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Frustrated Businessman aka Republic my ass responded to the following comment by Enuff:-

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Enuff May 20, 2016 at 10:02 AM

How much forex Rock Hard Cement using up and what’s the cost-benefit scenario? Is RHC wholly or partially manufactured in Barbados, and if not, will it meet the Caricom rules of origin for non-tariffs? If RHC is deemed to be an external good will it be able to compete with Arawak regionally? Will the company earn more Forex than arawak even if the repatriation of arawak earnings is considered? Multiplier effect/defect? #justasking.

That is all irrelevant.

Mark Maloney (MM) managed to get his DLP yard-dogs to remove the Arawak manufacturers’-protection import levies for cement. This was a secret deal between MM and government; no publicity, no consultancy, no association lobbying. One day it was there, the next it was gone. This has never happened in the 30 years I’ve been in business, usually the lobbying by local groups for similar consideration (application or removal of duties) takes years and accomplishes nothing, but not in this case. Very similar to the duty-free deal to operate Bushy Park as a profit-making private company rather than the National Home for Motor Sport as it was intended to be. Seeing a MOF trend yet?

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Cement was imported from Portugal by Hardrock and sold from the flour mill compound (how does any Bajan get to use gov’t property for profit without going through the tender process and years of lobbying?) at a lower price than Arawak, then Arawak lowered their prices in response.

Then Arawak’s mother-company Cemex (Mexican owners who bought Arawak’s Trini parent company after BDS Gov’t sold out our shares) bought the plant in Portugal which was supplying Hardrock.

So now Arawak has a functioning port, mixing plant, bagging plant, established Caribbean sales network, international supply network AND NO IMPORT DUTIES ON FINISHED GOODS THANKS TO MM AND HIS TEEFIN POLITICIAN FRIENDS.

Sounds like a self-solving problem to me.

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250 responses to “Hardseed Mark Maloney Rock Hard”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    Here is Rock Hard website.

  2. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Sounds more like a case of Arawak being business people and doing the practical thing…and Maloney tricking himself…lol

  3. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Isn’t this operation then, similar to the garment manufacturer we heard others in the business complaining bitterly about recently , who is importing finish products from outside of the region, and then placing a Made in Barbados label on it?

  4. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Maloney ,as he has bragged to the Floridians, might have the Barbados government in his pocket, but not so the Vincie, St Lucian, Trini , Jamaican or the others in Caricom’s governments.

  5. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    So am I to understand all this long talk that TCL registering Hardrock in the region and Mahoney got his lawyers on the job,that the upshot of all this is Mahoney has been outfoxed by bigger players?

  6. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    I am not making any statements of fact; I’m merely asking questions that I believe to be relevant.

    There is a new structure under construction just east of the flour mill, did the persons responsible for erecting this structure seek and obtain planning permission before the start of construction? And if not, did they make the necessary applications after the fact? Is the structure complying with the restrictions imposed by Coastal Conservation, Environmental Protection and Town Planning so that permission can be obtained even after construction began?

    Now let’s assume that Town Planning cannot recommend the approval to the Minister because the structure does not comply with the restrictions that were imposed. Will the Minister approve the application anyway?

    Finally, if the person building this structure were a poor, black businessman would I be asking these questions? But then again how would a poor, black businessman get access to government property without paying bribes? Mind you, I am assuming that no bribes were paid, promised or extracted.

  7. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    The player got played… with a real big foot move. Well he is not as clever as he thinks he is. He can only put the DLP Government in his pocket.

  8. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    These small time dudes on the island like Maloney, because they been playing the people on the island with the help of politicians for decades, they think they have arrived and can take on the real sharks swimming out there…until they get themselves eaten…lol, swimming with sprats on the island is one thing, swimming with sharks in the ocean is a whole nother animal and requires lots of bandaid…lol

  9. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Caswell
    Listening to an exchange between Mark Williams and moderator Glyne ‘Cephas’ Murray today on Brasstacks,the story is that at a recent meeting with senior public servants and 2 ministers,Mahoney was told cease and desist,further take down the structure.Based on that exchange all of Barbados is waiting to see what Mahoney does and more importantly what the 2 ministers do.I sense that this DLP cabinet is feeling the heat of public criticism as a result of the No Confidence Motion of the Leader of the Opposition and the likes of Mahoney who took some warm lashes in Mia’s delivery for being a law unto himself,might have to become less visible and less audible and hope against all the odds that Stuart and his gang of misfits get another term.

  10. Contractor Avatar
    Contractor

    We must support Mark Malonely as he is a bajan with balls who have brought us cheaper cement. For many years the GOB’s allowed Arawak to bull us without lubricant. Let us not gloat over this gluttonous move by Arawak and Cemex.

  11. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://vob929.com/FilesFTP/Brasstacks/2016/May/DTBMay19-01.mp3

  12. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    But does the lower prices of Arawak and Hard Rock cement, translates into a lower price of finished homes constructed by Mark Maloney or any other contractor. If the home owner is not benefiting from the lower prices, then he /she has no special support to give to Maloney or Arawak.

  13. Sam Shank Avatar
    Sam Shank

    Say what you like. Because of Maloney, the price of cement came down.

  14. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Arawak has been a bad business citizen of Barbados for many years. Maloney has been a bad business citizen of Barbados for a few years. Again Barbadians are being asked to choose between a rock and a hard place.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @Sam Shank

    Your response captures the problem we have in Barbados. The price came down but what about lack of transparency issues. What about telling Barbadians the cost of forex it takes to import the cement etc. Has anyone done a cost benefit?

  16. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    This is the easiest cost benefit: it will cost the country as a whole and; Maloney and his enablers would benefit.

    >

  17. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/81463/hard-blow

    So much for the lies from Maloney that he never erected anything illegally. What about the structure that got an 11 year old child killed, has Maloney removed it yet…has he been sued for that child’s death yet.

    He loves to jump and front for all the crooks and pretend he is the new massa…now he is admitting he is just a front..but, we knew that.

  18. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Make no mistake about it, lowering the cost of cement did not benefit bajans, the benefits were to Maloney et al and the ministers who engineered it. For years people have been complaining how they are always overcharged by the companies Maloney manages for everything, years….the dude is greedy like his masters and only see the population as a pathway to wealth….his wealth.

    Their motto is…build more companies and businesses, get wealthy….leave the population poor.

  19. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ WW&C
    Their motto is…build more companies and businesses, get wealthy….leave the population poor.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    It is their philosophy of life and ‘success’. ….and they do it well.

    We have abandoned OUR philosophy of ‘it takes a village…’ and made fools of ourselves trying to mimic them…

  20. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    Balance;

    Yuh tink dat is all speculation too?
    Night duz run ’til day ketch it!

  21. Frustrated Businessman aka Republic my ass. Avatar
    Frustrated Businessman aka Republic my ass.

    Contractor May 20, 2016 at 10:29 PM #
    We must support Mark Malonely as he is a bajan with balls who have brought us cheaper cement. For many years the GOB’s allowed Arawak to bull us without lubricant. Let us not gloat over this gluttonous move by Arawak and Cemex.

    You are correct that competition is good for everyone; but that is not the issue.

    The issue is one of corruption. Barbados is stuck in a quagmire of gov’t ineptitude and corruption. Business people are not being facilitated but we are being propositioned weekly for bribes to facilitate facilitation.

    So Barbados business geography now has three levels: those too big for any gov’t to bother like Massey, Goddards, Simpson, Hallut etc.; those who pay bribes to get on with business aspiring to reach the next level and those of us who will not pay bribes and are spending time and coin in court fighting the assholes like Cummings or just given up until this gov’t changes.

    There will be no economic recovery under Fumble’s Fools.

  22. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    At last the authorities (Some Ministers and Public Servants) appear to be doing the right things.

    I wonder if some of you can see the link between the actions reported above and the Mia Mottley revelations in the No-Confidence motion and the revelations that brought the matter into the public domain? I wonder how many can now see that Mark Williams’ campaign against Hard Rock is now in the process of being fully vindicated?

    On the current trajectory the 10% restitution will soon be postponed and I wonder how many will acknowledge the linkage between that and the white march?

    I wonder how many will be able to make the linkage between these developments and what appears to be a likely early election whose timing will give the lie to the claims that Barbados’ economy is now on an upward path?

    Back room deals and scampishment cannot be hidden forever.

    Cahill is still simmering. Its enablers are still not out of the woods. They can’t hide the copious documentation forever.

  23. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    Very interesting. So there was more in the mortar than the pestle. Good a lesson to all of us that there are false issues being erected to divert the public away from the real exploiters in this country.

  24. David Avatar
    David

    @Are-we-there-yet

    There will be no early election, not with a 50th anniversary to append to its legacy.

  25. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Davvid and Frustrated,
    What do people do with money? they can only save it, (in whatever way) or spend it. If they spend it,people benefit. If they save it; like in a bank, someone’s will spend it for them. If they stuff it under the mattress, they have to take it out at some time, and spend it. Why then be envious when people accumulate money? they can’t take it to the grave with them.And when they leave it whoever they leave it for will have to spend it.
    The 10% cannot be postponed forever. It will have to be restored at some time. The BLP “changed the constitution” (Well Well, note!) so that any reduction in wages to government workers; including parliamentarians) is unconstitutional.

  26. Contractor Avatar
    Contractor

    I am a black contractor who have dealt with Mark Malonely and what I experienced is a very hardworking ambitious guy. Perhaps, we are directing the venom at the wrong person.
    We need to also thank him for coming up against Arawak who sold cement much more expensive in Barbados than elsewhere while government and FTC remained silent.

    Give the man his due irrespective of color, class or creed.

  27. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Contractor
    As Frustrated rightly points out.The playing field must be level.Mahoney thinks he is a kiaki king,he can do as he pleases he can operate like prior to 1965 as though there is no Town and Country Planning Act.It all tells me that Mahoney is an ass displaying pyschopathic tendencies.He has no manners!Plain and simple,no broughtupsy!

  28. Frustrated Businessman aka Republic my ass. Avatar
    Frustrated Businessman aka Republic my ass.

    Contractor May 21, 2016 at 9:20 AM #
    I am a black contractor who have dealt with Mark Malonely and what I experienced is a very hardworking ambitious guy. Perhaps, we are directing the venom at the wrong person.
    We need to also thank him for coming up against Arawak who sold cement much more expensive in Barbados than elsewhere while government and FTC remained silent.

    Give the man his due irrespective of color, class or creed.

    You clearly don’t read and/or comprehend well so I’ll try a simpler approach.

    Prior to Hardrock, could you have gotten the Minister of Finance to remove the manufacturer-protection duties on cement so you and your friends could import cement cheaper than Arawak was selling it?

  29. ac Avatar
    ac

    Gabriel can a man be indicted because he has no brought upsy manners and a whole sleuth of accusations propped up by perceptions
    Meaning all that is necessary is to bring the evidence that would be in compliance to illegal activities between govt and Maloney.
    This longwinded talk without supporting evedience means nothing mostly typical of a dog trying to catch its tail

  30. David Avatar
    David

    In the same way the Town Planning department has been bulldozing and dismantling structures across Barbados, why not so same to the illegal structures built by Maloney? Are we not suppose to be a country of laws?

  31. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Contractor…ya know ya lying …too many contractors have complained about Maloney over the years…real BLACK contractors.

    “The 10% cannot be postponed forever. It will have to be restored at some time. The BLP “changed the constitution” (Well Well, note!) so that any reduction in wages to government workers; including parliamentarians) is unconstitutional.”

    Alvin…and so too the raises for public servants, civil servants or the severance pay severed workers never got….those also have to be restored…how bout that…the DLP had 8 years to amend that, but did not now did they.

    It’s too easy for Maloney to call up politicians and complain when he does not get his way, that is also what Cow, Bizzy et al been doing for decades, they just passed the job on to Maloney, so he can call and bark at politicians when someone lower down the totem pole dont allow him to act like he owns the country and people.

    The politicians have to be exposed for allowing this behavior by those business shithounds to continue for decades unabated.

  32. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Bribe money passed, cars given…who knows what else, but now things are at a head, something went side ways…as it usually does, without fail….lol

    Maybe the Trinis have more money to pay than Maloney, remember it is not his outfit…he has admitted as much.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    Stephanie F. Chase tagged you and 21 others in a post.

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SOLAR POWER – Another major solar investment could be in store for the island. This disclosure today by a top official of Barbados Light & Power Company (BL&P) during a tour of the soon-to-be completed $43 million photovoltaic solar farm at Trents, St Lucy. Director of Operations Johann Greaves said the power company, which is owned by the Canadian energy firm, Emera Inc., was presently looking into the feasibility of setting up a similar facility in another section of the island. Last November at the ground breaking ceremony for the St Lucy project, Chief Executive Officer Chris Huskilson had promised Barbadian consumers savings of $10 million a year on current electricity costs, saying the plant would produce about 20,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year to satisfy the needs of about 7,700 households. MEDICAL MARIJUANA – A VETERAN PSYCHIATRIST has given the nod to the use of medical marijuana. 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  34. David Avatar
    David

    Hard blow

  35. Frustrated Businessman aka Republic my ass. Avatar
    Frustrated Businessman aka Republic my ass.

    Interesting maths here:

    http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/124401/interview-bringing-a-taste-of-f1-to-barbados

    Note not only the investment/spend discrepancy but also the mention of selling luxury condominiums (as advertised by Terra Caribbean and brought to light in MAM’s NCM in Parliament) built with no planning permission, issued with demolition notice by TCP and built on land belonging to the crown (if gov’t ever pays St. Philip Land Inc. for Bushy Park Plantation).

    Far cry from the intended purpose of Bushy Park race track.

    https://barbadosunderground.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/task-force-report-2006-executive-summary-signed.pdf

    No teefin going on AC? Carry evidence to the DPP? PC Broome could follow this trail you dumb ass.

    There will be no economic recovery under Fumble’s Fools.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Gabriel

    Was that Mohamed Nassar opining on the talk show yesterday that Maloney is being unfaired?

  37. David Avatar
    David

    Let us not forget the questions posed about permissions around how the contract was awarded to Maloney surrounding the restoration of the Empire theater.

    Earlier in the debate, the Opposition Leader also levelled claims that the National Cultural Foundation had leased the old Empire Theatre to the Maloney Group Inc., even though the TCPDO had refused its 2013 application for a theatre and craft brewery as a result of the company’s failure to submit an environmental scoping study. That, she said, was after the BEAT Foundation had obtained approval from the Office of the Prime Minister for the restoration of the theatre last year, following an application submitted in 2012.

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/05/11/maloney-running-things-says-mottley/

  38. Gilbert St.Claire Avatar
    Gilbert St.Claire

    @ david

    Leave Mark Maloney alone. He is well on the way to self-destruction, and the DLP will surely be collateral damage as well. He has corrupted almost every single politician from the DLP front benches.

  39. David Avatar
    David

    A ST.LUCIAN COMPANY

    Are the real owners a combination of-

    (1) Prominent Bajan Business People?

    (2) DLP Members of Parliament?

    Gullible Bajan people will have to accept one monopoly for another……..so enjoy the cheap prices on cement……..it ain’t going to last too long.

    https://barbadosunderground.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/rockhardst-lucia.pdf

  40. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Alvin,

    Nobody cut the MP’s salaries. In effect THEY volunteered to make a donation to the Treasury. If you ever had it you sure seem to be losing it!

  41. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Contractor May 21, 2016 at 9:20 AM #
    Your Mark Maloney reminds me of a careless driver who knocks down a person at a pedestrian crossing ,then proceeds to apply CPR. And is subsequently praised by bystanders for saving the pedestrian’s life.
    Almost like John’s assumption that slavery saved the bacon of us and our forefathers.

  42. Water Falling Avatar
    Water Falling

    David
    The DLP and Mark Maloney have paid Mohammed Nassar to go on Brasstacks every day to change the narrative of the Leader of the Opposition on Mark Maloney and his alleged corrupt deals in Bim.
    With but a few nuts you can easily buy ___________?

  43. ac Avatar
    ac

    Hey frustrated business march when is the next march?

  44. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    I must say that it is amazing to me how quickly we have been able to gather information on MM and land body blows that appear to have him and his cabal tottering in the ring.

    I must say that it is just as amazing to me at how ineffective we have been in bring “the leper” and his cabal to account on what must surely be malfeasance of immense proportions.

  45. Old Baje Avatar
    Old Baje

    You cannot change human nature. Our system is obsolete. It was OK when people like Barrow and Adams were not scoundrels with a get rich quick agenda. Our system of government is urgently in need of an upgrade.

  46. ac Avatar
    ac

    And all the blp could muster in its fights was 600hundred blp operatives

  47. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Our government is made up of idiots or very crafty, corrupt Cabinet members.
    How do you justify reducing import duties on cement being imported by what appears to be an IBC to undermine the profitability, hence stability, of a local company PRODUCING AND EXPORTING cement? Is the St.Lucian registered company entitled to a lower corporate rate? Why remove the tax exemptions for building or repairing homes (ie reduce the overall cost of building) but grant Maloney goodies arguably to achieve the same objective? Wouldn’t the former or even applying a special VAT rate to cement be more equitable and sensible?
    Again I ask, costs vs benefits. I am not buying the cheaper cement argument. Sandals redux!

  48. David Avatar
    David

    What is the raison d’être for the company registered in St. Lucia?

  49. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    David

    Nice leak at 11:03 am!

  50. Old Baje Avatar
    Old Baje

    As I said before, the BDLP like it so. We cannot expect them to change the system. How can we break out of this cycle?

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