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BSTU Dispute With St. Michael Secondary School

“The BSTU raised the matter at the Subcommittee of the Social Partnership on 25th August, 2017 and asked that the Minister of Labour use her good office to exert influence towards getting the Grievance heard. Government Minister, the Hon. Donville Inniss, while there expressed his horror at the matter, and stated his concern that if…

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Mary-Anne Redman, BSTU

“The BSTU raised the matter at the Subcommittee of the Social Partnership on 25th August, 2017 and asked that the Minister of Labour use her good office to exert influence towards getting the Grievance heard. Government Minister, the Hon. Donville Inniss, while there expressed his horror at the matter, and stated his concern that if the BSTU were forced to take action, the fault would lie with the recalcitrance of the senior officers” – BSTU Press Release 10/09/2017

“Don’t you shut down this school system because you feel your child ain’t get what you want, because I going to then do what I have to do to ensure my child gets what he rightfully deserves in this country, which is a sound education” – Nation newspaper 11/09/2017

The above are extracts from a BSTU press release on a break in the grievance procedure which was shared on the weekend, the other a quote from the local press which covered Minister Donville Inniss addressing a DLP constituency meeting on the weekend as well.

If we accept that the report from the BSTU is accurate then clearly Minister Donville Inniss played politics with a serious issue on by casting a slur on the character of President of the BSTU Mary-Anne Redman. The dispute between the BSTU and the St. Michael School must be assessed based on the merits of the case and not whether the person at the centre of the matter is related to Redman.

79 responses to “BSTU Dispute With St. Michael Secondary School”

  1. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Gabriel

    It was interesting to read Dr Mascoll’s column last Thursday.

    Mascoll said that when he was the leader of the Opposition and he wanted to appoint Freundel Stuart as one of the two DLP senators……..David Thompson and none other than Chris Sinckler along with the elders of the party objected to the decision.

    And foolish Freundel turn around and named Sinckler as Finance minister over David Estwick…………….well that turned out so well for Barbados……..didn’t it?

  2. David Avatar
    David

    No comments concerning Donville’s swipe at the reputation of Barbadians as outlined in todays press. How many Bajans have complained to him about not wanting to contribute to the regional disaster effort to inform his chracterization that Bajans are a selfish lot.

  3. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    I was wondering why Denis Kellman was so quiet and if he had actually heeded “moutha” Donville Inniss warning to keep off of social media…..when low and behold I heard the news that he was in New York to address the UN. But looka my crosses though!!!

    I was in a gathering this weekend and some of the people there were laughing at this saying they wonder if he took along some advisers to act as interpreters. OMG!!

  4. Hants Avatar
    Hants

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    …..”because you feel your child ain’t get what you want, because I going to then do”…..

    From de mout of a minista who did was get a good edykashun.

    de reason why is because decausin ahm …….

  6. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Prodigal
    Don’t forget Staurt ran against Thompson for leadership of the party in 05 or 06 and had a few choice unflattering words to describe what he thought of Thompson including his complexion and background.Based on his harangue to the annual conference on Sunday Sept 3rd regarding Mia and her background,it appears that Stuart shows an inferiority complex and every so often it controls him.
    Stuart knows Sinckler went to the GG on more than one occasion to remove him from the PM position and knows that Sinckler the rabble rouser can cause him a few sleepless nights if he decides to make some more moves.One is therefore not surprised to see Stuart backing Sinckler,going as far as to call him eminent.Sinckler is Stuart’s meal ticket and not the other way round.Sinckler can silence all those DLP parliamentarians including the primus inter pares.

  7. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Gabriel,

    Sinckler instead as PM? The rating agencies would downgrade Bim to Triple-Z within the next 24h hours. You can say about any party in Bim what you want. But Sinckler is a class of his own.

  8. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Gabriel

    Knowing all of this what does this say of the man Freundel Stuart?

    The man does not care what any of the ministers of his cabinet do as long as he can stay as PM.

    What other PM would tolerate a man like Michael Carrington sitting in an esteem position as the Speaker of our Parliament and this fool we have as a PM tells him to get a lawyer…….because the Speaker knows that the PM cannot touch him otherwise Freundel would not be PM any longer.

    Freundel is a hypocrite, is deceitful and ungrateful.

    After he found out that Sinckler was the leader of the gang of 11 and tht they had gone to the GG to have him removed as PM, he wrote OSA and begged him not to join with them to bring him down. The GG told the uneducated idiots of parliamentary procedures that the PM could only be removed by a vote in the house. OSA who had by this time taken over the BLP and OSA said he wrote in jest on the said beggar note ……..and while you are at it, can you take Mia off my hands.

    OSA saved the bastard’s hide and what did he do to OSA in return….used the part of same note in an elction ad against the same OSA who saved him from Sinckler………and the idiot made Sinckler MOF again……………can he be that stupid or did he have no choice?

    Blackmail, perhaps?

  9. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    LOL. Tron!

  10. David Avatar
    David

  11. Alien Avatar
    Alien

    https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2017/09/12/failing-grade-7/

    “A veteran educator has partly blamed teachers for the poor performance of some students, arguing that they are failing in their duty to their charges…”

  12. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    There are some poisonous elements in barbados hell bent on destroying the social framework of barbados and have now become embolden and brazen to attach themselves to unions and have also infiltrated the opposition party
    All the noises being heard from these quarters are not new , However the messages are so designed to create havoc among the masses
    Barbados has now entered an era of a widening o the entitlement basket so much so that those who have made it to the top of the education ladder are willing to pull the ladder from beneath the feet of the most vulnerable
    The govt of the day are highly aware of the actors and actresses living with the bosom of certain political quarters and would leave no stone upturned to pinpoint and shame these impostors Exhibit A Charles Herbert who has diligently served his purpose to undermine barbados social framework like a fox watching the chicken coop while laying in wake to attack
    Our education system is now again under attack by mongoose always on the prowl

  13. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    AC

    “some poisonous elements in barbados hell bent on destroying the social framework of barbados”

    Do you think of the big Moustache with his Blackrockian behaviour here? As long as Big Sinck is MoF, no foreign investor will come to Barbados without heavy subsidies at the taxpayer´s expense.

    We even turned Dr Worrell around. He is now repeating our demands word by word. There is no sane advisor anymore to assist the MoFs position.

  14. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    ”Barbados has now entered an era of a widening of the entitlement basket so much so that those who have made it to the top of the education ladder are willing to pull the ladder from beneath the feet of the most vulnerable”

    Who is the group that has placed heavy fees on University students??

    Not some fictitious ‘poisonous elements’.

    But really, you know people are desperate when they use the age old method of scapegoating and pointing fingers at all but themselves.

    Run the place, don’t point fingers.

    Oh, and because Herbert and others speak out, they are ‘shamed’ and ‘victimised’???

    I thank you for that clarification Angela Skeete above, good to know that we are now Zimbabwe-esque.

    You speak out, you will be shamed. The sheep MUST fall into line!?

    Wow, just WOW.

    What an approach. Shame the messenger, ignore the message.

    Any half-wit can now see why investors would not come within a mile offshore. Well, most ‘rational’ investors, without an ‘agenda’, of course.

    But yes, investors like those who formed that Cahill ‘thing’ (what else can that be called, what the heck was that?) will come.

  15. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Further Angela (spokesperson for ,.,,,) stop your nonsense and admit that these people who speak out are alarmed at the depredation in the social fabric of Barbados, are desiring to return to some of the old good values, not the corrupt and morally bankrupt practices of today?

    Yet you accuse them of being responsible for it.

    Really Angela, come now. Get real.

  16. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Crusoe
    Amen!!!

  17. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    “…………here are some poisonous elements in barbados hell bent on destroying the social framework of barbados and have now become embolden and brazen to attach themselves to unions and have also infiltrated the opposition party
    All the noises being heard from these quarters are not new”…………………..

    ………………………………………..

    Look in the mirror first, yardfowl! I well remember the barrage of criticism, lies and inuendo prior to 2008. The DLP is reaping what it has sown……….sad thing is, we are now all having to live with it.

    Call the damn election ……..words from the dead king in 2007.

  18. David Avatar
    David

    https://soundcloud.com/user-469608186/president-admonishes-minister-inniss-on-vob-brasstacks-sept-12-2017

  19. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    What heavy fees bearing in the mind the bulk of the fees are being held by govt.
    Crusoe your mind set surely is in osimilarity the fictitious character Robinson Crusoe

  20. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    Barbados was built off the hard labour and backs of an uneducated people in a time when the poor and most vulnerable where shut out of an elitist system who saw nothing good or worthwhile to help the struggling poor barbadian
    Now and present the elitist have armoured themselves with a defiant attitude of not wanting to give of their fair share however filled with bombastic propaganda and a negativity of good will towards the country
    I remember well the village shopkeeper the shoemaker and the bread maker and the list goes on all poor and hardworking asking nothing of govt but were able to procide inspite of and despite of closed doors
    But now here and present barbados is being pressured to give to a pack of one mongoose whohave embedded themselves among the poor who feels and have a sense of entitlement
    Well i’ll be damned

  21. Artaxexes Avatar
    Artaxexes

    Politics can be very interesting.

    On January 7, 2008, one of BU’s resident DLP yard-fowls, “Wishing in Vain,” wrote the following comments about the BLP and its chances in the 2008 general elections:

    “Wishing in Vain January 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM #: Please let me suggest to you that the BLP have no safe seats in this election ZERO SAFE SEATS TO THE BLP, the contempt and the dishonesty, the fraud, the scams, the kickbacks, the WAR in the BLP Camp, the PM’s ARROGANT and POWER HUNGRY STATEMENTS, I AM SPECIALLY MOTIVATED NEVER TO SEE THE DLP HOLD OFFICE AGAIN, are all coming home to roost right now. The reality is that each and every one of them is now situated in no man’s land…..”

    Perhaps his/her comments were valid at that time. However, if we were to analyse the current situation within the DLP, “Wishing in Vain’s” comments are also descriptive of the DEMS as they are about to contest the 2018 general elections.

    All we have to do is replace “BLP” with “DLP.”

  22. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Angela,

    One question and one only. Here you go.

    Will the government commit to having United Nations representatives fully and without encumbrance, supervise the 2018 Barbados general election, in all aspects, including the six weeks prior to the election and all facets of the election, including polling stations, electoral register, ballot boxes, count etc?

    If yes, well done.

    If no, then you can yabber all that you want, but it means nought.

    If I were the in decision making in the opposition, any of the parties, I would be communicating with both government and UN, demanding that the election be supervised.

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

    So toxic..I await the outcome June 2018.

  24. Willie Avatar
    Willie

    @Crusoe: “Any half-wit can now see why investors would not come within a mile offshore. Well, most ‘rational’ investors, without an ‘agenda’, of course.

    But yes, investors like those who formed that Cahill ‘thing’ (what else can that be called, what the heck was that?) will come.”

    In the same vein, does anyone know what is happening about the Dean Del Mastro project(s)?

  25. anyvoices Avatar
    anyvoices

    hi have just came over your blogs and have really enjoyed your writing. would you consider sharing them on a free website http://www.anyvoice.co.uk would love to post your articles on there

  26. angela Skeete Avatar
    angela Skeete

    The elitist for the most part and time had not care or give a god dam rats a.sss about the poor , however now that they see some of their profits slipping away . They have found a safe haven out of necessity to attach themselves to the poor in dubious fashion an indicator which serves their iterest
    Well for the most part the poor has always been among us but have now become a token of appreciation for an elite group whose only interest is to protect what is theirs and country be damned

  27. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @AC

    “Barbados was built off the … backs of an uneducated people.”

    And today the most uneducated man sits in the Ministry of Finance and delivers loud speeches in a Blackrockian manner which drives every investor 100,000 miles away.

  28. Alien Avatar
    Alien

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/100575/harder-pay

    “… IF YOU WANT to take home a larger pay packet, work harder… Former Central Bank governor Dr DeLisle Worrell said that was the reality confronting the labour force, especially public sector workers…”

  29. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Are we going to discuss the troubles at the BSTU?

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