The government has announced its decision to lead the country into an IMF program. Soon the citizenry will brace for the roll out of phase two, three and the several others that will be required – given the stasis state of recent – to kick start the economy and the social benefits that must be be sustained and improved.
The blogmaster shares the following video to support the job of continuing to create awareness about our current state, the plan and …
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David September 1, 2018 9:05 PM
Dem is what they are. political poultry. B & D living in the same coop, after all they may be blood relatives etc lol.
They serve a purpose like anyone who post to this blog. I read what they contribute but i also filter out the dropping and manure from the goodies.
@ A. Dullard September 1, 2018 4:19 PM
“From Persauds speech
“We share the burden almost 50/50 between creditors and borrowers; we share the burden almost 50/50 between taxpayers and workers; we share the burden almost 50/50 between overseas taxpayers and domestic taxpayers. That is a unique formulation. ”
What does this nonsense mean?”
Pure unadulterated BS!
Diddly squat!
Just a “unique formulation” concocted in a brass-bowl of pure Bajan jobby.
The only effective tool to bring about any ‘sharing’ of the burden is the one of Devaluation to make the Bajan Mickey mouse dollar float to its true level of value based on the country’s productivity and forex earning capacity.
By throwing the Devaluation cat among the Bajan dollar pigeons the forex earning wheat would be separated from the importing and conspicuous consumption chaff.
If Bajans want to import luxury vehicles like Mercedes and high-end SUVs then let them directly earn and save the forex needed to pay for such luxuries.
Let them have their own foreign currency accounts from which the Central bank can charge a fee to maintain and operate.
@david
Feedback? Has there been any constructive critical or analytical feedback from anywhere since elections????
If Bajans want to import luxury vehicles like Mercedes and high-end SUVs then let them directly earn and save the forex needed to pay for such luxuries.
o u seem to got a plan to put many of the car dealership outta business?. bajans by and large dont come into contact with forex .
Even the hotels are keeping the forex overseas. Credit card payments don’t really allow the average bajan access to paper forex either.
maybe we should abandon the bajan dollar and use the US dollar as the de facto trading currency?
Just thinking
The good thing about the foreign exchange fee is that it helps the ordinary Bajan that is clueless about forex creation to pay in someway. @Observing this is where the PR and communications should be useful.
@Wily Coyote September 1, 2018 2:59 PM “Those who have guns, stock up on your ammunition.”
Why are you encouraging people to comitt murder.
Dear David the blogmaster: I don’t think that you should permit your blog to be used by idiotic people to incite murder.
@ David re ” Have we heard feedback ”
Most Bajans may be impressed with the “presentation” but they probably can’t figure out how the BERT plans will work.
I certainly can’t but I am not as intelligent as I used to be. lol
@sirfuzzy (i was a sheep some years ago; not a sheep anymore) September 1, 2018 4:49 PM “But mankind for the majority of our existence always contrived of a way to destroy what he has built and to take along a huge piece of the human population in the process.”
You mean MEN right?
Not humankind.
I am not sure that MEN are fully human.
Wunna MEN can sit down and shut up. Leave it to the women, Mia, and Christine.
@sirfuzzy (i was a sheep some years ago; not a sheep anymore) September 1, 2018 4:35 PM “I think you also missed out on herBERT?”
Yes. HE too.
You just KNOW that your ass is grass…
when Carrington and Persaud, the architects of the NIS mess and of the Four Seasons debacle….
are leading the charge of the shiite brigade.
In Bushie’s scheme of things, far from being on TV talking shiite, these two should be facing charges for past brass bowlery bout here…
What a hopeless set of people we are ….that this is the best that we can do…
@Hants September 1, 2018 4:50 PM ” Barbados needs more people in the Diaspora to ” send back money and barrels “.
What money?
What barrels?
@SS
You mean MEN right?
Not humankind.
I am not sure that MEN are fully human.
They often say that behind any successful man must be a WOMAN?
do go figure ? lol
@ Simple Simon
Bushie has explained this to you many times before… but it is clear that you will NEVER get it…so here goes again.
Men ARE a bunch of brass bowl idiots – almost by definition.
They are shiite hounds, yardfowls, mendicant, albino-centric lackies ,…and just plain jack asses…
(of course there are also the REALLY horrid extremes such as Stinkliar, Froon and GP…)
However, on very rare occasions, …jackpot…. a legend.
BUT WOMEN ARE WORSE….
For example…
If you were to conduct a survey you will find that approximately ONE man in every thousand can be said to be wise….
On the other hand….
If you can find a wise woman anywhere – PLEASE…let Bushie know. (and don’t waste time getting a mirror…. you are hopeless…)
What wrong with just printing so high quality forex notes? Our Central bank knows about printing money etc
@Wily Coyote September 1, 2018 5:29 PM “You’ve got to stop wineing about society, the Barbadian Society has encouraged these dysfunctional leaders, now they will get to know what the consequence are, Lean bellies, donkey carts, uneducated, poor, walking, real begging etc.”
Do you see walking as some sort of punishment? Something only fit for poor people?
Take note that none of those happy healthy people who are 100+ have EVER driven a car.
I myself have not had a car in nearly 20 years. It is NOT A PROBLEM. I am healthy and happy. BP 99/66 in my 7th decade.
Why do some people want to make it seem as though walking is a wrasse whole problem?
Many more people could do with vigorous daily walking.
@Wily Coyote September 1, 2018 5:29 PM “the Barbadian Society has encouraged these dysfunctional leaders.”
The Barbadian society has NOT, repeat NOT encouraged these dysfunctional leaders. If the leaders are BAD it is because they CHOSE to be bad.
Stop blaming the ordinary Bajans like me. I got up at 4:38 this morning, and WORKED all day, and I’ve been doing so since I was 4 years old.
I CHOSE to do the right things. I don’t blame anybody for my good deeds, and I won’t take responsibility for anybody else’s bad deeds.
WE ARE ALL ADULTS.
WE ALL HAVE CHOICES.
Thought the selling of BNTCL, Hilton and the other government assets was meeting that objective.
@ Bush Tea September 1, 2018 10:02 PM
i dont know where to start’; so i just wont. lol
What comes after Bert?
The Cookie Monster!!!
We all know the typical Bert and Ernie skit. Who is who?
Bert = Barbados Underground
Ernie = multiple Barbadian govs
@ Tron September 1, 2018 10:13 PM
I can see u missed many episodes. I cannot be “cookie Monster” he eats to much.
its “Super Groover” followed by “Mr Snuffleloupgus” and “Oscar Te Grouch” & “Big Bird”
Pick any one but smoke and mirrors is “Mr Snuffleupagus”
Pain and misery is “Oscar the grouchj”
@millertheanunnaki September 1, 2018 9:21 PM “If Bajans want to import luxury vehicles like Mercedes and high-end SUVs.”
But we don’t want Mercedes’ and high-end SUV’s.
We don’t want, nor need a ton of metal, plastic and carbon is order to move a mile or two.
What we do NEED is a decent public transportation system. Something which gets the majority of people to and from work on time and safely.
But as long as people think “that a car at every door” is the key to the kingdom of heaven, we will give ourselves strokes and heart attacks worrying about nonsense.
@david
We sell them and then what? The systemicfundamental problem remains the same.
@hants
bERT is indeed difficult to understand properly. The PR and optics are nice, the targets may get us in the IMF door but, its left to be seen if/how it will work. Time is the only indicator.
On a side note i’m glad that BWU thinks 1000 job losses are reasonable and that they disagreed with people getting work. I tell ya. Worrell musse starting a slow roll in that grave.
Just observing
When BERT is officially introduced will the Police Band substitute playing the national anthem with playing the “sesame Street theme music ? now that BERT is the de-facto leader? lol
@Observing
How many public servants did Worrell say should go home? Curious, they call the blogmaster the Count because he loves to count!
#hahahahaha
We need to do what we know how to do, work hard, work well, work smart.’
And the vultures on this blag need to head in the direction of mangrove Landfill.
@Bush Tea September 1, 2018 10:02 PM “If you can find a wise woman anywhere – PLEASE…let Bushie know.”
Mrs. Bush Tea maybe?
Nah!!! Look who she married.
Lolll!!!
Touché Simple…..
But Bushie is just a lucky BB who got adopted….
and you know how BB’s fall for the agony….
I am in agreement with Bushie
I do not have any confidence in Pro Persaud to lead us out of anything given his track record with the four seasons fiasco
There must be some truth in the saying that the more things change
The more they remain the same
We ole mn wa away from things for a few days.
But I come back 2nd see that the oil slick salesman has been selling bajans 2 door refrigerators when wunna house door can only let through one
Let de ole mn give wunna de solution
With immediate effect the Government of Barbados must make statement as it relates to intellectual property
And the same way dem change de Cunstitution for Rawdone and the other two bajans from overseas dey hzve to enact it into law.
Ideas 4 Barbados has to be formulated under that law to permit the deployment of a portal to collect ideas from John and Jane doe
The cuntry needs the best minds to galvanize and DIVERSIFY OUR economy in a rapid and meaningful way.
Then rapidly assess the ideas and prioritize the initiatives.
We don’t need shyte ideas like reclaiming fridge bodies for aquariums but what we need is someone who understands how to create a seed bank using back yards off community denizens to replace all of our seed imports without Mansano side effects.
We want the best import substitutions initiatives that are viable and sustainable and which permanently replace commodities that consume forex
We want food banks that occupy large as well as small footprints so that COW Williams as well as a Pinelands Creative Workshop attendee with a 10× 10 yard can participate too
We want to jumpstart the knowledge economy but simultaneous to all the future living with the coding shit I want to harvest some clear and present crops that can generate money in the Apple and Google store in 3 months
And feed a few developers but here is the variant that I will suggest with this Public Private Sector Partnership
Since government is funding it 60 % of the profit is the developers 30 % goes to the Government and 10% goes back into the Knowledge Economy Fund
Hire Knowledge Economy experts who work on performance contracts.
If the specific initiative they manage makes money they get paid 10% FROM THE PROFITS ONLY.
THEY have to generate their upkeep from the KE construct.
So if the KE construct asset needs $20,000 To be designed and implemented and they consider the efforts to be worth $5,000 then the proposal which is developed and which they are engaged to create must be for $25,000 or some sort of partisan payment and deferred compensation in the 60% of the owner
A performance record is to be kept of these KE consultants so you get a rating
And that rating is what is used to evaluate you for further engagements
So a fellow like Avinash Persaud would be rated as an F because of his Paradise Hotel fiasco.
A guy like Kirk Brown at the Commonwealth Secretariat would be rated an A
WUNNA got to stop all this talking though and start doing the shit though.
It should be obvious that Ian Carrington and Persaud are not implementers nor Thought Leaders.
The are functionaries with a specific purpose and are out of their depth when it comes to operationalizing this plan
Mia Mao ZeJong has 150 days to make an impression on her creditors whom she defaulted on.
She also has to show the IMF what the country is capable of.
So her Thought Leaders HAVE TO BE THE BEST.
Mia.
You have to stop this shyte about spying pun people and building KGB style intelligence gathering mechanism.
You have to focus on FOREX generation and attracting the right people around you who can make your Legacy Mottley’s Golden Reign as opposed to Chairman Mia Mao ZeJong’s Regime of Terror
Donald T Trump is going to be impeached.
The evidence that they have is incredible and they are releasing it on a timed delay.
Impeached….. (dots of continuity only)
Watch the ole man’s words. There is no word that My God speaks that falls on barren earth.
@the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please
Thank you
Face reality. The island is lost. There is no oil and the tourist industry reached its peak.
The elite is too arrogant and too blind for a change.
Everything failed. The church. The education. The work ethic.
There are no traditional values anymore but greed and the desire for more consumption like the white North. This desire corrupted the local minds. Look at the rate of obesity. When you crash a crowd you think you are surrounded by hippos. All they have in mind is fast food, coke, buying trash from China and shopping in Miami. You do not know anymore whether this is Barbados or some Southern state of the USA.
The days of Barbados as a role model for developing countries are gone. Today the island is a pathological test case what happens when once ambitious people give up their own values and try to become the 51th state of the US without US-Dollars.
p.s. Did I mention that I hate coke and fast food?
” Prophet Dr. Akwasi Agyemang Prempeh: Major Oil Discovery In Barbados
Prophet Agyemang (Agyeman) Prempeh is yet another prophet to Barbados who has predicted a major oil find which will enrich the people of the Caribbean territory.”
http://www.trivester.com/news/barbados-oil-discovery/prophet-prempeh/
This programme was highlighted last year. It makes for compulsory viewing. In essence, it provides a template into how the government of Maldives set up a scheme which allowed it to systematically defraud her population. A similar model is been practised in Barbados today.
very interesting what happened in that Maldives, small society, deep corruption. Apparently none of the major institutions was spared the corruption. So maybe sometines the chant/drive to “lock em up” is not about exacting justice it is more about “self preservation”?
@sirFuzzy
Now you should understand what searching for the diagnosis to our problem means. We have no idea. We are searching for a black cat in a dark room to borrow the phrase from our own Freundel. We are perpetually in blame mode. We have the partisans, we have the cynics and the few who have long known we are living above our means and morally bankrupt. In which bucket can we find sirFuzzy?
@tron
The days of Barbados as a role model for developing countries are gone. Today the island is a pathological test case what happens when once ambitious people give up their own values and try to become the 51th state of the US without US-Dollars.
It the continuation of the enslavement. We fought so hard to remove the shackles from our hands and feet; but appears to have enlarged and strengthened the shackles around our mind. I guess once a slave always a slave?
I cannot understand why barbados is under performing your hatred of whites is well above average.
There is nothing in that BERT program that can rescue barbados from its further economic downslide.
A program built on stealth taxation formulated on a priority of firstly repaying finiancial institutions
A program having no formula for creating growth with a deliberate focus on productivity all which is important to creating a staple for economic stabilty for a country
This Bert program will keep barbados in the clutches of the IMF program till kingdom come as shortfalls in revenue will continue and barbados continues its economic stumble will clinging to a tireless and overburden tax citizenry as a pillar of last resort
Barbados is failing because its educational system has failed
The idea of having an age old educational system that has not kept up with an everchanging global world will keep barbados shut out and unable to create an econmic program that can meet and match the economic standards of a global world in the arts ! science!and technology
Firstly barbados has to revamped with crtical thinking what economic model barbados wants to present to the world
One of being self sufficient or the old model steeped in borrowing as a facade of punching above its weight
Getting back to the drawing board starting with our educational system is a must.
Mariposa you do talk poop. Barbados had a great education system, and you talk about keeping up? If you had half a brain you would know that the modernisation of education in the US and UK has been an unmitigated disaster, so much so that Barbadian parents have chosen to send their children back to Bim to escape the catastrophe.
Ok . now tell me where in barbados educational system has the system produce educators that can build an economy sufficiently on the arts science and technolgy equipped and competitive enough to compete in the global market
Also named a trademarked product since Rum that barbados has been able to put forward that have created a bevy of international attention that is viable to bringing financial rewards to barbados economy
@pieceuhderockyeahright September 2, 2018 1:44 AM “We want food banks that occupy large as well as small footprints so that COW Williams as well as a Pinelands Creative Workshop attendee with a 10× 10 yard can participate too.”
Not ashamed to admit that I am a 10×10 person.
Alright, alright, in reality 100 feet x 100 feet, and this week I have so much good fresh, pesticide free produce that I am obliged to give some away. Okras, spinach, cabbage, kale, sweet peppers, cucumbers, green and yellow bananas (just had one of my own cucumbers and one of my banana with my breakfast) chives, marjoram, peppermint, garlic. I had enough to sell some, ok, ok, only $50 worth, but $50 is $50 more than ZERO dollars. And I only work at this 6 to 8 hours a week. If every family could be encouraged to use the space which they have, and to immediately eat what they harvest we would be getting somewhere. But people have come to believe that getting their hands dirty will their soil them somehow. A cheap $5 pair of gloves solves that “problem” In addition 6 hours of vigorous exercise does wonders to avoid or ease CNCD’s
Putting on my nail polish now so that I will look sweet for church.
Will do some more gardening betwen 4 and 6 p.m.
I anticipate a very, very good day.
Mariposa,
Spot on. Our educational system is worse than it was in the 1950s and 60s.
Am I right in thinking a trade unionist is saying the sacking of 1000 workers is reasonable? Is this real? I though trade unionists fought for more jobs, not fewer.
What is wrong with the sacking of 1000 jobs?
This should be HIGH on the priority of URGENT matters to be addressed…. and should be an ONGOING process.
HOWEVER there are a few provisos…..
1 – The PRIMARY ‘jobs’ responsible for our current state of un-productivity are MANAGEMENT level jobs. This is where we are failing.
As a start, 1000 such positions should be TARGETED for dismissal by month-end. Those who are able to DEMONSTRATE that they have achieved targets set, to complete financial reports, and to generate profits will be retained….. ALL OTHERS FIRED.
2 – This shiite of firing large numbers of maids, workers and watchmen needs to stop….
The NCC is a textbook case in point. We fired thousands of workers and kept management. Those SAME workers now work for baloney- and 5 of them do all the work on the damn highway…. while the management continues to waste everyone’s time and money….even with a NEW set of politicians.
Bushie would have fired the managers and kept the damn workers – but appoint a new management with the understanding that unless productivity exceeded international benchmarks – they would be joining the list of EX-managers at the next review in three months time.
Wunna just making mock sport….
The statement from the union about the retrenchment of 1000 jobs would have been decided in the social partnership collaborations. Agree with you Bushie that the jobs to go must be based on performance and restructure. For example, all those PSs who have not completed audited financial statements!
that 1000 number is a cooked up lie to fool the uninformed ,For those who have been reading the IMF articles which gave advise for barbados economy …most noteworthy is the emphasis on the wage bill and its affordability to be sustainable with sufficient generated revenue from a source derived from home grown initiatives rather than govt dependency on borrowing
in lieu of such a fact how can a meager 1000 workers given a pink slip be enough to close the fiscal gap of a over sized burdensome wage bill
@Mariposa
“Barbados is failing because its educational system has failed”
It hasn’t failed. it is suceeding based on its 1950-1960’s objective!!!
@Tron
pretty much sums it up
@Bushie
“As a start, 1000 such positions should be TARGETED for dismissal by month-end. Those who are able to DEMONSTRATE that they have achieved targets set”
targets? Do current middle management personnel even know what targets are??? is there anything called accountability in the public service???
As long as a man or woman can go to work when they feel like, work for how long they feel like, take vacation when they feel like and meet work requirements if they feel like…we will ALWAYS be in this position.
Don’t just sack 1000 (last in first out). Sack ALL with problematic records, poor performance, poor evaluations and a track record of playing the arse.
Only then will I believe we are beginning to get serious.
@Hal
These are new wine trade unionists in old wine skins!
just observing
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