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Submitted by David Comissiong, Citizen of Barbados
The Late Honourable, Owen Arthur
The Right Honourable, Fruendel Stuart
The Late Honourable David Thompson

In the Sunday Sun front page newspaper article of 11th February 2018 titled Not On My Watch, former Commissioner of Police, Darwin Dottin, publicly confirmed :-

(1) that there are “extra-regional third parties” who provide the Royal Barbados Police Force with the “capability” to tap the telephones of persons in Barbados; that these “extra-regional third parties” are given “authorisation” to work with the Royal Barbados Police Force; and that the tapping of the telephones of persons in Barbados with the assistance of these “extra-regional third parties” has been ongoing since the year 1991– a period of some 27 years;

(2) that former Prime Minister Owen Arthur, former Prime Minister David Thompson (deceased), and current Prime Minister Freundel Stuart all knew about this practice of the Royal Barbados Police Force collaborating with “extra-regional third parties” to tap the telephones of Barbadians;

(3) that “it was common practice for all Prime Ministers……. to give authorisation” for the Royal Barbados Police Force to collaborate with these “extra-regional third parties” in the tapping of telephones in Barbados; and

(4) that “all Opposition Leaders over the years had been informed” about the Royal Barbados Police Force’s use of wiretapping technology to tap the phones of Barbadians.

And so, former Prime Minister Owen Arthur could bluster and obfuscate as much as he likes about the Governor General being formally responsible for the efficient administration of the Police Force — sensible and conscious Barbadians are not buying his contention that he and other Barbadian Prime Ministers are not relevant to the issue of foreign entities collaborating with the Royal Barbados Police Force in tapping the telephones of Barbadians.

We are also not buying his pathetic effort to turn himself into a victim by claiming that “it has been represented in the public domain that my phones had been tapped also”.Nor are we interested in his irrelevant sob-story about Darwin Dottin being his best friend at primary school !

Perceptive Barbadians will have noted that in spite of all of his effusions and feverish protestations on the matter, former Prime Minister Owen Arthur is yet to deny that foreign entities have been collaborating with the Royal Barbados Police Force in tapping telephones in Barbados.

As a citizen of Barbados I find it to be totally unacceptable that our Government and national Police Force could be joining together with foreign entities to tap the telephones of Barbadians without having established any legal authorisation in the Laws of Barbados for this practice; without establishing any protocols of oversight and accountability in relation to the carrying out of this activity; without in any way informing us–the Barbadian people — about any of this happening; and without providing us with even basic information about the identity of the mysterious foreign entities that are being permitted to invade the privacy of Barbadians.

Who — former Prime Minister Arthur and current Prime Minister Stuart — are these “extra-regional third parties” that are permitted to collaborate with the Royal Barbados Police Force in tapping telephones in our country ?

What are the protocols and regulations under which this practice has been taking place over the past 27 years ? Aren’t we — the citizens of Barbados — entitled to know the criteria by which a decision is made to tap the telephone of a Barbadian citizen? And who makes that decision?

Furthermore, what mechanism of oversight and accountability has been attached to this practice ?Indeed, is there ANY mechanism of oversight and accountability ?

When all is said and done,the reality is that you–Mr Owen Arthur– held the office of Prime Minister of this country for 14 of the 27 years during which this practice of telephone tapping was taking place. And you– Mr Stuart– have held the post of Prime Minister for some 8 of those 27 years.

Do not insult our intelligence with idle and evasive talk about the Governor General or insinuations about current Opposition  Leader Mia Mottley! We need answers to the serious questions that surround this 27 year old practice of engaging with foreign entities to tap the telephones of Barbadians.

 

 

 

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118 responses to “Serious Wiretapping Questions for Owen Arthur”

  1. Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service Avatar
    Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service

    he security of our Island state requires a level of surveillance activity including the interception of communication between conspirators/criminals/ terrorists etc. The entities empowered by law do not have to disclose these activities.

    if that were the case, many of the business people who are well known by both governments for decades to be heavily involved in criminal activity and are the real criminals and threat to the island, would be in prison.

    trying to sugar coat this will not help, its out in the open, the same dumb government exposed it.

    is that Karma or what..lol

  2. Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service Avatar
    Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service

    D.The salient question is this. If I as an overly zealous minister of defense, or a techie CEO at Lime with an overactive politically driven aspiration or a jilted lover, proceed to use or abuse the ubiquitous technologies to spy on you, how will you know and will such action be blamed on my respective bosses?

    as happened for real, real.

  3. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ millertheanunnaki

    “If ‘We’ had put an “N” somewhere in that acronym would the point still stand, ‘as is’?”

    Touche, my friend touche……….

    As we say : Dah is a good wun

  4. Dr. Simple Simon Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon

    @de pedantic Dribbler February 13, 2018 at 7:14 AM ‘his rather insidious attempts to mislead.”

    I wouldn’t say insidious.

    I would say blatant.

  5. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    There is no way that the DLP/PSC would have had incontrovertible evidence against the former Commissioner of Police and simply send him on full paid leave until retirement. Note the timing of the wiretapping rumour–when it started, stopped and restarted. Don’t ignore the promotions/non-promotions drama, and the players involved.

  6. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ William Skinner February 13, 2018 at 10:34 AM

    Great to see that you still have a sense of humour about you; although losing your politically moral bearings in thinking there is some difference between BDNP or any other third ‘P’ as all politicians are cut from the same cloth.

    But who are we not to accept your ‘belief’ in achieving the (not yours) Sisyphean task of remaking Barbados into your own ‘third’ party image.

    There is a joke in here some where. Find it with your new brand of wit!

    PS: You need to distance yourself from that humourless curmudgeon called Shallow Hal.

    “The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.” ~ Elbert G. Hubbard

  7. Bernard Codrington Avatar
    Bernard Codrington

    @ Jeff at 7 : 05 AM

    The PM is answerable? Yes . But after the act. Law unto himself? No. He will and has acted in such a manner before and empowered by the Law and the Constitution.

    Jeff, we know from experience how effective your Law and Constitution are . I think we are very lucky to have a people with a law abiding and long- suffering attitude.

    I do not remember any body taking Tom Adams and Eugenia Charles to court for triggering the powers given to them in their laws and constitution, when they along with USA invaded Grenada. Do you?

    My substantial point is that according to the information disclosed by OSA , the former police commissioner, the present police commissioner, there has been no major breaches in the law and spirit of the law. I will hold this position until information is disclosed that tapping was malicious ,invasive and abusive.

    In a democracy,the executive should not be micromanaged. Micromanagement is not democracy it is an attempt by pressure and interests groups to hijack the constitution in their own class interests.

  8. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Ms. SS, But then that would mean he is a ‘liar. I ain’t calling the man that as i have no insight into his primal intent.

    @Mr Pieces, any nation that buys $500 hammers (don’t forget the ultra expensive toilet seats, too) must have a lot of bighly infuriatingly tough nails to hammer (or is it tnat they does take their shitttee very, very seriously).

    I agree with your main thrust that OSA cannot be the fall guy…it would be beyond creduilty to expect that all Bajans government have not secretly collaborated with the US and UK (and Interpol) on wire tapping and other surveillance.

    Similarly though you are being quite amusing when you ask why Mr Dottin has not revealed details.

    I gone.

  9. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bernard Codrington February 13, 2018 at 11:14 AM
    “My substantial point is that according to the information disclosed by OSA , the former police commissioner, the present police commissioner, there has been no major breaches in the law and spirit of the law. I will hold this position until information is disclosed that tapping was malicious ,invasive and abusive.”

    What about the “(mis)information” the MoF and his minions revealed in Parliament about the same wiretapping diversion which was deemed as an ‘unauthorized’ intrusion in the affairs of citizens?

    In your ‘valid’ estimation shouldn’t that be considered perjury in the “highest Court” of the Land?

    You should have a listen to the debate(s) surrounding the MoF’s claim of ‘illegal’ or unauthorized wiretapping that gave rise to OSA’s strong reaction (and justifiably so).

  10. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    If we had not entered the period of the silly season and what appears to be a desperate grasp for a lifeline Barbadians would have remained blissfully unaware that wiretapping is executed in Barbados.

  11. Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service Avatar
    Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service

    ` Dr. Simple Simon February 13, 2018 at 10:51 AM #
    @de pedantic Dribbler February 13, 2018 at 7:14 AM ‘his rather insidious attempts to mislead.”

    I wouldn’t say insidious.

    I would say blatant. `

    MALICIOUSLY AND DELIBERATELY BLATANT……by design.

  12. NationBLPnewspaper Avatar
    NationBLPnewspaper

    As I analyse the comments in the media and the contributions of Mr. Commissiong, doesn’t anyone notice that Mr. Commisiong criticizes everyone except Mia Mottley ?
    Peter Wickham has said on Brass Tacks that Commisiong is now aligned with the BLP. I also remember in the early days of Brass Tacks Sunday when Commisiong lost his pick at The Pan African Commision, he called in and was heavily critical of Arthur even after he had previously worked as BLP operative during the 1999 election.

    I would suggest that the media in this country understand that Mr. Commissiong appears to be a “political lackey” singing for his supper. His allegiance depends on who can promise him the biggest soapbox and therefore the same man who like to rant about abuse of political power seems now to conveniently use Arthur as a mass distraction when the question is ” Why was Arthur’s phone tapped” and who in the BLP would even promote such an act?
    I hope the media does it due diligence and follows the truth wherever it may lead.

  13. NationBLPnewspaper Avatar
    NationBLPnewspaper

    Refer to the Nation Newspaper today- Page 12, Tuesday, Feb 13, 2018 – Dale Marshall is quoted as saying “They want to distract you from the constant battering they are getting in the press”.
    OOPS! The BLP Nation strategy revealed.

  14. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ de pedantic Dribbler February 13, 2018 at 11:21 AM

    A man or woman or whoever- whatever ‘their’ station in life is presumed innocent until proven guilty; at least that is how it ought to be in the Bajan neck of the democratic woods.

    Why Should D D reveal in public what he knows when his accusers have not done so despite claiming such convicting convincing evidence is contained, allegedly, in sworn affidavits by the other ‘good’ officers involved the ‘actual’ so-called wiretapping exercise(s).

    Why not bring charges against the man and let the judiciary decide who is guilty and who is innocent because they were acting under the orders of the State?

    “ Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat.”

  15. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    A percentage of American households are chosen at random for telephonic eavesdropping annually.

  16. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    To the Freundel Stuart administration. GOOD GOD, PLEASE GO.

  17. Bernard Codrington Avatar
    Bernard Codrington

    @ David

    For decades now Barbadians knew that that their telephones and internet are tapped and hacked . The arrival of fibre optic has increased the capability 1000%. BU should know.

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

    You would think Fruendel would know, mediocre lawyer or no, that the court does not just up and decide that legislation is unconstitutional, some conscientious citizen/attorney has to research, see the unconstitutionality, THEN apply to the court to prove it.

    Ah guess Fruendel has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged Comissiong….ah hope he knows he has no time left either way…lol

    PM: Sue us!
    PM tells critics of Police Amendment Act to take it to court

    Added by Colville Mounsey on February 12, 2018.
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    Barbadians who are concerned about the newly approved Police (Amendment) Act are being encouraged to challenge it in a court of law.

    This admonition from Prime Minister Freundel Stuart last night during an address to Democratic Labour Party (DLP) faithful at a joint meeting of St Michael branches at the Eden Lodge Primary School.

    Stuart charged that some people were seeking to stir public alarm instead of going through the only institution capable of ruling on the constitutionality of the legislation.

    “Every legislation we have tried to pass has been accused of being unconstitutional. None of that unnerves me because I have heard all of this already. First of all the only institution in Barbados or in any other part of the western world that can determine if a piece of legislation is unconstitutional is a court. No individual could stand up and declare that a piece of legislation is unconstitutional,” Stuart said.

    The contentious legislation, which was approved by the Senate last week, has sparked fears among some Barbadians, including the Bar Association and social activist David Comissiong, that lawmen would abuse the powers that they have been given under the measure, particularly against residents of the more deprived communities.

    Comissiong has already hinted at the possibility of challenging the legislation in court.

    However, Stuart warned that history and precedent were on Government’s side as it relates to such a challenge.

    “I heard all of this talk in 1974 when Errol Barrow amended the constitution itself. I heard this talk when the Public Order Act was amended in 1970. You know, after all of those criticisms, when those critics got into office, the pieces of legislation remained untouched, They were just indulging in political posturing as is happening now. Police always had the right to stop and search at common law and various pieces of legislation. Police cordons are normally because you don’t want crime scenes tampered with and you want evidence preserved,” the Prime Minister stressed.

    Stuart further argued that certain criminal elements were currently implementing curfews in their communities, and questioned whether critics of the amended legislation preferred gun-toting criminals to wield such power, instead of the police.

    “Whether the critics know it or not Barbadians were under curfew longer than we would like to admit. But not curfew by the police but by the criminal elements with firearms, who have been keeping people off the streets at night. Do we prefer them to do it protecting their own criminal enterprise, or do we want it done by the Royal Barbados Police Force lawfully for the protection of all of us? That is the choice,” Stuart stressed.”

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

    Fruendel is forgetting that the court deemed fingerprinting citizens leaving and reentering the island IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL…yeah, that dirty little slick scam he tried to get past the citizens….he has a nasty track record.

  20. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    #whaOwenupto

    “Today I will be making my last speech ever . . . . I am retiring,” Arthur told Barbados TODAY as he prepared to climb the steep steps of Parliament this morning to participate in the debate on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure 2018-2019.”

    https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2018/02/12/last-word/

  21. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    Oh, how easily we become distracted. Here we are discussing at great length, an allegation from years past that was not considered relevant or important enough to pursue by the DLP until now.

    Should we not spend some time speculating on the intended use of military grade vehicles at the port and the 2014 rumored importation (never acknowledged or denied) of riot gear? Suppose, just suppose that elections are held when they can no longer be delayed and the result miraculously returned this cancerous lot to the seat of power. Is there a possibility that the normally sedate citizenry might be sufficiently aroused to a level of civil protest warranting intervention by an administration hell bent on cracking heads and shooting a few until the streets run red? Would our newly enacticed police freedom to act legislation not allow this to take place? Don’t forget, desperate men do desperate things and this looks like the last pay day for quite a few.

  22. Dr. Simple Simon Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon

    I believe that all governments wiretap, and note that this is not the same as saying that al governments wiretap. I have close telecommunications friend [a Bajan but in another jurisdiction], a bigable democracy? democracy? who for decades arranged the legal [court orders in hand] the tapping of customers telecommunications. Drug traffickers, murderers etc., big t’iefs etc. not bread and fish criminals, but the true, true bad boys, yes mostly boys (aged between 16 and 36 but still irrational boys), the sort of bad boys that we are relieved are safely behind bars. And who says that men don’t like to talk. For the most part the bad booys talk too much and have too many “friends”, the male thing that a man can’t operate without his pack, his gang, his buddies. That is what lands the guys in jail for 25 years to life. Talk. talk, talk,

    No political tapping apparently.

    No checking for anybody’s outside woman or man either, because it is a given that at some time we all have an outside man or woman.

  23. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    The Great Owen Seymour Arthur has informed Barbadians, today , that he will retire at the end of this Parliamentary term.

  24. Dr. Simple Simon Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon

    Let me join all Barbadians in wishing Owen Seymour Arthur a long, happy and healthy retirement.

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

    Fruendel should also retire and so should every minister and senator, all their sell by dates have expired, poop in the streets and every infrastructure decayed and destroyed on the island by the present government, is more than reason enough for permanent retirement.

    In the meantime Adriel Brathwaite is indeed the most useless attorney general in the world and has finally managed after years and years to bring the judiciary to a complete halt with his uselessness.

    What a major embarrassment for Barbados, with most of these cases more than likely having to end up before the CCJ going forward if the parties are to get any final closure, because neither government thought it necessary to hire more judges over the last 30 years.

    Seeing as both governments have facilitated the current state of the supreme court to enable their friends in the insurance companies to carry out their waiting for claimants to die scams;

    enabling land thieves to wait for land owners to die scams;

    …and allowing all manner of corruption and criminality….to be the standard operating procedure at the court for decades, both governments are to be held accountable equally.

    https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2018/02/13/court-backlogs-may-cause-bajans-to-take-law-into-their-hands/

    “Court backlogs may cause Bajans to take law into their hands
    Added by George Alleyne on February 13, 2018.

    Former Attorney General Dale Marshall has warned that prolonged backlogs in the court system are frustrating Barbadians and could force them to take the law into their own hands.

    Addressing a Barbados Labour Party (BLP) rally over the weekend at Rices Playing Field in St Philip, the area represented by Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite, Marshall said the current legal adviser to Government had presided over a state of affairs that has seen the judicial system “grinding to a halt”.

    The BLP legislator quoted figures from 2013 to 2016 during which he said only 136 written decisions had been handed down from 8,122 that had been filed before the High Court.

    He blamed this in part on a shortage of judges, complaining that there were only eight judges to handle the thousands of cases during that period, a problem, he said, for which Brathwaite must be held responsible.

    “By any measuring stick, the performance of the Attorney General of Barbados has been less than stellar . . . .You could even afford to call it dismal,” Marshall said.

    “What the Attorney General, the representative for this constituency, has to show is a judicial system that has come to a halt,” he added.”

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

    The most stupid, useless AG ever, even their transparent tricks are failing.

    “Shut up, AG!
    Marshall wants Brathwaite to focus on making Barbados safe again

    Added by Colville Mounsey on February 13, 2018.

    Former Attorney General Dale Marshall has challenged Government’s chief legal adviser to “put up or shut up” and to concentrate on “making this country safe again”.

    It was Marshall’s response to a call by Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite over the weekend for the Member of Parliament for St Joseph to say “whether or not he had anything to do with the illegal tapping to telephones of ordinary men and women in this country”.

  27. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    well Well

    Be careful.

    Is he not an HC old boy

  28. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Fractured BLP February 13, 2018 at 9:16 PM #
    “The Great Owen Seymour Arthur has informed Barbadians, today , that he will retire at the end of this Parliamentary term.”

    Oh what feigned adulation!

    Is this is the same “How great thou art” OSA whom you blame incessantly for all the economic problems facing your obviously tired deceitful lying preposterously incompetent administration?

    You must clearly understand that MAM was never the substantive MoF or PM of your fair land (now turning into a wasteland) called Barbados.

    So aiming your political sights to shoot the poor wo(e)man is just an exercise in futile attack just like your deliberately false praise of OSA.

    It was the same OSA on whom you ought to be pinning the blame for the list of fiscal sinkholes which you highlighted just a few days ago like the Greenland costly unused landfill and the Dodds prison without which there would be no room to lock up the many criminals you are about to catch in the dragnet of the upcoming curfews unless you plan to do a Jonesing and crack a few skulls while shooting the same black suffering protestors in the back like the agents hired by your former white plantation massas to keep you restless niggers in apartheid confinement.

    If you are that genuine in your worship of the Bajan god of economic management the divine OSA why not follow his commandments and go to the IMF for your country’s salvation?

    Doesn’t it follow that if there is no viable economy there could be no ‘good’ society?

    The unencumbered forex reserves are about to read “E” in a few weeks.

    When do you intend to take a ‘welcome break’ to offload your lot of tired deceitful lying passengers including the driver and recharge the nation’s battery of investor confidence and refill the tank of consumer transactional activity, the road on which the Bajan economy travels?

    The month of March especially the Ides would be the ideal date to announce, like drowning dirty rats, the abandonment of the ship of State to avoid receiving a ‘forced’ visit from the inevitable IMF doctor. Either that or the Devaluation undertaker by June when the forex reserves tank runs dry.

  29. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service February 14, 2018 at 7:30 AM

    Shouldn’t this grade ‘A’ sloth of an idiot be providing an answer to the LEC resolution his party’s G S Pretty Polly Pilgrim submitted to him for a response by November 2017?

    Didn’t the same ‘A’ class fool promise to the highest court of the land a report on his investigation into MAM’s eligibility to practise law without an LEC since 2015, albeit allowing her to renew the same licence on the 31st January just gone?

  30. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ Miller
    Boss, you getting very acid in your old age..

    Have you come across a lost, big-ass whacker somehow…?
    Or is it that elections are imminent?

  31. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea February 14, 2018 at 9:14 AM

    BT, you might be surprised to hear that the miller’ mill is grinding to provide the grist for a return of your dear loving party of parasites to bring about the entropic scenario you have predicted as just being around the corner for the brass-bowls Bajans who refuse to heed the warnings from the BBE with the planting of the Devil’s pitchfork a clear sign of the end times of the falsely good life enjoyed over the past 40 years in the worship of the god of excessive materialism.

    It’s time to get back to basics. Any country endowed with the great gift of cultivable land but treats it like an inconvenience is bound to end up on the scarp heap of economic survival.

    Stating all over again it’s going to be rough but absolutely necessary to save the current BB country from calamity.

  32. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Miller @ 8:21 a.m on FEBRUARY 14, 2018

    Miller

    Please stop the lying and deceit on this the 1st of Lent

    No one has DEMONIZED……OSA like you & Mia Mottley !

    So vitriolic were you attacks that you forced poor OSA to flee in haste from the said BLP that he lead for ……15 years !!

    An act that is unmatched in any other Caribbean country…..to date !!

    And to imagine that you & Mia Mottley had the temerity to – wire tap – the man damn phones 📱 !!!!

    Rational thinking Barbadians would not hastened to put you all in the corridors of power – for such vulgar behavior !!

    About the Lenten Season…..there will be no General Elections !!

    So all those – weather torn posters – that wunnah foolish BLPITES ……illegally rush to put on the Barbados Light & Power poles……on January 1st , 2018 !!!

    Wunnah could tek them down…..

    General Elections in Barbados 🇧🇧 would be held on Tuesday June 26, 2018 from ….6:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m

    So you know the date ……now !

    You can decide when to put your posters – legally now

    BLP …….jokers !!!

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

    Miller..we been saying on here for years..the attorney general is stupid and very deceitful, he has just been collecting free money from taxpayers for doing absolutely NOTHING for years.

    All of these ministers and senators got that opportunity from the weak Thompson by a fluke, particularly after he died and it dawned on them that they fell into a honey pot filled with stupid yardfowls and gullible taxpayers, so they proceeded to do nothing, because they knew they will get paid anyway, no one would challengr, they did not even pretend to do the bare minimum….they only did what benefitted them and no one else.

    But day runs and night catches up, now they are exposing their own selves in a real comedy act.

    We see on here the failed politicians still challenging people to bring evidemce of corruption, something they themselves would do after committing their crimes against the country and citizens, unfortunately for them they will remain failed politiciand..

    …. this government did the same, challenging everyone to bring evidence that they are corrupt….despite the auditor general’s decades long reports….

    They all have the same poisonous, viperous mindset.

  34. Tell me Why Avatar
    Tell me Why

    DAVID, this is serious!

    Wiretapping is the surreptitious electronic monitoring of telephone, telegraph, cellular, fax or Internet-based communications. Wiretapping is achieved either through the placement of a monitoring device informally known as a bug on the wire or using wireless means which has increased with the introduction of fibre optics. Service providers don’t have to be the third party to effectively monitor someone’s privacy.

    I was listening to various speakers and suddenly, I heard a certain speaker talking about people on social media spewing lies and he confirmed “WE” and I emphasize the word “WE” KNOW ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING IT” That person don’t need help, help is readily available to all and sundry.

    David, this is confirmation that wiretapping is blatant in society and we have to ask the question “WHO IS BEHIND THESE SO-CALL WIRETAPPING”

    Anyway, this is the silly season and maybe I am silly to think outside the box.

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

    When you have corrupt governments, ministers, prime ministers, senators, you remove them, you do not keep them to decay the country further, particularly after they have aleady decayed the country’s economy and infrastructures,.

    This corrupt president should have been gone years ago, of course he will fight to stay and they will have to forcefully remove him like Mugabe, they never want to leave.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/129355/anc-decides-remove-zuma-south-african-president

    ‘JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s ruling party decided on Tuesday to sack Jacob Zuma as head of state, two sources said, after marathon talks over the fate of a leader whose scandal-plagued years in power darkened and divided Nelson Mandela’s post-apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation’.

  36. Tell me Why Avatar
    Tell me Why

    “WE” KNOW ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING IT” That person don’t need help, help is readily available to all and sundry.

    This was stated in Parliament by a figurehead of a Ministry in yesterday’s Estimates Debate.

  37. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Fractured
    Why not 2019?🤣🤣. The Dems need more than 3 months!

  38. Tell me Why Avatar
    Tell me Why

    Look for #18 and start from 27 mins.

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

    They have even become sickening to watch, let alone listen to, they have nothing to offer, paying them a salary for 10 years produced nothing but decay.

  40. Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service Avatar
    Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service

    South Africans finally got rid of Zuma.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/jacob-zuma-resigns-president-south-africa-latest-anc-party-vote-no-confidence-gupta-family-a8211311.html

  41. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Well Well
    What does that mean?
    The next one, Ramaposa is a criminal billionaire already

  42. Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service Avatar
    Well Well @ Cut and Paste @ Your Service

    Pacha…the last week people have been posting to various blogs that Ramphosa already sold out the country…he is just interim until elections in 6 months.

    they are all corrupt, we can only hope.

  43. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Oh my dear, David………looks like the Atalky General is reading BU…..he was quoting us in the House today saying that it is being said that instead of buying garbage trucks, they are building up the military…………looks like we are getting to them!

  44. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @Enuff, Gabriel

    Well, well, well………..Maria Agard has finally exposed herself for the irritant that she is!

    She is now the leader of business in the House for the UPP………ha, ha, ha…….muh belly!

    Some leader she is…….I knew that she always had a problem with Mia as leader. Now she gets her wish. Do you think she can lead Lynette?

    Wait……..if wonder if she knows that her naked ambition to be auditioning for leadership will be short lived. After the Estimates debate finishes on Friday, the most sittings there will be is a maximum of two…….that is if the lazy dlp members decide to meet.

    Wuhloss……….h, ha, ha!

  45. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    BARBADOS

    “Police have arrested and charged four schoolboys in connection with Monday’s stabbing incident at St Leonard’s Boys’ School which resulted in two 16-year-old boys receiving stab wounds.”

    FLORIDA, USA

    “At least 17 people were killed Wednesday in a high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said.”

  46. David Avatar
    David

    @Prodigal Girl

    If he is reading let him see the following. If the Chinese donated the trucks to the BDF the information should have been shared when the promised was made, this is what effective communication and transparency is all about. Barbadians should not be left to speculated about the trucks because someone posted to Facebook.

    #101

  47. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    Investigative journalism does not exist in Barbados. All we get is journalistic pablum.

    That is why Government ministers do not have to be accountable and will only speak when there is a crisis.

  48. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Hants

    Another Valentine’s Day massacre in the Empire of the gun

  49. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    not the Empire of the gun Sarge IT IS THE EMPIRE OF SIN—USA IS THE MOST SINFUL NATION IN THE WORLD

  50. Theophilius GAzerts Avatar
    Theophilius GAzerts

    God elected Trump and we are still the most sinful?

    I would have gone with Hilary

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