If for no other reason the general election season is a good opportunity to vent on the issues. One issue the blogmaster will be keeping an eye is how will the parties address waste management in the near, medium and long term. It was a big ticket item for the last government (DLP) however ten years later, it remains an outstanding item.

Here is a bullet extracted from the 2013 DLP Manifesto:

Provide sustainable solutions in the areas of solid waste management and water scarcity;

The sight of sewage water flowing on the streets of the South Coast which is located in the heart of our tourist belt continues to be a worry, increasing tourist arrivals notwithstanding. The issue is not that the design of the Sewage Plant was flawed under a BLP government. It is that for ten years those in charge of running the country were aware and allow the problem to get worse. We know that if the government was not aware the leader of the Opposition shared the information with the prime minister two years ago and he trivialized her attempt to draw attention to the issue. A similar reasoning is true for the situation unravelling at the Supreme Court.

What will be done to deal with the issue of raw sewage leaking on the South Coast AND elsewhere must be a national debate in the next 25 days. We stress on elsewhere because the blogmaster observed weeping manholes in Lake Folly.

Here is the pump adjacent to Lucky Horseshoe that is overflowing, again. The BWA promised that the 10 inch pump would have addressed this issue. The video was shot yesterday evening.

60 responses to “Waste Management: Serious Topic Barbadians Must DEMAND Discussion from Political Parties”


  1. @Prodigal Son April 29, 2018 3:21 PM “Barbados wanted change in 2008 and were desperate…they were enticed by David Thompson’s sweet talk.”

    I wasn’t.

    Didn’t trust David Thompson.

    Voted for the D’s all my life, up to Sandy.

    But not since Sandy.

    I am waiting for some D’s to tell me why Freundel should get a third term.


  2. Don’t like what I am reading about Solutions Barbados on the back page of today’s Sunday Sun either. It seems terribly coercive to me.

    According to the Nation report “The Solutions Barbados candidates were shocked when they were presented by the contracts which contained a clause including, among other things, that they could not join another political party for the next five years, or until after the next election. Some felt that they were being forced to give up their “constitutional rights”, including freedom of association. They were even more upset that the $250,000 penalty was to be paid to Phillips’ company, Walbrent College..Phillips said his company Walbrent College would not keep the money, but would distribute it to various local charities…because you can’t rely on people’s word.

    Yes make out a certified check for $250,000 to my personal company, because I do not trust you, but yes trust me to give the money to charity.

    Anybody who would sign a contract like this is an idiot.

    And this Simple Simon will not be voting for an idiot.

    P.S. Even so the contract is unlikely to found as valid by any reasonable court. No valid contract can breach a person’s constitutional rights. And if the $250,000 is going to a local charity, who decides which charity? The offending member or Phillips? And what if the offending member disagrees with Phillips’ choice of charity? And if the money is to go to a charity why does it have to pass through Phillips’ company, why not let the members/candidates write the check directly to the charity of their choice and then simply provide Phillips with a receipt to show that the donation has been made.

    Why would the money have to pass through his company?

    Why?


  3. @Prodigal
    “MAM’s BLP is different from OSA’s BLP”
    Oh really!? lol.

    Joe, Arthur, Peter, Indar, Sandra, Charles, Ian, Wilfred and Ralph??
    Cuddear man, the BLP has the same amount of “brand new” candidates as the DLP. lol.

    is half dozen. half dozen is 6!

    David is right! B is D, D is B. Crappaud smoke we pipe!

    @David
    “The government will be hard pressed to defend its record on the economy.”

    That’s impossible. The DLP’s slogan for 2018 could as well be is “It’s NOT the economy stupid”

    Just observing


  4. Phillips may well be the most gifted structural engineer in the world.

    But I am wondering, since he admitted that he struggled in school, whether he missed all of his history lessons?

    All of his Scripture lessons?

    All of his Sociology lessons?

    Nope. I am not voting for Solutions Barbados.


  5. Observing

    I reluctantly had to go into a KFC on Friday as I really do not eat fast food……..whilst standing in line the guy in front of me began to engage me in conversation……..about the service which was so slow and to top it off the food was bad………….how do people eat that stuff so often?…….I will never buy KFC again……….

    I said to him that the standards and levels of service have broken down in this country and it is a clear indication of the rot that has engulfed this country.

    I then told him that have to get out and vote…….right away I knew he was a dem…….the man told me that the people who dug the hole and have us in this rut have to be given the chance to get us out………..I asked him if he is mad…….and whether he did not understand that they do not know how to get us out of the hole ………….he agreed but I dont think he would change.

    I asked him if he ever saw this country in such a mess under the Bees………..he would not answer……………lost dems……

    To cast aside the older Bees would be making the same mistake of the DP in 2008……..the dead king was the only one who had ministerial experience and have you not seen where they have done to this country? Destroyed it! This country will be reeling for years from the pain and destruction inflicted on it by this bunch of incompetent wild boys!


  6. The manholes located on the street where the Rendevous post office and Massy are located have started to tear up again.

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

    More poop flowing in the streets.

    No one can find me on Solution’s website filling up my head with their rubbish, but I am not in the least bit surprised that Grenville’s answer to weeding out his corrupt candidates, should he and they be elected, is to grab the money from those he finds guilty and drop it in his company, his own pocket.

    Any money from corrupt activities of ministers should be paid to the treasury and pension fund to benefit the people as a collect, not to benefit Grenville or his company or any phantom charities in any way.

    Corruption is a crime that should be prosecuted through the court system, if ya had a decent, functioning court, but not in Grenville’s fantasy for a mind..all hush, hush and covered up,


  8. The Wastewater Division (WWD) of the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) continues to monitor and manage a series of mitigating measures to keep wastewater levels low and prevent an increase of overflows in the troubled areas on the south coast.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/154334/mitigating-measures-continue-screw-lift-pump-remains-inoperative


  9. @Hants

    The bottomline is that until the injection wells come online we are screwed.


  10. @ David
    Afterwards too…
    The injection wells are just a set of big expensive cans, kicked down Hastings road.

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