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Senator Caswell Franklyn Speaks – Mia Scares

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I’m to ask and every right thinking person must be wondering: in whose interest is the Mia Mottley Administration managing the affairs of this country?

I would not be so silly to suggest that previous administration left this country in good order.  And I would be the first to admit that the new administration needed to take measures to restructure and stabilise the economy.  But so far, the measures imposed by this new labour party administration has shown a merciless disregard for the plight of the most vulnerable in this society.  As promised, the Government removed the much vilified National Society Responsibility Levy (NSRL), which was collected from the merchant class up front, and replaced it with a series of punitive measures that took particular aim at the poor and labouring classes in the country.

This country is badly in need of revenue and the Government seems content to raise the necessary funds to run the country by taxing the people that a labour party was philosophically set up to protect.  On the other hand, this administration has moved swiftly to ensure that its friends and family are protected from the ravages of this marauding tax collecting machine that came into power on May 25, 2018.

This administration has even placed a tax on water, while at the same time forgiving the billions of dollars in income taxes that were owed mainly by the merchant class, who fund election campaigns, and by their close friends and family.

Last December the Government introduced and passed an amendment to the Income Tax Act to write off taxes that were owed by persons between 1968 and 2000.  The cynical among us, including me, believe that this was a measure aimed at giving tax relief to the Prime Minister’s father.

The country did not cry out about that atrocity and that has emboldened the Government to prepare legislation that would write off the Value Added Tax (VAT) that was collected and stolen by VAT registrants between 1996 and 2000.  The furniture store, Courts, is set to receive a write off of the principal sum of $35 million not included interest and penalties, that will also be written off by this legislation.

Lord, the people of this country prayed for a change but if they only knew what they would have gotten.  I am reminded of what my grandmother would say:  BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR, YOU MIGHT GET IT.

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333 responses to “Senator Caswell Franklyn Speaks – Mia Scares”

  1. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    My goodness. The VAT is not the government’s to write off. It belongs to the poor people who paid it. This government is a government for the rich and elites. Heaven help the poor Bajans. I almost cried when I read about the sewer tax added to the water bill. The majority of Bajans are are on septic tanks or wells. Yet the poor in the country who cant get water have to pay this added tax. Now the Madam want us in the diaspora to gather so she can fleece us too.

  2. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    And one can bet that the Mottley’s and her associates would benefit
    I do remeber hearing Mia stated that the law firm with which she is an associate owed taxes
    It would be of interest to know how much they owed.
    Well so much for transparency
    The rich filled their bellies off the govt coffers and the poor must walk barfeet skin teet and be contented
    Btw wuh happen to the Unions
    Ever since May 24 th they have gone to sleep
    Maybe it is about time Caswell give them a wake up call
    Mia was not elected but selected by a group of Capitalist bandits to do their bidding after Stuart became stubborn and remained steadfast in his will not to tow their line
    These are a bunch of ruthless conservatives who could not care less about the social enviroment of a country

  3. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    And this is to be added to the lowering of corporation tax rates to next to nothing? I heard her saying that this is to be revenue neutral. There are rumblings that she may be looking to increase VAT or reduce the no. of items in the vat free basket of goods. Revaluation of properties for land taxes has already begun. If she is looking to increase land taxes it had better not be on poor people’s properties. Bus fares are going up quite sharply according to the minister. This woman would have to be looking for riots if she squeezes the poor any more than she already has while easing the rich over and over again.

  4. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Artax and Puff Enuff

    Please read sweetie Caswell account of the very thing I highlighted in ”Is the Prime Minister of Barbados looking out for all” and my bone of contention over the tax amnesty. Mottley is rogue and the several major decisions she has made so far, the main one being the tax amnesty is intended to put to rest the concerns of her father and those friends and business affiliates who no longer have to worry about prosecution. She also has just bought all their loyalties in this scratch ma back move That means all of them are now part of the I OWE YOU or I own you rogue-works machinery.

  5. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Dame Bajans,

    i believe it is the interest and penalties that she is looking to write off. That would still amount to the businesses borrowing our money at 0 % interest rate since they had the use of it and we didn’t. I did not consent to offering them an interest-free loan. Every loan I have had I paid heaps of interest on.

    The ruse is going to be that they are looking to encourage speedy payment of the principal amount but that does not fly with me since they can demand payment regardless.

  6. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Reblogged this on Caswell Franklyn’s Weblog.

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

    Well finally

    The voice of someone in the inside who is confirming all the information that we, the few, the vigilant, the BU tag team have been speaking about while the Mugabe Defence Force is chanting that all is well with Mugabe

    AND THAT SHE GOT DIS!!!

    A new and more reasonable fellow Goren came and axe de ole man to get me grandson do some analytics on the Mugabe regime programming

    Maybe he will start to realise that this administration HAS NO PLAN AND THAT NEITHER SIDE OF THE DUOPOLY HAS A SOLUTION

    Which reiterates what the ole man has been saying.

    PROOF OF COMPETENCIES

    As a small one pony economy, TOURISM, we need to choose people who can diversify and grow the economy and competently manage the country’s affairs

    As opposed to tekking $21million to lik out with your friends and falsified profiles like White Hoax, raise your salaries by 5%, promise to donate 10% of daid salary, forgive you fadder $1 million in taxes, fire 5,000 public servants, raise VAT smartly and a whole set of shyte

    But de Mugabe Defense Force going rush heah and start cussing Caswell just now

    https://imgur.com/CsHuYRy

    ALL HAIL MUGABE!!!

  8. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Well David of BU must be blamed for this travesty !

    He relentlessly promoted Mia Mottley as the best thing – since slice bread !

    Embolden by such support from David BU – Mia Mottley brought back Darwin Dottin to ” public life ” to curb violent crime in Barbados !

    Receiving a handsome monthly pay cheque of $ 30,000.00 a month…….6 MORE murders have occured since Dottin has ” returned ” !!!

    Bajans…..stop the ROTTIN’

    FIRE ….. DOTTIN

  9. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Caswell? “write off taxes that were owed by persons between 1968 and 2000.”

    Truly no government was able to collect those 1960’s taxes. If they could have, they would have, not so?

    Since no government “B”/”D” was able or willing to collect what was the point of keeping those taxes on the books?

    But “yes” government/BRA has to do a better job of collecting taxes as they become due. because if a person can’t pay one year’s taxes, how will hey be able to pay two, or three, or ten or twenty years worth?

    Taxes due, today, this week, this month. Collect today, this week, this month. Don’t even look at the the names of people who owe. Just collect.

    The Americans/the IRS give their tax compliance officers guns, and the training to use them.

    All power comes out of the barrell of a gun.

    Maybe we need to empower BRA’s officers.

    I bet that Bajans wouldn’t “F” around if they knew that an armed tax compliance officer was on her way (or his way) to collect.

    Instead both parties have pulled the teeth of BRA. Emasculated BRA.

    Instead of arming BRA.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    @Fractured BLP

    This editorial should be of interesting. It was published by your dear loving paper.

    https://www.barbadosadvocate.com/columns/editorial-whither-dlp

  11. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    “Now the Madam want us in the diaspora to gather so she can fleece us too.”

    They say the hardest thing is to know…at leasy ya know that Mia and her gang only cares to rob you who lives in the diaspora…and rob the poor and vulnerable on the island who cannot fight back until next election…all of it just so she can enrich her friends family and hangerson..,and enrich those who have a history of paying government ministers bribes to inflate their offshore accounts ,.while everyone else sinks lower and lower into poverty…and if course she would never wantbto take responsibility fir her vile actions..

    So..protect yourselves, stay away…and spread the word in the diaspora…she cannot be allowed to get away with this…not in this era.

    AND…

    i agree with these young Kenyans 1000%….corrupt government ministers and officials steal and destroy the lives of countless generations of people they are supposed to protect….these thieves lives should also be taken by the state for their evil crimes against their own prople…whom they hate and disrespect…..and that includes corruot government ifficials in Barbados and the Caribbean..they shoukd be hung from the hughest trees for the way they rob and sell out their people.

    “MP Jaguar’s Plan to Introduce Death Penalty for Corrupt Politicians
    By STEPHANIE WANGARI on 1 March 2019 – 3:39 pm

    HANGMAN KNOCKING
    Starehe Member of Parliament Charles Njagua THE STAR

    FacebookTwitterWhatsAppFacebook MessengerEmail
    Starehe Member of Parliament Charles Kanyi Njagua, popularly known as Jaguar, is proposing the death penalty for leaders who will be found guilty of engaging in corruption.

    On his Facebook page, Jaguar stated that young parliamentarians were going to sponsor a motion in Parliament to amend the Anti-corruption Act 2011.

    Currently, the penalties for corruption offences provide a fine not exceeding Ksh1 Million or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years or both.

    Starehe MP Charles Njagua
    The young parliamentarians feel the penalty is lenient and will petition a motion to change it to a death penalty for anyone involved in corruption cases.

    If the motion is passed, the MPs want the death penalty to start with Cabinet Secretaries who will be found guilty of misusing public monies.”

  12. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    SAME OLD SAME OLD, will anything be done or happen, not likely with the exception of the diligent taxpayer funds being siphoned off to the personal pockets of the Mugabe gang. How long before another default, or is it presently underway as we are hearing nothing about the international DEBT NEGOTIATIONS, me thinks this silence means it’s not going well.

  13. David Avatar
    David

    There is a line to be observe between vigorously critiquing government policies and out and out not finding ways to assist. Some of us live here, have family and friends etc. We must ask ourselves HOW can we help our country.

  14. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    the other SSS but a Sir

    How did the persons owing taxes got to owing taxes in the first place? How did her father get away without any penalties from not paying taxes? What happened in the first three years when these persons and businesses were not paying taxes. This is bare shite. Both political parties showed clearly that they sanction this and permitted it to continue under their watch. Bare shite I tell ya. Bare shite.

  15. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    It is time to ARM the tax collecting agency officers with guns, there is no way that VAT should have been written off when the businesses collected the money at their points of sale and STOLE IT instead of turning it in to government…that is grand theft.

    But then ya will get the ….they said and the other they said…with bribery being the common denominator.

    Yo Caswell…ah don’t think the US is too pleased…all that money given to one or the other tag team government to fight the drugs and guns crimewave…there should have been multiple cameras throughout the port…years now and most ..TRAINED ON CUSTOMS OFFICERS…to see what many get up to…

    …..there should have been at least 5 scanners at the port ..,all maintained and in consistent working order to scan the multiple containers arriving weekly thtough the port…but none of that ever happened did it…we dont even want to know who tief all that money belonging to US…we just want to hear them all admit like the COP has been saying for quite a while…that the drugs, guns and stolen car parts come right through the ports, including charles and ferdinand….with the blessings of many..in the parliament.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @SSS

    During the tearful press conference was it not revealed that the incident of owing taxes came out of an audit?

  17. GEORGIE PORGIE Avatar
    GEORGIE PORGIE

    WHERE IS ENUFF LORENZO AND THE OTHER MUGABEITES TODAY?

    CASWELL FRANKLIN WILL SQUEEZE MIA’S BALLS HARD OR DIE IN THE PROCESS.

    ATHERLY OF COURSE WAS ORDERED TO GO AND BE THE LEADER OF THE NON OPPOSITION

    THE OTHER 28 LIKE THEY DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO

    IF THEY WERE VALIANT HONEST SELF RESPECTING BAJANS THEY WOULD JUMP SHIP

    BUT TIME LONGER THAN TWINE

    AND PRESSURE DOES BUST PIPE

  18. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Mia was not elected.She selected to do the bidding of the big financial institutions
    Now we all see the beginnjng of what will all end tragically for many barbadian households
    Its all about the Reserve.
    The poor and vulnerable can eat the crumbs if any left that falls off the masters table
    The Unions fell for the bait and in turn sold out their members for a lousy 10percent and have bern put to sleep
    Wailing and suffering would be the rallying cry for the next four years get used to it
    The bible speaks of wickedness in high places
    Those who have eyes to see let them see

  19. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    The media and the Unions must all share blame for the people suffering
    All wete fore warned about Mia deceptive nature
    Now when i read these articles one thought comes to mind
    How could so many be so flooish
    The consequences would be long
    The IMF would be the biggest boulder in resistence
    All sit back enjoy the bumpy ride

  20. David Avatar
    David

    Mia won because of you incompetent party.

  21. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    “God moves in a mysterious way
    His wonders to perform.”

  22. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    David BU

    She won because of your HYPOCRISY !!

    NOTHING ELSE !!

    HYPOCRISY ,& HORSE PRATTLE …….which you branded on BU as intelligent discourse !

    But one day……coming very SOON……justice will be served …..!

  23. GEORGIE PORGIE Avatar
    GEORGIE PORGIE

    VINCENT

    THAT IS THE OPENING LINE OF AN APPROPRIATE HYMN
    ANOTHER APPROPRIATE ONE IS “GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSE OUT AS YEAR SUCCEDS TO YEAR, THE CHORUS IS BASED ON HABAKKUK 2:14
    God is working His purpose out
    As year succeeds to year;
    God is working his purpose out,
    And the time is drawing near;
    Nearer and nearer draws the time,
    The time that shall surely be,
    When the earth shall be filled
    With the glory of God
    As the waters cover the sea.

    I HOPE THAT YOU ARE A CONQUEROR AND OVERCOMER AS YOUR NAME IMPLIES

    VINCENT FROM LATIN vincō vincere, vīcī, victum TO CONQUER OR OVERCOME

    THIS IS THE ROOT ALSO FOR THE NAME VICTOR..

  24. GEORGIE PORGIE Avatar
    GEORGIE PORGIE

    RE Fractured BLP March 4, 2019 9:53 AM

    David BU She won because of your HYPOCRISY !!NOTHING ELSE !!
    YOU ARE A NASTY STINKING LIAR!

    YOU CANT CUSS DAVID FOR THE POOR ADMIN OF FUMBLE AND COMPANY FOR TEN YEARS!
    YOU SOUNDING LIKE HILARY NOW.
    YOU STILL DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED EH?

    RE HYPOCRISY ,& HORSE PRATTLE …….which you branded on BU as intelligent discourse !

    David BU ALLOWS THE HYPOCRISY ,& HORSE PRATTLE … OF ALL INCLUDING YOURS
    HE HAS NOT SHUT DOWN YOUR BULL SHIT TODAY? HAS HE?

    RE But one day……coming very SOON……justice will be served …..!
    YES JESUS IS COMING SOON!

    IN THE INTERIM THE DLP GONE TO THE DOGS AND THE DUMP!
    EVEN IF YOU GO TO THE WITCH OF ENDOR AND BRING UP BARROW…..THE DLP GONE TO THE DOGS AND THE DUMP!

  25. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ GP at 9 :57 AM

    Thanks for keying one of my other favourite hymns.
    Yes I am an over-comer. My second name has German derivation and it means courage. My mother ,whose responsibility it was to name her children,gave us inspiring names. We try to live up to them.

  26. GEORGIE PORGIE Avatar
    GEORGIE PORGIE

    WELL SHE COULD NOT HAVE GIVEN YOU A BETTER NAME SIR!
    BUT SHE GAVE YOU A VERY HARD TO LIVE UP TO! lol

    NO HIGHER OR HARDER NAME THAN VINCENT OR VICTOR EXCEPT JESUS !

    PHILLIPIANS 2 TELLS US….
    9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

    10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

    11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

  27. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Remeber the Hue and cry abiut tge NSRl
    Remember thr hur and cry comkng from the lying lips of Mia
    The poor wuh loss the poor people
    A 30 – 0 victory handed to Mia on a silver platter which she has tossed into the sea of forgetfulness to pacify a few
    Wuh loss how quickly they forget
    Couldn’t care less

  28. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Your problem is that you have an inestimable confidence in the humanoid. Maybe its the only way you know. However, we have gone through this same cycle many, many, many times previously. The outcomes were long pellucid!

    It should have been clear, given the external environments and even internal conditions, that the promises to protect ‘the vulnerable’ could not have been keep. For Mottley had very few options, within the capitalist system to extract more surplus from the poor. And, her government acting as agent for the rentier class, would have increased that extraction. Such is the nature of financial imperialism. Poor MAM has had no choice.

    You may want to tell us where the IMF or international finance ever cared about the poor, the vulnerable. Just give us one example.

    THOSE WHO WOULD SEEK TO REWRITE THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE DLP BY EITHER CUSSING MOTTLEY OR GIVING THE IMPRESSION THAT THINGS WERE NOT AS BAD AS THEY ACTUALLY WERE SHOULD RECALL ANY MODICUM OF HONESTY STILL IN THEIR RESERVES.

    Notwithstanding, we maintain that your heart is in the right place and somebody has be hopeful. Unfortunately, that remit falls to you.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    There is no easy fix.

    All roads lead to a lack of leadership at the household level.

    An apathy regarding citizen involvement on our governance setup.

  30. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    MAM has been implementing socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Just like the DLP.

  31. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Yes, we agree. And you have always tried to be honest about circumstances. On that, we will always defend you.

    We however, as you would expect, disagree that any other leadership culture could have produced any different results. We need to go deeper than that.

  32. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    What a government, what a disgrace? Will there be anything left after a further four years? We need an individual or organisation to carefully list every fiscal policy of this government. The numbers will be important in four years’ time.

  33. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    There is no easy fix.
    All roads lead to a lack of leadership at the household level.
    An apathy regarding citizen involvement on our governance setup.(Quote)

    What spectacular ignorance? Household level?

  34. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Pacha
    You can’t be serious! David continues to call on us to be nationalistic because he is constantly apologizing for the status quo. You have taken his pathetic defense of the rottening system and attempted to portray him as a martyr.
    His embracing the IMF from day one; regurgitating bogus statistics etc all point to a serious lack of in-depth analysis of what we are confronting.
    His is a bogus cry for nationalism.

  35. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    Can’t point fingers back and forth…Barbados has only ever had two interchangeable governments….both of whom have been corrupt for decades…so it was either reelect an exceedingly corrupt lying and deceitful DLP…or sever and exile all those criminals…permanently…as was done by the electorate….and elect BLP…which is now on the electorate’s chopping block to be permanently severed and exciled from the parliameht ….for also being exceedingly corruption, lying and deceitful..

    Ticktock.

  36. GEORGIE PORGIE Avatar
    GEORGIE PORGIE

    WILLIAM
    I DONT KNOW DAVID
    BUT AS A MAN WHO CUSSES DAVID OFTEN THE WORSE YOU CAN SAY ABOUT HIM IS THAT HE IS

    1- AN OPTIMIST WHOSE OPTIMISM IS BOUNDLESS WITH RESPECT TO THE GOOD OF BARBADOS
    2- A NATIONALIST WHO IS BENT ON DOING OR SAVING AND BELIEVING IN BARBADOS…AT ALL COSTS, AND THAT HE IS WILLING TO DIE IN THE PROCESS

    GRANT HIM THESE THINGS
    THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HIS BEING A NATIONALIST
    MOST OF US ARE STILL NATIONALISTS DEEP DOWN IN OUR HEARTS DESPITE ALL THE GARBAGE ON THE GROUND AND IN THE THINKING OF THE LEADERSHIP

  37. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    At this trajectory we would now expect the Bajans to make another fateful leap into the fire of the DLP next time around.

    We’re hoping that there is a sensibility that something is very wrong with that political culture. A culture that is likely to produce, for the dead DLP, a result next time of 30-0, in their favour!

    Oh Jesus Christ! Are we not lost?

  38. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    The simple fact- call it simplistic if you must- unless a credible third movement emerges than we are left with doing our utmost to influence change from within the establishment. Call it Hobson’s choice but it is the hand we have to play or fold.

  39. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    “Such is the nature of financial imperialism. Poor MAM has had no choice.”

    Mia had a choice…if she wanted the majority population who elected her to have her back…she had a choice…lock up the DLP criminals and the minority bribers and haul back all their offshore accounts to help the economy…,but she preferred protect criminals and suffer the people who elected her..,so let her take what she gets…,because she does not care about the people and they know it and for that nasty trick….she will reap the whirlwind…cause she only wants to please the minority thieves, bribers and those who help government ministers rob the population…none of whom number enough on the island to reelect her…she will soon have to return to the same black population that she is now pretending dont exist to beg them their votes…ticktock,.

    People who were severed still have not been paid…word is that the employment rights tribunal has been reactivated for these same laid off workers to have to now fight for their severance that she claimed they were going home with…when they were laid off…which we all know can take up to 5 years or more with the lowlife lawyers the government will put in place and pay them big money to drag the cases on forever…

    Correct me if am wrong…

    Mia deserves what she is going to get.

  40. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    Socialist Governments cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

    Socialist/Communist likes to DIVIDE the WEALTH they do not know how to MULTIPLY the WEALTH.

    Big Intrusive Governments rely on such who Produce to then Confiscate it via uncontrolled Taxation keeping 70% for their Bloated Bureaucracy and trickle down 30% to We De Serfs!!

    They are not about “Real Solutions” and the “Real Strategies” proposed to get us there, are all blatant lies, for they are never the end-goals. Again, “Real Solutions” actually act to impede their work and design. Only the governed chaos of dissension and ‘un-solutions’ propel them forward.

    THEIR METHOD IS CONTROL, VIA REGULATIONS & ENDLESS TAXATION!!!

    https://pics.me.me/government-un-2vided-com-fund-minister-chairman-commissioner-general-public-25657690.png

  41. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    VIVA BARBADOS!!

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2292434631032573&set=a.1380708642205181&type=3&theater

  42. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    No! There will not be another 30-0 trouncing but one can rest assure that the international financial institutions backed by the IMF would keep a close watch on next election as their also have a special interst in the outcome
    Making sure that the policies upon which this govt have embarked stays in place

  43. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ David BU

    Hobson’s choice? You and that again? All societies renew themselves from within.Searching for a third party is a mirage. It will still be composed of Barbadians. Same old Khaki pants. We need a renewal of our minds and the courage to act. Cut out the politricks and introduce real politics. That which has the citizen as its focus.

  44. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    Pachamama…March 4, 2019 10:41 AM

    “MAM has been implementing socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Just like the DLP.”

    HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE BE 100% WRONG 100% OF THE TIME?

    ANSWER THEIR BRAINS ARE WIRED BACKWARDS!!

    Decades after Capitalism seemed to have triumphed over Socialism, politicians are once again arguing about the merits and drawbacks of these opposing economic systems. Why are we still having this debate? Andy Puzder, former CEO of the parent company of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., explains the misconceptions that keep the debate alive.

    https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/385778322241628/?notif_id=1551708136115680&notif_t=live_video

  45. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Sir William Skinner

    David, as moderator, has to be the one who tries to investigate whether the centre could hold.

    For us that is a highly reasonable expectation. We have never found him to be adverse to conceding or admitting defeat when the evidence is thusly presented.

    When it comes to ‘severing’, we have long been calling for a kind which is too drastic for most. And always, for both sides. Even third parties too. Other elites like COW.

    We all have our political ‘proclivities’. His are no less relevant than others. We have seen him support the status quo in the early days of the DLP. Have seen that position shifted to wanting a change last time around. Maybe next time he will want a change again. His choice though ill-advised.

    You of all people should understand the deep-rooted culture of a duopoly. If David has determined that a third party is unlikely or is inviable he certainly cannot be blamed for acceptance of the present political culture, as a given. That is his choice. We rend to think differently.

    If the DLP runs the country so far into the ground, is it not unreasonable to expect that most would seek help from where ever it may come from. Especially, if a good ‘story’ is sold.

    The only martyrs we recognize, in the context of Barbados, are Bussa and those from the events of 1939. For us, there can never be an alternative to death which comes in fighting for the people, period! War.

    There is nobody here who has interrogated the prevailing orthodoxy more than this writer. We certainly don’t see David as any apologist. And there are many here. But he’s not one.

  46. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    @Donna:
    From what Caswell has posted, it is the taxes, penalties and interest:

    “This Bill would amend the Value Added Tax Act, Cap. 87 to provide, among
    other things, for a write-off of certain outstanding tax and of penalties and interest
    incurred in respect of arrears of tax.”

    Caswell attached a copy of the proposed bill. This is the description of the Bill on the cover page.

  47. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    We can agree but institutions develop cultures that if left unchecked overwhelm the capacity to refresh itself and they cease to be relevant to the mandate it was meant to serve.

  48. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Correction!

    This cannot be fixed. The economy. We’ve so argued for 20 years.

    That is different to if there’s an easy fix or not.

  49. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Vincent Codrington

    From your vast knowledge, could you adumbrate where societies have so renewed without some type of cataclysm.

    We get the distinct impression that you are grossly underestimating the gravamen of political culture.

    Such assumptions are at best dangerously misguided.

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    Dame Bajans

    @ WARU

    “Yo Caswell…ah don’t think the US is too pleased…all that money given to one or the other tag team government to fight the drugs and guns crimewave…there should have been multiple cameras throughout the port…years now and most ..TRAINED ON CUSTOMS OFFICERS…to see what many get up to…”

    Cameras were recommended at the Ports of Entry many, many years ago. But Leroy Trotman, the Trade Unionist, who was also a member of Parliament at the time was strongly against. I read it in the news. Crazy, crazy, crazy. i discussed it with him, but he could not see or did not want to see the optics would also have been good for the members.

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