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Hal Gollop’s 1.5 Million Dollar Invoice

The Hal Gollop 1.5 million invoice

The following was posted to BU on another blog and worthy of penetrating discussion afforded a separate blog-space.

William. Please post the following info as well. Firstly, the BWA bought the land on which the building is located over 15 years ago and under the NHC Act. So the notion that he had to regularise the title to the land is absurd.

Secondly, Clarke Gittens and Farmer, the law firm which worked for the financier and whose legal fees the BWA also had to pay and who prepared ALL of the documentation) charged $275,000.00.

Thirdly, the BWA found the bill to be so large, that they had to pay the fees in installments.

Michael Carrington invoiced the BIDC fees of $1,000,000.00 for sale of a building at Newton Roundabout.

Michael Yearwood charged the SSA $1,500,000.00 for the Cahill project, when the SSA Board did not even have any knowledge of the project.

Richard Byer, a DLP member, charged Caves $750,000.00 for work which, when it was first done under the BLP, the fee was only $30,000.00. Same work, but the fee is $720,000.00 more.

But David Thompson led from in front, as any good leader would. According to the CLICO forensic report, Thompson charged CLICO $2,000,000.00 for the purchase of CCB, and the he charged CLICO a fraudulent and wholly fictitious $3,300,000.00 for work that did not even exist.

And we have to ask how much Adrian King, son of Maurice King, charged Clearwater Bay Limited ( the government entity) that guaranteed the loan to The Four Seasons project? Some say $5,000,000.00

198 responses to “Hal Gollop’s 1.5 Million Dollar Invoice”

  1. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=imgres&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiCscLrk6XUAhVL2IMKHQXOD-wQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbarbadosfreepress.wordpress.com%2Ftag%2Fbarbados-political-corruption%2F&psig=AFQjCNFPnXclNVH1oEV5tY4hHr0MC2l4HQ&ust=1496698848653480

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  2. David Avatar
    David

    It is absolutely amazing how yardfowls will defend obvious graft under both political parties. Not too long ago it was about the BLP and David Shorey/Hallam Nicholls, Hardwood and 3S etc. Under the DLP we have a few earning extraordinary fees and contracts. Does anything ever change?

  3. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    Go ahead and include the purchase of a brand new Mercedes automobile valued in excess of $700,000, delivered to the prime minister two days after the latest austerity budget, then factor in the millions of dollars unaccounted for at the BRA. These on the back of our poor-rakey ministers reinstating their salary forfeitures because the economy is now recovering so strongly. No wonder the MoF wants to widen the tax net to include street vendors.

  4. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    They are thieves, plain and simple and no amount of million dollar bank accounts, Mercedes or big houses or ill gotten plantation properties can clean that up.

    They are well aware that no fraud can be established and unless they can be locked up, they will continue these thefts of taxpayer’s money and pensioners money for decades.

  5. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    The Barbados Lawyer Party can’ wait ta tek over ..

  6. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    The Emoluments Report does not give clear information on Consultancies and Studies that are commissioned by Government.

    The consultants and administrative class is making Bajans shite.

  7. bajans Avatar
    bajans

    Is that how legal invoices are presented in Barbados? I would have sent it back! I would need to see the hours spent on each task and the hourly rate. That is how we pay invoices for lawyers up here. No wonder every second Bajan wants to be some lawyer.

  8. racehrse Avatar
    racehrse

    The man is one of the biggest crooks on the island along with his son. To that add the smaller deals where he short changed ordinary hard working clientele. I think Carrington took classes from him, along with some of the members of the Employment Rights Tribunal. You know what they say about lawyers, the good ones are no longer walking this earth!

  9. mitchlans Avatar
    mitchlans

    Our Prime Minister certainly has some very interesting ‘pals’.

  10. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    BU is serving its purpose but we must step up the game plan for developments like this to be exposed and be subjected to investigation. Monies that are not properly accounted is reason enough for the persons behind their consent to be questioned and held accountable. This is why Mia Mottley must not be given a free, unrestricted ride into Prime Minister chair. One shite leader that is deceptive, manipulative and pretensive is enough. Imagine if we get a second.

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

    After the Leroy Parris CLICO thefts of millions of dollars of policyholder’s money, you would think that Fruendel would find himself some new friends and he woukd have if he had any ethics or integrity, seems like all his friends from the 60s are prone to stealing millions of dollars….from the people, through questionable invoices and fraudulent means.

  12. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    While we fiddle in this forum about the reputation of fellow Barbadians, in the Nation a leading Muslim propagandist, one Suleiman Bulbalia, continues on his merry path refusing to condemn militant Islam.
    Apart from the Nation, he is given an unquestioned weekly column in Barbados Today to promote his brand of Islam.
    At no time has there been a national debate about Muslims in Barbados, apart from the fiction that because many of them have been born in Barbados they are therefore Barbadians. It is not true. Although born in Barbados, the state has the power to withdraw citizenry from any such person.
    Citizenship is not a right, but a privilege as both the Germans and British have shown by withdrawn the right of residence from people born in those countries who went to the Middle East to take part in terror.
    In a small society like Barbados, we must be strict, and speeches, propaganda, unexplained visits to Pakistan, Saudi and other hot beds should bee good enough reasons to render such persons stateless.
    Militancy is not all, corruption is also key in the way they operate. But as long as we continue to believe, erroneously, that our Muslims are good Muslims, we will eventually pay a price. Just ask the Fijians.

  13. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    It’s amazing and frightening how creative government ministers, lawyers/politicians,  insurance executives and business people can all get when colluding and conspiring to steal from policyholders,  taxpayers and pensioners to help ruin the economy, hide their stolen money and cover up their crimes effectively preventing any prosecution for their hundreds of millions in theft, fraud and money laundering to enrich themselves…….but these same criminals are totally incapable of any competence, effectiveness or creativity in fixing the economy to benefit the population they continuously steal from and disenfranchise.

    Something is fundamentally wrong with that decades old practice.

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

    Ha, Ha Austin….the UK need to withdraw their citizenship from you.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @SSS

    The issue here as explained by Jeff on the other blog is that once the two parties consent to the payment there is hardly grounds for criminal proceedings. It is more an unethical and immoral act. If we are to judge by Michael Carrington’s transaction there is no moral justice among the political class and supporters.

  16. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    Hal is right ..one event like in britain and any island will be a tourist ghost town.. the govt should get ahead of the curve it is not a coincidence non integration and high unemployment seems to be a common thread there is an upside to islamic takeover WW will have to wear a burka

  17. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ Hal Austin

    Although I share your concern about Muslim extremists, (and I also have a similar fear of Religious extremists, political extremists, homosexual extremists, racist extremists (which is prevalent in Barbados) and the list could go on and on), I have heard Suleiman Bulbulia and other prominent Muslims “condemn militant Islam” on numerous occasions.

    I’m forced to remind you of your contributions as follows:

    “Hal Austin May 30, 2017 at 3:17 AM #: In the case of Mr Parris, if the state has a case against him they must bring charges. Otherwise the WHISPERS and PUBLIC ABUSE are not only UNDEMOCRATIC, but INFRINGES his human rights.”

    “Hal Austin May 30, 2017 at 8:55 AM #: I know Barbadian REASONING is SUCH THAT to be ACCUSED is to be GUILTY. Ask those 13 yr old school kids now before the courts.”

    For you to ACCUSE Bulbulia of being “a leading Muslim propagandist” and imply he is condoning terrorism because, in your misguided opinion, he is “refusing to condemn militant Islam,” are you not EQUALLY as GUILTY of “fiddling in this forum with the reputation of fellow Barbadians,” and even more so, since you have gone on your “merry path” of extremity and fear mongering?

    Against the background of you reminding us about the “legal definitions” of “evidence and hearsay,” which you seem to use in situations convenient to your particular agenda, what evidence can you present to this forum that you used as a basis to categorically state Bulbulia is a “Muslim propagandist” and imply he is condoning militant Muslim extremists?

    Also, according to you, without first having “evidence tested and cross examined in court,” then surely you must accept that until such time, your characterization of the man has to be based on “hearsay.”

    Although you know “Barbadian reasoning is such that to be accused is to be guilty,” yet, for purposes of expressing your personal agenda, you have found Bulbulia guilty of your self-imposed crimes.

    Under these circumstances, “your whispers and public abuse are not only undemocratic, but infringes his human rights” to religion.

    Unless you are suggesting Leroy Parris and Hal Gollop are deserving of human rights than any other Barbadian?

    Hal Austin, you made the rules, so play the game accordingly. You have demonstrated that there are not any fundamental differences between named and anonymous contributors. Both can be equally insulting and discourteous to other contributors.

  18. Bajan Free Party/CUP Violet Beckles Plantation Deeds from 1926-2017 land tax bills and no Deeds,BLPand DLP Massive land Fruad and PONZ Avatar
    Bajan Free Party/CUP Violet Beckles Plantation Deeds from 1926-2017 land tax bills and no Deeds,BLPand DLP Massive land Fruad and PONZ

    Sunshine Sunny Shine June 5, 2017 at 1:10 AM #

    BU is serving its purpose but we must step up the game plan for developments like this to be exposed and be subjected to investigation. Monies that are not properly accounted is reason enough for the persons behind their consent to be questioned and held accountable. This is why Mia Mottley must not be given a free, unrestricted ride into Prime Minister chair. One shite leader that is deceptive, manipulative and pretensive is enough. Imagine if we get a second.@@

    SSS, you ot to know better than that, We have been telling you all for years and base on our postings we have not change but added, If you think BU is here for that or ever wanted deep change think again, Please think it was not long ago whee information was removed, You get this or you don’t, This is not a flag changing directions at will.,We even answer 99%of questions asked, You maybe better off asking ND.Both parties must be removed to cleanup Barbados, Who cook fresh food in a dirty pot?

  19. Bajan Free Party/CUP Violet Beckles Plantation Deeds from 1926-2017 land tax bills and no Deeds,BLPand DLP Massive land Fruad and PONZ Avatar
    Bajan Free Party/CUP Violet Beckles Plantation Deeds from 1926-2017 land tax bills and no Deeds,BLPand DLP Massive land Fruad and PONZ

    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger June 5, 2017 at 5:46 AM #

    It’s amazing and frightening how creative government ministers, lawyers/politicians, insurance executives and business people can all get when colluding and conspiring to steal from policyholders, taxpayers and pensioners to help ruin the economy, hide their stolen money and cover up their crimes effectively preventing any prosecution for their hundreds of millions in theft, fraud and money laundering to enrich themselves…….but these same criminals are totally incapable of any competence, effectiveness or creativity in fixing the economy to benefit the population they continuously steal from and disenfranchise.

    Something is fundamentally wrong with that decades old practice.@

    I use this, well said,and still others will not wake up or reufuse to see or to get it, Same game different parties, Maybe the people born in the last 25 years will wake up and remove their parants crooks from office,

  20. Bajan Free Party/CUP Violet Beckles Plantation Deeds from 1926-2017 land tax bills and no Deeds,BLPand DLP Massive land Fruad and PONZ Avatar
    Bajan Free Party/CUP Violet Beckles Plantation Deeds from 1926-2017 land tax bills and no Deeds,BLPand DLP Massive land Fruad and PONZ

    BAFBFP June 4, 2017 at 7:57 PM #

    The Barbados Lawyer Party can’ wait ta tek over .

    .@@@ the laws made by crooks, liar and scumbag lawyers were made to you be used against the People as another form of TAX, Nothing to do with Justice.All the laws needed are on the books but never used, Thisis why they need to be removed and charged,

  21. Popo Avatar
    Popo

    EB-ICS-DL@state.gov
    Last Published: 11/2/2016
    Corruption is generally not a major problem in Barbados, but some U.S. companies have reported unfair treatment by Barbados’ Customs and Excise Department. Other U.S. companies have reported efforts by political actors to trade political support for payment or partial project ownership.

    In 2012, Barbados enacted the Prevention of Corruption Act (2010), which repealed an outdated law from the 1920s. The Prevention of Corruption Act (2010) contains some provisions for Integrity in Public Life. There is no separate Integrity legislation.

    In June 2015, twelve Commonwealth Caribbean countries including Barbados established a new regional body to enhance transparency and to help fight corruption. The formation of the Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies in the Commonwealth Caribbean was heralded as a major step forward in regional efforts to support integrity and address corruption. It is hoped that the new body will help to further strengthen public confidence in cross-border initiatives to enhance accountability, knowledge sharing and coordination.

    Resources to Report Corruption
    ORGANIZATION: Financial Intelligence Unit
    ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1372, Bridgetown
    TELEPHONE NUMBER: 246-436-4734
    EMAIL ADDRESS: fiu@barbadosfiu.gov.bb
    ORGANIZATION: Anti-Money Laundering Authority
    ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1372, Bridgetown
    TELEPHONE NUMBER: 246-436-4734
    EMAIL ADDRESS: amla@sunbeach.net

    Prepared by our U.S. Embassies abroad. With its network of 108 offices across the United States and in more than 75 countries, the U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce utilizes its global presence and international marketing expertise to help U.S. companies sell their products and services worldwide. Locate the U.S. Commercial Service trade specialist in the U.S. nearest you by visiting http://export.gov/usoffices.

  22. Popo Avatar
    Popo

    UN Anticorruption Convention, OECD Convention on Combatting Bribery
    Barbados has not signed or ratified the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters. Barbados signed, but not yet ratified, the UN Convention on Corruption and the Inter-American Convention against Corruption.

  23. Popo Avatar
    Popo

    The Freundel Stuart administration is not interested in pursuing anti-corruption legislation at present because it is not a priority, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite said.

    Brathwaite played down the stance taken by University of the West Indies political scientist Cynthia Barrow-Giles who indicated at a recent event that corruption was part of the political culture here, encouraged by the country’s penchant for furtiveness.

    She added that the problem could not be solved by switching to a republican form of Government.

    “There is corruption in this country, but we hide behind it because this country thrives on secrecy,” the lecturer in Comparative Government and Politics told a panel discussion last Tuesday at Ellerslie Secondary School on the topic: Should Barbados become a Republic – a Cross to Bear or Crown to Wear?

    But Brathwaite countered that corruption was not a major problem in Barbados and it was too costly to pursue legislation against something that was not much of an issue.

    “The issue with that is we do have a draft [legislation] in place. But it really calls for the setting up of a significant department in order to police the reports, do your analysis etcetera. But at a time when you are talking about cutting back on expenses, etcetera, it just didn’t seem to be priority to create a whole new department to deal with an issue that, when one looks at our reports etcetera, you would see that corruption is not a significant issue in Barbados,” he told Barbados TODAY this afternoon.

    “And the question really was, do we really need to spend the money on this department at this point in time? That is really what it came down to, I think.”

    The Minister of Legal Affairs said Government remained committed to enacting legislation to fight corruption, “but as I said, it is a question of cost and priority”.

    Brathwaite said this legislation was not the only victim of the country’s financial squeeze. He made reference to a Law Revision section in the Ministry of the Attorney General which has had to be shelved because “it calls for some additional resources”.

    “I am a very practical man . . . . Maybe we would have another look at it next year when things improve. You got to be practical about these things,” the administration’s chief legal adviser said.

    “Corruption is not a major issue in Barbados. If you look at how we do in terms of world corruption . . . anti-corruption index, you see Barbados always scores quite high. The irony about the whole thing is that you have countries that have everything in place; the legislation in place, anti-corruption commission in place and don’t do any well as Barbados,” Brathwaite argued.

    He described discussion on the subject and other issues which he did not list as “stupid noises” and stressed that he understood “from a practical perspective” why the ruling Democratic Labour Party Government had not kept some of its promises.

    Barbados did not appear on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2015 released on January 27, 2016.

    During last Tuesday’s discussion Barrow-Giles said certain institutions needed to be put in place that would expose the corruption which takes place in this country.

    “I’ve heard the Prime Minister of Barbados say in 2013 – he said so again in 2014 – that there is vote buying taking place in this country. If there is vote buying taking place in this country, then we need to move to stamp out the vote buying,” she told the audience.

    Barrow-Giles has authored of a number of books, including, General Elections and Voting in the English Speaking Caribbean: 1992-2005.

    emmanueljoseph@barbadostoday.bb

  24. Popo Avatar
    Popo

    OBJECTS AND REASONS
    This Bill makes provision for the prevention of corruption and
    the implementation of
    (a) the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption adopted on
    29th March, 1996 in Caracas, Venezuela;
    (b) Articles 8 and 9 of the United Nations Convention Against
    Transnational Organized Crime relating to Corruption adopted on
    29th September, 2003 in New York; and
    (c) the United Nations Convention Against Corruption adopted
    on 31st October, 2003 in New York,
    to which Barbados is a signatory and for related matters.

    http://www.easterncaribbeanlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Prevention-of-Corruption-Bill-20101.pdf

  25. David Avatar
    David

    Around and around the mulberry bush we go.

    davidsimmons

    Sir David speaks of high level of corruption in Barbados

    BY GAYNELLE MARSHALL ON 16TH AUGUST 2016TOP STORIES

    There is a high level of corruption in Barbados and it is high time Barbadians admit it in order to combat the problem, former Chief Justice Sir David Simmons charged.

    Appearing MondY as a guest on the radio talk show Down To Brass Tacks on Starcom Network, Sir David did not cite specific examples, but he said the problem was not new.

    “I have been walking around telling the country that for years, but we have been denying it. I think there is a lot of evidence but it seems to be more than a perception of corruption at all kinds of level in this society,” the former Attorney General under a Barbados Labour Party administration told his audience.

    Sir David did not say how rife the problem was when he was in Government. However, he was emphatic that Barbadians had swept it under the carpet for much too long and that the problem was worsening over time, in both Government and the private sector.

    “More and more we are having evidence that there is probably a genuine increase in the incidence of corrupt practices both at the private sector and the public sector levels.

    “The bribers are usually the people in the private sector. All the big international companies that get exposed from time to time, they would have bribed the politician who is then held up to ridicule and exposed and often a lot of them get away. They are the ones in the wrong. You have to look at the briber and the “bribee, ” the former Member of Parliament for St Thomas said.

    The retired jurist recommended that Barbados follows the examples of Jamaica and Trinidad and establish a branch of the global anti-corruption agency Transparency International (TI) here. He also volunteered to give evidence if TI were invited here “to carry out a proper study”.

    While acknowledging that some changes had been made to the Prevention of Corruption Act, he said the legislation was still antiquated and needed to be modernized.

    In any event, Sir David stressed, corruption existed essentially in people’s attitudes.

    “You are either corrupt or you are not corrupt. You are either corruptible or you are not. If it is known that somebody would take a couple of dollars to do a favour which as a public person, they ought to do as a matter of routine, as a necessary part of your functioning, then people would prey on that weakness,” Sir David said.

  26. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Cops probe threat on Facebook

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/97483/cops-probe-threat-facebook

  27. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    David,
    Physicians charge exorbitant fees; and have been for years, over 30,000 for operations, high fees for subsequent follow up visits. To Bajans; wherever up here is, lawyers fees ar in the vicinity of three hundred dollars an hour, or higher depending on the brief they have to work on, or the client. Big corporations or government, Federal or Provincial, get charged higher fees than others. Insurance companies get charged differently. There is also a published schedule of fees for certain cases.Check it out.

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

    In keeping on this topic of national interest, instead of these stupidly distracting and useless rants of either “deport muslims” or “unmask anonymous bloggers”….I repeat.

    First ……. a very clear message has to be sent by the people to politicians/government ministers and their friends, their lawyer colleagues, business people and minorities, particularly local and especially foreign minorities who all believe they are entitled to steal bajan taxpayer’s and pensioners money by the hundreds of millions of dolllars…..that they are not entitled, not only should they be exposed, but locked up for a long prison time, none of them have any conscience and delight in stealing money to which none of them are entitled. 

    Who better than Simmons to know the level of corruption on the island, am sure he has hidden  documents as proof on each and every one of them as firmer AG and CJ…as they would have on him, but to be used only in the event of any of them talking…self-preservation, nothing to do with caring for the people on the island or fully exposing and stopping the corruption to benefit the people.

  29. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    David,
    “The bribers are usually the people in the private sector. All the big international companies that get exposed from time to time, they would have bribed the politician who is then held up to ridicule and exposed and often a lot of them get away.”
    This is most pertinent. It happens all over he world. This is why Michael Flynn is in so much trouble now. Integrity is in the mind of the corruptible, or incorruptible.

  30. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Alvin…which doctor or  you know in Canada charged 1.5 million dollars for a few visits or 3.3 million dollars fir legal consultations…which government department you know  pays millions unless it’s consulting fees tied to 5 or 10 year contracts which actually produces positive results and not criminal, fraudulent wholesale theft of taxpayer’s and pensioners money.

    Bring your proof yardfowl.

    Someone from the Harper government had to take the fall for missing millions.

  31. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    What did Bushie tell you about Alvin….?!!

  32. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Is this why there were changes at the top at BWA earlier this year?If so it appears as though the octogenarian dribbler at the top survived whatever calamity befell the other 3 guys.Pray tell what good comes from an 82 year old chairman when a high court judge got to go home at 70 and a Chief Justice by 72 and a big able archbishop ‘o the West Indies by 70 but a politician can employ and put at the head of a serious life sustaining water company an old guy with no new ideas other than a loyal member of the Fatted Calf Brigade,big rope chain ghetto style in all.

  33. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Alvin…which doctor or lawyer you know in Canada charged 1.5 million dollars for a few visits or 3.3 million dollars fir legal consultations…..bring your proof.

    In your yardfowl mind it happens all over the world, so under DLP it must be more disgustingly corrupt, have less integrity, steal more money and drive an even more expensive mercedes….at the people’s expense and that is fine by you cause ya are a lowly yardfowl….sickening.

  34. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Unlike others we read and ignore some comments after the first esentence 🙂

    And unlike the other ac he does not engage in bombastic behaviour, aan indication of good home training. We respect that!

  35. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    Granted…. he is a decent chap.

  36. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    That is why the “decent chap” should bring proof….google is available.

  37. Interesting Avatar
    Interesting

    Clarke Gittens Farmer deserved every cent they charged as they drafted ALL the documents including the documents that Gollop claims he prepared and even tried to save the government funds by taking out clauses which would benefit certain Ministers directly (i.e. finders fees).Clarke Gittens Farmer’s invoice was addressed to and paid by Innotech and not BWA, if the Innotech then sent the bill to BWA that is another story.

  38. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Good lawyers have a job on their hands owing to the notoriety of the profession everywhere.

    http://guyanachronicle.com/2017/05/31/ram-rails-against-unscrupulous-lawyers

  39. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    There worst anybody who seems to feel them self as Black could be is a modern day slave

    The kind of slave who would be critical of Muslims because they are Muslims. Where were these slaves when millions of Muslims were being murdered in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, elsewhere, by Christian armies, on Bush’s crusades.

    For them, there are no useful idiots as misguided by some, including Western countries to promote their geo-political interests, historically using terrorism as a means of war. The British!

    It was the very British who implemented some of the most grotesque acts of state terrorism against the peoples of the South.

    Those included the removal of genitalia. The forceable removal of peoples from ancestral homelands. And on and on. Is that not the real terrorism.

    But the terrorists they don’t like are to be the extremists. For them the ‘good’ terrorist are those who serve their interests. Like in Syria!

    Trump just signed 400 billion dollars in deals with Saudi Arabia the centre for the global Wahhabi, Deash orientation. Not a word of criticism from the Black, ugly slave in the mother country.

    That is the nature of an ugly Black man begging lodgings in Britain.

    The USA has its fifth fleet stationed in Qatar. A country, only today, other British sponsored terrorist states have now broken diplomatic relations with on account of terrorist involvement.

    This same Qatar has just contracted to buy 100 billion in weapons from the Americans alone.

    BAE Systems and other weapons companies, of which the British Prime Minister’s husband has close and deep ‘contacts’ routinely sell weapons to countries who are well known to provide same to Deash.

    This is surreal!

    Imagine, the western masterminds of terrorism and their mindless slaves are now accusing others of their own historic crimes.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    @Gabriel

    Then it is incumbent on the profession to efficiently self police. It is the reason why many are impatient with the lack of effectiveness of the Disciplinary Committee as one example.

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

    This corruption and wholesale theft from the people cannot continue, something has to give.

    Lawson….wear what burqa what, I would turn all muslim men into strippers.

  42. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    @ David 6:13 AM

    And who are these consenting parties in the scenarios outlined above ? From whence did they get these powers? As principal can I recover the excessive fees from my agents? Because that is who they are? They are acting on behalf of me, the taxpayer.
    There has to be more in the mortar than this simple legalistic conclusion.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    @Bernard

    Do we have the power of recall built in to our laws?

    If the party acting on behalf of government (Innotech) and Gollop (law firm) agree to a fee how can it be prosecuted as illegal? We can’t even get the Auditor General findings acted on. Where were the financial rules ignored in this case.

  44. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    WW& C 10 : 04 am

    Lawson fetch the burqa quickly . We cannot have all these Muslim and pseudo Muslim men running about Barbados naked.

  45. Redman Avatar
    Redman

    Fumbles & Gollop.
    Messenger boy Sinkcler.
    Forensic audits..
    Invoice lacking clarity & detail (amateur hour).
    We like it so..

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    @David June 4, 2017 at 6:50 PM “It is absolutely amazing how yardfowls will defend obvious graft under both political parties. Not too long ago it was about the BLP and David Shorey/Hallam Nicholls, Hardwood and 3S etc. ”

    Not forgetting, Owen Arthur’s good buddy Rodney Wilkinson.

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    In a place where I used to work I was presented with something like this (not the same large number, but a number which was 3 times as high as the next nearest number) It was from an acquaintance of mine (whom I thought of as a friend) I had to tell her straight “it don’t work so, not with the tax payer’s money.”

    We are friends still.

    I love my family and friends, but there is a firm limit to that love.

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    @FearPlay June 4, 2017 at 7:20 PM “No wonder the MoF wants to widen the tax net to include street vendors.”

    If street vendors are earning more that $20,000 per year, they SHOULD pay income taxes.

    If they don’t then those of us working for wages have to pay more.

    Tell me why should a clerk or cashier working for $20,001 per year pay taxes, and a roadside vendor working for $40,000 per year pay none?

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    @mitchlans June 4, 2017 at 11:33 PM “Our Prime Minister certainly has some very interesting ‘pals’.”

    Is this man and Leroy Parris the friends of the pastor from Marchfield?

    No wonder some of us have stopped going to church.

    We can’t stomach the dealings of the church people and their friends.

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    @Hal Austin June 5, 2017 at 4:20 AM “While we fiddle in this forum about the reputation of fellow Barbadians, in the Nation a leading Muslim propagandist, one Suleiman Bulbalia, continues on his merry path refusing to condemn militant Islam.”

    All violence is bad. We must never forget that even while today’s violent Islamists (no friends of mine) are today’s terrorists, that for the period 1492 to 1898 (when slavery was abolished in Brazil) that the European Christians were the violent terrorists. If you have children think about how terrorised parents felt when for hundreds of years the slave ships turned up on the west coast of Africa. And those who manned the slave ships were like today’s Islamists extremely religious people.

    I have no use for those religions born in the Middle East.

    Those religions have irredeemably contaminated the world.

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