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The Grenville Phillips Column – Prospering During Sufferation

We are the victims of an intense propaganda campaign, designed to mislead us into thinking that mass-suffering is the only economic solution for Barbados. It is not. It is like an overweight person being advised by surgeons, that the only method of losing weight is to traumatise the body by surgically removing excess fat. There…

We are the victims of an intense propaganda campaign, designed to mislead us into thinking that mass-suffering is the only economic solution for Barbados. It is not. It is like an overweight person being advised by surgeons, that the only method of losing weight is to traumatise the body by surgically removing excess fat. There is a proven non-traumatic solution of diet and exercise.

The proven non-austerity methods of lowering taxes, eliminating corruption and properly managing public services, can conservatively achieve a surplus of over $1B in the first year. However, despite the Prime Minister’s promise that all ideas would be allowed to contend, only the most severe austerity methods proposed by the BERT economic surgeons were allowed to contend. So, families need to prepare to survive.

The advice that I am sharing in this week’s column was to be shared with the approximately 3,000 Bees sent home under the DLP administration. However, the all-aboard unions would not allow me anyway near their laid-off members. Now that it is the BLP’s turn to send home Dees, let me bypass the unions and make the offer public.

Whether you have left school with many or no academic certificates, or whether you have been laid-off, fired, or never worked, this advice is for you. We are offering a 4-month employment-preparation workshop, where you will be practically finished to be a productive employee or self-employed person.

Our training assumes that you dropped out of school in first form. Therefore, regardless of how poorly you performed at school, you can achieve a practical standard of competence and confidence in: reading, writing, speaking, drawing, calculating, reasoning, planning, managing, innovating and creating. You will also be trained to conduct business in Barbados, and to take advantage of favourable tax treaties with the US.

It will be an intense 4 months of training, where results are guaranteed to those who do the work. Therefore, only participate if you are serious. If you are participating, but there is no improvement, then the fault is not yours, but ours. The aim of the training is that every graduate will find employment, or become self-employed and earn foreign currency.

You may register anytime during October 2018 for a start date of Monday 5th November 2018. Register by sending an e-mail to NextParty246@gmail.com giving your name. There is no cost for those who register.

Parents whose children are not working, should encourage them to register. Persons who recently got out of prison and cannot find a job, should register. Persons in entry-level positions who think that they will rise no higher definitely need to register. Employers who have unproductive but honest employees that they wish to retain should encourage them to register. Anyone who plans to pursue illegal acts because they think that that is the only way to make money better register.

Those Bees that were sent home under the DLP, and the Dees preparing to go home under this administration are encouraged to register. Every unemployed person on a block should register. It is time to prosper during this manufactured and unnecessary sufferation.

I will be responsible for your training. My approximately 30-year diverse engineering career, together with my 8 years of formal teaching as President of Walbrent College, including as a volunteer teacher to inmates at HMP Dodds, has prepared me to take highly complex information and explain it in a simple manner, so that everyone can understand. As the 2014 winner of the National Innovation Competition and a successful business owner, I do not just talk the talk.

Grenville Phillips II is a Chartered Structural Engineer, President of Walbrent College and founder of Solutions Barbados. He can be reached at NextParty246@gmail.com

90 responses to “The Grenville Phillips Column – Prospering During Sufferation”

  1. Dishonest Bajans Avatar
    Dishonest Bajans

    I have tied the weak leader of the UPP Attorney Lynette Eastmond as a part of the mafia cartel who also is a former disgruntled BLP senior member who never spoke once against the BLP when she was a Minister eating at the trough during Owen held reign and whilst major corruption was going on in the BLP and Mia Mottley was Deputy PM.

  2. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    Great ideas Keep going for Grenville.

  3. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    If one subscribes to the notion of “never look a gift horse in the mouth” I would be loath to criticize GP for his offer to the unemployed, never work or unskilled.

    The question I have, will a “catch all” approach work? When people show up with different skill sets how will he/they reconcile the differences? The other concern is raised expectations, if at the end of this four month intensive training, the students are unable to find jobs or placements what then? There are very few job openings and it is folly to give people hope only to have them dashed.

  4. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Sergeant

    The important thing is that these young people have the knowledge and the Skills to apply when the opportunity is available.
    I remember friends of mine leaving Secondary School in the 1980s and going right into the Skills Training Program when there wasn’t much in the way of work in Barbados at that time. But when the work was made available these young people were obviously prepared to apply what they knew or was taught.

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Sargeant,

    What Grenville is offering is a foundation for continuing education and on the job training.

  6. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I stopped reading comments at 10:22 a.m. and will go back there.

    First they ask the man to put skin in the ‘game’.

    He came forth with a plan to help all Bajans. I expected folks to wait and then comment on his success or failure, but now they are demanding he first walk on water.

    Will continue reading and come back here later.

    Some people you cannot help.

  7. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @piece
    🙂 Somehow I am of the impression that many of the readers here have been smoking week long before this legalization in Canada 🙂

    I now see the hazards of smoking weed and wearing tin foil at the same time. 🙂

  8. Talking Loud Saying Nothing Avatar
    Talking Loud Saying Nothing

    For what it’s worth I’m going to throw my hat into the ring and declare my admiration for GP’s outrageous idea. The dictator, Mia, has been in office for over one hundred days carping on about her predecessors whilst offering very little of merit to the country. Yet here we have GP in true “Barnum style” offering salvation to the many in a mere forty days. It sounds crazy but who knows the man could be on to a winner. Fortune favours the brave.

    Bon Chance mon ami.

  9. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Well Parliament was turned into a comedy show today when Caswell accused govt of passing a law that extended God’s promised on longevity
    God promise mankind three score and ten but as if govt was not satisfied govt passed a law without certainty that pensioners would lived 15 years to.collect pension

  10. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Mia should really be ashamed of herself, how disrespectful..

    To make matters worse she and her sidekick the disgraced Marshall still keep yammering on and on about DLP corruption, no one wants to hear it, we already know, we were on BU exposing it for years when Mia, Marshall and all ah dem ganged up with the Bizzy, Cow, Maloney, Abed, Harris crooks and were falling over themselves AND SPENT LOTS OF MONEY trying to shut down the Blogs and making threats against bloggers for exposing DLP and BLP CORRUPTION…how quickly they all FORGOT, now all ya hearing from Mia and Marshall is DLP corruption, DLP corruption over and over and on and on….

    ……so unless she and Marshall plan to lock up the former ministers and recover the people’s money…they both need to shut the hell up until they do..

    yardfowls can attack me now.

  11. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    GP
    Well played. A drive through the covers and not a man moved.

    By now you have learnt that you cannot pleased everyone. First they were saying that you were doing too little or nothing. Then they felt that you should be a human right activist and an umbrella for 17. Here you come with a ‘master’ plan and before it is implemented they are crying ‘failure’, or “Barnum” like..

    What is even worse that they have now decided to judge you on the number of folks who participated in your training and were then successful in getting a job. Suddenly, job applicants are not judged by their effort, perseverance and dedication in pursuing employment opportunities; instead their failure will be marked in your column.

    Things are already hard in the island; people are being or will will be laid-off; and the competition for scarce jobs will be tough.

    Volunteerism and effort at providing greater marketability should be complimented, but if GP is the source of renewed hope for some, we should cry it down. We need to move the goal post. The well executed shot should not reach the boundary.

    They are two things that I would like to leave with you
    (1) No one kicks a dead dog. Their resistance and criticism is a sign that you have given them food for thought. Be patient./
    (2) Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant;they too have their story.

  12. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    *There are

  13. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Mia and her crew are sticking to the script. This script was written and practiced for over 50 years. It has not failed the political class.

    The last administration stripped the meat from the bones of the fatted calf; they removed all of the silverware from the kitchen and sold what was not tied down. What we consider as a dismal failure, they consider as a whopping success.

    Well the bones has marrow; they will suck that dry.

  14. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    “It has not failed the political class.”

    Until now…both governments overplayed and overstayed for 52 mostly wasted years…they had become so lost that neither of them saw that the path they took in the last 30 years…was the death knell for any future progress on the island and given the rubbish the last remaining dinosaur era government is spewing all over the place…it still has not occurred to any of them that they have become as dysfunctional and ineffective as the Supreme Court they all destroyed…

    In another 4 years and 7 months the people on the island will become even wider awake…it’s the 21st century…not the 1950s, it is only 1950s in the minds of the last remaining government to be moved from the parliament.

  15. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Talking Loud Saying Nothing October 17, 2018 6:45 PM
    “For what it’s worth I’m going to throw my hat into the ring and declare my admiration for GP’s outrageous idea. The dictator, Mia, has been in office for over one hundred days carping on about her predecessors whilst offering very little of merit to the country. Yet here we have GP in true “Barnum style” offering salvation to the many in a mere forty days. It sounds crazy but who knows the man could be on to a winner. Fortune favours the brave.
    Bon Chance mon ami.”

    Of course GP’s solution to the pending spike in unemployment and the inevitable massive increase in the number of the voluntarily idle sitting on the ghetto blocks is an excellent opportunity for his business skills-training factory.

    And the training and retooling doctor has every right to apply for the chance to put his skills to the benefit of the nation in its dire hour of much need’ if only a decade behind the times.

    But please bear at the back of your mind that, at the end of the day or in the final analysis, somebody has to foot the bill in GP’s noblesse oblige undertaking.

    There is no free lunch; not even the free (unhealthy) school meals rejected by the Chefette & KFC generation now looking for a daily stipend to top up their phones to keep abreast of social media events.

    Grenville- in all his altruistic desire and patriotic zeal of giving back to his nation- must confront the real financial costs which must be incurred in successfully putting on such a comprehensive training programme.

    Who will be paying the ‘retooling’ piper in helping that well-meaning training factory cover its overheads?

    That is the $2 million dollar question GP has to answer before one silver dollar from the IMF-underwritten training fund is applied for.

  16. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I like how the Miller bowls…
    But Mr Miller I have a one dollar question
    I read Mr GP post and could find no mention of IMF or a factory? Could you point me to your source?
    You may proven to be right, but, so far, your clever spin is on the wrong wicket.

  17. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    interesting times ahead, someone should write a book about these 2 cockups for governments and their self inflicted 1950s time warp dilemma…which has now seen them exposed worldwide, while everyone watches in amazement.

  18. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @TheOGazerts October 17, 2018 8:17 PM

    Ops!! Made a dreadful mistake by putting the GP trading cart before his financial training horse.

    Yes indeed Grenville, under the patronage of Well-meant College, will be absorbing the full cost of retraining and equipping for a brave new world the hundreds of public sector dismissed workers-and pari passu private sector workers- who would soon be on the breadline under the IMF-supervised austerity programme very much rejected by Grenville and railed against incessantly over the past months.

    Will the people who register with the GP’s training school have to pay for four months of ‘one-to-one reeducation and reorientation’ or is it like the Salvation Army?

    I am prepared to support GP in his financial beneficence to the unemployed; both voluntarily and enforced.

    But he has to give, at least one example in his retraining programme or retooling curriculum which, in a matter of 4 months, can prepare ‘students’ to acquire the art of foreign exchange earning and economic self-sufficiency.

    Now where are those BIMAP(s) and the Polytechnic(s) when they are most needed?

  19. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @TheOG
    Miller is saying there is no free lunch

    You on the other hand are saying…..just what the hell are you saying?

  20. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Miller
    This is a noble gesture by GP.I hope it is not just another Dale Carnegie Course which used to take three months to complete and which gave an inside look at how customer relations work and how the need to communicate clearly and intelligently might open otherwise closed doors to advancement in one’s career.

  21. Dishonest Bajans Avatar
    Dishonest Bajans

    I am convinced after reading the below Editorial 18th Oct 2018 published in Barbados Today that Bajans are the dumbest people in the world. Wunna should forget 98 percent literacy BULLSHIT.

    Then you have vile creatures like Prodigal, Gabriel, Lorenzo and others defending the crooked and equally thieving knights in shining armor.

    For those who like undisputed truths and facts in what has occured on failed 🇧🇧

    Below Editorial:

    “The Prime Minister or the Cabinet of this country has no power to fire any member of any statutory corporation or any public servant.” Opposition Leader Mia Mottley, February 9, 2008.

    Whenever political naiveté and polarization are mixed in any country, politicians walk on water and camels fly.

    Much has been said about the ineptness of the former Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Government and much of it has been true. But certain fallacies have been perpetuated prior to and since May 24 that have been given impetus by the politically blinkered on social and traditional media, on street corners, in rum shops and in the comfort of homes.

    One day we might come to appreciate that politicians often communicate with their public to nurture political expediency and promote their survival. They play to their gallery knowing full well – as philosopher John Locke once said – that false and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. “Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion and interest,” the Englishman noted centuries ago.

    There is this well-nourished notion that Barbados’ untenable debt situation started in 2008. That is nonsense of gargantuan proportions. There is a fallacy that has gained infantile credence that excessive spending and wastage of state funds started in 2008. There is a belief that questionable financial practices by politicians first saw the light of day in 2008. That is gibberish being fed to the politically gullible. There are some in the country riding white horses, battling windmills, spouting the word “corruption, corruption” in a holy crusade that has the dual purpose of not only dimming their own possible political indiscretions but feeding the polarization that exists in Barbados.

    Every successive Government since Independence has spoken about restructuring the economy. But it seems that restructuring gets no further than dismissals from the public service of those at the lowest rungs of the ladder. The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has done it and the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) is presently engaged in the same exercise. No thought it seems is being given to reducing government. Instead, government over the past decades has become more bloated. Neither the BLP nor the DLP has seen the folly of having such a tiny country divided into 30 constituencies that simply provide employment for non-productive politicians at great cost to taxpayers. Serious restructuring seems not to apply to the reduction of food importation, dependency on fossil fuel, or the enhancement of domestic agriculture, cottage industry, and the like.

    The campaign underway with respect to corruption is akin to a smoke screen. There are laws already in existence that relate to theft, embezzlement, bribery, obtaining money by false pretences, misappropriation of public funds, fraudulent conversion and a range of other offences. There are already laws to fight corruption, political and otherwise. But do we have the will to fight corruption? Have political authorities over the decades been willing basically to go after themselves – or those in the public sector who sponsor them – wherever they are to be found? This is about a lack of will not a necessity for integrity commissions and public talk shows on corruption.

    A previous Auditor General report once showed where a top civil servant breached several sections of the Financial Management and Audit Act, or the Financial Rules, 1971. That official admitted his malfeasance, was suspended, and then in keeping with the best Barbadian traditions, he was returned to the same position where he had committed the breaches. There have been a multiplicity of examples where public funds have been spirited away or used in questionable fashion but no one has been held accountable for his or her indiscretions.

    In 2007 Barbados’ Audit Office chastised the then BLP government for disbursing the full $18.5 million payment for an incomplete Newton Business Park construction project. The Auditor General said then that it was “inexplicable that all the funds could be disbursed while the project remains incomplete”. That forgotten detail has remained unexplained publicly to this day. Significant public funds were also disbursed for an incomplete Crab Hill Police Station construction project. This has remained unexplained publicly by those responsible for the payments to this day. What was lacking here? The will to go after the truth or new legislation?

    And where Barbados’ debt and wastage headache is concerned, there are those who would seek to dismiss as an aberration the Veco/Dodds situation and the annual January multi-million-dollar repayments, Kensington Oval, Greenland, Gems of Barbados and the practice of major off-budget spending prior to 2008 that was subsequently brought to book. The printing of money by the Central Bank under the authority of the former DLP administration was heavily, and correctly criticized by the then BLP Opposition? Has it stopped? No one seems interested in that detail as previously loud critics now mimic inhabitants of Nirvana.

    Both the DLP and the BLP have had great accomplishments for Barbados. And both have contributed to the pain of the people. Knights in shining armour do not have to proclaim themselves; they are usually recognized by their deeds and achievements. But we must always be guarded against finding comfort only in their words. Often these remain inconsistent with their actions.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2018/10/18/bteditorial-seeking-out-our-nirvana-on-bay-street/

  22. Dishonest Bajans Avatar
    Dishonest Bajans

    Mia Mottley your new leader clean as white snow by her own words and past deeds involving Political Party has been caught with her panties down in 2018.

    I advise any young person with common sense that can leave Barbados and work in a develop country do so as soon as possible as these political crooks only have their best interests at heart and not the local masses.

    Leave the Politicians and their benefactors solely to payback IMF and creditors emanating from all their corruption and thieving from the masses over many decades.

    I wonder does shit smell any different whether it is excreted by DLP or BLP?

  23. Talking Loud Saying Nothing Avatar
    Talking Loud Saying Nothing

    @ Miller,

    GP did a poor job in promoting his party at the last general election. However he has wet my appetite with this course. Let’s not forget that the average Bajan has a risk-averse mentality. Perhaps GP’s intensive course may bring positive results that will benefit the individual and the country socially and economically.

    I would urge GP to promote the teachings of Marcus Garvey on his curriculum as a core value.

    It is futile for Bajans to wait for clueless MIa to turn the country around. She is merely there to insure that the practice of corruption remains undisturbed on the rock. A system that keeps her fellow black people firmly tethered at the bottom. She is a modern day overseer with a black face.

  24. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    That Barbados today editorial above in Dishonest Bajan’s post is the sort of articles I would like to see here posted by the blog moderator as well as the Nation newspaper – and discussed at VOB.

    Unless you are a thinking bajan you will end up among the kool aid drinkers of both the Bee and Dee – discussing the peripheral stuff – or spouting the lies and propaganda of Mia Mottley – that people like David Ellis (who seems to be on some paid mission) are promoting on his radio station – as well as people like Sanka Price at the Nation who brings no clarity or depth of analysis to his articles – but instead seeks to find some way to promote BLP Orthodoxy.That newspaper is not even good enough for fish wrap.
    .

    The Advocate is almost invisible and CBC is as usual – the government mouthpiece.

    We are therefore left with Barbados Today which since Kaymar’s departure – seem more to be engaged in a ‘hit and miss’ exercise – but at least when they hit their target – it is well hit.
    .

    We need honest and objective intellectuals. Not washed up,bought and sold ex lecturers like George Belle.

    Or so called political scientists like peter wickham or Tennyson joseph who are mere light weights.

    We need seasoned financial experts who know their stuff to discuss public debt,investment,diversifying the economy etc

    Barbados right now is in a frightening place.There are paid hacks in the Nation newspaper,on VOB,at Cave Hill and on various social media site who are polluting the air with their disinformation – to confuse the weak and not so discerning masses – while these hacks quietly collect their 30 pieces of silver and a piece of the bar – b – que fatted calf.

    MIA MOTTLEY’S TRACK RECORD HAS BEEN ONE OF FAILURE – AND SHE WILL CONTINUE IN THAT TREND – IN THIS NEW ELEVATED POSITION SHE HAS BEEN GIVEN.

    SHE HAS ACHIEVED WHAT SHE ALWAYS WANTED FROM QUEENS COLLEGE DAYS – AND THAT IS TO BE BARBADOS FIRST FEMALE PRIME MINISTER – BUT OH AT WHAT A PRICE.

    WHAT A HIGH PRICE BAJANS MUST PAY FOR SOMEONE’S PERSONAL AMBITION – ALL FACILITATED BY THE WHITE MERCHANTS, A SECTION OF THE LECTURERS AT CAVE HILL, VOB, THE NATION, THE POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS LIKE LISA CUMMINS & JEREMY STEPHENS ETC, THE INEPT, CAMERA HUNGRY & OVER AMBITIOUS UNION LEADERS IN MCDOWALL AND TONI MOORE AND THE USUAL CROWD OF POLITICAL PIMPS AND YARDFOWLS.

    I HOPE THE VERDICT WILL NOT SOON BE -‘PUT A FORK IN IT BECAUSE WE HERE IN BARBADOS ARE DONE’.

  25. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Imagine government sending home 1500 workers but creating a unit called “Household Mitigation Unit” headed by Corey Layne with 4 other persons as his staff. This unit will take people’s cases and refer them to “welfare”.
    His salary starting at $6000 plus allowances monthly. His staff will be between 4000-5000 dollars per month. This going cabinet tomorrow to take effect from November 1st, 2018 after persons are sent home and “Mia Cares” 😏
    This is replacing the constituency councils. Wonders never cease with this lot

  26. Guest Avatar
    Guest

    …(a) The cost of terminating 1,500 = severance pay + mitigation unit + error of terminating productive workers rather than unproductive workers
    …(b) The cost of reducing public service pay = $0

  27. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Sargeant
    I am saying that the man should be given a chance to further outline and to inform the public of his proposal so far I have seen
    1. Some are already counting the cost. How do they do so?
    2. Some suggesting what the curriculum should be. Why not teach their own course?
    3. How success of the course should be measured?

    I could reread all the comments and make a longer list, But I will keep my eyes only on what the man says and will evaluate his words as he go.

    I will leave the making of assumption/hypothetical/providing instructions to Grenville up to others, Some are very creative.

    Have a great day (HAGD) —- to all

  28. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    *proposal. So far

  29. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Grenville starts out wrong….. via

    “We are the victims of an intense propaganda campaign, designed to mislead us into thinking that mass-suffering is the only economic solution for Barbados. It is not.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Says who?
    It actually IS…

    Skippa, the wages of sin is death.
    The net result of doing shiite – stinks….. especially when accelerated by Stinkliar…
    …and brass bowlery ALWAYS ends in ‘mass suffering’.

    All your good intentions CANNOT change these REALITIES of Karma.

    Lowering taxes and ‘eliminating corruption’ cannot change reality. High taxes and endemic corruption are SYMPTOMS of the root disease – what Bushie calls brass bowlery – If you use your engineering brilliance to eliminate those symptoms, the patient will just die with OTHER symptoms – perhaps even worse…

    Secondly,
    In a country that ALREADY spends 20% of its GDP on providing FREE education to its citizens, how exactly do you think YOUR very generous offer of free education will address the current problems?
    Are you saying that your program will solve the problems that hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the last fifty years in ‘eddykashun’ have been unable to solve (in fact which it CREATED)?

    Grenville,
    The PROBLEM that we face is one of UNRIGHTEOUSNESS….. that is, of people CHOOSING to do shiite INSTEAD of what they know to be RIGHT.
    Do you have a plan to solve THAT?
    Do you understand what causes us to be thusly predisposed?
    Do you have the solution that addresses that weakness?

    If you do NOT, then perhaps you will understand the frustration of those who continue to be amazed at this world’s inability to address BASIC problems – in spite of the fantastic advances in knowledge, technology, communications and education……..

    Boss … just get a lawn mower or whacker ….and prepare to deal with the imminent grass in your immediate vicinity……

  30. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Talking Loud Saying Nothing October 18, 2018 3:29 AM
    “I would urge GP to promote the teachings of Marcus Garvey on his curriculum as a core value.”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    It would be a welcome surprise if GP is of similar intellectual persuasion.
    MMG proposed black economic enfranchisement through greater self-reliance instead of the preaching any prosperity gospel based on some white man (albino-centric) god.

    No one is questioning GP’s altruistically ‘honourable’ intentions but is wondering whether he will not duplicating- at his own personal financial costs- what other well-established training institutions are already providing.

    Isn’t that the very reason the likes of BIMAP, TVET and the Cave Hill campus external programmes have been set up to do?

    What GP should be aiming for is the outsourcing of the functions of the Productivity Council, NISE and Public Sector Reform so that he can put into full effect his lifelong ambitious plan of ISO 9001 right across the public sector.

  31. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Interesting
    “Secondly,
    In a country that ALREADY spends 20% of its GDP on providing FREE education to its citizens, how exactly do you think YOUR very generous offer of free education will address the current problems?
    Are you saying that your program will solve the problems that hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the last fifty years in ‘eddykashun’ have been unable to solve (in fact which it CREATED)?“

    The elephant in the room, We come around to this over and over… the success/ failure of our education system

  32. David Avatar
    David

    Is it not about all individuals and others contribute to making the society better anyway they see the opportunity? The collective effort is suppose to breed positive results.

  33. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @Theo,

    Does Barbados spend 20 per cent of GDP on education?

  34. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Grenville Phillips II

    De ole man will be brief.

    Do you ting, as you plan

    All de ole man has suggested in that there should be an M&E (monitoring and evaluation) component which will permit naysayers an opportunity to see what the measurable outcomes of your efforts are.

    Build in thie element of M&E to anything that you are doing so that hyah, kway and de udder fellow are able to see at a glance what you have been able to deliver.

    I again suggest that you engage those people who have publicly come here on BU and said that they will assist you with your campaign.

    De ole man would suggest that you draft a Public Services Document and Place it here on BU which will encompass the charter of this NGO effort and display how civil society can be engaged for meaningful programming.

    All dat drivel mean is that you got to draft a contract for Peter lawrence Thompson and Theophillus Gazerts dat allows these skillful men to mark dem “X” in a meaningful way and show how real patriots does gather round de Barbados flag and be a credit to the nations wherever they might be or wherever they go.

    Many here think that de ole man trying to break you down BUT all i really trying to do is to show you the glaring loopholes to your programming that you cannot see CAUSE YOU NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE!! and this is an exercise of academic pursuit in you head, whereas whu i telling you is facts

    Build Programs that are build on Transparency and Accountability AT COMMENCEMENT Grenville and that will give you credibility going forward.

    This is the 5th time that the ole man stop and give you some advice

  35. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Grenville can’t say he don’t get advice, it is when he makes a cockup and then returns to face us is the problem..

  36. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Right now the BLP and floundering and the DLP is absent (poor Mariposa). I was wondering what the DLP could come up with that would make it relevant again .

    Prediction: 2022- A Barrow descendant will be drafted to be a part of the campaign.
    I can hear them already ……

  37. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    ” Earlier this week the United States Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), hosted an advanced Mutual Legal Assistance Workshop for regional attorneys in Barbados. This workshop follows the first Mutual Legal Assistance Seminar, held in Barbados in April this year.”

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/205780/us-hosts-legal-assistance-workshop

  38. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Brother Hants

    That is an interesting article which is rather interesting at this particular time.

    I shall explain.

    It is as if the Government of the United States is sounding out the appetite of the Barbados government as it relates to the prison sentence that Pornville is going to get.

    This is like a presentencing evaluation, a classic setup to determine what are the thoughts of Bajans.

    Which is rather strange to say the least because they do not normally do that.

    Now here is another article that caught de ole man’s eye

    “…Barbados has suffered another credit rating downgrade, but the long climb back from “junk” territory has started. That bittersweet news came from international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P).

    On Wednesday, S&P Global Ratings lowered its issue-level ratings on Barbados’ local currency issues outstanding to “D” (default) from “CC” on ten issues of Government debentures worth a combined $575 million…”

    Now this is very telling since CONTRARY TO ALL TEH PROPAGANDA BY THE BLP COOLAID DRINKERS it means that the international community is in the same mindspace as that of the naysayers here on BU who see all the PR about the 220% influx of IMF money as just plain talk since there is no corresponding meat on the table that gives any indication of what the BLP government plans to do.

    Dis is why de ole man like de white people dem, cause when we nigrs bout de place calling Mugabe de messiah, de white man does look through all the smoke and mirrors and say, dem only stroking de public doggie and we “doan want we doie stroked in public”

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    @ the Honorable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here for Brother Hants thank you

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    Talking Loud Saying Nothing

    “Across Serbia, age-old traditions passed down through the generations are dying out. Those hit the hardest are people living in the rural areas who rely on skills like weaving, wood-cutting and pottery to make an income.

    Realising the potential, the Serbian state is now turning its attention to these micro-enterprises to bolster its economy, offering tax relief and other benefits to artisans.

    Nicola Kelly speaks to craftsmen and young entrepreneurs about the challenges they face and finds out how they plan to revive their crafts.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswjyf

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