Open Letter to the Prime Minister Re:Hyatt Hotel Project
August 31, 2016
The Honourable Freundel Stuart
Prime Minister of Barbados
Government Headquarters
Bay Street
Bridgetown
Barbados
THE PROPOSED BUILDING OF THE HYATT HOTEL
Dear Sir,
I write to inform you that members of the Barbados Lobby are standing in solidarity with Mr. David Comissiong in protesting the building of the Hyatt Hotel on Carlisle Bay, Bay Street, St. Michael.
The group is of the opinion that while there may be economic benefits to be derived from the building of a hotel at that locale, it will be at the horrific cost of disrupting the highly valued recreational space that the beach has become for the Barbadian public. In a densely populated Bridgetown, Carlisle Bay is one of the few remaining open places except for Queens Park and the Garrison Savannah where hundreds of people each week can freely gather for socialization, rest, vigorous exercise and recreation. We are of the strong conviction that the area should be turned into a window to the sea.
It must have taken considerable time and effort for Bridgetown to achieve its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is therefore confusing why Mr. Mark Maloney of Vision Developments did not see it fit to follow the guidelines that already exist, given the historic designation of the area.
One wonders how an increase in traffic congestion due to the location of the hotel on this site will be handled. This alone may be a primary reason why the hotel should not be built on this site. A more suitable location for this hotel should be sought.
Our concerns for the environment are grave. We do not know what effect the building a hotel of that proposed size will have on the environment since no Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been done. What we do know is that this beach is relatively new; leading some to speculate that it may not be wise to proceed without that assessment. We can also question what impact this will have on the coastline.
We are also concerned about the lack of transparency surrounding this project. Your manifesto promises to the people of Barbados regarding transparency are in danger of yet again not being honoured. We have been informed that to date, the people who live in the surrounding area where the proposed hotel is to be built have not been consulted.
We have been disappointed by the role played by the Minister of Industry and Commerce, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Tourism with regards to this matter. How could the Minister of Tourism participate in a signing ceremony for the building of this proposed hotel when no permission was given by the Town and Country Planning Department? To add insult to injury, we were lost for words when the Minister of Industry and Commerce and the Minister of Finance went into the people’s House of Parliament and lied to the entire population of Barbados that building permission had been granted. We can only expect that you will not take this lightly and that appropriate disciplinary action will be taken by you.
Each and every Barbadian is called to be “a strict guardian of our heritage” and a “craftsmen of our fate” on this little rock and must leave our island in the best possible position for future generations to have and enjoy. We must never be made to feel that we are trespassing in our own country.
We are therefore appealing to you to act in the best interest of Barbadians and deny building permission for the Hyatt Hotel at the proposed at Carlisle Bay location.
Sincerely,
Heather Cole
Barbados Underground 
@ Jeff on one hand this maybe one of the harshest periods that Barbados had ever faced. However, this is the best time in the history of Barbados that the people can demand good governance. Social Media especially the Barbados Underground has changed the political landscape. More information is available than before, groups have been formed. People are communicating and the traditional media is not the only source of the news.
Can we call in the UN to monitor the election process to ensure that it is free of fraud?
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“BARBADOS BUSINESS AUTHORITY learnt that the beachfront property known as “The Fairy Valley Project” is located in the Paragon/Long Beach area is being sold with planning permission for a major tourism development.
The sale proposal, which has been circulated here and overseas, stated: “We are pleased to announce the sale of The Fairy Valley Project, Paragon, Christ Church which is currently approved to have a 350 unit hotel/resort plus multiple villas. The gradual slope of the 32 acres of beachfront land can allow all units to have direct ocean views.”
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/84937/usd40-million-tourism-investment-offer
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I have just read a very disturbing editorial in today’s Nation. Some of you may be aware that the EU Commission has this week found Apple guilty of tax avoidance. They have been asked to pay $US$14.5 billion to the government of Ireland. Amazingly the government of Ireland has stated that they have no interest in receiving such a paltry sum of money from Google.
We in Barbados practise an economic model similar to Ireland in the false belief that foreign corporatons will bring an element of prosperity to our beleagured island without the risk of these organisations -such as Google – having to pay heavy taxes on their profits.
Who benefits from this economic model? It is certainly not the ordinary Bajan who continues to pay his taxes in an ever decreasing tax pool. We the people are the losers in this great scam.
Now let’s return to today’s editorial. Here are the three final paragraphs:
“Independence has given us our freedom to associate with any country which shares our interests, but as modern society becomes more complex we have to clearly identify our interests.
Our national development scholarships must identify areas of specific study, critical to our offshore sector so that we can challenge rulings and directives which, if left unanswered, can undermine our economic interests.
Our voice must be loudly heard in defence of our interests wherever and whenever those interests are in play.”
Next time you hear talk of another proposal to develop a hotel in Barbados just remember who is paying for it. That’s right it is you the ordinary Bajan citizen who resides in Barbados.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/85142/editorial-irish-worrying
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Exclaimer….. .the same goes for all the hotels they want to build..there are no guarantees the island will benefit, most off them run off and dont pay the employees NIS benefits or taxes..leaving decades of litigation behind….Kings Beach hotel comes to mind with the German dude Matheus who disapeared off the island…not the first time nor the last.
Some hotels dont even get off the ground, but the NIS loses, the taxpayers lose….read 4 Seasons scam…the same players for Hyatt.
Some people never learn, their heads are too frigging hard…they are the ones deserve to lose…..and suffer.
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@ Well Well & Consequences September 4, 2016 at 6:20 AM,
You see why the Negro Bajan is doomed to fail. It looks like the rest of them are still in bed after partying hard during the night. Have a good day. I gone.
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Explainer…I dont mind the partying if ya have the energy, but for christsake…use ya brain and think…thinking is free…or they may be waiting for the Bizzy, Maloney, Clare Cowan, Del Mastros types to charge them for thinking, just like they are going into the island in droves to charge them for the use of the sun….which is also free…lol..
I can never get over that one…lol
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Well Well & Consequences September 4, 2016 at 6:20 AM #
Some hotels dont even get off the ground, but the NIS loses, the taxpayers lose….read 4 Seasons scam…the same players for Hyatt.
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be more specfic <<Who are the “same players ” for Hyatt ? namely if you make a similar comparison to the hyatt project then you must know who these players are their association to other hotel projects in barbados
no one ever challenges your imputed and long winded version of events and u never have shown evidence of proof to back up what you say yet you are given wholesale permission to impute any one character in unsavory light
Therefore in the case of Hyatt a reputable and respectable Hotel brand it is in the best interest of those reading your comments that you be specified in your comment to verify your version of events
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Many of you are posting comments comments based on a partisan political biase and have no idea how decisions and influence on decision making is affecting the Hyatt and other transactions in Barbados. Unfortunately for the political directorate they have mamaguyed Bajans for so long that we who are starting to wakeup, this means a baby or too will be tossed out with the bathwater.
Practice transparency and good governance and it will facilitate a more constructive public debate.
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@Jeff
The operative word being “aim”..lol.
#David
That Dr.Laurie piece does not support the Hyatt as proposed, so I don’t get aka’s point. The argument for many has been the lack of engagement, and the height and architectural quality in the context of a world heritage site. Yes Commissiong has raised the matter of beach access, which I don’t agree with as I believe improved beach access and facilities could easily be a condition, but he also raised a number of legitimate concerns. Note Commissiong is arguing strongly for a local product/developers, and the “aka crew” is ridiculing his suggestion as if Maloney is from Mars. The “crew” also trumpets jobs somehow suggesting that this is the only hotel proposal that would create jobs or revitalise Bridgetown. Finally, FDI, but where’s the FDI coming from? As many here have repeatedly set out, Hyatt is managing the property not developing it.
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The bottomline is that there has been no full exchange of information with the public and in the absence of open information individuals have license to frame responses against this background. Why was the original proposal change to a 15 storey, will this hotel be financed from local pool or has Vision aka Maloney secured foreign investment. If he has secured foreign investment has central bank given approval given the sovereign risk exposure.
Who will answer the questions instead of the usual bullshit emotive responses we have been seeing in the editorials from the traditional media and political yardfowls.
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Nobody is saying that questions should not be asked ,However conclusions based on speculation is not the answer and no one is wiser for those kind of speculative answers
Continue to ask questions until the relevant sources respond, but also with a fairness in mind that the legalities surrounding these high profile projects can be sensitive and at times may not supply all the relevant answers in “rushed”time However when one attacks the credibility of a corporation then the evidence should also be provided via transparency , However the credibility and profile and accountability in the way the Hyatt has and does business is on record via internet is available for all to see (with no disclaimers) attached
Trying to defend the indefensible mouthing of some here who having political axes to grind and would go to any length to assassinate the reputation of any business that have built a life long endeavor for progress is abhorrent and smacks of partisan politics
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It takes all types to make a community, but any country that finds itself contaminated with people at the leadership level….who think like AC ….is doomed to failure…
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And when you emphatically and categorically state that the Hyatt Hotel will be built what is that?
When you deliberately misinterpret discussion that we are against Hyatt, the hotel management company and NOT the developer what is that?
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@ David September 4, 2016 at 8:52 AM
“Why was the original proposal change to a 15 storey, will this hotel be financed from local pool or has Vision aka Maloney secured foreign investment. If he has secured foreign investment has central bank given approval given the sovereign risk exposure.”
Now in here lies the gravamen of the concern and interest about Hyatt hotel project.
Who are the moneylenders (aka investors) behind the project? It’s certainlynot Hyatt’s money. Are these money people local or foreign investors?
It should be classified as a FDI project only if the money is foreign money and the foreign exchange expenditure component will not be an immediate drain on the existing foreign reserves already under tremendous pressures.
One is certainly hoping that the NIS will not be involved in the funding of this project as it was used in the case of the Four Seasons scam and after having sold its profitable holdings in the BL&P for a mess of forex pottage to prop up a crumbling behemoth called Bajan conspicuous Consumer.
Why not erect the proposed concrete behemoth called the Hyatt Tower of Babel on the same location which presently functions as an open-top pen for the Japanese and Korean made steel donkeys called ‘motta’ cars that are gargantuan consumers of forex including the poor quality petrol used to quench their daily thirst as they crawl around the makeover cart roads of Lilliputian Bim?
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@Exclaimer, please take a read. lol
Classified By: DCM Mary Ellen T. Gilroy for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
(C) Summary: In early June, Venezuela abruptly cut off
the supply of Orimulsion fuel oil to the Arawak Cement Plant
in Barbados with a year left in the contract, rerouting
future shipments to China. According to an Arawak executive,
Venezuela is the only supplier of Orimulsion, and the plant
cannot produce cement profitably using the alternative fuel,
Bunker C. The Government of Barbados has been unsuccessful
thus far in convincing the Chinese and Venezuelans to
reinstate Arawak’s contract. It appears China’s quest for
raw materials has combined with Venezuelan petrodiplomacy to
the detriment of Barbados. The sudden and callous way that
PDVSA canceled Barbados’ Orimulsion contract may help
convince the Eastern Caribbean that Venezuela is not a
reliable oil supplier. End Summary.
This Shipment? It’s Your Last One
(C) On June 21, Matthew Thornhill, production manager at
the Arawak Cement Plant, told Econoff that Venezuela cut off
the plant’s supply of the heavy fuel oil Orimulsion with no
advance notice and a year left in the contract. He recounted
how the Venezuelans did not tell Trinidad Cement Limited,
Arawak’s parent company, of the move until the plant’s final
Orimulsion shipment was on its way to Barbados. (Note:
Venezuela has a patent for Orimulsion and is the sole
supplier of the fuel in the world. The only petroleum
product Barbados purchases from Venezuela is Orimulsion for
the cement plant. Other oil imports come from Trinidad. End
Note.)
No Good Alternative
(SBU) The plant switched from Bunker C oil to Orimulsion
in 1997. Reverting back to Bunker C, which is nearly three
times as expensive, is not a viable long-term option for the
plant. Compounding this problem, the government regulates
cement prices in Barbados, making it difficult for the
company to pass on the higher fuel cost to consumers. The
300 jobs at the cement plant may be in jeopardy if Barbados
cannot secure a supply of Orimulsion or a similarly cheap
fuel oil. The plant is temporarily using Bunker C, but the
high cost of the fuel may make future cement production
unsustainable.
Chinese/Venezuelan Joint Venture
(SBU) According to press reports, the Chinese and
Venezuelan state oil companies started producing Orimulsion
in Venezuela via a joint venture in April 2006. Reportedly,
the entire Venezuelan output of Orimulsion will eventually
head to China, meaning other consumers of the fuel will
likely have their contracts canceled. This shift is
apparently part of Venezuela’s increased commercial ties to
China and its search for oil export markets outside the
United States.
Barbados Government on the Case
(C) The Barbados Minister of State in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds,
reportedly used the June 6 visit to Barbados of Chinese Vice
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yang Jiechi (septel), to lobby
for the Chinese National Petroleum Company to supply Arawak
with Orimulsion. Additionally, Thornhill remarked that the
Barbadian and Trinidadian ambassadors to Caracas have asked
the Venezuelan government and state oil company (PDVSA) to
reconsider the cutoff of Orimulsion to Barbados. (Note:
Since the Chinese and Venezuelan state oil companies jointly
produce Orimulsion, both governments have a say in where the
product goes. End Note.) Thornhill said the Barbadian
government was confident that it could convince China to
spare some Orimulsion, but he was not so sure how this might
come about. Thus far, diplomatic efforts have not succeeded
in restoring the flow of the heavy fuel.
Comment
(C) The unexpected diversion of Orimulsion supplies from
Barbados to China brings together two main hemispheric
trends, China’s insatiable thirst for raw materials and
Venezuelan petrodiplomacy. Until this latest Venezuelan
move, these trends had little effect on Barbados’ economy.
Barbados rejected Venezuela’s PetroCaribe scheme a year ago,
and this sudden supply disruption may be an attempt at
retribution. In any case, the Caribbean governments that did
sign PetroCaribe may have second thoughts about Venezuela’s
reliability as an energy supplier given PDVSA’s unforeseen
cancellation of Barbados’ Orimulsion contract a year early.
KRAMER
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@Miller
The Chinese are coming read Four Seasons.
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ac September 4, 2016 at 9:25 AM #
“Trying to defend the indefensible mouthing of some here who having political axes to grind and would go to any length to assassinate the reputation of any business that have built a life long endeavor for progress is abhorrent and smacks of partisan politics.”
@ ac
Your above comments accurately reveals your personality as a hypocrite, since you engage in the same actions you now criticize, MORE OFTEN THAN ANY OTHER contributor to BU.
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firstly you cannot accused me of referencing no one characters with criminal activity as done by the most notable WW&C as to the Hyatt being built my comment does NOT in any way form a conclusion attached or prescribed to that of using referenced articles attributed to past projects based on unfounded evidence
What is say might be an open opinion whether it is true or not is left to be seen . However when individuals state with a precise notion as if presenting gospels words that would affect a person character then the evidence should be presented as in the case of the Hyatt project
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SIPPING A DRINK on a luxury catamaran in the middle of Carlisle Bay on a late summer’s evening, I have to admit, does give you a whole new perspective on things.
By things I mean tourism, as, unable to live that kind of lifestyle on my own, I was given a couple hours’ experience of it at a cocktail party on the water. There were six cocktail parties going on at the same time, hence the flotilla. A glass-bottomed boat by day turned into a deejay station by night. Yes, I know, folks, journalism can be a tough business.
I and a few other reporters were invited to join the “flotilla” of six of Barbados’ best-known tourist catamarans as a three-day meeting of tourism convention planners reached its finale. We would eventually end up at the Boatyard where a band seasoned with one spice and several other lesser condiments regaled the conference attendees.
Of the half dozen boats on the water, mine was sponsored by Sam Lord’s Castle, so I had the benefit of a full, if informal, outline of the plans for that 55-acre property and the international eco-standards it has built in as goals to achieve. And this from none other than Michael Phillips, a talented and experienced Bajan hotelier who is leading the construction project on behalf of the Government.
But as I listened to all of the exciting plans for that long neglected part of the east coast, the beauty of the evening and panorama before me kept intruding on my thoughts, as you would expect. I kept looking at the glittering Hilton, half a mile away and just down the bay from it, the new Radisson. These properties have been there since the 60s, and to date I haven’t heard any claim of despoiling the bay or the beaches with waste or chemicals.
Yes, folks, what the 350-room Hilton, the smaller but also significantly-sized Radisson, and the other tourism venues have been unable to do will finally be achieved by the Hyatt Centric, with its 230 rooms, if you believe some of the things you hear.
But sitting out in the bay on a glorious evening, you wonder why people’s personal dislikes or other agendas should be allowed to work their will, and perhaps impede the further logical, rational development of one of our most beautiful, and tourism-needing areas.
Instead, we should welcome the Hyatt once all the usual checks like EIAs and so on are carried out, as I am sure they will be. The status conferred by UNESCO in naming our capital as a heritage site should help, not impede, ongoing professional development of Carlisle Bay.
At least, that is how it seemed to me aboard a catamaran in the middle of our most famous and picturesque bay.
Sunday Sun commentary: Patrick Hoyos is a journalist and publisher specialising in business.
Since 18th January, 2008 Patrick Hoyos predicted the collapse of Barbados’ economy the DLP for him is the anti Christ only Peter Wickham exceeds Hoyos distaste for the government yet they both get it. The one remaining set of knuckleheads who can’t appreciate the benefits of a Hyatt in Bridgetown is the BU yardfowl gallery
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Here comes AKAs again happy to copy paste without offering critical analysis. Here is an extract from Hoyos’ article that introduces a contradiction. Hoyos does not in any detail deals with the lack of transparency with this project which is responsible for the avalanche of criticism that has come post Paradise Beach (Four Seasons) and Cahill as just two example.
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@ David September 4, 2016 at 10:27 AM
“The Chinese are coming read Four Seasons.”
So Maloney is just a front man to scam off some of the pot like a true ‘medici’? Then, he is not a ‘real-real’ investor or blue-blooded’ entrepreneur as we are seeing in the case of the Grotto and Coverley.
If only Barbados could also get the Chinese (to replace their archenemy the Japanese) to invest US $270 million in the sugar cane industry as so praiseworthily promised by the current administration.
BTW, what has become of the much propagandized offshore oil drilling programme touted as the major forex earner to outdo tourism?
How does this expected oil bonanza- the so-called saviour to economic restructuring- dovetail in an ‘environmentally sound’ way with this expected massive investment in the one-cylinder tourism egg basket?
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@Miller
Your comment raises a bigger issue. The attempt to invigorate the Barbados economy to deliver on the kick in the backside the economy required to grow was the efficient time tabling of projects for implementation. A sub Committee of Cabinet headed by the prime minister was stated to have responsibility for ensuring projects were rolled out to the rigid time table required. Obviously this has not worked according to plan for all kinds of reasons many of which are as a result of poor planning and sizing.Who will the public hold accountable?
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@David, I recall someone here suggesting that Gov’t HQ on Bay Street is taking up prime development space in the context of projects like Hyatt. I don’t recall any major discourse of that thought.
So apart from the movable Sir Grantley’s statue outfront what historical or other constraints makes that Bay Street sea-view locale more suited to the bureaucracy of government offices?
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@Dee Word
You can’t touch Government House, it is probably a sentimental thing. Too besides it does not occupy beach front land. Why should Maloney on behalf of his backers accept a location on the other side of the beach road if investors elsewhere on the island have received and will be given access?
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@ Kammie Thomas Sankara, the Barbados Lobby letter was in support of David Comissiong. Read it again. After much back and forth you either do not get my point or do not want to get it. So for the last time here it is.
Though the group Bajans Against 700 M Waste to Energy Plant is environmentally focused, its birth was from bad governance. That bad governance has not changed and we are seeing its effects multiply into other economic, social and in the law courts courts in Barbados. However perhaps you were not really victorious regarding the Cahill plant since the alternatives that you proposed have not been adopted by the government. The group has become lapse. I have not seen any communications to or discussions with the government on the topic. The once vibrant movement has been reduced to posting but no one is engaging the government.
There is strength is numbers to demand transparency and good governance. Regarding the Hyatt hotel they are also environmental issues. If Cahill being birthed from bad governance was not in the best interest of Barbados how can the Hyatt which was birthed from the same conditions and the same players be?
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Heather you still grumbling about Mr. Holder’s intentions . Put it this way this time around Kammie focus is not on gaining unpopular support against an international well know brand the Hyatt corporation . He had and his other cohorts fully understood that if Cahill was giving birth it could have impacted the financial bearings of other environmental groups with a history of ownership or association in recycling with a cascading effect that other carribbean islands might follow barbados lead so there interest to fight was not only political but personnel In this instance the factors and factions are different you would not hear a whisper from those factions since none have an interest the mountain size of a Haytt upon which they can cry foul . i also take note to your full use of forwarding environmental issues on the table of debate which is also a cause of concern for some in the Hyatt debate in the same way that the WTE plant could have been problematic and to which Kammie has refused to acknowledge whole hardly but with some trepidation or a quasi clause of responding
But i will tell you when dealing in politics and digging in a political grave yard it always depends on who are the grave diggers and what they are looking for which in this case you might have lost the plan.
Your best way forward is to get your own group going under another banner as any hopes of Kammie endorsing your cause is fruitless whether it be environmental or otherwise . There are people who step out in the limelight as saviors but them too forget what they had previously said or just simply believe that others have forgotten such is the way of the world ,
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Kammie does not need a yardfowl like you defending his position, he has been doing that himself.
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No sir i am not defending Kammie position far from it YOU need to remove your speckled frame glasses and read with full Understanding ja.ass
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@AC, let me take a yawn…ah now get up from sleeping. How you?
I like this weather,this rain is greatly appreciated. Let me take the kids for some ice cream. Bye!
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@David, how do I post a picture?
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Many on BU are using Imgr to upload picks and post the output link to the BU comment box.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Barbados Underground wrote:
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ACs…yall too in awe of the Hyatt, it’s just a better brand than most hotels, I have stayed in them but will not sell my soul to them, nothing to bow amd scrape while kissing ass and bending down for a big fat screwing. …the issue here is the location…..wrong…..15 stories….. wrong……and stupid government ministerns picking up taxpayer’s money or pension fund money and using stealth to help the crooks Maloney, Bizzy et al fund the hotel. …doubly wrong….and those are the issues.
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When ac and I sing from the same sheet something is dead wrong.
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Sugar project faces more delays
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@ David
That shiite was stillborn….
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Heather as far as support for the Hyatt we are not on the same page .just opening your eyes to hypocrisy .
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Comparing the impact of the Hilton and Radisson with that of Hyatt shows Hoyos’ little understanding of the issue. For one he’s comparing impact to the Bay to impact on the street and adjoining sites.
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Hoyos and the journalists invited on the catamaran flotilla will now do the job expected of them.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Barbados Underground wrote:
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Correct David.Happens all the time.Invite those chop sutters for a eat ah food and a drink and they sing for their supper.
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@ac i know.
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@ The Honourable Blogmaster & The Gazer.
Re Profiles & writing Styles
Take a look at AC’s post – ac September 4, 2016 at 2:16 PM # in open-letter-to-the-prime-minister-rehyatt-hotel-project
Then take a look at ac September 5, 2016 at 9:15 AM # on the comissiong-responds-to-nation-newspaper-editorial-time-to-re-think-policy-of-building-on-our-beaches blog
AND, barring the few instances where the Ignorant AC inserts her head OR where we see the appearances of Pigrim, the DLP General Secretary and Kellman, who you can tell by his “metre” WE ARE SEEING A DEFINITE NEW PRESENCE with greater? reasoning capacity, or at least, a more coherent narrative, and better grammar, with increasing frequency!!
They recognize the power of Barbados UnderGround and the impact that David King, the household, and the family, are having on the Public and they are coming to everyplace that they see the tsunami swell that is coming to tek them out.
It is noted that the Parliament is in Recess until October.
And thereafter we can expect, WITH THE START OF THE INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS FIASCO?, to see that the election campaigns will commence in earnest.
So, to arms!! colleagues all!!
NOT ONE EFFING SEAT!! for any DLP Representative.
We are going to vote everyone of them out!!
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@ Piece
We are going to vote everyone of them out!!
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Do you REALLY think that they don’t know that…??!!
But so what? …We don’t have to pay them pensions for life…?
That is like a man robbing your family and burning down your house …only to be locked up at Dodds while your homeless ass is taxed for evermore to feed and house him…
Pachamama is right about the Guillotine…….
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@ Bush Tea.
Barbados’ Laws provide a clear punishment for theft and, in the case of the Democratic Labour Party and its ministers, representatives and paling fowl appointees (as well as those of the BLP) the punishment for theft of public funds, or the theft of anything is clear.
I ent no lawyer so de ole man copy dis “Robbery is the felonious and violent taking of any money or goods from the person of another, putting him in fear, be the value thereof above or under one shilling…” jes to mek a point dat um is a lock-upable crime.
If you or I were to teif money from someplace Bush Tea dem was gine lock we up.
In fact Bush Tea, we ent even got to teif nuffin and dem gine lock we up.
Hopi was suggesting yesterday dat we need a vigilante crew to exterminate dem scvunt but dat is even worse dat exposing a prime minister letter and show he to be an effing liar.
And ef Verla Depeiza can say dat “dat is treason, and dat de body is to be hanged” whu Bushie dat would mean dat we would be scalped, hung, drawn quartered and boiled and den kilt… not necessarily in dat order
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Lol…Hopi might be a little frustrated, but ya cant send in vigilantes or mercenaries, particularly since she is suggesting no outside intervention, but bajan men are not made of mercenary or vigilante matetial, they go along to get along…..so it wont work from the beginning.
Besides…that would be the opening foolish Verla needs to institute treason charges, since many of the politicians/ministers will be caught up in the cleansing. …they do not want outside intervention to help clean up the gun running, drug running, money laundering or human trafficking, but ya will see how quickly those same ministers and authorities will jump on the phone and call up international agencies to help them put down anyone trying to clean up crime and corruption….outside of their control….lol
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Piece
The secret is to get the 40% that refused to vote in 2013 to come out and vote against these insipid lying corrupt poor rakey DLP parasites headed by a non starter marking time on the job.For sure that 40% would have seen how worse off we have all become since the Dems came to power in 08 and all the promises unfulfilled that are hanging like a millstone around their necks starting with a new hospital at Kingsland led in lies by the fisherman son who think he talking to his fishing buddies at Skeete’s Bay and by the sick lying corrupt parched lipped ‘don’t forget my cut’ lowdown who promised that “WHEN A PIPE BURSTSES WE WILL HAVE A CREW TO FIX IT RIGHTAWAY”The poor people in St Joseph waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for water in the the 50th year of Independence…..back to stand pipes….these lowlife cotsuppas,hoes, wimps and sumsbeeches.Not one economist support them,even Deliar seeing the writing on the wall distancing e’self from man ‘o fineants.
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Pray tell me, how can such a colossus blend in with the surrounding buildings? After seeing the architect’s suggestion, I am more set against it being built on the property designated for it. Bethel Methodist church will be directly opposite. Can anyone see churchgoers stepping into church and saying how well that monstrosity blends in with the surrounding buildings? What about the traffic which will be pouring onto Bay St. after it has opened with traffic on that stretch already coming to a standstill most days during peak hours? Is it planned to give the rich, the famous and the bigoted special permission to exit at will, or will they get their own traffic lights which they can switch as they please? One never knows what concessions this Government has given them, because everything is done covertly by them!
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