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ICBL Bribe Case in Limbo

The following was posted as a comment to BU blog – The Jeff Cumberbatch Column – On the Prevention of Corruption by Peter Lawrence Thompson – David, blogmater

ICBLFrom the INNISS indictment:-

3. Barbados Company Executive 1, an individual whose identity is known to
the Grand Jury, was a citizen of Canada and a resident of Barbados. Barbados Company
Executive 1 was the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of the Barbados Company.
4. Barbados Company Executive 2, an individual whose identity is known to
the Grand Jury, was a citizen of Barbados and a resident of Barbados. Barbados Company
Executive 2 was a senior vice president of the Barbados Company.
5. Barbados Company Executive 3, an individual whose identity is known to
the Grand Jury, was a citizen of Barbados and a resident of Barbados. Barbados Company
Executive 3 was the Chief Financial Officer of the Barbados Company.

Ingrid Innes was the CEO of ICBL in 2015 and there is a reference in the 2016 ICBL Annual Report that she had “resigned from the company.”

Alex Tasker was the Senior Vice President Business Development and Marketing of ICBL in 2015 and 2016 according to the ICBL Annual Reports for those years. His LinkedIn page pointedly omits any reference to his tenure at ICBL and attempts to create the impression that he has been working at Digicel from 2006 to the present.

Kamante Millar was the CFO of ICBL in 2015 and 2016 according to the ICBL Annual Reports for those years. Her LinkedIn page shows that she left ICBL at the end of 2017.

If these are indeed the individuals mentioned in the INNISS indictment, When are they going to be charged in Barbados? The clock is ticking because the DPP has only six months to press charges from August 6th 2018, when the alleged crime came to public notice.

259 responses to “ICBL Bribe Case in Limbo”

  1. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    ” A Guyanese has been appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance ”

    https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2012/02/16/guyanese-appointed-managing-director-of-barbadian-insurance-company/

  2. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Didn´t I predict that the Guyanese are taking over Barbados? Wow. Even two years earlier than expected 😉

  3. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David are you sure you are showing a photo of Kamante Millar ?

    unpaid BU investigator at work. lol

  4. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    From the Prevention of Corruption Act 1929:
    “Time for taking proceedings
    10. Proceedings instituted with a view to obtaining a summary conviction
    for an offence under this Act may be commenced at any time before the expiration
    of six months after the first discovery of the offence by the prosecutor.”

  5. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    Since the alleged ICBL bribe was to facilitate the procurement of a public contract, the penalty upon conviction is at least 3 years and up to 7 years of imprisonment.

    From the Prevention of Corruption Act 1929:
    “Increase of maximum penalty for offences in relation to public contracts
    6. A person convicted on indictment of a misdemeanour under this Act, where the matter or transaction in relation to which the offence was committed was a contract, or a proposal for a contract, with the Crown or any Government Department or any public body, or a sub-contract to execute any work comprised in such a contract, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven nor less than three years.”

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Thanks, one is an older version we think but changed it to one that is certain.

  7. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David you previously showed a picture of a Senior Vice President & Head of Legal, Compliance and Secretariat.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Hants, yes it was Valentina. Appreciate it!

  9. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Some people may get a lump of coal in their stocking for Christmas, or maybe even for Independence.

    Does LinkedIn check the truthfulness of things written on their site.

    And even more important, do employers check?

    I know a person who lost a job because the LinkedIn page claimed a university degree, and no, there was no university degree. The thing is, the job did not require a university degree. Lolll!!!, but people too love to big up themselves.

    I recall this news story, where an applicant to Harvard university neglected to mention that she had served time for killing mummy. O shoot!!! What an oversight:
    https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/08/us/woman-who-killed-mother-denied-harvard-admission.html

    I would say to colleges, universities, employers, check and then check again. Be like Santa Claus, create a list and check it twice. Try to determine who has been naughty or nice.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    Will Barbadians get a statement from the AG or COP or DPP or all the of them on what is the Rh status of this matter?

  11. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ Simple Simon at 7 :27 PM

    Universities and Human Resource Departments check claims to possession of qualifications and references as a matter of course. One has to produce diplomas and certificates.

    There is no obligation for LinkedIn to verify authenticity. That is the responsibility of the employer.

  12. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ David at 7:31 PM

    Are you attempting to micromanage these departments?

  13. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    This issue is unprecedented and demands that it be micromanaged given what is at stake.

  14. Barbados Underground Whistleblower Avatar
    Barbados Underground Whistleblower

    There is an obvious reason why Alex Tasker would omit his ICBL stint from his Linkedln that would be to have a smokescreen to those who would have not known.

    Alex Tasker left Digicel where he was a Senior Manager to go to ICBL for about 2 years and then returned after this ICBL FRAUD after his FULL involvent was discovered back to Digicel Barbados as their Barbados CEO since their last one a white CEO went back to Ireland.

    Alex Tasker is Digicel’s 1st black CEO having being in Barbados more than 10 years with a minimum of 4 previous white CEOs all previously from Ireland.

    Digicel Barbados an Irish company is known for some not above board dealings so he would fit right back in.

    That is the way most Irish companies roll it is about the $$$ not how it is acquired and by whom.

  15. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Mark my words. NOBODY will be indicted. The COP made this VERY clear.

    Like on the plantation 200 years ago. No slave-driver was ever charged for abusing his slaves.

    Only the faces changed. The structures are still the same.

  16. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    “One has to produce diplomas and certificates.”

    you have to show the original and let them make copies for their HR files when ya are hired….

    If these people are highlighted in an indictment, they probably will be contacted or already gave statements.

    I hope Mia is realizing that the people who elected her are already getting tired, nothing much seems to be getting done except a lot of talking which never translates to any real action, if we blink 10 years will just disappear as it did under the other clowns…

  17. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David re ” statement from the AG or COP or DPP “.

    Agree there should be a statement given the fraud involves a government insurance contract / policy.

  18. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @WARU September 2, 2018 8:15 PM ““One has to produce diplomas and certificates.”

    Employers and universities ought really to ask the applicant to ask their university to send a TRANSCRIPT directly to the employer or university. Under no circumstances should this transcript pass through the applicant’s hands.

    Sigh!!!

    And then the employer/university ought check to see whether the university is bona fide/accredited/chartered.

    Lotta, lotta fake universities out there.

  19. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Ahem.This is interesting.The CEO Innes is Guyanese.Tasker is Guyanese.Charies Leacock the former DPP who gave Nicholls a bajan lawyer hell o hell was Guyanese.Thought he owned Durants.Ricky Singh and his boys who always in court for ganja is Guyanese.Hants like he right.Barrow kicked out Stoby in the early 60’s and Perry run back to Guyana when he couldn’t handle the criticism any more.The last Guyanese who got run was Harris.The mini bus men made him ‘come roun’.

  20. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Simple..no need for all of that..the degree comes directly from the applicant’s hand..the employer calls up the university and confirms the applicant graduated…there is a database of accredited colleges and universities, easy to check, but the degree belongs to the graduate..not the university..you cannot take away the student’s rights…that is why there is an admission’s office that keeps accurate records at colleges and universities….to know who went where, who graduated or lying that they are qualified and are not..these colleges, universities and regulatory bodies as in the case of the law entities, keep records for hundreds of yeas..

  21. Barbados Underground Whistleblower Avatar
    Barbados Underground Whistleblower

    @ Gabriel

    You are a smart fella to make the Guyanese connection.

  22. John Avatar
    John

    Like on the plantation 200 years ago. No slave-driver was ever charged for abusing his slaves.

    +++++++++++++++++++++

    Not true!!

    Did you know 207 years ago a slave owner was hanged for murdering his slave?

    See if you can find it on the net!!

  23. whiteHill Avatar
    whiteHill

    I would imagine that in a few years when someone declares that no politician in Barbados was ever charged for teefing some fool will reference Donville’s situation, in the meantime, millions of the public’s money ended up in their bank accounts. If one one or two slave owner were hung for murdering their slaves or even brought up on charges, I can assure you that this was not done with justice in mind for the poor slaves, but that that owner was seen to be interfering with the economics of the times. Maybe John can show us where any owner was ever brought up on rape charges, or even served time.

  24. David Avatar
    David

            The John referred is a red herring position. The hanging of the white slave owner was used to send a message to quell potential rebellion by owners known to be mistreating their chattel.
  25. John Avatar
    John

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/andrew-gillum-shocked-florida-with-a-primary-win-but-an-fbi-inquiry-clouds-his-campaign/ar-BBMLoQy?ocid=spartandhp

    Perhaps Doc Morley was an undercover agent!!

  26. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ whiteHill September 3, 2018 7:05 AM

    Good one there, whitehill!

    John, in a pique of anger to defend white supremacy as ordained by his god, would argue that the raping of virginal black women was done to improve the physical, intellectual and spiritual qualities of the inferior African to make them “”human.
    What an early example of Nazi-type eugenics!

    If you couldn’t breed them physically to ‘mulatto purity’ why not brainwash them into believing in a god made in the image of the white man?

  27. John Avatar
    John

    Have you found the reference and read it?

  28. John Avatar
    John

    Our African ancestors brought with them the inferiority hammered into them from centuries of enslavement by the Arab world.

    Christianity freed them from this mental enslavement.

    So inferior were our ancestors made to feel that they submitted themselves to castration and having their women folk become concubines.

  29. John Avatar
    John

    It isn’t white supremacy that is the problem, it is black inferiority.

  30. John Avatar
    John

    Christianity does not support supremacy based on colour, but Islam does.

  31. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ John September 3, 2018 7:48 AM
    “It isn’t white supremacy that is the problem, it is black inferiority.”

    Bingo! Never truer words of wisdom have been uttered on BU by Sir John.

    And who else knows this better than the white man.

    Isn’t that why your god Lord Jesus and his angels are portrayed as ‘white’ and so adroitly copied by the BU “Freedom Crier”?

    As has been argued ad nauseam, until the black man stop worshiping a white man-made god and look to the source of the Light which gave them their ‘black’ skin in the first place the black man and his offspring will always remain in intellectual and spiritual darkness.

    How can blacks ever grasp the socio-economic benefits of “STEM” when they, like little naïve children, continue to believe in the Judeo-Christian fairy tales like the Adam & Eve creation myth?

  32. whiteHill Avatar
    whiteHill

    ” It isn’t white superiority that’s the problem, it is black inferiority.” Now here is something I can agree with you on. Although, Christianity freeing us from mental enslavement, all I can say is that that is some Amazing Grace bull shit. I guess that’s why your ancestors felt it was ordained that he should beat the poor wretch within an inch of his life, because, he knew his master’s will and wouldn’t do it. Thanks for opening my eyes, I was blind all along now I can see.

  33. John Avatar
    John

    How can blacks ever grasp the socio-economic benefits of “STEM” when they, like little naïve children, continue to believe in the Judeo-Christian fairy tales like the Adam & Eve creation myth?

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    The same way the other believers have done so.

    Look at the Nobel Prizes in STEM and tell me how many who don’t come from a Judeo Christian background have won one!!

  34. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    “It isn’t white supremacy that is the problem, it is black inferiority.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    99.9999% correct….
    …BUT not stinking Bushie….

  35. John Avatar
    John

    Bush Tea
    September 3, 2018 8:49 AM

    “It isn’t white supremacy that is the problem, it is black inferiority.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    99.9999% correct….
    …BUT not stinking Bushie….
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Christianity set you free … as it did others!!

  36. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @John September 3, 2018 7:48 AM
    “It isn’t white supremacy that is the problem, it is black inferiority.”
    ++++++++++++++++++
    You have fallen into a logical error here John… White supremacy and Black inferiority are exactly the same thing. Your statement is the logical equivalent of saying “It’s not half a dozen, it’s six.” White supremacy/Black inferiority was deep in the the philosophical foundation of the Judeo Christian European practice of enslaving African people and it is still deeply embedded in Judeo Christian culture.

  37. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    PLT …white superiority complex and black inferiority complex…both mental duseases.two halves of the same coin…both are mentally degrading and filled with centuries old curse and blight..

  38. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Christianity set you free … as it did others!!
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Actually, adoption set Bushie free FROM Christianity…
    But that is a whole different story…

  39. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ PLT
    Think carefully…
    John is making a much deeper point here
    …whether he knows it or not.

  40. Jeff Cumberbatch Avatar
    Jeff Cumberbatch

    Is one even possible without the other?

  41. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ John September 3, 2018 8:43 AM
    “The same way the other believers have done so.
    Look at the Nobel Prizes in STEM and tell me how many who don’t come from a Judeo Christian background have won one!!”

    Why not carry your response to the sublime of ridiculousness?

    Copernicus and Galileo were also of a “Judeo-Christian” background.

    Was Imhotep of Judeo-Christian background?

    Judeo-Christianity is nothing more than a combination of ‘white-washed’ versions of make-believe tales and legends ‘stolen’ from earlier civilizations like the Sumerians and Egyptians.

  42. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @Bush Tea September 3, 2018 9:11 AM
    I know that John is attempting to make a deeper point, but he is also attempting to locate the problem in Black minds rather than in the albino centric minds where it originates. This is, of course, because he is himself beholden to the albino centric culture that tries to deflect responsibility by any means, fair or foul.

  43. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    White supremacist ideology == Black inferiority ideology
    half a dozen==six
    There is no difference between White supremacist ideology and Black inferiority ideology no matter the colour of skin of the person who adheres to this ideology.

    John’s attempt to contrast the two is intellectually dishonest. It is an attempt to blame Black people for their enslavement. It is evil.

  44. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    There is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics.

  45. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    “Is one even possible without the other?”

    Exactly…you get rid of one, you get rid of the other..

    White supremacy cannot survive or flourish without black inferiority.

  46. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @WARU September 3, 2018 10:10 AM
    “…you get rid of one, you get rid of the other…”
    +++++++++++++++++++
    You are missing the point. They are identical… different words for exactly the same thing… there is no one or the other. The KKK is a proponent of Black inferiority ideology. The current US President believes in Black inferiority. Black inferiority ideology was the cornerstone of chattel slavery. Black inferiority ideology is the creation of racists and it was born in the minds of racists. It does not inhabit free Black minds.

  47. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    WARU at 10 : 10 AM

    Except that Whitey has to work on his supremacy. And Blackie has to work on his inferiority. It is a personal/ individual exercise.

  48. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @Vincent Codrington September 3, 2018 10:22 AM
    “… Whitey has to work on his supremacy. And Blackie has to work on his inferiority…”
    +++++++++++++++++++
    Wrong! This is another false equivalency. Black inferiority ideology was the intellectual foundation of chattel slavery and it was born and existed in White minds. It was the White enslavers who had to work on inventing and enforcing Black inferiority… they did so with great enthusiasm.

  49. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Isn’t the widow of the late DPP Leacock now (or was) manager of the Barbados Golf Club?

  50. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Hal Austin September 3, 2018 10:33 AM

    Now you are beginning to see the incestuous rat hole Bul(l)badus really is!

    Do you now understand why the same golf course could have readily received a loan from the government without having to repay?
    Will this delinquent loan be written off by the MAM administration?

    Do you now appreciate why your pal Greenverbs Parris of CLICO infamy (who is also the bosom pal of Freundel and was of his two predecessors) became untouchable in the eyes of the former DPP Lea the Cocky hen and will remain so under the current BLP regime?

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