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Donville Inniss Pilots Fiscal Order to Give Tax Incentives to Del Mastro, convicted of election fraud in Canada
131 responses to “Donville Inniss Pilots Fiscal Order to Give Tax Incentives to Del Mastro, convicted of election fraud in Canada”
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Dumbville has to be kicked out of the people’s parliament permanently, he knew that Del Mastro was convicted BEFORE he went to Barbados with his scam plan, instead of allowing members of the majority population who have solar plans to progress with those plans, he is giving tax incentives and concessions to a convicted Canadian criminal.
How much in bribes were involved Dumbville.
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Is this the same Dean Del Mastro, the former Conservative MP for Peterborough and former ethics spokesman for former PM Stephen Harper who, while running for re-election in Peterborough, spent in excess of the $92,567 spending cap, when he secretly paid $21,000 on election calls with a personal cheque, which he failed to report, filing a false report during the 2008 election; made attempts to cover it up by requesting back-dated invoices totaling $21,000 for vote polling software from a former company called Holinshed; was subsequently convicted on 3 violations of the Canada Elections Act; found guilty of election fraud in October 2014 and was sentenced to a month in jail along with four months of house arrest and 18 months probation in June 2015?
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Actually this is the same group talk show host Glyne Murray stoutly defended on the talk show.
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@Artax, probably not…Canadians do not, let’s repeat, do not engage in corruption or any such misdeeds 😂. Only us bumbling islanders.
@David and all, a quick non cricketing trip Down-Under. Their deputy PM conniption reminds me of MAM legal certificate issue in one very narrow sense.
So the Australian courts have ruled that the MP is illegible to be elected a representative because at the time of voting he had dual citizenship (was born in NZ apparently), therefore he has been kicked out of parliament.
The context to MAM is this: was any legislation passed during his tenure or actions completed over his signature now null n void?
If a bill was passed by a slim majority (the ruling party had a ONE seat majority) is that Act even valid?
Just as the question would be re MAM authority without her legal certification (if she doesn’t have it). Of course MAM’s situation is contrived by DLP apparatchicks whereas the Aussie’s issue is a very real wrangle.
It’s so refreshing to see bobol in other places besides lil Bim. Lol.
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Is this the same Donville Inniss who recently made a song and dance about having revoked the licences of four international companies. How is the granting fiscal incentives to this Canadian jail bird consistent with the strong stance he was projecting?
Mind you, when he made the announcement about revoking the licences of the four companies, he actually jumped the gun. The process that could lead to revocation was under way but when the minister spoke no such revocation had been done and I am still not aware if the licences have been revoked.
Is this a case of the Minister misleading the country to boost his profile, in order to upstage Freundel?
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Why should any Minister of government be able to grant such a fiscal order on a whim? It simply encourages coruption.
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PLT..that’s the idea…because each successive tag team government knows this….
https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2017/10/26/its-a-joke/
And none of them plan to fix the legislation and turn it into law,
And just imagine Dumbville is fighting tooth and nail to become prime minister, so it’s only white, indian, syrian local and foreign criminals will control the island, the only Blacks benefitting will be the house negros of parliament, it will be worse than with Asot Michael of Antigua…..
If it wont put the country so far behind and destroy the lives of the majority population and generations of their children and grandchildren, I would say , let them go for it, so they could all end up in foreign prisons later and for 100 years minimum…..especially Dumbville and his fellow house negros.
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Caswell….he made the song and dance but never called their names and if it’s the shadow companies in Barbados, part of those Canadian companies, with long tentacles extended from vicious, merciless countries that are under broadbased still ongoing investigations in much larger countries and around the world….and he took bribes from them as well…..he better give it back.
There is no turning back with these people.
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de pedantic Dribbler
Your witty response is true and noted…….
While the DLP and its yard-fowls keep dangling the Mottley/LEC issue to distract our focus, these issues are slipping through the cracks un-noticed.
Perhaps the argument the DLP may offer for the LACK of TRANSPARENCY in granting the tax incentives, is that they are fulfilling a commitment made on pages 31 & 32 of their 2013 manifesto re:
(1) Seek to reduce the country’s cost of imported energy by $150 million over the next five years
(2) Reduce CO2 emissions, reliance on fossil fuels, and cut electricity consumption by significant amounts;
(3) Install photovoltaic panels on the majority of government buildings, thereby producing electricity for these buildings and selling the excess to the national electricity grid;
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#Canadian companies love doing business in Barbados.
“However, more than a year after the Freundel Stuart administration dumped plans for a proposed $700 million Cahill Energy Project, the island’s main electricity provider has come out strongly in support of waste-to-energy power generation.”
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Caswell
What become of that matter with the 15 workers at the BWU that forced to take ‘voluntary’ separation packages? I thought you were representing them and said as much in the article in Barbados Today?
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So the Australian courts have ruled that the MP is illegible to be elected a representative because at the time of voting he had dual citizenship (was born in NZ apparently), therefore he has been kicked out of parliament.
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What makes a joke of these rules and regulations is that the goodly gentleman is eligible to contest his safe seat at the bye election that has been called……..presumably he has rectified matters……his opponent has stated he will not be contesting the seat this time either. -
de pedantic Dribbler October 27, 2017 at 7:57 AM #
So the Australian courts have ruled that the MP is illegible to be elected a representative because at the time of voting he had dual citizenship (was born in NZ apparently), therefore he has been kicked out of parliament.
Should foreigners be allowed in to our parliament? Should there not be offices of state that foreign-born people are not allowed to occupy, similar to the US president?
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Boris Johnson was born in USA…not UK.
Mara Thomas, though Caricom Citizen was born in St. Lucia…
Michael Lashley, born in UK…
…David Thompson, born in UK…
…Liz Thompson, the politician and former minister, not his sister Liz….born in UK.
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*Mara Thompson, though Caricom Citizen was born in St. Lucia…
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Vincent,
He has renounced his NZ citizenship. -
Hal Austin October 27, 2017 at 11:19 AM #
“Should foreigners be allowed in to our parliament? Should there not be offices of state that foreign-born people are not allowed to occupy, similar to the US president?”
@ Hal Austin
Could you please explain your above comments?
And if you answer, please take into consideration that foreign-born Peter Morgan was a minister of tourism, so too is St. Lucian Mara Thompson who is the parliamentary representative for St. John…….. and UK born Irene Sandiford-Garner contested general elections as the DLP’s candidate for St. Andrew and is currently a DLP Senator.
Your reference to the “US president” is also interesting, if you consider that David Thompson was born in England and was PM of Barbados.
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@ Artax October 27, 2017 at 9:18 AM
(1) Seek to reduce the country’s cost of imported energy by $150 million over the next five years
(2) Reduce CO2 emissions, reliance on fossil fuels, and cut electricity consumption by significant amounts;Do you know about any recent developments regarding the off-shore oil drilling programme which was once touted as an economic game-changer for the country facing serious forex challenges?
If Barbados is seeking to reduce its reliance on imported fossil fuels why would this administration orr any future administration for that matter think that there overseas markets greedy for Bajan oil and don’t two hoots about reducing CO2 emissions?
Where are these overseas gargantuan consumers of fossil fuels waiting on those offshore puddles of heavy Bajan crude yet to be found and extracted when Guyana is swimming in billions of better quality reserves ready for easy drilling?
Maybe the Bajan planners have seen the coming demise of the tourism industry about to be swallowed up in sewage and are proactively placing the country’s golden egg in the offshore oil basket.
Remember the old axiom: Dirty Oil and clean ‘tourism’ water just don’t mix.
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I even forgot Sandiford-Garner..
And Peter Morgan
….lol
I think it’s either McConnell or Session’s wife, foreign born….secretary of something or other in trump government….born in an Asia country.
One other WH official…born in some Eurpean country…just resigned from WH.
Bush was going to change the constitution to allow Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, to become US president.
First US Secretary of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, born in St. Kitts.
Ted Cruz, born in Canada, just ran for president of US…
What’s the big deal.
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Haha the man in NZ filled out the form badly, therefore his illegibility?😂😂😂
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@ Hal Austin October 27, 2017 at 11:19 AM
“Should foreigners be allowed in to our parliament? Should there not be offices of state that foreign-born people are not allowed to occupy, similar to the US president?”One, therefore, can conclude that if the UK Parliament introduces such a policy people like West Indian Hal would not even get the opportunity to clean the toilets at the palace of Westminster.
Your perceived xenophobic rants (including you regular attacks on the Bajan Muslim community) are just unsubstantiated outbursts of an inferiority complex engendered while growing up stupid under the Union Jack in Barbados.
No wonder it took Clement Payne- once deemed to be a trouble-making foreigner but now a revered national hero- to be the catalyst for the now much prized political and social reforms in Little England.
The black British MP Guyanese-born Bernie Grant (like your dead DPP Leacock friend) must be turning in his grave to hear such xenophobic crap coming form the mouth of a fellow West Indian with similar genetic and Bajan ancestral backgrounds.
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Apparently NZ citizenship by descent is automatic.., and the deputy pm Joyce did not know.
Some relatives of mine did not know but found out just lately that if you have grandparent born in UK…you are entitled to apply for ancestry visas, I did not know that myself.
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Some relatives of mine did not know but found out just lately that if you have GRANDPARENTS born in UK……..
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Artax,
I believe the US, Australians and some other countries are right in restricting who can and cannot become members of their parliaments and, more important, who can become heads f state.
I have always found it strange, and have written against it, that people can come from all over the world and become MPs in the UK, and even members of the Lords. In theory there is nothing to stop them becoming prime minister.
In normal times, this is no problem, but what happens wen two states are in conflict: Britain and Germany; China and the US; Barbados and Trinidad?
We have had numerous examples of split loyalties, the most notorious of which was Jonathan Pollard, but we have had ethnic Chinese working in US intelligence caught spying for China, and others spying for European nations.
It has not happened yet, but already in Barbados we have had a UN representative trying to attach the problems of the Palestinians to Barbadian foreign policy. In Britain it is a constant problem over the UK’s Middle East policy.
I would no like to see a UK-born governor general, or Chief Justice, or ever again prime minister. I was a great admirer of the late David Thompson, but having a UK-born prime minister of Guyanese heritage, with a St Lucian wife, says a lot to the nation. Either that we are open and welcoming, or something else.
Culture and heritage are important in the formulation of policy, that is why the UK/US always talk about their special relationship; that is why the UK and Australia, Canada and New Zealand always talk about their close ties.
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so it`s just too bad that you will see even more globalization going forward.
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@Artax October 27, 2017 at 7:25 AM “Is this the same Dean Del Mastro, the former Conservative MP for Peterborough…”
The same.
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@Caswell Franklyn October 27, 2017 at 8:17 AM “Is this the same Donville Inniss who recently made a song and dance about having revoked the licences of four international companies.”
The same.
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Oh what a tangled web we weave to deceive
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Artax October 27, 2017 at 9:18 AM “While the DLP and its yard-fowls keep dangling the Mottley/LEC issue to distract our focus…”
We don’t care whether or not Mia has an LEC.
We are voting for a government.
We are not hiring a lawyer.
If we wanted to hire a lawyer we would hire Michael Carrington.
Would we not?
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lol…
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@Hal, I am shocked at your analysis at 12:58 and would love to read one of your essays supporting your position….do send a link if available.
I am shocked because Mother England by her sheer might and preeminence was the mother that never slept according to her wry tag line. How can the one who took so much from her colonial subjects NOT facilitate her off-spring by offering them pathways to her legislative chambers or peerage.
Amazing analysis good sir. Just amazing.
And let’s not mislead the gullible…for every treasonous soul who happened to be an expat I can back-rise you another expat whose dedication to his adopted land is unparalleled and beyond reproach. Know anyone like that! 😁
Then I would rise you again with devious traitors who were born and lived wonderfully all their life in the land they betrayed…the crime committed for money, sex, social views or whatever.
The issue cannot be whether a foreign born person can sit in parliament…. it must be that you CAN’T sit there unless you have renounced any citizenship ties to your land of birth (if you had any).
Had this same foolishness in Jamaica in recent years. In all cases, very poor judgement or an attempt at fraud.
And surely the Presidency of US, Russia, China or PM of UK, Australia et al or any other major power should apply to that dictum too….notwithstanding, of course their constitutional directives…. Even if said person is born at Dunsinane Hill (or Kenya or Canada) BUT of woman born, a US citizen mother that is!
Alas, we all admired Davey boy….ALAS.
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@Hal Austin October 27, 2017 at 11:19 AM “Should foreigners be allowed in to our parliament? Should there not be offices of state that foreign-born people are not allowed to occupy, similar to the US president?”
We have t be careful. Note that the U.S. Constitution does not prevent foreign born people from sitting in Congress, or from being Vice President, or Chief Justice, or Speaker of the House or many other high offices.
None of us chooses our place of birth.
In fact none of us know for sure our place of birth, we know only what is written on a piece of paper.
Truly should a person who is born in for example the U.S. [which recognises birth right citizenship] while the parents were visiting auntie in New York for a brief holiday, and should such person who then lived in Barbados all of his life, except for the first three weeks, should such a person be prohibited from holding an elected office 40 years later?
Sometimes people who seek to exclude others from elected office are nothing but rascals who are seeking to exclude others and to elevate their favourite party/candidate.
Remember the government pf the day deported Clement Payne because “he was not a Bajan” when he had lived on Barbados since he was a pre-schooler.
This is a much wider question of identity.
What is a Bajan?
What makes a person Bajan?
It is also a question of integrity.
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Oh before I have to go one quick one re this wife thing…
Believe it or not as a young boy I thought it was also a standard prerequisite to be PM…you had to have a non Bajan wife 😂😂
Of course that wasn’t so, but it seemed all our PMs or top boys vying to be had married non Bajans.
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de pedantic Dribbler October 27, 2017 at 2:10 PM #
The issue cannot be whether a foreign born person can sit in parliament…. it must be that you CAN’T sit there unless you have renounced any citizenship ties to your land of birth (if you had any).
I can agree with this.
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Ted Cruz…born in Canada, has all the rights and entitlement to be US citizen.
when they switch to global citizenship, ah wonder what those born, at that time, with narrow minds will do.
the current ones who swallowed the fraudulent insularity of colonialism…are pathetic.
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Ted Cruz…born in Canada, has all the rights and entitlement to be US PRESIDENT.
maybe not now with his porn scandal though…lol
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Browne finally speaks out on Asot Michael..ah guess he better pray there is no recording of a conspiracy to bribe.
“ST JOHN’S – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has described the investigation involving his former tourism and investment minister Asot Michael as “a serious matter” insisting that Michael “was actually arrested on a serious issue” in the United Kingdom earlier this week.
Browne, speaking on Observer radio here, said that after he was briefed orally on the situation regarding the arrest, he immediately requested that law enforcement authorities in Britain submit the information in writing to Antigua and Barbuda’s High Commissioner to London, Karen Mae-Hill.
“I was told by the high commissioner that he was actually arrested on a serious issue…we were told it was not a frivolous arrest, that it was a serious matter, that the international police, INTERPOL and the metropolitan police [were] actually following.“And, I also understand that it included the local police as well. And, as a result of certain information they would have gathered, that is what led to this action,” Browne told radio listeners.
Earlier this week, Michael in a statement, said he was “sorry” that Prime Minister Browne had not contacted him prior to making public his removal from the Cabinet.“I propose to speak to him as soon as possible, and to explain the situation,” Michael said, adding that he had also been informed that a local radio broadcast had indicated “that the police in England informed me that I would be required for further questioning.
“This is untrue. The police did not say this to me,” he added.
Michael has since said that he has been advised by his lawyers not to make any further comment on the situation regarding his detention in the United Kingdom.
Prime Minister Browne said he is still awaiting a document from the British authorities explaining why the National Crime Agency (NCA) took Michael into custody.
“I am aware. I and the one who requested the high commissioner to get what they told her verbally in writing. This was done after I received information and took the necessary action to relieve Minister Michael, or former minister for that matter, Michael of his ministerial position.
“My understanding is that former minister Michael was arrested for conspiracy to bribe. My understanding is that the bribe action may not have taken place and this is what I have been told – conspiracy to bribe involving a UK national.”
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Someone is on facebook saying Cow was on brasstacks exposing things, now who could Cow be exposing in Barbados, besides those he could.
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They news just keeps getting better and better….sigh.
“On Friday, a federal grand jury approved the first charges in the investigation led by Special Counsel Mueller. This is according to CNN sources briefed on the matter.
The charges are still under seal by orders from a federal judge and no announcement has been made as to when they will be unsealed. According to those sources, the charges were prepared on Friday and the suspects could be taken into custody as soon as Monday.
A spokesman for Special Counsel Mueller’s office declined to comment.
On Friday, top lawyers assisting Mueller in the probe were seen entering the courtroom in DC where the federal grand jury meets for hearing testimony in the investigations.
Mueller was appointed back in May to head the investigation into meddling by Russia in the 2016 presidential election.
Special Counsel Mueller has the authority to investigate “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.”
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With all the talk of MAM not qualified to practice in accordance with the law,yet was admitted to do so by high ranking legal luminaries of the day,QC’s in all,the top brass of the High Courts of Judicature of Barbados,the best the Dems can do, if we are to believe them, is to embarrass their own legal top brass including EWB in being part and parcel of the sham being high lighted by the corruptest black lipped man ever to be elected.
On the matter of Australian members of Parliament having to give up their seats because of an illegality of which they were unaware,is not our top legal adjudicator of law not also subject to a foreign power namely the USA?And did not this Freundel Stewart administration,like a thief in the night massage the laws of Barbados to permit this gross indiscretion to put it mildly?Really,do we need to remind all and sundry that Pornville was involved in a court matter in the US when he was in the business of peddling Pornville goods?Are these decent folk? -
@ Gabriel
It is so sad when one goes to a cocktail reception and hear foreign businessmen talking about how easy it is to bribe local people.
We are doomed!
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@Hal Austin October 27, 2017 at 12:58 PM “I was a great admirer of the late David Thompson, but having a UK-born prime minister of Guyanese heritage, with a St Lucian wife, says a lot to the nation. Either that we are open and welcoming, or something else.”
I was not a great admirer of David Thompson. In fact I did not admire him at all and did not vote for the DLP while he was party leader, but even so, I regarded him as Bajan. Aren’t his mother’s side of the family, the Laurie’s as Bajan as they come? Wasn’t he raised here from the time he was 4. If you believe that he wasn’t sufficiently Bajan, then when and how in your opinion would he have become sufficiently Bajan?
How does one become?
And who is to be the arbiter of whether one has become?
And can arbiter be you Hal? When you have lived outside of Barbados for more than 40 years?
Are you still Bajan?
And who decides your Bajanness for you? Me? You? Some committee made up of real-real Bajans?
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And are we to have 2 classes of Bajans? Those born here? And those born elsewhere?
Is a person a Bajan if they were born of Bajan born parents elsewhere, moved here at less than one year old, and has lived here for more than 50 years. Does their foreign birth make them less Bajan?
And how about a Bajan who was born here, and moved away from here at less than one year old, and after 50 years returns. Is that person Bajan? More Bajan, or less Bajan than the foreign born Bajan mentioned above?
Why do we pretend that a person cannot love more than one country at the same time?
Don’t we all love more than one parent at the same time? Aren’t we capable of loving parents, siblings, spouses, children and grandchildren all at the same time?
What is this about divided loyalties?
We know that native born people commit crimes, just like the foreign born.
We know that native born people commit treason, just like the foreign born.
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@Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger. October 27, 2017 at 5:20 PM “Browne, speaking on Observer radio here, said that “My understanding is that former minister Michael was arrested for conspiracy to bribe. ”
Sigh!
What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? And what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:26
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Yet another hijacked thread……
Why would they set up here? The cheap labour, the low taxes, “a medical system which is the envy of the world” (Jester Ince, Fri talk at George St), the low NIS premiums, the CCC credit rating, the marijuana supply, the availability of guns, cheap land?
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Simple…the ministers of government have for decades been as treasonous to people and country as they could be without it turning into a disease and killing them.,…..yet ya dont hear how treasonous they are…..
..you would be called treasonous for talking about it or threatened with a lawsuit….first..
Assbackwards….one wonders what is wrong with them mentally.
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WW you are so disingenuous, it wasnt like sandra day oconner was deep throating cruz someone hit a like button.
SS just like when you go to jail it is a classroom for people who are intent on a life of crime where they can hone there skills in the direction they have chosen. A university of sorts. The thought process is if you have lived off the island you have learned a whole new set of skills and will take advantage of the simple minded.
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Lol…Lawson….but it was funny, ya acting like I was the one had the story out there for about 3 weeks with plenty jokes and everyone giving their 2 cents worth, I just enjoyed the enttertainment is all, just like everyone else…and it will follow him to his grave, so what do you want from me…lol
If ya google Ted Cruz porn scandal…it still pops up..lol
Strength by strength, everyone who is against corruption is getting involved.
‘Come out tings!’: Corruption must be exposed
LOOP NEWS CREATED : 26 OCTOBER 2017 BARBADOS NEWS Communications specialist and spoken word artist, Adrian Green.
Communications specialist and spoken word artist, Adrian Green.It will take radical action to strip away the cynical view many people have about successfully stamping out corruption from Barbadian society.
This is the belief of communications specialist and spoken word artist, Adrian Green, who says the Caribbean needs a revolution of its institutions, tools and mindset in order to root out the corruption that is at its very core.
“If you are a part of the system, if you have been a Member of Parliament or in any way involved in governance at those levels and you ain’t coming out calling names and taking scalps, a lot of people ain’t want to hear you!
“The perception is, ‘You were there; you were in the belly of the beast. If you were not in it, you know what’s going on; you are guilty by association. Unless you talking and coming out – you know they say, ‘Come out tings’? Unless you bringing out things, people ain’t really want to hear you.”
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I just wish one of weistein’s women would say …yeah I screwed him… got the role I wanted, used his fat ass to become a star that would be more empowering than he forced me etc.
Most peoples favorite mythical creature is an honest politician.
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