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Dear BU
In the endless cause to stop violence and import of weapons the government has announced the procurement of 2 scanners at a cost of 40 million BBD.
It doesn’t take much searching to find the attached price list for RapiScan products, a top US manufacturer of all types of scanners including container/gantry scanning.
See Scanner Price List – Rapiscan Systems
It is quite evident that a scanner costs 900k-2 million USD.
How the government is allotting 10 million USD to a scanner is a question that should be asked.
Is this a classic example of over-billing with the extra money being kick backed to a corrupt politician/bureaucrat ?
If you at the BU could post this one way or another with my text or your own I would greatly appreciate it.
The fact that it took me 10 minutes of searching on the internet to find List Prices for Scanners just shows how stupid the politician must think we citizens are. How can they be so blatant to claim they are spending X dollars when we can see the cost is 35% of X.
Good day and I hope we can bring someone into the light of justice with this document and future article.
Sincerely
Concerned Bajan with Internet Access

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111 responses to “40 Million Port Scanners – True Cost Anyone?”

  1. Freddie Avatar
    Freddie

    The attached document is for an airport bag scanner.

  2. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Enuff
    the blogmaster made the point.
    If an elected official goes public, tossing around numbers with little backup documentation, he/she must be fully aware of the potential interpretations available. Hence the interpretation is the intent is to confuse.
    How many containers require scanning on a weekly basis? Do the employees work only an 8hr shift like your Israel example, or can it work 2-3 shifts as is the norm at many border crossings. #updeting we expect them to be better.

  3. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I have seen the blogmaster, Gabriel and NO try to put sense in you, but it seem like the scratch grain turned you foolish.

    The best argument thAt you have is to state that the Minister was talking Guyanese, Jamaican, or Trinidadian dollars.

    Gonna beat you as if you are a rented mule.

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

    Wuhloss..lol

    https://www.facebook.com/jackie.stewart.965/videos/1023008054575400/?t=0

  5. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Hahahahahahaha

    I don’t usually watch Jacky Stewart’s videos, but since the one posted above was just over 5 minutes long, I decided to view it.

    All this time I did not know “Tron” was Dale Marshall incognito.

    But…… how does “Miss Face Contortionist” knows Tron = Marshall?

    Is she ASSUMING “Tron” is Marshall ……….. or does she actually have PROOF to substantiate “Tron” is definitely Marshall?

    Hahahahaha…. wuh loss…….

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

    @ Theophillus Gazerts

    I gine beg for you to get ban!

    You nearly kill de ole man!!

    Oh lassie

    “…Gonna beat you as if you are a rented mule…”

    Lord come for your world…

    De ole man does use some not so nice language designed to denote derision and distaste (for meself) BUT NOWHERE IN ME ARSENAL do I gots class like that!!

    “..Gonna beat you as if you are a rented mule…”

    De imagery is splendiferous!!!

    Not only is The Nameless Ones #1 a mule, BUT HE IS RENTED!!!

    YOU GOING UNFAIR HE???

    😭😭😭😭 just short of death, AND DEN GIVE HE BACK TO DE MUGABE REGIME.

    DE OLE MAN GINE GOT TO STOP READING PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND HANTS AND ARTAXERXES doah!!!

    De 3 uh wunna does doan use no lotta long talk but when you dun read wunna submission, the target of wunna submission does be lick up

    “…Gonna beat you as if you are a rented mule…”

    I gine teif dat like how Mugabe and she regime intends to teif all de bajans money using Rawdone and MeMoney IN THE CLEAR VIEW OF THE CENTRAL PRANK

  7. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    A friend bought some small items in the USA
    The custom officer at Grantley Adams airport told the woman she had to pay 110bds for the five mostly small items in size which included a five dollar pocket set with screwdrivers the total for the items when purchased was about 50Us
    Needless to say my friend was not too pleased
    The custom officer told the woman in response to her displeasure ” that the country was poor because of people like her ( friend is a visitor first time )
    All because my friend had offered to pay 50US which would have been 5US less
    As to make matters worst another custom officer gave his advice for my friend to borrow the 5US money from some one who would be picking her up
    This country gone to the dogs
    I bet if it was a white person she would have never used such offensive language
    I say the above that when the negative fall out hits social media barbados suffer

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

    If it was Ms Ram with 15 suitcases and going to Customs Officer *** she was not going pay one cent even though it takes 3 red caps to carry her bags outside.

    And de ole man see dat meself.

    @ManyPussy

    You cud get me a seat at dat Court Marshall ting?

    De ole man wondering effing to fly home for dat OR DE GATHERING 2020 heheheheh

  9. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    you crazy Piece?

    FC & GRENVILLE GOT SCANNERS PROGRAMMED TO SPOT YOU BOY, YOU DONT KNOW DAT?
    ITS A JAYBIRD MODEL ISO SCANNER THAT WILL TURN YOU TO A BLACK BIRD

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

    @ My Fellow myope Dr GP

    You is a next one dat want banning

    Any you is a doctor who boundst to know dat “all dis Pressure does burst PIPES ”

    When de night come INSTEAD UH ME GUARDING DIS LOEWS HARDWARE STORE with Walter Blackman PPK, I heah pun de people computer reading you comments bout black birds!!!

    I realise dat neider AC nor de rest of de ManyPosers crew ent answer de ole man bout de question for an invitation

    Dat is not fair doah whu all I was did want to do was to sit among de other 19 people and mek meself feel important like FC “de lover of black birds” says dat I am

    Heheheheh

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

    “I gine teif dat like how Mugabe and she regime intends to teif all de bajans money using Rawdone and MeMoney IN THE CLEAR VIEW OF THE CENTRAL PRANK”

    The GREAT MASTER PLAN….

    Broad daylight….HEIST OF THE CENTURY….ROB THE BANKS..

    …..render Bajans penniless, that’s the easiest way to implement the mMoney scam. The vulnerable, helpless and broke majority population will not be able to fight back.

    lol…murdahhh!!!!

  12. BajanFeeParty Avatar
    BajanFeeParty

    And one crook at custom turns it off when the truck coming, same could have also got all trucks to pick up trash, We spend more for outside than side, We sure dogs would be cheaper, just like body cams when you hired crooks,

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

    Wuhloss…yall TIEFING BAJAN LAWYERS…won’t stop robbing the elderly and their beneficiaries their properties and money…now yall are now well known, DESERVEDLY FAMOUS WORLD RENOWNED THIEVES..lol

    https://www.facebook.com/jackie.stewart.965/videos/1023313444544861/?t=11

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

    Stop tiefing from vulnerable people and now trying to cover up ya decades of crimes…it’s DONE ..yall can’t hear…IT’S OVER…

    what must happen next for yall to realize the JIG IS UP.. what?

    yall had a very long DESTRUCTIVE run…nearly 80 years, 3 generations you destroyed with your evil crimes….YOU ARE DONE..

  15. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    This blog fascinates me, everyone is an expert in cargo scanning and scanners and everything else. They talk, talk and talk but don’t read or listen. The GOVERNMENT, not just the AG mentioned $40M for scanners. Let me repeat, the GOVERNMENT. Go back to the estimates
    the PM budget speech. Now, apart from knowing what is required and what the requirements should cost, some talking about the AG misspoke. 🤣🤣 Look wunna carry on, I ain’t no Salemite.

  16. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Enuff

    You do like to plough over a tilled field, the AG is prone to inserting his foot in his mouth where expenditures are concerned. The fact that a provision was made in the budget for Scanners costing “X” amount doesn’t mean that they will cost that amount. The AG could have restricted his remarks to the fact that the Gov’t is acquiring Scanners without reference to the costs but that would be too simple he had to populate his speech with peripheral information to perhaps “impress” his audience.

  17. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Puffie

    Why have you not provided me with the breakdown of costs to substantiate the 40 million price tag? Babes, when is wrong with you these days. So come on.

  18. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Added to the list are Sarge and SSS.

    I will try one more time. Perhaps, this will educate you… puffy

    What number would the minister have to call for you to realize that information is missing…. 49M, 60M, 80M, 100M….

    What if after he said 40M he then said he meant US $ 40 M, would that make you stop and think…

    Suppose he got real cute and said 40M British dollars 🙂 would that be a concern….

    Let’s get more information
    Cost in dollars of what country
    And how fast/efficient these scanners are.

    It should be at least as fast as the US $1M Guyanese scanner.

    I don’t think it was to impress the audience. He said 40M and we get something for 30M some would think that he saved us 10M. Later on we will learn it cost $20M.

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

    …..or the scanners cost less than 4 million and he and his fellow crooks divvy up 36 million among themselves….AS USUAL…

    ahhhh..crooked lawyers…the cancerous scum of the earth.

    “Trinidad & Tobago News
    Trinidad: UK QC in legal fee kickback case in plea deal
    By Staff Editor May 3, 2019

    (Trinidad Guardian) The State’s co-op­er­at­ing wit­ness in the on­go­ing cor­rup­tion in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Ger­ald Ramdeen has struck a deal over his role in the le­gal fees kick­back scam.

    The plea bar­gain agree­ment for Ja­maican-born British Queen’s Coun­sel Vin­cent Nel­son was re­vealed by Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC, when he made a rare court ap­pear­ance in the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court as Nel­son was hit with three con­spir­a­cy charges yes­ter­day.

    Gas­pard ex­plained that the 61-year-old had struck a deal un­der the Crim­i­nal Pro­ce­dure (Plea Dis­cus­sion and Plea Agree­ment) Act 2017, which was pro­claimed on Jan­u­ary 2. He re­vealed that un­der the agree­ment, Nel­son agreed to plead guilty to the charges and tes­ti­fy against his co-ac­cused, who are yet to be charged. Gas­pard did not re­veal any fur­ther terms of the agree­ment, in­clud­ing the pro­posed sen­tence Nel­son would face.”

  20. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    And under the auspices of an IMF programme? Oh I guess, the IMF Board get a cut back too. Inflate the cost by 1,000% and still get the IMF money? 🍿🍿🤣🤣🤣

  21. David Avatar
    David

    @enuff

    You do a disservice by avoiding the substantive issue raised.

  22. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    David
    What substantive issue? I use muh brain, don’t jump on bandwagons and am not a Salemite. #notme

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @enuff

    We have a vendor on record questioning the sum reputedly paid for two scanners. This is the substantive issue.

  24. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    A fool convinced against his will is of the same opinion still
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
    All the best, my old friend

  25. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    David
    Really? Well write the IMF, with your information from the “vendor”.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    Check the other blog on the same subject. Nothing to do with the IMF.

  27. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    David
    I did and 🤣🤣🤣. You should know by now that I stand on my own on this blog and don’t curry favour. In parting, concerted and persistent efforts to stoke suspicion and hysteria are as dangerous as a lack of vigilance. A large percentage of the “vigilantes” have very little to lose. I hope when they stoke the fire and it burns down the house, which they don’t occupy, the house’s occupants don’t cry. #iamnotasalemite

  28. David Avatar
    David

    @enuff

    To restate the point, it is important for the gatekeepers of public information to address these kinds of issues with haste. If they do not the cynicism and apathy at play will grow.

  29. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Puffy

    You see why you and I does got to fall out from time to time. You like throwing fact boulders at people head, namely mine, when telling me to substantiate this or that. Now I hear wanting you to substantiate this 40 million BDS dollars or USA dollars, and you writing a whole lot of shite just to avoid educating me about the 40 million. What do you so that you is skipping like jump robe? The party that you love promise openess, transparency, accountability and more credibility to the people. You trying to tell me that that was all talk to impress but the order of business dictates that things got to be done similiar to the stinking DLP. Puffy come to ma please. You are the only loyal lappy whom I respect.

  30. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    ” The Attorney General said “In order to make sure that our environment is not compromised, we have decided to commit the sum of $40 million, to acquire two new scanners, the first of which would be delivered within the next six to eight weeks. The second will be delivered certainly before the end of this year to ensure that we can target as great a percentage of container traffic coming into Barbados for scanning”

    If it was NOT Barbados dollars the AG would have said so unless he is not very intelligent.

  31. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    @Hants
    Was the Cahill a $500M or a $1B project. I seem to recall it was quoted in US $

    I will defer to you, but these guys like $ US

  32. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    The good old days are gone. Nowadays, not a peep….
    There was a time this guy sang like a canary
    https://barbadosunderground.net/2015/07/07/outrageous-government-contracts-are-choking-barbados/

    Looks like he got a big Xmas gift and every day is the day before Xmas

    ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
    not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
    Commie was quiet with not even a squeak
    Bajans stop waiting to hear him speak

  33. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    theogazerts

    U R A POET
    BUT YOU DONT KNOW IT

  34. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Why are you here in the small brain section??
    The braniacs are over there –> The Grenville Phillips Column – Get Out of the Stupid Boat

  35. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Q Why are you here in the small brain section??
    A CAUSE I LIKE POETRY AND THEY AINT GOT NO POETS OUT THERE ONLY IDIOTS ARGUING WID DE BRAINIACS

  36. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Enuff
    Yours@6.10am May 8
    In parting, concerted and persistent efforts to stoke suspicion and hysteria are as dangerous as a lack of vigilance
    +++++++++++
    Cheez on bread I could have sworn that was what the Opposition party was doing a year ago, I could have sworn that many people on the blog were also doing the same thing, what has changed? Did you receive instructions to break the mould? Its long past when citizens will take the word of a Gov’t official without question. The Minister is a seasoned, senior member of Cabinet and his status was confirmed when the PM removed some crucial elements from another Minister’s portfolio and added them to his, it shows the PM trusts him to do the heavy lifting.

    The Minister opened the door and invited critics in, so you could stop ringing the alarm bells.

  37. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Sargeant

    Puffy wants us to accept that the price of the two scanners is 40 million. The information that is stating otherwise and shedding light on this price as suspicious is all speculation. Even if the amount is 40 million bajan dollars the equivalent of converting 20 million US to bajan, the information provided on the true cost of the scanners still remains ridiculously high. Puffy, talk to ma na. Is this a scam, a mistake by the Attorney General, or a price that is to include other things that he failed to mention. Talk to ma, I beg ya.

  38. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @David
    yours@6.14

    There is no Opposition to hold Gov’ts feet to the fire, yet when a few voices on this blog question any Gov’t action we are likened to arsonists about to burn to house down.
    An unofficial One- Party State

  39. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    Frankly the blogmaster is a little disappointed we have not had a clarification on this issue.

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

    Here is another item that you may want clarification on

    “…Barbados creditors fume at ‘absurd’ $27m advisory fees
    FT.com
    barbados creditors fume at absurd $27 m fee from amp.ft.com
    4 hours ago · Barbados creditors fume at ‘absurd’ $27m advisory fees. A little-known UK advisory firm stands to make about $27m from the restructuring of Barbados’s $7bn of debts — close to what Lazard earned seven years ago when it advised Greece on defaulted debt nearly 40 times bigger…”

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

    Hmmmm was de ole man’s previous comment about clarification being sought seen in suspense? or deleted

  42. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    The blogmaster is into deleting comments after moderating them. I wrote several comments on here in response to Jackie Stewarts videos and all of a sudden they vanished. Must have went somewhere else but me do not care.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    If some of you do no stop telling lies your monikers will be blocked.

  44. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    You can go ahead and block me, David. I am a big girl, and as you know, do not give two wuk ups at the moment about you and where you stand anymore in the interest of right or wrong. There were comments I posted about Jackie Stewarts last video in response to something that Robert Green or Green Goren, I think that is the name, posted. One minute they were there, the next minute me do not see them again. Did you not delete them? If you have not, I can easily apologise, but these days, where you are concern, I just feel like bliss blinding you in cuss for the appearance of presenting a fraud front and wearing two hats. GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY. Ban my moniker. You think I care ya frigging Joker.

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

    It’s the filter that they are using my Dearest SSS

    Let me explain

    Grenville Phillips name may be part of a filter so when I post that may be filtered

    Additionally you may be behind a VPN so that will set off an alarm for BU

    I ent got no brief for him but…

    Then he is splitting up topics so I might post on one topic and then come back later and post and swear I posted earlier only to find the post on the next blog

    Then there are different people who are the BU Borg

    One of them is really working hard though actually two of the 5 of them

    I am still confused though…. and am just going with the flow
    Don’t get upset and leave dear

    If you do, they win.

  46. TheOGazerts (Restructuring, Scanner Importer, Bus Importer, Road reconstruction, Housing) Avatar
    TheOGazerts (Restructuring, Scanner Importer, Bus Importer, Road reconstruction, Housing)

    Hint to Mia,
    I do it all..
    Gotta go… see you guy later

  47. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    The thoughts of Chairman No Salemite.
    ——————–xx—————————

    Chairman: “Some people buy a Kia, others a Benz. Wait and see if a Kia turns up with a Benz price attached. No further comment.”

    Dear Sir, Can you tell me why Barbados is always shopping for a Mercedes, will pay Mercedes price and most likely end up with a Kia..

    Chairman: “GOVERNMENT, not just the AG mentioned $40M for scanners. Let me repeat, the GOVERNMENT. Go back to the estimates the PM budget speech. Now, apart from knowing what is required and what the requirements should cost, some talking about the AG misspoke

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/239702/scanners-costing-usd40-million
    “The new scanners earmarked for the Bridgetown Port are not costing $40 million, says Attorney General Dale Marshall.”

    Two points:
    1. Here we have the Minister bobbing and weaving, twisting and turning and trying to get away from that $40M figure, and above we have the Chairman holding the AG and Government feet to the fire. The AG want your support, but he doesn’t want you to believe his every statement, You have to be flexible and adjust your responses when the stuff hits the fan. A honest man cannot vouch for a crook.
    Google plausible deniability.

    2> The AG has spoken, but he is not being completely honest. He need to state whether it is US or BDS $. When he announces that the scanners cost $30M and you realized that is BDS $60M, “all uh wunnah gun bawl some mo”.

    Let get actually currencies those acquisitions are stated in

    🤣🤣🤣🤣
    🖐🏾#SalemitesWhoSellScammersInBarbados$

  48. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    I usually don’t wite his name but I will summon him

    Abracadabra… Lorenzo where the hell are you?

    Rats deserting a sinking ship could take lessons from you. No fly-by?? No drive by??

    Silent as a mouse and leaving your fellow MDF (Mugabe Defense Force) member to battle the Salemites on his own. Now is the time to step up and show your mettle

    Going to try all my magic words to make you appear

    Abracadabra LORENZA
    Scratch grain
    Kool-aid
    Abracadra Lorenza

  49. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    My CIA agent may be real.. He does not understand the Bajan lexicon or the Bajan Lexicon – nobody understand the latter.

    I asked for a psycho-analysis of Lorenzo and he stated “The CIA does not psycho-analyze poultry”

    I had to let him know that a yard-fowl was not a bird. Silly man, why would we cuss birds…..

    I like this phrase … He does not understand the Bajan lexicon or the Bajan Lexicon..

  50. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    The OGazerts

    Why would you want to summon the pooch licker Lorenzo? As far as he is concern nothing was said wrong that should be interpreted wrong concerning the 4o million of two scanners. He would say that Dale Marshall made a mistake just like he did with the true cost to build the prison. Lorenzo is die hard pooch lick.picker. Nothing like my Puffy, who is a gentleman but loyal to what he believes. I believe Puffy would say it is wrong what it is wrong. Puffy is sweet. Nothing like the other pretender who wants you to believe that he is all for the cause that lacks resistance blah blah blah.

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