Is the House of Cards Falling?
Submitted by Heather Cole
Submitted by Heather Cole
I wrote an article which was carried in Barbados Today on October 2, 2015 entitled” Cahill Fiasco Catalyst for Change.” I had hoped back then that the momentum that was gaining strength daily would have been enough not only to cause the government to cancel the project but to announce a general election. However, that did not occur because the change that I was seeking was not swift. Although it has taken 8 months, I still believe that it is because of the public outcry against the Cahill Plant, as well as the fact the Plasma Gasification technology was rejected at the plant in Teesside, England that the Government of Barbados made a decision to cancel the project. The question that I am now seeking to answer is, what is the catalyst for the changes we are beginning to see?
Is it the weight of the No Confidence Motion against the Government by the Leader of the Opposition? Can we resolve that it has impacted the elected Democratic Labour Party more than they have allowed us to see? I have also thought that the catalyst for change may have had something to do with two clearly upset posts by Bizzy Williams as a respondent to an article on BU as well as the fact that he likes to spill his guts in lengthy discussions with the traditional media.
I do not believe that the spectacle we are currently witnessing regarding Mark Maloney has anything to do with the fore mentioned. He has constantly been in the public’s eyes from one scandal to the next. We all know too well the sins of Mark Maloney. He did not start flouting the Laws of Barbados last week. For seven long years he has been building an empire. We have watched him rise to become ruthless, vain and self-centered. He has even paraded his greatest sin right in front of our eyes. Amidst the agony of a mother’s grief, we watched him laugh when her child died due to his negligence. There has never been any remorse on his part and it is a clear indication that he does not care about any Barbadian.
Then we know of the sins of this government, too numerous to delve into as they would detract from the focus at hand except for one which is that the government has been the source of wealth for which Mr. Maloney claims as his success. Incidentally his success was funded by the taxpayers of Barbados. This attempt by the government to look good in the public’s eyes is by no means in the spirit of having an epiphany. One would expect that an epiphany would also bring the return of the finder fee for the Cahill Project, the renegotiation of the Coverley Agreement, Governments openness to upholding the law with regards to the tendering of contracts, the upholding of the laws and regulations of the Town and Country Planning Department as well as to providing information on the missing and unaccounted funds from the Treasury that were outlined in the just published 2015 Auditor General’s Report. Just as the Moyne Commission did not provide what the people really needed in the 1930’s, so too is the Government pacifying the people if it has indeed thrown Mr. Maloney under the bus.
This entire debacle has certainly given a new meaning to the adage “one day you are in and the next day you are out” It is hard to believe that after 5 years of doing nothing about the building on the Roundabout at Lears that the Chief Town Planner finally mustered the courage to get something done. What is perplexing, is that last year when a louder volume of public outcry about the cement plant being built next to the flour mill, nothing was done.
Perhaps it is the fact that he is constantly seen in a negative light in the public’s eye that the Government views him as a liability in the next election. Regardless to however one looks at what is unfolding now with Mark Maloney, it can only be labelled as bizarre. It is as though there has been a falling out between him and the DEMS or some other sinister matter that we will never get the details on but they have thrown him under the bus, leaving the Chief Town Planner to do the dirty work.
Mr. Maloney is no longer a happy camper. He is already spilling his guts in a rant claiming success by using the tax payers’ money and wanting the Chief Town Planner fired. Isn’t it on the Prime Minister’s request that Chief Town Planner acts? The only thing that seems clearer now is that the house of cards is now divided among itself is falling leaving one to wonder, when is election day?
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@ David
Even the loyal AC would admit that the DLP has decided to distance itself from Mark Maloney and his antics. The difficulty for the DLP is that need to finance the upcoming election so they need to keep him keen until then. Without the Maloney, Bjerkhamn and Tempro bag(s) on election day 2013 they could not have pull off the greatest political upset as they did. When a government is this unpopular (as they were then) money must makes its way to the streets.
Based on the ongoing discussions with Henley & Partners it would appear that the DLP is positioning itself to be self-financing, albeit at the expense of the sovereignty of Barbados, and therefore independent of the likes of Maloney, Bjerkhamn, Tempro………………in fact if the DLP manage to cement (no pun intended) with Henley & Partners the likes of Bjerkhamn, Tempro, Maloney and Bizzy will be relegated to simple builders of assets into which Henley & Partners clients will ‘invest in’ to obtain their Barbadian passport and citizenship.
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@George Goring
Expand on the Henley & Partners for the BU family.
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@David
I will leave that for you to do but safe to say that (1) proposal to fingerprint ID persons entering Barbados including citizens and (2) improve the security features of the new Barbadian passport is not coincidental.
Barbados could soon join the likes of Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St.Kitts & Nevis and St. Lucia in swelling the ranks of its citizens.
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You are saying that Barbados government is moving to implement a CIB program?
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Henley & Partners are known to finance sovereigns in economic straits and also elections campaigns for political parties with or considering a CBI program.
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While excellent points have been made, the underlying issue with Heather’s criticism regarding planning enforcement is that the chief town planner is a genuinely incompetent, corrupt narcissist.
I would like someone with appropriate access, to report on how many court cases have been fought against the Town & Country Planning department in the past ten years and their win ratio.
At the end of the day it comes right back to the single point I’ve been making for eight years: there are no consequences for gov’t and civil service ineptitude or Cummings would be on the breadline; another unemployable ex-civil servant.
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@ Frustrated Bizzy
If you have something to say to CTP, as you are always saying privately, then put that in writing to him and or say it publically. Don’t be a coward and hide behind BU making your claims and allegations.
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Everybody is telling part of the truth but nobody has the guts to separate change from transformation, to see past the BLP as a viable option, to separate the tactical from the strategic.
One day coming soon, in about 5 to 8 years the DLP will again be seen as some ‘catalyst for change’ but that DLP will be no different to this DLP. Nevertheless such an argument will be made.
That the writing could be persuaded that because a government makes a tactical retreat from an example of gross mal-administration, the Cahill project, it would provide a pathway for the BLP, in the near term, is at best short-sighted.
Even if the writer’s estimates were correct, how would that stop future ‘Cahills’ from happening like they have in the past, under the BLP.
And so onnnnnnnnnn.,
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over 100 employees attached to 15 companies owned by businessman Mark Maloney pledged to support their embattled boss to the end.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/82229/hold#sthash.5CbEaFTM.dpuf
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We suggest that David highlights the comments of Peter Boos.
A few years ago Boos concluded that the systems are no longer workable. These are not his exact words, we paraphrased.
We would have thought that the ideological and political slaves of this oligarchic system would have found that conclusion apocryphal.
We are surprise that the slaves are so addicted to the present regime that they can find the intestinal fortitude to continue with the BS even when the much revered Peter Boss made his determination.
This must be the latest iteration of house-niggerism. More committed to the dead system than the master himself.
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@Heather,
You ask: “…Isn’t it on the Prime Minister’s request that Chief Town Planner acts?” No Heather. The Chief Town Planner is autonomous His Department acts independently. The Prime Minister is the Minister responsible for the Department and institutes authority and policy through Parliament (of course you know this),if an individual (or company) that has appealed instructions from the department, and have lost that appeal, are recalcitrant, they; the TCP, can seek to have criminal charges brought, or judicial enforcement of the instructions, through the DPP.. Every person who has an enforcement order given against them has the right of appeal, following the expiry of the time allocated for the compliance with the order, the Town Planning Department, can then take the action to enforce the order. There is a process that is legislated for adherence to the instructions of the TCP. The department cannot act without the necessary legal authority to enforce its instructions. We live in a democracy not a dictatorship, so if the time taken is not as quick as most people might want or expect, there is legal process dictated, that has to run its course.
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@Pacha…,
What do you people want? Anarchy? In any society there will be people who do not agree with you. Why do you adopt the attitude that those who do not agree with your solutions are “house niggers”. Don’t their opinions have any weight? Don’t other persons, whose ethnicity is different have the same rights and legal recourse, if they feel that they have been wronged? Why do people like you feel that you have all the rights to action based on your opinions?
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@Pacha, and his ilk,
The proposed Anaerobic digestion of waste; first proposed, at the height of the anti-Cahill rants last year by Kammie Holder, the Future Centre Trust and Professor Connaught, is as much (or more) a scam as the proposed Cahill project. At that time I pointed out that there were big players behind the objections to the Cahill alternative. I have been proven right since then. Mark my words. Whatever happens an alternative to land fills has to be found.
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@Frustrated businessman.
Your words:”the chief town planner is a genuinely incompetent, corrupt narcissist.”
I suspect that you are someone in the mode of Mark Maloney , and others like him, who want to have their own way, and like so many in this severely indisciplined society, do not wish to adhere to rules and regulations. And resort to epithets and claims of corruption and incompetence to denigrate these people.I refuse to do this and get off without being challenged. We need men like the Chief Town planner to keep you in line, otherwise this entire society would fall into the type of society that you would like, to the detriment of the majority. I wish he would be more active and keep you more frustrated. If you feel frustrated, go to Australia or NewZealand, or even Alaska. In other words get as far away from us as possible. People like you, Peter Boos, Chris McBride, Prodigal son, etc.
Damn nuisances.
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@ Alvin Cummings
We presented Peter Boos to you.
Why not, if your are not a house nigger, make contact with his diagnosis?
Would it not concern you that when massa Boos makes a determination that your colleagues are not to march in line.
Bajans have no minds of their own, as you described. People everywhere could always be brought to think and behave in ways anathema to self interests.
So you basis assumption is flawed.
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Alvin
I found myself agreeing with you up until you included Prodigal Son.Leave Prodigal out of your short list.How come you don’t include Denis Lowe,Michael Lashley and Charles Leacock,a Guyanese who thinks he is a law unto himself.One thing of which I am certain.If Errol Barrow was alive,Leacock would not be DPP on account of his handling of the Philip Nicholls issue and now this issue of having Gibson on remand for 10 years before realizing that there was insufficient evidence.A big up lawyer didn’t cal him a canecutter from Guyana for nothing.
Alvin,our first order of business is to be rid of this DLP administration on account of failure in office.
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Alvin
The judge is making herself clear
https://shar.es/1JlugW
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Alvin…hypocrite, the chief town planner might be autnomous, but Fruendel held the town planning portfolio before he dropped that hot potato in Boyce’s lap 2 weeks ago, because of the Maloney scandal, Fruendel had to approve all building permissions…ya remember the Cahill scam, hypocrite.
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@GG very much certain that Maloney is very much capable of taking care of his problems and would rather not have govt interference in this fiasco which was well orchestrated by Mia
I am also very certain of his abilty to hire astute competent lawyers who can devlge into those grey areas of agreement between him and the TP which when revealed would have shown how the politics of deceit and diversion played a pivotol role in the orchestration and the attempt to divide the country
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Alvin…, is the chief town planner not related to you, in this instance I am definitely on his side.
Akvin.,.it’s blacks like you been enabling and supporting the Frustrateds, Bhanas, Adams, Maloneys, Bizzys Bjerkhams, Cows, Tempros and all the other corrupt minorites who believe themselves invincible and untouchable on the island, you also support the politicians when they give away tacpayer funded contracts to these people, effectively robbing small business people, you support the politicians when they take bribes from these same people and corrupt the island.
So what are you saying now Alvin, are you finally seeing the light and then local minorities for the blood sucking parasites that they are….tell your government to rid the island of them, stop making it easy for them to continue their nasty practices, stop enriching….tell them to stop taking bribes, tell them to enforce the existing legislation and bring new legislation to put a stop to the corruption and the disenfranchisement of the majority livjng on the island.
Then and only then will people have respect for them, until then they will continue to be seen as bribetakers only.
Ah glad to see ya tell off Frustrated…don’t know what game he is playing yet, but it will all come out in the wash…lol
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Court records would demonstrate Cummings’ competence one way or the other. I know of no case personally or anecdotally that he has ever won.
Is there no access to this data David to put this rhetorical argument to bed? The grandstanders really need to be educated as to how our snivel service really works, especially with regard to the impediments to progress in this country. People need to know why Barbados economy is at a standstill with little hope of restart.
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Anyone with the time can go to the Supreme Court’s website and search for the info.
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The Town Planning website is very informative.
http://www.townplanning.gov.bb/content.aspx?c=68
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This should make your research easier.
http://www.townplanning.gov.bb/content.aspx?c=15
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@ David
I cannot believe that people of Barbados would and could believe that a serial breaker of the planning laws, rules and regulations could be the VICTIM in a situation like this. Remember the context is that both Mark M and Mark C were friends at one stage but clearly Mark C was burnt by Mark M somewhere along the line and us unwilling, rightfully so, extend a favours to him anymore.
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In ten minutes I found four cases against Cummings and he lost all four. He may be more incompetent than my previous experience indicated.
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@Alvin Cummins
Let Bill Moyers speak.
You talk about anarchy, not as a political philosophy, but based on a recent distortion of its etymology.
The absence of what you called ‘anarchy’ results in stability for elites to run things. Anarchy, even your meaning of it, will always open up space for constant public intervention into our affairs. Like Switzerland, a capitalist county, no doubt. But a country where every public concern of value goes to referendum. By your misguided definition, as implied, this is anarchy too, no?
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@Past Zone
How do you respond to Donville Inniss’ vocalization on the news today that government departments must be enabling of the private sector. Of course he was not referring to the Maloney case to be heard.
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Frustrated Bizzy
How many decisions did the office of the CTP make for the years that make up the four cases he lost? You understand where I am going? If he rendered 2,000 decisions and lost 4 appeals then that’s a pretty good batting average partner.
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@ David
Government Departments don’t have to be enabling to private sector, that is total bull shite. The public service in Barbados have an obligation to discharge their responsibilities professionally, in a timely manner and without fear or favour to anyone, whether tall, short, fat, thin, cute, ugly, local, foreign, white, black, rich or poor.
Donville is a politician try to save his own head, he knows the DLP has no raft of policy initiatives on which to campaign during the upcoming elections so that leaves projects. They cannot get the projects done but they are clueless and incompetent.
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The house of cards may be falling ,but Maloney has kept a few aces in his pocket, alongside of the now panic stricken government ministers.
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About 15 companies…About 20 investors and over 1000 employees.
Start at 1.50 and hear the eloquent statement by an employee.
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Past Zone June 15, 2016 at 1:12 PM #
Frustrated Bizzy
How many decisions did the office of the CTP make for the years that make up the four cases he lost? You understand where I am going? If he rendered 2,000 decisions and lost 4 appeals then that’s a pretty good batting average partner.
Contested/defended four High Court cases, lost all four. 100% incompetent.
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@ Frustrated B
Any Black Bajan tasked with the job of holding the line against the albino-centric ‘movers of the earth to please’ businessmen of Barbados …for over ten years, ….and who ONLY lost 10 High Court cases must be doing a HELL-OF-A-JOB.
Judging by the bribery openly bragged of; the venom displayed when wunna don’t get wunna way; the childish bullying resorted to when opposed….
Shiite man … it is a wonder that some pissy, hand-to-mouth, politician has not yet already been bribed to have him removed from office…..
He must have something that Winton C did not have…..
Bushie is in Mark C’s corner…..
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Well Well,
For your information, Mr. Cummins, the Chief Town Planner is no relative of mine. So you can put your suspicions to rest.
You constantly portray things wrongly or lopsided. Government signed hundreds of contracts every year for all sorts of things, from sonatruction to procurements. I challenge you to compare what has been given to all businessmen, and tell me how it comes out. Don’t be anecdotal, be factual. Publish comparative figures, otherwise shut up
Frustrated …,
I suspected from long ago that your mouthing has been based on ignorance of how the Civil Service operates. Find out, before you come here again. Understand the process within any department from the Clerk who registers correspondence to the Permanent Secretary who advises the Minister or Parliamentary Secretary. Try and understand how things are dealt with at all levels. There is a process, educate yourself and don’t remain in ignorance.
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Bushy,
He has integrity, despite the slings and arrows he has to dodge. And there are a hell of a lot, male and female who fall in that category. It takes a hell of a lot of good people for this country to function as efficiently as it does, given the types of varmints we have to deal with in this country.
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@ Hants
Solidarity for Terrorists, lawbreakers, and loyal workers who are black, being told to go and stand out in the sun and make a plea on behalf of Baloney is disturbing and several levels.
I saw 1,000 niggers standing in the sun.
I saw 1,000 niggers being forced to enunciate a threat which says “we have 20 white investors, we have 15 companies, we have two illegal structures that we DEMAND TO BE BUILT. If wunna doan cave into my illegal demands, I GINE FIRE ALL THESE NIGGERS’
I saw one Kirk Smith who is the nigger spokesman AND who is assistant financial comptroller, Kirk Smith is not the Financial Controller. THat is more than likely a white man, or a bajan white.
I also saw this.
And I am going to ask you if you saw it too.
An investigative reporter, which Barbados Today is not, given the fact that they are supporting the Transhipment point, DID NOT ASK Kirk Smith or any of the other niggers these questions.
“If the structure is illegal, should your Boss Mark, and his 20 investors, and his 15 companies, be allowed to build there?”
OR
“Do you or any of the 1,000 of wunna niggers standing up heah in the sun know Abijah Holder?”
“Would you continue to work for Mark, if Mark, and his 20 investors, and his 15 companies killed your children with an illegal island in the middle of the ABC highway?”
Doan mind that they put Miss pretty Kaymar there to read the news, the fact is that it was a poor interview with 1,000 niggers in the sun supporting IDI Effing (noun) Amin in the skin of a bajan ecky becky called Baloney.
Slavery is alive and well, thank you for asking
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“I have also thought that the catalyst for change may have had something to do with two clearly upset posts by Bizzy Williams as a respondent to an article on BU”.
This is fairly crucial, since it goes to the author’s credibility.
Did you seriously think that Bizzy Williams posted on BU? What are you, twelve years old?
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Bush Tea June 15, 2016 at 2:30 PM #
These are who you continue to persecute.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/malawi-failing-protect-albino-community-amnesty-160607121919448.html
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Well Well
have you ever gone to the Town and Country Planning website to see how they function and what are their parameters? Have you any idea how they function, what their expertise is, how they obtained this experience and expertise?? Have you any idea of the structure? Have you ever had a conversation with anyone who works there?I’ll bet not, yet you wash your mouth on them and question their morals and competence.
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Pachamama,
Because Bill Moyers gives a definition that suits your purpose it is not gospel. This is the meaning of Anarchy:
Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy.
Society cannot function efficiently in a vacuum. Read animal Farm
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ac June 15, 2016 at 10:57 AM #
“@GG very much certain that Maloney is very much capable of taking care of his problems and would rather not have govt interference in this fiasco which was well orchestrated by Mia.”
You wrote that “this fiasco” “was well orchestrated by Mia Mottley.” Therefore, are you suggesting to BU that:
1) The ENFORCEMENT NOTICE issued to Maloney, in 2011 by the Chief Town Planner, to REMOVE the chattel house structure in the middle of the roundabout at Lears, St Michael, was AUTHORIZED by Mottley?
2) Officers, workmen and a demolition crew employed by the Town & Country Planning Department who, on June 11, 2016 at approximately 9am, went to remove the said structure were ACTING on INSTRUCTIONS from Mia Mottley?
3) Mia Mottley INSTRUCTED the Chief Town Planner to ORDER Rock Hard Cement to STOP building the cement storage facility because the necessary planning permission was not given?
4) Mia Mottley INSTRUCTED CTP Cummins to SUE Rock Hard Cement and Mark Maloney?
And I always thought that the T&CP was under the PM’s portfolio. Hence, according to you, the T&CPD is under the portfolio of the Opposition.
But you know a “fiasco” has two sides. As such, on the other hand, by your statement, you would have also implied that Maloney’s CONTINUAL ACTIONS of DEFIANCE were also “well orchestrated by Mia.”
Additionally, Mottley GAVE Maloney PERMISSION to CONTINUE building the storage facility, although the necessary planning permission was NOT given.
Prodigal is correct, Mia Mottley is living, RENT FREE, in your head.
Thine ignorance, as is your ugliness, knoweth no bounds, even in thine own eyes.
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Pieceuhderockyeahright June 15, 2016 at 2:52 PM
This is the Barbados’ version of the Human Shield, so effectively used by ISIS and other terrorists groups. What was in earlier times referred to as Cannon Fodder.
I wonder if any of Maloney workers had protested when this government laid off 3000 workers, some of whom are yet to receive some type of severance pay.
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Alvin – The Minister responsible for planning can give direction to determine any application he/she chooses. You should tell us how/why zero lot got approved at Coverley? Is it even lawful?
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Ya got ma bawlinnnnnn Pachy!!!!!!
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@ Pieceuhderockyeahright,
This just between you an me.
Bajans are some of the most docile people in this world.
Intelligent rich white people should stay away from “controversy”, and take advantage of the nice black people that love light people.
I hope the “spokesman” gets a big bonus for defending the master.
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It has to be made clear to one and all that this phenomenon called social media will break the back of the corrupt politician,their lackeys on Statutory Boards and the recalcitrant bribing class,aka the commercial arm of ‘those who wait also serve’.
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I’m surprised that BU did not find it necessary to comment further on George Goring’s contribution relative to Henley & Partners.
Interestingly, Henley and Partners has a Government Advisory Practice, through which governments are advised “on projects ranging from strategic consulting to the design, implementation and operation of investment related residence and citizenship programs.”
CBI programs designed by Henley were implemented in St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda and Grenada in 2007 and 2013 respectively.
According to Grenadian journalist and public relations specialist, Hamlet Mark, Henley and Partners is operated by a group of people who manages what is known as SLC. Mark said he has had opportunity to watch SLC “up close and personal” during election campaigning in St Kitts.
“What they are is a CAMPAIGN FINANCE-RAISING and ELECTION CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT outfit,” Mark claims. “I just have a sneaky feeling in my bones that this new proposed engagement in Grenada is not coincidental to the fact that general elections there are about a year away.” [Source: Caribbean News Now, March 9, 2012]
Seems to be very interesting times ahead.
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http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/06/15/knock-down-bussa-too-preconco/
The mentality of the house negroes, who refuses to get off their asses and create their own wealth….love sitting on their asses to depend on who they consider successful, until they get fired. The weakness of the black males.
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Alvin…get your glasses changed and read what I posted again, in your haste to contradict me, you did not read the post properly. Now your are defending without reading what was said,
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Piece..those are the same house negroes who would never stand up for the rights of their own people, nor their own rights, but will defend the illegal practices of Maloney who hates their black asses…..the weak mind of the black bajan male.
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Alvin Cummings:
Whereas we fundamentally disagree with your ideological disposition, a disposition which is rooted in the colour of law, we must say that there is nothing wrong with your terms if the people are the supreme.
Not your queen, and we don’t mean your mother. Not a governor general. Not a parliament. Not a cabinet. Not a PM. The people ALONE should be the supreme, every day of the week 365 days of the year……………..forever!
Not just once every five years.
If that is an hierarchy you like, we can live with that. However we fear that for you this represents an inversion of power relations. LOL
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Heather;
Another good article and some good points. But I’m still trying to understand why the Government took a C turn and decided to orchestrate a firm stand against Maloney and his companies. It is absolutely counterintuitive at this time.
What prompted the PM to delegate control of the TCPD to Darcy Boyce?
Remember it was stated that that move was to provide greater, smoother and more timely facilitation of Government – Private sector interactions. Why would the CTP implement serious action against Maloney’s companies right after that switch, in apparent total disregard for the remit his Minister had been given by the PM? Or was the action initiated earlier when the PM was still in charge?
As Enuff stated earlier ” The Minister responsible for planning can give direction to determine any application he/she chooses.”. The CTP cannot be a loose cannon. He must follow the direction of his MInister. A sensible CTP would demand that such direction be given in writing. Was he sensible in this matter?
It cannot be credible that the PM did not know of the actions that were about to come down from the TCPD when he effected the change in Ministerial responsibilities for the Department. It seems incredible that such actions were taken with seemingly unwonted speed after the change without the PM’s prior knowledge.
There is a big mystery here! Is it, as Artax and one other poster hinted, that the unprecedented action against Maloney is a resultant of advice and discussions with Henley and Partners’ Government Advisory Practice? Is there a large hint here that Elections might be imminent?
Could it be that Maloney’s several actions re. apparent non compliance with TCPO directives were seen as being a possible serious stalling point re. the Government retaining power and a strategy was designed to persuade the public that the Government was taking steps to rein him in.
Could it be that the action at the long stalled Lears roundabout was a message to both the electorate and to Maloney that the Government was serious about its actions. But was there also a subliminal message that If Maloney read the tea leaves correctly he would discern that the Hard Rock order was eminently likely to be overturned for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that, as Frustrated Business man has pointed out, the CTP has not won any of the 5 legal challenges brought against his orders.
Is it possible that Maloney has outmaneuvered the Government in the aspects of these matters that are really of overweening importance to him and his companies?
Why did the PM remove himself from direct involvement in the apparent chastisement of Maloney and placed a Minister who could not be penalised by the public in an election up front to do the job?
Could there be other deeper reasons behind the reports on these matters over the past few days?
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@Gabriel June 15, 2016 at 10:29 AM #
Alvin
I found myself agreeing with you up until you included Prodigal Son.Leave Prodigal out of your short list.
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Thanks Gabriel for defending my honour.
I do not respond to anything Alvin Cummins post. It is a waste of time.
At a public meeting after Harold Blackman resigned from his cabinet post and left the DLP, he said………”If I had served my God like I served the DLP, my seat in heaven would be secured”.
Alvin Cummins would do well to heed a felow dem’s advice.
This DLP government is the WORST government Barbados has ever had………..it is filled with wickedness, corruption, deceit and every negative adjective.
So the ac can go and sleep!
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Are We There…whatever the reasons you can be sure it reeks of bribery, corruption and continued disenfranchisement of the taxpayers by both government, Maloney and his ilk….nothing good will come out of this to benefit the taxpayers, the dirty practices and operations by all these players were designed to benefit them only…
Fruendel is playing slick, but I saw that on someone in NY gravestone…”Here Lies Slick”…lol
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@Pieceuhderockyeahright at 2:52 PM …I can understand your screed but do you not think you can extend it across the country.
These people have mortgages or other expenses of life to pay I suspect so in blindly supporting their employer they are being as ‘loyal’ as the many others across the nation who support the same type of acquiescence of ‘going along to get along’.
Aren’t the ‘blindly’ loyal civil servants in the DPP office for example who do the politicians dirty deeds not the same?
To go back historically. When the dark-skin Taylor was denied entrance to the light skin Taylor’s night-club was there a mass exodus of resignations at any of his (light skin Taylor) companies back then or did other companies stop doing bus with him…not as I recall. There essentially was muted support of his racist ethos by a business as usual attitude.
It is so absolutely facile to dismiss these folks as ‘house niggas’ and such pejoratives but how many people actually have the ‘wherewithal’ of integrity and a means of income to be able to tell their boss that he/she is a bigot or a law-breaker and I ‘fire dis wuk’?
It is the correct that it’s government’s responsibility to enable the private sector.in order to drive the economy.
It is also government’s responsibility to protect its citizens from unfair or unscrupulous practices and to enforce the laws of the land.
These things are expected to go together like rice and peas on a plate. You blend the enabling rice and protection peas to make a lovely meal. But no one can eat that meal if the plate is cracked and full or dangerous splinters now can one!
If Maloney had been controlled within the law from day one then either his deputy FC would have had to apply for a job somewhere else or the company would be already a decent and law-abiding corporate citizen.
Why cuss the employees who are at the bottom of this ladder of wrong-doing and are likely tasked to attend that public meeting as part of their employment???
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@ Enuff June 15, 2016 at 4:22 PM #
Alvin – The Minister responsible for planning can give direction to determine any application he/she chooses. You should tell us how/why zero lot got approved at Coverley? Is it even lawful?
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Enuff,
One has to wonder ………… a source with information from the Enviromental Protection Department told me that the EPD sited problems with the ventiliation of the houses and ordered that the windows be changed….the man still went ahead….he made no changes.
Who the hell is running this country? I wonder if any of the folks who voted for change in 2008 (not 2013, we all know how the dems won back)….I really wonder if they ever thought that these morons could have sunk to the depths of such depravity!
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Dribbler, Fumble has never manned his station as minister in charge of planning, he is completely useless in all functions thrust upon him.
The delays in his office were greater than in T&CPD. The handover of authority has been begged for seven years by everyone who depends on the system for progress, including cabinet members. The only person who ever benefited from Fumble’s uselessness as minister in charge of planning is Mark Cummings. In order for someone to pay for something it must otherwise be impossible to get for free.
The handover to Boyce (who likes to be perceived as the businessman of the DLP party) is a political move to get various projects in this country moving ahead of the next election.
You will now see a mad scramble to facilitate planning permissions followed by press reporting of great successes for private sector investment.
Maloney will lose the case for ignoring the stop order and pay the small fine. He will decimate Cummings with regard to the substantive matter: use-right for the site for cement processing and construction of the warehouse. The gov’t will bray the former and you will never hear about the latter three years from now.
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In reality Donville is being slick himself and slyly letting the electorate know that Fruendel, who held town planning portfolios up to 2 weeks ago, until he droppped it so the scandal would not stick to him, was incompetent and inefficient as the minister responsible for town planning permissions, the lengthy waits for permissions, the incompetence and inefficiencies….but who between the 2 of them, Donville or Fruendel is better than the other…..none.
They are all scamps looking out for themselves and facilitating the business people with the propensity to engage in criminality and any lawbreaking activities. The majority taxpayers never factor into those million dollar scams and bribes.
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So who is the Minister in charge of Town Planning ?, and don’t make me spring a leak by telling me Dennis Kellman
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And we are still waiting on the truth from the PM regarding the sacking of Ronald Jones as acting Prime Minister ,when necessary. At least Jack Warner has kept his mouth shut.
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@ Dribbler a.k.a De Word
“peradventure Lord they be only 20, wilt Thou destroy the city for 20?”
I notice that of late you seem to be making excuses for those who are wrong.
I am starting to be concerned, not because you are not an anarchist like de ole man who believes in stun grenades and claymores for the street gangs, but because your alternatives are becoming more and more pacifist
De Word, the salient fact here is that we, the 95% niggers on the island, have never empowered ourselves.
So the plight of the 1,000 workers who are at Baloney and Sir CALF’s Ape Hill Plantation whom you speak about, and mention their picknis and mortgages, are persons whom we have abandoned and simply given ourselves no viable alternatives.
If Robin Walcott, the racist one, was, post his overt racism, only patronised by whites, or Miss Ram was only patronised by injuns, or the Hardware place where dem push de black man face into the counter, found itself only serving 5% of the population then these incidents would NOT happen.
Because you and I scvunt, once we realised what was “the massah mentality” playing out across our cuntry BIM, would respond like them other niggas in Montgomery, and vow that we ent tekking bus at the hunkie/injun/syrian business place, till something as important as the island dat Baloney kill Abijah Holder with, get tek out of the road.
You seem of late to be “negotiating” peaceful interludes, mainly for everyone else outside of “the 20” and it is coming across as if, Robin and Ms. Ram and Sir Calf, though wrong, are the status quo, and, as such, “we should accept it as it is.”
I hope that i am wrong but if i am not, here is where I really going have to depart from you and that massah mentality. (Dribbler I thought it was only the black peeple from Englant who used tuh end up batty but it like it happening in canada too (hants and the rest uh wunna, my apologies but…)
My ting is like this.
Bertram Hall and Dave Hinds and Neville Rowe is black menses who doan re-label black food to poisin 95% of the population. And dem prices is de best fuh groceries pun de entire island.
I does only shop at dem niggers, 365 days a year, and wud encourage my nigger brethren to exercise our economic power, and only shop there too.
Any merchant dat dese menses endorse as being “niggers in de castle un my skin” and who they state that their goods and services “are kosher”, dem is de niggers dat i gine buy tiles from, electrical supplies from, doctor services from, lawyering services from, cut my lawn from.
Dis IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.
We reclaim what is ours using oour economic power and employing one rule – Equity.
If, and I say IF, dere is a injun, or a syrian, or a hunkie who lives by that rule, den we endorse him/her and include them in we business transactions BUT UNTIL DEN, WE GINE BUY BLACK
I ent care how big Baloney, A Fields, Sir Calf nor nun uh dem balls is, all de begging dat Sir Branford do fuh Miss Ram all like now the Arson Palace wud uh shut down 30 years ago.
I do hope that this doan mean I cyan visit you when I in Toronto but I hopes dat you feeling me
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@Pieces, LOLLL. Visit anytime my friend. Visit anytime.
As my dear blessed mother would say, I ain’t mekking nah excuses for a soul.
I too does patronize Berthram and Neville – before he left that big fancy place he had. Don’t get to Dave really.
But Pieces didn’t you make the clear point of my previous post when you said “If … was only patronised by injuns, or the Hardware place where dem push de black man face into the counter, found itself only serving 5% of the population then these incidents would NOT happen.”
The incidents do happen and continue. Because a lot of the 95% determine that they got to live so they will not spite their face and cut off their nose…apparently they can’t or do not believe they can. That is, they do not shift the economic power because their cousins and family working at those places too,
I don’t think any of them see it in sepia tones and certainly not in the black and white gradation of the 60s era you cited.
No sir, not making any excuses for a fella. It is what it is, reality based life. The life impact of the Maloneys is not make believe.
(incidentally, forgot about that fella Robin Walcott, interesting reference there. Correct me if I am wrong but was that his daughter who owned Water Front Cafe back in the day, right. I mention that only from the perspective that as times changed she appeared to be absolutely non-bigoted. But I could be wrong in re both the fam connection and my impression of her personality.)
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Heather Cole has her head so far up Mottley’s behind that all she san see is a lustful BLP wish for power at any cost. As far as Heather Cole is concerned, she turns a blind eye to the fractured piss poor opposition led by a demon with clear dictatorial tendencies and her only wish is for an election.
Heather, maybe you should check whose house of cards was really falling and you would understand the haste with which a loyal BLP member like Maria Agard was thrown overboard for doing essentially “speaking truth to Power”.
You are a hypocrite.
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There are so many young men out of work…let the government do it’s job and hire the young men to care for the roundabouts….why does everything the taxpayers fund have to go through corrupt businessmen like Maloney and Bizzy aided by corrupt ministers….it’s the same unemployed people elected the ministers…..deal directly with them…this nastiness by house niggas in parliament must stop….let’s hope the same Marshall and Mottley don’t return to do the same nasty practices…..it’s wired into their DNA coding….something is wrong with black people who attain certain status,…the first thing they look to do is sell out and enslave their own people to others.
If Marshall thinks I forgot his ass…just wait.
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And my analysis was correct…if the petty minded little shithound Maloney would pull up flowers because he cannot break the laws of the land….imagine 5 years from now when him and the corruption is fully embedded in the country and the corrupt ministers cannot say anything for fear Maloney would have them shot…that is what nasty corruption breeds.
And while Marshall and the politicians in his party are at it…they need to stop taking Simpson’s vehicles in bribes in return for his decades old hold on the transoort board contracts with those badly maintained buses that are always in accidents and breaking down…get rid of Simpson…, and while ya at it get rid of that dangerous criminal Peter Harris, another parasite on the island that has maliciously ruined any equity in the taxpayer funded transport board, with all those liabilities….yall corrupt government ministers and politicians created these dangerous monsters because ya greedy, hand to mouth and have no loyalty to the taxpayers….ya treacherous and treasonous. .., get rid of the blights for business people out of the taxpayer owned entities.
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Dale Marshal is one of the many Bajan politicians who thinks we are all here to serve him, rather than the opposite.
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Amazing how some people have actually deluded themselves into believing that bringing back Mottley, Dale Marshall and their cronies will somehow bring greater transparency in government. It would be funny if it were not so pathetic.
They would not listen to Owen and Maria. Mottley is not the solution and they know it.
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@Bajanfuhlife
What are the options?
If yuh lick yuh lock up!
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@ David [BU]
THat is the sad thing about this.
@ today we seem to have no real choices
So even as i post this poster, I say but hold on a second what are these other “Covenant of Hope” criminals doing?
Not Jack Sh8#
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Piece….look at the bright side, Maloney and Harris are angry enough at the ministers and politicians whom they bribe and own….they want to control the island badly enough that they may actually do the people a favor and literally get rid of the blights in parliament themselves…then it’s just to get rid of Maloney, Harris et al before they could do any further damage to the people, island and reputation.
The ministers seem not to be taking seriously enough the threat Maloney, Harris, Bizzy, Cow, Bjerkham and Tempro poses to the island because of their greed toward and hatred for the majority people, you do not take that threat lightly at anytime, it is a threat to your national security.
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So here they now are talking about “ducks guts” afraid like hell for the same Maloneys and Bizzys they spent decades enriching with taxpayers money. With their limited vision it never occured to them that after being given all that wealth for doing little, the Bizzys and Maloneys now see them as nuisances, obstructions to what they really want noe that they are wealthy, sucked the island dry and want the politicians all gone…they show little respect to the prime minister,, he cant even call his nation a black nation without Bizzy jumping down his throat and telling him he is a liar, that’s not true, they have no respect for the laws of the land, the courts of the judges…they just want them all gone so they can control the economy and do as they like to the people…without interference.
That’s the legacy these dummies for politicians of DBLP left, that is what they will be remembered for….that’s the monsters they created, now let them get rid of them all on their own.
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@ David June 15, 2016 at 6:22 AM #
@George Goring
Expand on the Henley & Partners for the BU family.
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George Goring June 15, 2016 at 6:30 AM #
@David
I will leave that for you to do but safe to say that (1) proposal to fingerprint ID persons entering Barbados including citizens and (2) improve the security features of the new Barbadian passport is not coincidental.
Barbados could soon join the likes of Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St.Kitts & Nevis and St. Lucia in swelling the ranks of its citizens.
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David, I wanted to find out more on this Henley thing…..here is a small piece below………….I found out today from some sources that instructions have been given to Electoral to revive the controversial all purpose ID card deal. We therefore can join the dots up!
Interesting!
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Henley & Partners advises clients on how to acquire alternative residence in terms of taxation, business environment, the possibility of acquiring citizenship, and quality of life, through residence and citizenship-by-investment programs.[14][15] The firm offers residence programs in 14 countries; Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Jersey, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the US.[14][16][17]
Only eight countries offer citizenship-by-investment programs that provide a direct route to citizenship based on investment and which have passed Henley & Partners’ country due diligence.[18] These countries are Austria, Antigua and Barbuda, Cyprus, Dominica, Grenada,Malta, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts and Nevis. The citizenship-by-investment programs of Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Malta have been designed by Henley & Partners under relevant Government mandates.[19][20][21][22]
The benefits of acquiring alternative citizenship include visa-free travel, mobility, and security.[3][23][24]
Henley & Partners has also advised governments on projects ranging from strategic consulting to the design, implementation and operation of investment-related residence and citizenship programs.[25][26]
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@ Prodigal Son
Here is a comment from a Reuters article which remarked about the services of the said Henley and partners and its Pan Caribbean operations
“”I am not a fan of the economic citizenship program,” says Crispin Gregoire, Dominica’s former ambassador to the United Nations.
Gregoire says he wants greater transparency and better screening in the citizenship process.
“As it stands, it encourages people with something to hide. I understand that it must be a big source of income for the state, but they’re not doing a good job of regulating it.”
Now Prodigal, given the due diligence competencies and capacities of the Government of Barbados with Me Claire who you and the del Maestro Renewable energy fellows, do you really think that this Citizen by Investment initiative is going to result in anything honourable given our track record to date?
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Piece,..they will attract the world’s worst criminals, they may even get some from Interpol and FBIs Ten Most Wanted Lists….between the dishonest lawyers and disloyal treasonous politicians who lack any spine, ethic or morals…they have reduced the island’s reputation to tatters.
I am sure their Canadian business partner in Cahill scam is giving the government ministers and crooked business people on the island…. rave reviews across the globe.
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