Today (10/05/2016) a No Confidence Motion brought by the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) is scheduled to be debated in the House of Assembly. The motion is anticipated to discuss government’s mismanagement of the economy – the several downgrades, Sandals, Cahill Energy among others. Not many except the overly optimistic BLP supporter expects the government to demit office as a result of the motion. However the Opposition gets the opportunity in the glare of public view to articulate concerns for the general public to draw conclusions.
233 responses to “No Confidence Motion”
@ac
You are putting on a brave face and putting up a stout defence but the truth is the DLP must be wincing in pain from that expose from Miss Mottley yesterday.
AWTY,
It seemed to me that the DLP policy was to let the BLP MP’s talk and not respond.
But with the licks so hot in their backsides, they seem to have a rethink during one of the breaks. Next thing, the jackass Kellman got up and started his rambling rant. How else would you analyse Richard Sealy letting everyone see how unprepared he was………..he did not know how to explain the revelations by Ronald Toppin.
Why was the debate suspended to Thursday at 3pm. Does the cabinet not meet on Thursday?
Mia and the blp yardfowls would remain stay stuck in the Cahill quagmire while govt moves swiftly ahead with dependable and sustainable energy policies for the future
@ac
The PM was the creator of the Cahill? He is one who applied ink, government ink and gave it life.
Lol….AC is that the best ya can come up with, and what do your masters Bizzy and Maloney have to say about that, ya know none of your ministers can take a leak without their permission…what a shame.
listen Whinny dove…..the truth of the matter there was nothing new in that 8 hour speech that was not said before so any thing said was a repeat of the past any now my indulgence here is to let you and others know that Mia has yet to deliver the knock out punch although she did try in that manipulative 10% shell game which came under fire which has made her eat the word “raise” and settle for reinstatement and by all means question her credibility
Did anyone take note of what Stephen Lashley said today?
He admitted to Peter that it did not look good to “restore” the pay cut at this point and they know people are talking and they would have to listen to the people. Yea, right…….pure political spin.
A lot of so called temporary taxes were imposed by the Stinkliar and at their expiry date,they just extended the so called temporary taxes…..like the consolidation tax, the 2.5% increase in VAT, the solid waste tax that was renamed a municipal tax and added on to the land tax………..
The Stinkliar took away almost all of what we were accustomed to claim as deductions in one fell scoop and did not bat an eye…………..he could not care less.
What a bunch of morons!
When the workers at the airport were striking for an increase which was promised to them, the government with the help of the most incompetent minister ever along with Richard Sealy told the workers that the promise was null and void because the economy did not grow…………..this is after lying to Barbadians saying that the economy is on a growth path.
So has the economy improved to restore this 10%?
The PM has proved himself to be just another low rated politician that just got lucky when the king died.
He started out as a man who never could retain a seat, he ran from St Philip as the people up there could not stand his snooty arrogance.
Freundel Stuart never excelled at even law to even to merit becoming a QC……………he was lousy politician and no one should expect him to be a top politician …………he could only be a poor, poor PM and a lousy leader. I must ask one of my Foundation friends (many of whom are ashamed of him and the CJ) if Freudel was even a scout leader at school.
The man was never a leader, so be could never be a good PM. I blame Barbadians for their country’s position when they voted for this man in 2013…………they had an idea what this man would be like when he took over from Thompson during his illness………the man did nothing, the country was on auto pilot, no one was in control and what did Freundel say………..the man left me to keep house, when someone leaves you to keep house, you dont change up the man’s place………………
the fact being that the Mia /blp never voted in favor of the cut in the first place so reinstatement is all but questionable coming from them as to whether they want to reinstate or not. The first vote is a true testimony of their sincerity
So this great pretense of holding the feet of those to the fire who had stood three years in agreement for a cut is like dancing on a political high wire while dangling dangerously over a cliff
Mia has shown a deceptive side which she would have done well to keep to herself out of pure political opportunism and self interest which will some day bite her in the ass
@ac
The issue is not whether it is a raise or a re-instatement, its the insensitivity of the timing. That is what have all the people of Barbados talking, have the Unions pissed off and the Civil Service irate and spiteful.
Also, you think Mia does not have more evidence to release? Let Minister Lowe continue, all he is doing to making it bad for each and every on the members of Parliament on the Government benches.
Gabriel May 11, 2016 at 7:41 PM #
The word on the ground is that Stephen Lashley has his eyes on the crown…somebody referred to him today as the de facto PM! lol Wuhloss,muh belly!waiii
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The incumbent has raised everyone’s aspirations in Barbados , of one day becoming Prime Minister, including the Gearboxes and the Tala-la-las.
Look ac and other DLP yardies. We don’t care if it is a raise or reinstatement. We don’t care who voted for it originally or who did not vote it.
This is what we care about.
The MP’s do NOT deserve a raise or reinstatement.
We think that since all of them are being paid $100,000, $150,000, $200,000 and more in salary and benefits that they do NOT deserve anymore.
The NCC workers still ain’t get their severance pay.
Civil servants an’t get a raise for 8 years.
The damn economy stagnant.
Young people can’t find work.
Let the politicians, ALL of them tighten their belts just like anybody else.
Got it now?
@ac May 11, 2016 at 9:29 PM “Mia and the blp yardfowls would remain stay stuck in the Cahill quagmire.”
So you admit that Cahill is a quagmire.
Good.
Maybe this is the beginning or reason
@ Simple Simon
It’s not that the ac’s and the DLP don’t get it, they get it but they don’t know how to play anything other than attack the Leader of the Opposition. So that’s what they will do tomorrow, that what they have always done.
People today are not prepared to hear the excuses and justifications of the increase or re-instatement of the 10% and the DLP would be well advised to sit, regroup and find a way to apologise to the public. If they don’t this could easily escalate.
insensitivity of the timing , Well there was an agreement made by parties involved in the initiative of the cutting of wages with a specific ending period which apparently has or is coming came to an end , the question to you and those who now talks about insensitivity is the money due owed to the parties /ministers bearing in mind it was a decision made by those individuals to withhold some of their wages for a specific period of time.
If now the period has ended it should be solely up to them to decide wether to proceed with the initial plan or not and not be hauled over hot political clowns as if the minister was asking for an increase in wages as suggested by Mia Mottley
After all it is money which is owed to the minister s , Money which by all means they gave in earnest as a gesture of goodwill for their country , Yet to hear how Mia try to slur those ministers who gave three years of their wages one was led to believe that the ministers were low life scoundrel looking for an easy pick
No wonder OSA said she was not fit to be leader of the BLP or even the PM of barbados she is one of a kind dirty politician ,
David and the others;
I am castigated as usual for keeping you honest and on the straight path. Mia in her long contribution,trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the country by trying to give the impression that a restoration is a raise. Does that mean that when Owen “restored the 8% cut; backdating it, that it represented an increase in salary for the entire civil service? To reduce it to its simplest terms; if I have fifty dollars and ten dollars is withheld for a time; six months, that means that for the next six months I will have forty dollars. If at the end of the six months that ten dollars is “restored”, or given back then I will have back the same fifty dollars. I would not now have a raise, which would happen if that fifty dollars was INCREASED to sixty dollars. Mia can’t cover her tracks, nor can her supporters try to cover this mistake. It was a deliberate attempt to mislead the house, and the people of Barbados. And I predict that lots of what she said will be corrected. Her analysis of Ryan Straughn’s economic analysis neglects to inform on many things. What did she say about Capital expenditure?
The lying despot poor excuse of an opposition leader had her echos out on the call in programmes today led by her chief political advisor and cheerleader discredited Petra Wickham. We all know the impression that Mottley tries to give about Mark Maloney and the Jada group publicly bear no resemblance to the attempts to solicit campaign donations from the same corporate entities behind close doors.
So while the BLP yardfowls here on BU rush for the scratch grain thrown out in the yard, Mottley and her select group of cronies and lackeys are in a mad dash for power to feather their own nests.
After seeing her poll numbers plummet by 20 points following her unprovoked , self serving assault on the innocent and faithful BLP party member Maria Agard, Wickham told Mottley that she needed to get back on the soap box. Wickham’s advice to the BLP is also to offer NO SPECIFICS on policy or programmes, He told Mottley that once she is consistently negative and throw out charge after charge, the media narrative will follow and if pressed she should only speak generally. Therefore, you sit here and heat all kinds of accusation from a BLP opposition and have no specifics on how they would address these issues nor do they plan to say.
What makes it worse is that this piss poor opposition is the most divided opposition in modern Barbados, do not mind the numbers , they hate each other and especially the megalomaniac at the top of the BLP
The stalls opposite the temporary Golden Square Market, at the top of Jordan’s Lane, which were built to accommodate some of the vendors from the old Fairchild Street Market, are now being DISMANTLED by “paroes” who are selling the lumber and other people who are using the lumber to refurbish their homes or other purposes.
This is a total waste of our taxes, which could have been used for more productive purposes.
Dr. David Estwick and the officials in the Ministry of Agriculture, and by extension this DLP administration, should be ashamed for allowing this travesty to occur.
If my initials were AC I would pay to change my name.
And the lying despot poor excuse of a prime minister now have his defenders here on BU today led by his chief political advisor and cheerleader discredited AC (and some unintelligent buffoon going by the moniker “Bajanfuhlife.)”
And “speaking” of “DIVIDED OPPOSITIONS,” I recall the ANIMOSITY Denis Kellman and David Thompson PUBLICLY DISPLAYED towards each other when they were the only TWO members on the opposition benches, after the 1994 general elections. The DEMS in the House and Senate, at that time, hated each other and especially the megalomaniac at the top of the DLP at that time.
Surely, with TWO individuals (do not mind the numbers) refusing to communicate with each other, that piss poor opposition had to be the MOST DIVIDED OPPOSITION in modern Barbados.
The DIVISION in the DLP raised its ugly head AFTER the 2003 general elections, when the 7 DEMS elected to parliament, met to choose an opposition leader. It is on record that two long-standing DLP parliamentarians (Kellman included) VOTED for THEMSELVES as opposition leader.
Subsequently, Kellman hardly, if ever, attended parliamentary group meetings, citing the location of the venue created an inconvenience for him, since it was “too far.” However, when Clyde Mascoll first tendered his resignation as opposition leader in July 2005, Kellman was reported to have ARRIVED at the SAME venue, TWO HOURS BEFORE the scheduled start of the meeting.
To this day, division exists in the DLP, the so called “EAGER 11,” all of whom admitted they had a problem with Stuart’s leadership style, is testimony of this fact. However, it is politically convenient for the yard-fowls not to accept the truth, preferring to “bury their heads in the sand.”
Trying to make an issue of Mottley’s choice of words as it relates to “raise” or “reinstate” within this particular context is IRRELEVANT. The main issue here is that this piss poor DLP administration asked public sector employees, through their respective unions, to accept a “salary freeze,” to which they complied.
In November 2009, then General-Secretary of the Barbados Workers Union, Sir Roy Trotman, told the media the union had agreed to a wage freeze for the year December 2009-2010, because of the difficult economic situation on the island.
Rather than increase salaries/wages when they were constitutionally due to be increased, this same administration asked the public sector to endure a further sacrifice, by accepting a nominal “wages freeze” for another 2 years.
It is fair for public sector employees to bear the brunt of sacrifice for the past 7 years, while the politicians who appealed to those workers not to accept any increments, have now decided not to stand in solidarity with those employees, but RESTORE their salaries.
If you DLP yard-fowls do not see anything wrong with this, then……………..
All that which OSA has described Mottley has been revealed a few days ago as she once again lighted fires to destroy the social fabric of barbados,
The DLP is on a lose lose wicket here, if they continue with the 10% being a reinstatement (and not a raise) and is money due to the Parliamentarians then the natural progression of that argument is that all the civil servants will want to be paid increases due from 2009 because of the ‘agreed’ wage freeze.
one can discuss all the elements with specific observations about the cutting of wages /freeze etc But what one can not dismiss or ignore are the the misleading of facts halftruths and peppered language demonstrated by Mia Mottley in Parliament with a vibrancy of distortion to inflame! irritate and intentionally do more harm than good to the national interest
Some one needs to pull Mia aside and teach her the art of diplomacy and also remind her that shouting fire in a crowded theater is not good.
Her actions is typical of a politician whose sole interest is to undermine the national interest of a country by any means necessary in favour of self interest .Hence today we have the Unions responding with threats once again as a result of her aggravated and intrusive mouthings on an issue which was not resolved in parliament
in any event if the social fabric of this country becomes disrupted on account of her inflammatory language she would indeed pay a heavy price
ac
If that be the case she learnt at the foot of OSA, DT and the current PM. That is not going to carry you anywhere.
In case you ain’t work it out, this is a political check-mate move buy Mia as the DLP now have no reason whatsoever why they:-
1. Can pay increases to public servants
2. Pay entitlements to NCC workers
3. Reinstate workers laid-off.
There should be no problem doing the above, after all the economy has stabilised and is growing.
“Alvin Cummins May 11, 2016 at 9:17 AM #
@Well Well et ql;
Didn’t the Govt take a 10% cut some years ago? Isn,t this just a restoration to where they were before?
Just asking.”
While that might be true it is disingenuous and insensitive for the government to ever dream at this point in time of restoring their salary to pre-cut levels when no effort is made to restore full entertainment and travelling allowance to those public servants who have had such fixed allowances cut since 2010 and the NCC workers have not yet received any compensation which according to the Prime Minister to be fast tracked.
Mia Mottley only has herself to blame for the – from time to time – shite she tends to display, when her dark nature services. Yes, Mia, the SSS will support you but that does not mean that I like you. You are vile and wicked, and what you, Owen Arthur and Cronies did during your rule, should have put all a wanna in prison for a few years. But, but, but, but, butttttt – you is playing ya cards right, girl.
Facts can always overcome fiction, just as truth always shows up the lie. Right now, the DLP have nicely established for themselves the reputation of bold face-silent liars. All Mottley has to do, now, is to continue with the facts. It is clear that the people are responding to her as the voice of change. If she continues to appeal to the reasoning of the people and let them know upfront how difficult the climb will be, she will score heavily in their favour. Bajans, all except the pooch pickers, are no fools. Talk all you like fowl cocks, cackling hens, and ri
ringworms, Mia is the sweetest of the two nasties.
David
I cannot post a whole commentary with being cut up like this all the time. I hope you aint give no body my email here.
@SSS
Mia is methodical in her approach to demolishing the myth of the PM’s clean hands and the DLP as a party and a government. Look how she has played the Mark Maloney issue. She knows that she cannot allow 2.5 MILLION DOLLARS in $100 bills to put taken out of commercial banks 3 days before a general election and put on the streets for the DLP to buy votes like in 2013. That is 25,000 Sir Grantley’s, that is a lot of political influence people.
You know what government assets the DLP had to ‘sell’ prior to election day 2013 to mobilise 25,000 Sir Grantley’s??????
AC..yet the government never likes to pay anyone they owe and it’s taxpayers money, but are in a hurry to pay themselves before paying anyone else…yeah, that would make sense to you…that’s why they now all look like moneygrubbing6 jackasses.
Has the auditor generals office paid the lady who has been waiting 35 years in pain, her compensation money.
Alvin….the best thing to do is ignore you…honestly.
@SSS
If you click on the comment box first it should open up to allow you to post a comment. You must be observing the other commenters who are happily prolixing.
The 10% insensitive foolishness is obvious even to Ninjaman, it cannot be justified by 2,000 ACs or Alvins as a restoration or raise or anything else.
If the extra VAT and all the other taxes along with wage-freezes etc. had been restored first they might have gotten away with it. I’m not sure if it was a case of arrogance or ignorance or both, it hardly matters.
That such stupid people could be running a gov’t is another issue altogether but Bajan voters proved in 2013 they don’t consider stupidity a disqualification from gov’t office.
The real question is this: will this obvious ill-conceived, self-serving error be fatal like the 8% pay cut was 20 years ago?
WHERE ARE THE UNIONS?!
Time to march lackies. Not for your DLP slave-masters but for your members.
Brazil’s president impeached for concealing the size of the country’s deficit.
Time to set up the gallows in Parliament yard.
And here is a sitting senator exposing the Bizzy, Cow, Maloney road works scam, forever being paid for by taxpayers..lol
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/05/12/senator-fed-up-with-government-wait/
Whinny the Dove
3-PM did not do a good job trying to appear squeaky moral. I knew he was deceitful when he started talking shite bout, when the DLP finish restructuring the economy that all will say that he and the DLP are best administrative party in history of Barbados. All like now he ain’t tell na lies. They are the best all right. And he is definitely on the road to being infamous.
Well Well & Consequences May 12, 2016 at 7:04 AM #
And here is a sitting senator exposing the Bizzy, Cow, Maloney road works scam, forever being paid for by taxpayers..lol
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/05/12/senator-fed-up-with-government-wait/
Imagine what Barbados could be if we had an apolitical senate with a real legislation veto to keep these elected yardfowls in check.
Methinks the real irony here is that we never needed it before. This DLP gov’t certainly has demonstrated our institutional failings in the absence of honour and good character among the elected.
@ Whinny the Dove
Allegedly in 2013 it cost approximately $250 to buy votes in certain constituencies in St. Michael and Christ Church. If you round up to $300 to buy a vote and a party has $2.5m in cash then that equate to being able to influence 8,333 votes in 2 parishes. I think there at 11 constituencies in these two parishes so that means that 750 votes could be bought in in each constituency.
How many candidates for the Government won by 750 or less?
@ Prodigal Son May 11, 2016 at 9:55 PM #
“The PM has proved himself to be just another low rated politician that just got lucky when the king died.
He started out as a man who never could retain a seat, he ran from St Philip as the people up there could not stand his snooty arrogance.”
I am surprised you are ‘surprised’ at the turn of events.
It is often said that a dead fish rots from its head down. And there has been something rotting in Barbados since this destructive lying party took over the reins of government.
Fumble is one lucky son of a bitch. But the curse of that Fraudel’s luck has fallen on the citizens of Barbados.
How can a people who often pride themselves as some of the ‘best educated’ in the world be so stupidly naive as to elect and continue to tolerate that arrogant fraud occupying the highest office of their once proud land?
The last decision to grant themselves an upward adjustment in his unjustifiable and unearned remuneration at a time when the country is about to undergo further economic deterioration as foreign reserves plunge in real terms does not only beggar belief but is also a clear manifestation of the astronomical level of contempt the head of that destructively lying party holds for fellow citizens.
There is more in the mortar than just the salary adjustment pestle.
Could it be that they are selfishly preparing themselves to ‘cushion’ the impact of a pending adjustment of the Bajan dollar just after the big 50th anniversary party and the inevitable spending spree?
Similarly to how BARBADOS UNDERGROUND exposed the SURREPTITIOUS, SECRET affairs of CAHIL, SRBC, Ionics, Maloney and Bjerkhamn, Mottley caught the DLP off guard by exposing how the DEMS were about to secretly restore the 10% of their salaries. To save face, the DLP are raising a “red herring” at “raise” and “restore”
At this stage, Barbadians are NOT interested in what Owen Arthur had to say about Mottley, that “9 day wonder” has been already played out. Civil servants will REMEMBER that while they made the SACRIFICE of foregoing salary increases since 2009, Donville Inniss RELUCTANTLY accepted a reduction in salary, INSENSITIVELY CITING he had bills to pay and a child to send to university. And after having their salaries reduced by 10%, the DEMS are NOT PREPARED to put NATIONAL INTEREST ahead of SELF INTEREST and stay the course in solidarity with public sector employees, since they are adamant to have the 10% restored.
The DLP has “irritated and intentionally (done) more harm than good to the national interest,” as is evidenced by the successive credit rating downgrades; retrenching over 10,000 public sector employees; former NCC and Beautify Barbados employees still awaiting their severance payments, almost 3 years after being retrenched; denying poor people the opportunity to access tertiary level education; inept policies that are responsible for the closure of many small businesses; high cost of living; high levels of unemployment; inadequate levels of foreign exchange; increased levels of debt resulting in a long running of an unsustainable fiscal deficit, just to mention a few.
Everyone has moved far away and high above the past and are focused on the present and future. ..EXCEPT…for those 2, as so aptly described by SSS “RINGWORMS” AC and Alvin Cummings, both ACs.
Well Well & Consequences May 12, 2016 at 10:20 AM #
Everyone has moved far away and high above the past and are focused on the present and future. ..EXCEPT…for those 2, as so aptly described by SSS “RINGWORMS” AC and Alvin Cummings, both ACs.
We certainly have no present and cannot even dream of future economic recovery under Fumble’s Fools.
Frustrated…it’s a given, if the present government had the abillity to turn around the economy, they would have, but they dont….it’s very clear from their actions, any government worth their salt would have pre-empted the opposition by indicating how many jobs out of the 4-10, 000 layoffs they had restored, how the civil servants were being given a raise after enduring a freeze since 2010, how all public servants would benefit from a raise, rehardless how small, am sure it would be welcomed….but no, instead, filled with arrogance and selfishness they allowed these suffering people to know that the ministers will be restoring and raising their own salaries for screwing up the economy and leaving it screwed up, with no attempt to fix anything.
Those are not leaders, they do not know what the definition of leaders meas, they were given an opportunity by David Thompson and used it to take care of themselves, without an inkling or care that their job descriptions mandate that they take care of the electorate and country first.
That is why you are now such a frustrated businesman, who obviously does not have the bribe money they crave to keep you afloat..lol
And we wonder why Steve Blackett got on like a boar dickey , when Mia announced the intention of the Cabinet to up the salaries of MP’s ? Imagine useless loosers like Sandiford-Garner, Byer-Suckoo and Patrick Todd, living high on the hog ,off the poor taxpayers of this country , who are forced to hold strain, while being taxed even more. The Bajan brand brand of Mafia.
http://i.imgur.com/hz0TRqe.jpg?1
Colonel Buggy
Very Creative
On April 29 gisbarbados issued a press release “Bajan Team Heading To Cuba” at:
http://gisbarbados.gov.bb/index.php?categoryid=9&p2_articleid=15857
On April 30 Barbados Today carried a story “Inniss to lead Cuba trade mission” at:
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/04/30/inniss-to-lead-cuba-trade-mission/
It is customary that there are already a couple of deals in the bag to be signed on the mission to be announced when the delegation returns. Just curious, but has anybody read anything about the success of the mission?
Something else curious is the following paragraph in the GIS release.
“The (BIDC) CEO stated should BIDC undertake a second mission to Cuba, it would have Banks Breweries Limited as part of the group of companies going into Cuba. She stated that the company had indicated an interest in obtaining information with reference to its product and the BIDC would facilitate the process.”
What is curious is that on April 14 Minister Inniss had announced that Banks Breweries Limited would soon begin exporting nearly one million boxes of beer to Cuba.
Apparently AmBev already had done the deal, without the help (or knowledge) of the BIDC CEO to facilitate the process
In any event, kudos to AmBev.
Oh shite, you mekking sport. So a parliamentary sec does be getting close to $180 thousand dollars a month – – oh no – (idiot) that’s a year.
Ok so that not too bad den only about $15 thousand a month – – (idiot) no. After taxes (and tek out them expenses) it must be around $10 thousand in hand . That still ain’t sound too bad really. I mean people gotta eat.
Not too bad, my smooth baby backside. It sounding ridiculous.
We are a bunch of coneys fah trute to expect these folks to sing any different tune.
But wait though if these fellas getting paid so well why do they still have to do all the under-hand shite
And what are the public servants, severed workers and civil servants getting except more and more taxes…
With their greed, Fruendel and his emptyheaded ministers, shot themselves in the foot…that is out and out greed, let them now try to explain that away, no amount of money is enough for them…clowns du parlement.
They are not making things better for the people but are rewarding themselves with raises and patting themselves on the back.
Interesting article “Inniss not losing any sleep over latest Panama Papers leak” at:
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/05/12/inniss-not-losing-any-sleep-over-latest-panama-papers-leak/
Is this guy blind, naive or stupid?
“more than 40 listed companies were linked to Barbados.” If everything is above board, why do the names of 40 companies linked to Barbados appear in Mossack Fonseca’s files?
“Inniss said the real issue at stake was how the ICIJ obtained the information. According to international reports, the papers belonged to the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and were leaked by a source known as “John Doe” ”
It is called “Whistleblowing” defined in 1972 by Ralph Nader as “an act of a man or a woman who, believing in the public interest overrides the interest of the organization he serves, publicly blows the whistle if the organization is involved in corrupt, illegal, fraudulent or harmful activity.” Whistle blowing protection legislation has been passed in many jurisdictions, and in this electronic age whistle blowing is much more widespread and accepted than when defined by Nader in 1972.
“Nobody in the USA, Canada or anywhere else is talking about the real criminal act that has been committed here,” Minister Inniss said.”
That may be true; but Minister Inniss should certainly be losing sleep over how the rising tide of public opinion in the developed counties, USA and Canada included, against the whole concept of tax avoidance will effect Barbados’ financial services/offshore sector for which his Ministry is responsible.
No American or Canadian, or European, may go to jail over tax evasion in Barbados; but many will take their money and go home to avoid the reputation risk resulting from their being known as tax “avoiders”, even if their tax avoidance activities are within the letter of the law.