Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart and Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite both admitted that they spotted voter irregularities during the 2013 general election. Up to now they have done nothing to address it as promised.
Recently the BU household observed in awe the incident where a Republican candidate vying for a seat in the US Congress body slammed a journalist for asking a question about the contentious health care system. The incident was “straightoutta” Hollywood. Greg Gianforte the Republican politician at the centre of the furore went on to win the seat to add to the storyline. Gianforte was charged with a misdemeanour offense that resulted in him having to do 40 hours community service. The most surprising part of what has transpired surrounding the incident is the blind support by Trump supporters who have justified his behaviour by spouting the Donald Trump narrative that the mainstream media is about fake news therefore any anti media cause is a noble undertaking.
Members of the BU household live our humble lives ‘undergirded’ by traditional values to determine what is right and wrong. What Gianforte did when he body slammed the Guardian journalist was wrong and President Trump, Republican leadership in the Congress, Senate and the public at large should have immediately forced Gianforte to resign from the contest. Instead the incident was glossed over and the opportunity for a teachable moment was missed. Imagined all the impressionable minds that were influenced by the incident and the likelihood how it will manifest in undesirable behaviours in years to come. Who are the gatekeepers of public morality if not the people themselves.
In Barbados we have our version of the Gianforte incident being played out. At a time when the economy continues to underperform despite the best effort of the government we have a prime minister who pleads ignorance about the fact his government has purchased two luxury vehicles in recent months with a combined cost of greater than $500,000. Where is the morality in those decisions is the growing cry.
Wrong is wrong!
However this is not the local equivalent of the Gianforte incident. Here is an extract from a 2015 BU blog:
During the Presentation of the Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals 2015 the intelligence of Barbadians was trivialized (or was it) by the debate whether Lowe has earned a Doctorate or leader of the Opposition possesses the requisite qualification to practice law in Barbados. Former Prime Minister Owen Arthur has routinely described contributions to debate in parliament as ‘po-rakey’, now there incontrovertible is proof.
Let us for argument sake accept that leader of the Opposition does not possess a Legal Education Certificate (LEC) and therefore does not have the right to practice law in Barbados. Let us accept that she and three other lawyers who were afforded a waiver at the time there was the transition to the LEC certification is invalid. Let us further assume that Mottley has been illegally practising law in Barbados and other Caribbean countries for the past 30 years. Let us also assume that several Registrars of the Court and Attorney Generals from both political parties were wrong not to have dealt with the matter in the intervening years. What is also WRONG Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite is you rising on the floor of parliament in June 2015 to promise Barbadians that you will investigate the matter of Mottley’s LEC and two years later not delivered. What sensible Barbadians must conclude is that there is no evidence to support the claim that Mottley has been practising law illegally in Barbados since the late 80s or you have been playing politics read the ass with the issue. BU suspects it is very much the latter.
The issue after 30 years of practicing law is not for Mottley to produce her credentials. It is for the Attorney General to deliver on his promise to share the results of his investigation of 2 years in the making. The public is also reminded that it is Adriel Brathwaite who joined Freundel Stuart immediately after the 2013 general election win to promise Barbadians that voting irregularities witnessed by them would have been addressed in some form or fashion certainly before the next general election is called.
The reputation of Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite will be forever sullied by his silence on the matter of the findings of his LEC Mottley investigation. Even if he were to deliver on his promise tomorrow by sharing the results of his two year investigation, he has earned the right to be accorded the reference –the worst of the Attorney Generals produced by Barbados post Independence.
Both Fruendel and Adriel Nitwit have proven themselves to be fools.
But Mia owes it to the people and voters to let them know that it was under the DLP government in 1987 she was given an exemption to practice law without the required LEC, because it’s obvious that Adriel Nitwit will not tell the people, they and their yardfowls would continue to use the secret as a weapon to fool and deceive the electorate.
Mia should not be keeping secrets for the DLP government.
Poppy cock and BU total indifference to the fact that a challenge was put out to MOttley on the floor of Parliament in 2015 for her to make her LEC a document of the House and up to present time Mia has not
Therefor i ask David BU what then you purpose the public should otherwise believe that Mia does not have an LEC and either she has been illegally practicing law or corruption played a role in giving her special flavors to do so
Furthermore this lame excuse by BU David and blp operatives that the attorney General should deliver on his promise to investigate is just another bowl of poppy cock surely to protect Mia damaged image which has a question mark stamped right over Mia credibility
Any reasonable person would assumed that if she has a LEC she would have produce one by virtue of trying to correct an assumption which can be detrimental to her image and tarnish her character
However during the last budget debate the fact that she did not produce her LEC gave further rise that DR.Lowe was truthful in his assertion that Mia does not have a LEC and also closed the bone of contention which David BU contends that AG should make good on his promise to investigate Mia legal credentials
Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite is a liar and the worst we have had since since Independence.
Lowe is a liar and his exploits with Allard and Cahill will resurface come general election time.
Angela,
Plse grow up, or is this your idea of entertainment. Let’s talk about something of importance.
@Hal
What is more important than integrity in high office? Why should we not be concerned with holding politicians and officials to account? Are to sit and observe politicians read government ministers trying to manipulate public opinion with their narrow silly political objectives and we don’t call them out on it. Sometimes reading your comments can be a challenge.
Well Well, Both the PM and AG are both crooks,liars and scumbags in our book from 2009, Who is to show investigation of Violet Beckles and Beatrice Henry Estate, All of the about while in office both covering up for each other 2 so-called AGs,The Next AG Dale,Toppin The Next AG Mia and Owen 1997VAT for land scam the PONZI begins,, A number of 4/5 AG their alone involved in cover up on Both sides of the DLP and BLP .
They are all keeping SECRETS in this Massive Land Fraud and PONZI that has run out of money to feed it, The next move as they do very well is to raise TAXES AND VAT at the same time to feed it as they print more MONEY to feed this fraud ANIMAL. All Bajans will continue to pay and pay with much more PAIN to come,
BU and others can think it a joke and make fun of people being robbed, As all in and out of Barbados tourist and the like are being robbed, Each Person is being robbed at different Leveis , The others so called big ups do not pay any taxes, Taxes on this level are for SLAVES.
WAKE UP BARBADOS AND JOIN THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE.
THE CCJ NOW SAY AND AGREE THAT BAJANS WITH A REAL AG CAN GO AFTER THESE BITCHERS, WE WILL BE LEADING THE CHARGE,
VOTE BAJAN FREE PARTY/ CUP WAKE UP TO A NEW DAY BARADOS , TUNRN THE PAGE ON SLAVERY,
@ Hal
Please note a discussion on education is
short-lived. However those about a car
and some attorney getting s big fee will last
almost forever.
We have priorities. We talk about corruption
but the intellectual corruption and bankruptcy
of ideas are killing the country.
Take it easy.
David,
I am glad that you find reading my contributions a challenge. I would have been disappointed otherwise. Integrity in public office is important, but obsessing over a three or four year old Mercedes is not central to a discourse on integrity in itself. The act establishes the lack of principle, but the debate should move on to ways of resolving it – not so-called calling out the minister.
I have pointed out before the core values of a barefoot boy from Marchfield, who finds himself in a position he never dreamt of now intends to maximise the benefits of his position. Being poor is not a crime, but how that experience informs one’s adult life makes it pertinent.
Ilaro Court is a long way from Marchfield that is why our politicians genuflect to the business class, and more so to overseas business people from Europe and North America. Their cultural memories of these people is being the masters, while their parents were the cooks or gardeners. That is why we need a mature debate and why trying to elevate the debate becomes a challenge to some.
Last week Heather Cole raised an incredibly important issue which I thought would dominate discussion in the forum for a time: how banks rob borrowers, it fell like a flat cake. It was ignored because commenters found it a challenge.
A few weeks ago Byer-Suckoo raised the issue of the future of work which I thought the unions would take over and dominate. Not a word from these union ‘leaders’.
On numerous other important issues, instead of debating the issues we retreat in to a nationalistic dark hole, accusing the person who raised the issue of being a devil worshipper.
Exploiting his or her position to get a new official car may be unethical, but it is not the biggest abuse of office over the last nine years. The failure of our media to discuss people like David Ames is as much a reflection on integrity in public office, which journalism is, as the prime minister behaving badly or the semi-literacy about Mia Mottley’s qualifications.
How about the business community paying for our children’s university education? Or to upgrade our private homes? Or ministers profiting from projects that they, in their official capacity, had to sign off? What about the Bds$7m paid for Four Seasons, or is that now a footnote? How about dodgy offshore medical schools, even though we had the Grenada experience to guide us?
We already have rules and conventions in place to set the parameters of integrity in public life, which are being ignored. Tell me about crime among the white community, and I do not mean poor tourists?
How then do we get public officials to play by the rules – things like permanent secretaries disclosing official business to the private sector.
I have said before, @David, your best role is as referee, the umpire, not being an active participant in discussions, especially controversial ones.
By intervening on one side or the other you lend ballast to the bias of some participants. Objectivity and impartiality should be your watchwords, even if that is challenging.
William,
Talking about integrity in public life. We have a criminal justice system that is destroying the lives of school children in their early teens, and not a single debate in BU or what passes as the national press. The church is as silent as the school teachers and lawyers who want to strike because of sick building syndrome or steal clients’ money.
Bajans are crazy. They could not tell integrity if it fell on their heads.
OK Hal you and William can have your say on what are important issues. Just reading what you have written makes the blood boil.
You claim to have worked in journalism yet you fail to understand what is the reality to messaging. What is effing preventing you or William or anyone from submitting an article (s) on any matter you think needs discussion? In fact you use to and stopped WITHOUT explanation to this day to the BU family.
Have your say, we are done!
Angela for the sake of the Gods, keep quiet please. The reason for Mottley making her application to the Middle Temple in 1983 a document of the house was to indicate that she did not need an LEC. If you would learn to read and do your own research rather than parrot George Street propaganda, you would not make yourself look so foolish. You would like her to forge one I bet. Y’all can’t stick to one argument/lie/half truth? I hope Lowe becomes the 1st local MP to reside in Dodds.
David,
I know it is a challenge. But I stopped writing my Notes…because I have retired. How many times do I have to say that? I cannot go on forever. Is that a good enough explanation? As to journalism, I know nothing about the craft, I leave it to you and others to teach me. The Bajan syndrome.
Let you in to a secret: yesterday I had coffee with a former colleague and, during the conversation, she told me that there is now the Hal test on my old paper: What would Hal do in a situation like this? That to be is a good legacy. It is one bout judgement.
All issues are important, but some are more important than others.
Dennis Lowe did not even attend a real university, his fraud Ph.D. is in question….fraud alert.
Hal…ya unfair though…those topics do come up on BU and your silence is always deafening, yet when other topics come up that you do not like, you complain that the topics you favor are never debated…ya cant have it both ways.
All those debatesd topics you want to see so badly, have all been beaten to death on BU.
You need a hobby.
William there were topics on education thoroughly debated her, venomously.
There was a topic on the children and their black parents with locks who were discriminated against viciously by ministry of education, put in court and threatened for home schooling their kids like the whites and indians been doing in Barbados for decades.
I was the only one making all the comments, they were one or 2 others, but if there were 30 comments, I made 28 of them, neither you nor Hal made one comment defending these parents.
I was the only one throwing down and giving Faith Marshall Harris a good piece of my mind.
The really important issues that are discrimination against and stealing from Bajans., by the minority class, politicians and insurance executives..you and Hal say nothing.
Hal defends the theft of policyholders money by Leroy Parris and David Thompson.
Ah firgit to add…
There was a topic on the children and their black parents with locks who were discriminated against viciously by ministry of education, put in court and threatened for home schooling their kids like the whites and indians been doing in Barbados for decades….without one ministry official telling these white or indian parents they cant homeschool their children.
We can ignore stupid Ass’ s and Carson….they are liars and frauds.
The issue to be looked at is Mia’s RESPONSIBILITY to tell the people of Barbados that the DLP government EXEMPTED her from practicing without an LEC…
……..she could have made the request in 1983 under BLP upon entering Temple Inn but by 1987 Tom Adams was gone in more ways than one, it was DLP who took over the government power and they approved ….the Exemption…..bottom line.
It is not rocket science.
All this nasty secrecy is what got all these politicians and ministers exposed.
@ WW&C
Hal don’t need a hobby, he needs a life.
It should be obvious that having been away from Barbados for forty years … and not having been too bright to begin with anyway, – his prescriptions for BU are not worth what Paddy shot at… David’s results speak for themselves.
Nobody of any note read his ‘notes from a native brass bowl’ (or whatever it was called), ..which is why he retired.
Genuinely talented writers write until they die – with increasing wisdom and clarity of thought.
Shiitehound writers ‘retire hurt’…
Hal does have the excellent trait of asking questions – something that is sadly lacking in Brassbados, but then he messes the whole thing up by trying to answer them himself…. 🙂
William has some good ideas, but like most Bajans, he has no personal experience in ACCOMPLISHMENTS. He therefore tends to delve into the idealistic rhetoric of academics like George Belle, Vincent and Peter Polester – talking a lotta shiite – while themselves being poor as shiite and having no example of personal success.
Bushie does NOT take advice from sick-ass doctors or from poor-ass bankers.
Any bet wunna don’t know that Froon opted for the new Benz …after he saw Bushie’s ride….
Ha ha ha
LOL
Shiirttt!!!!
It has been reported ” leader of the Opposition does not possess a Legal Education Certificate (LEC) and therefore does not have the right to practice law in Barbados”…..
Does anybody believe this obvious falsification of veracity ?
This is nothing but a scurrilous attack to score political points.
Just show the LEC and shut dem up.
Lol…Bushman.
@ Bushie who wrote ” opted for the new Benz …after he saw Bushie’s ride “.
Which ride ? the new one or one of the others ?
@ Hants
…you know much too much….!!!!
As Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite is Parliament’s and Government’s principal legal advisor, Leader of the Bar of Barbados and guardian of public interest.
In June 2015, he PROMISED to commit the AG’s office to investigate whether or not Mottley is a legitimate lawyer. TWO years have passed without him presenting the results of that investigation to the public, while he has remained noticeably silent in the process.
Therefore, “any reasonable person would assume that” Brathwaite’s silence for 2 years on the issue means the investigation revealed Mottley actually possess the legal requirements enabling her to practice law in Barbados and being a member of the “legal fraternity,” he is “trying to correct an assumption which can be detrimental to her image and tarnish her character.”
However, if Brathwaite is AWARE Mottley is ILLEGALLY practicing law and with-holds such information from the public (i.e. unsuspecting potential clients), Bar Association and Legal System, he is essentially covering up, aiding and abetting in the commission of a crime and is a willing participant in a process where “corruption played a role in giving her special flavors to do so.”
As such, this current situation DOES NOT “close the bone of contention which David BU contends that AG should make good on his promise to investigate Mia legal credentials,” but QUESTIONS the CREDIBILITY of Adriel Brathwaite and brings the office of Attorney General into REPUTE.
@ Artax
As such, this current situation DOES NOT “close the bone of contention which David BU contends that AG should make good on his promise to investigate Mia legal credentials,” but QUESTIONS the CREDIBILITY of Adriel Brathwaite and brings the office of Attorney General into REPUTE.
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Give Bushie a break boss…
This office was brought into DISrepute from the very beginning – at election night, when the two head scamps claimed that THEY witnesses illegal vote-buying …. and proceeded to do NOT ONE SHIITE about it…
…now the commissioner of police got to gall to complain that Bajans are not assisting the police with information on crime.. People just following the leaders… or maybe the ‘leaders’ are just crooked like the people… ??!!
The sad truth is that these DLP jokers do not even LOOK the part of leaders…. far less play the part.
Enuff if you want to accuse me of something state the truth because everything you have stated in your comment about me is a god dam lie jsck a sss
Mia credibilty is being questioned and the readon being that she took a big stick to poke others.Now that the same bug stick is being poke at her the blp operatives is putting up a long stinking arm of resistance.
Many questions swirling around her permission to practice law surfaced because of Mia intent to damage others reputation.
People living in glass house should be careful how and wher they pelt stones
@ Hal AustinJune 13, 2017 at 6:48 AM
“I know it is a challenge. But I stopped writing my Notes…because I have retired. How many times do I have to say that? I cannot go on forever. Is that a good enough explanation? As to journalism, I know nothing about the craft, I leave it to you and others to teach me. The Bajan syndrome……”
Hal, you are being intellectually dishonest. Retired from what?
Are you saying that your “Notes” from a ‘Native Son’ were the only meaningful ‘fees-generating’ output of your career in journalism in the UK?
Weren’t your “Notes” targeted mainly to the BU readers stricken with the same “Bajan syndrome” or even to ‘enlighten’ your ‘fellow’ immigrants still living in Diaspora?
Your ‘Bajan-focused Notes’ were certainly not for wider consumption in any British tabloid whose readers couldn’t give two farts about some nondescript hack hustling on Canary Wharf and pretending to be the black Alan Coren of Fleet Street.
What are you telling us, Hal?
That such ‘black outstanding intellectual talent which you ‘boastfully’ possess is left to languish and not made available to even your less enlightened black brothers and sisters in your adopted homeland through any literary contributions to “The Voice” Newspaper?
Jethro,
As a self-identified old St Giles boy I believe you understand basic English. I am retired from journalism in all its forms. My only writing, apart from private letters and emails, is in BU, until David, like Barbados Today, bans me.
Retired means: no writing, no teaching, no speeches, no lectures, no volunteering.
@ Bush Tea
You pretty rough , man but thanks for the compliment about the ‘good ideas”. Hopefully one of these days “accomplishments” will follow. Peace.
@ David
I have no desire to dictate BU. Just recently you bemoaned the fact that there was little response to a topic you thought would have attracted more attention. A man’s basic democratic right is to think for himself.
I am very afraid of those who are judge , jury and executioner.
Based on information received, at the age of 21 years, Mottley was admitted to the the Utter Bar of England and Wales on the 23rd July, 1987 and to the Utter Bar of Barbados in December 1987.
It is the duty of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, (who was Marie MacCormack at the time), to note any irregularities that may have either prevented or deem Mottley as being ineligible for admission to the Utter Bar, and present that information to the Chief Justice, (then, Sir Denys Williams). The Chief Justice would then refer the matter to the Attorney General and Leader of the Bar (who at the time was Maurice King, QC).
We must bear in mind if the above information is true, then in 1987 it was UNDER a DLP administration when Mottley was ADMITTED to the Utter Bar. Therefore, she was given legal authority to practice law in Barbados.
If BU were to follow the logic of DLP yard-fowls Carson C. Cadogan and Angela Cox-Skeete, if Mottley has been illegally practicing law from 1987, then surely all and sundry MUST AGREE that Marie MacCormack, Sir Denys Williams, Maurice King and by extension the DLP, SHOULD also take RESPONSIBILITY and be EQUALLY BLAMED if “corruption played a role in giving her special flavors to do so.”
“Tight weave Skeete” and dishonest Cadogan know that this LEC shiite is a non issue.
If it was an issue, the DLP would have capitalized on taking advantage of the implications that may arise from a political foe illegally practicing law, rather than rely on two semi-illiterate idiots who are know in this forum to be DISHONEST in their contributions, regurgitate what they are told to write and spew rhetorical political diatribe.
Wuhloss!
Hal blowing his trumpet about an imaginary editorial standard at his former employer: “What would Hal do?”
Time for a bumper sticker
@ Bushie
Thanks for the correction. I actually meant to write “ill repute.”
On hind sight I must also agree “the AG’s office was brought into DISrepute from the very beginning”……. NOT “at election night (in 2013), when the two head scamps claimed that THEY witnessed illegal vote-buying …. and proceeded to do NOT ONE SHIITE about it…,”
………..but in January 2008 when David Thompson appointed Freundel Stuart as Attorney General.
Things went down hill from there and we ended up with Stuart going from being the worst AG to becoming the worst PM.
May I ask some obvious and simplistic questions?
Was Mia Amor Mottley admitted to the local Bar? What are the prerequisites for admission to the outer Bar?
She was also admitted to the Inner Bar by virtue of some criteria. How come that these are now issues?
It is really time to reintroduce reaping of sugar canes manually. We have a lot of idle cane bills in Barbados looking for wuk.
The long and shirt is that there was a special piece of legislation drawn yo give her a pasding grade when others did not have said opportunity. After all once the gate was opened it would have been sufficient for other notables to to be given the same privilege
The questions surrounding this controversial law give rise to asking many questions one of which would be if her status was part of a rationale to give her the accreditation
Bushie
…….academics like George Belle, Vincent and Peter Polester – talking a lotta shiite – while themselves being poor as shiite and having no example of personal success.
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Skippah….wuh yuh caw muh nem fuh….tuh besides cawin muh uh academic wid dem gurus.
For your further edification the only university I have been to is the one at Waterford.
I am poorer than a church mouse and according to you that elevates me above everyone else.
……unless as usual you have changed your mouthings again as you had stated time and time again that accumulating material wealth is not the way to whatever.
William&Hal
I can only presume you wanted a continued discussion on the failed existing system along the lines of tweaking it.
I proffered a Finnish alternative for discussion and your silence on it suggests a contempt for either myself,the Finnish approach or both.
Yet the two of you are on here grumbling for the lack of discussion on education…..a bit disingenuous one would say.
If “there was a special piece of legislation drawn to give her a passing grade when others did not have said opportunity,” then I can understand the concern.
However, yard-fowls Angela Skeete and Carson C. Cadogan ADMITTED in this forum OTHER lawyers BENEFITTED from that same “special piece of legislation.”
“The questions surrounding this controversial law give rise to asking many questions one of which would be if her status was part of a rationale to give her the accreditation,” is also applicable to those other lawyers who benefited as well.
Then to now suggest it was “tailor made” specifically for Mottley is not only dishonest and disingenuous, but scraping the bottom of the “political barrel.”
Cadogan and Skeete SHOULD PRESENT to BU for our PERUSAL, COPIES of this “special piece of legislation and controversial law,” rather than use INNUENDO to make pejorative statements about Mottley.
A NON-ISSUE!!!!
If this is ALL the DLP HAS to OFFER in their attempt to discredit Mottley in the HOPES of winning the 2018 elections, it is not surprising that, after 8 eight years, Sinckler has been an abysmal failure as Minister of Finance.
But he is SUCCESSFULLY as BOMBASTIC as his colleague Angela Cox-Skeete. Similarly to how she/they use BU to cuss people, Sinckler uses Parliamentary privilege to cuss economists and others who disagree with or criticize his failed economic policies.
William and Hal are nitpicking like 2 little old ladies.
Vincent,
I certainly do not have contempt for you. I am not that rude. But I m not an education expert and have nothing to say about Finnish education. Any reforms we have must be devised by Barbadians and be relevant to a small developing nation.
Angela
Let me repeat, you need to read and do research. Start at Article 6 of The Treaty Agreement establishing the Council of Legal Education which is the basis for the changes to our regulations. If Mottley could get all Caribbean governments to amend an arrangement to suit her, she deserves to be PM because she’s clearly extremely powerful. The more you speak, the clearer your agenda becomes–a boldface liar. Carry on.
@ Vincent Haynes 10 :16 AM
I can assure you no contempt for you was intended. As you stated the Finnish system is an alternative system neither superior to ours nor inferior. It simply does not speak to our concerns. The Finnish culture and national objectives are different.
Hal Austin June 13, 2017 at 10:31 AM #
Any reforms we have must be devised by Barbadians and be relevant to a small developing nation.
……………………………….
Are Bimmers to come up with ideas relevant to a small developing nation in a vacuum?
As the statement nothing new exists under the sun is viewed as perceived wisdom as well as the one about re-inventing the wheel is an exercise in futility.
……..one would presume that we would look at all possible systems and adapt parts of or the whole of them to suit our situation.
…….as opposed to believing like the present govt that all knowledge resides with Bimmers.
…..this is so patently untrue by the virtue as to where we are presently that I really wonder as to you and William continuing to press for home grown solutions.
Vincent,
It looks like you want to argue. I said that I am not an expert on education and have nothing to add. Is that so difficult to understand?
With the exception of her DLP yard-fowl colleagues, everyone in the forum knows Angela “AC” Cox-Skeete is a BOMBASTIC, COMPULSIVE LIAR. And her following contribution is evidence of her untruthfulness:
“ac March 20, 2016 at 1:32 PM #: “Sir much of my time is spent ADMINISTRATING and MANAGING a LARGE COMPANY and at intervals would comment within a working environment that can be a cause for me to be distracted…”
People want hear an OFFICIAL STATEMENT from the AG Adriel Brathwaite on this issue, before coming to an informed conclusion. No reasonable person is going to believe “light weight DLP yard-fowls” who do not have any credibility.
If Brathwaite has remained SILENT on this issue for the past TWO YEARS, what is the DLP semi-illiterate pair of Cadogan and Cox trying to achieve by presenting innuendo and unsubstantiated facts in this forum?
Take EXAMPLE from Adriel Brathwaite and REMAIN SILENT AS WELL.
@Artax
Your point and others is made.
AG Brathwaite is a polictian and a liar.
Debating the matter with a yardfowl is an exercise in futility.
Let us accept that Mia is practing law illegally in Barbados. Bear in mind she has worked on government deals mentioned in parliament.
Amm the law brings question of status into the equation which you Enuff and other blp yardfowls want to avoid.
Using one status to get special favours from govt is corruption and if she did so and can be proven she becomes tainted and rotten at the core and should not be PM of any country
Hal
I was simply querying the last statement you made,as to whether homegrown solutions can be found in a vacuum or by exposing oneself to the the knowledge that exists all over the world.
Your statement has a broader application other than education and may be the root cause as to why Bim is in the present chaos,hence my desire to explore your thinking on this statement.
Vincent,
Do you understand English? I said I am not an education expert. That is specific to education, not to the world and every experience in our history. This view applies to education only.
If you want to argue plse find another subject. By the way, did Frank Collymore teach you at Waterford?
Artax
If what you say is true then the DLP are also part of the bandwagon who wheel and deal for Mottley to practice without an LEC. All those who are involved in this fraudulent manipulation should be called to account. This shite about one rule for the uppers and another for lowers got to stop. No LEC, then she who ever else benefited for this move should be disbarred.
@ David who wrote ” Let us accept that Mia is practing law illegally in Barbados.”
I do not “accept”. She was Attorney General of Barbados.
There is no way she would do that.
Hal
I do believe I do….but I have serious concerns as to your level of comprehension……you made a statement that needs clarification…..you have opted to obfuscate….not a problem.
No he was there briefly during my time but he never taught me.
In his statement, Sir Henry admitted that Mottley did not attend any of the law schools in the Caribbean administered by the Council of Legal Education, prior to being admitted to the Bar of Barbados. However, he strongly argued that this fact did not preclude her from practising law in the region.
“Such attendance was NOT necessary at the time. It was NOT a pre-condition to the right to practise,” argued Sir Henry.
https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2015/06/28/sir-henry-defends-mia/
Mia yuh powerful.
Saving and Transitional Provisions
1. The Government of each of the participating territories agrees that the following persons shall be recognised as professionally qualified for admission to practise in its territory, namely-
(a) any national who is on 1st October, 1972 qualified to be admitted to practise as a solicitor or a barrister in that territory;
(b) any national who, prior to 1st January, 1985, had undergone or is undergoing or has been accepted for a course of legal training leading to a qualification such as is referred to in paragraph 2(b)(i) of Article 4 of this Agreement and obtains that qualification.
Vincent,
What is obfuscation about saying I am not an expert on education and certainly have no interest or knowledge in Finnish education. You try to extrapolate from that all kinds of semi-literate nonsense about all kinds of other issues. I am speaking specifically about education, education, something you apparently failed to get at Waterford.
It does not apply to all subjects. I only comment on subjects that come within my education or career range.
You are beginning to remind me of the transgender monkey that claims I support Mr Parris in robbing Clico policyholders.
When all |I have said, a deep principle in our core values, that the man should be treated as innocent until proven guilty.
That is called the rule of law. Similar to I don’t know about Finnish education policy. I have never knowingly met a Finn in my life.
David getting personnel and throwing temper tantrums is what ignorant people do. Some of the questions being asked in the public domain are
pertinent giving a rise to concerns of an issue which has been delve into here on BU as it relate to family and friends connections available to some and denied by others
Mr Blogmaster your piece on the whims and fancies of executive action is also seen in these recent travel ban court rulings in US. The US president continues to shout that his travel directive is being undermined at “…such a dangerous time in the history of [the US].” He shouted about the need for the ban after the Manchester terror attack.
Clearly, all lies.
Sensibly, of course, at the onset of his directive consular officers immediately went into that old colonial authorization mode for all their visa requests… a la ‘if death were to come from Spain, I would be immortal’.
So clearly no one has gone to US because of lax vetting. And just as relevant the previous regulations mandated a process that took at least 18 months anyhow.
Similarly, the LEC blather is misdirection and provable fabrication. Sensibly, that would have been contested eons ago by an opposing attorney, by the shadow AG to Ms Mottley or any of her other political and legal adversaries…as alluded to by Artax and others above.
Further, as also referenced indirectly, does the Bajan constitution say that the AG must be an attorney or ‘certified’ as a legal officer of the court? Surely not.
Otherwise an entire set of authorizations signed under AG Ms Mottley would be freaking worthless.
And also to your other point it would be a scandal of EPIC proportions that cases in which she ‘held court’ across the region would not be worth the paper of the adjudication….technically speaking, as one of the parties was supposedly NOT represented by a practicing attorney.
To continue this BS by the DLP grub crew is really asinine.
Politician lie brazenly and their supporters accept those fabrications like vultures accept fresh range kill… or is that like prostitutes in lecherous glee when the Yankee sailors dock after 10 months at sea!
@David, your piece on the whims and fancies of executive action is also seen in these recent travel ban court rulings in US. The US president continues to shout that his travel directive is being undermined at “…such a dangerous time in the history of [the US].” He shouted about the need for the ban after the Manchester terror attack.
Clearly, all lies.
Sensibly, of course, at the onset of his directive consular officers immediately went into that old colonial authorization mode for all their visa requests… a la ‘if death were to come from Spain, I would be immortal’. So clearly no one has gone to US because of lax vetting. And just as relevant the previous regulations mandated a process that took at least 18 months anyhow.
Similarly, the LEC blather is misdirection and provable fabrication. Sensibly, that would have been contested eons ago by an opposing attorney, by the shadow AG to Ms Mottley or any of her other political and legal adversaries…as alluded to by Artax and others above.
Further, as also referenced indirectly, does the Bajan constitution say that the AG must be an attorney or ‘certified’ as a legal officer of the court? Surely not.
Otherwise an entire set of authorizations signed under AG Ms Mottley would be freaking worthless.
And also to your other point it would be a scandal of EPIC proportions that cases in which she ‘held court’ across the region would not be worth the paper of the adjudication….technically speaking, as one of the parties was supposedly NOT represented by a practicing attorney.
To continue this BS by the DLP grub crew is really asinine.
Politician lie brazenly and their supporters accept those fabrications like vultures accept fresh range kill… or is that like prostitutes in lecherous glee when the Yankee sailors dock after 10 months at sea!
It is obvious Mia got a push forward to the head of the line with that law. However the blp operatives becomes dismissive and agitated of such actions afforded to Mottley while being critical of persons who dare question the timing of the law and its influence on Mia accreditation.By the same token these operatives on a daily and continual basis would spare no effort to level said accusations and berated those they perceived are benefited by govt
@ Hal AustinJune 13, 2017 at 11:32 AM
“When all |I have said, a deep principle in our core values, that the man should be treated as innocent until proven guilty.”
If you genuinely accept that “deep principle”, why then do you persist in accusing Muslims including those in Barbados and in particular Suleiman Bulbulia as being associated with terrorism and potential jihadists?
Unlike the case of Greenverbs what evidence do you have to conclude that the local Muslim community ought to be put under watch as ‘potential terrorist’?
Is the Gestapo-like concept of collective punishment also one of your “core values”?
Miller….ya know Hal aint too bright, he cant give us a date when any muslim in Barbados has bombed anything on the island, yet he has them convicted.
The bombings are taking place in UK where he lives by muslims born in UK…yet he refuses to ask that muslims in UK be deprived of citizenship, while calling for muslims in Barbados, who bomb no one, to be deprived of citizenship.
While in his mind, a thief like Leroy Parris, is innocent until proven guilty. ..there got to be a defect somewhere in Hal.
Hal
Chuckle…..ole son continue to dipsy doodle as much as you want on the simple question as to…….. how one arrives at homegrown solutions in a vacuum or otherwise ………enjoy the rest of your day with Jethro….lol
https://www.facebook.com/followthetruth24/videos/1179696302153350/
Vincent,
You still don’t get it, do you? This is clear evidence of the failure of our educational system. Not being rude, but your place at Waterford should have been taken by someone more likely to benefit from it.
Bernard Codrington. June 13, 2017 at 10:43 AM #
Finland saw something wrong,they identified the weaknesses,the needs to be addressed and came up with a solution which is presently under continuous review.
Have we done any of the above….no…..yet you see nothing to be taken from the Finnish experience.
You have tunnel vision like the majority of those responsible for creating the the type of country we presently live in.
Hal
Chuckle…..do continue to enjoy the rest of your much needed retirement…..and….yes I agree with you that Waterford has a lot to answer for as it creates individuals with the ability to see outside the box and ones with myopic vision…..we all have our role to play.
Bear in mind that yardfowls have completely forgotten that Mia, as attorney for the island, negotiated the nautical treaty that now has Barbados able to claim more boundaries of the ocean, that Trinidad, I believe, was trying to claim.
Ah know they forgot. ..so lock her up for not having an LEC during those negotiations…and see the world court decision….reversed..lol
Yall know what I mean…that oil that Barbados is now supposed to have, buried under the sea.
Stupid yardfowls..lol
Talk about shooting yaself in the foot, the ass and the head…lol
Dont stop yardfowls, keep it up, keep going on and on about Mia not having LEC to practice law….let Trinidad find a way to get the decision reversed.
Stupid yardfowls….ah bet Fruendel the Fraud and Adriel Nitwit have not figured that out either….but just keep egging on the dumbass yardfowls.
Lol, lol.
What’s the matter yardfowls. …cat got ya tongues.
@Bush Tea
Any bet wunna don’t know that Froon opted for the new Benz …after he saw Bushie’s ride….
++++++++++
Croesus that conspicuous consumption is what is contributing to the island’s woes, PM’s want to keep up with Bush T and the rest of us want to keep up with the Joneses. With the importation of these big rides the Foreign Exchange deficit is heading towards the cliff.
BTW your fancy ride should surely stand out unless your statement is a canard but Bush Tea wouldn’t lie would he?
Ah must be losing me touch Bushman.
Not one yardfowl has jumped out to cuss or verbally abuse me, ah wonder why.
@ Vincent Haynes
I have not done any research on the Finn’s
educational system. I support the system
of continuos assessment for transferring
our children from primary to secondary
school.
In a recent post, I suggested broadening
the primary schools curricula to include:
agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture,
farming, fishing, environmental studies,
theater productions, steelpan , calypso
computer studies, introduction to gender
studies, video and oral history production,
introduction to government and civics.
I have also suggested reforming the Human
Resources department to guide education
policy toward employment and job
creation.
LOOK AN INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN DONE AND COMPLETED.
As we Bajans say “eversince”.
Hants June 13, 2017 at 8:04 AM
Don’t be an idiot.
How can you show something that you don’t have.
LETS LOOK AT THIS AGAIN:
“”She also shared a certificate of character endorsed by late Prime Minister, National Hero and Father of Independence, Errol Walton Barrow, as well as photocopies of her CXCs and GCEs certificates, which accompanied her application.
“This is to certify that Mia Mottley, student of London School of Economics has been known to me personally for upwards of 18 years last past.
“I have been a close family friend for over 30 years and I have known the applicant from birth,” said Barrow in the document dated January 8, 1984.
Mottley also tabled in the House what appeared to be a cover note, dated April 27, 1984, and signed by a Kavita Daftary, which made reference to the photocopies of her academic certificates and the fact that she was a student of the “London School of Economics and Political Science, reading for the LLB”.
She also brought proof that her application to Middle Temple had been approved. However, there was no copy of a law degree among the documents presented in the Lower House.””
If anyone was trying to prove The Hon. Dr. Dennis Lowe wrong, the first thing to display and make a document of the House would a LLB, followed by LEC.
A display of O level certificates does not cut it.
The Hon. Dr. Dennis Lowe brought all of his qualifications and made them documents of the House. This is a FACT which can be verified.
His good character was being assassinated in the House of Assembly by MIA AMOR MOTTLEY and other members of the Barbados Labour Party.
As a result The Hon. Dr. Dennis Lowe did the honourable thing and displayed his qualifications in the House of Assembly for all to see. HE HID NOTHING FROM THE PUBLIC OF BARBADOS.
He then challenged Mia Mottley to do the same and up to now we are still waiting.
As we head into an election year.
http://bit.ly/2sZotcn
Barbados’ territorial maritime dispute with Trinidad.
ENTS, COUNSEL AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PARTIES
BARBADOS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
• The Hon Mia A Mottley QC,
Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney
General and Minister of Home
Affairs, Agent for Barbados
• Mr Robert Volterra, Co-Agent,
Counsel and Advocate, Latham &
Watkins
• Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht
CBE, QC, Counsel and Advocate
• Professor Michael Reisman,
Counsel and Advocate
• Mr Jan Paulsson, Counsel and
Advocate, Freshfields Bruckhau
This is the best reason in the world why no one should demean and degrade themselves to become yardfowls and political pimps for politicians and government ministers.
Oh, shut you darn dribble, you stupid idiot. Dennis Lowe is not honourable. He is a foul mouth arrogant crooked son of a bitch who came into the politics to get, not give. He may have the heat on Mottley, who is also a piece of nasty work. However, the Low Lowe has no more honour than a cockroach. So when you are going to defend these crooked ignorant bitches as it is yard duck thing that you tend to do, try hard not to ignore their crookery, because Dennis Lowe might be right on the Mottley not having a LEC, but he has proven himself to be a nasty stain in running cess pool. Honourable my ass?
William Skinner June 13, 2017 at 3:39 PM #
As a former educator it would have been usefull if you had watched the video and googled more on how the Finns are turning their archaic educational system,very much like ours,around in order to have given an informed critique of it.
I support your suggestions for the primary school,some of which in Ag. I was involved with as an after school activity decades ago but it has to be part of a comprehensive exercise up to tertiary level catering to the 25-50 year vision for our country.
I am loving it…..Lowe got a fake PhD that can be bought in any street corner in the US…come out things.
http://bit.ly/2sZotcn
Barbados’ territorial maritime dispute with Trinidad.
AGENTS, COUNSEL AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PARTIES
BARBADOS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
• The Hon Mia A Mottley QC,
Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney
General and Minister of Home
Affairs, Agent for Barbados
• Mr Robert Volterra, Co-Agent,
Counsel and Advocate, Latham &
Watkins
• Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht
CBE, QC, Counsel and Advocate
• Professor Michael Reisman,
Counsel and Advocate
• Mr Jan Paulsson, Counsel and
Advocate, Freshfields Bruckhau
This is the best reason in the world why no one should demean and degrade themselves to become yardfowls and political pimps for politicians and government ministers.
@ Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger June 13, 2017 at 5:15 PM #
I am loving it…..Lowe got a fake PhD that can be bought in any street corner in the US…come out things.
……………………………………………………………………………..
I keep telling you all that Lowe’s qualification is believed to be fraudulent.
From the time he came on the scene, OSA talked about this fake PHD on a platform in Christ Church East.
Clyde Mascoll who was the then Opposition leader said at a public meeting at Tyrol Cot that so concerned were they about the allegation that the party asked his wife to investigate the matter.
She reported back to the party that there seem to be truth to OSA’s allegations.
At the meetng Mascoll said that he was surprised to see that Lowe was now presenting papers as proof of this PHD but in a totally different field………meaning to say that what Lowe was currently saying that he is qualified in is not the same discipline he previously claimed he had this doctorate.
I seem to recall OSA saying that the PHD was from a Bible college which did not even offer a PHD programme.
OMG!
Prodigal….lol, ha hahaha, lol.
Repeat after me SSS:
The Hon. Dr. Dennis Lowe
THE HON. DR. DENNIS LOWE!!!!
Better background check all the other ministers and politicians who claim to have degrees as well, while we at it…..lol
Dennis Lowe’s PhD is fake, it cannot stand up to US scrutiny.
Did I not tell you here on BU that no one in the legal field has a good opinion of the AG.
I was at a gathering over the Christmas season and there were many lawyers there and not a fellow had a good word to say about the AG or the CJ.
In another setting where I was there were some visiting lawyers who were here to consult with the AG. One asked me where we get that AG from, he does not know anything about LAW.
OMG!
Lol.
Mottley did not attend any of the law schools in the Caribbean administered by the Council of Legal Education, prior to being admitted to the Bar of Barbados.
However, he strongly argued that this fact did not preclude her from practising law in the region.
“Such attendance was NOT necessary at the time. It was NOT a pre-condition to the right to practise,” argued Sir Henry.
” It was NOT a pre-condition to the right to practise,”
So Mia Mottley was practicing LEGALLY according to Sir Henry Forde. NEXT!!!!! (as the late John Gibbs would yell at we fuh tekkin too long to order. lol
Wunna bending over backwards to accommodate evil.
They are four “Lawyers” without LEC’s operating in Barbados.
ALL ARE BLP PEOPLE.
What is this saying?
Why everyone else who wanted to become a Lawyer had to enter the legal profession through the front door. Why a selected bunch were allowed to enter through the back door?
What back room deal was cut?
Fact check.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, which he obtained in 1984.
A year later, he achieved his Masters in Education from the University of Cincinnati.
He was awarded a Doctorate in Education from the same university in 1989.
NEXT!!!!!
Lowe, Denis S. Social Climate in Integrated Schools: A Comparative Study of Social Interaction in Alternative and … Ph.D. diss., University of Cincinnati, 1989
No need to spread fake news.
Carson…why are you worried about the LEC and not the LLB…have you seen the LLB.
And yet Lowe is as dumb as a door, cant handle his job, waste management, garbage collection, nothing…that dissertation must have been in bribe collection.
Is that 2 PhDs or one.
It is ironic that CCC wrote “Wunna bending over backwards to accommodate evil,” in reference to a lawyer.
I recall the same CCC, his yard-fowl accomplice Angela Cox-Skeete and the DLP exhibiting contortionist skills to similarly bend over backward to accommodate the evil Michael Carrington perpetrated against his former client John Griffiths, relative to with-holding (a fancy word for stealing) the wheel-chair bound senior citizen’s funds for a number of years, and had to be ordered by the court to repay the sum with interest.
Michael Carrington is in possession of a LEC, but was involved in nefarious and dishonest act.
If the yard-fowls are of the opinion Mottley is illegally practicing law in Barbados, surely they should accept that Michael Carrington is a thief.
Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger June 13, 2017 at 8:05 PM #
“Is that 2 PhDs or one.”
@ WW&C
PHD = Pine Hill Dairy
Lol…Art…ah heard that is what they are called these days…..
Hants posted one…and Enuff posted a different one.
2 Pine Hill Dairies
2 different PhDs posted for Dennis “where is my cut” Lowe.
Can the posters tell me which one is real and which is fake.
“Vincent, You still don’t get it, do you? This is CLEAR EVIDENCE of the failure of our educational system.”
Am….. was this “clear evidence” tested in court under cross examination? If not, then such evidence is “hear say” and that, according to the author, is the rule of law.
Therefore, “hear say” is being used to cast aspirations on our educational system.
Or is this “rule of law” only applicable to Leroy Parris and Hal Gollop?
Ratted! Mottley once again on her soap box muttering her usual rants and raves while sticking her nose in Union business.
SMFH.
As if enough spotlight is not on her not able to produce a Legal Education Certificate. It seems like one of her desires is to see barbados have chaos in the street.
Dont understand the rationale behind her ridiculous rants when she knows better.
Carson….again, I know yardfowls lack commonsense, but this is easy, if Mia never received her law degree from UK, it means she was never a lawyer, why aren’t any of you stressing on this, have any of you seen her UK law degree….and why aren’t any of you talking about that.
The LEC is secondary to a lawyer trained in the UK, graduated and having a LAW Degree and required to have an LEC, back then after 1983, to practice in the Caribbean…..and we all know about the D exemption for Mia to practice without LEC….a nonissue…..but the question is, dud she graduate with a law degree from the UK, have any of you seen it, why dont you ask fir it, if ya did not.
Now to Dennis Lowe who seems to have a PhD for every season and for every reason…lol
Hants
“He was awarded a Doctorate in Education from the same university in 1989.
NEXT!!!!!
enuff June 13, 2017 at 7:37 PM #
“Lowe, Denis S. Social Climate in Integrated Schools: A Comparative Study of Social Interaction in Alternative and … Ph.D. diss., University of Cincinnati, 1989”
A doctorate = a PhD.
Ah heard about Lowe having a doctorate in theology from a religious university that has no such PhD program.
A doctorate in education = PhD
A PhD dissertation in social climate = PHD
An accepted dissertation in anything = PhD
So would Dennis Lowe’s real PhD….please…..stand…..up.
Any of you care to explain the discrepancies.
……..and we all know about the DLP exemption for Mia to practice without LEC….a nonissue…..but the question is, did she graduate with a law degree from the UK, have any of you seen it, why dont you ask fir it, if ya did not.
Alvin….ah know ya gotta be pimping around the blog somewhere, this one is just for you…lol
“People Who Constantly Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Scientists Find
But you probably already knew that.
FIONA MACDONALD 31 MAR 2016
Scientists have found that people who constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online have “less agreeable” personalities than those who just let them slide.
And those friends who are super-sensitive to typos on your Facebook page? Psychological testing reveals they’re generally less open, and are also more likely to be judging you for your mistakes than everyone else. In other words, they’re exactly who you thought they were. That sounds pretty obvious, but this is actually the first time researchers have been able to show that a person’s personality traits can actually determine how they respond to typos and grammatical errors, and it could teach us a lot about how people communicate (or miscommunicate) online.”
Well Well
You should see the one on people who constantly blow their trumpets of self praise. It says they are idiots in their thinking and morons in life.
Carson C Cadogan
Dennis Low Lowe is an honourable crook. He will be honoured shortly for his contribution to making the Democratic Labour Party look petty and pissy. I hope that the pretensive opposition leader will launch an investigation into Low Lowes doings, but we know she will not do one shite. She will show her true colours just like the Dees has shown theirs. It call DEEBEE politricks, and it is wukking fuh both parties.
MORNING david
TAKEN FROM FACEBOOK(you can delete this if you like)
but it is not going away
“”Imagine… What does it feel like to sit in a court representing your clients…only to find out that the Judge has issues with his call to the bar, one opposing lawyer has issues with her call to the bar, another opposing QC was the person who moved the application on behalf of the female lawyer with issues, another QC who was representing a “co claimant” was the AG “at the material time”.
Everything will come out.””
This is not going away, FRAUDS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE BLP.
If we were dealing with a Medical fraud the Royal Barbados Police Force would have already intervened.
Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger June 14, 2017 at 8:45 AM
Use your common sense for a change.
if some one of the rank of The Hon. Dr. Dennis Lowe challenge your legal qualifications in the Parliament of all places in Barbados, would you not within an hour produce your LLB and LEC to shut him up as he did to her?
Not come TWO YEARS LATER DISPLAYING O levels certificates.
One would especially want to rubbish HIS CHALLENGE especially if one IS ALSO A QC.
Is this why OWEN ARTHUR has been fighting for years for her not to become Leader of the Barbados Labour Party and possibly a PM in Barbados? He had to know this all along and the danger it poses to Jurisprudence in Barbados if this became known. We recall OWEN ARTHUR made Clyde Mascol “”CO-LEADER”” of the Barbados Labour Party.
Carson….so why arent you challenging if MIA has her law defree from UK…why are you stuck on an LEC….
First prove that she did not graduate with a law degree, easy to prove if she did or not, dial up the law school in UK…they have recirds going back centuries of lawyers who earned law degrees, by that standard Mia’s law degree is young, they can find her records easily.
All that long talk about an LEC…when a law degree is required to even be a lawyer.
Prove she is not a lawyer and has been fraudulently practicing law…or shut up.