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STOP Playing Tit for Tat Politics

It is very difficult for me and many others to grapple every day with the fact the DLP is referred to as the opposition party when nine others parties contested the elections and not one of them won a single seat with the BLP winning with a clean sweep of the thirty seats contested.  Why…

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Submitted by Wayne Cadogan, Retired Garment Manufacturer, Trainer, Consultant

It is very difficult for me and many others to grapple every day with the fact the DLP is referred to as the opposition party when nine others parties contested the elections and not one of them won a single seat with the BLP winning with a clean sweep of the thirty seats contested. 

Why is it that former members of the DLP are speaking out on issues as the opposition when there are eight other parties that are in the same boat as the DLP without a single representative in the house that can consider themselves as opposition members too? 

The  most pressing issue that is currently hurting the country severely is the spate of murders and which has become a very troublesome issue for the government, people and international reputation.

The former Attorney General Mr Adriel Brathwaithe has some nerve to tell the present Attorney General to resign over the current gun violence that is currently bringing this country to one of fear and despair when all of this started under his watch during his spineless reign as Attorney General.

It is about time that the politicians in this country get serious about what is really happening to this country before it gets to a point that it cannot be reverse. This tit for tat tactics that both parties use against each other is not politics but a bunch of immature politicians whose behaviour is similar to that of kids growing up. 

 

This country is facing serious problems and sailing in dangerous waters that it has never traversed and we all need to put our heads together to turn this ugly situation around before it completely destroys our fragile tourist industry we have to depend on for the only source of foreign exchange.

The politicians in this country need to act more mature and businesslike and realize that running a country is not child’s play, it is serious business to run a country and it needs competent people.  

 

It would be in the best interest if the members of the DLP if the party is to rise from the grave as a political party in this country again, to stop being so negative and criticizing everything that the government does, praise them occasionally for some of its efforts in trying to get the country back on track that they helped to destroy. 

162 responses to “STOP Playing Tit for Tat Politics”

  1. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    PDYR

    Understood

  2. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/22/insurance-companies-talk-partnership/

    This matter is outside of my expertise, but I expected robust commentary given our recent experience with CLICO.

    What is the upside?
    What is the downside?
    If there is a merger or acquisition, what should we expect from the new company?
    Is this good for Barbados?
    Is it good for the insured?

    Don’t come here kicking up a storm after the horse has bolted.

    Big brains that do not question or anticipate and that can merely follow are no better than small brains.

  3. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    There you go Mariposa. Let the blasted DLP go and search for the oasis, and upon finding the waters, let them be poisonous to the whole entire lot. That is how I feel about the stinking lot that has tarnished the party I once loved. They are no longer in the focus. The hands that must be held to the plough is the party holding the reigns. To whom much has been given, the returns so far are in my opinion minimal. We know that time is not enough to rectify the overall and to see signficance returns towards real progress. However, haste was the order of the day for certain things, and snail pace is the decision that has been made for things like integrity legislation, anticorruption legislation, whistle blower legislation, and establishing a new portfolio of rules for the auditor general which includes powers associated with a contractor general. Not enough protection and guards to keep the treasury free from political indulgences. You keep on raising the Charles Herbert matter because Donville Inniss matter is highlighted. Donville Inniss deserves to be highlighted. He is the first politician to provide the proof that corruption is rampant and wild in BIM and that every single politician, past and present, must be held to greater scrutiny and accountability. Go for Mariposa

  4. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/22/brass-tacks/

    Going to support Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy👍 Kirk Humphrey👍 in this matter.

    I think he has to hold hard on this position and do not waiver or grant waivers.

    One misstep was the ban on importation in April of this year as this ban should have been put in place when the policy was first announced September of last years and order that were already approved be grandfathered in.

    The minister has to be very careful with this matter. The salemites and pick-a-noise crew will be following this story and asking “Is it a ban or is it a scam”? If he starts granting waiver left, right and center, this will be seen as just a way to shakedown businesses and put money in someone’s pocket.

    Keep it straight Kirk.
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    I find myself reading and quoting BarbadosToday. There was a time when I could not use anything from the stories posted there. There is still some way to go, but they have improved.

  5. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    David can u send out a MIA for the PM
    There was another shooting in My Lords Hill
    Man down
    Good lord how much more fear should the people withstand while govt goes into hiding
    Also where is the AG last i heard he was on vacation at Disney world
    These crime episodes are very dizzying for the people minds to comprehend
    What a wasted 30-0 victory
    By the end of the year barbados would be very close in record criminality like those Carribbean islands we use to laughed and frowned upon

  6. David Avatar
    David

    Will ask her to buckle her 6 shooter and hurry over there.

  7. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Oh David another suggestion u can add the number of gun deaths to the side bar

  8. David Avatar
    David

    Currently working on the relationship between number of deaths by the cut and the time scanners at the Port stopped working. Will respond when this job is completed.

  9. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ The OGazerts June 23, 2019 9:52 AMT
    “The minister has to be very careful with this matter. The salemites and pick-a-noise crew will be following this story and asking “Is it a ban or is it a scam”? If he starts granting waiver left, right and center, this will be seen as just a way to shakedown businesses and put money in someone’s pocket.

    Keep it straight Kirk.
    x===========XYZ===================X”
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    What we need to hear from the same Minister Humphrey is if he plans to be the Humpty-Dumpty who sat on an environmental sea wall as far as the banning of the importation of other countries piped water in single use plastic bottles.

    Why should poor Bajans be left to suck salt in trying to satisfy the IMF loan-shark called BERT while millions of forex are frittered away by importing stale water in plastic bottles to be disposed of in the already clogged-up gutters by the ‘poor-great’ middleclass wannabes?

    We as concerned citizens of the environment should not be harsh as Marie Antoinette and demand the government completely ban the eating of ‘imported’ cake and ordain the eating of and drinking of only homemade bread and beer for the sake of forex go(o)dliness and environmental cleanliness.

    But why can’t the same Minister think outside the plastic bottle instead of the Styrofoam box and offer incentives to those Bajan water drinkers who are prepared to carry their locally produced water- either boiled or infused with some healthy herbal organically grown concoction like parsley, basil or mary jane?

    I am sure there would be a thriving market to be exploited by the budding entrepreneurs which his country-boy colleague in the Ministry responsible for ‘Small Business’ is pushing with all his small grant funding might.

  10. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    In Jan the murder count was nine
    PM and supporting churches resorted to pray
    Govt stated and sent a stern message to those involved in criminal activity
    Since Jan the murder rate has increased in rapid pace
    The pressing question which govt needs to answer is what policies do they see or have necessary to tackle the crime
    For what it is worth from a layman point of view White oaks should be fired and the money retained should be used to tighten the borders along with high tech technology placed in strategic areas of the country

  11. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/23/fighting-the-ncd-epidemic-in-barbados/

    First let me commend the two groups for taking the time to educate and to highl;ight that eating properly could reduce the incidence of these diseases.
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    Now let me the devil’s advocate.

    These two groups are going about this the wrong way. Suggesting

    (1) Stop targeting the youths and target their parents. Educating the parents will ensure that healthy meals are being prepared at home and that the benefits of healthy eating is being taught.’
    (2) Instead of targeting Queens Park in a two-day blitz they should , have regular meetings at two school in every parish. As an example [St Lucy: Selah (January), Half Moon Fort (July)].
    Take the education to the people and stop hoping they come to Queens Park. A nationwide attack on the problem.
    (3) Prepare pamphlets and have them available at health centers, hospitals and every doctor’s office, schools, post offices,
    government offices and police stations
    (4) A one-hour program on healthy cooking on both the radio and television – weekly
    (5) A doctor on TV and radio explaining the complications of heart disease and diabetes – weekly
    (6) Organized weekly hikes/ 3 ,mile ‘marathons’

  12. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    A member of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is taking the party’s executive to task for failing to show up in their numbers at the funeral of former DLP parliamentarian Dr Erskine Simmons.

    Dr Simmons died at age 82 at the Bayview Hospital, earlier this month, after suffering from an undisclosed illness.
    Former St Michael South East MP Hamilton Lashley, also wants the DLP executive to say why, Dr Simmons, who also represented his riding from 1986 to 1991, and served in the Senate under the DLP from 1991 to 1994, was not given the honour to lie in state at party headquarters.

    Lashley, who attended the funeral at the Holetown Methodist Church on Thursday, said he was shocked to look around the church and see only a few DLP members in attendance.

    When Barbados TODAY contacted DLP President Verla DePeiza, she had no response to Lashley’s comments.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/23/erskine-simmons-gone-forgotten-by-dlp/

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