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It is no secret the BU household abhors the way both the Barbados Labour Party (BLP and Democratic Labour Party have interfered with the management of the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) over the years.  The abuse of the media outlet in the Pine has become so blatant that the majority of Barbadians have opted to ignore the CBC as a preferred option to source news.

A view of the press conference ‘staged’ by Maureen Holder reinforced BU’s view. She has a right to defend her name but as they say- you shall know them by their fruit. Wait a minute! Is this an orchestration intended to detract?

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85 responses to “Maureen Holder’s Press Conference | Subject-line Patrick King and Mia Mottley”

  1. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    Her voice annoys the hell outta me, I will just wait for the comments and get the gist of her rant, probably just the same old nonsense rant as last week.

  2. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    CBC Is one of the best news stations.

  3. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://www.cbc.ca/news

  4. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://www.cbc.ca/television/

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    What is the structure (infrastructure) in position to support the professionalism of CBC Canada?

  6. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    Political interference is minimal. Canada has a FOI. They also employ fearless investigative journalists.

  7. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    There is also money.

    ” A $675-million pledge by the Liberal government – which includes $75-million in new funds

    for the rest of this fiscal year followed by an extra $150-million annually through 2021 – is the

    anticipated centrepiece of an array of new cultural spending totalling nearly $1.9-billion over

    the next five years.

  8. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence at the High Commission of Canada.

  9. Dr. Simple Simon Phd. Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon Phd.

    Don’t get in this. A dust up between an avid supporter of the DLP and an avid supporter of the BLP.

  10. Dr. Simple Simon Phd. Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon Phd.

    You can find Patrick King’s somewhat salacious videos on Facebook.

    I don’t take Patrick seriously.

    I don’t take Maureen seriously.

    But then again I am only a Simple Simon with a fake Phd.

  11. Dr. Simple Simon Phd. Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon Phd.

    Hey Maureen who tell you that younger women have more options that older women?

    There is a Bajan saying, “new brooms sweep clean, but old brooms know the corners”

    Don’t go that ageism route. Ageism is just as bad as sexism, as racism etc.

    Don’t write off the old girls yet.

  12. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    CBC is like all the other statutory corporations the employer of last restort for those clueless figures who were not good enough for the private sector or emigration or were too lazy to work. Always begging for the taxpaper´s money like servants for clothes and food.

    Barbadian economy will never recover until all statutory corporations are sold or closed and at least 10,000 civil ants got their papers.

  13. Hamilton A Hill Avatar
    Hamilton A Hill

    We can clearly see where we are as a people when media houses can find time and resources to cover this nonsense, but fail to enlighten Barbadians as to why $20,000 plus perks can be taken from the public purse to pay a mechanic to provide services at the Transport Board that the very same public purse was tapped into to train countless locals to provide. These are the same media houses that turned a blind eye while Government shelled out somewhere between sixty four and sixty seven thousand dollars a week in rental fees for a blasted tractor owned by persons politically connected to the government. The same media houses that for the most part have remained silent about the fact that the speaker of the House Of Assembly is again before the courts of this country, embroiled in money matters relative to client funds. Say what you want but can you deny the fact that the journalistic recalcitrance where the main stream media is concerned, continues to breathe life into sites like Naked Departure?
    Long Live Social Media!

  14. Hamilton A Hill Avatar
    Hamilton A Hill

    For as much as I refuse to waste my data listening to any program hosted by Maureen Holder I still take umbrage to the cesspool style attack launched by “Pig Pen Patrick” who by the way has said on countless occasions on brass tacks that he is offended by persons who use social media to do exactly what he is doing. He claims to spend time doing research, but cannot see how such time counts for nothing since many are turned off by his chosen path of insipidity? She ent come from nowhere. Well unless you PPP can tell me exactly where is somewhere, I humbly submit that neither have you or I.

  15. Heather Cole Avatar
    Heather Cole

    @ Hamilton, I was sitting here wondering who from the print media had actually turned up. Her disclaimer was that she was not a politician or running for public office and it made me wonder then why a press conference? Maybe it will be announced that she is contesting the St. John seat. This little exercise seems staged to put her in the public’s eye. Going to the police or taking the person to court would have sufficed. Also isn’t she the Press? Could she not have addressed this matter on her show?

    It is difficult for me to understand her claim of intimidation and harassment especially when she on her show she does the same to Ms Mottley as well as vilify her and cast doubts in the public’s mind about her ability to perform as the PM when Ms Mottley has never held that position before and failed in it.

    She has also informed the public of Barbados that her show is biased and not impartial. In my opinion while she has a right to a political opinion and to choose which side she is on, while she is on the job at a public corporation and is not a politician her views must seen to be impartial. All of the sexual remarks that spilled over in her response to that man are actually intended to assassinate Ms. Mottley’s character. All she has displayed in 5 minutes of fame was her lack of credibility as a host of a public call in program of a public corporation that should serve all Barbadians. In light of this, her skills could be employed if were a DLP paid program.

  16. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    I hear the gentleman who converted to Judaism a few years back is a shoe in for St.John.

  17. David Avatar
    David

    A good comment Heather, the video though was crass by Patrick King.

  18. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    If either switch political yardfowl affiliation tomorrow, they would both bcome the best of friends cussing everyone who is not a yardfowl, as is their practice, glad I found something better to do with my few minutes rather than listen to the yardfowl.

  19. David Avatar
    David

    Here is a link to the video of Patrick King on Facebook.

    https://www.facebook.com/patrick.king.925/videos/10210789669282669/

  20. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Only in RH Barbados! The media turns up to a press conference called by a talk show host to prove she has qualifications, including a masters from a low rate university in course no longer even offered by the university. Given her on air behaviour and this “press conference”, the only diplomatic post I could see Maureen filling is in a pig pen with Patrick–he loved to talk about them and both behave like occupants of one.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    @enuff

    Agree with your comment. If Mia or Abrahams have any influence on King they should ask him to stop his pig pen attacks. A big turnoff to many who are already disengaged.

  22. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    That’s why I have only ever managed to watch 30 seconds of 2 or 3 of his videos, there is no point there either…they are both well suited.

  23. ac Avatar
    ac

    Is Patrick King a product of barbados free education, ?Well ! Well! what an embarrassment! Phew

  24. David Avatar
    David

    Women in the mirror.

  25. ks Avatar
    ks

    ac November 26, 2017 at 7:49 AM # :

    Don’t blame ‘free education’ for Patrick King…………….. if he had paid, it would be the same outcome!

  26. ac Avatar
    ac

    The BLP should be embarrassed to have that loose cannon use reference of their party name or their leader as a hot button to attack PM Stuart

  27. ac Avatar
    ac

    KS all i am saying if he used his education to promote himself and the BLP party the man has wasted precious time and resources availing himself to barbados education system,
    It is obvious that what he demonstrates is a person who is mentally challenged and on the verge of a mental breakdown
    If Mia Miottley wants to demonstrate leadership potential she would distance herself and the party name by insisting that this deprived imbecile does not reference her name and party in none of his insipid and useless rants and raves,

  28. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    If any rational thinking individual takes Angela Cox/Skeete/ac incoherent shiite contributions to BU in defense of this inept DLP administration into consideration, Freundel Stuart should likewise take their advice and distance himself and the DLP from that “deprived imbecile” and her “insipid and useless rants and raves.”

  29. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    Something ALL yardfowls do…lol

  30. ac Avatar
    ac

    Artax i expected that response from you, However You as one of the loudest BLP paling cocks on BU should be embarrassed at the rants and raves of Patrick and his association to the BLP, but NO you in your ongoing attacks which serves no purpose set out on the usual path of meanderings and distractions to post useless attacks on ac,
    But what the heck.
    Hope the Leader of the opposition would take full advantage of the moral stance hoisted on her promise for accountability and integrity decry this idiot outrageous and slanderous attacks on private citizens of this country and remove herself from perception of her endorsing his political rhetoric

  31. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @ ac
    What you now call “phew “was used in 2007-08 ,where you were when Patrick King started his embarrassing trait in effort to help MP/DLP Minister Lowe? what about his highlighting facts as to your selfish PM inability to name a deputy PM in 7 years.

  32. Heather Cole Avatar
    Heather Cole

    @ac, I hope the leader of the oppsition will distance herself from the ludicrous attackers that are demanding her to produce a LEC!

  33. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ watchman

    Similarly, the DEMS promised to implement integrity and freedom of information legislation, while ENDORSING the “political rhetoric” of Patrick King aka “The Pig Pen Man” who, prior and during the 2008 general election campaign, was a frequent caller to “Brass Tacks,” castigating the BLP and attacking the character of Reginald Farley on behalf of Denis Lowe and the DLP.

    And BU’s resident DLP yard-fowl JA Angela Skeete/Cox/ac, who also SUPPORTED King’s “outrageous and slanderous attacks on private citizens of this country” in those days and was not “embarrassed at the rants and raves of Patrick and his association to the DLP……………..

    …………………is now (hypocritically) describing him as a “mentally challenged, deprived imbecile,” because he is CUSSING the DLP and its operatives.

  34. ac Avatar
    ac

    THe leader of the Opposition if becomes the PM of barbados must show her self approved. Only BLP yardfowls would use the defense model of so called attacks against the opposition and level that modus operandi against individuals who asked relevant and persistent questions about Mia accreditation
    Dont even go there Heather since the BLP has driven fast and loose on the highway call Integrity to point and castigate members of govt for not up holding the law even though they have not proffer any evidence of which they blatantly speak,
    Mia Mottley made a promise on the floor of parliament two years ago to produce her certification .
    Either she is a liar or feel an entitlement of privileged either way it does not look good or hold well for her a person who is seeking to become PM and oversee what pertains to Justice and accountability of this fair land called Barbados

  35. ac Avatar
    ac

    watchman November 26, 2017 at 9:27 AM #

    ac

    What you now call “phew “was used in 2007-08 ,where you were when Patrick King started his embarrassing trait in effort to help MP/DLP Minister Lowe? what about his highlighting facts as to your selfish PM inability to name a deputy PM in 7 years.

    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

    Sir this is the first time i have ever seen or heard of this guy called Patrick King , which only goes to show that the vicious and unwarranted attacks on ac or without proof as to who i am
    The guy i will reiterate has lost his marbles and the BLP and its leader would do well to distance association from his political rants .
    Sir attacking me is not the answer as to how the BLP can rid themselves of this uncharacteristic loose cannon who may as well by now do the party and its leader more harm than good.
    Not knowing of the cause or reason for his departure as a past member of the DLP , i however would assumed that his present actions might give an insight as to his self absorbed and uncontrollable nature and a person who should be avoided at any cost

  36. David Avatar
    David

    This is a big part of the problem many have with politicians, the Bajan variety. A couple years ago Patrick King was following Denis Lowe like the dutiful puppy (yardfowl), they have a falling out and all of a sudden Mia, BLP policies and philosophy take greater importance over those of the DLP.

  37. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    I can feel the love yardfowls have for each other..lol

  38. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    There is the political elite and the bottom feeders at the political trough.

    Barbadian politics and societal structure has not changed much in 50 years.

  39. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Maureen Holder is nothing more in my opinion a DLP lackey who uses her position as Moderator to argue or shout at persons who criticize this Government andthen cheers on her Dems like the Trini Dem ,Commissioner,the Returning National,rawle ,Arthur and a couple more who big her up.She is joined by Mr Lovell and to a lesser extent Mr Broomes.Therefore you have a talk show with three moderators of the same view,how could this show be balanced?As for Mr King although I do not agree with his behavior,Ms holder seeks every opportunity to attack Ms Mottley there fore she in turn is up for criticism,so do not cry fowl.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    So true. BU hesitated to post on this pigpen-dispute between King and Holder because on the face it is a nonsense issue. On refection we hope that by posting to encourage the sensible and intelligent among us to fully participate in our system of government to negate what these two are doing. Both of them do a disservice to the political segment.

  41. ac Avatar
    ac

    First of all if Patrick had any political savvy, He would not have further contributed in his political nonsensical rants and raves giving more attention to the issue of Mia certification while trying to discredit Maureen Holder.
    Overall his attempt to shield Mia from further allege allegations and accusations he added more fuel to the fire ,
    Hence forcing and giving Maureen more reason to defend herself and many across the political divide to condemn his actions. His mouthings refuel annd reignite all that was heard about the LEC issue over the past weeks and months and going forward serves for only bait and fodder while asking for clarification on the issue
    Now what is left to be seen or heard is a statement of condemnation coming from within the confines of the BLP party one that is critical and on point on what political message and language the leader of the blp and members would use in their fight to win the upcoming election

  42. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Individuals such Patrick King, Maureen Holder and Henderson Bovell are the worst type of political yard-fowls.

  43. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    We have a case here on BU where some people have lifted their pens to accuse people of all manner of things without the slightest bit of evidence and suddenly they now jump out at others who are doing the same thing ! We allow people to publish hearsay and propaganda without even cautioning them but want to now pretend that we are washed in the blood of the lamb. They are ALL fighting to get their mouths in the BLPDLP trough. Bet a million dollars that after elections depending on who wins , most of them will disappear to fatten themselves for five years at least , some we will never hear from again because they will be well rewarded for the garbage they have written for the party of their choice. This is not about Barbados. This is about the most rabid group of opportunists that has visited this land since slavery. They are brazen party lackeys, who believe that Barbados belongs to them and the the dangerous operatives at Roebuck and George Streets.

  44. ac Avatar
    ac

    David BU it is obvious which dog you have in this fight. On occasion i have listened to Maureen Holder and one thing i can say that her level of discourse does not in any way matches the ridiculous comments by Patrick by way of salacious and slanderous attacks
    I have heard here discuss the LEC issue on a level of asking for accountability from MIa in order to put the issue to rest and rightfully so. Never heard her show any disrespect in any of her commentary towards Mia
    OF course the BLP operatives would now lambaste Maureen for her self defense while courting danger sitting on a minefield tracked with doubt and suspicion looming over Mia Mottley head

  45. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    It seems as though Maureen Holder’s “press conference” was orchestrated by the DLP in a childish attempt to continue with the Mottley/LEC shiite as a means of distracting from the real issues affecting Barbadians.

    I hope the DLP paid CBC for broadcasting that public relations exercise so as not add to the debt of $109,609.

  46. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @ ac

    So you are one of the 2013 yard-fowls, ok , then you should ask Lowe why he dump Patrick. Lowe and Patrick are of the same characters, find out what the 13 year old Denis did at school to be put on the bench and never returned to school in Barbados.

  47. Kevin Avatar
    Kevin

    There is a pattern here, the BLP went after Owen, Owen defended himself in public, then its was Owen being old and jealous and hitting out because he’s not in power etc. Then the BLP went after Maria, Maria defended herself in public, then it was why she doing it, they right to bring charges against her etc. Mia went after Dennis Lowe and his qualifications, it was yes yes Mia get him. Lowe went after Mia and her qualifications and it was, leave Mia alone, talk about the issues, red herrings, poor Mia etc. PaTRICK went after Maureen, it was yes, yah right PaTRICK, more more…. Maureen defended herself, why Maureen dont hush etc etc.

    To all people being attacked seemingly by the BLP and her hacks, defend yourselves. To these on here and other places when you defend yourself its two wrongs dont make a right. However when the first wrong is happening, they dont utter a word and are secretly gleeful that the BLP lead attacks are occurring. So dont mind these on here. Defend yourself.

  48. ac Avatar
    ac

    So watchman as a long standing and longwinded member of the blp why dont u ask Mia to show the public her formal
    Certification to be a legal member of the bar

  49. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    It seems to me that the lady has seen the light and realize that she would soon be looking for a job and used this medium to peddle her CV ware in the hope that she gets lucky even a PR pick for a Chinese outfit.

  50. David Avatar
    David

    Why dont you ask Attorney General Brathwaite to respond to the motion paassed by his party?

    Why dont you ask the Barbados Courts to stop Mottley from presenting cases.

    Lastly, why did Barbados Today agree to the consent order acknowledging therein that there is no issue with her qualifications?

    You, Maureen and King are all fowls of a feather.

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