No Mr. Prime Minister
Submitted by William Skinner
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart
Our Prime Minister, Mr.Freundel Stuart has now determined that technology is partially to blame for declining standards. Many of the issues we now confront began to surface in the mid-seventies. When the gangs first appeared, they were dismissed as “wayward youth”; after we ignored the agriculture sector for nearly forty years, we were then advised to make kitchen gardens and when the cracks started to manifest themselves in the school system, we opened so-called “Centers” with little or no format or known purpose.
When it was obvious that the drug culture was taking root and a drastic well planned approach was needed, the then top law enforcement officer announced his hands were tied. This led to a mammoth Crop Over hit by the Red Plastic bag. Problems at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, we blame nurses; problems at the school plant we blame teachers and problems with garbage disposal we blame sanitation workers.
Of course all the problems related to productivity are blamed on the workers. We never critique the corporate culture that is set by management. We complain daily about our youth but ignore those who are gallantly setting up businesses, involved in the arts and are trying their best to find themselves in a society that offers little or no assistance to our young entrepreneurs.
What we are failing to admit is the woeful lack of any visionary national policy and our perpetual belief that we can complain and hope for the return of a Barbados that is really gone forever. We look around and are convinced that all the changes in the entire world are temporary. We believe that one of these mornings, we will wake up and be put in a time capsule that will land us in an idyllic Barbados with quaint little villages, where the poor are expected only to be: poor, peaceful and polite.
It is not technology, it is a deepening poverty that can no longer be ignored; it is a stagnant political culture inherent in our two major political parties and an education system that to all intents and purposes, can no longer produce the kind of citizen needed to carry us for another fifty years.
Mr. Prime Minister, technology is not the problem. We can throw all the computers, cell phones and other gadgets in the Careenage and such an act will not solve any of our problems. It is not that simple, Sir.
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The dude is so backward, that it would never enter his mind that 1000 techies operating anywhere in the world, would go a long way in helping his foreign exchange problem…….add an additional 1000 techies per year and foreign exchange would hardly be a problem.
………where the leaders have no vision….the people perish.
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“Mr. Prime Minister, technology is not the problem.”
It’s actually Fruendel that is the problem, his useless ministers are the problem, the self-absorbed and greedy politicians are the problem.
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Technology is part of the solution. Train the youth in technology and export them.
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Technology is defined in many ways.
It is not only about software and hardware but also about how decisions are made to create value.
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up to the time of becoming PM the man could not understand the use of a washing machine, so he continued to wash in a tub, how do you expect him to know the value of technology?
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Bushie would have to see where the PM said that “technology is partially to blame for declining standards.”
Not even Froon would sink to such levels of nonsense…. AC perhaps…!!
“Technology” is nothing more that the practical results of societal advancements.
When water was piped into cities … that was technology
When the Steam engine drove the industrial revolution….. technology
When computers facilitated the communication age …. technology
Indeed, technology normally reflects IMPROVING standards….
Perhaps Froon is confused by the phenomenon faced his set of prehistoric donkeys, finding themselves with the challenges presented by modern technology – after being elected to office when another set of monkeys could not keep their hands out of the cookie jar.
Technology will always be confounding to brass bowl donkeys.
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Technology the problem?
The establishment wants to send Barbadians back to history before 1800. Plantations without technology, but human work.
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Someone was telling me that Edmund Hinkson exposed the fact that since 2012 there has been a Prevention of Corruption Act passed through both houses of parliament, but Fruendel and his gang refuse to take it to the GG to be signed, so it does not currently stand as law in Barbados….this is 2016 and they do not want to see anticorruption legislation passed, it’s under their control and they refuse to act.
What does Fruendel and his ministers do for the people’s money….how are they justifying their salaries, their existence in parliament. .., how will they get the country out of it’s huge deficit, when simple matters to help the island’s growth….eludes them.
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Frundel will expect to get peerage, appointment as ambassador in London, badges, land in a gated community, a new Mercedes, his face on a new banknote, a bank holiday named after him and a statute as national hero next to Bussa – if he does not win next election. Or better, first president of the Banana Republic of Barbados.
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It’s not technology,it’s lack of leadership right at the top where Freundel Stuart sits.This PM is notorious for not speaking to his cabinet,is notorious for avoiding decisions by fanning out his ministerial portfolio to others,is known as one who doesn’t lose any sleep over anything,is known as the one who is not a person possessed of interpersonal and interactive skills,appears ill at ease among people.Prime ministership calls for a trailblazer approach to governance.Until Barbados finds a PM with an insatiable appetite for success and surrounds him/her self with talented servants of the people and talented advisers,there will be no progress.
There will be no progress with the Fumbles fools like Kellman,Brathwaite,Sinckler,Blackett,2 Lashleys,Jones,Inniss,Lowe,,Quisling Boyce,Todd,Byer,Carrington and Ince.
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Tron, please identify the establishment, and where are the plantations ,
BushTea, AC made of steam engine technology,
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WW&C after all you idea of great technology is having a sickening demented interest in the personnel lifestyle of individuals
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now here is something to think about
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@ AC 8;35 PM
…that what Bushie has been trying to tell you about Froon….
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@Watchman
establishment = those working against the common good and into their own pockets
(modern) plantation = every place where people are deprived of their assets and punished for seeking economic freedom
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Trump is a democratic mole. Imagine, Peter Harris running for BLP as PM candidate. Frundel would win again.
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In the words of Rodrigo Duterte aka Dirty Harry of the Phillipines “THERE’S NO CURE FOR STUPIDITY AND INCOMPETENCE.” Maybe he can help out Barbados starting with the head.
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Bush Tea August 26, 2016 at 7:44 PM #
Bushie would have to see where the PM said that “technology is partially to blame for declining standards.
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Why are we so surprised about the PM’s latest utterances. Isn’t he the same man who chided Bajans for complaining ,when they are fortunate to have ‘Electrified homes, running water , and wall houses?”
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Barbadians expect too much of politicians.
An election is a popularity contest. The winners are not likely to be the best or the brightest and we cannot expect them to solve most of our problems
Most of the problems at the QEH really are the fault of the nurses and doctors who work there. Most of the problems in schools really are the fault of the principals and the teachers, although some students share the blame.
Why blame a failing agricultural sector on the government? It isn’t as if Trinidad or Jamaica or Puerto Rico have a lot of successful farmers. Did Owen Arthur succeed reviving sugar or linking chicken and vegetable producers to the hotel industry?
Most governments only get a few things right. In this country, people can’t even agree on the merits of a new hotel project.
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William
You said:
“Mr. Prime Minister, technology is not the problem. We can throw all the computers, cell phones and other gadgets in the Careenage and such an act will not solve any of our problems. It is not that simple, Sir”.
But do you know how many of our problems would be solved if he and a few of his colleagues were thrown into the Careenage?
I do not know the number but it is likely to be significant.
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@chad99999
If it is the people´s fault, why do Barbadian citizens get a mortgage for 4,9 % whereas the government pays 10,0 % at Credit Suisse? Answer: The banks trust the citizens more than their leaders. Not to forget the large amount of private savings, whereas the government lacks any financial buffer.
In other words, if the government would do as good as its citizens, Bim would thrive. In fact, the country would do better without any bloated government. As Thatcher said: “There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.” The Barbadian state (government plus administration plus judiciary) has failed, not the civil society.
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@ Chad99999
Boss … are you over 18?
You fairly bright …but you like you only recently exited the womb yuh….
Throughout history, the fortunes of nations have been directly tied to the quality of their leaders.
If it is a ‘popularity contest’ here, then there may be too many brass bowls around who think that success is a birthright – even if we do a lotta shiite.
…and there are DEFINITELY too many jackass politicians looking for a free ride …while knowing full well that they could not lead a piss-off at a brewery….
The ONLY thing worse are church leaders ….who take on the ULTIMATE responsibility of teaching the REAL PURPOSE of life – when they don’t have a clue themselves …and are only looking for a free tax-free ride through life….
Bushie would not want to be in THEIR shoes when THAT day comes…. shiite!!!
@ Colonel Buggy
…..Isn’t he the same man who chided Bajans for complaining ,when they are fortunate to have ‘Electrified homes, running water , and wall houses?”
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He can’t mean stinking Bushie…
He probably meant AC…
Truthfully..
Bushie wondered how she managed to get a wall house with water and current too…
LOL
ha ha ha
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ACs…if yall would stop pimping behind people’s personal business being displayed on Naked Departure to see if ya own dirty business is being exposed, you would not know it exists. ..
…..I do not read them, they hold no interest for me, cause I will not read my name there, but you are always glued to them, don’t you have anything better to do….
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THIS MISCREANT FOR AH JACKASS NEVER CEASE TO TO BE ONE OF THE MOST IGNORANT, INCOMPETENT, INEPT, LOWLIFETED B!TCH BASTARD I EVER COME ACCROSS, FROM THE TIME THIS ACCIDENT BECAME PM SO THEY SAY, WAS BLAMING EVERYTHING, EVERYONE OF DEM, BLAME BLAME BLAME……I WONDER WHERE DOES THIS FOOL LIVE… THIS STONE AGE B!TCH IS SO BACKWARDS THAT TECHNOLOGY IS TO BE BLAME FOR THE STATE OF THIS POOR==RAKEY COUNTRY THAT HE AN THE LIKE OF HIS GANG FAUCKUP, BUT FRUNDAL A.K.A BLACK MAMBA U AN UR BROOD OF VIPERS WILL ONE DAY BE NO MORE.
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“Imagine, Peter Harris running for BLP as PM candidate.”
Tron….has it not been said over and over that Harris is Mia’s advisor, only recently it was said that he got impatient and tried to create a party to take over from DBLP, that did not work out so well, so I don’t know if he is still directing Mia.
It is known that Harris prefers stay in the shadows like La Cucaracha and manage the politicians.
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ACs…the squatters in parliament are just as retarded as Trump…..wealth and prosperity is all in their minds.
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CAN ANYONE WANT MORE GARBAGE THAN WHAT IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY, SOLID WASTE, LIQUID WASTE, THE ONLY THING THAT IS RUNNING WELL FOR BARBADOS IS THE BILGE IN HENRY HAWLE’S HOUSE THAT SAY DEM RUNNING AH COUNTRY, I DON’T KNOW WHY ALL DEM DON’T GO FOR AH SWIM AT DE HOT POT AN DISSAPPEAR FOR EVER, DEM MAKE ERROL BARROW SHAME SHAME SHAME, DEM DLP NOW STANDS AS DE….DEMONIC LYING PARTY, SICK SICK NASTY SCUMBAGS
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Bush Tea August 26, 2016 at 11:17 PM #
Well opined……..you do get flashes of sense from time to time.
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the writers interpretation of the PM speech is off based contextually and misleading
here is an excerpt from the speech and how technological communication can create havoc and indifference to certain aspects of getting things done
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart yesterday bemoaned the lack of human interaction in private sector entities especially as Barbadians tried to conduct their daily business.
“When last have you tried to call your banker here is Barbados, on Broad Street or in Wildey, and somebody in Jamaica or Mexico is answering. When last have you tried to call LIME or FLOW, and I am not trying to exculpate Government departments either. When last have you tried to call one of them?
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@ AC
“When last have you tried to call your banker here is Barbados, on Broad Street or in Wildey, and somebody in Jamaica or Mexico is answering. When last have you tried to call LIME or FLOW, and I am not trying to exculpate Government departments either. When last have you tried to call one of them?”
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Is THAT what he said…?
Shiite woman, that is even worse.
Ask him who sold the bank to foreigners…
Ask him who sold Bartel to foreigners…
Who sold BL&P to foreigners
Who sold BS&T to Massy ; Who sold Almond : who sold the cement plant…
Who selling every shiite to the Chinese
Who handing out our money to Maloney /Jerkham /Bizzy?
Wuh if he and his shiitey ‘political class’ selling off all the National assets like the PARROs they are, …how the hell can Bajans have any choice but to take the shit being dished out…
The problem is not the technology …or even the new owners – it is the bunch of political jackasses selling everything like Parros at a firehouse sale….
…and who runs the Government departments to whom he refer …that are piss poor…?
Not stinking Fruendel…?
Steupsss…
Tell the Froon to go back to sleep do…. he like he even more stupid than Carl Moore…
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Good morning my Bu friends and frenemies. Our PM has exposed his marbles once again. If technology is the part of the decline of our society then let us try having a week without it.
Leff de car home and use a donkey cart if yuh cud find one or start walking
Turn off de phones cell and home
Turn off de lights and get some kerosene lamps yuh know wunna ent gine have TV
Get out wunna jukking boards and start jukking wunna clothes
Turn off de water and get some buckets and basins to wash wunna poonkanannies
Go and collect some firewood fuh wunna coal pots
Mek sure de latrines dig deep and that yuh got a good door pon dem
Close de airport and de deep water harbour. Open back de Careenage and Carlisle Bay and wait fuh de provisions to come in from over and away.
Now see how dis island will operate. I ent know bout wunna but I gine be using solar !
Technology has opened Barbados to the rest of the world for many Bajans. It has provided employment for many and has brought to the surface, many of the ills and secrets that have been plaguing our society. It has exposed people for who they are. Politicians cannot hide anymore and lie and deny that they lied. It has documented proof for the world to see who they are. Are you and your Cabinet afraid of the exposure? Well take my advice, get use to it! It is here to stay and learn to use it properly and using to look at porn!
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” It is here to stay and learn to use it properly and using to look at porn!” Correction “Stop using it to look at porn !”
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Lol……..asswad ACs…yall ain’t tired looking stupid, if Fruendel wanted to say that the companies in Barbados are allowing too many automated responses and not enough customer service interaction with humans…he should have just said so…..
…..with regards to government workers not answering taxpayer’s calls…it’s been happening for decsdes….where was Fruendel the Fraud all that time, I have never heard that he lived or worked outside of Barbados…..and as to the same dirty practices happening under his administration, he allows, condones and enables it by doing nothing about it, just like not instituting anticorruption legislation. ..to stop corruption…ya got it now.
Anyway, my response still holds, if Fruendel understood what technology was, he would be exporting tevhies by the thousands.
Lol…good one The Bushman….lol
ACs…stay off Naked Departure’s site reading and salivating at the salaciousness and exposure of other unfortunate people’s personal business and you will not be so obsessed.
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Someone just told me that the ACs are undercover lovers of Naked Departure. ..cannot stay off the people’s website….they said only hookers behave so…lol
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Anyway, my response still holds, if Fruendel understood what technology was, he would be exporting TECHIES by the thousands.
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/84858/inniss-raps-bank
Well isn’t this something.
Start exporting TECHIES and ya will have to do less pimping for tourists.
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Bush sh.it u of all people would dare expose your stupidty by asking…”is that what he(PM) say” after making earlier comments on the issue.
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http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/08/26/the-hefty-cost-of-corruption/
David…I have to post this article because it goes to the very heart of what you been fighting for 9 years….
……Christ, if David Simmons, bribee, could come out and publicly expose the corruption in the private and public sector…despite his lies that he has no proof…and now Peter Harris, briber.., can allow a whole editorial on bribery and corruption in Barbsdos to be posted in his online newspaper, despite both him amd David Simmons being 2 of the most corrupt souls in Barbados. ..despite the known fact that they too had a hand in destroying the judiciary with their corrupt practices….should this not tell Frundel and his Fools in parliament something.
We all know both Harris and Simmons would be more than happy to continue the bribery and corruption that has enriched them both under the BLP banner…but Fruendel and Co. should treat these exposures as a cry for help from both Peter Harris and David Simmons….that they both need help to stop practicing bribery and corruption.
Yall doubt me, read the article yourselves.
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WW&C are u embarrased to be outted as a daily contributor to the sleezy articles on ND attached to many of the issues which you comment on BU.
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“Our Prime Minister, Mr.Freundel Stuart has now determined that technology is partially to blame for declining standards”
Wunna onstan de meanin of de word PARTIALLY ?
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/partially
We all know that BAD PARENTING is PARTIALLY to blame for the bad behaviour of our children and “declining standards”
We all know that politicians are PARTIALLY to blame for declining standards.
ALL ah we Bajans are PARTIALLY to blame for declining standards.
In the words of the Malik…. All uh we fuh cup.
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When citizens get frustrated with politicians. Thankfully, this would never happen here….or could it? There is a limit beyond which sensible citizens no longer act sensibly!
Bolivia minister killed by protesting miners – http://www.bbc.com/news/world/latin_america
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/84845/inniss-world-bank-report-erroneous
Is this the same lying 2 faced Inniss who has been complaining since he got the business portfolio that it’s very difficult doing business in Barados, he never however, said for whom….certainly not for all the known local crooks, or Clare Cowan, or Del Mastros..or any criminal willing to hide their crimes….using the government ministers…
……Inniss can complain all he wants…people inside and outside of Barbados know what they know….they cannot unring that bell.
ACs..is that the best ya can come with, do you see me hiding to post to any blog anywhere, those who know me know where and when I post….ya gotta come better than that….some international blogs I post to will shock you…
…….are you worried yet, ah know Naked got yall worried well into the elections, then there is David Simmons talking and Peter Harris publishing…lol
More to come…don’t blink….blink amd ya will miss it.
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On another note, this is really good news.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37192328
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@ac,
Thanks for your response. I looked at the myriad problems we have faced and tried to show that we always try to blame them on somebody or something rather than seek solutions and to stop denying they exist. For example my reference to the kitchen gardens was really in response to Arthur calling on us to have kitchen gardens almost at the end of his term; the reference to “wayward youth” applied to then DLP Attorney General Maurice King; the reference to the top law enforcement saying his “hands tied, was about former Police Chief, Orville Durant; the example of opening so called “centers” was meant for former DLP Education Minister,Louis Tull, who unilaterally(without any discussion with the BUT) placed academically challenged children in so called “Vocational Centers”. These centers became mammoth headaches for teachers because of student violence etc. Stuart’s position on technology is a red herring and consistent with his feeble attempts to escape responsibility for his administration’s failures. It is consistent with the BLPDLP approach to governance over the last forty or so years.
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The consensus on BU is that we need a new type of governance for fear that our proud Nation becomes a bannana republic…….question is how do we get there…..will we get it next election…….will the new mode of governance be put to the electorate prior to the next election for ratification?
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Reading some of the comments on here really makes you wonder what exactly some of us are representing. AC, as stupid and ignorant as you are in your support of things DLP, you of all people know fully well that your PM has proven on more than one occasion that his ability to be fluent in speech and articulate in words, does nothing to hide the fact that it all adds up to a bunch of shite talks, most of the time.
The only time that he made a statement that was spot on and, an accurate summation of things happening, was when he had to tell that BLP fraud William Duguid the truth about his return to the Barbados Labour Party. Other than that, the PM is a self-absorb narcist, whose pretense knows no bounds.
As bright as he tries to make himself out to be, blaming technology instead of recognizing the problem we have with those who abuse it, misuse it, and do not understand the importance of its functions, shows clearly why Barbados is far behind in the age of rapid development; why our paranoid remains strongly intact; why our people despite the big boast about 99.9% literacy behaves like illiterates; why our people remain highly indiscipline; why our development remains staggered; why our customer service is predominantly piss poor; and why our political leaders fall vastly short of a passing grade of service excellence.
The PM’s speech is an indicator as to why efficiency in ministries and departments remains substandard, and why the ease of doing business in Barbados is not so easy.
This the age of instantly. And instantly is happening because of technology. How can you blame the tool for behaviours come forth from various perosn when in the right hands it is known to improve the quality life?
Deal with the real issue Mr. Prime Minister. Time to look at improving the quality of life for the people you govern instead of talking a bunch of shite all the time.
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Mr. Skinner i understand your approach hence your commentary to the continuning social problems that have become part and parcel of our island. However although the article had correctly placed exactly where some of these problems can be rooted it also gave the impression in a false and misleading way that the PM rather blamed technology for such problems which is not true. The PM statement in its full entirety tackles and zooms in on the narrow mindness of peoples attitudes and behaviours borne out of the lack of people to people communication served instead by voice over machines or recordings.
The PM also spoke about the necessity for society to get more involved and concern about each others problems in tackling social problems
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Both David Simmons and Peter Harris are unconsciously giving the fools in parliament an opportunity to change the way things are done on the island, change the laws re bribery and corruption, institute integrity legislation, do the right things…..
Simmons may be telling them that though he has the proof of corruption, he is not willing to use it…we all know he lied when he said he had no proof..,.if Fruendel and his Fools had any vision, they would make the necessary changes.
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I am confused. Wasn’t it Froon’s Minister of ‘Edication’ that gave the school children permission to take to school cell phones, tablets etc. much to the consternation of the majority of the teachers. Do these people in this party talk – and if he is so opposed to the technology balls up and deal with it. Cheeze
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Simple. Technology across all of government will mean that cases can be dealt with in a fraction of the time it takes at present.
For example, the land tax department and the land register can and should be using the same computer records, with access according to need.
The present pile of outdated paper records allow for corruption, delay, lost and all other kinds of problems.
The efficiency improvements that will come from technology will pay for the technology over a couple years.
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@ Hal Austin,
“The present pile of outdated paper records allow for corruption, delay, lost and all other kinds of problems.
The efficiency improvements that will come from technology will pay for the technology over a couple years.”
You are absolutely correct. We are under the impression that technology will lead to loss of jobs. Quite the opposite: technology pays for itself and creates jobs. The failure to reform the education system is at the root of our social and economic problems. We are drinking the same soup after we “warm it over’. The BLPDLP must first admit that they refused to get on the information idea with the old fashion mantra that if ain’t broke ,don’t fix it. Well, while it was not broken it was basically useless and outdated. In car terms , we driving a system that burning up gas at 15 miles per gallon while everybody else getting 40 miles per gallon. But in our way of thinking the old car still working.
Your point about breeding corruption by refusing to change is absolutely brilliant.
@ ac,
I think we should agree to disagree but I respect your position.
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should be “information highway” not idea. thanks
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Not to mention a direct access via computer connection of the birth records registry to other departmnts i.e. ID card registration dept etc so that bajans do not have to travel miles to get a birth certificate and can have someone pick up documents without jumping through unnecessary hoops.
Upgrade the technology to reflect the times.
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Years ago a parent spoke to Ronald Jones about a student who was studying a particular discipline at a top University in North America.. he had never heard of it before, cause he had to ask “what is that?
Jones did not take it seriousy, suffice it to say that student is maybe only 1of 2 from the Caribbean with that particular specialty in great demand worldwide and who is more than capable of generating foreign exchange for the island….the ministers are not ready yet.
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@Mr.Skinner….agree
Lest you forget the truthfulness of a story lies in its accuracy which goes beyond ones intrepretation
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You guys just don’t get it. It serves the interest of the political class to have an inefficient public service in these islands. Padding the public service has been how both political parties reward their supporters. You think they don’t know the textbook solutions suggested here? This is about the paramountcy of the party over national objectives. The question will always be – how to hold the political class accountable with a relevant governance system.
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Caswell Franklyn August 26, 2016 at 10:43 PM #
But do you know how many of our problems would be solved if he and a few of his colleagues were thrown into the Careenage?
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And each outfitted with a pair of Rock Hard concrete shoes.
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“We are under the impression that technology will lead to loss of jobs. Quite the opposite: technology pays for itself and creates jobs.”
But that might be changing as we speak:
Terminal Economy: “Private Sector Will NEVER Recover…This Time, They’re Replacing Humans Altogether”
Do you feel something is wrong with the United States and the global economy? Despite a respectable recovery and low unemployment, many people aren’t happy with their current economic situation or their outlook for the future. From rising prices for basic necessities or schooling, to harsh competition and low pay for lower income jobs to negative interest rates—the poor and the middle class all have their problems to deal with.
SNIP
Enter Viktor Shvets, the global strategist of the investment bank Macquarie Group…
“The private sector will never recover, it will never multiply money again,” he told Epoch Times in an interview. His main theme is the “declining return on humans,” which means that in today’s digital world, normal humans don’t grow productivity fast enough to justify more jobs and higher wages as the machines are taking over.
“There is no productivity on a global basis. Secular stagnation, technological shifts, monetary policy, all are suppressing productivity growth rates,” he says. But what about technology making humans more productive? Shvets says this was true in the first and second industrial revolution where displaced jobs such as horse-cart drivers eventually morphed into higher tech and higher productivity ones like the taxi driver.
However, in this, the third industrial revolution, machines are not augmenting humans, they are replacing them. The self-driving car will completely eliminate the driver.
More at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/terminal-economy-private-sector-will-never-recover-this-time-theyre-replacing-humans-altogether_082016
(And see the other links at the bottom of the article like this one: Billionaire: “We Are Destroying the Middle Class. That’s What Keeps Me Awake at Night.”)
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Master Jeptor Ince said today Bim economy has turned around.
He must be right since he is a senator and a parliamentary secretary, an expert with lots of credibility and authority. Who could be more trustworthy than a senator? Surely, all the downgrades, potholes in the streets, all the capital flight, all the new taxes and all the shootings are a foreign conspiracy against the good politicians who punch above their weight.
And earth is flat like a plate.
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@c Green Monkey,
You are correct , in that the there is considerable debate about the fact that technology is replacing people. However, there is also the fact that countries that do not adapt will literally destroy future generations. The robots cannot create themselves and the programs needed have need for human intelligence.
Can you imagine that our Prime Minister was in the papers heralding a seventeen or eighteen year old student, who had built a cricketer from bottle stoppers or covers. Is that really a serious achievement? We all used to make tin trucks and build lampshades from “polar” sticks 60 plus years ago! We should be parading students who have created programs /codes for computers. We should be highlighting citizens who are coming up with creative ways of feeding the population or creating robots to deal with sargassum.
What are we going to highlight next: Somebody who finally works out that horse waste can be used as garden manure if he or she uses gloves instead of a shovel?
Absurd leadership inevitably breeds absurd solutions; visionless leadership leads to stagnated societies. Those who fail to govern, govern to fail.
Lets call a spade a spade; until there is progressive leadership they will be no progress.
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sd read “there ” will be no progress not they. thanks.
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“We should be parading students who have created programs /codes for computers.”
Thst is the mistake being made on the island…Barbados is 15 to 25 years behind in this area.
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Does anyone care to indicate where and when the statement under analysis was made? Not a hyperlink even?
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Tron@1.17p
Dr Troy Lorde provides a more enlightened opinion of the IMF overview of the economy.To be sure we are still -0.6 negative growth when compared to ’08.
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/08/27/no-comfort-2/
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@ Jeff Cumberbatch August 27, 2016 at 5:25 PM #
Does anyone care to indicate where and when the statement under analysis was made? Not a hyperlink even?
Page 4, Tuesday,July 26,2016-Daily Nation Caption: Stuart Too much tech
Hope this helps.
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/83635/stuart-tech
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/84904/investors-day
Cow & Bizzy Williams, their partner Pemberton and the 4 Seasons scam to rob bajan taxpayers and the NIS funds.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/84900/hyatt-ahead-pm
The scam with the same players involved has moved up to the Hyatt project.
Fruedel Stuart cannot slither out of this one or use stealth to deceive the taxpayers again, he gotta come clean, one way or the other.
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I’m not a big fan of mistakes. That might surprise the people who know me best since they also know I make a lot of them.
I make a lot of mistakes because I make a lot of decisions. Mine are mistakes of action and they can be fixed, usually with just a small adjustment. Often, people don’t even realize I made the mistake at all.
Some people believe they can avoid mistakes by not making decisions. They fact is, not making a decision is a decision, it’s a decision to do nothing and it’s almost always the wrong decision. Deciding to do nothing is a huge mistake, it’s a mistake of inaction and it’s often much harder to fix than a mistake of action.
The most successful leaders make a decision the moment that they have the facts required to make it. They make good decisions because they have made a lot of them and they learned as much from the bad ones as they did the good ones.
I get asked from time to time about the best way to help young leaders learn to make decisions. My answer is nearly always the same – let them make decisions!
No one can learn how to make good decisions just by watching someone else do it. If you’re a leader hoping to build future leaders then you need to let your people make decisions. Even some bad ones!
Get out of the way and let them decide. Let them be wrong and let them fix their mistakes. Let them learn from THEIR experience and allow them to build self-confidence by doing… and redoing if that’s what it takes.
I’m not suggesting any leader stand by and let their people make decisions with potentially devastating consequences, but let them make small decisions and grow their way to bigger ones.
Lead by ensuring they find the lesson in every mistake they make and lead further by helping them develop a plan to make a better decision next time.
The ability to recover from a mistake or a poor decision can be a great encouragement to your younger leaders. Authentic Servant Leaders don’t use mistakes to criticize their people, they use them to coach and encourage their people.
It all comes down to this: as a leader, do you have a spirit of criticism or a spirt of encouragement? One forces compliance and one builds commitment.
One works and one doesn’t. Which one are you? (Credit: Steve Keating)
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If technology is the problem, then the PM should be given a cane bill and taken out to the canefields.The public and the private sectors are like a man and a woman scuffling in the road but when the police comes she bawls not to take him away.Probably to go home for a passionate make up foop.The private sector heads just as culpable to the same stupidity as the government when they are profiting massively by backward anachronistic exploitation of the taxpayers like with the shitty garbage trucks and buses.A real technological revolution will show up both sectors for what they are worth.Not one shite.Both too stupid to see that time is running out.
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Everybody expects Sinckler´s tax hammer.
Supermarkets overcrowded this weekend. Some people buying 100 roles of toilet paper.
Venezuela, we are coming!
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BU has stated over and over that for the smart approach to maximizing national productivity is for the public and private sector to see the goal as operating as ONE sector. The constant blame game and political play does no good for all involved.
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@David, a profound observation. Unfortunately we are stuck with the most selfish Prime Minister the country has ever known who trades insults to those who criticize his leadership style. Some yardfowl or yardchicken will cackle but both political parties have become irrelevant under the Westminister system.
The deceit of the two political parties could not be more evident that the passing of the Anti Corruption Bill in November 2012 prior to the 2013 elections which remains unproclaimed in 2016. Suprisingly the only BLP candiadte speaking to this deceit is Edmund Hinkson. Elections in 2018 or when next called will most likely see a lot of spoilt votes as a means of protest.
#ANewWay
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@Kammie
Let us see what Motley has to say to Barbadians at the BLP’s Conference in October.
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Tom Adams #Machiavellian
Errol Barrow #Manipulative
Bernard St John #Insouciant
Erskine Sandiford #Stubborn
Owen Arthur #Spiteful
David Thompson #Cunning
Freundel Stuart #Selfish
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Its interesting its a blame game which plays out so well in the public.The government says we have a problem.The private sector says you are the problem.The government then says oh well then show us how to solve the problem.The private sector says with your help of course.The public asks whats going on , the private sector and the government shouts cant you see we are solving the problem???We are ceremoniously hushed and the same crap continues.Waiting ceremoniously on the government and the private sector plantation conglomerate solve anything is long past People have to stop taking these nincompoops seriously.
The purported concept of national productivity is flawed because the status quo remains intact with just enough levels of productivity with massive government subsidy with the promise of jobs for the people.That is what killed the sugar industry and they blame the workers.Now that is happening with the tourist industry with this doggedy pursuit of the failing high end product, again to blame the workers.
Time is running out and as Barbados Underground is a media outlet within the traditional media outlets with commentators pooling brain resources.There has to be a pooling of tangible resources away from the political directorate and their private sector cohorts to build a nation within a nation.I think there is enough legal capital to do so and if people cannot see the motivational capital to do so then we are doomed.
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We need doers and not just talkers. Critical Thinkers as well as persons who are totally results focused who will solve our problems with minimum collateral damage. The problem falls squarely at the feet of the Prime Minister
s feet as leader of the country who is just damn selfish to seek help from the NGOs and wider community.Square pegs in round holes must be replaced with round pegs for too many incompetences appointed to positions due to yardfowlism. Tired of hearing party supporters saying other party did the same, Barbados is bigger than their parties. #ANewWay
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Mr Holder, Mr King has taken upon himself to start this blog.I think we owe Mr King a huge debt to follow through on his idea and draw on that wellspring of boldness.We are too far gone to wait on Ministers and whoever in the status quo.To do is is akin to what an old man once told me, if the horse didn’t eat oats you cant expect it to shite out oats.We cant continue to expect reasonable actions from unreasonable people.A nation within a nation.
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For those of you with balls, have you ever gotten up to speak and one single hair got caught in your boxers?
I tell you what!!
It is not the most complimentary picture of your grimacing face that CBC Reporting Lies shows of you at 7.30 pm.
This UNESCO Designation is likened to Fumbles being held by all of them, at the same time and yanked.
Without a doubt, had it just been the beach matter then all of this would be over and Fumbles would have done signed the permission for Baloney.
But this UNESCO tingy, whuloss.
Looka dis!
“In 2013, the San Antonio Express-News reported on that very influence when the US National Park director explained to city leaders that a proposed 26-story hotel and time-share building on top of the Joske Building at the Alamo Plaza could jeopardize the pending designation.
Former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, now HUD czar, wanted that UN designation badly. He said, “No one on the council is going to do anything that jeopardizes the World Heritage site designation. They canned the lucrative hotel project.”
The positioning of a hotel in Bridgetown would be the hoteliers dream.
The immediacy of the Designation and the time requirement to build the Hyatt Centric brand are the things that are “being weighed” here by Fumbles.
Whether it was Fumbles or Mugabe neither, while the future tourism related benefits of the project are favourable can afford to risk the bird in the hand for the two in the bush…and now with the curlies being held right before election time, the pain alone going mek Fumbles got to let dis one pass.
Sorry Abundant Lane and Baloney, sometimes you win and sometimes you loose…
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Piece.,,,,.,Fruendel and Inniss want yanking hard, both at the same time….while sitting right next to each other.
Then ya got all these retards coming on here trying to justify the idiocy.
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Fumbles MUST get Maloney his permission, Fumbles ain’t got no choice in the matter. He owes the fact that he got PM in 2010 and re-elected in 2013 to the Great White Northern Cabal. They pull the strings and he moves accordingly.
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@ Recall
In any other matter I would be inclined to agree with you but this is an intricate matter.
Let me show you how it is by use of this plagiarism from the same Alamo article included for impact rather relevance
“The Harbinger report also estimated the UNESCO designation’s widespread potential economic impact felt across Bexar County by 2025, as low as $44 million to as high as $105 million. They predict 465 to 1,098 jobs will be added and anywhere between $0.8-2.2 million might be added in local hotel tax revenue.
In 2014, Reuters noted that the Alamo is the largest tourist attraction in Texas, attracting about 2.5 million visitors a year.”
What will be the recurring revenues of the Hyatt?
What % of those remain in Barbados?
How many people will it employ?
What will that mean in terms of wages and other contributions to employment?
What, if anything, will Barbados loose in terms of its overall visitor count, if we loose the UNESCO designation?
Which Prime Minister, wants to be remembered as “the PM who caused Barbados to be delisted by UNESCO?”
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ACs…I told yall before am done you will grunt, I have not even gotten statrted yet, brace ya selves and deal with it.
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“The positioning of a hotel in Bridgetown would be the hoteliers dream.”
Piece what Hoteliers dream??? Bridgetown is DYING if it isn’t DEAD as yet. Many large corporations are not located there so what kind of businessmen will this hotel be catering to??? The fake hair Salesmen?
Bridgetown needs a good scrubbing and a remodeling. Many of our old warehouses can be gentrified. The problem is that those who are in charge haven’t a clue and our maintenance record is piss poor. Look at the PM’s Office, it has been like that for the past 50 years with no improvement.
This island is like a piece of litmus paper floating on the water’s surface. Eventually the paper will become waterlogged and sink if we allow things to continue as they are. Take your pick SINK or SWIM? By the way many of wunna can’t even swim so wunna better learn to dog paddle real fast.
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Is about time I hear wunnuh talk bout alltwoboaf ah dese Labour Parties a waste of time and the yard fowls even wusser dan dat. But hear dis – the day Granville Phillips announce fuh de nex elections, I know wunnuh SAME said lickrish idjets gine lick wunnuh mout pon he head – and everybody associated with him tuh. Fickle doan even begin to describe wunnuh. Troot be told, chuppit doan even begin to describe wunnuh neidah.
Barbados nused to be THE MOST RESPECTED ISLAND IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN in education, manners, business and standard of living. In a short 30 years the poliTRICKS – liars and tiefs all ah dem, now lately controlled by a deaf and dumb half-asleep Chief Fumbling Jackass – turn we country into bare cow-poop shyte with rich rich politicians and poor poor people, mostly igrunt people from schoolteachers to schoolchrildren, and now the phones smarter than the people – just like wunnuh Gods and Goddesses in the NewEssEh cross de water dey y’all does beg tuh watch an foller like family pon de TV.
We country now $10 BILLION in debt. Once upon a time that could never have happened, dese days de elites does only talk bout eff dem should keep on printing we money or not. just like wunnuh Gods and Goddesses in the NewEssEh now $23 TRILLION in debt – and still printing money like um gine outta style.
So eff wunnuh doan see nuttn wrong bout hey and wunnuh doan see nuttn wrong bout dey neidah, den the real problem is wunnuh… and wunnuh does gots to be de wussest most igruntest greedy self-centered yard fowls anybody does never want tuh see.
So whuh yuh gunna gimme fuh Chrissmuss? Yuh better some up to standard!!
Look, wunnuh go and eat off some puddn’n’souse, hear. When devaluation come and all dem elites does emmygrate to ketch up wid all de millions dem did exporting to safe havens all dese years, is WUNNUH gine feel de pain, not dem.
But doan listen tuh my brassbowl idjet nonsense, I know I ent talkin bout nuttn dat y’all fowls does wants to hear.
I. Gone
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