President Akanni McDowall Under Pressure,with documents
Akanni Mcdowall, Pre
The NUPW posted the message in the newspapers last week inviting members to a meeting to vote on a No Confidence Motion in President Akanni McDowall triggered by the garnering of 50 members who met the criteria. BU will NOT insert itself into the internal squabble of our largest pubic sector union except to share a letter from the First Vice President of NUPW Joy-Ann Inniss to the General Secretary. Note Appendix E which conflicts with assertions made by Akanni McDowall in today’s Sunday Sun.
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Mr. Blogmaster i will give you the facts what caswell stated is not the truth and he knows it.
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If what I have said is not the truth, I would have defamed persons so I would be expecting to have court papers served on me very shortly, since what I have written would be defamation if it is untrue. No one has hacked my email and posted that comment. It is me and I challenge you to produce the evidence where I lied. Maybe, you want me to reveal that there were two names that were removed from the list and the names of sons of two senior officers that were substituted.
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The truth will set you free, not necessarily lead you to power
Just observing.
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millertheanunnaki June 8, 2016 at 1:57 AM #
@ LT.HORATIO CAINE June 8, 2016 at 1:50 AM
Why would you want to meet me? I certainly don’t want to meet you.
Miller we are punishing you with laughter. A full grown BLP yard fowl frighten for Caine. Your aggressive postings intimidate ordinary citizens who posit another view. You conjure up the picture of a blowhard bully. One thought you wouldn’t pass up the chance to debate Caine in person with your hot air backside. But no you blinked thinking he is a Lieutenant trained in combat. You are a coward to spurn the opportunity to go man to man with Caine. Admit fear miller leader of the flock of purged BLP yard ducks stinking up underground BIM.
We wont forget your campaign to divert tourists from Barbados to St.Lucia and other low islands. The Loveridge stooges and you will always be despicable because of that attempt at economic sabotage.
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@ In and Out June 8, 2016 at 5:48 PM
“Miller we are punishing you with laughter.”
We think you have the wrong “Miller” here, mate!
You should be punishing the Sagicor Dowridge Miller with laughter; not the lowly miller, the BU Sojourner Truth.
Why can’t you people just blog under one pseudonym? Bajanfuhlife, waiting, West Indian, Lt. Horotio Caine and the other yard-fouls. What next you are going to take on as your sobriquet? Jackass Inc.?
Not in a million billion years would the miller be prepared to meet a jackass labeled Lt. Horotio Caine to have any Waterloo of complete stupidity.
The galaxies of the Universe would have to form a perfect conjunction of Ably Good vs. the evil of caine(e) for such a meeting to take place.
Capiche?
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In and Out aka waiting. Warning this DLP JA will be banned soon.
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It appears Akanni will be going after the DLP operative Dereck Alleyne.
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I must admit that the phenomena of using 3 to four pseudonyms to blog on one site has me fascinated.
The first thing is that you are already blogging anonymously which in the context of Barbados is understandable because you fear the negative fallout.
If for example, you are a DLP MP (and BLP hopeful) you have all received the warning that you will be dealt with severely if you are found to be consorting with the enemy on BU, then that might account for multiple identities.
The second is “ghosting”.
The more ghosts of yourself that you create such gives the impression to the new commer that “many” or that “there are legion” as in the AC consortium who abound on the internet and that they collectively either endorse of don’t endorse a particular stance
Ghosting has a variant called “Equal Opportunity Representations” which speaks to gender representation and race/caste when for example a man may be a Male Chauvinist Pig, but, in order to bring balance to a subject, one posts as a female to represent that stand point. You may even carry on conversations between these two personalities.
The third is that you are planning to touch a very sensitive topic which, particularly in Bulbados, will expose you to defamation, libel, lawsuits, and MPs sending their peoples to lick you down and lock you.
So you are worried about what are the real world consequences and consequently put up the mask.
I.Ps tend to give that away though.
While some will always post commentary that is directed “towards the person” as opposed to against the issue we understand why they perforce need their anonymity.
Fear of incurring repercussions from the powers that be seems to drive our nom de plume practice more than anything else.
One thing that Mr Caswell Franklyn does really well is that he is among the few here that uses his name and for any comment that he makes which speaks to the integrity of any other poster, he backs it up with evidence.
His detractors never do. So I gine wid Caswell
Signed Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right
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It interesting the talk of banning persons for their opinions when we have the bully of the blog who believes that he tell all and sundry what he likes with his war like attitude,stupes.
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David
Today, I heard Akanni on Starcom Network news telling an awful lie on Derek Alleyne and I want to set the record straight, not to defend Derek but for the sake of accuracy.
I was employed by NUPW when the lay-offs at the Urban Development Commission occurred. As a matter of fact, I lead the discussion on behalf of the workers. Derek got the job at UDC when the discussions were winding down. He did not take part in the discussions. However, when they could not get me to concede someone from the UDC board called Dennis Clarke and he went to the final meeting behind my back, with my knowledge and signed off on the lay-offs.
The only thing that Derek did was to ensure that the workers, who were going home, got enhanced severance packages that were considerably more than they were entitled to under the law.
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@ LT.HORATIO CAINE June 8, 2016 at 8:06 PM
This is what you said earlier Caine:
“We wont forget your campaign to divert tourists from Barbados to St.Lucia and other low islands. The Loveridge stooges and you will always be despicable because of that attempt at economic sabotage.”
What do you plan to do to the miller? Make him persona non grata or stop British Airways or Virgin Atlantic from flying to Bim?
Maybe if you can do a simple job within your intellectual pay-grade of cleaning up tropical Barbados of all the stinking garbage lining the streets and perfuming the ‘pissy’ smelling streets of Bridgetown then the miller can sing the high praises of “God Bless Bim on Independence Day” by facilitating the arrival of a contingent of 50 or so Bajan-limeys and their friends to a decaying paradise under your destructive lying party.
Now that’s what you call genuine patriotism instead of the low-life, low-class behavior of your party and its present dangerous lying pretending leader who is fast destroying the once beautiful Barbados the former gem of the Caribbean.
Peter Morgan would have been most disgusted with you lot.
Man stop the shite talk and go and fix the roads of Barbados, for heavens sake!
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As i have stated that young man is running scared and is definitely talking too much,a very bad move.
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Allow me to go way off topic for a brief moment…bear with me.
As a Bajan I tended to use the familiar terms ‘my dear’ rather often…and too ‘sweetheart’ (which by the way the southerners in US also tended to use from what I grasped ).
I spok that way with family females, female friends and even female work colleagues. It was merely a greeting wrapped in the friendly at-ease gab of the day.
As I moved to more senior work positions I had to curb that…for all the obvious reasons. And as I became more of an international traveler it definitely had to stop too.
Now here is the point. How can any Bajan still be using the rather indifferent pejorative “….St.Lucia and other low islands.” LOW ISLANDS.
Oh lawd. Can anyone really think of Barbados as being above our neighbors in the eastern Caribbean still?
At some point I expect that description really was all about geography and morphed into broader snobbery but we label ourselves fossils to continue to speak with that ‘my dear’ type phrasing.
Some words and phrasing we need to wash out of our mouth…completely.
Way off topic. Normal programming please resume.
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Listen nookie for the final time i never said the above and you surely have a serious problem i never blog under any other monicker,you are a sad case why are you filled with so much hatred and anger? Man you are becoming overbearing now.
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@ Caswell Franklyn June 8, 2016 at 8:25 PM
Caswell, if the picture you have painted of Akanni is a true testament to the man’s character then he deserves to be removed from the presidency in disgrace. Similar thing applies to his political opposite number in Bay Street. Would you agree?
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@ LT.HORATIO CAINE June 8, 2016 at 8:32 PM
Well stop reading and responding to my posts. Thank you!
Ps: The Truth really hurts doesn’t it?
Just remember LT. “If you tell the Truth you do not have to remember what you said.”
You should never “Lie, Cheat or Steal” as a Lieutenant Cadet right Horatio Cain(e).
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Miller
I don’t know who you mean when you say his political opposite in Bay Street. If you are referring to the Cabinet, I would more than concur since they are just like Akanni – incompetent!
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@ Caswell Franklyn June 8, 2016 at 8:43 PM
Bang on! Just start by hitting the incompetent nail on its head (leader).
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I will respond to you when i see fit Miller,as i told you before you maybe a bully but you will not intimidate me and i have no reasons to lie in this forum,one thing for sure i call a spade a spade and i do not condone folly even if it is being done by the party that you so often accuse me of supporting,and that can be said for any party.Have a good night Miller and work on some anger management maybe if you were in the army or law enforcement then i suspect you would have been more disciplined.
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@ LT.HORATIO CAINE June 8, 2016 at 8:55 PM
You see what I mean now!
No wonder you did not graduate from military school as a real, real lieutenant.
Just like your party leader you are unable to keep your promise or fulfill your commitment.
This is what you said earlier:
“Listen nookie for the final time i never said the above and you surely have a serious problem i never blog under any other monicker,you are a sad case why are you filled with so much hatred and anger? Man you are becoming overbearing now.”
Your lying words certainly aren’t your bond.
So here is a little bit of advice from the angry-ass Major General Miller: Find your self an ass of equal rank and rant to rattle shallow intellectual swords with.
You are just not my type of combatant. Now leave me alone, fool! Adieu, ‘pissy’ garcon!
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Anger miller anger control it .
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de pedantic Dribbler June 8, 2016 at 8:29 PM #
“Now here is the point. How can any Bajan still be using the rather indifferent pejorative “….St.Lucia and other low islands.” LOW ISLANDS.”
@ de pedantic Dribbler
You really surprised me when you asked the above question. Surely you should have recognized the ignorance illustrated in the content of the yard-fowl’s contributions. Hence, the individual reference to “St. Lucia and the other low islands” should be an obvious expectation.
BEWARE OF YARD-FOWLS!!!!!
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@ LT.HORATIO CAINE June 8, 2016 at 9:19 PM
Now tell us whose credibility has been seriously shot in the final analysis? Yours or Peter Wickham the man you disrespectfully refer to as Petra? Here is what you had to say about Peter:
@LT.HORATIO CAINE June 1, 2016 at 4:45 AM
“Petra i want to really hear you respond to these claims by Joseph, one thing i must say though is that he is spot on concerning the way you operate,looks like your time of serious exposure has finally come, your credibility has been seriously shot here.”
Anger is less of a sin than being a bold-faced disrespectful liar.
You may not need the army but certainly the help of a priest or psychologist.
But here is a piece of advice to function as a lens through which you should view the world and its inhabitants:
“I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.” ~ Nash Grier.
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any updates from the china shop on the bull fight??
just observing
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Observing;
No updates, but I passed that road this evening and there were a huge number of cars parked inside the compound and on the main road as well. I wonder what the large crowd portends. Seems to me, given the lackadaisical nature of old and mature bajans and the energy and purposefulness of the young crowd that swept akanni to office, that Akanni might win this battle. But who knows?
Looking forward to hearing the news tomorrow.
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Looks like I was right!
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@David, I have to ask this stupid question. Is 219 member at a NUPW meeting a good result based on the publicity this matter generated, par for course at special meetings or above average?
I expect more of the latter particularly based on the correspondence which spoke of a lack of quorum at one of the meetings to discuss the med plan.
But at the end of the day the subterfuge and dishonesty at the union still needs to be addressed.
It would be great if this energy could be used to move in that direction but obviously that is absolutely not the real intent of all this bassa-bassa.
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@awty
thanks! right you were indeed.
@dribbler
There’s a huge sense of apathy within trade unions now (and politics). Sad but true.
45 voted to remove, even though the petition needed 50 signatures. Only bout hey.
@david
will young McDowall rise emboldened or humble?
Is Team NUPW still intact?
Will the “apolitical” remain “apolitical?”
Stay tuned for the answers to these and more next week…same time….same bat channel.
Just observing
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Derek Alleyne got booed! !!!! Hot meeting….accusers did not turn up!
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Prodigal
You must know that the Opposition office worked the phones in order to get out the vote for Akanni. You politicians must keep out of the union’s business. Prior to this the Dems dominated now the BLP has taken firm control of the NUPW. Only the workers will suffer. I am yet to see where either of the political parties are even a tad interested in the workers of this country.
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Joy Ann Inniss should now do the right and decent thing and resign. She was Derek Alleyne’s sidekick doing his bidding.
Tonight right triumphed over wrong! Akanni will now have to reassess his own position and try to work with the executive if this was the problem.
In their rush to judgment, they did not even think to have ballots, they tried to stretch out the meeting to frustrate people so that they would leave but they stood to the end and defeated the plotters and schemers. Typical dlp operating system!
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My sources told me that the actual members worked their phones, I was not told anything about the BLP.
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Prodigal
Maybe, you are not in the loop. If the BLP brought out the vote 2013 like they did today, they would be in government now. They will catch at the shadow in St. Lucia and now NUPW and lose the bone in 2018.
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Maybe, Caswell!
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@Caswell
“They will catch at the shadow in St. Lucia and now NUPW and lose the bone in 2018.”
prophetic words maybe???
Just observing
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@Dee Word
Out of a reported 8000 members 1000 voted in the last election. Like Observing stated there is great apathy in the country.
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If the politicians weren’t involved there might not have been a quorum. This is really a BLP victory. Part of the propaganda being spread by the BLP was that government is planning to rationalise the statutory boards and that they did not want to face Akanni. The big joke is that presidents of NUPW don’t negotiate. It is really a figurehead role.
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@Caswell
Your point is that the rules say it should be a figurehead role but Walter Maloney has reset the role hasn’t he?
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The strategy by Macdowall was clear – Cry politics and that way you brand serious and legitimate questions about your leadership as politically motivated. You therefore line up all the anti government people on your side and deflect from the substantive questions on the table and get the full backing of the party machinery to do your spin.
Hence we had about 7 Mia Mottley styled radio ads by Macdowall during Brass Tacks all this week ($600 per ad), attacks on Derek Alleyne followed by opposition MP Dwight Sutherland leading the morning news on VOB calling the motion politically motivated and of course a letter to the editor by one of someone writing under a particular name repeating the politically motivated spin.
The public relations response to the motion was strong.
Mr. Macdowall led an obvious Mottley backed spin campaign. Mottley could not afford to lose him now as he is an important puppet in her own PR campaign.It is clear that the NUPW with members of the executive openly trying to run as BLP candidates and a president in the pocket of their political leader is clearly putting a political agenda first while disguising it as vigorous worker representation. It is really Macdowall playing the politics here.
Is anyone really representing the workers?
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David
Walter ignored the rules aided and abetted by an incompetent general secretary. The operating environment for Akanni is the same so he will continue to embarrass the union. I well remember when Nigel Harper was president that Goddard was forced to write the Government to point out that there was no need for Harper to be at the union and away from work so often.
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@Bajanfuhlife
How does it feel to be beaten at you own game of late?
@Caswell
Then why has the Council not rein in Mcdowall?
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Bajanfuhlife
I could not have said it better. Akanni and the BLP won but the workers suffered a great loss. I don’t know why the hell these self serving politicians won’t keep their hands off the unions. Expect to see more union protest like the one at the Airport where the union went on strike in the first instance.
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In order to control the union you must first control the union. That is achieved by ensuring that you get the people you want on that body.
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Him remaining at the helm might be a blessing in disguisefor govt as he can’t helped but demonstrate his immaturity which would be a continuance of him embrassing himself.
I predict that the lever which was pulled to keep him in place would be a detrement and embrassment to those who helped pulled the lever for Akanni going into the 2018 election
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I don’t know what this hullabaloo is about. Let’s get down to Brass Tacks and be honest about leaders of all Union leaders who were connected to various Political Parties.
Sir Roy, Morris, Derek Alleyne. Goddard, Walter Maloney, Clarke, Ronald Jones, Karen Best and others who led these Unions and pretend to be neutral. So why pressure youthful leaders in McDowall from the NUPW and Toni Moore from pushing Unionism.
Although I must say that McDowall find himself jumping into matters that is the General Secretary responsibility, probably due to the laid back way being portrait by the incumbent GS. Barbados workers are under siege by employers, especially Government who are trying to deal with reduction in spending to reduce fiscal balances and forgetting that workers are people too.
Instead, the money that can be saved should be the wastage of funds by Statutory Boards and certain Ministries who uses Government funds like an ATM and refuse to have documentation to show.
I said it already and I am going to say it again. Oldie Goldie past Union Leaders like Trotman, Maloney, Alleyne, Clarke, Jones et al must step aside and let the people (Young Turks) get an opportunity to manage the various Unions without inside interference by political yardfowls – Bees or Dees.
I will follow the outcome of Comrade McDowall, Comrade Moore and Comrade Shepherd who are trying to fight for workers against strong opposition of political figureheads.
Caswell, I forget to mention that you are also part of the oldie goldie brigade suppressing these young leaders. Things change and even Governments are abusing the rule of law regarding Unionism.
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Tell Me Why
Can you produce any evidence of me suppressing anybody, young or old, I am not in their way.
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“To chants of Dwayne Bravo’s Champion megahit song, president McDowall emerged from the conference room”
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You might not feel that you are suppressing Akanni, but your language of him being incompetent, along with a past alleged injustice regarding appointment in the public service which cannot be blamed on Akanni that is probably why your action might not be visible to you. Being a Union Member and moving on to a Government Member behaviour is totally different – Good example (Jones; Goddard; Alleyne etc.)
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Tell me Why
It not my fault that Akanni is chewing on more than he can bite off. Like the present administration, he had the ability to win an election, and like them, he does not have a clue. It is not only that he is incompetent, he is unable or unwilling to learn and feels that the rules don’t apply to him.
An example of his stupidity was revealed by the debacle that played out yesterday. He stumbled into ongoing, wholesale stealing of Medicare funds. The crooks encouraged people to bring a motion of no-confidence to distract him from pursuing that matter. The allegations against him, except for the one about Sagicor, were not new. He did not recognise or understand what was going on around him and because some of the crooks were his former DLP colleagues, he jumped to the conclusion that the matter against him was political.
As a result, the crooks were able to get rid of the incriminating evidence and the union would continue to be plundered.
They was never any talk about a no-confidence motion when he was behaving like a petulant child while acting in his capacity as president. That only came when he sought to act in the interest of the members for the first time but he was outfoxed.
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Wow!! I would not focus on incompetency, but lack of knowledge working in a den of wolves who knows how to manipulate funds. Are the instigators the real suppressors? If that’s the case my apology Caswell and wouldn’t it be appropriate to nurture him into the ruggedness of Unionism.
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He who laughs last, laughs best!
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Tell me Why
How do you nurture or teach someone who thinks that he knows everything. The man has to humble himself and acknowledge that he needs help. These people who are manipulating him were stealing from NUPW when Akanni was in pampers. Stealing from NUPW is now an industry. When Ken Dash, as treasurer, was trying to put the brakes on stealing, the crooks did everything to get rid of him. They even enlisted the help of a wet-behind-the-ears Akanni to remove Dash.
Akanni should now learn a lesson but he does not even understand what happened.
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Back to what I was saying….The oldie goldies brigade abused this green executives, but realised that the youth were getting smarter, so, up came the no-confidence motion fueled by the same instigators.
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@Hants
Your intervention with #champion is instructive. It is not about what one can do to make members better off, it is about winning political fights to share up egos.
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@David
” it is about winning political fights to share up egos.”
BINGO!!!!
Hence why real real trade unionism is at its lowest ebb in the history of Barbados.
Just observing
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@ LT.HORATIO CAINE June 6, 2016 at 8:16 PM #
“Asskani what nonsense are you doing you are definitely making yourself look like a desperado it appears that you are very afraid now and resorting to the nonsense as per the video above if you are so innocent you do not need the help of members to shore up your case,you are pathetic fight your case on your own merit or get an attorney it is clear you are guilty as hell from your silly actions and if the above is true about you being the author of such a letter then the matter should be passed to relevant authorities who deal with matters of fraud.”
@ LT.HORATIO CAINE June 6, 2016 at 9:26 PM #
“The boy says he has evidence to refute the charges,maybe Caswell can shed some light on the way these matters are handled,one thing i know for sure is that he seems to scared out of his wits and is now like a drowning man clutching at straws.When you start wrong expect to end wrong, i remember the call out of the sanitation workers and the call by him that no burials would be taking place,this was to me the height of his ignorance and for me the last straw. It was then that i predicted that unless he was reigned in he would be the shortest serving president of that union and it appears that those words might very well come to pass.”
It seems, Mr. Caine the pseudo lieutenant of hate and envy, your many rants of disrespect and seeds of vilification of the young Mr. Mcdowall have fallen by the wayside and only the DLP yard-fowl vultures have swallowed your venom of disdain.
No wonder you remained a lowlife investigator all your working life of crime and corruption.
Now who has to grovel and kiss Akanni’s ass? Now, who has been made to look like a real ‘sissy boy’, if not the candy cream investigator called criminal Caine.
Do you really feel if the Lord Fumble, the King of deceit, lies and perpetual incompetence could survive a no-confidence motion then shouldn’t any two-bit incompetent jackass be able to avoid similar motion of censure?
Mr. Akanni McDowall- if guilty of the charges Caswell Franklyn has levied against him- will be dealt with at the next round of election for the presidency. Not by you or your ilk of agent saboteur groveling in the modern-day cesspool on George Street and swimming in so much filth as to make Errol Barrow puke in his watery grave.
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He might have been given a reprieve but not restored because of his blatant actions which delivers a devastating blow against the winds of change . Actions which are diametrically opposed to what the nations is seeking and looking for ,,Actions which screams and complicates issues for betterment , Those actions which leaves him looking like a wounded and damaged soldier
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David-Akanni and his BLP rent a crowd won the Battle last night but the war is not over
Akanni has got to live with that he has done a criminal act of stealing the union property (its letterhead)and sending an authortised letter to the Insurance company -thus causing the Medicare payments or its members to increase higher
From the politicial view-the BLP has been accusing the GOVERNMENT of corruption but they have just help a young person to escape for the time being with a criminal move
When the dust is settle Alanni will be rejected even by those Rent a vote persons -therefore the BEES should not accuse the DLP of buying Votes or of protecting Micheal Carrington -there house is just as dirty
we hope the three union political persons (PRESIDENT,2RD VICE PRESIDENT AND ITS TREASURER CAN WIN IN THE GENERAL ELECTIONS )
I shall vote for no party -done with that
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david -an unauthorised letter( correction)
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@erice
What does it really say when less than 300 out of an 8000 strong membership feels compelled to participate in the vote? It was well publicized want it? No sense blaming the BLP if the full membership was aware and had ample opportnuty to express a position by voting. Having stated the foregoing what occurred last night is a microcosm of a wider societal malady.
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Erice have no fear he is like a leopard he cannot change his spots,as Caswell stated he is practically in deep waters and sooner or later he will drown as his rescuers will have no choice but to leave him out to sea.He is irrational,very immature and his desperation showed when he came to this forum blogging as one truth to power,and as soon as Caswell made several revelations he ran and hid,like you said he acquired a bought victory but the battle will now begin as i sense certain key persons within that organization will not easily or readily forgive him,we will however wait and see.
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Wunnah lost…..get over it! Na,na,nuh, na nuh!
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Prodigal Son June 10, 2016 at 10:42 PM #
Wunnah lost…..get over it! Na,na,nuh, na nuh!
Ha! ha! prodigal a real testimony to truth a truth which has been swirling around with dire implications sending a message of blp involvement Prodigal you ought to be ashamed coming to this forum and actually admitting that revelation
This story has not ended the legs stretch for miles which would continue to take the opposition leader Mia Mottley on a long ride of malicious and mischievous intent dragging her into a cesspool of deceit and corruption along the path which she craved out for herself
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Mr. Bloggmaster I am verifying some information and i will state the facts as i said earlier. Caswell and what you said about Mr. ALLEYNE IS ALSO UNTRUE. I will address that as well.
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I thought you were sick,you just running from Brasstacks then.
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What is not clear is what are Mr McDowall’s current duties, apart from his trade unionism? If he is failing to carry out his day-to-day duties, he should be put on a disciplinary – whatever the anarchic union does. The government must not be intimidated, it must face down the union bullying. It is organised thuggery.
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“The government must not be intimidated, it must face down the union bullying. It is organised thuggery”
It must be allowed to do as it likes to the extent that any legitimate challenge to a decision taken by Government can be regarded as thuggery. Come on Hal put aside the emotion and offer constructive analysis as we all know you can do.
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I am not very good at maths, but if the NUPW has 8000 members, out of 30000 public sector workers and they are just about 27 per cent of the working population of Barbados, then why is this minority within a minority holding the nation to ransom? Where is the minister of labour?
Be decisive, pay off Akanni and let him go, then face down the union. Govt has the upper hand: most civil servants with mortgages and other debt cannot afford to miss a month’s pay, far less lose their jobs. Weak Freundel should tough it out.
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[Barbados Underground] Comment: “President Akanni McDowall Under Pressure,with documents” Bin David to comment+zra06rg-gnxi2a9fteyvq0bo2vs@comment.wordpress.com 1 minute ago Details
@Hal
What if you are wrong?
If a post is established can the qualification for the post is known. The qualification of the person who replaced Mcdowall is known.
@Simple Simon
The name of the deputy PS is what?
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Hal Austin
You said,
“What is not clear is what are Mr McDowalls current duties, apart from his trade unionism? If he is failing to carry out his day-to-day duties, he should be put on a disciplinary whatever the anarchic union does. The government must not be intimidated, it must face down the union bullying. It is organised thuggery”.
Do you often write from a position of extreme ignorance?
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@Hal Austin November 17, 2016 at 5:15 AM “Be decisive, pay off Akanni and let him go.”
You are aware are you not that Mr. McDowall has access to the courts?
Just as you have access to the courts if an injustice is committed against you.
Just as I have access to the courts if an injustice is committed against me.
If the government improperly dismisses Mr. McDowall he WILL take the government to court,
And if the dismissal is improper the court WILL find for him.
The Minister of Labour knows this.
The Prime Minister knows this.
Thankfully Barbados is still a country of laws. The government can’t just say “here little boy, take this money and get lost”
The government is NOT above the law.
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http://mes.gov.bb/Contact/Staff-Directory/
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