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.
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Note that is a generalization. Many do not like it so. What we are now engaged is a process of escaping from the maze by dialoguing. In some countries we would have witnessed riots. This is the Bajan way. Do not be discouraged.
But if we talk the subject to death then i would have come to nought. But maybe death is a better place; in the after life i hope they are no bajan politicians? lol
Time will tell sirFuzzy. Keep doing the right thing as your training and values bid you to.
on a different note. Is the Petrotrin refinery the only refinery in CARICOM or the regional where BNOC can get its crude refined?
WiLl this PetroTrin refinery closure result in high fuel oil prices for BL&P dues to longer shipping distances etc?
Will BNOC be stuck with crude oil with no where to sell the crude to be refined?
There are our friends in Venezuela. Ambassador Comissiong should be of support in this matter we anticipate.
I am told there is a refinery in Suriname. Does anyone else think that the closure of Petrotrin may have implications for the economic recovery of Barbados? Do we really want to get involved with Venezuela?
PLT,
I am not sure if this is a serious question. But as I said, I do not want to give the impression David Thompson and I were buddies who discussed public policy. He on that one occasion mentioned a project. How would I know why it has not worked. What I can say is that the DLP under Sturt messed up in a big way. They could not sell cashews on a Saturday morning.
There is an ‘angry’ debate going on in TT which goes something like those:
Has the government weight the opportunity cost re Petrotrin incurring marginal losses versus decommissioning costs and possibly bidding to refine Guyana’s oil when it begins to gush in the next two years.
Maybe Exxon in Guyana has no use for PetroTrin refinery in the big picture of things.
Much of Venezuela crude oil was refined n the Gulf refineries in the recent past. Guyana’s luck in discovering oil may be another nail in Venezuela economic coffin.
Maduro or Grainer? I think Exxon will pick Grainer
The Mega oil companies has a good idea where they want to refine Guyana'(their) crude we on the other hand do not know what they have planned for this crud oil.
Those in Tdad may be be blowing smoke; for i get the impression the issue lies with the falling domestic oil production.
The refinery is better suit and more profitable if it does not have to import crude to refine. But Tdad local production is less than 30% of daily capacity that forces the refinery to import crude if it is to run at optimum throughput.
Also the Tdad govt may be able to rid itself of a pesky fuel subsidy that was costing the Tdad treasury Billions annually. Tdad energy users(motorist) may be faced with world market liquid fuel prices for the first time in generations. Time will tell how they adjust to their new liquid fuel price reality.
I agree with GP’s irreverent remarks concerning our capacity to talk and talk. Let’s recognise that the country will never progress under the BLP or the DLP. I would like to see both parties dismantled and interned. Both parties bring so much toxicity to the political landscape that it would serve the country’s interest if they were sent into permanent exile.
The country should push for the immediate removal of MIa and her court. We cannot support another five years of mismanagement lined with utter corruption.
Talking Loud Saying Nothing September 3, 2018 5:52 PM
Is it the party or it is us the electorate that tolerate and condone the shyte they produce?
If we started giving them term limits via the ballot box, they will change or not be elected.
A child normally gets away with murder with an adults consent. Give she a break; cud dear etc
We need to grow up in our expectation so that the politicos can grow up as well other wise thy will have short elective careers.
Sir Fuzzy,
“We need to rethink the economic models we are pursuing; The IMF is firstly about Barbados repaying its debts to our international creditors. so we can go borrow again to supposedly get ourselves outta the now larger debt.”
THAT is the point, exactly. New loans to replace the old loans. All Barbados can hope is to get better conditions (interest, duration). There is no reason to believe that the international commercial creditors will give up something they had not already set the price for, eg through excessive interest rates in the past. Therefore, the new loans don´t bring in any money for investment or repair.
Barbados is a true receptive student of the American model that debt equals growth.
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT ALL AND SUNDRY
I THINK YOU MUST FIRST ASCERTAIN WHICH BERT IS EXPECTED TO COME TO THE RESCUE. IS IT
AL-BERT?
RO-BERT?
PHIL-BERT?
HU-BERT?
DIL-BERT?
FOOL-BERT?
MO-BERT?
DECIDE WHICH BERT IS EXPECTED TO COME TO THE RESCUE, AND THEN YOU WILL BE CLOSER TO THE ANSWER.
It is BERT von Selm, the leader of the IMF delegation.
If we had an American leader, it was GILBERT,
a German leader was NORBERT,
a Greek leader VAROUBERT,
a Japanese leader YAMABERT.
The highway to hell has many names.
There is no question that the closure of the oil refinery in Trinidad will have an effect on Barbados and the Barbados National Oil Company. Exactly what these effects will be are not clear at the moment.
Primary question is where Barbados will import its future FUEL requirements from, and
Where will Barbados be able to export its miniscule crude oil output to for refining, and
What will the impacts be to BL&P, largest import user of petroleum products, and
Fuel prices are likely to rise, and
BL&P energy costs to consumer will likely increase, and
The various scenarios are yet to be determined, however its added one more immediate CRITICAL item to the Barbados IMF recovery PLAN(BERT).
The various scenarios are yet to be determined, however its added one more immediate CRITICAL item to the Barbados IMF recovery PLAN(BERT).
Just when you thought could not get any worse?
i dont see how anyone can question the positive impact the selling of land (our oil) and stealing other countries tax revenues (offshore canadian companies) had on our economy and by extension our roads, buses, garbage trucks etc. if you sell something for fx that costs you very little you can buy all the social mobility that you want. so what costs us nothing or very little, or is internationally competitive? maybe brain power? why have we missed the largest economic growth engine in the world over the last 20 years? why are we playing the industrial worlds game that we cannot win? why arn’t we begging google, microsoft, facebook etc to setup here are hire some bajans? why are focused on “brand name hotels” that will bring people to shower with our scarce water, consumer imported food, electricity and hired cars and what is left send back to the mother ship as profits? why not go play in a game that we can win which is brain talent, where an internet connection is all we need to get on the world stage. we cannot compete against microsoft, but the tech capitals of the world have all spawned local IT startups out of the giants that went on to create whole new IT based industries. we are stuck in the past. and BTW the more a company pays in corporate taxes the less it has to reinvest in its growth, that why we have something called an offshore sector. the more we tax local firms the more the trinis win, and eventually buy the locals out of bankruptcy. if you arn’t winning change the game! Dublin has run out of office space and housing because of the growth of it tech sector. remember Ireland circa 2008? we deserve what we are getting because we are always looking back.
BA,
The clueless masses in Barbados and their politicians only believe in tourism, an industry only creating jobs like maids and chefs. There is no way that tourism can make a country rich. There is no need for any academics in the tourism sector.
The Barbadian business model, the social values and most other things on this island are outdated. However, it is still business as usual. We are told to borrow more money from international institutions, to drive more big SUVs and to drink more sugar drinks.
Dinosaurs are doomed to die.
@ BA
@ TRON
@ PLT
I was wondering when you gentlemen would have gotten away from spinning tot in mud and talking bout problems and move to solutions.
So for example.
If video evidence is now allowed in courts then there is no need to deploy any of our taxed 1100 policemen in the van stands as a first resort.
Put 4 ip cameras in the stands and have them monitored by a few retired bajans who home doing nothing and can be trained to pan a camera and zoom to a fellow face pun a day.
And press a button to summon the police automatically when required.
The problem with this and previous administrations (of which Wily Coyote is a well established product of) is that they know exactly what the problem is BUT ENT GOT A BADWORD CLUE ABOUT THE SOLUTION.
CASE IN POINT.
You PLT said and I quote “…We cannot produce consumer goods for Barbadians that can compete with the ones imported from China and we cannot keep the ones from China out without breaking the WTO rules that we have signed on to.
We need to produce intangible goods and services that can get to a world market with the click of a button.
We cannot compete in producing material goods so it is a complete waste of public money to try policies based on that illusion…”
Now let de ole man see if I can talk through this without cursing the waste foop SOE heads that are tasked to determine the efficacy of a world changing UP protected solution.
DO NOT let de ole man call the name of the waste foops at the sludge funds of EGFL and Fund Access that after several millions of dollars HAVE YET TO BREAK EVEN IN ANYTHING.
Nor will de ole man speak of the rampant anti Knowledge Economy that exists where the very civil servants AND STATE APPOINTED MENTORS teif de very ideas of the applicants that they are entrusted to assist and nurture and Fund.
Nor would de ole man speak of the fact that the very ministers, nary one would never mention Heads of Government, nor substantive MPs, who under cover of IMMUNITY and waste foop court systems, do EVEN IN THE PRESENCE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, persist in stealing the property of the very same economy that the three of you men allude to.
I started this submission by giving you three Knowledge Economy champions a solution to the Van Stand problem.
But I will bet one million dollars not one of you can give me a clear and present solution to mine. Heheheheh.
We are but ineffectual armchair warriors with time on our hands to talk jobby cause we have a mouth.
BERT better ask Ernie fuh help.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/192250/garbage-piling
There is also “PSV pessimism” re “Stagnant rainwater remains a major problem in the van stand, and some operators say the new terminal will also suffer when it rains.”
@ pieceuhderockyeahright September 4, 2018 7:35 AM
Of course there is plenty of expertise for an economic revolution. Turning the tide in such a small economy like Barbados can work with a finger snap.
However, the Barbadian population is not ready for change. They have a certain reputation. The saying is that they are the most conservative people in the Caribbean when it come to the adoption of new ideas. Some say they are more conservative than the Saudi-Arabians or the Taliban in economic context.
We still live in an era where sclerotic, old-school economists are at work in Bim on the basis of some textbooks from the 1980s made for big industrial countries with a different mentality and not for tiny tropical islands and microstates in the 21st century.
We all know that won´t work. How long does it take the average Barbadian to wake up and to realize that Barbados is not one, two projects away from a second golden OSA-age with weekly shopping in Miami but just a year from a failed 3rd IMF programme with riding donkeys and oil lamps?
The government made the decision to SD on loan repayment in June. A balsy decision that should set the tone?
That was a national necessity and an act of professionalism, indeed. These are private obligations and you don´t play with powerful foreign entities. The old gov should have declared default years ago in 2013, but some old MoF (I forgot his name) said even in April 2018 everything was OK when it was not. Five years are lost. Clearly, the old MoF did everything do delay bankruptcy. This is a criminal offence in some jurisdictions.
However and as said before and from what I know from interviews with citizens up and down the island, the old attitude called business as usual is still the dominant mood. Surely the present gov had their survey how far they can go and it was negative.
PMMAM, have you considered any action to generate income from unauthorised foreign bank accounts held by Barbadians?
@Guest
How?
It is a national disgrace aldo an insult to the people that after 10 years of telling barbadians that on day one after the blp beomes govt they would hit the ground running and fix all that is broken in the country
Now over 100 days nothing is fix the sewage runs in the ocean the garbage piles up and water bills are excruciating high
But what de helll Mia got this …heee heee heee
George Connolly, so-called CEO of Business Technology Solutions Firm and a former candidate of DLP, spills many articles on BB Today about the new gov´s economic policy. He issues political noise, nothing else.
Where has George been between 2008 and 2018? Surely not in BB or just hiding in a villa in Apes Hill Plantation? Otherwise he would have named and shamed Big Sinck for his insane voodoo-policies.
Tron,
The text books are from the 1960s. In the 1980s monetarism was the rage and neo-Keynesianism. Barbadians see new ideas as an insult. They thin you are being rude.
In 1961, the new DLP government carried out a radical programme, Keynesian, but still radical. I can still remember the opening of the Deep Water Harbour (a BLP creation, but Barrow got the kudos), the filling in of the Careenage (considered good at the time, but looking back very bad), filling in the Constitution River, inviting in such companies as Texas Instruments, at the very beginning of the technological revolution, the Harp Project, what later became thee Iraqi Super Gun, expansion to tourism with French Canadians flooding in, transformation in secondary education (St Joseph, Springer, Parkinson, Princess Margaret), etc. Barbados felt like a different place.
As we have discussed before, the Central and Barbados Foundries were doing amazing things, Acme had embarked on making buses, it is difficult to describe how exciting things were for young people.
I am told the same with the 1945 Clement Attlee government, the election of J.F. Kennedy and I witnessed with the 1979 Margaret Thatcher government.
All these were defining moments in the histories of Barbados, the UK and US. The general election of May 24, 2018, should be such a defining moment, a time for renewal, when the nation looked at itself and did radical things to catapult us in to the 21st century. Instead, we are left like a damaged horse, waiting for the knacker’s yard.
After 100 days, there is nothing about this BLP government that tells us it understands the crisis hitting Barbados. In 1963, the age of majority was reduced to 18, ahead of the UK and many leading developed nations, since then nothing. Ironically, the founding of the Transport Board created an incredible public transport system, now look at the mess.
I can go on about the quality of our educational system, of the decay of the public sector, of the mess that is our public services (just look at the court and wider criminal justice systems). I can go on.
We can only change our thinking if wee want to change and if we allow in new ideas. Barbadians are terrified of new ideas. Just look at the nonsense in this blog about foreign reserves, something that was discussed and relegated in the 1960s.
Dear Hal,
It is good to have you on BU! Thank you very much for your comment.
Another topic to discuss is the relationship between taxes and work ethic. We cannot expect Barbadians to show highest motivation at work when they are overtaxed.
Tron,
Thank you. The problem is not being over-taxed, but the waste of that taxation by various governments. Scandinavia is heavily taxed, yet studies show they are the happiest people in the world. Barbadians go to Europe and north America and feel happy paying three forms of public taxation: local, regional and national (City, state and Federal; or council ta, Greater London and national). Yet in Barbados they hesitate to pay a single penny. It is more than taxation.
I was one of those invited to a meeting at the London School of Economic when Prof Layard was about to launch his Happiness Index and was sceptical. I am now convinced.
Hal,
OK, overtaxed in relation to the delivered services.
I would also like to point out that Sweden had to shrink the monster called social welfare in the 1990s. Norway has lots of oil and is no comparative yardstick. Besides, all Scandinavian countries share a protestant work ethic.
In comparison, Barbados has no oil, nobody is willing to cut down social welfare and only a few want to work.
Tron,
The Swedish welfare problem is caused by New Swedes, not the natives. The Norwegians discovered their North Sea oil at the same time as the British. They invested their money for future generations, the Brits spent theirs. For a small island to develop you do not need natural resources. Guyana is bigger than England and has more natural resources, from gold to diamonds and bauxite, look at the state of the nation.
Barbados became independent a year after Singapore, which has no natural resources and the same size population, look at how they have developed. In 1965 Singapore was a swamp; in 1966 Barbados had on of the best educated populations in the world.
Until 2007/8, Iceland had on of the best economies in the world. The same size population as Barbados and its economic growth was not based on natural resources. It was based on financial wizardry (they over shot, but mistakes happen).
Bajans find all kinds of excuses for their collective failure.
@ Tron & Hal Austin,
Interesting debate but let me make it real simple for the two of you; and I have said it before.
History has shown that Barbados was at its wealthiest and most productive when the white man had dominion over her Negro slaves with the whip in his left hand and the bible in his right hand. There was a short period post-independence where a number of blacks excelled, where the economy was decent for a small developing country and where the infrastructure built on slave labour remained in a healthy state. However that euphoria did not last very long.
Do we require the return of the overseer to whip the country into shape? If so what does it say about our leaders and those blacks who reside on the rock?
@ Talking Loud Saying Nothing September 5, 2018 3:24 PM
There is only ONE Barbadian culture. The white Barbadians are not different from the rest. When it comes to work ethic and productivity, they fit to the rest of the country due to the tropical conditions. And look at the so-called business magnates. The rest of the country consumes the fruits of the big welfare state and the magnates beg for gov contracts – both at the taxpayer´s expense. The same attitude.
Talking, I identify other problems.
Barbados has too many social welfare services, a bloated public sector, suffers high taxation, corruption, nepotism and relies too much on tourism. You find these problems in other parts of the world as well, for instance in Southern Europe, in countries like Spain and Italy.
The local work ethic and productivity are to some extent climatic issues. Barbados is simply too hot and too wet.
The problem with Barbadian independence is not some lost magical whip but wrong decisions made in the past, namely to run a microstate like a big state on a continent. Barbadians have to pay for an immense bureaucratic overhead in comparison to British overseas territories which lack many features of a state like a foreign ministry, independent trade politics and so on. However, Barbados could opt for a hybrid model between a full-scale state and overseas territory through streamlining governance.
If we subtract the past and summarize the malaise, present Barbados faces specific challenges due to its tiny size, its location in the ocean and in the tropical zone and being exposed to hurricanes. Structural deficits as shown above increase the malaise and also culture attitudes like the habit to copy and to desire everything shown on American TV. And the latter attitude is found in many countries.
As I told before, there is no natural law making people to fail. If there is a will there will be the wished result.
@ Hal Austin September 5, 2018 1:58 PM
Hal,
Singapore has a specific advantage in comparison to Barbados, namely its position at one of the most important international trade routes, the Strait of Malacca. Barbados is situated in the nowhere of international trade. Singapore is also surrounded by global economic powerhouses whereas Barbados is next to not so successful countries like Venezuela and Brazil. And Singapore has a big Chinese community linking the microstate to the world´s new superpower.
In order to underpin my argument I would like to point to the Bahamas which perform better than Barbados due to the proximity to the United States.
If Barbados was situated at the Strait of Malacca and Singapore vice versa in the outer rim of the Caribbean, the situation would be very different. Therefore I would like to give Barbados some credit despite all odds.
In 1965/66 the situation was different. Malaysia had dumped Singapore and all it was used fore was to train British troops in guerrilla warfare. Barbados had it all before it and dropped the baton. Even now it is not too late, but the same people are holding on to power. Just look at the BLP government and its so-called consultants. Not an original idea in their heads.
Ernie got this
“Deep job cuts and a hike in bus fares are on the cards for the beleaguered state-run public transport agency, according to Chairman of the Transport Board Gregory Nicholls, in a memo sent via email to General Manager Felicia Sue, and copied to two other company officials.”
Ernie got this
” It’s a case of two different tales along the south coast these days, with operators between Worthing and Hastings, Christ Church reporting a major ease in the sewage crisis, while businesses along Worthing Beach are now fuming over the impact of the awful stench.”
Ok I give up. Read BarbadosToday. page 3.
Barbados is in deep doo dont worry the IMF got this
That 1000 number gonna get bigger and the people pockets get smaller
Why is the BLP streaming a government press conference and the BGIS is not? Is the BLP now the same as the state? Is this all Chinese? This is how corruption is embedded. We must separate the ruling party from the state.
The BGIS Facebook page is streaming.
@ Mariposa September 6, 2018 4:47 AM
Declaration of default was due since 2013. The new gov is just doing what had to be done in 2013 after BB couldn´t sell gov bonds anymore.
And the restructuring of the public service and of the many SOEs was due since 2008 when this man (I forgot his name) seized power in Bim, promising “transparency”.
When you blame the new gov, you blame the natural laws of economic, social and political history. You cannot change them. When you blame the new gov for sending home people it is like blaming Triton for sending so many hurricanes CAT 5 last year into the Caribbean. You cannot change the Gods or the nature of things.
The period from 1995 to 2007 was exceptional. Lots of inflowing forex which financed the excessive pay hikes in the public service without any connection to real productivity in Bim. What we face now is Barbados going the normal course – as the island did in the 1970s, 1980s, early 1990s and since 2008, namely slow growth, internal devaluation, lack of forex and lack of prosperity.
Tron,
Plse explain the natural law of economic, social and political history. And explain what was exceptional about the period 1995-2007 about the Barbados economy, including the inflow of forex?
The default could have been avoided if the opposition was not gong ho in ham stringing govt projects …at least those projects going forward inclusive of the sale of poor performing entities would have given the economy breathing room in relation to jobs and improving the decline of the revenues
Instead this govt have presented a horrendous alternative keeping barbados like beggars on the doorsteps of the IMF and poor people having to find a means to pay govt debt
Go figure
Where is rum?
Before the end of the year, a bottle of London whisky may be sold for the first time in more than a century. Since Lea Valley distillery closed in 1903 and the capital’s whisky production dried up, not a single drop has been bottled or bought in the UK capital. But distilleries have been opening across Britain at a rapid pace in recent years, and in 2011 the London Distillery Company was founded, the first of the city’s now three whisky distilleries.
The growth of English whisky has come as part of the development of the “craft” drinks market for products produced by small, independent companies. It is a trend that began in the US but has been embraced by UK consumers and producers.
Since 2010, the number of distilleries in the UK has almost trebled, from 116 to 315 according to HMRC figures. This followed a 2009 change in the law, when HMRC agreed to grant licenses to producers distilling much smaller volumes of spirits, making it significantly easier and cheaper for start-ups to get off the ground.
.In England, there are now 21 whisky distilleries, up from only one in 2003, with the majority founded in the past five years. While Scotch whisky has “dominated the market for centuries, English whisky is a new niche companies are experimenting with,” said Thomas Falconer, analyst at IbisWorld.
Alongside the well-documented growth of craft gins — gin sales have roughly trebled since 2009, according to the Office for National Statistics — many new distillers have been producing whisky at the same time. Most are yet to produce their first bottles, though several are close.
By law, whisky must be aged for a minimum of three years, but gin can be distilled and bottled in a day. This quick production and healthy consumer demand have allowed many English whisky distillers to use gin “as a stopgap” while their whisky is ageing, said Amir Ali, analyst at Euromonitor.
We need to be really inventive, we don’t want to be a Scottish distillery down south, Matt McGivern, head of operations at London Distillery Company“Gin pays the bills and keeps the lights on,” said Matt McGivern, head of distilling and operations at the London Distillery Company.
One factor in the growth of the craft drinks market is consumer willingness to try the different twists on well-known products that producers often come up with. English whisky distillers have tapped into this: unlike their Scottish counterparts, they are not obliged to age whisky in oak, meaning they are “free to innovate,” said Chris Jaume, co-founder of Cooper King Distillery near York. “That’s what attracts the younger whisky drinker.”
Andy Mooney, distiller at the East London Liquor Company, said English distilleries are experimenting with ageing whisky in different woods to create distinctive flavours. “We’re never going to compete with the big guys on quantity,” said Mr Mooney. “We’re here to make interesting products.”
London Distillery Company’s Mr McGivern said: “We need to be really inventive, we don’t want to be a Scottish distillery down south.”Good after three years: an employee tastes an English Whisky Company single malt at St George’s Distillery in Norfolk © APLike craft gins, many craft whiskies focus on provenance and emphasise their use of locally and responsibly sourced ingredients, said Mr Ali of Euromonitor.
Given the time it takes to produce whisky, attracting investors is important. This year, the East London Liquor Company raised double the £750,000 it had sought in a crowdfunding campaign that attracted more than 1,000 investors, allowing it to quadruple whisky production. The Lakes Distillery, which was founded in 2011, has just announced its intention to float on London’s junior Aim market before the end of the year, in order to raise up to £15m to expand production.
The London Distillery Company also plans to seek further investment in the near future: “There’s a big market for investing in spirit companies now,” Mr McGivern said. Meanwhile, major producers have been “pricking their ears up”, said Mr Ali: last year Jameson created a hybrid whisky aged in beer barrels, while Diageo set up a venture capital arm Distill Ventures in 2013 to allow it to invest in new brands. “The ‘ginnaisance’ has attracted a whole new audience of people keen to try new spirit experiences, meaning investors have been more willing to invest in craft distilleries, allowing an English and Welsh whisky market to emerge,” said Miles Beale, chief executive of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association.
Whether craft whisky is as well received as craft gin will become clear in the next few years, as distilleries begin producing their first bottles. As an early indication of interest, several distilleries say they have been able to start pre-selling casks. According to Andy Crossan, consumer insights director at Kantar Worldpanel, recent sales of malt whiskies have “compared very well” with gin.
But new brands’ success will depend partly on persuading pubs and bars to take them on, which gin distillers did “particularly well”.The East London Liquor Company and the London Distillery Company have taken courage from the interest that bars and individual consumers have expressed in their initial small production runs of less than 1,000 bottles, planned for before the end of the year.“It’s not a race,” said Mr Mooney of East London Liquor Company. Mr McGivern of London Distillery Company said: “Craft whisky distillers should help each other out. We’re trying to create a new category.”
Bashed and bloodied. A family is crying out for justice today as one of its members remains hospitalised, a victim of alleged domestic abuse.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/193889/bashed-bloodied
AG GOT THIS
“The temporary appointments were part of the Barbados Labour Party’s manifesto promise to deal with the pile-up of cases in the courts. He said that to date, there were 1 030 criminal matters waiting to be heard, dating back to 2004, while there were “thousands” of civil matters from as far back as the 1980s.”
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/194185/judges-hold
NHC GOT THIS
Several tenants at Country Park Towers, Country Road, St Michael, were on Monday served their eviction notices to quit by an attorney – on behalf of the NHC.
As we mark the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis, there have been plenty of postmortems examining its causes, its consequences and whether the necessary lessons have been learnt.So it seems a pertinent moment to ask when the next recession and financial crisis will occur and why.
The global expansion is likely to continue this year and next because the US is running large fiscal deficits, China is continuing stimulative policies and Europe remains on a recovery path. Yet by 2020, there are several reasons why conditions for a global recession and financial crisis may emerge(Quote)
Have we now abandoned any rational discussion on BERT? After nearly five months, a few redundancies, a change of the constitution, the backdoor regulation of mMoney, numerous picture opportunities for the prime minister, when are we going to have a mature discussion about BERT and its proposed solution for our serious economic problems? Or is the outcome of the US mid-term elections more important?
The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.