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Bajan Potholes on the Increase
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63 responses to “Bajan Potholes on the Increase”
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Alvin Cummins November 17, 2016 at 10:53 PM #
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Old Buggy,
If the government did not spruce up the country to welcome “your esteemed Royal Family,” you would be the first one to criticize. Stop complaining
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Barbados was still a colony in 1965 when HM the Queen, first came a visiting. Nothing special was done to spruce up the island, as the then Northern District Councils, Southern District Council and the City of Bridgetown, had an ongoing programme ,sprucing up Barbados for the people of Barbados. -
What a wonderful response.
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BREAKING NEWS:
THE NATION
” Ruptured sewage main on Spry Street
THE MINISTRY OF Transport and Works advises road users that Spry Street in Bridgetown is closed until further notice as a result of a ruptured Barbados Water Authority sewage main.
The Ministry expressed regret about any inconvenience the closure may cause.”
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Old Buggy;
1965, Barbados, still a colony. Very few “Barber Green streets. 2016, almost every street is “Barber Green”. What is your point? Are you saying that we were better off as a colony? Of course almost every street was a marl road in 1965.
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Old Buggy,
Re. “the biggest pothole in the Scotland District”, isn’t this the dam that was constructed by COW to collect water to water the Apes Hill Golf Course? This is not a pot hole. Don’t give the wrong impression to readers who are not familiar with the island. You should congratulate COW for collecting rain water for that purpose. -
Alvin…you dont get tired kissing ass. If Cow wants to run a business that needs water, no one has to congratulate him to do it, it’s his business…he needs the water…it’s elementary, it does not take genius to figure out he needs water for residences etc…I swear the slave mentality runs through the dna.
Now tell the dummies in parliament they need to dam the rain water running out of St. John and St. Joseph, it does not appear that they know it’s been wasting for decades…and can be used. ..maybe they need Cow to tell them….., so you can congratulate him.
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Alvin Cummins November 18, 2016 at 6:30 PM #
You should congratulate COW for collecting rain water for that purpose.
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Like Hell, rainwater. He has diverted 7 spring in the Scotland District to that dam. If any other mortal had done that ,the BWA would’ve down on them ,like a ton of bricks. These are the same springs, I heard Mr Mwansa said a few years ago on CBC, that are vital in keeping the salt water from the ocean , from invading the water wells near the coast.
Alvin, given that you might have a few years on me, when I came along the only marl roads I knew , belong to the plantations. The Department of Highway and Transport (H&T) did sterling work building and maintaining roads and bridges in Barbados, many of which ,like Joes River and Melvins Hill bridges are still standing after 60 + years of constant use by heavy traffic. -
@ Alvin Cummins November 18, 2016 at 6:25 PM
“1965, Barbados, still a colony. Very few “Barber Green streets. 2016, almost every street is “Barber Green”. What is your point? Are you saying that we were better off as a colony? Of course almost every street was a marl road in 1965.”Why don’t you stop comparing Barbados of today to what prevailed prior to Independence?
Barbados was always ahead of most countries, especially in the Caribbean, in its infrastructure and education
Are you forgetting the supply of water to the city in 1865 just after Queen Victoria witnessed a similar thing in England?
What about the building of the QEH to replace the General and district hospitals of primary healthcare; the availability electricity from 1911 and one of the very early telephone system in the world even before the supply of electricity?
How come you were able to receive a “good” education at Cawmere if things were so bad for the ordinary man in colonial Barbados? But then you do not consider yourself ordinary like George Lamming.
Compared to many European countries Barbados of the pre-Independence era had a far superior social system even with the presence of outhouses in England where many Bajans of your generation soon found out.
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Alvin Cummins November 17, 2016 at 10:58 PM #
By the way, That road passing through the Belle, is near, if not in front of the entrance to Jose and Jose truck depot. How much of this damage is due to the heavy use of this road that was never designed to accommodate these heavy vehicles, by the skip containers, heavy duty garbage trucks, and all sorts of other heavy vehicles, without any proper road repairs or maintainance. Anybody care to answer that question? Anybody care to answer that question?
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Strange indeed that you have passed through the Belle and noticed the state of the road in front of Jose and Jose’s business, but has chosen to look the other way, a half mile away ,over in Lears in front of COW’S operation , where the road is in worse condition than in the Belle. And it now appears that the Government, ie Michael Lashley, Minister of Transport, is paying COW to resurface the road in Lears which his heavy duty trucks have mashed up.
……………………………………………………………………And Mr Smarty pants ,what would your teacher have to say about your use of the word MAINTAINANCE instead of MAINTENANCE
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Colonel
Touche! That should fix the AC. haha hahahaha.
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Perhaps the government, ie Minister of Transport , is waiting until the imported stock of Rock Hard cement reaches a stage where it is deemed only good for non-structural purposes, and then it will be palmed off to the Government, probably not at a reduced price, to repair pot holes and build roads.
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Funny but serious. Barbados the pothole capital of the Caribbean.
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