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The following documents shared with the BU family by Dr. Ronnie Yearwood

I believe that at no point in a country’s history, should a single generation be faced with the decisions my generation will have to take to restore the fortunes of Barbados, but there can be no hiding. We are at a point in our history where the next generation to come may have less than the one before. That should simply never be, but again there can be no hiding. There is something resoundingly sobering – and frightening – about this as I speak this evening. Equally, sobering is that I am speaking of governance and truth. Truth is, they should be one and the same. But in Barbados today, elsewhere too, in both developed and developing countries, there has been a vicious divorce of the two principles.

 

 

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134 responses to “Dr. Ronnie Yearwood | Ideas for a New Politics:Governance and Truth | The Good Society”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    Here is what BU will label the topic sentence of the speech The Good Society:

    I wish to suggest that the first guiding principle in a Good Society must be that we put Barbados first.

  2. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    You can only try.

    The mentality of this current generation of politicians, the last 40 years, could do with a massive overhaul….that’s the first order of business or you will continue to get the same repugnant results…cyclical.

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

    Dr. Ronnie Yearwood | Ideas for a New Politics:Governance and Truth | The Good Society@@

    DO anyone see the word truth, truth will run the DBLP out of the island.so fast ,90% of BU cant deal with the truth, the truth is Massive Land Fraud and PONZI , now lets see if the
    Dr.Yearwood will seek truth, We will watch and see if he is for real or just part of the long talking covering up for one side or the other,

  4. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    @ David at 8: 03 pm

    Your topic sentence is vaguely familiar. I wonder where I first read it.However I subscribe to it. We have to put the welfare of all our citizens first. The methodology and the strategy will always differ.
    Governance seems to have a new and strange meaning. The populace must be confused.

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @Bernard

    It has to be familiar, it is a universal truth.

    Note he follows the topic sentence with the most idealistic perspective:

    We all must come to realise that our salvation rests in building a society that recognizes the talents and contributions of all. And that together we
    can succeed in a way that does not for narrow gain put one position or need against the other.

    Humankind is sufficiently diverse that you will never get ALL to follow any ideal. What Ronnie wants is to inspire the majority, especially the opinion shapers to agree.

  6. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    @ David a 9:02 Pm

    We are only 280,000 persons. How can that be a universal truth ? We really punching above our weight here,LOL!!!! Anyhow , I know what you intended to write.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    The following extract from the speech delivered at HC on Saturday meshes with a comment made by BU member Gabriel posted today.

    One of the problems in Barbados is too much correctness in the face of wrongdoing. We must also stop that for the Good Society.

  8. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    David

    Only the first sentence came up. I have now seen the remainder. Ignore the quip.

  9. David Avatar
    David

    @Bernard

    It is good to note BU was able to provoke a level of jocularity- even if by accident- from a normally studious (?) BU member.

  10. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    This is nothing new. Certainly you must know that ideas about a ‘good society’ have been previously promulgated.

    Indeed, several times in the past 500 years or so. Histories have been written about the politics of ‘good societies’.

    Seem to remember the Austrian School, the German School …………

    We believe that what you are here promotion has been posted within the last few months.

    The question is why is this warmed-over soup being featured again.

    Our bullshit metre failed to indicate the slightest deviation from the mean when you first ‘printed’ and we are afraid that your obvious deference to this individual-and-ilk continues to be unremarkable.

    The bottom line is that will never be any revolutionary or transformative politics coming from any Bajan, unless, as in this case, based on ideas from elsewhere.

  11. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right - INRI Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right – INRI

    @ Pachamama

    De ole man actually went and read the 19 pages of fluff.

    Since one wanted to “catch up” with the content and the comments arising.

    I looked at this submission, these many months after his fist Central Bank outing to ascertain if this shining star had, in the interceding months since coming out at the Central bank of Barbados, advanced to a “higher place” in his pronouncements.

    Sadly to say we are still in pep talk mode and the normally verbal Bajan audience that rips these articles to shreds, it strangely very quiet and continues to give Dr. Ronnie Yearwook a pass.

    Let us examine this pep talk a little closer to see what, if anything is it worth.

    To do so we can skip its content, rather we may assign the content of his 19 pages to being a monologue which speaks to the contribution that each part of the collective should make to the whole.

    Let us be truly frank.

    Is it any better than the words of our Sunday School teacher? “You must do good and make it our individual business to be on good terms with all men”

    But has the good doctor stepped out of his comfort zone to present anything that is of real substance?

    True he has not laid on the woes occasioned by the DLP in as thick a sauce as the other Dr. and cuntsultant fellow GC but truth be told the message is equally as vacuous, ALL 19 pages of it.

    One thing that you can admit is that the topics and headings across the BU landscape sound real good and can still cause one of the Americal Economic Advisors to click on it to see if he is to be labelled a person of interest.

    But, when we examine the substance of the 19 pages, with its 1 1/2 line spacing, wunna gots to agree that he could really have said all this dribble in 2 pages and not caused nufff people to drive real far with a fast failing hope that he will deliver something momentous and stop this seeming “regurgitation of dated speeches” fashioned from US Congressmen in the 1800’s that are full of hot air but signifying nothing

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    It is about citizens who are prepared to go into the trenches and mobilize others. There is nothing new understand some say. We will see where it leads. We should encourage everyone.

  13. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Ronnie is a breath of fresh air in Barbadian politics. But to misconstrue what he has to say by calling for citizens to put ‘Barbados first’ is but another form of reactionary nationalism.
    There is no fundamental difference between putting Barbados first and Trump’s putting America first. We need a clear vision of the kind of society we will like to see, the way we will distribute our resources – human and material – and how we share our core values.
    Putting Barbados first without a full understanding of the underlying social and cultural values is like putting icing on ginger bread.
    That is why people can come from all over the world and claim to be Barbadian; it is what you think it is. I could not go to China and claim to be Chinese.
    The boys on the block in the Pine, or Carrington Village, or Deacons, or the Ivy, have nothing in common with those living in the Heights; the little boys (and sometimes even school girls) remanded in custody by brutish, arrogant, contemptuous magistrates have nothing in common with the social and business class who routinely carry out fraud without even the slightest attention from the authorities; the people losing their homes because they have lost their jobs due to an incompetent government have nothing in common with the foreigners running the banks who repossess their homes to sell to so-called New Barbadians for cash.
    Putting Barbados first means many things to different people.
    My main concern for Ronnie, and many other bright young men and women like him, is that the vicious savagery of Barbadian culture, the spite, bitterness and envy which will see them destroy their own if they believe he or she has aspirations beyond their station, may well demoralise him.
    As I have said, Ronnie is a gift to Barbados, but he must make sure he is not seduced by the professional middle class who themselves have nothing to offer. He must become the voice of ordinary people, or he will be just another Branford Taitt, Nigel Barrow et al, all of whom returned to Barbados full of promise before sinking without trace.

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

    I believe the tired old “put Barbados first” theme should be revised to…… put the majority black population who have been disenfranchised for decades by black governments to accomodate and rich a small minority……FIRST….going forward.

    That will be a start and go a long way in changing that degraded mentality, lack of self respect and lack of respect for their own people in the black politicians and government ministers..

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @Hal

    If you read the speech you should have been able to apply context to the “”topic sentence”” BU identified. He referred to it as a guiding principle. What is wrong with encouraging people to define a national identify to rally behind? If not why do we call ourselves Bajans?

    How do we call ourselves a nation when we remain self-serving and incongruent, each group fighting for its own selfish goals at the expense of the country? This is nothing more than a “mercenary disposition”. We need to elevate ourselves to a higher purpose, that of making Barbados great, by insisting on good and being good.

  16. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    David,
    Barbados first is but a slogan; there must be more substance to it than that. What kind of Barbados do we want. What do you mean by making Barbados ‘great’ or being ‘good’? That is waffle. In fact, how do you define national identity? David, we just cannot throw about words like that, especially at a time like this in our history.

  17. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Hal is an enigma.

    One minute he is talking shiite about anonymity or pontificating on some aspect of Barbadians life that he remembers from the 60’s….. and the next, he comes with a brilliant exposition such as the one at 3.36AM.

    Steupsss … Bushie cannot keep up with if to cuss him …or praise him.

    Anyway… his questions are always thought provoking….

  18. David Avatar
    David

    @Hal

    No need for you and a few others to split hairs. Yes you are correct that we/he must develop plans to move beyond words but make no mistake -words matter. Ronnie so far has been able to mobilize a segment of the population to coalesce behind the issue of governance and a few other not too sexy topics let us see how the group develops. What some of the critics can do is lend tangible support. He may not be the one to get us to the finish line but he might inspire others to join in movement to exercise their civic duty.

  19. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David, cum Columbus

    Our country cannot be well

    We remember other Yearwoods, young imports, returning to the country thinking they had something special to say.

    But for JC, these arguments entirely based on some generational transition, are trite, tired.

    We remember Branford Taitt

    We remember Hilary Beckles

    We remember Denise Lowe

    There will be many more. They are likely to be more convincing to the homegrown population than people otherwise experienced.

    Bajans still have a preference for people ‘from over and away’.

    So we are not surprised that following the marketing requirements which gave us people from Tony Blaire to Emmanuel Macron, some people may be drawn-in by a political-economy language which sounds different and obviously believed by the person mouthing it. As irrelevant as it is to fixing current problems.

    It might even help if the ideas of Aristole are so linked. Who can deny him?

    None of this is enough

    It is the same BS as before

  20. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    @ David

    Thanks for making the two speeches of Dr. Yearwood available to the BU household. I considered going to the forum to understand what the next crop of the Political Class is saying and the theoretical basis for their recommendations if any. I decided to stay home .

    I have no regrets for having done so. I am still convinced that joining the established parties and assisting in piloting them through the new uncharted waters is the most productive approach for progress in this small but vibrant country , Barbados. We basically share the same values but the leadership is mired in the methodologies of a past from which they seem not able to escape.
    Persons like Grenville 2 and Ronnie need a maturation process which they can only acquire from working alongside the older generation and learning how to get their hands dirty in the real politics. It is a lot more messy than the sterile atmosphere of rhetoric and ideologies. There is often a gap between a map and the territory.

  21. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Bernard Codrington. July 5, 2017 at 9:09 AM #

    Must agree with your above…..presently he is speaking to the converted.

    The true test will be when he goes into the communities and deals with daily bread and butter issues.

    I got the impression that he was dealing only with the younger generation and as we the older generation left the cupboard bare,he had no time for us…….he may be justified.

  22. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    David,

    I am not sure if you are playing Devil’s advocate, or just are challenged by the discourse. I have said a number of times in this forum, and elsewhere, that Ronnie is a gift to Barbados, he is one of the brightest of his generation.
    Where did you get splitting hairs from? In simple English, I am a huge supporter of Ronnie’s. Is it that you do not understand or simply want to create division?
    The point is that we must go beyond slogans, put meat on the bone; we all love Barbados, but in our own way – even Sinckler and Stuart do.
    To talk about a Barbados national identity does not mean anything. Even allowing for his huge ignorance, to have someone like @Chad suggesting that I am more British than the British, goes beyond a joke. As politics it is lunacy.
    I do not believe being born in a strange land, having a passport or attending institutions make you anything, as the British remind us every day. To most Brits we Caribbean people are Caribbean, even if the Chads of this world do not fully understand.
    Similarly, I do not believe that a Pakistani living in Barbados for 50 years, or some Scandinavian living in Barbados from his teenage years somehow metamorphoses in to a Barbadian.
    That is why we have debates. You are not very good at this debating lark, are you?.

  23. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Chuckle…..my third generation family in the UK view themselves and are accepted as fully british.

    …..any one from the 60s emigration exercise to the UK will not be accepted in Bim unless they maintained a regular visit and had money.

    …..anyone coming back without meeting the above requirement would be deemed mad by goodly citizens of Bim as many have.

  24. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    The cynic in me is rising to the fore, how long ago was another “youngish” Bajan praised on this blog before the knives came out for him? I am speaking about “Walter Blackman” who was being hailed as a bright star on the horizon before the spectre of partisan politics dimmed his lustre and he was relentlessly pilloried on the blog.

    Yearwood faces a similar fate and he is smart not to engage with partisans here as he is associated with the Opposition Party just as Blackman is similarly ensconced within the Opposition party.

    Hey perhaps Blackman and Yearwoood should join forces.

  25. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Vincent,
    I am not sure which part of Britain your relatives live. On Sunday I went to the great annual cricket match, what can easily pass as Barbados Day, in South London (at £10 to enter it may well be my last); in attendance were generations of my family, second, third and fourth, each and every one considered themselves to be Barbadian. They wore the T shirts, had the caps, ate the food, danced to the music. One second generation lad is now in Barbados with his university mates for the next week or so.
    I do not like Barbados flags in the family car, my wife and the children do. All the children – each one British born – play an active part in the Notting Hill Carnival, each one with Bajan flags bigger than bed linen. Tell them they are not Bajans they will think you are mad.
    Of course, that duality, when with their colleagues and university chums they play at being English. I am sure you did too.
    Nothing new about this. After generations, the Irish still call themselves Irish. This goes right to the heart of identity, we must debate it and not just scoff at those who may not agree with us.

  26. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Hal

    I note that you did not deal with trying to settle in Bim.

    Having a love for Bim and identifying vocally with it in the UK is par for the course.

  27. curious Avatar
    curious

    Sargeant
    I remember the Walter Blackman posts that were accepted until he said he was joining the DLP. He is now a talk show host on CBC TV because a new candidate was selected for St.Michael East.
    I am so thirsty for a new political force such as Macron did in France before it is too late. All of these young men and women should step out of those established parties and form a new party. The people really want to change but not from D to B again. For example what will George Payne bring to a new Parliament that he could not do in fourteen years when he did not speak for about ten years
    Do not discourage them, lets encourage Dr. Yearwood and the others to start the new movement

  28. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right - INRI Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right – INRI

    @ David – the Honourable Blogmaster.

    There is a parable attributed to Jesus The Son of THE LIVING GOD.

    It is in the Gospel according to Matthew

    “28But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. 31Whether of them twain did the will of his father?

    You of all people Blogmaster are intimately aware of what “word song” and real action is.

    Yearwood has presented 19 pages meaningless shyte and while he might be a well meaning bright fellow who has inspired some to think of him like a second coming many of us who are more discerning understand what he represents.

    Let me made it simple for all readers.

    Some time ago, Toyota recalled every single car Model X in the united states cause it has a defect where when you press the brakes the car accelerated. There were a few deaths as a result of this defect.

    Incredibly, not one car was recalled in Barbados, in fact, and please correct me if i am wrong, tell me when any car was recalled in Barbados for what was a global recall incident anytime since cars have been coming to barbados

    My point is the issue of pertinence.

    While it is very pertinent to life and limb of bajans , that Toyata recall is ignored by the car sales company and such is endorsed (i should have said ignored) by the Barbados National Standards Institute.

    How much moreso should Ronnie’s pep talk be abandoned since it IS NOT PERTINENT to the lifestyles of Bajans and speaks more to him effecting the “form” that the second son in the parable as opposed to doing what is meaningful?

    You kind sir are mellowing in your older years and accepting these mediocre representations and stroking the ego of these wannabees (emphasis on Bees)

    De man talking crap pure un-adulterated crap which does not provide any solutions to where we find ourselves as a country and should not even have been submitted rather put up here as an article

    When you going put up de ole man article for “An Alternative to the Outdated Bajan Education System?” lolol

  29. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Errata
    just as Blackman is similarly ensconced within the Opposition party
    ++++++++++
    Should be just as Blackman is similarly ensconced within the ruling party

  30. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Vincent,
    I would settle in Barbados tomorrow. What I would not do is seek employment in Barbados – or anywhere else. But, as most probably with you, it is not my decision alone. If it helps, I have asked to be buried in Barbados.

  31. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Hal

    Fair enough…..you will accept my scenarios above re settling in Bim,even if not applicable to you.

  32. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Curious

    I don’t hold out much hope for a third Party in Barbados no matter the makeup, Bajans are two attached to the traditional political parties to embrace change.

  33. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    No. I do not. If you are from the UK Bajans think you have a screw loose; but if you are from North America they think you are wealthy.
    The point is that most people from the UK bring more money in to the country than those from North America.
    The problem is not that of the so-called returnees, but of locals and their bitterness and envy. You either tolerate it and try to negotiate it, or you tell them to get stuffed.

  34. Well Well @ Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well @ Consequences Observing Blogger

    ……fully medicated today.

  35. vincent haynes Avatar
    vincent haynes

    Hal

    You have amplified and restated my point…thanks.

  36. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right - INRI Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right – INRI

    My posts are

    (a) either not showing for several hours

    (b) being filtered based on my new software

    (c) being “moderated” or

    (d) being moderated, filtered and then posted SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THEIR ORIGINAL POSTING TIME.

    I am sure that this is purely accidental and this is not a strategy to ensure that the comments are held long enough to make sure that de ole man’s comments are so far down in the time slots that they DONT REALLY GET SEEN AND EFFECTIVELY DONT MATTER

  37. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    True Hal brits do bring more money into barbados and they do there best to take it back with them…tipping is not their strong suit like canadians or americans.My buddy wants his ashes spread in barbados hopefully there will be enough of you guys to keep a balance of the land and the melting of the polar ice cap.

  38. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Lawson,
    A tip is an appreciation of service, not part of the waiter’s wages. In the US I get that problem. When I refuse to tip the waitress/er usually shouts Have a Nice Day. Meaning anything but. I think you Canadians just imitate the Yanks, who just plan tips in to staff wages.

  39. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Piece

    You are relatively harmless.

    We have not experience such ‘gremlings’

    We judge that we are a better target for such than you

    All things will past

  40. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    Hal I agree, I was making a joke but tips have become so common place up here that they expect it even if the service is crummy. I hate it …pay the employee a fair wage charge a fair price and if the service is deemed above and beyond you will be rewarded by most people. Was looking forward for my crop over trip, but as usual somebody has gotten cute on the accomodations, had to pay by credit card on line by certain date, sent it through got error code tried again different pin same result a few times error error error. Sent email saying site isnt working they said all went through refunded me money less 80 dollars per transaction nice scam dont know where money went but feeling ripped off and i am not even on the island yet.

  41. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Does Barbados need another lawyer to captain the ship of state?

    What are chances that a lawyer has the skill set (and the intellectual background) to come up with imaginative programs for rejuvenating our moribund Third World economy?

    Other than the tiny oil-rich Arab states of the Gulf, and the Asian Miracle states– Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and now China, all of which have benefited from truly monumental inflows of Western capital and technology –there are no Third World countries graduating to First World status. Barbados is trying to do something that is nearly impossible.

    Ronnie doesn’t stand a chance.

  42. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Lawson,

    I knew you were taking the Mick. You have been done. Complain to the credit card company an they will reimburse you and take up the fight with the hotel. Barbadian businesses are crooks.

  43. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Chad,

    Do you know Ronnie? Have you ever heard him speak? What do you know about his intellectual abilities? On what basis have you reached this conclusion?
    “Ronnie does not stand a chance” – so you can see in to the future.

  44. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Lawson….wait till ya get there, then ya will really have something to complain about…lol

  45. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Hall Austin

    As I’ve said before, you are not always dealing with fellow dunces in this forum, so you should be aware of your limitations and try really hard to rise to the occasion.

    For example, I did not refer to Ronnie’s intellectual abilities. I raised a question about his intellectual background. Do you understand the difference?

    I am suggesting that the pilot of an ambitious Third World country better understand a great deal about the hundreds of economic growth and development programs that have failed around the world. Otherwise he is likely to repeat the costly mistakes that have already been made elsewhere.

    Does Ronnie have a clue? You dont learn these things in law school.

  46. enuff Avatar
    enuff

    Curious

    Macron was a member of Hollande’s Cabinet, and the party he started is made up of members from the other parties. There is nothing special about Macron.

    Chad999

    Ronnie is a lawyer last not first.

  47. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right - INRI Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right – INRI

    @ Lawson

    the three major (US) credit cards give you 90 days to request a refund of your monies.

    What you do Lawson is screenshot the errors when they are happening with jing or some sort of screen capture programme. Shift + Prn Scr will do it on a windows computer and save the file to your desktop.

    Then you write to the credit card company and explain wht the problem is and show them the screen shots and you get back your money immediately.

    That is why i love North America AND, IF THEY GET ENOUGH COMPLAINTS ABOUT THAT MERCHANT THEY RESCIND THEIR MERCHANT ID.

    Newer companies are even better and give you 180 days of cover.

    Dont expect the same type of service here with these bajan pretend creditcard companies, they do not side with customers, there is a workaround but to share it will ***

    @ Bajans

    Thank you.

    @ Chad99999

    There is an irony in that statement about lawyers that if a feller did no know who you were it would be a classic joke.

    But, to your substantive and erroneous posit.

    It is not really lawyers, nor doctors, nor any specific profession, or lack thereof that either qualifies or won’t qualify a fellow as head of state.

    Your rule of thumb is flawed, rather it is tinged, by the specific fact that the majority of our 11 x 16 Rock Dwellers have been from that lawerly profession, from which you hail, PM Arthur excluded.

    The recipe for Barbados’ potential success which will disprove your unfounded thesis, lies not in that thing that you relied on – precedence, but in the inimical style of successive Bajan leaders.

    Tee single thing is their incapacity to foster an environment where all citizens feel empowered to contribute – from the scavenger to the most socially vaunted position in this pretentious society called BIM.

    All previous governments AS WELL AS THE INCOMING Mugabe dictatorship will fail because they do not and will not seek true empowerment of the masses.

    And that is purely because of one fact – they are small minded people with warped psyches THEY CANNOT AND WILL NOT EMPOWER THAT TYPE OF NATIONAL PSYCHE.

    I put it to you that with the right environment and leadership Barbados can exceed and excel in any field which you revere and hold as the sole domain of 1st world countries.

    This i why I have used and will always revert to the term “enemies of the state” because while De Word has difficulty with these words, this is precisely what these scum, whom you and I elect every 5 years, are.

    We consistently have chosen and continue to choose small Physical Deficit Men who are bereft of any skills or women who imagine themselves as men and pursue specific gastronomic delights.

    Such is the true nature of our predicament when men like Dr. Ronnie, now being revered here in this soliloquy, seek not to enable real revolutionary change in the thoughts of bajans by prefers to wallow and self flagellate in 19 pages of mediocrity

  48. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right - INRI Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right – INRI

    So let me propose some revolutionary ideas for the active consideration of Dr Ronnie and his group of Merrymen who assemble at Harrison College

    I had posed it to Vincent earlier but i think that it merits submission here with rather among this august company as ideas for an improved governance

    Dr Ronnie and Walther PPK have been touted as (a) a breath of fresh air and (b) fellers who should brek way and create a new party.

    What is Dr. Ronnie, PPK, Neil Holder, Grenville the II, Lyndon Scantlebury, Lynette Eastmond were to join up forces during this proverbial “watershed” in Barbados’ politics?

    What if they use this moment in time to disrupt the cabal?

    Given the “Whitewash” that is coming for the DLP in 2018, a whitewash that will bring in the BLP, in such quantum, is this not their moment to ensure that we dont find ourselves with no opposition in the HOA?

    As de ole man mentioned elsewhere “No opposition” means a single party, BLP state, and that, under Mugabe, is a dictatorship that Bajans rightfully fear.

    So here is an idea for governance for Ronnie that certainly will disrupt the status quo and give this new slate of alternative representatives a fighting chance to fashion “New Politics”

    So to this “Third party” that Sargeant spoke to earlier de ole man suggests one thing.

    HOW TO LEVERAGE THE MASSES AND SECURE THEIR VOTE

    Wunna all know that @ TODAY BAJANS ARE HURTING

    All the masses see both the BLP and DLP oligarches as the “source of their pain and suffering ” for the last 25 years.

    What if this third part were to leverage a campaign that leverages that perception?

    Suppose you, Dr. Ronnie and DPP were to advance a public campaign of “CLEANING SHOP’?

    In addition to all your other “make Barbados Great again” fluff Dr. Ronnie what you could do is publicly state in a next 19 page soliloquy for all bajans that you will

    (a) implement every single action of the Auditor general’s report going back 15 years

    (b) will then bring legal action against every single person or board implicated in that report

    (c) will solicit the assistance of the governments of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom and those that have prosecuted parties involved in the Panama papers, in the supply of forensic accountants

    (d) pledge to seek monetary restitution from all ministers and statutory boards and Heads who you find have teifed de government’s money

    and last but not least (e) lock up any minister/ serving Permanent Secretary retired Permanent wherever they are.

    What you thing bout this simple campaign Ronnie to undergird your New Politics?.

    (1) Who is the target of such a campaign? THE SMALL MAN

    (2) What is the % constituency of that grouping known as “THE SMALL MAN”? i.e. what is his voting power?

    (3) What will the outcome of that campaign be as such relates to the status quo of the BLP and the DLP?

    But above all of that vote catching ting Ronnie the whole ingrunt prolix is based on Honesty and doing what is right and in its absence enforcing what is right.

    You tink dat this would fit inot Dr. Ronnie Yearwood’s New Politics?

  49. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Basdeo Panday,former PM of TnT who served some prison time for lying about his assets is at age 84 having some second thoughts on what he would like to see changed in TnT system of governance.It seems to me on the surface that he is more in tune with the system which obtains in the US,which system did not anticipate a buffoon cum clown cum lunatic for a president.
    http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170704/news/a-deep-racial-divide-in-tt-says-panday

  50. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Hal Austin July 5, 2017 at 4:38 PM
    “Chad,
    Do you know Ronnie? Have you ever heard him speak? What do you know about his intellectual abilities? On what basis have you reached this conclusion?
    “Ronnie does not stand a chance” – so you can see in to the future.”

    The queries raised by Chad the 9×5 maverick are rather pertinent as to what the future holds for poor Barbados.

    Ronnie Y is just another graduate from the Bajan chatterati class.
    And like Hilary Beckles you have heard him all before with his fulsome hot air of: ‘We need to change this and we need to do that’ but no implementation of anything other than to see their society regress to a pre-independence state of colonial type dictatorship while progressing to a ripening state of a full-blow banana republic fueled by a deadening cocktail of crime and violence.

    Why can’t Ronnie of the many join forces with the other pseudo agents of change like the mad Grenville Mach 11 of Solutions Buybadus instead of aligning himself with the old tried and failed guard of the traditional parties whose manifestoes over the last 10 years clearly regurgitate what he himself is now chewing his cud on?

    Does the following pledge sound like something straight out of the propaganda songbook of Ronnie the sweet-sounding modern-day political ‘jazz’’ singer?

    “This Manifesto envisions a Barbados that is socially balanced, economically viable, environmentally sound and characterized by good governance.”
    “I invite the people of Barbados, therefore, to join the Democratic Labour Party on this exciting journey to the creation of a Better Barbados.
    This journey emphasizes hope rather than despair, light rather than darkness, and movement rather
    than stagnation.

    This journey aims at human fulfilment and development. It does not aim at numerical worship and statistical purity. This is the true way of the Democratic Labour Party.”

    “The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” ~ Confucius

    “Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast.
    The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.” ~ Karen Marie Moning.

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