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Submitted by Dr. George Brathwaite
Dwight Sutherland, M.P.
Dwight Sutherland, M.P.

I refer to your article in the Barbados Underground which states that Dwight Sutherland is serving two MAMs. From my standpoint and certain knowledge, Sutherland is a professional with considerable amount of training in cement manufacture.  He was offered a one (1) year contract in 2015 as Consultant – Business Development and Operations with Rock Hard Cement.

We researched but could not find Sutherland’s name attached to any wrong doings of Rock Hard Cement during his one (1) year stint with them. Sutherland spoke only of cement as it is his passion and training. Sutherland completed his one (1) year contract with Rock Hard cement as a professional and has done nothing wrong.

He was not responsible for the building works at Rock Hard Cement sites neither was he responsible for TCPD applications for Rock Hard Cement.

When last we checked, the only thing that Sutherland was doing Rock Hard is busy working in St. George South cementing himself. He is indeed rock hard in that area as he appears irreplaceable at this time.

As a man of integrity we assumed he saw the writing on the wall and did what was right.


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101 responses to “Dwight Sutherland’s One Year Contract With Rock Hard Cement”


  1. The Democratic Labour Party of the 70s gave permission for two only importers of cement in Barbados.They were of the majority people.They used their ‘manna from heaven’ gift to become financially better off than they were before.
    These foolish blowhards of today’s Democratic Labour Party,including but not peculiar to,Demis Lowe,Micahel Lashley,Quincy Boyce,Jumpto Ince,Bechrist Stumpler,Froon who think he better than Houdini hiding behind words and deeds,these among others opened the cabinet and gave a concession to an albino man instead of one of the majority people.While the guys of the 70’s went about their business quietly,this albino get rude and breaking the laws of the land and then threatening been the unborn with hell fire.Well,who tell he do that!

  2. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    The only people who have to fear Maloney are the politicians who take his bribes…everyone else can put him in his place, they don’t need him as much as he needs them….Gazer.

    I keep saying, if any of these corrupt businessmen who think they own it all drop dead tomorrow. ..there will be 50 more to take their place before their body turns cold.

    The house niggas in parliament need to haul and pull up and stop making idiots of themselves….or suffer the consequences….Maloney, Harris, Bizzy, Bjerkham et al are extremely hateful people….and greedy.

    It’s time to put them in their places.


  3. Wait………..I read the article in Barbados Today and I had to say this man Mark Maloney is a bad ass johnny, yeah. As the youngsters say he dont play……..the man is angry, very angry.

    The man is making threats…….. play my game or I am going to pull up stumps and leave and tell people dont come here. In other words when I leave I am taking every thing with me and Barbados dead! I hope Maxine McClean has heard this as she is always accusing the Opposition of discouraging foreign investors. Liar!

    Look at the depths Barbados has sunk…….. we have a johnny come lately threatening a senior public servant telling he he has been in the job too long! Look at my crosses, though!

    You know what…….these morons the people elected have brought us to this sorry state and have given this man so much opportunity to accummulate wealth upon top of wealth and so this man believes that he has limitless power. Just for a morsel of meat!

    It is only a matter of time before MM spills the beans. Why did the PM give up the oversight of the TCP office at this time? Did he smell a rat and as usual he dithers and leave things to simmer with inaction.

    Look where the dlp has brought this country to!

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

    DPD; You said above
    “Like others I too have wondered about the supposed ‘road hazard’ at Coverly. If it should not be there then the accident victim family should be able to sue the GOVERNMENT as a contributor to the death, I would imagine.”

    I have also wondered how Maloney and the Minister Responsible for the TPD would feel if, heaven forfend, while the apparent hazard is still standing, another serious or fatal accident occurs.

  5. Colonel Buggy Avatar

    Is it the structure in the middle of Lears Roundabout or the roundabout itself, that Mark Maloney is claiming to have built out of his pocket for $1Milliion ?

    The Barbados Government has always been cautioned about taking handouts and other charitable services from individuals or companies. No one gives away anything, without looking for a scratch-me-back in return. We have seen it time and time again, certain sections of this society donating stuff to the QEH, and when, later a container of drugs comes in, the importers flash their ‘Get out of Jail Card.”,compliments, apparently, of the Barbados Government/Minister/ Official.


  6. It would seem to me that this whole demolition exercise is but a smoke screen meant to keep the baying crowds happy while Nero continues with the destruction of Rome. Hear me now – MAM laid bare the facts on Rock Hard, Coverley, Hard Water and other questionable arrangements between government (ministers) and certain recurring companies (business owners). The disgruntled throngs demanded blood and the circus ringmaster decided to oblige as elections that have not crossed his mind, are rapidly approaching. So, what does he do? His usual – he throws Darcy under the bus while maintaining his look of innocence, if THAT look could be called innocent! Darcy is now responsible for this aspect of the portfolio that was formally part of the ringmaster’s ambit. A situation that has been in existence since Adam was a lad now comes to a conclusion. The crowds are cheering, the Devil has fallen from grace… apparently. But wait, does anyone know what new secret agreements have been forged to the tune of millions of taxpayers dollars in compensation so that the Devil’s hurt feelings are salved? Remember that an election that has not crossed the ringmaster’s mind still has to be funded by the Devil and his ilk.

    If the demolition of an illegally constructed hut on Crown lands took from 2011 until now to be executed, will we see action taken at the Harbour construction site within our lifetime? It is now before the courts of (in)justice and we all know how swiftly justice is dispensed from within those walls. Going by history, the warehouse should be coming down in 2021.


  7. THE MINISTER of Sports has signed a $392 252 agreement with energy and services company Emera to develop and maintain the North Stars sporting facility in St Lucy and the Silver Hill sporting facility in Christ Church.


  8. @ Colonel Buggy

    That was a slip of the tongue that “$1 million” cost. It was either that he meant that he contributed $1 million to the party at that time or he was talking in Guyana dollars

    @ Hants

    https://youtu.be/egAzDUFcMdo?t=66

    Hants my buddy, do not get vex with me.

    Before I say anything else promise me that you are still going to share those Fleur videos and the other good music that I have come accustomed to appreciate from you.

    There is something that this ole man has noticed during my sojourn here.

    I have seen it sooooooo often in life that I now come to expect it as a norm AND WHEN I DONT SEE IT, i keep watching the subject for a long time afterwards

    In that video that you uploaded with sir cow, if you click on that link that i provided above you will see that which I have categorised as “how to tell if a white man is racist”

    Seriously Hants!!

    It is one of 5 things that the old man has noticed

    See how COW wipe he hand in he pants? twice?

    I does watch tings like dat (I is a little anal retentive)

    De second ting is the pronouncement generally in a loud voice “I have a lot of friends who are coloured…” I ent going tell dem what the correct statement is but that juxtaposition of “friends” and “coloured” is a dead giveaway

    THe third one is hugs WITHOUT OPEN PALMS.

    Racists just cannot do that, it is like chewing gum, standing on one leg and clapping at the same time, racists cannot open their hands while they embrace you, IT CANT HAPPEN.

    Fourthly sitting on your desk, anytime a white man comes to you and sits on your desk or puts up his foot on a chair in front of you, he be racist as well as jes nasty.

    Hants you jes doan put you botsie where a man does sit to work and put he hands, he cup of coffee, a sandwich/food dat be like me wiping me pooch with a towel and then telling you to use the towel and tek de perspiration off your face

    and finally.

    Walking in time, wid de nigger.

    Whenever a racist is walking next to a nigger dem oes NEVER, EVAH WALK in the same pace with you.

    But i want you to tek a look at them specific seconds and tell de ole man if it is my imagination of not and effing COW didnt wipe he hand in he pants twice?


  9. it did not copy properly go to 1:08 into the time line


  10. Some days when you sit back and look at all our issues at all the various levels of human discourse you sometimes are inclined to say, like Pachamama, that all this seems so futile.

    When we are faced with things that are “so deeply and genetically ingrained”, of such a political persuasion, complexioned by one’s caste, colour, religion, socialization that it makes all our attempts to make a difference seem so useless.

    Is this what The Creator, BBE, Allah, or whatever Deity you worship as Supreme, is this what he intentioned for us?

    Why move towards a high ground when it would seem that our natures relish the morass and darkness while we fool ourselves of our purity, and integrity, and love for a segment of this dross humanity, either the nuclear unit of family, and if we are luck the tribe, with which we identify.

    If this is all that this is, or has the potential of being, then we must speed the anarchy and sedition that will set in motion thise men with their nuclear codes to end this uselessness.

    “The more I see of people, the more i like my dog” Mark Twain? anyone?


  11. @ FearPlay June 11, 2016 at 4:12 PM #

    “It would seem to me that this whole demolition exercise is but a smoke screen meant to keep the baying crowds happy while Nero continues with the destruction of Rome. ……… So, what does he do? His usual – he throws Darcy under the bus while maintaining his look of innocence, if THAT look could be called innocent! Darcy is now responsible for this aspect of the portfolio that was formally part of the ringmaster’s ambit”.
    ………………………………………………………

    FearPlay,

    So if this another part of the lazy PM’s portfolio that he has now passed on to someone else, pray tell what the hell does he do all day? A so called healthy man still has the portfolio of a sick dying man…………now he passes off another piece to Darcy.

    Maloney does not have to worry then…………….an unelected man would do his bidding. TCP should never be in the hands of a man who has never faced the electorate!

  12. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    The politicians of DBLP are too hand to mouth and love hand outs…that is why they have become compromised. ..all the business people know this…..again, they are extremely lucky all of this is exposed now…5 years from now, they would not have the power to reverse their nasty practices.


  13. @ 1.08 “wipe he hand in he pants twice?”

    Yes he did Pieceuhderock.

    Your investigative and analytical skills are amazing. lol


  14. @ Pieceuhderock,

    Check de Diaspora corner. Fleur in Amurca.


  15. @ Hants

    I have an admission that I will make to you Hants.

    It is almost like an affliction to “see” a man lie, how in 1/2000ths of a second how he pauses to catch a breath, as his salivary glands, which are out of sync with his motor mouth, cause him to choke, and the Adam’s apple raises, and the gaze loose its focus.

    That by the way does not work with (a) people who are silent (generally unreadable – David Thompson) (b) megalomaniacs (well you know who she is) (c) pathological liars (Chris Stinkliar) and (d) idjuts (i ent going call no names)

    Mythomaniacs make good spies did you know that? because their “compulsion” is central/critical to their “job”.

    They make Good spies but unfortunately bad politicians and terrible trustees of other people’s money (Me Clare Who You and our happy band of Politicians)

    Do you know what would cause COW to have a conniption, A Arab, rather an Arab embrace or the Cosa Nostra kissy thingy from a black man? He would actually die.

    After a while Hants, you just sit there and laugh at it all.

    And let me tell you something too.

    COW Williams DID NOT EVEN REALIZE that he did that, they do not register it, it is like if a fly rested on your hand, and you brushed it off, 1/2000 of a second later you do not remember that fly, he remembers that it was a black man that entered his house, and like Trump, he would itemize that he has to burn the Obamas beds If he gets there, and repaint the walls, with chlorox etc, but COW will tell anyone that he did not do that consciously and he would be telling the truth.


  16. Has Joe of Emera been escorted to the Grantley Adams Airport and placed on an Air Canada flight back to Canada?It was reported in the press that a black Bajan was kicked by a white Canadian.That is the epitome of disrespect and is punishable by imprisonment if found guilty.Its known as assault and battery.


  17. Is the Town and Country Planning office adequately staffed.

  18. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    All Emera had to do was bribe Lashley with some contract or the other and the kicking of one of his own people by some halfassed Canadian racist…is no big deal to him,,..black politicians are the weakest link.

    Piece…Cow, Bizzy et al are only important in their own minds and in the minds of dumb, backward politicians on the island and dumb backward people who know no better….put these same shithounds in front of Trump or any diehard North American or European racist and they will get the same treatment or worse, those dudes will probably try to sanitize the air after meeting with backwoods jackasses like Cow and Bizzy…it would be much worse them than what they are being allowed to mete out to people on the island, because they themselves are seen as inferior outside of Barbados. ..they can only do that crap and mouth off in Barbados…they cannot even do any of that in Trinidad or Jamaica.

  19. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Ha…the owners if the property. ..the Port…speaks out, Maloney has no permission to build on the land, he took his uppity self and decided he could build without permission. .and is vioalting health laws.

    THE BARBADOS PORT AUTHORITY has accused Rock Hard Cement Limited (RHCL) of committing several contractual breaches, including the controversial erection of a building structure at the Flour Mill site off Spring Garden Highway.
    Related articles

    The Port Authority, owners of Lot 3 and Lot 7, being leased by the cement company, also disclosed it had received several complaints regarding the firm’s operation, including health concerns from next door ADM Barbados Mill Limited, producers of flour, and the Barbados Coast Guard, whose headquarters are just a few yards away.

    “The Port has never been written to by RHCL requesting prior consent to any proposed construction nor has the Port been shown approved planning and other agencies approval in order to commence work,” it said in a letter dated June 7, and sent to chairman Mark Maloney.
    – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/82136/-ahead-port#sthash.TcWUbSSC.dpuf


  20. @david

    Was the Port being genuine when it had it’s lawyer write to Mark Maloney and Rock Hard Cement or just trying to look the part of an aggrieved landlord? We need to see the agreement for the lease of the lands so what was and was not agreed.
    I didn’t get to follow things yesterday but have you been able to uncover whether the BPI chairman is in fact the uncle of Mark Maloney?


  21. @david
    How come the Nation newspaper only published a part of the lawyer’s letter to Rock Hard Cement and not its entirety? I think this a PR exercise by the BPI.


  22. @Past Zone

    Agree we need to see the agreement.

    Someone on FB we have respect for confirm that the info about Harding is correct.

    On another note, how many agree the TPD should knock down Bussa in the same way they did the Preconco house at Lears roundabout.


  23. @ The Honourable Blogmaster.

    Man dat question “I must admit, hit me for six” heheheheheheheh

    Which entity of Government would have constructed Bussa?

    It was I believe done during the former administration. I speak subject to correction

    Consequently, I do believe that it was an intra-government collaboration which thereafter migrated to NCC? or the entity that is responsible for roundabouts.

    You note that some corporations sponsor certain roundabouts and consequently have to maintain them.

    Permission to construct an item in a roundabout seems to be required from the TPD.

    I think that in addition to the permission issue there is the matter of the radius of the roundabout and if, given the speed of an approaching vehicle, it is possible to see it coming, and to negotiate the roundabout in time

    The St Thomas Roundabout and Sundial is such an example for one has to be doing 150 km/h as to not be seen at that roundabout which has a structure in its centre.

    Empiricists may be inclined to argue none in Lears, therefore none in all, but the argument could equally be, where such structure is not an impediment to sight and use of the highway, and it is aesthetically pleasing and congruent with the surroundings, and does not distract the voyaging driver, then it can remain.

  24. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Is Bussa blocking the view of oncoming traffic, that statue is so high and not big enough to block anyone’s vision sometimes when driving around there I barely remember it….and was Bussa a private or government initiative.

    No surprise Harding is related to Maloney….Harris did not get the land and because of Maloney’s arrogance, it’s now a scandal…but the biggest scandal…..and biggest shame is bajans sitting on their asses for the last 30 plus years watching and admiring themselves be robbed and admiring the criminal activites and actions by those who rob them, admiring the politicions for selling them out to those crooks….that’s the anomaly.

  25. Colonel Buggy Avatar

    The truth is that the structure in the middle of the Lears roundabout, poses no danger to motorists. When a driver approaches a roundabout , the focus is on the traffic immediately to his right, – those already on the roundabout,and those approaching the roundabout. There is absolutely any need for a driver to look straight ahead at most roundabouts , except for the mini ones.
    There are whole villages in the middle of some roundabouts in the UK, like at Wrecclesham in Farnham Surrey.


  26. @Colonel Buggy

    Don’t be sidetracked, the issue is whether permission was sought and approved.

  27. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Colonel Buggy June 13, 2016 at 4:18 PM

    Colonel, you know very well that the Lears demolition job is just a diversionary tactic of a smokescreen to blind Bajans into believing Fumble and his lot are ‘socking’ it to Maloney. We can just hear them saying: “Make it look to the Bajan idiots as if we are really the boss around here and not some powful-foolish backra-johnny”.

    Meanwhile the same bankroller of the DLP 2013 campaign is carrying on with his illegally started cement bond while insisting that it would have to take the lives of two white American or British tourists for him to remove any island on the ABC outside his Coverley concentration camp.

    Even if 5 more blacks were to die in a car crash caused by my little island (a symbol of my power over the DLP politicians) what’s the big deal. After all, they are just Bajan blacks whose lives are worth no more than monkeys ran over while crossing the road.

  28. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Miller….the greedy black politicians. ..like it so, they have no empathy, feelings or love for their own people, the population is seen as voters and yardfowls only….the people constitute the politician’s doorway to titles, statusm,bribes, scams and social standing in the international arena…politicians are natural born bottomfeeders..


  29. @ The Anunnaki

    Sage One, I was noticing two things here of late.

    The Man who can tell all uh we whu Customs fellers know he did a strange fox step that carry me back to LoneStar Days.

    THen, this morning I was did noticing that the “acting” Commissioner of Police issue a next jackass statement bout how dem gine be going tuh Bonnets/Brittons Hill and dem sorts uh places and dun crime in one.

    But Sage a man on the street tell me dis.

    He was stuttering when he tell me de story, he does normally stutter do I gine tell you like he tell me sort of work for word.

    Dads, Ammm

    Dads, Ammmm…. (dat dads ting had me real vex Sage, i nearly leggo a few choice words pun he.

    ammmmmm…. wunna has ever tried to determine the cunstituents (my spelling) of, and the “contents” in, cement?

    Dads, ammmmmm…. has wunna evah tried to search cement fuh “unlawful contents?”

    Dads… has any uh wunna bright fellahs evah worked wid cement yet?

    Well you know I had was to tell he that I I used to mix and shovel cement – 1 cement, 2 sand, 3 stone. I explain tuh he dat Dads wasnt no novice, all that fine film in your hair, in your lungs, in your eyes

    Well after I show off to he, he look at me and say.

    Ahmmmmm finding out what the constitution of cement is when it is mixed up with “rock hard” cement? and other “rock hard tings is extremely hard.

    Well Sage to tell you the truth de man had me speechless, that really “knock me for six” heheheheheheheh you realise dat i using that alot recently? I like it Sage.

    Well I went quiet especially when i realize that what the man was saying was true since our Acting Chief of Police, and his cohort, cant even find some brethren who selling $5 splifts.

    That man tell me, and I am not calling no names, “daddds, ammmm de “direct route”, in and out of the island, from that strategic point in the port, via that poorly policed structure, is really what behind all this insistence for that illegal structure!!

    De man say “daddddds, IF YOU (he did pointing at me) FOOLISH ENOUGH TO LET THIS TRANSHIPMENT POINT PROCEED, go long.

    DE man went on to say all wunna bajans feel dat dis is a pwer play for campaign funds and campaign cuntributions, FOOL WUNNA SELVES!!.

    The first shipment is in the sugar bond and de reason dat he and a few others know is because people at de United States Embassy a **** has been monitoring the situation..

    De man say dat dem feel dat dem conversations pun *** is private?

    We a man can only speculate bout these sort of things when one study back to Baloney, and how he start threatening the CTP, and, by extension, the Minister.

    You are a wise feller could this be the reason that Fumble sidestepping, cause he ent want to end up like Tom? He put Quisling in the line of fire when “dem play wid de Devil” dat baloney nearly open he mouf and expose.

    “Wunna know who my investors are?” Pablo and Manuel?

    Honourable Sage, de ole man dun say this many times If we bajans was tuh put 1/10th of the effort into positive things, as we put into these schemes like Cahill, BWA, Ionics and ting, our nation wud be the GEM of the Caribbean in trufe but “you cant mek a silk purse out of a sow’s ear….”

    Watch the US Embassy’s injection of, and stalling with, specific funding and tell me if dat man, with he stutter, lying?

  30. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Piece….we all know that more has to be going on with that window to the sea that is the flour mill location on Spring Garden, the coast guard headquarters being in close proximity, makes no difference, that location would be everyone’s transshipment point since the police don’t monitor the Bizzys, Bjerkhams and Maloneys.

    That’s why I keep saying the police should be seriously looking into what other criminal activities that Maloney who is insistent on building illegally and Harris who was fighting for that same spot…are into regarding importing illegal guns, drugs etc.

    The only people “pablo and manuel” can kill would be those who have been importing their product.s..if the politicians get caught in the crossfire it serves them right for being yardboys and girls, pimps, sell outs of their people and bribetakers owned by Maloney, Bizzy and Harris et al…. no big loss to the people and a waste of space…lol


  31. Can anyone explain why a widely publicized court case ends up having to be adjourned? Please!

  32. Colonel Buggy Avatar

    Did I hear that the courts failed to serve Mark Maloney with a summons to appear in court this morning? Lets drop the case and allow Mark Maloney to stay at the Port, as this will save the taxpayers of this country the million of dollars going through this planned charade.
    Mark Maloney 1 – Barbados Nil.

  33. Colonel Buggy Avatar

    I recall a time in one Plantation when the Conservative Party ruled the roost, the day of so before a general election, the owner would subtly inform his workers what if they do not do the right thing ,they may find themselves with one or two days work a week.
    After 50 years of independence , we have not moved far beyond the plantation yard gap.


  34. Yuh got to give Maloney credit for this PR stunt. Can’t wait to see how this story ends.

  35. Bernie Fields Avatar

    We are surely the laughing stock of the World now! This is absolutely shameful!


  36. @David

    I didn’t realise that 1,000 employees would look so scanty.

    Employers are permitted to bandy around the number of employees they have and no one checks a damn thing.

    I can categorically state that Mark Maloney does not have a 1,000 employees in Barbados, period. The man is an ace bullshitter, always was………..always will be.


  37. If he manages 15 companies as reported, many n construction , the claim is not farfetched.


  38. Colonel
    When I heard the assistant controller making his spiel on radio about the number of years Mahoney was getting away with murda,and the number of murdarers that help him put it the money,the sharecroppers,and the amount of acres of cane to be reaped and the affect all this goings on will have on his enslaved workers,I said this plantation culture is alive and well in Bim.
    During all his spiel all I could scream at him was. SO WHAT!!!


  39. @David
    This is how these loose and fast guys have managed to brainwash bajans for 40+ years.

    You would believe a person who has previously told you lies? It was not a week or two ago that he said that he complies with all laws and regulations of Barbados, and a week later we find out he didn’t apply for or obtain TCPO approval for a number of projects prior to starting construction. The man lease land from the Port and didn’t even bother to notify them that he was starting construction without TCPO approval.
    1. Valery?
    2. Coverly?
    3. Coverly Entrance?
    4. Converly Gas Station?
    5. Grotto?
    6. Hard Rock Cement – Spring Garden?
    7. Lears Round-a-bout?
    8. Bushy Park?


  40. Even if he has 1,000 employees he is no more entitled to TCPO approval and or expedited approval than anyone else in Barbados. We are making a Barbados that will come back to haunt us if we don’t be careful.


  41. No one is begrudging him his successes but you can’t be a serial breaker of to the law and expected to be treated a business guru.

    Is he successful and therefore believes that he does not need to follow the law or is he successful because he, UNLIKE almost everyone else, refuses to follow the law?


  42. George Goring June 14, 2016 at 10:24 PM #

    You forgot #9 – allegedly a house @ Durants


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