Barbados Today Online newspaper was today [30.10.2017] ordered by the Barbados Court to pay Leader of the Opposition an undisclosed settlement resulting from an article it posted that questioned her qualification to practice law in Barbados.
Barbados Today Online Newspaper Ordered to PAY Mia Mottley
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307 responses to “Barbados Today Online Newspaper Ordered to PAY Mia Mottley”
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Explain somehting: a consent was agreed between the parties the result of which Barbados Today agreed to pay Mia Mottley?
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Fractured cant explain that, that is one of the training Harris received from Simmons, Mottleys, Haynes et al over the years, the last 2 decades..agree to pay and never do…….why ya think it’s all being made public.
…..they will find a way around that Consent Order…..and head right back to court until after the election, if Mia has the stomach for it…unless she buckles to Harris’ control.
Unless Harris can get full control of a BLP government as he has over the current government, Mia will not see a yen.
Fractured….I will not fall into that trap….have lazy Adriel Nitwit the attorney general do his job and investigate Mia….for once.
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The only way Harris will be forced to pay that money….is if Mia et al have more criminal info on him than he thought…and are very prepared to use it, .then he would have clearly underestimated them all these years…lol
I did not pay attention too closely to what someone said to me a couple weeks ago….now I understand…very clear.y
The damn thing, if not so evil….was beautifully executed, but they are all evil, so that suits them and looks real. good on them.
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The DLP is hoping to stretch this issue as a distraction until they call the elections.
Okay…….. let’s assume Mottley is unqualified to practice law in Barbados and she “steps down” as Opposition Leader.
With Mottley out of the way, what are the DLP’s chances of winning the 2018 general elections, when to date they cannot defend their 9 years in office?
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@ Artax
To show how stupid the DLP jackasses are…If Mia steps down today, the BLP would step up by 200% in the eyes of most intelligent Bajans.
Mia is currently the weak link in the BLP’s armour.
She was a big-dog in the ousted Owen Arthur regime – dumped for doing shiite.
She French Connected (UK)-ed up the Edutech travesty, the Prison travesty, even the Damn BLP party machinery itself,…shiite – the woman is CLEARLY not an effective manager – even of those WITHIN her own camp….
She has biting tendencies….Only a complete JACKASS of the brass bowl DLP type would now spend their time trying to discredit and remove the achilles heel of their sworn enemy.
These DLP morons are so retarded, idiotic and evil, that right now Bushie would vote for PDP’s Mark Adamson ahead of ANY ONE of those pissy JAs…..
Only people possessed with demonic spirits could be so stupid.
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Lol….they are even forgetting that Jerome Walcott is a bought and paid for Peter Harris clone, he has shares in Diagnostoc Services and Bayview hospital. ….given to him in exchange for selling out the QEH…to help Harris’ clinics, Bayview hospital and pharmacies take over QEH business and monopolize healthcare on the island…..he should not be part of any incoming government.
Walcott is owned lock, stock and his fat ass by Harris.
Bajans have very short memories when it comes to their own welfare, wellbeing and that of their own future generations..,..I keep saying that.
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The new political parties are responsible for joining forces and dismantling this scam against the people…..unless they too are part of it.
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David BU
Re : your Consent Order
I would imagine that it is tantamount to a scenario where MAM’s legal team would have held the ” extortion gun ” to the heads of the principals of Barbados Today.
And Mr. Anthony Audain …….being the QUALIFIED Attorney at Law that he is ……knows that he is duty bound to adhere to the wishes and instructions of his clients – in this particular case Barbados Today.
But Mr. Audain proved that he is a man of Integrity.
Well well
Thanks 🙏🏼 for coming to my assistance – in light David’s question and your subsequent comments.
You are so right ……I am always at a loss of understanding or explaining how criminals from the higher eschelons of Barbadian society……..practise their sophisticated……SKULLDUGGERY like MAM legal term carried out on Monday 30 October, 2017.
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Fractured BLP November 3, 2017 at 6:01 AM #
MAM and her other legal bandits did not allow the matter to go before the Judge
@Fractured
Tell me if I am wrong. Settlement of the case did not take place in the privacy of the two sides’ homes, over a drink or a cup of tea. It took place under the supervision of the courts, although not in pen court. It was therefore under the supervision of a judge sin chambers.
In other words, the case was settled in court and the arrangement – whatever it was – was approved (ie rubber-stamped) by the judge. Therefor it has the court’s approval. If these facts are wrong, plse correct me.
It is my case that under such an arrangement it is convention for both sides to refrain from speaking in public about the arguments that took place in private, or the outcome. In such circumstances, it is often usual for both sides to agree a statement, which they stick to religiously.
If all the above is correct, it is still my case that there appears to be a case for a formal complaint. You do not reach a settlement in private for either side to then claim victory or a draw in public.
Even if there is not a formal complaint, the bar association should certainly7 discuss the matter at one of its meetings and either set down, or remind members of the existing rules. -
@ Retired Attorney at Law Stay Calm I am a Lawyer November 3, 2017 at 5:35 AM
“In case Simmons does not know it is really low for a man of his standing to be involved in gutter type wheeling and dealing to try to make Mottley his cousin and the BLP look good. Thompson saw the real man who was nothing but a snake in the grass.”Come on man, you really ought to permanently ‘retire’ from this shambolic ruse under the disguise of a deceitful lying pimp(dlp) for a “lawyer”.
Isn’t this a ‘100’% karat case of the ugly ‘blackened’ pot calling the ‘white’ teacup ‘pretty’ unclean?
What real man did the “I will never lie, cheat steal (or tolerate those who do)” Thompson see other a genuine serpentine replica of himself?
Was he looking into a mirror designed by CLICO and crafted by Greenverbs with the patent pending in a cell at doggie Dodds where he in the dead of night can summons his gremlins to help in the manufacture fake invoices to facilitate fraud and money laundering enterprises.
BTW, we on BU have grown tired of your LEC jokes. We await another performance of comic relief but only from the man Constitutionally-charged with the responsibility of fulfilling his commitment made in Parliament on the same LEC lark.
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ah thought Enuff would have jumped out by now to tell me about some vendetta, in his mind, against Harris and CGI.
ah guess he is now seeing for himself who has the vendetta against whom…
and where is Carson Yardfowl….BUs spokesperson for and protector of the minority criminals on the island …he should have a mouthful for us.
all of a sudden, everyone has disappeared.
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Anyone surprised that we in such deep doo doo? One setta igrunt people, that everyday changing their story depending on the direction of the wind. They don’t know, or pretend not to know, the difference between the Inns of Courts and the Bar, a practising certificate and the LEC or BPTC; or an unregistered Barrister and someone who is not a Barrister. lmbao
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Hal. I agree with you. Even if the two parties agree and the complainant is compensated, it simply means that the case is closed. The accused readily accept liability. It will also be stupid for the case to be expanded to the CCJ or any other higher court. Can’t believe it took almost a week for a lawyer to respond to an article. Is a LEC really needed?
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If Marston Gibson was qualified to be Chief Justice of Barbados, why did the DLP changed to law to facilitate his appointment?
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TMY…..there was no case, not yet, it had not even started, it never started, that is why there is a claim for extortion playing out on the blogs..
…ya getting tie up, dont mind Ha, Ha.
certain tactics are being used, stay tuned.
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Retired Attorney at Law Stay Calm I am a Lawyer November 3, 2017 at 5:35 AM #
“Simmons is nothing but an ordinary political lackey who must be condemned for his political dirt work.”
Are you sure you’re not describing Hal Gollop?
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The real question remains, what will the current chief justice Gibson do about the abuse of the supreme court by vicious attorneys, he cant say he dont know the court is abused, that the judges are lied to on a daily basis, by lawyers, enough complaints have been made to him about it…..since he been there.
When will Gibson start giving the judges more leeway to start charging lawyers who blatantly abuse the court and lie to judges in an effort to maliciously delay cases, with contempt….and huge fines as punishment. .
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@TMW
The accused readily accept liability.
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There is no “accused” it’s a civil case, either plaintiff or defendant. -
Looks like the more we read about this countries dysfunctional state……we may have to pose the same question as Senator Chandler did in the wednesday November 01 Nation:
………….RECOLONISATION THE ANSWER?……
This was in reference to the how the state of corruption in the Turks and Caicos islands was solved.
……….Since TCI is a British overseas territory,Britain merely dissolved parliament and took back governance via the Governor and an advisor. There was a Commission of Enquiry by an external commissioner and the Integrity Commission was formed with an external chairman namely Sir David……..
Another interesting observation was…..
…..It’s widely felt by Barbadians that politicians don’t want any proper oversight of Government operations – that”dey like it so”. That’s why the Auditor General remains toothless and the Public Accounts Committee doesn’t work…..
I wonder…………..
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@Vincent,
Re-colonisation has not stopped the Turks and Caicos being used by gangsters and crooks as a tax avoidance and money laundering destination, the same way that property on the West Coast of Barbados is being used as a washing machine. -
Dec 6, 2016 – The trial of the former Premier, Michael Misick, along with four members of his cabinet, the wife of a former minister and three attorneys has now …
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Hal
The above would be a good start……
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@Vincent Haynes November 3, 2017 at 12:33 PM “Looks like the more we read about this countries dysfunctional state……we may have to pose the same question as Senator Chandler did in the wednesday November 01 Nation: RECOLONISATION THE ANSWER?
No.
The last time the British did the colonization thing it did nt work too well for my family. I don’t know whether it worked well for your family and Frances’ family.
At the end of 369 years of hard work my family had exactly NOTHING.
And I sometimes wonder, what was all of that hard labour for?
And who benefited from all of my family’s hard labour, since we did not since my family did not.
Did your family benefit form other people’s labour Vincent?
Did Frances’ family?
NO TO RECOLONISATION.
I have no confidence that if the British could not get it right in 369 years, giving them another 369 years until 2386 will make things any better
The truth is the British royally screwed up, and it is idiotic to suggest that they should be given another 369 years to do their corrections.
They failed.
The got a well deserved: F
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Vincent and his descendants can handle this again…..they are used to it in Curacao….they love massa. So let’s recolonize Vincent and his descendants, the Portugese, Spanish and Dutch would love that again, for someone who should be still trilingual, probably lost it in Barbados, he can be foolish….coming from a majority Black country like Curacao.
“Most enslaved Africans in Curacao came from Ghana (15,000 slaves came from this place. Many of them were Ashantis[1]). The rest of the slaves were imported from Senegambia (over 2,000 slaves), Sierra Leone (only 669 slaves came from here), the Windward Coast (542 slaves), Bight of Benin (over 37,000 slaves), the Bight of Biafra (over 1,000 slaves), Angola (specifically Loangos from Cabinda Province.[1] More than 38,000 Central African slaves were exported to Curaçao) and “other” places in Africa (3,268 slaves).[2]
The Dutch West India Company founded the capital of Willemstad on the banks of an inlet called the ‘Schottegat’. Curaçao had been ignored by colonists, because it lacked gold deposits. The natural harbour of Willemstad proved to be an ideal spot for trade. Commerce and shipping — and piracy—became Curaçao’s most important economic activities. In addition, the Dutch West India Company made Curaçao a centre for the Atlantic slave trade in 1662.
Although a few plantations were established on the island by the Dutch, the first profitable industry established on Curaçao was salt mining. The mineral was a lucrative export at the time and became one of the major factors responsible for drawing the island into international commerce.
For much of the 17th and 18th centuries, the primary business of the island was the slave trade. Slaves arrived often from Africa and were bought and sold on the docks in Willemstad before continuing on to their ultimate destination. The slaves that remained on the island were responsible for working the plantations established earlier. This influx of inexpensive manpower made the labor-intensive agricultural sector far more profitable and between the Netherlands and China the trading done on the docks and the work being done in the fields, the economic profile of Curaçao began to climb, this time built on the backs of the slaves.[3][4]
In 1795, a major slave revolt took place under the lead of the Negroes Tula Rigaud, Louis Mercier, Bastian Karpata, and Pedro Wakao. Up to 4000 slaves on the northwest section of the island revolted. Over a thousand of the slaves were involved in heavy gunfights and the Dutch feared for their lives. After a month, the rebellion was crushed.[5]
The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863, creating a change in the economy. When the institution was abolished in 1863, the island’s economy was severely crippled.
Some inhabitants of Curaçao emigrated to other islands, such as Cuba to work in sugar cane plantations.
Other former slaves had no place to go and remained working for the plantation owner in the tenant farmer system.[6] This was an instituted order in which the former slave leased land from his former master. In exchange the tenant promised to give up most of his harvest to the former slave master. This system lasted until the beginning of the 20th century.”
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And this Vincent wants to revisit the evil and blight of colonization on bajans again, as though he has a right.
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On a cold winter ❄️ night ;
MAM decided that with King 👑 Freundel Jerome she will pick fight;
So off to the Parliament they strode;
With MAM relying on her trainer Sir Henry Forde ;
With round one on the way for all to see;
MAM’s “sister” Liz T …..shouted MAM has no LEC;
So in our country , Barbados 🇧🇧 Today , one can yet get away scotch free;
Depending on how high and strong 💪 are your ……..FAMILY TREES 🌲 🌲🌲🌲🌲🎄🎄🎄 !!!!!
But King 👑 Freundel Jerome determined to keep his country’s goals insight;
Reminded MAM that it would be a very …..Long Exceptionally Cold (LEC) …..winter NIGHT.
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Hahaha…..what took you so long WC?
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Simple Simon
You have more sense than to fall for that sprat and miss the greater point of how do we resolve the corruption which has become endemic in our country.
Leave the sprat for the resident idiot,who has picked it up and having a feast….lol.
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Vincent….what you are missing is ya do not have to recolonize or reenslave a whole population to rid the island of the endemic corruption practiced by those who were supposed to be leaders for the last 50 years…..that shows your mental weakness and that you need a white massa to clean up your mess and the corrupt mess that surrounds you.
Ya should be educated, intelligent and mature enough to clean up the mess around you….as a black man…you are showing signs of weakness…that is unbecoming and projecting that weakness unto bajans…..man up.
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Vincent….did I not tell you wait your turn, well ya turn just came.
The Mia saga is in limbo while they wait to figure out what other bullshit to feed us, until they too grow a pair and come clean about what corruption they immersed themselves in and cant find their way out of…..ah guess we stuck with the topic of you trying to reenslave and recolonize Black bajans….lol
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@ Simon November 3, 2017 at 2:32 PM
“The last time the British did the colonization thing it did nt work too well for my family. I don’t know whether it worked well for your family and Frances’ family.
At the end of 369 years of hard work my family had exactly NOTHING”Go tell that to John!
You are just one ungrateful lot of blacks.
You were given a brand new religion (if only after your physical manumission to be replaced by your mental enslavement) instead of the voodoo nonsense and drum beating you were practising in the bush where you were ‘brought’ from.
You were also given a Victorian-brand education to model you into aping your colonial masters which you have perfected to the “T” except when it comes to enforcing your own ‘copied’ laws.
What else are you begging for? Formal banana Republic status?
Well then, go ahead for Buckingham Palace is right behind you when Queen Lizzy exits the stage, left.But just remember as you exit, finally, please leave behind His Majesty’s paraphernalia, pips and props and pageantry.
The next King would not wish to be embarrassed by witnessing his Bajan opposite number pinning ‘Crowns of merit and other royal insignia of senior promotion on members of his Republican guards, the local mongoose version of the King’s Black Hats Guard.
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Incompetent Gollop..
https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2017/11/02/clarke-loses-appeal-in-suit-against-first-caribbean/
And imagine Miller, Vincent got some nerve to come on the blog and spew such rubbish, what a weak, useless descendant of slaves, his dead Black ancestors must be weeping in shame.
John is a well worn demon, but Vincent the hypocrite is unbelievable.
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But Mr.Gallop wants to be lead prosecutor in LECGate. Who do we believe Hinkson or Gallop? 🤣🤣🏇
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What about the cou?rt case of the barefoot priest?
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Miller
I am sure that Simple Simon eschews the colonial trappings of church…honours….titles….clothes and is in the forefront of republic status and name changes in order to establish a full Pelau country that will be friends of all and satellite of only China.
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And Erskine King v NSC?
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It gets better with the four ERT cases out of 300 posted to the website.
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@ Fractured BLP who wrote,
“Hants Are you still willing to tout that Mia Mottley is eminently qualified to practise Law in Barbados 🇧🇧 without being ”
Yes. Mia Mottley is qualified to practise Law in Barbados.
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Fractured dunce your ace in the hole gone,bring the Tapes.You think you are talking to 5 year olds,this distraction has failed big time .If you are a man put your name on the blog and stop being the coward you are ,or go in a public place and make those accusations let Ms Mottleychew you up and spit you out and end this rubbish red herring once and for all.
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@Vincent Haynes November 3, 2017 at 3:32 PM “You have more sense than to fall for that sprat and miss the greater point of how do we resolve the corruption which has become endemic in our country.”
i keep hearing this “corruption is endemic in our country” as though Barbados has had some glorious past where all was well, where people were respected, happy, healthy and well fed. People keep comparing this alleged corruption to 369 years of colonial misrule that left the majority of decent hard working Bajans disrespected, abused, hungry and dirt poor, literally dirt poor, dirt floors, barefoot poor, no running water poor, sleeping on the floor poor. This colonial created poverty was the reality for most Bajans during 369 years of colonial rule. This is the truth.
Can we now work forward from there?
As for corruption, I say alleged because i myself worked in a job where could have expected, demanded, or accepted significant bribes, certainly thousand of dollars at a time, maybe tens of thousands. But I havenever asked for nor have I ever accepted a bribe, and significantly I have NEVER, NEVER, NEVER BEEN OFFERED a bribe, NEVER, not even a dollar.
So where are these Bajans who offer bribes?
Where are they? Point them out to me.
How come they have never offered me a bribe?
No to recolonization.
It did not work for us last time around, so why would we expect it to work for us now?
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@millertheanunnaki November 3, 2017 at 5:37 PM “You were given a brand new religion.”
But what is the point of giving me a brand new religion when i did not go out asking for a brand new religion.
Human beings for always had religions, and these religions have existed for tens of thousands of years before the prophets of the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Rastafari, Hindu, Confucius religions were even born.
So which God did the indigenous people of Barbados worship 5,000 or 10,1000 years ago?
Do you think that these people did not know God because the prophets of the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Confucius religions were yet unborn?
Are you so foolish to believe that God reveals himself only to certain people and not to others, and that those certain people have to be Middle Eastern?
So I ask again what is the point of giving me a brand new religion when I did not go asking for a brand new religion?
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@Fractured BLP November 3, 2017 at 3:22 PM “MAM decided that with King 👑 Freundel Jerome”
King?
King what?
Looka we don’t want no king hear?
Just tell your friend Freundel Jerome to get on with the job that we pay him so well to do.
He is not our king. We don’t want any king [No colonial power either] He is or servant.
And if he don’t do the job we intend to fire him before long.
We patience running out.
Simple Simon. Neither “B” nor “D”
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@ Simple Simon November 3, 2017 at 10:24 PM
“As for corruption, I say alleged because i myself worked in a job where could have expected, demanded, or accepted significant bribes, certainly thousand of dollars at a time, maybe tens of thousands. But I havenever asked for nor have I ever accepted a bribe, and significantly I have NEVER, NEVER, NEVER BEEN OFFERED a bribe, NEVER, not even a dollar.
So where are these Bajans who offer bribes?
Where are they? Point them out to me.
How come they have never offered me a bribe?”We can guess you never worked in any of those departments/statutory agencies forming the subject of the Auditor-General’s reports.
So Simple Simon, do you naively believe that those unexplainable financial ‘irregularities’ constantly highlighted in his annual report are mere accounting errors of the transposition variety where a bit of ‘simple’ training in keeping proper books would identify the missing millions from places like the BWA?
Do you innocently think that the ‘Lowedown minister of garbage trained in Christian theology is nicknamed “Where is My Cut” because his brother is a tailor going by the business tagline “A cut Above the Rest”?
You did your job diligently, and with nothing to cover up, did not attract financial or other underhanded inducements because your position was perfunctory and not one of deciding who gets which big contracts for the supply of ‘inflated’ costly goods or services.
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Vincent. ..ya just completely immersed and steeped in colonial rubbish, a truly sad case.
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I noticed that even Sandra Husbands – the BLP St. James South candidate – at a branch meeting in her constituency earlier this week has joined the LEC debate.
Ms. Husbands, while Lecturing Every Constituent (LEC) at her branch meeting asked 2 powerful questions :
How is MAM going to reverse the DLP 2013 decision to not fully fund UWI tuition ???
Where is MAM going to get money 💰 to fund near 20,000 UWI students annually ????I can now see – even some of MAM’s own election team – has not embraced her GIMMICKTRY !!!!!
And as such have chosen – like Sandra Husbands in her constituency – to use the LEC method as shown above to expose it !!!!!
The plot thickens……….😎😎😎😎😎😎
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You know, as a common citizen, no political affiliation, no government work, I am getting really vexed at this situation.
These JAs are pushing this nonsense with MIA, when the country is going, literally to pot (holes).
I am just so done with it now.
Think they may have just about pushed me over the edge.
MIA, a previous (no party) supporter, see you at the next meeting.
I just cannot take JAs.
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The only plot that thickening is the one in the political graveyard for the BLP. Mia and her fellow MPs have been saying for years now that they would reverse the Dems’ decision to introduce UWI fees. But stick a pin–didn’t Freundel Jerome Stuart pre-2013 election tell a graduating class at BCC that the introduction if tuition fees at UWI would be retrograde? #wearenotfoolish🚫
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*Of course i meant the DLP plot in thevpolitical graveyard.
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Simple Simon
I did credit you with more sense than the resident cut&paste expert of dubious gender.
Suffice it to say that the world except for the .01% like today has always been in poverty and all its minions were the wretched of the earth go and check real history.
I will leave you to the Miller as he has always had more patience dealing with…..those who refuse to see……or those who refuse to comprehend……
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The Illusion of Freedom in the Digital Age by Mark Leonard – Project Syndicate
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Simple Simon
Required reading for you to understand the mindset of the American of all ethnic origins……are you of that ilk?….or are you a Bimmer with a world vision?
The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.