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Submitted by Mr. Anonymous

Overheard government MPs today shouting from the mountaintop about the 5% salary increase and how it will give “breakfast before the long journey.”
Well, HALLELUJAH!!!!!

I just found out that because of the generous 5% salary increase graciously bestowed on me by my caring government that I will get an increment of $154. (I’m an extremely prosperous and affluent middle class worker at Z5 in the salary scale).

Finally I will be able to pay that minor $45 increase on my water bill without worry.

Clearly this will now let me pay that welcome 1% or ($52.80, Z5) in my Health Service Contribution starting October 1.

And yes! I am eternally thankful for the removal of $450 ($48/mth) in road tax. This means I can now fill my 42 litre tank 6 times a month at ONLY a MERE increase of $76.49 more than I would usually pay. (EY Budget Analysis page 10)

Again I say AMEN! My $154 increase COMFORTABLY takes care of my $45 water + $52.80 health + $76.49 gas increases. By the way, I applaud the conscientious and civic minded retailers for dropping their prices since the NSRL removal. My dollar is definitely stretching now!!!!

I have a colleague at the lower end of the scale who feels as good as me. After all, she’s now going to get $76 – $87 more a month to handle her business. Woo hooo!!!!

Lastly, all repects to Mr. MacDowall and Mrs. Moore. They have certainly served us well.

Why hold out for 15% or 23% with back pay when you can take 5% from April this year and 0% from before then???? Sweet!!!

Even sweeter is the fact that I get to keep my appointed job so I can console my temporary friends who are about to lose theirs with a scalpel rather than an axe. The scalpel will surely ease the pain.

My Prime Minister said it well – “We are not being profligate, but if you want people to embark on a long march then you have to make sure they don’t do it on an empty belly,” (Wigglesworth, R., June 5, 2018)

Brother Bob said it better though – “A belly full but them hungry” (Robert Nesta)

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103 responses to “Belly Full, Still Hungry”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    https://www.facebook.com/NationBarbados/photos/a.10155342128930989.1073743252.270969375988/10155342128950989/?type=3

  2. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    Great post – you will have to console yourself that a few extra civil ‘servants’ will keep their jobs in order to shuffle all your hard-earned around!

  3. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    I think people are slowly waking up to the negative impact of the decisions taken by this government a mere 10 weeks or so of them coming into office.

    Under the dems there were hard and unpopular decisions but under ‘watch muh Mottley’ there are NOT only some hard decisions being made but some real iggrunt ones too.

    For example that payment of tuition fee for every student.Why didn’t this govt continue the system of those who could not afford applying to the ministry of education for the grants which are available.

    Do some sort of means testing.

    Also decide the priority areas that you as a government will continue to fund and place your scarce resources there.So that you don’t continue paying the exorbitant fees for medical students or law students when there is a surplus of these skills here and they are not engaged in activities that help to improve the foreign reserves problem or are part of your developmental plan.

    What about THE MOST IGGRUNT DECISION TO DEFAULT ON THE DEBT.THE FULL FALL OUT OF THAT HAS NOT YET TAKEN PLACE AND BOY PALPITATIONS ARE COMING DOWN THE ROAD

    I will await the next 2 weeks to see the first stage of what the IMF is planning for we..

  4. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right

    @ Madamoiselle Prime Minister

    I spent a few hours watching the 9th Sitting of Parliament today and these are de ole man’s notes

    How is it that you say that you “cannot and will not continue with the (unconsionable) transfers to support SOEs” but you are hiring all these people on these various commissions? (with some people like Senator Lisa Cummins) serving on 2 boards simultaneously)

    BTW, you made the claim and MP Caddle repeated it that 5,000 people answered the 102 question survey. I only answered 96 cause I realised that if I had given you my pieceuhderockyeah right email you might have torn up my survey.

    I can attest that it was indeed a 20 minute exercise.

    If you did get 5000 responses that means that it was indeed a well supported survey IF THE SURVEY WAS NOT ANSWERED BY PEOPLE PAID BY JONG AND/OR IF THE RESPONSE(S) WERE NOT ADJUSTED, AFTER THE FACT.

    But tell me something, would you know that? or is that responsibility handled by Jong, you getting my point?

    But I digress (I noticed that the LoO used that remark in the session)

    I was wondering about your statement about “a service best done from within or better done by someone outside selling to to the GoB” heheheheheheheh I would ask you a question but me fears that it would expose too much heheheheheh

    Then at https://youtu.be/w4EsqEnGhqU?t=3218 you started a spiel about “the precepts of economic enfranchisement” and all that blarney about “the rights of the people (which people?) to participate in the ownership of the things that belong to this country” and went on to say that this principle has been a BLP something or the other for 80 year!

    You mean dat this practice of tekking people tings dem, physical and virtual, has been around for 80 years whuloss!.

    But what the hell does this mean? “…the rights of the people to participate in the ownership of the things that belong to this country..”? Unfortunately my affliction and condition forces me to listen to what people say and ….

    Anyways who is the dufus from St Peter?

    How can the Lost Decade that you named get redefined by hime to be from 2010 to 2018? Can that MP count? Even Oblong head had to chastise him for messing up your Lost Decade dubbing. You mean we have another Chris Stinkliar in the making?

    I could not in all seriousness sit and listen to that word for word with each one of your 1st elecven team of dummies so I had to fast forward through the list to sample a few others.

    I then reviewed the contributions of William Duguid Whuloss ywho coined “the cook shop” WTF is that, and “the nail technicians” and “the tremendous effect of $200 on the economy” that took up his whole presentation steupseeee. He really got in on your coat tails, that man has no presence and spent the whole time swinging his glasses.

    Ammmm you got to tell Ralph that when he is inthe HOA it is really bad manners to talk the whole time when Cynthia Forde speaking (while hold his phone in his left hand)

    Mia PLEASE !!! Give them a script to read from pleaseeeeeee!

    Kirk Humphrey said it best though “when I was a Public Servant”….cause we the discerning public understand that he is NOT A PUBLIC SERVANT NO MORE. A Freudian slip which refers to his current state of Ascension to the Heights

    PM Mottley, You going have to speak to the Speaker of the House Arthur about his speech or lack of such. For example one notes that Dwight Sutherland called about 3 names during his presentation without any caution from the Deputy Speaker, not one word one, BUT “many Salary Arthur WAS VERY QUICK TO CHASTISE THE Leader of the Opposition when he asked about your appointment of Charles Jong

    Imagine that Kerrie Symmonds (oblong head) had the gumption to get up and talk bout hubris and contempt of the former prime minister when he Kerrie was driving all over Barbados, without a licensed vehicle steupseee you ent wonder what Andrea would have to say bout him.

    If only if the knifed tires of the car had a mouth steupseee STFU Kerrie

    What does Minister Abrahams mean when he say section “vee a”? You see what i mean bout your 1st Eleven?

    That “vee” is Roman numeral for 5 AS YOU DUN KNOW, so, by my take, that should mean that the clause cannot be passed into law since there is no “vee a” but de ole man could be wrong…

    Barring your presentation and that of the Leader of the Opposition whom you appointed and the Caddle lady, de rest talked poorly. Give them scripts.

  5. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster

    Your assistance please with an item thank you

  6. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right

    https://i.imgur.com/IRMQ2vT.png

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @T.Inniss

    Based on your comment you agree with selling state assets to boost the foreign reserves to pay debt? The blogmaster agrees with you about the rush to make education ‘free’ again. This is more about creating an issue that separates the two parties and delivering on a campaign promise. If it can be maintained history will record that Mottley’s BLP resumed free education, a stab at a DLP’s perennial boast.

  8. Piece Uh De Rock yeah Right Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock yeah Right

    Since she has already make this campaign promise she cannot take it back else she woulh estrange the public OR IS THAT PUBIC further.

    What de ole man recommends that she does is that she

    (i) Gives anyone who gives 2 years of National Service prior to enrolling to UWI free education
    (ii) Anyone who gives 1 year of national service and 1 year post the degree free education (breach will incur 100% fees payable immediately)
    (iii) anyone who gives one year of national service but opts out the UWI education at 50%
    (iv) Means Based testing to be employed for persons in categories B & C

  9. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    5000 people who might well help formed policy by survey Mariposa finds that to be a disenfranchisement of those who stood in line to vote
    If this survey was to conduct the people’s pulse it therefore bodes well to say that that out of a nation of two hundred and seventy thousand people that the 5000 would have more of a say to govt policies than the majority who voted
    The reason for election is for the people voice to be heard by a Democratic force call for good governance
    Not a hip shoddy shooting from the hip make belive of people involvement
    What next voting by survey only!
    This govt is meking mock sport of the guaranteed rights of citizens called the power of the vote a safe and sure form of democracy that does not upsurge or uproot or tamper with the voting process called a Democracy

  10. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right

    @ Mariposa

    The 5,000 people respondent size is an excellent indicator given the total number of people who voted as opposed to the number of the population who you would agree cant all vote. (age of majority issues)

    What she will also claim is that other surveys have been done so that the final number will come in at 15,000 or so.

    And truth be told this is just eye candy for the benefit of the IMF to show participatory methodology and that the people are participating in the process

    But the fact is that she has already decided as per IMF guidelines WHICH AGENCIE ARE GOING TO GO

  11. Piece Uh De ROck Yeah Right Avatar
    Piece Uh De ROck Yeah Right

    @ the Honourale Blogmaster

    Your assistance please with an item for Mariposa thank you

  12. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    of course sell assets to pay debt and when you run out of money and totally screw up nationalize everything

  13. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ T.Inniss August 15, 2018 4:26 AM
    “I think people are slowly waking up to the negative impact of the decisions taken by this government a mere 10 weeks or so of them coming into office.
    Under the dems there were hard and unpopular decisions but under ‘watch muh Mottley’ there are NOT only some hard decisions being made but some real iggrunt ones too.”

    What is about to unfold was on the cards since December 2013. Barbados should have undergone an IMF-funded (and supervised) structural adjustment programme from the financial year 2014-2015.

    But as the old folks used to admonish: ‘hard ears you did not listen to the voice of reason and commonsense, with dry mouth you will now taste what hardship really ‘feels’ like.

    The Mottley administration (unlike that of the fumbling arrogantly procrastinating King Stuart with Stinkliar the arithmetic idiot savant of a bold-faced supreme liar in charge) has no wriggle room or negotiable instruments to blunt the IMF’s structural adjustment onslaught.

    Some of those public sector assets which had some measure of negotiable commercial value attached to them 4 years ago will now have to go for a song with those singing in a foreign money voice the preferred buyer.

    You guys better take Dr. Deliar Worrell prognoses of divesting the air and sea ports into very serious consideration for this is exactly what the IMF will be demanding if you do not want your Mickey Mouse dollar slaughtered like a sacred but dying cow on the altar of imported conspicuous consumption.

    Bajans have been living, for far too long, way above their forex earning means.
    Now it’s time to pay back the loan-sharks of conspicuous consumption but not this time by borrowing other people’s foreign money.

    For this time around that biblical injunction will be the only commandment in Bridgetown:
    ‘By the sweat of their brows Bajans will now eat bread (both local and imported) or starve to economic death’.

  14. Platinum Avatar
    Platinum

    If the former govt had done even 10% of what they should have we might be in a slightly better state, but no, the raping of this country and the feeding frenzy of awarding contracts four and five times their worth so that the kickbacks could be greater to the recipients. Check out..if you can as I am not going to put it here, what the deal on the Barrack building would have been to the vendors. And some of you think it was better under dem. Anyone with an iota of ECCONOMICS would know by now we would have had to devalue more than the 2% on c/c payments. Look at the disgrace just one revelation of bribery has got us on the world’s eyes. Take your heads out of the sand…or maybe it was easier for those of you writing nonsense.

  15. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Yeap bribery and dont forget the Head of the private sector charged with bringing drugs into the country
    All eyes on Herbert too

  16. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    David/BU

    Nope ! I am totally against the divestment of public assets.I was against it when Arthur did it and to my mind it was absolutely not necessary then;and I was against it when Chris proposed selling the Hilton and the oil company.The only saving grace for me was that the oil company was to be kept in local hands.

    If Arthur and the last BLP government had been more prudent with our resources during their 15 year term then the drastic measures taken after 2008 would not have been necessary.

    Yet even now Mia see how people struggling and she ain’t care about a fella -she is keeping her big,over-sized cabinet,her ambassadors at large,her financial advisors,her KGB chineese spy man,her tsars,her familycommisung secured inside, her party people like pat parris and jessica odle as consultants,the setting up of a number of wasteful commissions and so on.

    You keep at it ‘watch Muh Mottley’ – day does run until night catch it.

  17. David Avatar
    David

    The DLP government planed to use the proceeds of the sale of BNTCL and the Hilton to pay the loans. If you are against divestment where should Mia have sourced the foreign exchange to pay the loans due in June?

  18. Redguard Avatar
    Redguard

    Drastic measures taken after 2008……………….please elaborate because I remember Thompson promptly adding 3000 salaries to governments wage bill, giving 10 million to prop up CLICO and generally behaving as if Barbados was insluated from the effects of the global recession

  19. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    David

    Didn’t this new Central Bank governor say he was calling in the foreign exchange from those holding foreign accounts?

  20. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    The discussion I am having is not for BLP trolls so scat.

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

    “The only saving grace for me was that the oil company was to be kept in local hands.”

    How could that even make sense to you, once the entity is sold to Simpson or whomever…him or his estate or whomever purchase it, willl never sell to a bajan in this lifetime, especially a black one, they will seek out foreign entities to buy…..for 5 times what they purchased it..it will never be locally owned again.

    All this time, these decades of disenfranchisement and exploitation….yall still learned nothing.

  22. David Avatar
    David

    Can you cite the reference to what was said by the Governor?

    How much was brought onshore if any at all, was it enough to sustain loan payments, even if enough is it a sustainable strategy to pay loans with the proceeds of pension investments and other similar funds? What about the risk gap resulting from such an approach?

  23. A. Dullard Avatar
    A. Dullard

    “If Arthur and the last BLP government had been more prudent with our resources during their 15 year term then the drastic measures taken after 2008 would not have been necessary.”

    Where does this idiotic cycle of blame end and we accept the reality get down to serious work?

    Why not blame Errol Barrow? I mean if he didn’t ‘lead’ us to ‘independence’ there would be no resources for the B/DLP to mismanage right?
    Why not blame Cristopher Columbus? Perhaps if he hadn’t opened the flood gates to European discovery there would be no Barbados as we know it, right?
    Why not blame the air? Well if there were no air then there would be no B/DLP people around to mismanage anything, right?

  24. David Avatar
    David

    @A. Dullard

    If it were so simple. The duopoly is an institution in Barbados with a political class that has a gripe on our way of life. The challenge is for the sober among us is to peck away at the fringe until a forward momentum gains traction? Is that it?

  25. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    I repeat if Arthur had not squandered the resources and worked towards diversifying the economy we would have been in a better shape today.FACTS.

    If you don’t examine your past and see where you went wrong then you are doomed to repeat it.

  26. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    The BLP chose to contest the last election and they won.

    The BLP had 10 years to prepare to ” hit the ground running “.

    The BLP has no realistic opposition to blame so they now have sole responsibility to keep their promises to the electorate.

    Mia Amor Mottley said to the electorate : “ Give me the vote and watch muh! ”

    You gave her the vote 30-0. Now ST(France)U and watch she!

    Ok ignore that last comment.Mek nuff noise but watch she.

  27. David Avatar
    David

    Are you saying the DLP did not learn from what Arthur did?

    What can we do to move forward?

    Clearly the DLP was committed to a strategy that didn’t work and was rejected. We are staring at more austerity. We need to move the discussion forward.

  28. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @Mr. Anonymous

    Be happy that you are still employed. One day historians will call the OSA reign the golden age and the Frundel reign the silver age.

  29. Ping Pong Avatar
    Ping Pong

    I share the sentiment expressed by A Dullard at 8:52 am. The Government led by PM Mottley has some unpleasant tasks to perform. She can “kick the can down the road” and surely condemn thousands of Barbadians to literal death a la Venezuela or she can maturely put her hand to the unpleasant tasks and hopefully lead us to safety. Nothing is certain in this life but continuing with the DLP and in the fashion of the DLP seems to me to be a death wish.

    As a civil servant, I would appreciate a 15% – 20% increase but given that the Gov’t is broke I will settle for 5% and thank the private sector workers who are getting 0% for their generosity.

  30. Ping Pong Avatar
    Ping Pong

    @Tron
    The Freundel age will be known as the age of faeces.

  31. sirfuzzy Avatar
    sirfuzzy

    David August 15, 2018 9:00 AM

    @A. Dullard

    If it were so simple. The duopoly is an institution in Barbados with a political class that has a gripe on our way of life. The challenge is for the sober among us is to peck away at the fringe until a forward momentum gains traction? Is that it?

    This duopoly is a conscious reality that we want or choose to persist. The BLP like the DLP came into formal existence at a moment in time. Our current leader became leader at a moment in time. Their time as leader will also expire at a moment in time.

    I repeat if you are born into a duopoly like I was then you may think that it was and will always be a duopoly.

    I will add there was a song i first heard when i was a much younger the song says “I was a sheep some years ago; I am not a sheep any more”. I am sure some of the blogger here may know the song.

    We didn’t get here overnight it took much scheming & deceit etc to achieve this state; ;likewise a journey to a better place will take a long time. However, “a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step”. But first you must free your mind stop drinking the kool-aid and see our modern leaders for what they usually are. Self centred persons with a plan for them selves first; others afterwards.

    History has shown us that strong leaders like A Hilter; dont always have good intentions for all the citizens, but certainly for themselves if allowed to achieve their desires.

  32. David Avatar
    David

    @sirFuzzy

    Preach it!

  33. sirfuzzy Avatar
    sirfuzzy

    I will add this though.

    David has wrote on a few occassions that political party will say whatewver it must to to the unconvinced potential electorrarte that they can and will. They usually only worry about reall governing after elected.

    If we are honest this is what we accepts as par for the course.

    a) Political parties or politicians will lie or promise the unachievable to get your vote
    b) if elected they will continue to promise the unachievable or more lies to remains in office
    c) the electorate usually want unachievable stuff so only usually entertain such promises for politicians
    d) to maintain this environment we need to have underhand deals etc to satisfy all the players on the team

    All the above occur in varying combination as the selected/elected govern the nation. We may or may not accept that the apple doesn’t fall to farl away from the tree. In this orchard, its a self fulfilling loop that maybe be interrupted by natural disaster and wars etc. other wise it becomes a more closed system that ends in total destruction for some or the many(innocent by standers).

    If we think it gets better by politicians tells us we need to make tough decisions “you need another lover like you need a hole in your head”( as Prince penned and sang)

  34. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ T.Inniss August 15, 2018 9:08 AM
    “I repeat if Arthur had not squandered the resources and worked towards diversifying the economy we would have been in a better shape today.FACTS.
    If you don’t examine your past and see where you went wrong then you are doomed to repeat it.”

    So who “squandered the resources” from 2008 to 2018 resulting in the assessment and collection of the highest tax impositions in Bajan fiscal history?

    Who move the national debt from around $7 billion to be in excess of $13 billion to date?
    Was it the same Arthur or was it Ms Mottley trying to outscore the same Arthur?

  35. Bernard Codrington Avatar
    Bernard Codrington

    T Inniss at 9:08 AM

    What resources did OSA squander?

    The Economy of Barbados was diversified under Mr Arthur.
    The International Business sector grew.
    The tourism product was more diversified.
    Barbados enjoyed the highest level in history of Foreign Exchange reserves.
    Unemployment was very low.
    Is that squandering resources?

  36. sirfuzzy Avatar
    sirfuzzy

    T Inniss at 9:08 AM

    What resources did OSA squander?

    The Economy of Barbados was diversified under Mr Arthur.
    The International Business sector grew.
    The tourism product was more diversified.
    Barbados enjoyed the highest level in history of Foreign Exchange reserves.
    Unemployment was very low.
    Is that squandering resources?

    The number speaks for themselves. But everything is contextual. I believe that given the world and how it changed after 2008 and before that 2001 that the tactic that worked for Barbados under OSA would have been lest effective. To what degree less effective will be a guess.

    MAM and before her FJS are batters batting on the present wicket no the wicket that was prepared in the past. It is said that many centuries are made in the commentary booth.

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

    “Political parties or politicians will lie or promise the unachievable to get your vote.”

    That is why they should never be called honorable, there is nothing honorable about lying consustently to the people pre and post election, they should not be generating any respect that all of them are so consumed with, no one should respect liars.

    I believe that is where all the problems in the society begins, calling politicians, ministers and lawyers who are mere liars honorable and respecting them.

  38. sirfuzzy Avatar
    sirfuzzy

    @ Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service August 15, 2018 10:43 AM

    “Political parties or politicians will lie or promise the unachievable to get your vote.”

    That is why they should never be called honorable, there is nothing honorable about lying consustently to the people pre and post election, they should not be generating any respect that all of them are so consumed with, no one should respect liars.

    I believe that is where all the problems in the society begins, calling politicians, ministers and lawyers who are mere liars honorable and respecting them.

    Very interesting . so we delude ourselves? and i may add’ “when you fool yourself your are well fooled”.

  39. Bernard Codrington Avatar
    Bernard Codrington

    And good cricketers bat on whatever wicket is prepared. When one is a good cricketer,the wicket is irrelevant. One just bats.

  40. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    All this long talk is regurgitated warmed up soup
    Meanwhile i will sit in the gallery awaiting the new management of the Barbados economy namely the IMF who are A political and have only one interest in mind to collect
    Never mind the present govt PR stunts which are supposed to make the bitter taste sweet

  41. Bernard Codrington Avatar
    Bernard Codrington

    Let us get on with the tasks at hand , shall we?

  42. sirfuzzy Avatar
    sirfuzzy

    Bernard Codrington August 15, 2018 10:54 AM

    And good cricketers bat on whatever wicket is prepared. When one is a good cricketer,the wicket is irrelevant. One just bats.

    Maybe i have not palyed as much cricket as you but i have hear many of the recent greats say that the conditions favoured ….. and it was tough with the bal darting about etc.

  43. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Bernard
    What resources did OSA squander?
    The Economy of Barbados was diversified under Mr Arthur.
    The International Business sector grew.
    The tourism product was more diversified.
    Barbados enjoyed the highest level in history of Foreign Exchange reserves.
    Unemployment was very low.
    Is that squandering resources?
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Ha ha ha
    Whaloss!!!
    Murda
    Bushie belly!!!
    Shirt!!!

    Bernard..
    Lend Bushie $1B nuh…?
    The bushman will deposit $500M in FOREX…
    Spend $900M in Public Sector Reform, Productivity Councils, GEMS, sundry Statutory Boards, and Cricket World Cup…
    …and spend the rest on preparing Barbados for CSME (while owing UWI $200M for ‘eddykating’ clerks for Massa and shiite lawyers..)

    Steupsss…sometimes you seek to “go off your rocker…”

  44. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    I really can’t believe Bernard Codrington post @ 10:34

    There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

    A cursory glance from the Auditor General report in the late 1990s and especially in the last term of the BLP clearly outlines the wastage –

    ALL of the projects – mainly the construction ones that were done under Owen – never came in on budget.

    We had ministers telling us that the expansion of the ABC Highway was going to cost $180. million and each time the figure kept changing until it reached hundreds of millions;

    We had over 10 million spent on a hole dug in St Andrew called Greenland – that went against advice by those knowledgeable of the area – yet not one bag of garbage went in there;

    We had a building at Newton – a contract given to a Trinidadian muslim man – who was paid all the money (liz Thompson was the minister resp) – and he left the project with not even 40 % of the work completed;

    We had a similar thing with the crab hill police station – a contract given to a man who has a business partnership with Mia mottley – and whose expertise was in removing jobby. Again millions lost and the last govt had to find money to finish it – even though JOSE Y JOSE GOT A SUBSTANTIAL SUM.
    .
    We had the fiasco of the construction of the Kensington oval – again Cost over runs
    .
    We had the leasing of a large cruise ship for World Cup cricket and it remained empty
    .

    We had the Golden Showers – NCC showers built by Lix Thompson Husband for the NCC – that end costing a mind blowing sum;

    I mean to say you for real.
    .

  45. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    Lord Bush tea

    Man I could clap for that !
    .

    I just finished my post to Codrington and I am now seeing yours.I ain’t even touch on Gems,Hardwood Housing and the rest.

    Steupes indeed !

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

    Sirfuzzy…it can never make sense to call those whom you know are lying to you honorable or hold any respect for them…it is just completely illogical…that makes you not only a victim of your own delusions but you are identifying with your abusers…the liars… just as Stockholm Syndrome victims are known to do..

    Why would you believe anything a known liar says, so why would you believe anything the liars who rotate in and out of parliament say…and to add insult to your injury…you call them honorable..AND respect them…are yall freaking mad…steupps

  47. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    It is estimated that it was close to 1 billion dollars lost in the above wastage on these projects.

  48. David Avatar
    David

    @Bernard

    This comment is bound to be controversial. As a good economist you must know the economic model even in the boom years of Arthur had structural fault lines. Those fault lines were severely exposed in the recession period.

  49. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    DAVID/BU

    Well said Sir !Factually correct.

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    @ Ping Pong August 15, 2018 9:38 AM

    How true! I heart than some high bureaucrats with DLP-membership are going to plaster their walls at home with sh.. to hold Big Sinck, Inniss and Eastwitch in grateful memory.

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