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Minister Denis Lowe Resignation MUST be on the Table -Flooding @Clarkes Road. St. James – GOD Bless BIM on Independence Day

Minister of Drainage Denis Lowe needs to go. There has been no improvement in the task to alleviate flooding in Barbados since his appointment. In fact, it has gotten worse. Surely it is time for commonsense to prevail and for the Prime Minister to give the opportunity to another person to bring a fresh approach…

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Flooding in Clarke's Road
Clarke’s Road

clarkes-road-pMinister of Drainage Denis Lowe needs to go. There has been no improvement in the task to alleviate flooding in Barbados since his appointment. In fact, it has gotten worse. Surely it is time for commonsense to prevail and for the Prime Minister to give the opportunity to another person to bring a fresh approach to the job? Unfortunately we know that he will continue to have the backing of Prime Minister Stuart because he is a loyal foot soldier AND there is an election to be won.

For those whose lifes and properties continue to be threatened by heavy rainfall – what are we to do? Yes, we should be able to celebrate Independence Day (whatever that means) and discuss the attendant issues of the day.

By the way, are the weather radars working?

God bless BIM on Independence day.

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284 responses to “Minister Denis Lowe Resignation MUST be on the Table -Flooding @Clarkes Road. St. James – GOD Bless BIM on Independence Day”

  1. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Yep…decades of neglect and incompetence, misuse and abuse of taxpayers money and total disrespect and disregard for maintenence of their environment has now returned to bite BOTH careless, self-absorbed Barbados governments in their best educated, corrupt.asses…
    .

    ……a very big bite indeed, it has been a long time in coming but it has arrived, finally.

  2. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “Malcolm T (4 forum posts)
    Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
    Just a cautionary NOTE, Barbados several years ago wanted to join the BLUE FLAG beach program which certifies beaches save to use. Barbados government would not provide/share beach health readings on a timely basis, so BLUE FLAG PROGRAM would not certify Barbados Beaches”

  3. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “Canby (7,677 forum posts)
    Burlington, Canada
    Accra/Rockley Beach was an ugly brown and smelly on Saturday No one was in the water.
    To-day it’s back to normal in colour and there is no odour.
    Does that mean all contamniments are gone?
    Don’t know unless the government tests the waters. Which they should do to give a healthy all clear.

    Reply
    45. Re: Worthing Beach Closed with immediate effect. Govt announced
    yesterday, 20:41
    NorthernCanuck1 (4,485 forum posts)
    Sudbury, Canada
    Yes testing for coliforms etc is the only way to know if the water/beach is safe.”

  4. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://ow.ly/VQ8P306Oqd3

    Sandals is another disaster waiting to happen as posted to Tripadvisir by tourists, as we the less educated on BU have been saying from Day 1…Butch Stewart should never have been allowed back into Barbados..never, ah guess you get what you pay for, 40 years of concessions to destroy Barbados.

  5. John Avatar
    John

    A lady (now deceased) told me she grew up at Sandy Lane or Lascelles when sugar cane was grown.

    It was she who told me about the name of the field (Swampy Ground) where Sunset Crest is built.

    Also told me it was first “developed it was referred to as the “White Man’s Tenantry”!!

    She also told me that after every crop before the rainy season set in the plantations sent and cleared the build up of sand at the various outflows to the sea.

    The Hole is like a mini Graeme Hall Swamp.

    A connection with the sea was maintained.

    Remember when there used to be fish kills in the Hole. I can’t remember the last time I have heard of such a thing … guess all the fish are dead!!

    The canal at Graeme Hall seems to have been installed to control the level of water.

    It could be closed off and water kept present to entice the birds for the members of the shooting club to have their “sport”.

    Chancery Lane Swamp during the dry season is often bone dry.

    I remember riding a motor cycle all over in that swamp in my youth but once the rain set in it was not possible.

    Before the canal there was a natural link to the sea from the Graeme Hall Swamp.

    No owner/manager of Graeme Hall Plantation would have been mad enough to have let the water level rise to a point where his crops would be affected, but swamp shooting was a hobby of many and a periodically dry swamp would have spoiled the year round “fun”.

    So, my guess is the level was never allowed to go above the point where the water would extend far enough inland to affect the crops but its control still allowed shooting in the dry season.

    Tilapia, millions, mollies and helleries too would have been introduced to control mosquitoes.

    Maybe that’s why we have to fog nowadays, the fish population in the swamp has been decimated by its poor management and the extensive “developments” that have taken place around it.

    Even runoff from Rockley Golf Course ends up there!!

    Where the QEH is now, was referred to on old maps as “The Swamp”.

    You can see the millions spent reclaiming the land has still required a link to the sea to be maintained …. otherwise when it really rains, the water will force its way there …. millions or no millions!!

  6. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Swimming in waters with E. coli could expose bathers to increased ear, nose and throat infections as well as upset stomach, skin rashes and diarrhea.

  7. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    And if ya think that is bad, certain bacterium, when in contact with open wounds, manifest into flesh eating bacteria, in sea water or fresh water, or John Boyce’s brackish water…..

    ……the dummies, oh I am so sorry, the best educated in parliament are playing with people’s lives, the local people might foolishly accept it but they will be severely punished by the tourists…..who do not even accept crap from their own governments in their own countries, who know much better than to pull these carelessly stupid and dangerous stunts..

  8. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    @John

    This Clarkes Road,St. James watercourse situation was not a matter of priorities for BLP or DLP Government, The Prevention of flood Act Cap 235 is there, the duty given to the CTO of MTW. who happen to be Frank Thornhill , had he done his duty in 2003 the watercourse would not have become what it is today,

  9. John Avatar
    John

    It is all about doing your job and if you don’t know what to do …. just move.

    That mentality once existed.

    Bajans took pride in what they did and did it out of love and to the best of their ability.

  10. John Avatar
    John

    In another culture hari kari is the preferred atonement.

    In Western Cultures, a resignation will do.

  11. John Avatar
    John

    …. and if you really sorry, an apology too

  12. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    After 50 years of the INDEPENDENCE of Barbados, a country with over 90 percent black people, a foreign white land owner come to Barbados and destroyed a watercourse, by building an illegal botch road in the middle and along said watercourse, that action caused obstruction and redirection of flood water to black people homes and surroundings.The black CTO of MTW has the duty to stop such contravention, but ignored the pleas of the black- people, and allowed the risk to stay from 2003 to today, A black Minister in the DLP Government told the black- people, to ask the black CTO of MTW, to ask / beg the said foreign white land owner to dig a well

  13. David Avatar
    David

    The BLACKman takes his case to the minister of the people, Denis Kellman.
     
    Denis Kellman shared a link.

    Yesterday at 09:26 ·

    Ministers fail to show for PAC

    THREE MINISTERS SUMMONED before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigating a special audit of the state-owned housing agency failed to show up yesterday.Neither…

    nationnews.com|By Nation News author

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman Mr.Minister, please share this with the Minister of MTW. Sir unlike the many flooding across Barbados last Tuesday the flow of water from a watercourse entering Clarkes Rd St. James was due to the fact that the CTO of MTW Frank Thornhill allowed a fo…See more

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman Mr Minister, this flood water going down Clarkes Road St. James

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    Denis Kellman

    Denis Kellman You should speak to him, to get her to dig wells to capture the water.

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman Mr. Kellman Sir , who she i should speck to

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman Mr. Kellman do you understand that Frank Thorhill ignored me from 2003 and he is the person with the DUTY to prevent such happens

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman Mr. Kellman, Sir. do you understand that the watercourse carried the flow of water for years and never flooded Clarkes Road until the land owner removed the ridges and obstructed the watercourse by building a botch road in the middle and a long said watercorse

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    Denis Kellman

    Denis Kellman point taken, but are they wells? if no , why not?

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman Mr Kellman Sir, The CTO of MTW had in 2003 the duty to stop the foreign land owner from obstructing the watercourse,he still have that duty now to redress the problem, are you saying that he should now beg her to dig a well, after he allowed her to co…See more

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    Denis Kellman

    Denis Kellman What Mr Symmonds did about it when you complained?

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    Denis Kellman

    Denis Kellman Thanks for the pictures, send them to 2807921

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman You are doing a lot more right now

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    Denis Kellman

    Denis Kellman If you send the pictures I will send them to the doers.

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    Alden Blackman

    Alden Blackman Sir Can you and the minister of MTW ask Mr Thornhill to come to Clarkes Road and see the problem , i shall send you the pictures, is that # 2807921 whatsApp

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  14. Anonymouse - TheGazer Avatar
    Anonymouse – TheGazer

    I know Denis Kellman. He might not be as smooth as other politicians, but that is a plus. Try to get him to commit to a course of action and he will do his best to keep his word.

  15. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Try to get him to commit to a course of action and he will do his best to keep his word.

    ……….do his best……………and there lies the story,3 words,sums up this govt for the past 7 years……which simply is not good enough.

  16. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    @David

    Thanks to you and the BU family, for the expressions to all the posted discussions in highlighting the unjustifiable action of a civil servant who from 2003 to today 7 DEC 2016, refused to carry out his duty,

  17. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    Minister Kellman ,if you send the pictures, I will send them to the DOERS .

    That statement is very true, on August 4,2015 in my effort to plea in a conversation with the CTO of MTW Mr. Frank Thornhill, I ask him how he could pave the botch road in the middle of a watercourse, he did not know the road was paved, he send a Mr.Burke to check, the Doers at MTW paved the road for the request of DLP former MP George Hutson

  18. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    What Mr. Symmonds did about it when you complained

    Mr. Symmonds arranged a meeting in which Charles Marville from BWA agreed to retract the pipes, but lied to me every month for 2 plus years, his lying and my lack of experience in dealing with a habitual liar has cause my home and surroundings to be flooded, Mr. Marville to me Mr. Symmonds can say what he like, but he can’t come to BWA and do it

  19. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    You should speak to him, to get her to dig wells to capture the water

    How much asinine can this statement be, which part of Frank Thornhill, can Alden Blackman plea to, so that he can get a foreign white land owner to dig wells in a watercourse to capture water.He refused to stop the woman from destroyed said watercourse in 2003.The risk it pose to my home was clearly obvious and I plea to the CTO of MTW, Frank Thornhill then, unless he grow a part to become a Doer now

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    Alden Blackman

    @ Vincent Haynes

    The one thing this DLP Government improved, is the capability of the civil servants capacity of lying to the people about every thing, no matter what the risk, from the PM down lied to the people and caused many to suffered, due to 2 officer,1 from BWA and the other from the Drainage Unit who told me the truth, which was BWA is not going to retract the pipe and Thornhill don’t take on little people, I was able to lessen the flooding risk at my back door,but my surrounds is still at risk, due to the lying of civil servants, on who behest

  21. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    I am sorry, I meant to write, he refused to stop the woman from destroying said watercourse I was offered, the offer is still on the table with pro-bono help to take this matter to court, but with our court system, I decided to lessen the risk to my back door first

  22. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    So after the long talk from Kellman…has he contacted Thornhill to get the obstruction removed forthwith before Mr. Blackman and his family drowns in a 1970s type flood…which is highly possible with La Nina.

    All they gotta do is remove the illegal road, they do not have to ask the landowner’s permission cause it’s illegal to begin with…

    ……and should’nt Dennis Lowe as the drainage dude with the portfolio be the one to be doing this anyway, they all need kicking out of parliament for refusing to do their jobs.

  23. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    @ www

    I have to repeat and will keep repeating

    During the construction of the obstruction in the watercourse, I saw it as an obstruction that would redirect the flood flow, to my home I lived there for 21 years before, I alerted the Drainage Unit, Mr. Dawe , Mr. yearwood and Mr. Inniss ,from Drainage Unit visited and agreed, the path is obstructed and promised to have the situation redress, for over 2 year the excuses of” we don’t have a truck or tractor to removed the boulders” were rotated from the above name Officials, all that was needed then, was a stop and revert order to the land owner, not a CENT of taxpayers money. The lying official from Drainage caused my household to be in danger,

  24. Alden Blackman Avatar
    Alden Blackman

    @ Anonymouse -The Gazer

    Please call or send a message to the # 2807921, the # Mr. Kellman give to Alden Blackman

    This is my very last comment on this issue, the watchman will be back to continue the fight for justice,

  25. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    @WW &C

    Kellman was just trying to out do Kellman, his mind still had left over parliament mouthing so he dump then on Blackman , even wanted to know what the MP for the area did, forgetting that his DLP government, with him as housing Minister, the Minister of MTW, the same CTO of MTW, Frank Thornhill are causing the whole village of White Hill, St. Andrew people to suffer by using excuses, like we are waiting on a study, just like Drainage was waiting on a truck and tractor to removed the boulders from the watercourse at Clarkes road ,St James in 2002

  26. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    @Anonymouse-The gazer

    Kellman course was set for him the day he accepted the Ministry of Housing “a damaged life boat ” on a ship that has1 mile before running a ground, we know he can and do swim with sharks, but can a now 59 year old swim for the next 15-20 years

  27. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Watchman
    The DLPTV last night reported with regret the passing of Keith ‘Jolla’ Barrow.You will no doubt inform Alden that there is minus one actor in the equation of the solution you both seek.

  28. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    Gabriel

    People like Keith Barrow should not have born .

  29. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    Thanks to David and BU family for the comments on posted highlights, with your continue comments, God help, Blackman and I endeavor to have this dangerous situation remedy, one way or the other in 2017

  30. David Avatar
    David

    You received some goo press this week, you should mail the clipping to the PS and the Minister Lowe as well as Stetson Babb and David Ellis.

  31. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    You would think that the current representative for St James Central Kerry Symmonds would be jumping all over the Dems for this foul up by the former representative George Hutson but maybe that’s asking too much.I am told they are cousins however if George did foolishness by giving an illlegal order to dam a water course, his party should be exposed.George’s constituency office is within yards of this offending property and a few feet from the natural drainage John wrote about that exits to the sea between the Cliff restaurant and Secret Cove condos.

  32. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    Right on it , my brother.

  33. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    @ Gabriel

    Kerry Symmonds is useless. George Hutson is just ignoramus for what he done, the duty was in 2004, still now the CTO of MTW, this flooding situation could have been avoided if Frank Thornhill had done his duty, it would not have cost the TAXPAYERS one CENT, Frank Thornhill blantant discriminatory action caused Blackman over the years to spend thousand of dollars to safeguard his home, now causing a poor black man who work as a joiner, to lost all of his power tools and finish doors.

  34. Watchman Avatar
    Watchman

    This is how politicians and Technocrats treat serious risk to certain Black low working class Barbadian

                                                  Politicians statements

    This clearly has been a problem for over a decade and I will start to investigate it with your MP

    Never mind we are going to proceed as best as possible still committed to assisting and we will visit with her as soon as possible

    Hi, I assure you I connect with the Minister on this matter , my contact 232*****

    I make it a point to come and see you

                                                     Technocrat

    In March 2016 give assurance to take care of “the matter”, 8 months later by November 2016 “the matter” resulted in the worse flooding in Clarkes Road and by December 2016 the PS and CTO of MTW proceed to retirement and the watercourse still not remedy, despite the pleas of the Black low working class Bajans

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