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Mia Mottley, Opposition Leader
Mia Mottley, Opposition Leader

The Barbados Today reported in the June 3rd edition that the Barbados Opposition Leader, Mia Mottley’s recent visit to St. Lucia has become the subject of regional political debate. There is some speculation that her presence there was in support of the United Workers Party (UWP), the current Opposition in the St. Lucia Parliament.

However, she was quick to point out that her visit was strictly to provide legal representation for a client, but while there she had attended meetings of both political parties.

Coincidentally, two of her personal advisors, Debbie Hughes and Lucille Moe, were also in St. Lucia at that time. When Barbados Today queried their presence, Ms Mottley is reported to respond by saying:

“What is this? Am I being followed by the Gestapo?”

However, today’s (June 3rd) Weekend Nation reported that St. Lucia Prime Minister, Kenny Anthony, expressed concern that an “unprecedented” number of Barbadian “political operatives” were involved in the UWP’s campaign.

In a telephone link-up from Castries P.M. Anthony identified a number of people connected to the BLP as being in the forefront of the UWP’s campaign. He also stated that Ms Mottley was in St. Lucia but had given him the assurance that she was merely on holiday and not getting involved in local (St. Lucian) politics.

If I am to put the stories from both the Nation and Barbados Today together; it would appear that Ms. Mottley was in St. Lucia strictly to provide legal representation for a client, while being merely on holiday and; she felt it necessary to have her close political advisors tag along.

Somebody is lying here; either the Nation, Barbados Today, Kenny Anthony or Mia Mottley. I leave you to decide. Be that as it may, I have some advice for the Barbados Labour Party if it is determined that it is Ms Mottley that is being untruthful. No-confidence motion or a visit to the Governor-General – You decide!

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179 responses to “No-Confidence Motion in Mia Mottley Anybody?”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    @balance

    Have a read or listen to the St.Lucia media to determine who has been making Mottley’s visit an issue.

  2. ac Avatar
    ac

    a spectacle and a jaw dropping moment is what was seen and felt as mottley decided it was apparantley in the best interest of herself and her party to make her presence be part and parcel in the theatre of political influence in ST Lucia under the pretense she was their on legal business/vacation Ha! ha!
    Now if any one wants to buy that Mia excuse /explanation there is some swamp land for sale outside of barbados which can come in for good use at cheap prices

  3. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Pieceuhderock wrote, ” tek you vacation someplace else””As the leader of the opposition or the leader of the party in power your ass should not go in another man’s cuntry as you are experimenting with political strategies.”

    There is no compelling reason why MIA had to be in St.Lucia.

  4. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @David,

    St.Lucians are pissed about this.

    The idiocy of these Bajans is that they should know that they are offending one of the political parties and its supporters by supporting the other.

    I learned about this on a Caribbean cricket blog and St.Lucia online media.

  5. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    My Sweet Piece

    Saudi Arabia operates under Islamic laws and thus it is a no no for me or any foreign female to show any part of the female body for that matter.

    This is where we diverge, Mottley in St. Lucia has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of that elections even if she was invited to speak on a political platform of either party.

    Unless there is a law that forbids outside political interference, Mia Mottley at a St. Lucia political party is just Mia Mottley at a St. Lucia political party. Mia Mottley could not influence the outcome of the election there even if she were allowed to speak on either side of the political party platforms.

    My Sweet Piece, you know my position on Mottley Bs and Stuart Ds, but this article is bare shite.

    When the woman is in the wrong, let the evidence support that it is so. All I am reading is a bunch of speculative nonsense just because she was in St. Lucia with some of her loyalists.

    I see no wrong in what some are trying to make out to be a swarm of Bees in a St. Lucia campaign party meeting.

    However, because Mia Mottley has always been rogue, it is so darn easy to believe that everything she does is tainted with a hidden agenda.

    It is that dark, secretive, skeletons in the closet side of her that make her a very suspicious and cynical individual with a nasty character.

  6. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    This blog is about a non issue if we take the facts at face value that our leader of the opposition pays a visit to St Lucia a few days before an election there. From the media reports two former “assistants” of hers are working there as consultants. From media reports she tells the St Lucia PM that she is on vacation (which he apparently accepts as reasonable) while she tells the Daily Nation that she was there for conducting some legal business and took some time off to attend political meetings of the two contesting St Lucian political parties. It appears to be true that she did not speak on the platform of either of the contesting parties.

    Unless one has other undivulged information this is a contrived debate that reflects the ridiculously sublime nature of some of the arguments tendered by a few of our top posters.

    Hear Bro. Caswell;
    a no-confidence-motion should be brought against her, presumably for being reported as being in St Lucia for 2 mutually exclusive purposes and therefore lying. He doubled down on this stance even while recognizing that it is of no merit. Why?

    Hear PUDRYR;
    “It is in poor effing taste, tek you vacation someplace else, get your operatives to stream the action on the ground to you by iPad, get the client in STL to fly to you in Barbados on enter the country AFTER THE GENERAL ELECTION but anything else is poor judgement or the judgement of a despot who say “coming in your house and putting my foot up on your middle table and there is not one ef you can do bout it” “

    PUDRYR, Mia is a politician. Why, could not her reason for going to St Lucia be to kill 2 birds with one stone and take the opportunity of being there and observe certain aspects of the campaign in a sister country in preparation for our next general election? Why, even in this really inconsequential matter, should she be looking over her shoulder at DLP propagandists who are in the habit of twisting everything she says, anyhow?

    David’s posts on this matter were essentially an excoriation of Mia for seemingly providing fodder for the DLP propaganda machine without recognizing that whatever Mia does or does not do is fodder for that machine and to follow that advice leads us nowhere.

    I totally agree with SSS. Posts by Caswell and PUDRYR are generally top of the line, especially by Bro. Caswell who is typically always on the ball. Their contribution to this blog has fallen significantly from their high standard. I wonder why?

  7. Shaft Avatar
    Shaft

    Mia continues to expose crooked MPs…! They (MPs) would love to see the back of her! Long may she reign..!!

  8. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    OK

    From just reading David’s and Hant’s earlier posts on the reaction of the St Lucian facebook crowd to this matter, it appears that the main firestorm was set by Anthony and is now being fanned here by some of our people on BU, the DLP propaganda machine and our media.

    Anthony is on the cusp of a close election and will use any ammunition he has to gain a victory. That doesn’t mean that we have to slavishly follow that propaganda.

  9. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    SSS;

    I didn’t see your 7:14 post when I wrote mine.
    fwiw, I totally agree with that post.

  10. Old Baje Avatar
    Old Baje

    Even if we agree that Mottley displayed poor judgement it is nothing compared with the serial raping of the Barbados taxpayers and other shite going on bout here.

    Time to refocus on our real problems.

  11. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    When Hartley Henry was advisor to David Thompson, both as Opposition Leader and PM, which other Caribbean leaders/parties he was advising? Henry has been advising the UWP in St.Lucia and Skerritt in Dominica long time. The grandstanding and hypocrisy is astounding and frightening. As for Dr.Anthony:
    http://www.ipsnews.net/1997/05/st-lucia-politics-british-mp-remarks-spark-controversy/

  12. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    are-we-there-yet June 4, 2016 at 7:42 AM #
    OK

    From just reading David’s and Hant’s earlier posts on the reaction of ” the St Lucian facebook crowd” to this matter,”

    They are St.Lucians and have every right to object to “interference in their political campaign” by Bajan politicians.

    There is no logical reason why MIA the leader of the BLP and a sitting MP in the Barbados parliament had to be in St.Lucia during their election campaign.

  13. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ AWTY
    You mean that you SERIOUSLY see no problem with a potential leader of Barbados getting involved on one side of the political divide in St Lucia in a close election?

    Shiite man …. we may be in even deeper potter than the bushman has concluded…

    Boss, what if Anthony wins…?
    What would you expect of Barbados / St Lucia relations?
    Even if he loses, why would we want half of St Lucia thinking that Bajans played a role in their party losing power?

    The woman has NO class.
    Her claim to fame is that she derives from an entitled albino-centric family, and just like Maloney, can do whatever the donkey she feels like…

    Basic diplomacy says that our leaders and potential leaders should keep their noses out of such contentious neighbouring issues and be in position to CONGRATULATE and RESPECT whatever decision the St Lucians (IN THEIR WISDOM) take….

    Bushie tell wunna, that Arthur is 100% right about Mia. But wunna Bajans love wunna albinos and wunna ‘albino-centrics’ ……so carry on smartly…

    Like the annual Auditor General’s reports, this too will come back to bite wunna brass bowl bajan donkeys…

  14. David Avatar
    David

    @Are-we-there-yet

    The point here and one which we suspect Mia understands is that life is about about making choices/decisions and having to deal with the consequences, case in point she being in St. Lucia on the eve of a general election.

  15. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Mia’s downfall will come because she believes that no boundaries are set for her. She has too many people around her that are only prepared to tell her what they believe she wants to hear. If nothing else her behaviour in this matter is in extremely poor taste but she is now flavour of the month.

    I hold no brief for Freundel Stuart but if he had behaved similarly, he would have been roundly criticised. Mia needs people around her that are prepared to let her know when she is wrong and not support her in her foolishness. But those around her have seen what has happened to Maria Agard and they are not prepared to be honest.

    >

  16. balance Avatar
    balance

    “There is no logical reason why MIA the leader of the BLP and a sitting MP in the Barbados parliament had to be in St.Lucia during their election campaign.”
    There is no logical reason why MIA the leader of the BLP and a sitting MP in the Barbados parliament should not be in St Lucia during their election campaign.

  17. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    The St.Lucia Star newspaper is a true hero and can show the newspapers inBarbados what treu journalism is all about…it doe not require selling out to corrupt business people or pandering and pimping for bribetaking politicians. ..kudos to t. Lucia Star Newspaper.

    Great articles Enuff….

    In saying that, let me expand on something I said earlier…the zeros for political leaders in the Caribbean are a waste of oxygen.

  18. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    The politicians are supporting in each other in encoursging mindless yardfowlism of Caribbean people…the people gotta open their eyes…the trainwreck that is the yardfowl called AC…should be incentive alone to scare people from having anything to do with politicians.

  19. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    Maybe Are We There Yet, maybe My Suzanne I too like you would believe in these beauteous externalities and like you, would be kindly disposed to these fair and reasonably formulated thoughts of both of you and others.

    But again I do not speak those things of which I know not nor have seen nor have felt.

    You know what is the most unkindest cut of all in this short life we live?

    It is betrayal of that thing that we believe in.

    It is when you are committed to a thing or a person AND you see for yourself who or what they are/ it is.

    It tell you it rips you like no 7.62mm anti personnel bullet can.

    Someone who I used to love at one time revealed a truth to me that remains like the scars of childhood measles on your skin (some of us)

    She said “after all you do for these people they are going to use you, and abandon you, and as bright as you are, you can’t see that”

    I kept the spreadsheet and gave 2 copies to two people whose trust was forged in blood, they will die for me as I almost did for them.

    The Labour Party will win because the perception of STLs today is that Chastanet is (a) not the common man (b) running STL (c) has owned Stl forever (d) can’t speak patois and (e) is not one of the common peeple can identify with. Ooops I said that twice didn’t I?

    Anyways that be their problem ours is that we have no men and women to deal with our mess, Anthony will be there For one more term

  20. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    @ Caswell

    You should really focus on building a much needed Union , your hypocrisy is not astounding to any person that know you , that stake loathing, you have for Mia , turn you into an ACs

  21. flyonthewall Avatar
    flyonthewall

    Debbie Hughes and Lucille Moe are Mia’s political advisors? LMAO

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

    Bushtea:

    You mean that you SERIOUSLY see a problem with a potential leader of Barbados visiting a neighbouring country during an election campaign and attending mass meetings of the opposing political parties?

    Yuh can’ see dat all the brouhaha is normal political shiiite and of no serious consequence?

    Boss, what if Anthony wins…? What would you expect of Barbados / St Lucia relations? wouldn’t the par for that course be that all the hype would die down and such relations would continue as normal?

    Yuh tink dat Anthony would sic his army on us. Yuh tink he would ask Mara to send home to St Lucia some more of the DT- CLICO millions in an asymetric act of economic warfare?

    If, on the other hand the other side wins, primarily fuelled by Mia’s minions advice and help, yuh tink dat dey would help us identify where some of de Mara-DT-Clico millions are now hidden in St Lucia perhaps with the help of current and past incumbent Governments since 2008 and thereby save us from the economic morass built largely from the acts of our current Government?

    Bushie, What basic diplomacy what? Whatever they think of a Government in Power, our leaders and potential leaders will be in position to CONGRATULATE and RESPECT whatever decision the St Lucians (IN THEIR WISDOM) take…. It is part and parcel of the game of politics.

    Bushie; Looks like yuh still don’ unnerstan dat all politicians, everywhere, even OSA, speak with forked tongues and that we believe all they say at our peril. The OSA narrative re. Mia is a case in point.

    Stuuuuuuupse!

  23. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Bush Tea June 4, 2016 at 8:34 AM #

    You mean potential leader of the Caribbean,which is what we need now more than ever a person with a vision of our destiny.

  24. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    PUDRYR;

    Just saw your 9:12 am post and am very impressed.

    I suspect both you and Caswell have had personal experiences with Mia that have stung deeply and remain etched in your memories and inform all your comments about her. I would really like to know what kind of actions could have caused such deep negative impressions as I myself have had no such personal, or indeed any personal, relations with the woman and tend to take her at face value.

    However, I think I can understand your pain as I have been personally negatively impacted by actions of Errol Barrow and David Thompson and those actions have circumscribed my impressions of those men. However, they have not been as deep as to consider that everything that they did was wrong or bad……. just many things.

  25. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Avatar
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2015/12/05/ive-walked-in-mias-shoes-chastanet/

    It was at this meeting in Barbados that this whole plan was conceived between Wickham, Mia and the UWP……and it is fact so there is no need for lies

  26. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    @SSS
    “Mia Mottley at a St. Lucia political party is just Mia Mottley at a St. Lucia political party”.

    I think if an election was being held today and Barack Obama appeared in Barbados, all of Barbados would be looking at his every action to divine the message that is being sent. I doubt he would have timed his visit during an election.

    Whilst ‘Mia” is not in the same league as the President, she is a known political entity from a neighboring island. Her presence may influence others.

    Now if you said ” TheGazer at a St. Lucia political party is just TheGazer at a St. Lucia political party and no one cares” I would have agreed with you.

  27. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    Lol

    Caribbean politics too sweet. Never a dull moment.

    The Barbadian electorate will decide who they have confidence in shortly. Let Mia enjoy her “vacay”

    Just observing

  28. waiting Avatar
    waiting

    Mottley’s’ apologists are in denial the rush of condemnation and excuses from different sides of the divide highlights the dilemma. Mia’s judgement call brings scrutiny because she aspires to be PM of Barbados. Froon would never make a similar error. Its is a serious blunder by Mia it maybe the tipping point for her to lose the leadership of the BLP again or lead the BLP into a third successive defeat . She acted like a school girl. Caswell the amoeba is right on this one.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Stephanie wrote: "Good Morning #realdreamchasers! Here is your daily newscap.

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    CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL – FALLING CONFETTI and loud cheers ushered in the unbridled celebrations of Real Madrid fans at the Concorde Experience after the team won their 11th UEFA Champions League title last Saturday afternoon. Sixteen-hundred Barbadians had the opportunity to witness the game at the Heineken-sponsored inaugural event.Though not witnessing Real Madrid face Atletico Madrid for the second time in the final live at San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy, the three large screens and unlimited Heineken helped to create that experience for fans.

    CROP OVER IN THE CITY – REIGNING PARTY MONARCH Peter Ram is a champion in more ways than one. Miss Wiggins’ last son committed what has to be the biggest musical felony in these parts since 1835, and apparently got away with it. In the presence of several uniformed and plainclothes officers in Independence Square on Thursday night, Peter Ram dared to go where none other backed by the Band of the Royal Barbados Police Force has gone before – he pulled up the band on more than one occasion!Musical director Senior Superintendent Keith Ellis seemed a bit shocked at first, but the well trained band fell quickly in line and followed the man on the microphone.

    TURTLE DIS IN HIT & RUN – THE 2016 turtle nesting season has started on a sour noted. One of the island’s Hawksbill turtles was killed when a 4×4 driver drove over it as it wandered into the road by the Fish Pot Restaurant, in Speightstown, St Peter. The driver did not stop.The turtle was almost crushed; its shell was cracked until one of the eggs she was carrying oozed out. She struggled to breathe for a least half-hour but eventually succumbed to her injuries. Mohammed Ali is Dead – Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, whose record-setting boxing career, unprecedented flair for showmanship, and controversial stands made him one of the best-known figures of the 20th century, died on Friday aged 74, media reports said. Family spokesman Bob Gunnell told NBC News that Ali died in a Phoenix-area hospital. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.“My heart is deeply saddened yet both appreciative and relieved that the greatest is now resting in the greatest place,” boxer Roy Jones Jr. said on Twitter.Ali was hospitalised this week for a respiratory ailment. The former prize fighter had long been suffering from Parkinson’s syndrome, which impaired his speech and made the once-graceful athlete almost a prisoner in his own body. Well that’s all for today folks! Have a great day. 😉 Shalom <3 Steph."

  30. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    THe Gazer;

    Sorry to be belabouring this situation. But you said above: I think if an election was being held today and Barack Obama appeared in Barbados, all of Barbados would be looking at his every action to divine the message that is being sent. I doubt he would have timed his visit during an election. Whilst ‘Mia” is not in the same league as the President, she is a known political entity from a neighboring island. Her presence may influence others.

    I think yuh got it wrong! Replace Barack Obama in your allegory above with Donald Trump and the analogy might be more relevant, but in fact, yuh really tink dat Mia (or even Freundel) could sway the St Lucian voting public by merely attending a political meeting and not even talking at one? Yuh tink dat an opposition leader from one of our neighbours attending a political meeting in Barbados would really affect the outcome of our elections?

    Yuh really know how the typical St Lucian (or even Grenadian or Vincentian) regard Bajans, especially nowadays? I suspect it is with pity more than anything else.

  31. In and Out aka waiting Avatar
    In and Out aka waiting

    Islands with 30% unemployment and run away crime regard Barbados with pity small wonder you are a Mia lackey. You sound like Tony Webster a liar and a jackass.

  32. Bajan in NY Avatar
    Bajan in NY

    pieceuhderockyeahright June 4, 2016 at 5:58 AM #
    David Thompson and Hartley Henry being up front at a convention observing a process is not the same as The BLP operatives Peter, Lucille and Debbie working on the ground with the opposition that is seeking election.

    FYI…any and everybody can’t attend the conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties. You can better your bottom dollar a ticket to attend such an event is not be granted to anyone who is not a member, contributor or supporter of the party. My hope and pray was for the Democrats to win in 2008 after I saw the photo in the Nation Newspaper, since I know the Republicans can get very petty. Many folks are still of the belief the Intel plant in Barbados was closed due to political pressure from the Republicans after P.M. Barrow publicly referred to Pres. Reagan as “The Cowboy in Washington”.

    In my view the potential for negative fallout for attending a party convention in the USA was greater than that for attending political meetings in St. Lucia. I could be wrong.

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

    Correct is correct Heather. David, People will talk regardless! DLP or BLP, we have to get this country on track and by doing that we have to concentrate on getting the thiefing idiots out of Parliament.

  34. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ TheGazer June 4, 2016 at 9:44 AM
    “Whilst ‘Mia” is not in the same league as the President, she is a known political entity from a neighboring island. Her presence may influence others.”

    How could Mia’s presence influence others? Why are you implying St. Lucians are so easily swayed? Are you suggesting she has the ability to influence St. Lucian voters but not the 40% or so of Bajans who refuse to participate in the electoral process?

    If you were a St. Lucian voter would you be so inclined to be influenced by an Opposition leader from Brass-hole Barbados?
    Do you think St. Lucians are similar to Bajan brass bowls to stupidly accept a joker like Stuart as their PM?
    Should Donald trump visit Barbados would you be taken in by his politics? So why should St. Lucians be taken in by a so-called sexual deviant whom the BU anti-MAM brigade likes to gossip about?

    That’s just like saying that although you are strongly against the use of marijuana and have never used it before you would start to smoke should it be decriminalized in Barbados next week.

  35. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Balance
    your political bias has you unbalanced.

  36. ac Avatar
    ac

    @watchman. “Caswell turn into a ac”hee hee

    Better than turning into a Mia. Hee. Hee get my drift

  37. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Miller
    Oh shut up with your nonsensical dribble…

    Wuh you CANNOT influence Bushie either, but that does not mean that it is OK for you to be turning up at the Bush hut at dawn with your fat self…

    ….yuh may get a blessing yuh did not expect.

    Some things are just about GOOD MANNERS….. and just because thieving Thompson ALSO displayed bad manners some time ago means NOTHING…. BU was just starting to kick back then….

    Leaders MUST be role models …whose public manners, and whose public WORD – must be beyond question. How you can be supporting such low class behaviour is beyond words…

    ….Oh WAIT!!! You would have done the same shiite in your time too..ent it?

  38. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea June 4, 2016 at 12:27 PM

    Bushie, I am not supporting any lower class behavior. If you think I would support lower class behavior then I would be one of the biggest fans of Fumble and his goons.

    I agree Mia’s presence was tactically and diplomatically out of place.
    However, I don’t see how her presence could indeed sway St. Lucian voters to vote against any government.
    That’s just like saying your presence in St. John would make people vote against Mara.
    St. Lucians have already made up their minds as to the way they are going to vote next week. The same way Bajans are pissed off with the current DLP administration and just wait to see the back of them even if it means Tweedlebee instead of the disappointing, deceitful lying Tweedledem. But then again, Bushie, you see the Bajans as brass bowls and might just reinforce you perfect assessment of the food and fête loving piss pots.

  39. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Then you agree the issue is one of judgement by Mia. Of course she cannot sway the election, if she intended to offer herself as the future PM of Barbados then we have a right to question her judgement. When the bell is rung the public will have to decide whether MAM or Freundel.

  40. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @ Enuff June 4, 2016 at 4:34 AM #

    The article says Mottley attended political meetings of both parties. Nowhere was it reported that she was at the “forefront of the campaign”. This blog presupposes that Moe and Hughes were acting on Mottley’s behalf. Does either Moe or Hughes (or both) have a personal/business relationship with Chastanet who was once a senior manager at Air Jamaica? The bdostoday article also highlights the weakness (or agenda) of our journalism, as it only bothers to refer to Tony Astaphan as a “prominent Dominican attorney” when the man is associated with many OECS PMs including St.Lucia hence has a political agenda.
    ……………………………………….

    Enuff,

    Every one has their own agenda………….dont forget that the editor of Barbados Today sings in OSA’s choir.

    Hence the deliberate expansion on Tony Astaphan’s reason for being in St Lucia.

  41. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @ Enuff

    Should read…….

    ……….deliberate omision to expand on Tony Astaphan’s reason to being in St Lucia.

  42. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ David June 4, 2016 at 12:50 PM
    “When the bell is rung the public will have to decide whether MAM or Freundel.”

    But isn’t that a type of Hobson’s choice?

    Who would you choose? A woman who has shown weakness in judgment that can be corrected by experience and listening to advice from those who genuinely support her? Or a well established liar, corrupted and arrogant incompetent misfit who happens to be just a lucky political bastard?
    The Bajans made a massively deleterious mistake in 2013 by choosing over OSA a man who pretended to be a person of integrity but turned out to be the worst evil to visit them.

  43. Pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    Pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ The Sage Annunaki

    You see why I will always defer to men like you Sage?

    You said “I agree Mia’s presence was tactically and diplomatically out of place.”

    That is my point, a while she cannot influence the vote significantly, it was the “couth” of the matter that disturbed me.

    She is P.M. in the offing, the ole Mia liming pun de block with the fellers smoking a splif, in this time of men and women with smartphones to record that innocent communion, is not the right thing to do.

    Imagine this Sage One.

    It is your birthday and me and the fellers decide to give you a night out where we pay for everything and I decide that we going congregate at Rehab on Fontabelle.

    You, are a feller of impeccable decorum, let us say that you are a Granville Phillips and, not to be considered a panty man, you acquiesce to this lark and end up at Rehab.

    Me and the fellers them proceed to pay one of the girls to give you a lap dance and I record that dance.

    Now tell me what will be the fallout for you when your wife,, your children, your pastor, the church members, and the Nation sees the “lark”

    You know full well that that is not the place for you to go EVEN THOUGH IT IS IN YOUR RIGHTS TO GO WHEREVER YOU WANT TO GO PUN DE ISLAND.

    Mottley is no idiot, this was a stoopid power play that was not thought out properly especially when your people working for Chastanet.

    The point is taken that Debbie and Lucille DO NOT RUN MIA’s campaign, nobody but Mia runs Mia’s campaigns they like the members of the BLP, just do Mia’s biddings.

    “What is this air that this Mottley breathes that makes her greater than you or I Annunaki? What is this privilege of birth that makes this action of insult to the sitting government now to be a non issue because Mottley did it?

    As you have said, and as I have emphatically concurred, “I agree Mia’s presence was tactically and diplomatically out of place.”

    But i went a few steps further to speak to why it was done, the impunity of the action, and to strongly suggest that with each passing moment as the Hands and Bottom get closer to “The Prize” we can expect these actions and tactical moves that are distasteful.

    I going bet you $100 BU dollars, (that is a fictitious currency) that since it seemed to have offended some STLs, no apology will be offered.

  44. Pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    Pieceuhderockyeahright

    before it starts.

    Let me clarify “the ole Mia, liming on the block, with the fellers smoking a spliff”, those smoking the spliff are the fellers, NOT MIA.

    I know that someone going jump to say that I suggest that Mia is the subject of that “smoking action”, she was not.

  45. ac Avatar
    ac

    Quote if the day Mia. “What is this” “am i being followed by the Gestapo”

    Dam woman you are in the peoples terriority at a time when you have been known to be alligned with the opposition party of S.Luica dam woman cant you get it.it is all about transparency and the people of St.lucia right to know who are the artful dodgers in the makings of their election.
    Mark my word if Anthony loses the election retribution would rear its ugly head directed towards Mia and PW

  46. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ Miller

    Your pleadings about how the presence of MAM in St. Lucian could, or not, influence locals deliberately misses the point.

    You’re displaying the type of ignorance that normally gets a pass in the country. Anything to support ones party leader.

    In international politics such an intervention is very nearly akin to an act of war. It borders on subterfuge, it represents interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign and friendly state, and more.

    When the stakes are as high as war and peace, if parties are so inclined, MAM’s presence in St. Lucian with an entourage of political forces, purportedly supporting opposition forces to the government can easily be the caucus belli for war. It is at least bad diplomacy.

    Should such recklessness, in any measure, be even partially condone?

  47. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    @miller
    Good points until “That’s just like saying that although you are strongly against the use of marijuana and have never used it before you would start to smoke should it be decriminalized in Barbados next week.”

    Decriminalize marijuana and David will be here all by himself next week.

    Seriously: In a close election all you want is a trick to drag the yourself just past the finish line. Being associated with a powerful political ally from a nex island could be that trick.

    @AWTY
    I used the President only to illustrate that having ‘powerful political animals ‘ drop by in an election could be interpreted as a sign of their alliance to one of the parties. I could have chosen a republican leader if I wanted to draw a paralell in terms of office. But point taken.

  48. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    *parallel

  49. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/06/04/yes-to-medical-ganja/

    Alvin must be crying…lol

  50. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Taking a little time out of my day to comment on Mia’s Great St. Lucian Adventure which depending on what side of the political fence one sits was either a vacation; business meeting or some kind of political skullduggery. I am elated that Mia’s visit to a fellow CARICOM Nation has only resulted in a political storm in a teacup, it could have been so much more. Perhaps Mia is at the stage where she believes that except for the formality of affixing one’s ‘X” on the ballot her work is done and it is time to shore up the political fortunes of her fellow travelers.

    One of the things that OSA always points out in his frequent harangues against Mia is that she lacks judgement and OSA in his dotage seems to be on the ball, Mia is a seasoned political operative and the word of the day is “Optics”.

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