The two main political parties held national political meetings on the penultimate weekend BEFORE the May 24 General Election. After wading through much of the rhetoric and palaver three questions peaked the inquiring mind of the blogmaster. Hopefully they will be answered in the public interest BEFORE the general election.

  • Why the haste to sell the Barbados Hilton hotel BEFORE the 24 May 2018?
  • What is the involvement of the candidate for the City Henderson Williams?

Go to 3:00hr point on the YouTube video to listen to Mia prosecute the Hilton matter.

  • Will Mia Mottley respond to the Benedict Peters charge levelled by the DLP platform?

 

See pre-action protocol letter sent to Sinckler from lawyer Leslie Haynes on behalf of Benedict Peters.

 

 

189 responses to “Rush to Sell Hilton: Benedict Peters???”


  1. Are-we-there-yet May 14, 2018 10:21 PM

    OSA “hubris” is a multiple negative, as per the comments, 90% saw right through his verses, The DLP was happy about his former defeat from office of PM, party leader, being held hostage as an Independent and his declaration of exiting politics, while the BLP respectably sees him as Former Leader with possible negative agendas, not even by way of advice. He had time and opportunity. SAD.


  2. @NineofNine. That so-called $80 bIllion of ” INVESTMENT”, multiple times our GDP, is hogwash. Where are jobs and green field projects to show for it? That $80 billion is just an accounting electronic flow and nothing else. It does nothing directly for the real economy.

  3. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Artax, one political writer noted that politicians can often win the populace with a minimum of analysis and details by playing strongly to an emotive point of interest.

    Phillips has generated ZERO emotional connection with his economic platform and surely as you so rightly highlight there is also ZERO substance also.

    Where is the report from the economist validating his one year turn around?

    Where is the internal analysis from his economic experts showing HOW the turnaround will happen?

    This continual line of reasoning from Phillips re the 40% cap is infantile as you suggested and frankly irrelevant now.

    We (people) apparently support Phillips because he has the confidence to come forward and the fortitude and nous to have crafted a full team of like-minded change-agents….hooray.

  4. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    SB initially offered “hope”. That ‘hope’ has decreased. It was never appreciated one doesn’t have to recreate the wheel. Barbados is in need of a good housecleaning. And the public mismanagement has steadily deteriorated, to the point where stopping the downward motion, and making repairs is a monumental job in itself. Too many moving parts are malfunctioning.

    The B’s mini Manifesto is a joke, nuff sweet sounding titles, but when you examine the content within each heading, it is weak. Very weak. Their only excuse is they are unsure what they’ll find.

    The Hilton sale is very smelly. At a time when politicians are only to happy to take credit for anything they can spin as “good”, the silence and stealth guarantees something is amiss. Not one RH word on Paradise either?

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

    I wish Owen would make up his mind, he claimed he did not approve tax waivers but now also hints he does not know if Mia went behind his back and approved one to her father…how could he not know, was he not minister of finance and actively holding that portfolio at the time.

    He however states….

    “The Prime Minister also said that during the merger of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Barclays into FirstCaribbean International Bank (FCIB), a circumvention by a member of Cabinet had cost the country $87 million in property transfer tax and stamp duty.”

    If she cost the taxpayers 87 million dollars while kowtowing to the bank, just say she did it.

    If that was the reason some say he fired Mia as AG at that time, just come out and say so….they are so used to the deceitful secrecy, they still cannot be forthright, not even when the island has been totally destroyed and now need people who are forthright just to survive this social degradation caused by ministers and politicians over the years..

    , apparently once elected, none of the ministers believe the people need their money and just up and give it away to whomsoever will, then take whatever they want for themselves, as it pleases them, it has been a pattern with both governments for decades..

    Somehow they all believe the money, tax breaks and concessions are theirs to do whatever they feel and as they please without the knowledge and permission of the people…they are very disrespectful of the same people who elected them.

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

    “Stupssseee!!!

    Chances are both Chris and Mia were born at t he Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

    Unlike me who was really born at home.”

    Lol, lol…….at their ages, their navel strings were either incinerated or thrown in the ocean and washed out to sea, no one has been burying navel strings for decades.

    The nigerian billionaire is for pure entertainment purposes…just waiting for the next laugh.


  7. I too am a nigerian billionaire, someone called me and explained a long lost relative of mine had passed away and left me all this money but it is tied up in red tape, just need some expense money to have it released.Can the hilton sale be put on hold till it comes through I may be interested in buying it.


  8. Wunna notice that at the DLP meetings the camera man never show the crowd attending, only the speaker. While at the BLP meetings you can see the crowds, nuff crowds LOL. The town rats didn’t even bother to attend Todd’s meeting. The Dirty Lying Party will get a cut arse they won’t ever forget. It is depressing watching them campaign.


  9. Cant belive how the blp who always said that OSA was the greatest MOF now ridicules his opinión on Mia pork barrell plan
    Even a blind man on a trotting horse see the foolishness in the free giveaways


  10. Mendicant, hand-to-mouth brass bowls with such low self-esteem that they cannot see any way out, but by attaching themselves -like true parasites – onto foreigners ‘with money’.
    Money from any source…. Chinese, IMF, Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Russian, Canadian, …any John will do….

    How low can we go?
    How have the mighty and proud fallen?

    Is it not the ultimate SHAME to be dictated by a final court that is run by foreigners – who themselves are not subject to that court; who consistently shame our legal ‘luminaries’; and who would not accept a SINGLE Bajan on their panel of judges?

    …but wait!!! …..no!!!
    Nothing can be worse than our acceptance as normal – shiite running daily along our main tourist street, while we continue to eat, play, swim and talk shiite as if all is well with the world, and God continues to hold a Bajan passport.

    We are in the midst of an Egyptian plague of Biblical equivalence.
    Like them, we too will probably wait until our children are dead before we recognise our shortcomings…

    …meanwhile we can continue to discuss the shiite politics and economics that has steered us to this precipice – while ignoring the spiritual realities that are killing our donkeys.

    BBE knows…
    There is only so much you can do for a fool.
    Even when you throw the water in his face – he can still die of thirst.
    Hell!!
    Even when you throw shiite in his face – he refuses to clean up his act…

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

    But wait…many people are now advising bajans in the diaspora who have legal proceedings and matters in the supreme court in Barbados…to GOOGLE lawyers around the Caribbean for their representation IN Barbados..

    they are being told that under no circumstances should they hire bajan lawyers, in order to protect themselves from losing their land, properties, money, sanity and lives…up to this morning I got a call from someone in A LAW FIRM about this.

    Karma took over 60 years but she is up in here today.


  12. The reason why barbados is in this quadmire ..Barbadians in general over the years belived in the formula of eat well and be merry ..tommorow would take care of itself
    I marvell at how barbadians can put money in financial institutions and get nothing in return .
    Not going to feel sorry for barbadians now complaining about hard times because out of their mouths they said they had 14 properous years however most did not plan for years of faminine
    Bajans need to stop bitching and belly hurting and start cleaning house first

  13. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE We are in the midst of an Egyptian plague of Biblical equivalence.

    ONE WONDERS WHICH Egyptian plague of Biblical equivalence THAT WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF ?

    HAS OUR WATERS BEEN TURNED INTO BLOOD? ARE THERE FROGS HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE? HAS THERE BEEN WHOLESALE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN THROUGH OUT THE LAND?
    OR ARE WE JUST ENDURING A PLAGUE OF VERBAL BULL SHIT

    RE Even when you throw the water in his face – he can still die of thirst.

    IT IS OBVIOUS THAT IF YOU THROW WATER IN SOME ONES FACE THAT THEY WOULD DIE OF THIRST

    AFTER ALL WATER MUST BE INGESTED AND ABSORBED VIA THE MOUTH IN A CERTAIN VOLUME TO BE OF BENEFIT TO ANY ONE .

    WATER IS NOT ABSORBED VIA THE SKIN INTO THE BODY

    WATER IS NOT ABSORBED BY OSMOSIS OR ENDOCYTOSIS


  14. This is the second time that the CCJ has stand in favour of foreign interest against barbados interest
    Also what is most noteworthy the CCJ made a directive to jail the person in charge of administrating the law
    Needless to say the writing is on the wall

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

    Simmons would have made it to the CCJ, had it not been for his historically unethical, toxic and destructive relationship with CGI Insurance and Vivek…this is well known in certain circles, his own vile actions to his own people over the decades returned to bite him in the ass..

    It will take time for a bajan to make it on to that bench…the cabal that is the bar association and its members are still too incestous and lodge cliquish, they will corrupt the CCJ..

    ….you want people and judges who will apply the law, not circumvent it to help out friends and disenfranchise others and violate their rights.

    …to make matters worse the government through the EBC had the nerve to ignore the ruling of their own supreme court which means they have no respect for their own Constitution, their own court or for human rights.

    unless they start to clean up their acts, which will take years, no one wants any of them around.


  16. Politics is a real nasty game in trute

    Maybe two years ago we were cautioned by William Skinner, when we argued that the DLP will loose the coming elections.

    We could not have envisaged that a DLP regime which has brought Barbados to such ruination could still have a fair change of even coming near to competing, far less winning again.

    Yesterday, as seen above, we tried to tell this emerging tale, with significant push back by some elements. And we expect more twists and turns, both ways.

    Little did we know, at the time of writing, that OSA would make our reading prophetic.

    We must admit that when we heard FJS, on Sunday night, in the ‘Lower Green Market’, keying up OSA for an intervention we imagined that these two had that planned.

    Only an asshole that such a thing happens out of thin air. The next question we are considering is whether OSA intends a ‘Don Blackman like’ intervention.

    OSA has sworn that he will never leave the BLP or Barbados with MAM in charge. He has failed in the first but may feel able to prevent the second. He may well be a game-changing variable.

    In the same way, when we heard about the Nigerian money in the campaign, and the possible involvement of Benedict Peters, a man not unknown to this writer, and knowing a few other things about some other personalities involved, we imagined that there was the possibility of fire from whence came smoke.

    Notwithstanding, most people here, not excluding David, seek to repel from certain truisms.

    We even had a ‘scholarly’, christian, jackass mustering the temerity to venture that Sinckler was not able to repeat his claims, when he had done so the very night before, in more visceral terms.

    Politics! Nasty yes, but interesting as well.


  17. Agree with you Pacha, all orchestrated.

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

    Pacha…Mia is the one now have to come clean to the people about her engagement with campaign financiers, whomever they may be.

    I never liked Owen not being forthcoming with bajans in the last 10 years about why he thought her unsuitable to lead, holding on to that big secret and information so close to his chest for a decade and still playing coy now , not coming out fully and forcefully accusing her of costing the taxpayers millions of dollars, through tax giveaways, that were not hers to give and who knows what else….

    ..this also gives us some insight and a glimpse into his ugly mind, since his hands are not clean either…he has left the citizens with minority leaches and parasites that are difficult to exterminate and he mentions not one word about the hundreds of millions he too cost the taxpayers in losses.


  19. Well Well

    We are in a court of laws, not pleadings!

  20. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Pachamama May 14, 2018 6:35 PM
    “What defamation, what? Don’t you see this is just a political shenanigan to frighten your adversaries.
    There are two defenses to libel/defamation – fair comment or truth. Where is the violation?
    There is no need to be afraid of this Nigerian.”

    Political shenanigan indeed!

    Neither does he (Stinkliar) have to be afraid of the two imaginary men who were overheard by a senior law enforcement official to be plotting to kill him.

    Stinkliar’s imagination is so creatively infused with alarming fertility in that he has painted in the heads of ‘Christian-minded’ Bajans a picture depicting the jihadist presence of a Boko Haram type group amid the local Muslim community on Kensington New Road recently visited by Mottley.

    Stinkliar would be apologizing alright- even if not in the glare of public acknowledgement- the same way he was forced to apologize to the same Mottley in Parliament regarding the big lie he told of not knowing about the increase in remuneration for the Chairman of the NIS.

    Stinkliar is a pathological liar supremely suited to Machiavellian type politics and it is his dying wish to attend Codrington College to actualize his lifelong goal to pupate into another ministerial form and become a man of the cloth.

    Let’s vote Stinkliar for Bishop of Barbados!

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

    Do they even know the difference?

    They even avoid pleadings sessions at all cost, just ask anyone who has had a protracted civil case in the supreme court..how much hell it is to get to that point and even then, attorneys do not turn up, so expect nothing less than DEFIANCE with anything else.


  22. Well Well

    Our meanings are not always in our words.


  23. Of course! The pretense that it is pure coincidence is laughable. However, it does not appear that the two-man attack is gaining much traction. In fact, the constant barraging of Mia by Owen has turned off many people. Quite funny watching Owen trying to portray himself as unblemished. It would be interesting if Hartley Henry comes out and names the funders of the DLP’s 2008 campaign. #nastyindeed

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

    Exactly Pacha.

  25. Freedom Crier Avatar

    This video presents Solutions Barbados policy in respect of the public workers salaries.

    https://www.facebook.com/SolutionsForBarbados/videos/330028484193437/UzpfSTEwMDAwNTY2MzU1ODE1NDo3OTE2NjI5Njc2OTkxNDg/


  26. The Miller

    We have no desire to defend Sinckler or anybody else.

    Don’t put us in that position. We are merely readers of phenomena.

    We have already made a final determination about these political-managerial class formations.

    In our gaming of the politics, we expect lies, imperfections of all types, to be present, on all sides.

    Notwithstanding, we fell a need to look beyond all this noise to get a sense of what is happening or will happen.

    We need to know what will happen before it does, because nothing else makes any sense. This little political game should not be able to hold any secrets from us.

    And the loathing of any side cannot be helpful in knowing all the truths.

    The Miller, at the end of the day neither you nor us will see any political ‘heaven’ within this system of things, as much as the joys expectant in the defeat of the regime beckons.

    On the one hand, you may be left with ‘blue ball’. On the other, and most certainly, regarless of winner/lose we both are destined for the position ante.

  27. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Pachamama May 15, 2018 8:39 AM

    That ploy can only fly if MAM is arrested and charged for defrauding the Treasury between today and next Tuesday. But this can only take place if other very senior civil servants who would have ‘administratively’ executed the fraud are placed in the same accused boat and treated as prisoners awaiting bail.

    The same way ministers of the Crown are not accounting officers and cannot be charged for the illegal disbursements of taxpayers’ monies so too they are not empowered to write-off tax liabilities unless approved by Cabinet.

    Otherwise, it would appear to be mere electioneering poppycock being displayed by a politically irrelevant disgruntled 2013 loser and an out-of-touch fumbling fool who cannot see that he has no political clothes on jut like the eponymous Emperor strutting on the stage in front of innocent children called the young voters?

    How could that coward who cannot handle ‘Opposition’ politics be so deceitfully wicked as to take full responsibility for all acts and omissions- both good and bad- which occurred under his leadership from 1994 to 2007 can now be turning his quisling back on his “Mea Culpa” persona?

    MAM has a simple counter to all of this ‘arranged’ collusion designed to put a spoke in her political wheel on the road to Ilaro Court.

    Just repeat over and over the political dressing-down so devastatingly delivered to OSA (the drunkard with convenient amnesia) by the same FJS both in Parliament in 2009 and at the DLP meeting held in the Britton’s Hill area just 2 days before the 2013 general elections.


  28. The lashes Mia is getting is all brought upon by herself. Her bellowing voice of transparency now latches unto her like a leech
    Dont now she will ever squirm her way out of this ditch she has been thrown into without being fully transparent.
    Benedict Peter now as define by dlp govt. “As the gift that keeps on giving


  29. Only the PM with the approval of cabinet could write off tax owing to government. Frenduel made the charge, Owen came to clear his name that he was not involved. That’s all. If Mia, choses to respond, its up to her. After listening to Owen its no doubt that she abused her power at the time. This is just all part of the narrative that the DLP wants to push, that she is unfit to lead. This is the ‘blood-line’ sense of entitlement, she and her family think they have, to do as they like.

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

    Politicians are way too deceitful, someone just asked Owen point blank on facebook:

    “So when you got on the political platform in 2013 and declared to Mia and the island “we need you Mia” did you know then that she cost the taxpayers million of dollars..or did you only just find out.?”

    Facebook commenters are not as forgiving as we are.

    Ah guess the strategy backfired, no one is taking Owen seriously, they are viewing him with contempt on FB..lol

    Yardfowls are clutching at straws.


  31. Mia has been ignoring all these stories in the past.She would do well to continue to do so.If Stuart thinks that attacking Mia is going to absolve him of his responsibility for the destruction of the Barbados economy or that investors both local and foreign would during the remaining days of this campaign forgive him and his story bunch of losers in the DLP cabinet,he should consult the oracles I have been encountering on the ground all of whom in good old bajan cussing Dem left right and centre.Nuff blinding, chop sutting, sums beeches who don’t give 2 RH bout nobody but Dem selves.


  32. Only an idiot would believe that, if taxes were written off, Owen Arthur did not know anything about it.

    And this is the same Owen Arthur who was ridiculed by the DLP and their yard-fowl supporters…….. that they now want to hold in high esteem.

    Arthur and the DLP have similar objectives………“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”


  33. The Miller

    Much of what you say is true.

    We have no appetite for a fight with you, for we will loose

    You may continue to live in the hope that a ‘heaven’ beckons.


  34. Owen was know, is know, as a fearless man, one who was not afraid to discipline his Cabinet. If what has been said indeed occurred, my question is why did he not discipline the alleged offender?


  35. lawson May 15, 2018 6:56 AM “I too am a nigerian billionaire.”

    Ya lie!!!

    Aren’t you a retired Canadian plumber?


  36. @Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service May 15, 2018 3:18 AM “Lol, lol…at their ages, their navel strings were either incinerated or thrown in the ocean.”

    And once good cultural practices are abandoned, who know what happens? Perhaps people lose their sense of connection to this place?

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

    Don’t mind Lawson, he is a retired fireman, doing plumbing in his spare time, he just wants to impress the girls with the nigerian billionare talk.


  38. @Bush Tea May 15, 2018 7:43 AM “Mendicant, hand-to-mouth brass bowls with such low self-esteem that they cannot see any way out, but by attaching themselves -like true parasites – onto foreigners ‘with money’. money from any source…. Chinese…”

    Please note that I turned down the Chinese money. If they covet my land for housing, then I have chidlren and grandchildren who also need to be housed. And to tell the truth I love my children and grandchildren more that I love any Chinese or his money. If they covet my land to grow foo, then I know how to grow food too, I need to eat too. My children and grandchildren need to eat too.

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

    Exactly….their only connection to the island is the money they can siphon off from the treasury and their various scams for themselves, they cannot even convince themselves otherwise, so disconnected are they from their own history.


  40. @Mariposa May 15, 2018 8:20 AM “most did not plan for years of faminine.”

    But ac/mariposa we did not know that the DLP was going to bring us to 10 years of famine.


  41. Tax write-off is nothing new with any Government. Was the over 19 million write-off to the Barbados Turf Club a problem?
    Was the paying off debt using tax-payers funds for the Paradise hotel complex a problem?
    Can the electorate be informed of the million of dollars in tax waivers for Sandals?
    Who own the land that the cement bond is located? How much rent is collected from this tenant?


  42. @millertheanunnaki May 15, 2018 9:03 AM “Let’s vote Stinkliar for Bishop of Barbados!”

    NO, NO, NO.

  43. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon May 15, 2018 11:03 AM
    “If what has been said indeed occurred, my question is why did he not discipline the alleged offender?”

    By “alleged offender” are you referring to a member of his own Cabinet or to the Permanent Secretary and /or Department Head in the same Ministry of Finance of which he was the substantive minister for 14 years during which the same tax write-off is alleged to have taken place.

    He, Lord Fumble, has asked Bajans to submit to the CoP and DPP any evidence they might possess to substantiate the many claims of corruption perpetrated by members of his administration over the past 10 years.
    Well, why not let him cast the first stone against corruption and lead by example?
    So why doesn’t the same FJS draw the matter to the DPP and the CoP to investigate and you would see who would be the first to be fingered as the chief accounting officer in the same ministry under investigation?

    Perhaps the source of that $75,000 cheque (ac or Fractured BLP or Kevin can confirm whether it was for $75,000 or $750,000 with the help of Stinkliar and his decimal skills) or the evidence of bribery on the Pegasus hotel tapes that was supposed to destroy the 2013 reelection same outlaw of a thieving bastard would be discovered and made public.


  44. Simple Simon . Go to the ant thou sluggard
    Consider her ways and be wise

    If the ants can do it why cant bajans with all the free education
    Never heard of ants receiving any kind education
    They knew well how to prepare them selves for lean times
    Bajans motto of” well it is always another day” has serve them well to bite them in the arse
    Now as they wait for Mia the modern day pied pipper to prepare their last supper of free goodies


  45. A new Malaysian PM had a raid executed on the outgoing PM and what was found…pure greed and thefts.

    https://www.facebook.com/jah.chameleon/videos/10157401503966040/?t=35


  46. So this incident occurred in 1998 when Mia was Minister of Education. Was she acting as PM then ahead of more senior members?

  47. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Mariposa May 15, 2018 12:15 PM
    “Now as they wait for Mia the modern day pied pipper to prepare their last supper of free goodies”

    It seems that this female pied piper has not learnt from her male predecessors who not only promised in 2008 milk and honey but came back in 2013 and gave them hell on earth by fooling the DLP rats into staying the course with them while promising a reliable public transport system free of cost to the old and the young on their way to a free UWI education.

    Haven’t these same old and young simple folks been let down after being comforted with empty promises that there will be No Privatization of the TB under that dear loving party or would any socially-retrograde step be taken such as making ‘working class’ UWI students pay for their own tuition even if they shop at Carlton Supermarket on Black Rock?


  48. @Northern
    The B’s mini Manifesto is a joke, nuff sweet sounding titles, but when you examine the content within each heading, it is weak. Very weak. Their only excuse is they are unsure what they’ll find.
    +++++++++++++
    Is the full-fledged document any better? We know what they will find – that the cupboard is as bare as a baby’s bum so all our promises are kaput.

  49. Are-we-there-yet Avatar
    Are-we-there-yet

    David;

    Do you have access to an unedited version of Owen Arthur’s press conference yesterday? If you do, could you post it on BU?

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