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Hal Gollop’s 1.5 Million Dollar 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…

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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. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @lawson June 5, 2017 at 6:15 AM “WW will have to wear a burka”

    Maybe she would rather wear a burka than have a toad look at her beauty.

    Who the cap fits…

  2. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Bush Tea June 5, 2017 at 8:57 AM “Granted…he is a decent chap.”

    You smoking something strange today?

  3. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    I am planning to write a fairytale about lawyers, which, by the way, has no relation to anything that is going on or ever happened in Barbados as far as I know. I now propose to give BU followers a preview.

    Once upon a time in a far-away land that had a legal system similar to the one which exists in Barbados there was a lawyer who came to the profession in her old age. She was determined to become wealthy by hook or by CROOK before the Grim Reaper put in his appearance.

    One day a traveller came to this far-away land and liked it and decided to do some business there. The traveller did not know any lawyers in the far-away land and his enquiries led him to this old lawyer, who, by the way, was always a dunce that is why she only became a lawyer in her old age.

    One day the traveller entrusted this old miserable lawyer with the princely sum of $750,000 but the temptation was too great for the old lady and the money promptly went missing. After several unsuccessful attempts to recover the money, the traveller reported the matter to the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal.

    The matter was adjourned and lucky for the old crooked lawyer, she had a very influential friend who could steer work in her direction. The influential friend was able to get a contract for the lawyer where she had to do very little work but could charge almost $2 million.

    The traveller was refunded, the influential friend was able to get a cut and the lawyer still came out smelling like a rose. The matter before the tribunal was discontinued.

    The end for now.

  4. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Caswell Franklyn June 5, 2017 at 11:42 AM “a lawyer who came to the profession in her old age.”

    OBJECTION: That lawyer in far-away-land had to be a man.

    Just sayin’

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

    “Those religions have irredeemably contaminated the world.”

    Definitely…all religions are contaminants.

  6. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Lol…Bernard…adult entertainment, we can even throw in Wonder Boy Grenville.

  7. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    HOLD YOUR PEACE HAL

    Let Mia say what she said in the House out side of the house.

    Simple.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    David Ellis summed up the issue well today, this government rushes to label all criticism as BLP.

  9. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    If Richard Byer was included, then surely there is a spot for Hal Gollop in “Lawyers in the News.”

  10. David Avatar
    David

    How does government both central and Para statal select law firms (lawyers) to represent it’s affairs? There was the argument that large law firms are preferred by large entities because of the breath of expertise and resources available. Are these mom and pop law firms set up with adequate liabilty insurance cover for example?

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

    I dont think Mia has to say what she already said inside parliament outside of parliament, again,  there is the added proof which bajans had suspected for years and now the world knows.

    Her job is to use her parliamentary privelege to expose the corrupt government ministers and once elected have each and every one investigated and consequently arrested for their crimes….that is her job, sge owes that to the  people. ..and if any of the ministers had integrity, they would clean up the corruption, but they are all greedy and dishonest. 

    Looks like that one really hurt Carson…ya think corruption can be protected forever nothing lasts forever.

  12. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    I remember an article in Barbados Today calling her a :LIAR.

    AND SHE GOT VEX.

    I cant understand how calling a LIAR, A LIAR, could upset a LIAR so.

    She cant prove ONE single thing she said , that is why she SAID what she said in the House and no where else.

    She is a COWARD.

    Plus up to this day she has not produced her Legal qualifications and made them a DOCUMENT OF THE HOUSE as challenged by the HON. DR. DENNIS LOWE in the House.

    MIA AMOR MOTTLEY is a bare blowhard.

  13. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    you delete my TRUTHFUL comment, but it does not change anything.

    The matter under Royal Barbados Police investigation.

  14. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    Simple Simon @11: 13 AM

    Surely the good Lord did not throw away the mould after making such a person with integrity like you. I am sure that with Permanent Secretaries, CEOs and Board Chairmen in the Public sector with your qualities, there would be no need for ineffective integrity legislation. It is all about civic responsibility ,courage and resolve to do what we know to be right.

    The religions that are alleged to have come to us from the Middle East did not contaminate man. Man contaminated them. The good Lord does not prevent us from creating our own systems of belief and moral codes so stop blaming religions. They work for those who believe them.

  15. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    An interesting article:

    Trump picks Christian pro-life conservative to replace homosexual as Army Secretary

    April 5, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — President Trump has chosen a Tea Party, pro-life conservative Christian and former U.S. Army flight surgeon as Secretary of the Army in a move that LGBTQ activists denounced, according to news sources.
    If approved by the Senate, Tennessee State Sen. Mark Green, a Clarksville Republican, would fill the spot occupied by Eric Fanning, who was appointed in 2016 by former President Obama as the first “out” homosexual to hold the post.

  16. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ WW&C

    Judging from his REALLY stupid one-hour speech after the budget, Froon was particularly stung by Mia’s disclosure of the Hall Gollop highway robbery. It hurt him to the core….

    One wonders why…?

    Perhaps, if he is so attached to Gollop, he can find out for Bushie what is the background to the visit to Mrs Smith just prior to her disappearance and subsequent murder – by Hal and an accomplice of his…..

    Bushie does not believe is any shiite coincidences…

    …or perhaps Carson has that information….. Cause it does not seem as if the authorities are particularly concerned about getting to the bottom of this mystery murder.

  17. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ WW&C

    Don’t mind Cadogan, Mottley said she does not have any plans to legislate same sex marriages, so he is now scraping the bottom of the barrel with this homosexuality shiite.

    However, Cadogan should be very careful that his homophobic comments in this forum do not cause members of the so called “homosexual community” to expose all the closet bullers and wickers in the DLP.

    We have to remind Carson that, within the context of the Bible, stealing and homosexuality are both sinful acts.

    I would also ask Carson to remind his colleague to contemplate and take example from Leviticus 6 v 1-7:

    The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by DECEIVING his NEIGHBOR in a MATTER of DEPOSIT or SECURITY, or through robbery, or if he has OPPRESSED his NEIGHBOR or has FOUND SOMETHING LOST and LIED about it, SWEARING FALSELY—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. ..”

    And it came to pass that a certain man, a colleague of Carson, was given a deposit to hold for his neighbor. When the man’s neighbor asked for his deposit, the man committed a breach by deceiving his neighbor and lied about it, swearing falsely.

    Although that man realized his guilt, he refused to “restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely…”

    The neighbor brought the man before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, who immediately realized the man’s guilt and ordered him to restore (the deposit) in full and shall add a fifth to it (interest).

    WW&C tell Carson if he is without sin, cast the first stone.

  18. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    When Hal went to the Smith home with Vernon and a police(that is what the AG Braffit would say)Marcelle ordered them out of her house…and Vernon took up a chair to hit Marcelle and was restrained from so doing.He was fit to be hogtied.Another mothballed story awaiting its day in court.Maybe the DPP would act soon and before Mia take over Stellaro Court because since Hal challenging her to speak,she might just do so when the time is right.

  19. Armando Rodriguez Avatar
    Armando Rodriguez

    Hal Gollop was engaged by the BWA, worked exclusively for the BWA and was paid directly by the BWA. Innotech, the private sector partner had their own lawyers, Clark, Gittens & Farmer and the funders, Ansa Merchant Bank had their own lawyers, Chancery Chambers.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    How much in fees did the lawyers cream from this one transaction?

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

    Bushman…the should all be locked up for Mrs. Smith, and that includes Carson….a whole lot of vile demons.

    Art…even if she does, so what, Ireland has it’s first openly gay PM…do you see anyone protesting, not even the idiot Ha, Ha Austin, who wont dare open his mouth for fear of being kicked out of the UK for homophobia..

    Mia might want to use her brain unlike Adriel Nitwit to at least decriminalize marijuana for medical and other uses, many people like myself who suffer from issues that require such treatments would be happy,  instead of having to travel to Europe or North America because the Barbados government insists on being backward, ignorant and useless, she should also run on that platform…medical marijuana…

    Carson is a wuss, a loser.

    Pacha…these are the lowlife scum and stains on the earth that Ha, Ha Austin woukd be more likely to worship.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-mother-royal-family-sir-roy-strong-diarist-racist-too-awful-a7774011.html

    Cant  help himself, the mind of a hated slave. Read the comments made by brits and others across the globe.

     Too many black men ain’t ready yet.

  22. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Donville already told them DLP is infested with gay people…so Carson should really sit down.

  23. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Carson….and up to this day Fruendel nor Adriel lock up Mia or call in DPP to lock up vote buyers.

  24. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Carson C. Cadogan June 5, 2017 at 2:23 PM “the HON. DR. DENNIS LOWE in the House.”

    Dear Carson:

    Since Dr. the Hon. Dennis Lowe received his post secondary education in the United States can you tell me please whether the university/universities attended by Dr. the Hon. Dennis Lowe is/are accredited by one of these bona fide accrediting bodies and if so which one/which ones. Can you ask him as well to make his transcript/transcripts documents of the House? Thanks.

    https://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/

  25. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Bernard Codrington. June 5, 2017 at 2:27 PM “The religions that are alleged to have come to us from the Middle East.”

    Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Rastafarianism were ALL BORN the Middle East (the most peaceful region on Earth, NOT) this is not a mere allegation. This is not something made up by a mere simpleton like me. It is the absolute TRUTH.

    Think, think, think Bernie.

  26. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Carson C. Cadogan June 5, 2017 at 2:37 PM “Trump picks Christian pro-life conservative to replace homosexual as Army Secretary”

    I am NOT a Christian pro-life conservative because I first heard about illegal abortions when my mother first told me of one of our neighbours who tried to end her fourth pregnancy by eating rat poison, her husband had run off to America and left her…it worked, it killed the fetus, and the young mother, and left her 3 children parent-less orphans to suffer terribly because you Christian pro-life conservatives are not about to take in 3 orphans and use your own time and especially your own money to raise 3 strange children to adulthood.

    You. Trump and Mark have never had to decide whether to eat rat poison or raise 4 children alone, so you can afford to talk sh!te.

  27. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Well Well,
    I know persons who have been charged between twenty and thirty thousand dollars for operations.. I know persons who have had to pay thousands of dollars for kidney stones, and also had to pay over a thousand dollars for subsequent visits. So don’t tell me foolishness, and this is not for being under contract to government. These were private visits.
    Interesting:
    if the Innate
    “How is it that according to you: “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 then sent the bill to BWA that is another story.”…deserved every cent they charged Inotech, a private company,
    but Hal Gollop does not deserve what he charged? Do you know what was involved? Gallop charged for HIS services, not what Gittens and Farmer charged Infotech for THEIR services. Should Gollop just have accepted what was presented to government without conducting his own searches etc? Why did Gittens etc, have to do their own work? If they presented a bill to Innotech wouldn’t the costs have been passed on to government?

    Simple Simon:
    You said: “I have no use for those religions born in the Middle East.”
    Where was Jesus supposed to have been born. Where did he do his preachings? Where did Saul have his conversion? Where did he preach? Where was Christianity “born”?
    In the light of the above, how can you make the above statement and have any credibility?
    You people are just making noise for the sake of making noise.

    When Mia wqaas attorney General OSA had two occasions he should have used to ask for her resignation. The Supervisor of insurance knew that the Insurance companies were not adhering to the financial requirements for the funds that they were required to deposit annually. thus when CLICO began to collapse he should have brought this to her attention and she should have acted before the collapse. In addition, she had been warned by Rev. MATTHEWS OF THE PROBLEM TAKING PLACE AT THE PRISON. AS A CONSEQUENCE OF HER INACTION, THERE WAS A RIOT at the prison, GLENDAIRY was burnt ou., Under her watch a new prison was commissioned and the government has been saddled with a bill that requires an annual payment of over 17 million dollars for a number of years. In other jurisdictions, following the same Westminster model, her resignation would have been expected. Edutech is another matter, this happened when she wasMinister of Education, another complete failure.

  28. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Denis Lowe told the TV audience during his alloted slot on the budget that he is from Cane Garden,St Andrew and later his family moved to Whitehill in the same parish.He also said he went to primary school and did not go to secondary school.One can say then that Lowe by his own admission, had no post secondary education.If he had any education it would have to be post primary and his notorious statement in 2008 as minister in charge of waterworks”when a pipe burses” leaves no one in doubt as to his bona fides,post primary-wise.

  29. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Alvin Cummins June 5, 2017 at 5:37 PM “Where was Jesus supposed to have been born. Where did he do his preachings? Where did Saul have his conversion? Where did he preach? Where was Christianity “born”

    Question: Where was Jesus supposed to have been born.
    Answer: The Middle East.

    Question: Where did he do his preachings?
    Answer: The Middle East.

    Question: Where did Saul [the arch misogynist] have his conversion?
    Answer: The Middle East.

    Question:Where did he preach?
    Answer: The Middle East.

    Question: Where was Christianity “born”
    Answer: The Middle East.

    You really think that because you throw in a few Jesus’ that I will back off from what I have written?

    Silly old man.

    Sorry David. I know I ain’t supposed to call other contributors silly.

  30. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    David,
    For what it is worth, the total submitted on the Invoice should be 1.5 million, (1,499,000,00).and not the 3.5 Million shown on the invoice as the final amount. The invoice should have been rejected and should have been questioned. The clerk should have had this drawn to his attention. In my day the Audit office would have caught this out and the department would have had questions asked.
    SS, Rastafarianism was not a known religion at this time; it stills not.

  31. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Gabriel June 5, 2017 at 5:40 PM “Denis Lowe told the TV audience during his alloted slot on the budget that he is from Cane Garden,St Andrew and later his family moved to Whitehill in the same parish.He also said he went to primary school and did not go to secondary school.One can say then that Lowe by his own admission, had no post secondary education”

    I am no friend of Lowe. Never met the man, but cuddear, since it appears that he spent some years in the U.S., even without a Barbados secondary education he may well have done his GED in the States and received his high equivalency diploma from there and then went on to a college or university there, even to a doctoral degree.

    Many Bajans and Caribbean people have done the same.

    So cuhdear give Jack and Dennis their jackets.

    But I did wonder whether he failed the 11+ and whether if he had whether that means anything.

  32. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Alvin Cummins June 5, 2017 at 5:56 PM “SS, Rastafarianism was not a known religion at this time; it stills not.”

    You understand how religion works right?

    Christianity was born out of Judaism.

    Islam was born out of Judaism and Christianity.

    Rastafarianism was born out of Judaism and Christianity.

    All of these religions share common roots.

    Some people call them Abrahamic religions.

    Get it?

  33. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Simple Simon,
    You are the one who said the words not me. You said “you have no use…..” I am just showing you how sill you are. Either you do not believe in christianity or you do, if you do then your statement is silly.

  34. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    SS,
    All arguments about Religion(s) is a complete waste of time and energy. Too many people have been killed, and have died in the name of one religion or the other, snd to die, in the name of one religion; with the expectation of getting virgins, is as silly as the expectation of living in some paradise; on judgement day; which presupposes the end of eternity. This is as silly. All religion requires brainwashing of some kind.

  35. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @SSS

    The Lowe hardly went to primary school,was a wicked boy in cane garden up to the time he was taken to the USA

  36. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Alvin Cummins June 5, 2017 at 8:15 AM “Physicians charge exorbitant fees; and have been for years, over 30,000 for operations, high fees for subsequent follow up visits.”

    My physician charges $90 BDS for an office visit. I do not consider this to be exorbitant.

    I have had surgery at the QEH “free” to me, but I am certain that it was more than paid for
    by the hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes which I have paid over the years, and which I still continue to pay, as well as the taxes of my parents, siblings and children.

  37. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Alvin…30, 000 and up to 250,000 for surgery is acceptable in any country as well as fir other services…….. 1.5 million and 3.3 million….is ni0ot, why dont you reaid the posts properly.

  38. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    1.5 million and 3.3 million….are not, why dont you read the posts properly….before answering.

  39. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    David,
    When Richard Byer invoiced for over seven hundred dollars, he was a member of the NDP, not the DLP. The money allegedly paid to Thompson was in fact an invoice on behalf of Leroy, Parris, for commissions due to said Leroy Parris, which was directed to Thompson, who was legal counsel for said Parris. the invoice was not for work Thompson did for CLICO. This was discussed, argued about and dragged through the mud; as a campaign issue, during the 2008 election. That sticks in your craw since then. It is now a non-issue, as it was then.

  40. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    David;
    Typographical error…seven hundred thousand dollars…
    Well Well,
    Have you ever seen the fees charged in North America by lawyers, for services rendered? I have, and I have a good friend who worked for a bit law firm, and another friend who was secretary to a lawyer wh dealt in real estate. I know what I am talking about.
    Simple,
    Having paid “hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes over the year, why did you take advantage of “free” care at the QEH, when it is obvious that you were aBLE TO PAY.That is the problem. too many people who can afford to pay, take advantage of the “free” health care, and other things Who is your physician? The minimum physicians charge for an office visit today is one hundred and twenty dollars. By the way what religion did people outside of the Middle East follow before Judaism?

  41. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    Simple Simon at 5:17 pm

    They came to us via Europe where they were modified to make sense to the European.
    But all this is academic. It is more important for us to understand them as they relate to our own present 21 St century situation.
    And you should know by now that there is no absolute truth. If there is, none of us can claim ours is the absolute truth.

  42. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Well Well,
    No one is talking of physicians charging millions for operations. Lawyers do. If you read a book called Barbarians at the Gate, you would get a good idea of the types of fees lawyers, working in the U.S. charge for their services you would not adopt the attitude you do. this book was written about the merger; between Nabisco and RJR Reynolds. Tens of millions were charged, by the lawyers in those negotiations, and they were paid.

  43. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    We know that the NDP did not contest any elections following its 1994 one seat win.We will have to rely on William to confirm if the party was yet active in 2010 when Byer sent his invoice to CBL.
    A reminder of the issue of the exorbitant invoice as told by Emmanuel Joseph of Bdos Today.

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2014/11/20/cave-lows/

  44. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Alvin Cummins June 5, 2017 at 7:27 PM “Having paid “hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes over the year, why did you take advantage of “free” care at the QEH, when it is obvious that you were aBLE TO PAY.”

    Because I have already paid through my taxes, so why should I pay twice?
    Because the care is just as excellent whether I am on a public or private ward.
    Because the doctors who are delivering public care need experiences which are as broad as possible so i granted them the opportunity to work on my body.
    Because when the middle class withdraws from receiving public services soon enough they ask to withdraw their tax money from such services.
    Because I have raised a few of the doctors, nurses, orderlies,maids and lab techs who work there. I have babysat more than a few of them for no pay, washed their clothes, cleaned their bottoms, wiped their vomit and snot. A good lot of them have eaten out of my pot too, so they owe me. lol!!!
    Because I am not a poor great poppit.
    Because I did not feel like paying.
    Because I am still contributing personally and through my taxes and my care giving to the raising of the next generation.
    Because I did not feel like paying
    Because I could
    Because…

  45. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    “Mottley said she does not have any plans to legislate same sex marriages”

    When did she/he say that?

    Up to this day she/he is dodging the question.

  46. Armando Rodriguez Avatar
    Armando Rodriguez

    Carson

    Donville told you’ll about that all ready, remember? He said the DLP has it fair share of homosexuals and lesbians so don’t push that angle partner. If you do a few on the front bench going get drag out of the closet and into the daylight.

  47. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Alvin Cummins June 5, 2017 at 8:19 PM “between Nabisco and RJR Reynolds. Tens of millions were charged, by the lawyers in those negotiations, and they were paid.”

    The difference Alvin, is that the people who are buying and selling Nabisco and RJR Reynolds and the lawyers who serve them are all members of the 1% operating in a huge and abundantly wealthy market place.

    Because Alvin the average wage in Barbados is less than $30,000 BDS per year, so why would lawyers feel entitled to charge million dollars fees when they know very well that their pay masters are trying to buy food, pay rent and utilities, and raise children on less than $15,000 USD per year?

    Barbados ain’t Canada.

    Barbados ain’t the USA.

    The Bajan taxpayers ain’t the owners of Nabisco or RJR Reynolds

  48. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    And in spite of these heavy fees paid out of tax payers/water users money, the Barbados Water Authority is still unable to deliver piped drinking drinking water to all families every day.

    So what are the high lawyer fees all about?

    Should the big money not be going to ensure that the infrastructure is such that everybody can get clean piped water everyday, instead of paying big fees to a select few?

  49. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Bernard
    And you should know by now that there is no absolute truth. If there is, none of us can claim ours is the absolute truth.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Boss, something is seriously wrong with the logic of this statement.

    If there is no absolute truth, then how can SS ‘know this by now” (or at all)?
    ..and if there IS an absolute truth, how can you KNOW that none of us can claim ours to be it?
    Speak for yourself boss…

    It IS an absolute truth that JFK was murdered in Dallas Texas.
    Hardly anyone alive can claim to know the ‘absolute truth’ of that matter…
    The various theories that abound are all very likely to be different to THE TRUTH…

    But there IS a single, absolute, definite TRUTH surrounding that JFK issue…. as there is surrounding the experience we call ‘Life on Earth’….. and just as only a VERY FEW select persons know the truth of the JKF assassination, so too, only a special SELECT few are privy to the “absolute truth”….
    …and both these ‘select’ groups of ‘knowers’ would likely be closely associated with the original instigators….

  50. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Alvin…I am well aware of lawyer’s fee schedules in the US, ya cannot compare the fly by night lawyers in Bim….with corporate lawyers in the US who work for multi national world class companies worldwide.

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