Mia Mottley, Leader of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party

The leader of the BLP reportedly described Solutions Barbados as a nephew of and supported by the DLP.  She thinks that all parties are out to get her.  She is entirely wrong.

The BLP and DLP can be described as a family.  They share members and entertain us with their platform humour, but they are related.   They have defined themselves as a separate political class, and have played a game of sharing the government since our Independence.

They convinced us that they knew what they are doing, but the IMF reports of their performance reveal that both parties have failed Barbados, and brought us to the brink of economic ruin.  We now openly talk of devaluation and going through a severe IMF directed austerity.

Our Candidates have been invited to feed at their political trough.  To their credit, every one of our Candidates have rejected their approaches.  We have no fatted calf to slaughter, no political economy for supporters, and no berries for the party faithful.  Any Solutions Barbados candidate who gives a voter one cent will be expelled.

In a Solutions Barbados administration, there will only be one economy, the Barbados economy.  Everyone who participates can benefit, regardless of who they know or do not know.

Public workers will be promoted on merit alone.  Any public worker who approves, denies, or delays an application for partisan political reasons will be fired and lose their pension.  The public service will be depoliticised.

The political class structure will be dismantled.  The lifetime pension arrangement for politicians will be abolished, and they will receive a contribution to their pension funds like any other employee.

If Barbados’ political mess is not cleaned up, then we will all suffer.  The other parties are related to each-other and will never vote against their selfish family interests.  Solutions Barbados can clean up this mess because we are not a part of their family.  Make the right choice Barbados.

Grenville Phillips II is a Chartered Structural Engineer and the founder of Solutions Barbados.  He can be reached at NextParty246@gmail.com

86 responses to “The Grenville Phillips Column | Response to Mia Mottley – We Are Not Family”


  1. Does it not make sense for anybody in possession of the contentious PAC report to leak it to BU or another social media site? Barbados Today makes passing reference but will the full content resonate? If we want change the gatekeepers of the information need to go the whole hog.

  2. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    In the world called Stuart, Freundel the unfriendly clown, really believes that when he speaks his logic is sound and his reasoning astute. If only someone can tell the idiot that the more he speaks the more he convinces the Barbadian public that he is word smith nuffanarian who can only get recognition from loyal pooch lickers. Thus, there is really no reason to focus on this clown because he is doing a fairly could job of putting the final nails in the coffin that awaits his political demise. All attention needs to be paid to the other half of the corrupt dozen, who along with boldface sychophants like George Payne, Dale Marshall, Kerry Simmons, Glyne Murray et al, are trying to convince us that their past controversies will not come back toO marr their future tenure as our elected leaders. The BLP are ready and waiting to dish the same shite while pretending to fix something but keeping the more pertinent parts that assist the easy flow of money in their pockets intact and protected. Until Mottley show some gumption with respect to protecting the public purse, she is just another Stuart in waiting, whose shite will be established in time.

    ALL HAIL SOLUTIONS PARTY EFFORTS TO DEAL DECISIVELY WITH THE SHITE AND ESTABLISH PERKS THAT HAS MADE POLITICIANS RICH BEYOND THEIR WILDEST DREAM!!


  3. @SSS

    You are too funny.

  4. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    David

    Ain’t you tired of these two political parties? I am willing to embrace something new, even if some of the proposals are a bit farfetched and unrealistic. Be that as it may, Solutions article has struck to the heart of the establish money order that both parties have set up for themselves..


  5. Tired of politics practiced these days period!

  6. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    I am going to take that as a yes. Because it is two long serving political parties that are responsible low down gutter politics seeping out of their crack-corrupt heads.

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

    That’s the problem I have with the opposition, the minute Mara Thompson stopped that PAC report from being addressed in parliament, the opposition should have viewed that as a threat to the population, a cover up of crimes and corruption against taxpayers, voters, the citizens of the country…and made sure the report was made public…particularly the parts where crimes have been committed.

    When Mia does nothing, it convinces people that she is playing games, playing both sides and protecting her friends in parliament, against the middle, the voters and citizens who will ultimately.lose.

    Say what you want about the US…but their checks and balances are sound and there is no way a Fruendel government would get away with that time of cover up crap in US…without being politically slaughtered and fully exposed by the opposition to the world, you still have the play acting politician in Mia and that is a major worry,.


  8. David & SSS
    Solutions is no different! All of a sudden a pro-business party (all the candidates are supposedly business persons) is attractive? Bajans so bright we like we igrunt.🤣🤣

  9. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Enuff

    Let me do something that I hardly ever do; let us get logical (I prefer not to be at times). If the DLP and BLP have served in the best interest of Barbados, why are both parties faced with a disenchanted electorate who thinks only of them in terms of corrupt and untrustworthy? If Mia has the salt and pepper needed to spice up the economy then why has she stage a serious and significant protest beside a walkout. Why is she not tabling aspects of the report in her political campaigning to show Barbadians why the Freundel Stuart nitwit brigade has brought the economy of Barbados to its knees. Why does she not address the auditor General reports in a way that shows she is serious about dealing with the nonsense that makes up financial management of the economy. You know why she cannot do it; she is just like the rest.

    Solutions might not be ready, but they can be tried.


  10. @ Enuff
    Solutions is no different!
    ++++++++++++++++++++
    True – they are same Bajan personalities.

    So why should we not give them a try?
    Who knows? … instead of failing like the other two have DEMONSTRATED, SB may actually achieve a measure of success – as they have already done in their private businesses.

    Seems that you are one of those who want Bajans to keep doing the same shiite over and over …and expecting different results.
    Clearly you think we mad…!!!

    #enuffofthemadness

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

    “You know why she cannot do it; she is just like the rest.”

    That is why people are very wary of Mia, she and Dumbville are the closet of bosom buddies, she is godmother to at least one of Mara’s children and who knows who she is related to by blood ir whatevervin that nest of vipers….they are all incestous and selfish….and will never put the people’s best interests before their friendships…they all consider themselves a separate and distinct class despite the idiocy of it…….bonded by their own self interests.

    all of them view the citizens as their enemies, until they need their votes.

    She just failed miserablyb when she did not immediately expose what Mara and Fruendel are covering up, but there is still time for here to redeem herself and fix that, Fruendel gave her 3 months…let’s see how much dumber he is..and how uncaring she is….ha.

  12. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    “Tired of politics practiced these days period”.

    Mr Blogmaster, the more we proceed the more fantabulous the debate becomes. Isn’t politics practiced EXACTLY as the voters desire!….Politicians are not aliens from Venus and Mars.

    In Italy a former four time PM who was drummed out of power after scandals of corruption, conflicts of interest governance misdeeds, wild sex parties with his elite friends and a conviction of tax fraud…has now been rehabilitated by his adoring public. He cant directly hold office for some years yet because of that conviction and his party is not a majority player but yet he is a serious player holding sway in the coming elections.

    Who coddles such tarnished political figures if not the voters.

    And what of Greece. A citizenry living high on the hog at the professional/business levels who found all ways to circumvent tax collection; a citizenry who want all the trappings of Euro marriage but seemingly without the tough compromises of any such partnrrship…so they elected over and over pols who practiced “give them what they want” verbiage. In the end the Greeks eventually elected a sorta Granville but even then Tsipras had to climb down from several of his most bombastic pronouncements.

    Granville has done astoundingly well (it seems) to have a 30 member slate but do Bajans see themselves in his bible living, morally exact template. If a majority do then the duopoly will be broken in a few months time.

    …or rather do we embrace the wild, no holds barred, free for all of a Berlusconi or our own clone of his style Ms Mia Mottley.

    There is little chance our graft fueled, Naked Departure style society can turn on a dime to elect a Solutions Party.


  13. SSS
    How could she table aspects of a report, that was only laid in parliament yesterday, at her political meetings? The PAC Report will be made public. Why would they work all day Saturday as she said, then not release It?


  14. And it has arrived.😜🤣🤣


  15. @NorthernObserver February 23, 2018 at 11:50 AM “But is it 95%, 90%, 80% or some other %?
    “The mere fact one isn’t seeing any in-depth analysis”

    I honestly don’t know as I have no training nor experience in economics/finance etc. so perhaps guys like Bernard and Artax can weight in here. However I have done my own personal calculations and my under the 10% flat tax it seems as though my income tax due will more than double.

    While my inome will essentially remain FLAT.

    Lolll!!!.

    I am here laughing because I do not want to cry.

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

    Everyone is fed up of dirty, lying corrupt politicians, some people are taking action worldwide.

  17. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Enuff

    The report does not belong to the Democratic Labour Party, it belongs to the people of Barbados, who has a right to know the shite that goes on this country. The move by Democratic Labour Party is the reason why this secrecy shite needs to come to an abrupt end. Are we not already saddled with enough corruption allegations and confessions to know that we can no longer continue or condone the nonsense that these politicians seek to keep in the dark?Therefore, whether it was table yesterday or the day before, it should be up on a government website for all a sundry to see.

    Mottley needs to do more to convince those who cannot stomach her ass that she is serious about doing things differently in the name of good governance. Until that time she remains a rogue.


  18. https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2018/02/23/not-to-fast-mia/

    Clearly this DESPOT……in the form of Mia Mottley is an ugly stain on the good people of Barbados 🇧🇧 .

    She as someone aspiring to lead this country does care about :

    • The Rule of Law !

    • The fact that the PAC report must be laid in the House of Assembly – annually !

    • The fact that she cannot lay the PAC report for the period 2013 – 2018 – in February 2018 all at once !

    But then again what can rational thinking Barbadians expect from a HYENA that has no scruples , Law Degree or LEC !

    Barbados 🇧🇧 deserves better !!!

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

    Fractured Yardfowl…ya sound half hearted and not so sure anymore.

    Is that reality I hear knocking at the loitering minister’s doors, yall are loitering in parliament..pack ya bundles and be gone.

  20. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Fractured BLP February 24, 2018 at 3:26 PM
    “She as someone aspiring to lead this country does care about :
    • The Rule of Law !
    • The fact that the PAC report must be laid in the House of Assembly – annually !”

    So to must the financial statements and annual reports for the 60 odd SOEs (including the NHC) the responsibility for which lies squarely in the lap of the executive arm of government mainly the ministers and their senior servants.

    BTW, Fcukuptured, have you and the gang of DLP cyber terrorists put an electronic muzzle of the overly talkative mad-wo(e)man ac aka angelaSkeete?

    The poor soul has been ‘MIA’ for awhile?
    Has she been taken out because of the heat or has she been dispatched to the South coast sewerage for much needed R&R?


  21. SSS
    You’re not making any sense, seems like you are infected with solutionsitis. What documents emanating from parliament is made public before being laid in the house, and on what government website should it have been published and by whom? David Thompson fooled you in 2008 and now you are out for the world.🤣🤣


  22. Well well

    Go and freshen up your frothy BLP mouth 👄 !

    It is you & your BLP who have egg on your faces !

    Running & putting up posters on January 1st 2018 !

    7 weeks later the faces on those posters are so weather beaten……the images on the posters now look 👀 like ……Cow Dung !

    Barbados deserves better !

  23. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Fractured BLP February 24, 2018 at 4:08 PM

    Come on Fcukuptured, those newly minted posters cannot be as “weather-beaten” as those put up to fool the people and marked: ‘No Layoffs, No Privatization under the Demonic Deceitful Lying Party’.

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

    Miller..ac Yardfowl as sticks and stones is haunting barbadostoday..lol…yall chased her from BU, she just could not convince you.


  25. Well at least Mavis Beckles in the Saturday Sun of February 24, 2018 has officially started the General Elections 2018 campaign !

    Beckles wrote : Who ain’t getting my vote

    ” Those people who promoting same – sex marriages ”

    Mia Aman Mottley…….in real trouble then !!!!!


  26. Miller & Well well

    Help rational thinking Bajans to understand wunna Rat Botsie logic !!

    Peter Wickham & wunnah argue…….. that the longer Dems wait to call General Elections…..the worst for the DLP

    Now here is the question – why winna can’t wait and reap the windfall ?????

    Blasted Rat Botsie BLP ……,jokers. !!!!

    Rational thinking Barbadians smarter than wunna think !!!!

    Go and read Mavis Beckles !!!


  27. Finally the BU independent crowd is sending the apologists and blind party loyalists into a frenzy. For months now they have been writing pure junk; never giving any intelligent answer but engaging in diaper politics , not fit for any publication except those captured in the sewage on the south coast.
    All we have is the pot calling the kettle black. Wait until the last moment to produce a document covering five years. Within that document there is a heavy concentration on the ONE statutory board ! This is no different from de edda wun now running helter skelter trying to do in five weeks what they could not do in ten years.
    Go and ask the staff at parliament why they had to work up to ten and eleven clock at night trying to get the PAC out. Ask them how many of the PAC members ever attended meetings in the last five years. Go and ask them why Mottley now wait to cover a five year period. Ask them why she now want a report laid in the same parliament she said was a “waste of time”. Ask why a seventy page report was only revealed two days prior to the walkout. Parliament has about six more days before it HAS to end. So in six days we expect to now get a report covering five years.
    Where was the PAC for the last five years ?
    Ah was waiting in slips pun these miserable apologists to defend the two headed monster that has ruled our country for 63 years.
    Who in their right minds will put a thief to guard a thief ?


  28. William Skinner
    What you wrote above makes no sense. None! It shows, however, that your incessant cry for transparency, and all its accoutrements, is far from sincere; but just a charade to mislead BU readers into believing that you’re this progressive, enlightened Bajan Yankee who cares about Barbados’ governance. Everyone in Bdos is familiar with why and when this “probe” started and the difficulties faced by PAC in conducting it. The bitterness is thick up in here. #youmadstaymad🤣🤣


  29. Enuff

    You are the joker in this case !

    The PAC Act is clear . The report on any matter must be laid .. annually .

    Mia Mottley in this matter has shown that she is a Wicking Despotic Witch !

    Trying to use Parliamentary Privilege to smear people names through a ” bogus compiled ” PAC report .

    If she has any ” truth ” in her PAC report .. go public and get her arse sued for defamation !

    Silly Mia Aman Mottley !

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

    Fractured Yardfowl..you just confirmed that there are government criminal activities to keep hidden in that PAC report …from the electorate…how long has Mia been trying to table that report and government has been fighting it, a government only does that when it has corruption it does not want revealed and exposed.

  31. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Enuff

    Please. Please, Please, do not insult my intelligence. I do not give a rats ass what parliamentary protocols must adhere too before the public becomes privileged. The PAC under the political control is bare shite. Hence, we know that Mottley’s insistence with this report at this juncture is all political strategy intended to stirrup more red ants in the DLP camp so she can prove to Barbadians why they must now turn to her. Mottley would have anticipated this move by the DLP to block the report. Thus, when she walked out of parliament in protest, it would easily feed into the grid of upset bajans that the DLP are yet again showing that they have a lot to hide, while she is trying to do the work that she has not done in 8 years of PAC investigation. I can bet you that this report is never going to get into the domain of John Public unless it drops off a truck, or that the order is given by her to release those copies that conveniently ended up in the hands of certain people and news agency like Barbados Labour Party controlled Barbados Today online news feed.

    And yes, I have Solutionitis, you know why, because the BLP and DLP have systematically place Barbados along dangerous fault lines, and for that, change is the most significant weapon to combat a deceitful regime of orchestrated cover ups and carefully planned corruption.


  32. SSS
    The more you talk, the more it becomes evident that you’re not interested in facts but instead have a penchant for fiction. Furthermore, you’re contradicting yourself. But I will remind you again that in 2008 David Thompson was your 2nd coming, now it seems Gabriel has visited you again. 🤣😂


  33. Fractured
    So why did Donville attend meetings, and why did he not raise the issue of the need to lay PAC reports annually rather than object based on not reading it? Does the Act stipulate that an examination must be completed in a year? No, because such an approach would render the PAC even more toothless. Smear? Isn’t the report based on evidence/statements made by persons appearing before the PAC and supported with transcripts? Smearing would be telling Barbados who are the principal(s) of BJ Investments. More smoke and mirrors.


  34. What is evident is that the PAC ought to be headed and managed by a full time staff given the many and varied contentious failures pointed out by a full time Auditor General and staff.That MAM is otherwise dependent on her professional skills to make a living and given the many objections and the complete disregard of their responsibilities to the taxpayers in accounting for their actions while policy making and executing like there is no tomorrow,the upshot of all this browbeating and chest thumping is all a farce and makes a fool of the process of accountability.I say our systems of governance are crying out for CHANGE.Next door in Trinidad see how a sub committee of Parliament is grilling the Chairperson of the Public Service Commission.Trinidad has made many changes to improve governance and provide the public with information to make politicians and senior public office holders accountable to the people on an ongoing basis.Barbados is once every 5 years and for Stuart,once every 63 months.

    http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20180223/news/police-service-commission-grilled

  35. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Enuff

    I just read the report. And, it has been released in the public’s domain base on a directive. As to me not wanting to deal with the facts. Please tell me in my write up what you consider fiction.

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