Speaker doing his work in the bastion of democracy in the free world.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6EK1W_69PDg


  29. 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.


  30. Evaluate for 10 marks (show working)

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RAMbIz3Y2JA#


  31. 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

  32. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ 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

  33. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @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!


  34. 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

  35. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    Whuloss, Mia got children?

    When?

    Where? how?

    Who is de Daddy?

    Is dem also “fatherless?”

    AC you is certifiably insane!


  36. 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.

  37. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ 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?

  38. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Piece…ya killing it today…lol


  39. 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.

  40. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ 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”


  41. @ 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?


  42. 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?

  43. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.


  44. 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

  45. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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


  46. Wish some of you would not make all issues about ac, it degrades the blog.

  47. Retribution-things that make me go hum! Avatar
    Retribution-things that make me go hum!

    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.

  48. Retribution-things that make me go hum! Avatar
    Retribution-things that make me go hum!

    Lol @ well well

  49. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    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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