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Members of the BU household love sports. As we type this blog we are congregated in front of the TV watching the Grenada Invitational. Those who cannot access ESPN 2 here is the link to the online stream.

The image above shows an emotional coach of the St. Michael School athletic program being comforted by principal of the school Dr. Yvette Mayers after being regaled as the 2017 Barbados Secondary Schools Athletics Champion.  Check the beaming facial expressions of the athletes in the background. Does anyone doubt the positive effect participation and success in sport can have on the youth of a country?

While Grenada  just next door opened the Kirani Stadium today and is currently hosting 126 athletes from 26 countries. Our Minister of Sports Stephen Lashley is begging each Barbadians for $10.00 to refurbish the National Stadium. There is little need to prolix on this issue to state how we feel about the state of sports in Barbados.

The millions collected by the lottery every year -what do we have to show for it besides the bevy of officials who get to travel the world and stay at four and five star hotels including Minister Lashley? The ramshackle space that is the National Stadium is a sad reflection on where Barbados now finds itself.

The dilapidated National Stadium

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194 responses to “Stephen Lashley, Gimme $10.00”

  1. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Who the … is getting the construction contract? Charly, Bizzy, Maloney, Harris? I assume it will be the usual sellout on the plantation, where the blackened politicians enslave the taxpayer.

  2. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @Bush Tea April 11, 2017 at 9:59 PM #

    Devaluation to pay for new stadium? Lashley is a true genius a la Barbadian style. Collect 10 mio BBD, convert them to 5 mio. USD and you will get – after devaluation – approx. 25 to 50 mio. BBD dollars.

    Maybe GOV should do the same with taxpayer´s money. Convert 2 billion revenue now to 1 billion USD and get in 6-12 months 5 to 10 billion Mickey Mouse dollars, also called the Barbados Dollar. All problems solved. Barbados will be rich like shit.

  3. David Avatar
    David

  4. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    How much money does the lottery give to political parties and sports as a percentage of it net profits yearly?

    Why are some legislators against a Health Lottery to fund QEH as a funding model?

    The above questtionsare not part of any riddle, just hard questions that must be answered in the quest for transparency.

  5. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Lol….”Ten Dollar” Lashley…not a cent.

  6. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    Why barbadians still looking towards govt to fund every thing as of now the kitty pot is all but empty due to bulging and out of control debt
    Why would barbadians not follow the example of those citizens in international countries who make an all out effort by use of charitable drives and telethons helped by s by private business to help in areas that are beneficial to the well being of society.please do not say it cannot be done as most barbadians would rise to the occassion if there is a need to help the most needy
    As a matter of fact such an ocassion arose when people gave of themselves to help those in drought stricken areas
    It is about time barbadians see themselves as people driven by purpose and not by self hate and criticism solely relying on those other than themselves for help.

  7. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Why would barbadians not follow the example of those citizens in international countries who ……………………………………………………………………..
    What exactly is an International Country?

  8. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Seriously AC….
    Would you ‘follow the example’ of a short man who got on TV and asked 200,000 people to put up $10 each – expecting to raise $20M….?

    Shiite woman, wuh if he can’t do a simple multiplication …you feel he could build a stadium?

    We knew that we were dead when it became clear that Stinkliar could not differentiate between 0.7 and 0.07 …. but NOBODY understood how dead …until they fired the old relic from the Central Bank for finally talking sense.

    …now we find out that Short Lashes can’t multiply…. we knew all along that you cannot think…. Freundel can’t stay awake… Kellman can’t keep his nonsense inside ……
    YOU!!!!
    Some SERIOUS shiite wrong with the DLP yuh…!!

    Wunna don’t try and dig up that shiite that wunna bury on the Garrison….
    Next thing we will find out is that the quisling is the demon…..
    and the only one of DEM who can figure…

  9. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Bushie
    As Bajans say you does kill people wild laff.Gimmudollar Lashes doing the dollar wine!No wonder we can’t get the expenditure and the revenue to balance.These Dems can’t do maths.

  10. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2017/04/12/thorne-tears-into-lashley-over-stadium/

    As’s….look, not a dime for “Ten Dollar” Lashley…yall looking for 20 million dollars…ya thieves….not a dime. Ya trying to raise campaign financjng, ya are liars, that money is not for any stadium refurbishment, ya had 9 years to do that…. yall are decetful, fraudulent and lying.

    Robbing bajans for decades to elevate minority thieves and crooks and now trying to rob them again for ya selves….thieves……thieves……the money would likely go into the minister’s bank accounts.

    “Thorne tears into Lashley over stadium
    Added by Sandy Deane on April 12, 2017.
    Saved under Local News, Politics
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    Barbados Labour Party (BLP) candidate for Christ Church South and attorney-at-law Ralph Thorne, QC, Wednesday urged Barbadians to dismiss as “ministerial frolic” recent calls by Minister of Sports Stephen Lashley for Barbadians to contribute $10 towards the renovation of the National Stadium.

    Appealing to Barbadians to demonstrate their nationalism, Lashley revealed earlier this month that a fundraising drive would soon be launched, and once citizens got on board the authorities could raise as much as $20 million to kick start the redevelopment process.

    Thorne has however poked holes in the idea, pointing out that the minister had erred by treating the decision as an issue of “personal morality”, since those who fail to contribute were being portrayed as unpatriotic.

    He stressed that “the morality of the citizenry was not on trial, but the trust of the Government will be on trial”.

    Thorne suggested Lashley first had to answer a number of questions before the public could buy into the idea.

    “Who will be the collector of these monies? Will the collection go into the Consolidated Fund into the mix of Government’s other funds? Will these monies go into a bank account owned by the National Sports Council? What is the legal authority for this collection of monies by Government?”

  11. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    As’ s….”the kitty pot is all but empty”…because you idiots thief all the taxpayer’s and pensioner’s money and gave it away to people who dont even like you….you idiots, the little ya kept for yaselves through bribes and kickbacks cannot last……ya will go broke.

    ….yall stole from ya own people to enrich people who hate you…, you are DONKEYS.., beasts of burden, useless, uninformed house negros of parliament.

    LOSERS….

  12. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Ah gotta ask though…who the hell told Fruendel and his ministers that they have a right to get 10 dollars from every citizen after overtaxing said citizens for years…the citizens do not owe the government anything, particularly money, and are not obligated to give more than have already been paid in taxes or have been stolen from them by this government and the previous government over the last 50 years.

    Yall got some nerve.

  13. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    But then again after years of free education and health care i guess barbadians can proudly say we have a right to be entitled and noto to bother asking us for any thing

  14. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Bajans do not owe you anything, ya get the required taxes, you are the ones paid to collect them…..yall found a 2 billion surplus and a large, healthybNIS fund left by the previous government.

    ……Yall hungry, starving salmon tot retrievers, before 2008, mismanaged what ya did not manage to steal in 9 years….the treasury and pension fund are now nearly empty because of yall incompetence. …

    …..go beg Cow and Bizzy, Maloney et al for money, those are whom yall stole the taxpayers and pensioners money for. ..get it from them, thieves.

    The only reason Clare Cow-an of Cahill scam did not get any of the NIS pension money, she grew impatient and exposed yall as a corrupt government.

  15. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Steupsss @ AC
    Oh shut up yuh idiot!!

    …after years of free education and health care Bajans have a right to expect that ministers can multiply …and figure out decimals….. and we get scared when it becomes obvious that they CANNOT…. and are spending our damn taxes…

    …as to health care…. does that include mental? …and if so, why are you not being served?

  16. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Now go away…so that a group of people who really care about the majority black population who elect them and understand the meaning to governance, competence and creating jobs and wealth for the MAJORITY POPULATION……who knows what it means to do THEIR JOBS instead of kowtowing to a minority of crooks and scam artists…..go into the parliament…be gone.

  17. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    The As’s are too stupid to be alive though….bajans have been paying for their own healthcare and education…THROUGH PAYING TAXES….for decades, you stupid, backward yardfowl.

    The government is not entitled to iLLEGALLY ask the citizens for any money.

  18. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Bush Tea April 13, 2017 at 8:30 AM #

    “..…after years of free education and health care Bajans have a right to expect that ministers can multiply …and figure out decimals….. and we get scared when it becomes obvious that they CANNOT…. and are spending our damn taxes…”

    @ Bushie

    Your above comments reminded of comments attributed to Ryan Straughn as reported in the March 2, 2017 edition of Loop News:

    “Quite frankly, if you were to bring Alan Greenspan, Joseph Stiglitz and put them next to Owen Arthur on this council it will not make a difference because these fellas [the DLP administration] are not capable of understanding the issues, number one; and number two, they don’t listen. The quality of the advice is not the issue at all.”

  19. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    The sentiment throughout the island by intelligent people is the same…For decades these 2 nuisamce governments have been taking and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from their own people, to give to a few minorities in the island, who then create these mediocre, low paying jobs, hire a couple hundred blacks, treat them like slaves while pretending to be slave masters…….no blacks get these million dollar contracts to do any of the building or other work…and it’s their tax or pension money started the projects to begin with…..and both governments repeat this disenfranchisement of black people, the majority population every 5 years and have for decades.

    The people now see this clearly. ..these low class, no class government ministers are begging for millions from the black population to give away to minorities.

    The government cannot be trusted.

  20. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    Ok bozie keep destrying the country wid your negative shit one day there will be nothing to give or nothing to get

  21. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    The people do not need this governent, theynare better off without ya backwardness….yall are very destructive……the present governments of useless ministers destroyed the country with ya backward 16th century negative crap in yall heads, taking the country backward trying to impress , appease and enrich a gang of minority thieves…..when yall are gone, which cannot be soon enough, the new that will be elected will know that wicked slave minded shit cannot work anymore. …and is ugly when displayed by black governments.

    It’s a shame and disgrace that neither this government nor the previous one saw nothing wrong with their ignorant actions of stealing from and disenfranching their own people for decades to enrich minorities….in the 21st century..a blight and curse yall will carry to your graves, generations of future bajans will hear about the two, useless, trifling, petty governents who did not care about the present and future enrichment or developments of their own people and still carried the minds of slaves in the 21st century and expected their people to act as lowly paid slaves to a minority population of thieves who the goverments helped enrich, with the same disenfranchised people’s money……..a blighted legacy.

    The population on the island do not need these types of useless governments and i dont know who told their backward yardfowls that the people need them.

  22. David Avatar
    David

    It is instructive that so many Barbadians would pledge $10 in response to Lashley’s kite flying BEFORE details about the initiative is made public. A read of several auditor general reports encourages a cautious view by the public.

  23. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    David

    If you are correct about so many Bimmers willing to pledge $10.00 without the facts,then Bim has a Trumpian problem…….ducks guts.

  24. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    Wuh wait many are still waiting to hear from Mottley as to how much she collected and gave to the Dominician relief fund all that known is that there was money collected by her but no other details as to how much was given and how much was collected.
    So any blp operative who would now step up on the frontline to demean and crticize. Lashley suggestion need to have their mouths rinsed out with a heavy dose of antiseptic and also check your leadership of hiding behind closed doors

  25. David Avatar
    David

    The question we need to ask is if Lashley and the government should wait until after the imminent general elections to pursue the rebuild of a new stadium.

  26. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    The question that needs to be ask would be what avenues of financial source would the blp iniitate to rebuild a stadium that was in a deteriorated disarray under their watch and why did they refuse to do so when in office

  27. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    The blp donkeys know how to bray but all their braying is nothing more than useless chatter.

  28. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    As’ s….none of ya business, the current government will be gone, from creating more destruction for the people and island…begging citizens for money after stealing from them and over taxing them is a new low.

  29. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Chuckle…..5 years ago a promise of a new stadium funded by govt……..today just before elections a desperate need for 2M from the public to build a 20M stadium.

    Trumpian maths and logic at its best without plans or budget…….Laff it off…will have dialogue for years to come.

  30. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    Correction, the cost of the stadium is estimated at 50 million, he plans to build it in phases. Not sure how that will work -like the rusty backside of the Sherbourne Conference centre?

  31. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Lol…it would be hilarious if it was not such a disgrace, can you believe the nerve of this mediocre, fly by night, incompetent, deceitful government.

  32. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    Barbados governments do not properly manage and maintain infrastructure.

    Sherbourne Conference centre should have been expanded to become a profit making

    Exhibition / Conference centre.

  33. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    David

    Wuhloss….50M….and he wants 2M….hmmmmm…….laff it off….standby.

  34. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    I wonder if allowing the Stadium to run to ruin was a “business plan” ?

    There is not a lot of ” PROFIT ” in maintenance but a NEW project……..

  35. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Lashley and his government should demand a short pool from the commercial banks in Barbados, from the millions of dollars in profit which they amassed ,when the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank gave them the go ahead to slash the interest rates on Barbadian Deposit Savings accounts to almost 0%.
    This man has got some gall. On the eve of Good Friday, I would gladly supply him with the wine to go with the gall, and a cross and some nails, but not my Tendollar bill.

  36. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    David April 13, 2017 at 12:46 PM #
    The question we need to ask is if Lashley and the government should wait until after the imminent general elections to pursue the rebuild of a new stadium
    …………………………………………………………………………………………
    With Bizzy, COW ,Bjerkman and Maloney, most likely shying away from supporting these jokers at the next general election, funds, by any means would have to be obtained.

  37. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Today’s Brasstacks with Corey and his guest Ronnie Yearwood was refreshing if only for the valued inputs made by Yearwood and his no nonsense approach to accountability where it should be directed without let up.I share that view.Secondly,the call by the DLP sycophant Arthur who miracle of miracles put some warm lashes in Minister Stephen Lashley’s ‘gimme $10.00’ gimmick.Arthur who claims to have been au fait with the law because he worked in the civil service,says that Lashley,a lawyer,doesn’t know his law because what he is suggesting is illegal.The moderators were so dumbfounded by Arthur’s trumpian 180 degree turn that they we’re speeechless at the end of his contribution.All we heard was “Brasstacks” a la Canon George Andrew Hatch style back in the day.

  38. David Avatar
    David

    @Gabriel

    Yearwood echoed many views posted by the BU family. Let us wish him all the best in championing the cause. We need more to join the Comissiongs, Franklyns, Stephens et al.

  39. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    I keep saying ad nauseum that 98% ofthe lawyers in Barbados are mediocre and do not know the law…why am I not surprised to hear that “Ten Dollar” Lashley is a lawyer.

  40. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Vincent
    Skippa, you are missing the REAL ‘laugh-it-off’ moment….
    De man obviously thought that if each Bajan handed in a tendollar, he would end up with $20M…. i.e. that 200,000X 10 = 20,000,000.00
    Does Bushie have to spell it out for yuh!!!???
    …his maths is much like yours was at school….. LOL
    ha ha ha
    He like he got the same decimal-point issue as Stinkliar…..
    We can’t even blame the Minister of Eddykashun…. poor fella…he probably cannot even pronounce the word ‘decimal’…

    @ WW&C
    “I keep saying ad nauseum that 98% of the lawyers in Barbados are mediocre”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Nonsense!!
    Bushie hereby challenges you to name the 2% who are not….

    Shiite!!
    Name 1%……

  41. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Lol….

  42. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Bushie

    Ah made the decimal point story long ago…..you obviously did not learn under Rubbernut.

  43. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    David
    I notice do that he offered himself to the St James South constituency branch of the Bees 🐝 however he was stung by Sandra.Hearing him for the first time today parliament can do with this no nonsense aggressive style.People like Lowe would leave the chamber when Yearwood has the eye of the chair.

  44. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Vincent Haynes April 13, 2017 at 4:27 PM
    “Ah made the decimal point story long ago…..you obviously did not learn under Rubbernut.”

    That’s Master Thorn(e) for you, Vincent Garçon! Despite the comical distractions caused by the likes of Bushie under the ‘disruptive’ influence of that twin of teasers Husbands & Mayers Rubbernut would still have succeeded in his pedagogical endeauvour to ensure that even Stinkliar and the other arithmetically-challenged Lashley would have ‘graduated’ from Form 3 knowing the difference between $10.00 x 200,000 and $100.00 x 200,000 to arrive at $20 million for his dream-world stadium.

    Now look what the Barrow experiment has finally produced!

    Two dumb-ass donkeys that don’t know the difference between six (6) and half-dozen of pitching marbles but are responsible for the economic and cultural direction of a country cursed by an oversupply of brass-bowls à la Bushman design.

    Imagine you were an employer and having to find the monthly cash-flow to pay salaries for that twin of intellectual excreta! What would you do, Vincent?

    You mean that king clown of sport could not have tapped into his intellectually challenged bank of imagination and creativity- in which EWB and Wynter Crawford would have deposited in abundance- and come up with a more appealing (but more importantly, legal and administratively practical) set of proposals to finance the building of a sports and cultural complex?

    How would the $10.00 (or is it $100.00 per head including the 100,000 voluntarily idle) be collected and paid into the Consolidated Fund at the Treasury and not in the bottomless bank on George Street?

    Couldn’t he have thought about imposing a small levy on petrol and diesel to demonstrate further support for alternative energy and a healthy environment?

    What about introducing a special lottery for the stadium or even recommend a proposal to ring-fence the upcoming increase in the sweet drink tax to help build the stadium?

    Can’t the vertically challenged beggar get off his high horse of wishful thinking by approaching the country’s new loan-shark benefactor and ‘obsequiously’ demand that the millions of grant money- ‘given’ by the Chinese since 2012 to his brother of taller tales Stinkliar to construct the Performing Arts Centre at Brandons be diverted to build the Lashing sporting hall of failure and forget about the Empire Cinema beer hall and the Hyatt erection dedicated to the airy-fairy god of scam finance Priapus More Money Maloney the voyeuristic king of NIS funds?

  45. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ Miller
    BU was missing you…..
    …and is is Master HR Thorne to Vincent… if yuh please.

  46. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    What you say makes sense so it will never happen Miller.

    “Ten Dollar” Lashley will continue to try collecting that money from the citizens illegally,

  47. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Miller

    Chuckle……..I have fond memories of Mr Thorne….I recall his first day asking all of us where we came from and who our parents were……on my response,his reply was……yes,I taught your father….he was bright boy.

    Sadly my love of Maths did not materialise under him but in another island under another wizard of Maths and ever since have gloried in it.

    If you listened to Brasstacks yesterday you would have heard the foremost defender of this govt,Arthur castigating the MoS on his $10.00 scheme/scam and saying it was illegal,etc,etc.

    The two obvious ways of raising funds would be either the LOTTO(The same way Jaycees through their BINGO raised funds for the original one) or through Crowdfunding by an NGO with the Diaspora and friends of Bim worldwide as the target audience……none of this is rocket science but both tried and proven.

    We just have to ensure that no govt gets it hands on any of it.

  48. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    The man who was on brass stacks yesterday sounded like a political sniper wanting ti tell people how to think act or respond to Lashley suggestion
    His constant bombarding of callers with a differening point of view was pathetic and his ongoing tirade about Democratic rules and guidelines regarding the initiative was hideous.
    In a democracy all have a right to free speech and their is no one perspective which is deliberate in forming an opinion
    Yesterday most of his attempt was that of trying to dumbdown any caller who dare to disagree with his perspective using so called information which he perceives as relevant before a differing point of view should be heard.

  49. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea April 14, 2017 at 10:33 AM

    Glad you are having an eye out for a fellow “UP and On” gold-plated brass-bowl.

    Still above and not below and right in the heartland observing the behaviour of your albino-centric cousins.

    You of all people should know your extended family.

    After all, they are the favourite among all of your BBE humanoids. Just look at how easily you have been indoctrinated into believing that BBE is an albino in the sky with a blue-eye blond (h)air son who was crucified 2017 years minus 33 degress ago on a cross representing the four major points of the compass called Mother Earth.

    But we will not take the mickey out of you on your sacred day of albino-written fictitious play of astrological passion. Vincent~ the in-betweener~ from the Haynes plantation should understand.

    We would leave that up to your man Pachamama who made the most profound revelation only a few days ago.

    May Light perpetual smile on you and your sweet crucified Jesus who like his Father in the Sky would rise in glory come SUNday morn.

  50. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Bushie and Miller

    I note none of the two of you have congratulated our fellow “up and on”er,former airline exec,former politician,former car salesman and now newly minted preacher…..

    The right Reverend… Joseph Onesimus Tudor aka Johny……

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