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In recent days we have have had controversial Minister of Environment making the news. He appears to have taken umbrage to the decision by the government to re-purpose the Sanitation Headquarters built under his watch. One wonders who is the person he alleged prevented the opening of the building.  It appears he has overcome health concerns.

Before Lowe’s sighting last weekend President Verla De Peiza gave the government a failing grade. One has to accept that the DLP membership in its infinite wisdom selected De Peiza to lead the party and supported the effort by electing Irene Sandiford-Garner the deputy. Should onlookers conclude that an emboldened Lowe will be followed by former colleagues? What will their mouthings do to compromise the DLP rebuild after the shellacking in the last general election?

The following snippet was sent to the blogmaster’s inbox reported to be written by Political Consultant Reudon Eversley – Do you agree with the author?

So Verla, the perennial electoral loser, is giving the Mottley
government a failing grade in its first 500 days. The comment is not a
surprise. It reflects a new aggressive negative politics of doom
coming out of George Street. However, the comment  speaks volumes of
how far the once great party  — now a fringe group since the last
general election — has slipped into lalaland in the last year and
half. Verla should be speaking instead about how successful she has
been in turning around the fortunes of the Dems who are growing more
and more frustrated and desperate under her ineffective leadership. By
this time next year, if current rumblings are anything to go by, she
may very well be political history because the patience of those
waiting in the corridors is running out. After the Dems brought
Barbados to its knees in the stagnant post David Thompson period
because of failed leadership and incompetence, there could be no
overnight miracles. The comeback will be gradual but I am satisfied
that the rehabilitation of Barbados, not just economically but on all
fronts, is well underway. Clear signs are there. Confidence, for
example, is back. The only people not seeing it are the  Dems in
blinkers. Miss Mottley has done an admirable job. She has led from in
front. She is the chief marketer of Barbados internationally — an
important task neglected by the Dems in the previous 8 years. Miss
Mottley is growing in stature and respect on the world stage and it
will redound to the benefit of Barbados. Look at the prestigious
speaking engagements she is getting. Look at the positive press she is
also getting internationally.  In the region, Barbados is being
respected again. Friends in the region who  used to call and lament
the drift they were seeing under the Dems are making the most
complimentary comments about Barbados’ leadership again. I am
politically independent. Since resigning from the Dems over five years
ago because I did not wish to align myself with political failures, I
belong to no political party. I am a political professional and my
views are non-partisan. However, I am supporting Miss Mottley because
I want the best for Barbados and the performance of the Dems in their
last stint in government shows beyond the shadow of a doubt that they
are not the best for Barbados.

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201 responses to “Does the DLP Have a Credible Voice?”

  1. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Green, bear (or bare, Ms SS😂) wid me… I’ll use ur piece to re-enter the chatter:

    When u said…

    what nonsense is that? many of my Bim family are crying out about the taxes and lack of buses and garbage pile up. many of my school friends whilst not expressing regret about voting for the BLP are equally fed up.”

    Should one presume that was NOT a loud lament before the Bee’s victory!🤔

    Or when u said: “..they are encouraging their children to migrate. there is a lot of apathy in Bim.”

    Can one further assume that in the prior 10 years such encouragement was not ALSO given!🙃

    I completely agree that “giving soon to be forgotten speeches will change [nothing] any time soon” but surely the interface to other leaders and organizations does opportune ‘tangible’ results when PROPERLY managed… so let’s see what that gives us!

    And again I agree that “the BLP are doing a lot” however, it surely is NOT “a scatter gun approach”. Mottley knows exactly what she wants to do… we may certainly not agree with her methods or style but I doubt very much she has got this FAR (blowing back the formidable OSA and neutering Payne etc) by being ‘scatter gun’ or just relying on “good luck”!

    Now re your party they are badly out to sea … We have seen this movie before where an interim captain mans the ship when it’s quite adrift but is forced off the helm as the boat gets closer to sustenance and rejuvenation…

    So let’s hope they find their relevance soon and get back to shore… It would be tragic for them to flounder and be lost… But maybe folks like you and others can restart and rebuild a new different boat from survivors if that ship sinks!

    Bdos needs all the good captains she has … even those who ran their ships aground… one presumes the lessons from that experience will serve them (us) well for the future … HOPEFULLY!

  2. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    LOL @Dr GP serious you question my ‘lengua fresca’ in this world of your man’s ALTERNATIVE FACTS UNIVERSE!

    But for any uninitiated a ‘sequitar’ is a non, non-sequitar….Comes from the Latin …oh don’t bother I forgot u are a Latin scholar and know it’s roots etc 😂!

    Only YOU would have picked that up… 😂

    Peace ☮️!

    I gone.

  3. GP Avatar
    GP

    SEQUOR SEQUI SECUTUS SUM —————SEMI DEPONENT VERB TO FOLLOW

    NOT ‘sequitar’ or non-sequitar BUT non sequitur SEQUITUR pronounced seck- qui . tWoooor

    please get your latin right thanks

    I DONT NOW OR HAVE NEVER HAD A MAN I LOVE WOMAN ONLY

    and i am independent of thought, and follow only JESUS ………NO OTHER

  4. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    GP
    October 15, 2019 2:19 PM

    “WHATS A ‘sequitar’?”

    GP,
    It is much easier to simply say that the word does not exist.

  5. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Government has performed “virtual wonders” to manage the country’s economy while struggling to stabilise key sectors including transportation and sanitation, says Prime Minister Mia Mottley.
    Amid growing criticism from opposition parties and some members of the general public, Mottley used her platform at the St Michael West nomination meeting yesterday evening to defend Government’s stewardship.
    Mottley suggested the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) who last week gave Government a failing grade for its leadership of the country was in no position to judge efforts over the last 16 months to stabilise the country.
    “This party has performed virtual wonders over the course of the last 16 months to stabilise this country. Let us be clear about it. It has not been easy and those who want to talk about report cards need to find a card and report on themselves first,” she said, while addressing party faithful at the St Leonard’s Secondary School.
    Mottley admitted the country’s economic recovery has not been easy, but Government had “stemmed the tide”. While the PM did not speak to specific economic policies, she pointed to the stability of the Barbados dollar as a major stride.
    “Nobody talks now in Barbados about the value of the dollar because they have taken it as a given that we have saved it…but you do not lose a decade and recover it in one or two years,” she added.
    “Without the money to purchase as a Government, we first had to stabilise the country, because if you didn’t stabilise the economy, the bleeding would continue and the value of the Barbados dollar would have been lost. Once we stabilised, the next duty would have been to set about looking for the money that they (DLP) did not leave.”
    The Prime Minister then took aim at the numerous critics of Government’s management of transportation and sanitation, stressing that seven new garbage trucks would soon be cleared from the Bridgetown Port and another 12 were on the way.
    She also lauded the Transport Board under the chairmanship of Ian Gooding-Edgehill for keeping the ailing bus company afloat with limited resources and promised the much-needed machinery would soon be on the way.
    “I want us to get order and regularity as soon as possible and that is what we are doing. In the absence of the buses being delivered, I want to thank the Chairman and board of the Transport Board for going beyond the call of duty to get the bus numbers back up to over 80 on an average day in this country, from the near 40s where we found it as a result of the last government’s behaviour,” she added.
    Mottley also promised Government would be increasing the number of garbage skips in densely populated communities to help ease pressure on the SSA amid the shortage of resources.
    Last week DLP president Verla DePeiza gave the Mottley administration a failing grade over its first 500 days in office. She said that thus far the Government had only succeeded in heaping more social hardship on the backs of Barbadians with only the “smoke and mirrors” of foreign reserves, propped up on borrowed money, to show for it.(Quote)

    What hyperbolic spin? Where is the evidence? As to the Bajan dollar, that is fixed so talk about the value is nonsense. Just more PR. After 16 months we must stop blaming the DLP.

  6. Bajan in NY Avatar
    Bajan in NY

    Walter BlackmanOctober 15, 2019 9:36 AM

    If a company could convince a government it needed tax concessions to sell food stuff, DVD players, etc, why not try to convince another government it needs a foreign manager?

  7. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Hal Austin i know you do not reside in Barbados and apparently beleive the nonsense posted here by your sidekick Mariposa.Therefore tell us what grade Ms Depeiza would give the last administration of which as a senator she was part of maybe a Z?Therefore to talk about not blaming the DLP you got to be kidding.The current garbage , and bus problems are 95% the fault of the Dems who in 10 years bought ZERO buses or garbage trucks along with failing to maintain the ones they had.My opinion is they wanted to privitize these services which would have been more expensive to bajans today had they retained office.Therefore instead of wasting money building structure that same money could have bought several buses and garbage trucks along with changing old mains.Therefore Mr Austin do not even go down that road you Dems ain,t getting no free pass.

  8. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    The DLP cannot tell any government, not even a cockroach government, that they failed. The stinking, corrupt shites lost all credibility. Imagine Low Lowe talking about taking any evidence to the DPP concerning he involving he self in corruption. If Rogue Works were not a deceitful, two face hypocrite, all like now Lowe’s ass would be in a similiar position as his partner in crime, Donville Inniss, but she is just a talk that talk from two sides of see mouth.

  9. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Lorenzo u say the current garbage problem is fault of last govt
    With help.of the blp who fought tooth and nail against a WTE plant
    Now present govt beginning to realise that their opposition against the plant is bitting them in the arse after all the negatives they threw in the public domain against the plant and the moutains if garbage piling up on the street
    Now it seems that the WTE plant has been given a new lease on life by some in govt since having no solution to keep barbados clean

  10. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The resounding victory for businessman Christopher Gibbs in the nomination to represent the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in the St Michael West constituency, augers well for the chances of the ruling party to retake the seat in the next election, says well-respected pollster and political scientist, Peter Wickham.
    This morning Wickham told Barbados TODAY that it was a good sign for the BLP that they were able to replace Joseph Atherley as quickly as they did, after he left the Government benches shortly after the May 2018 general elections. He contended that Atherley’s departure had not impacted on the base of the BLP but instead his presence within the political landscape of the constituency was an ominous sign for the Democratic labour Party (DLP), who are yet to name a candidate.
    “As for the outlook, it is quite good for the BLP at this stage. The reality is that the constituency voted overwhelmingly for the BLP in the last election. My sense is that Atherley will lose all of the support he had in the last election. When he defected, he didn’t move with any kind of base, so my sense is that Gibbs is very well-placed when the next election is called. In the meantime, he must carry the standard in the constituency and carry the persons there that identify with the BLP,” said Wickham.
    He added, “When you have a split in the vote it affects the least dominant political force. In this case, the least dominant political force is the DLP. My sense is that any split vote that Atherley can carry will not affect the BLP and the fact that he is a former member of the party is irrelevant. The DLP is going to be under threat by
    Atherley and it is interesting that they have not yet even named a candidate.”
    Gibbs scored a landslide victory against his only rival Steven Leslie, getting 360 to Leslie’s 50 votes, when the ballots were tallied at the St Leonard’s Boys School on Sunday night. Wickham contended that the margin of Gibbs’ victory was indicative of the work which he has been putting in on the ground and was in no way a slight on the quality of Leslie’s challenge.
    “I don’t think the outcome was a huge surprise. I am not going to say the better man won because they were two high-quality candidates and I think it is a credit to the BLP that they were able to pull together two candidates of this calibre and to be able to replace Atherley in such a short space of time. It has just been just over 500 days and already we have a replacement,” he pointed out.
    He further noted, “I am guessing he was more organised on the ground and ultimately that is what made the difference. I think the margin of victory communicates the level of work that he has been doing in the constituency by registering members and activating the base of the party.”(Quote)

    What nonsense. Is this what passes as political ‘science’? The most probable outcome is that Atherley will split the BLP vote, but we have nearly four years to go.

  11. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    the BLP full of crap. i just heard the new head of the hospital is the wife of Sutherland and a v close friend of MAM. she will report directly to the minister. who them trying to fool? friends and family getting big jobs. i say guh long do wunnu ting

  12. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    @Hal,
    Just like the original post, it was a nothing-burger.
    Speculation with two numbers thrown in.

  13. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ GP October 15, 2019 3:14 PM
    “SEQUOR SEQUI SECUTUS SUM —————SEMI DEPONENT VERB TO FOLLOW
    NOT ‘sequitar’ or non-sequitar BUT non sequitur SEQUITUR pronounced seck- qui . tWoooor
    please get your latin right thanks..”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Medice, cura te ipsum!

    Shouldn’t you be speaking and writing ‘Hebrew’ instead of the language of the pagan god Sol Invictus?

    Sounds as if you taken the oath of hypocrisy more than you have sworn allegiance to Hippocrates.

    “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” ~The words of wisdom from the greatest physician after Imhotep the snake man.

  14. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Pure hypocrisy on Mia’s part, looking for the money she said.

    What about the billions STOLEN from treasury and pension fund.,

    the billion in VAT STOLEN

    all those LOANS…skimmed and STOLEN

    offshore accounts with the people’s STOLEN MONEY…

    why would she be looking for money…THAT WAS ALREADY THERE.

    no one locked up, no one help accountable..

    NOT ONE DIME RECOVERED…

    so who is she looking for this money from…

  15. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here for my Dearest SSS thank you.

  16. THeOgazert Avatar
    THeOgazert

    Must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed….

    “One of the driving forces behind a lot of those ads that we see in the paper and a lot of the rebuttal that you get particularly from foreign companies is, yes, you have lots of people who have been store managers, but have you had lots of people who have been store managers as well as dealing with trade in international markets . . . clearing containers from the Port, manage the retail and the stock and the basic level things?” she asked.

    Nonsense… is the pot up yet???

  17. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    Blogged this earlier but…as expected

    @ my Dearest SSS

    And that my Dearest is precisely the point.

    Mugabe, nor her cohort of thieves, CANNOT REIN IN any of her own scumbags, nor those of the Demonic Labour Party BECAUSE THEY ARE CORRUPT!

    The question put by the Honourable Blogmaster stands as to whether there is any mechanism that exists inside or outside Parliament THAT COULD EFFECT THE MUCH NEEDED EVOLUTION THE COUNTRY NEEDS.

    And I Legend that I am ( heheheheh that is for Mariposa aka Legion) categorically state that this IS THE MOMENT FOR THE THIRD PARTY

    why does de ole man speak out for the Third Party Movement now?

    what is so different now that suggests that THIS IS THE MOMENT?

    Bajans across the country BOTH DLP AND BLP SUPPORTERS are completely and irrevocably tired of both parties blatantly ignoring their promises and covenants and empty manifestos

    Central to this disgust is what Barbadians see as both governments thriving and corruption and the constant cycle of ever-increasing government debt.

    And what is even worse is that IN THE FACE OF ALL THIS THEIVERY what they see under Mugabe is her unrelenting commitment to being a fat glutton who is as big as a jumbo jet, SUPPORTING 26 OTHER HOGS ON TAX PAYERS MONEY!

    And with her acts of changing the Constitution every RH month, now people start to realise that the voices of the Dissenters like Piece and SSS, and WARU and Gazzerts and the Sage Miller, and William Skinner and Hal Austin, no longer seem to be voices of disgruntled men and women.

    Now people start to be aware that our passion for change and for finding men and women of principle and competence in Barbados IS WHAT MUST HAPPEN, and that such principle DOES NOT LIE IN THESE TWO BDLP SCUM PARTIES.

    And this is why The Third Party WILL WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION IN 2022 BY 18 SEATS TO 12!!!

  18. David Avatar
    David

    Reading many of the comments posted the saying that a people get the government it deserves continues to ring true. May God continue to be a Bajan.

  19. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster

    Here is a newspaper article excerpt about the Reverend Joseph Atherley penned by Peter Wickham

    “…This morning Wickham told Barbados TODAY that it was a good sign for the BLP that they were able to replace Joseph Atherley as quickly as they did, after he left the Government benches shortly after the May 2018 general elections.

    He contended that Atherley’s departure had not impacted on the base of the BLP but instead his presence within the political landscape of the constituency was an ominous sign for the Democratic labour Party (DLP), who are yet to name a candidate.

    “As for the outlook, it is quite good for the BLP at this stage. The reality is that the constituency voted overwhelmingly for the BLP in the last election.

    My sense is that Atherley will lose all of the support he had in the last election.

    When he defected, he didn’t move with any kind of base, so my sense is that Gibbs is very well-placed when the next election is called.

    In the meantime, he must carry the standard in the constituency and carry the persons there that identify with the BLP,” said Wickham…”

    Peter Wickham IS WRONG AND HAS USED THE WRONG VERB “DEFECTED”

    And that is going to be his undoing AND THAT OF THE BLP!

    The choice of L. Gibbs AS A MULTIMILLIONAIRE IN THIS CONSTITUENCY is seen by the BLP as a way to buy back this constituency from any potential threats

    But, what the BLP DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IS SOMETHING THAT THEY CANNOT BUY!

    And this is what de ole man has prophesied 50 DEATHS!

    No amount of GIBBS’ money can buy out death in Deacons and its environs.

    It is greater than the “death” of the economy and the ongoing defecating on the corpse by Mugabe WITH HER 26 MINISTERS, that is going to Kill this Political Mal assessment by the Polster Wickham

    It has very little to do with the BLP’s strategy to buy out votes in 2022 AS THEY, and their political opponents, HAVE DONE FOR 53 years!

    But this will be lost on all of you UNTIL YOU ARE SHOWN THE RESULTS

  20. David Avatar
    David

    Peter Wickham is a political talking head.

  21. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Greene October 15, 2019 5:46 PM
    “the BLP full of crap. i just heard the new head of the hospital is the wife of Sutherland and a v close friend of MAM. she will report directly to the minister. who them trying to fool? friends and family getting big jobs. i say guh long do wunnu ting…”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Greenie boy, sounds a lot like déjà vu of a carbon copy of what took place some time ago at the BWA with a brand new bold-faced ‘Wa(l)tery thief for an unlawful Executive Chairman.

    Since you are a ‘trained’ officer of the law can you, CID Greene, tell us where the previous CEO of Her Majesty Infirmary, the dear dexterous swindling Jimmy, has absconded to leaving millions of missing dollars of undelivered equipment and supplies in his wake.

    Will you, Sleuth Greenie, be the complainant to initiate a police investigation into this massive heist of taxpayers’ money of an audit of which might just lead to a greedy man already in ankle bracelets and due to have his ‘trial’ day in court later this month for, allegedly, similar offences.

    Does such alleged criminal activity fall under the ambit of Anti-Money Laundering legislation?

    At least the proceeds from such future heists might stay in the country in plain sight of the FIU.

  22. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    The DLP has a very suitable voice for its practices. However, I do not think that Cubba sings anymore.

  23. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Whoever ” the patience of those waiting in the corridors is running out. ”

    And why are some people lurking, sorry I mean waiting in the corridors?

    Don’t they have any WORK to do?

  24. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @PachamamaOctober 15, 2019 7:40 AM “In order for our country to advance, people like *** are certainly worthy of death!”

    I am not sure why you are always so anxious to prescribe death for other people, and never for yourself.

    You know that death has already been prescribed for you right? For me too. For all of us.

    I am not sure why you want to fast forward the process, because one day sooner or later, and for many of us elders, that time is sooner, none of us will be writing nonsense on BU.

    We will all have been swallowed up by the earth or by the flames.

    You too.

  25. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @PachamamaOctober 15, 2019 8:07 AM The idea that somebody somewhere should be looking to the DLP for a voice reminds this writer of the symbiotic relationship between serial abuser and abused. They need each other. And somebody here will have something to say to us about that we fear!”

    Yup.

    And that body is me.

    There is no symbiotic relationship between abuser and victim.

    There is only a person, typically MALE who is larger and physically stronger who uses the secrecy of the home to inflict violence on a smaller weaker person, who is unable to escape, or who is unable to kill her abuser YET.

  26. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Walter BlackmanOctober 15, 2019 9:36 AM “There is a need for 1 store manager at Cost U Less, and that company is claiming that, in an extremely high unemployment environment, the country of Barbados has been unable to produce 1 store manager? Therefore, it has to import one? Are we serious?”

    Well Cost U Less has been in business in Barbados for maybe ten years now? They have dozens, maybe hundreds of staff and they have not been able to a single member of staff to train and to retain a store manager?

    Are they serious?

    If one of the 61 lawyers had instead trained as a store manager, wold Cost U Less have hired them? paid them well? Did everything in its power to retain them?

    The old people were wise. They knew that almost always “there is more in the mortor than the pestle.”

  27. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    Piece the LegendOctober 15, 2019 10:07 AM “Reuden Eversley who is now singing for his supper in this economic wilderness WHERE HIM GETTING WORK.”

    A Simple Question: But ain’t Reudon a pensioner? He has to be in my age group, and I ain’t no spring chicken.

    @Piece the LegendOctober 15, 2019 10:07 AM Verla Depeiza DOES NOT HAVE THE REQUISITE GRAVITAS TO CAUSE THE DLP TO COALESCE INTO A NEW PARTY IN 5 YEARS!

    A Simple Question: What is gravitas? And is it something only possessed by OLD MEN?

    @Piece the LegendOctober 15, 2019 10:07 AM “In addition to which she is dealing with a set of male chauvinist pigs who want “a man to run tings”

    A Simple Question: But didn’t the elderly MALE chauvnist pigs phuck up tings good and proper between 2008 and 2018. So does any sensible person think that the electorate will say cuhdear, and give the fellas a break in 2023?

    Last Simple question: Anybody want to put some of “their OWN money” on the chances that the elderly male chauvinist of the DLP be recalled from the wilderness in 2023?

  28. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @NorthernObserverOctober 15, 2019 10:58 AM

    Best comment so far.

  29. Tick Tock Avatar
    Tick Tock

    @Hal Austin, Bajans are now easily bought by those seeking political office with deep pockets….we licorish and are selling the legacy of future generations for our own selfish gains. Thus Chris won because he not only speaks pretty but he has much largesse to continually share.

  30. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    This is what corruption in any country causes..

    this is what happens when ministers and their bribers, steal BILLIONS of dollars CONSISTENTLY over many decades, out of an economy…a chain reaction degradation.

    https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/242255/cries-qeh

    “The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) appears to be teetering on a razor’s edge.

    Staff told THE NATION that a myriad of complaints resulted in a brief walkout last week. The complaints ranged from the physical condition of the plant, safety of staff and patients, to overcrowding on wards”

    and don’t forget the geriatirc and psychiatric nurses who have not been paid in months…so who will be blamed for this when it has happened throughout both administrations, people working and not being paid.

  31. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    A year has already gone by since govt has been saying garbage trucks coming
    This revolving comment shows that the govt never had an alternative plan for garbage collection during the time they hooted and hollered NO to the WTE plant
    In the meanwhile barbadians have to suffer the deplorable state of the country as garbage lines the streets daily
    Mia ought to be ashamed of self when she speaks to world leaders about climate change knowning that the worsening state of barbados enviroment contributes to climate change

  32. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Thought it wasd a great article.
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/10/10/bteditorial-there-must-be-standards-beyond-words/
    For two of the examples cited the blame can be placed (fairly) on the shoulders of ‘the’ people managers.

  33. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/10/15/unjust-decision/
    Gonna try this with my creditors “I am unable to pay”. You can sign and agree to anything if at the end of the day you can wiggle your way out of your responsibilities>

    Nota Bena: It’s a little more complicated than what I am suggesting. Read for yourselves.

  34. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Talk about wiggling.
    Everytime I attempt to use a VPN at one of my favorite sites, XXXXXXx,bb. it wiggles out

    This site can’t be reached
    xxxxxxxxx.bb refused to connect.

    Help! Anyone has ideas?

  35. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife October 15, 2019 9:45 PM
    “There is no symbiotic relationship between abuser and victim.
    There is only a person, typically MALE who is larger and physically stronger who uses the secrecy of the home to inflict violence on a smaller weaker person, who is unable to escape, or who is unable to kill her abuser YET.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Another one of your misandry-laden rants!

    Where is your statistical evidence to support your contention?

    Isn’t it also constantly quoted that 70 % of Bajan households are headed by single mothers in the largely matrifocal ex-slave society.

    Do the typical Bajan male inflict violence, generally, on their mothers, aunts and sisters in the same female-headed households?

    The same licence you have taken unto yourself to make such bold wildly outlandish claims against the typical Bajan male so to we can take similar liberties and assert without fear of verbal abuse that the vast majority of children who are subjected to physical abuse in households and even in the glaring eyes of the public are generally the victims of black Bajan women.

    How would you treat to that common occurrence of violence (along with voluminous volleys of verbal abuse) inflicted by mainly black women on their poor unarmed piccaninnies?

    Are you going to blame the men for that state of vilely violent state of affairs or do you consider it to be the female’s god-given right to do as she likes with the byproduct of her womb?

    PS: The Macho Male whiteHill, so you better run for cover.

  36. Donks Gripe and Josh Avatar
    Donks Gripe and Josh

    DLP is not in a good place the leader is trying and has to be commended.

    The stature to make her words resonate with the base may not be there at this time her courage and steadfastness cannot be questioned.

    The DLP must continue the struggle to reinvent itself political parties across the world have often done so successfully.

    Of interest is a growing organic snowball of disenchantment from among ordinary people with the government.

    After asking the electorate to’ watch muh ‘deliver on promises of milk and honey after DLP kicked out we are served brackish water and stale bread.

    The gathering anger is not necessarily politically related the poor simply don’t have money to spend the little they have disappears in taxes, levies and higher prices.

    Nothing is taking place that speaks to job creation much less growth.

    Capital works public and foreign invested have stopped the only construction is a few small private houses .

    The country is unaccustomed to the still wind of economic inactivity even during negligible growth of last admin high rises, hotels and malls were regularly built.

    We are urged to stay the course of the IMF rainbow the pot of gold is at the end but how many will survive the death march to the promised land.

    An extravagant lifestyle is taking hold among our leaders their more than frequent overseas travel to exciting places at taxpayers expense needs to be brought to a halt asap.

    Was the Financial Times the world’s most important business newspaper paid a public relations visit in the around the globe jaunts of our leaders?

    After all among the embarrassments we had in recent years the FT calling Barbados and its government ‘absurd’ for paying White Oaks $54 million plus is up there in the top two.

  37. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ Commander Theophillus Gazerts

    Someone else here recommended this browser.

    Install TorProject for android and use your phone to access your ***.bb sites.

    It is also useful to have a second android phone that you use only for browsing ESPECIALLY SITES THAT ARE CONTROVERSIAL.

    Install and use this app SEEN BELOW for multiple “clippings” of text to your clipboard and selective retrieval of same, days later or whenever you need them.

    https://joecks.github.io/clipboard-actions/

  38. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    Back to the subject matter

    within a working democracy, citizens expect the party representatives they vote for to deliver on what they promised.

    Both the Democratic and the Barbados Labour Parties have consistently failed to represent the electorate.

    And their inability to build the economy over the years and deliver a country where each bajan feels that “these fields and hills beyond recall, are now our very own” has coalesced into the rampant sentiment by bajans that the BDLP party’s agenda is focused on themselves and their friends AND THE PEOPLE CAN SUCK SALT

    The goal of this Third Party Movement alternative is a simple YET UBIQUITOUS methodology ” to establish trust in our democratically elected government by ensuring the selection of men and women with sound ethical standards coupled with competencies, fiscal responsibility and accountability.

    And for those who would say that the Third Party Movement cannot be achieved here in the BDLP duopoly, de old man would submit one simple example

    Women’s Suffrage!!

    Here we have and environment where both parties were committed to denying women’s rights, of which their right to vote featured majorly,

    De ole man teif dis from de internet which says and I quote

    “…In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention brought together women to discuss “the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women…”

    I, ole boar dat ManyPussy calls me, suggest to you that the Third Party Movement has such a seminal issue to promote which is “…bringing together Barbadians to address AND SOLVE “the social [DISSATISFACTION], civil [UNREST], and PRECARIOUS ECONOMIC condition and ABROGATION OF THE rights of MEN and women…”

    Ask any bajan today what they want for our country and they all say “we want a safe country WITHOUT THE KILLINGS, without the drugs, with accessible social services and a place where they can work and own a piece of the rock!

    40 murders, taxes for blinking twice in 10 minutes, long lines, poor services, teifing ministers, no jobs, no mobility, forever renting…THAT IS WHAT 60 % OF THE POPULATION SPEAK OF.

    And that MUST CHANGE and a third party MUST BRING THIS REALITY!

    AND SOON IT WILL BE SO!

    Use your vote to remove Mugabe in 2023!!

  39. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Donks Gripe and Josh October 16, 2019 10:49 AM
    “After all among the embarrassments we had in recent years the FT calling Barbados and its government ‘absurd’ for paying White Oaks $54 million plus is up there in the top two..”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    And that is the specific area of vulnerability that armchair critics like Hal Austin and yourself “waiting’ are failing to exploit in any effectively telling way.

    You are just a bunch of Mickey-mouse losers and political cowards not even worth $54 million of Zimbabwe-denominated monopoly play-play money.

    Why don’t you be that sniffer dog to climb up the W O tree and you might find more than a slick-talking cat purring his way to a few millions to even surpass his Four Seasons fiasco haul.

  40. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “The country is unaccustomed to the still wind of economic inactivity even during negligible growth of last admin high rises, hotels and malls were regularly built.”

    That was only when there was enuff money in the treasury to gave away contracts like it belonged to them, enuff money in the NIS to lavishly lend out like it was their money , enuff loans to skim like the people do not have to repay these loans…and the odd investor or two who actually had money that actually belonged to the investor..

    …but now all that has DRIED UP…no more free taxpayers money to give away, no more free NIS Pensioners money to give away, no more free loans signed off in the people’s names to skim, the investors who are clean would never want to be associated with these exposures, they have reputations to uphold…… and hopefully no more VAT MONEY IS STOLEN ….by the billions. ..

    .notice the leaders care nothing about good reputations they REFUSE to address any and ALL ACCUSATIONS..no matter how damaging..but investors with a dot of intelligence will not want to be anywhere near this type of dirt.

    ….THE DECADES OLD FIESTA…IS FINALLY OVER…..time is longer than twine and paper.

    “After all among the embarrassments we had in recent years the FT calling Barbados and its government ‘absurd’ for paying White Oaks $54 million plus is up there in the top two.”

    Surprised they did not threaten to sue FT for defamation for that too..but the way things are going, they will have to sue the whole island soon, the supreme court will be backlogged for decades longer than any one of these sue happy idiots can live…with libel and defamation suits cause they will want to sue everyone for speaking the truth.

  41. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here about the subject matter thank you

  42. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    Piece the Legend
    October 16, 2019 11:58 AM

    “The goal of this Third Party…… is a simple…….”

    Pieceuhdecockyeahtight,
    “Not one effing seat” for YOUR Third Party.,

    Remember that I said it first on BU.

    Heheheheheheheh….ad infinitum

    PS: Pachamamum has already shown you how to handle me. You have the needed ability. Follow his lead, and reward me with a few giggles and chuckles. Show Miller your repertoire of cuss words from John 3:16.

  43. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ walter PPK

    How you? Where you now crawl in from? Heheheheh

    Though, truth be told, you never left did you?

    Why do you prefer John 3:16 when John 2 would be more apt ?

    If you had money, like Chris Gibbs, you would have been able to abandon the DLP, as he has done, and jump on the BLP band wagon too!

    But you still penniless and even with your moutta skills Mugabe WILL NOT WANT YOUR TURNCOAT SCVUNT!

    You are too toxic Walter, not a feller want one RH to do wid you AND DEM IS RIGHT.

    observe how, when you blog with your anonymice identity, the respect and adulation you are accorded!

    People, including rather, especially the Honourable Blogmaster, defer to your wisdom in contributing here on BU

    Whu even de ole man sometimes will commend your submissions

    But, being the bitch that you are, being de woman in a man’s body HAVING BEEN SCORNED, now, even 18 months after your “platform for your triumphant return to the halls of politics HAS BEEN WIPED FROM THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, your little beaaatchhh self here on BU showing what a small man beaatchhh YOU ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE!!!

    I am one of the tag team that destroyed your political aspirations BUT INCREDULOUSLY ENOUGH, you just cant get de ole man out you teets

    Why is dat Walter PPK?

    Besides de fact dat you is a man beatchhhh why you so vex wid de ole man?

    What I do you?

    And the answer comes back to de ole man clearly now.

    YOUR INVESTMENT!!!

    You quit your job in the United States to “come back to Barbados and become a big time politician” AND THAT IDEA GET FVUCK UP!!

    And you see Pieceuhdetightcock as THE SINGLE UNRELENTLESS DIGITAL INFLUENCER WHO FVUCKED UP YOUR PLANS!

    So, while all of the other tag team members still blog here on Barbados Underground, the only body who attracts your ire, is Piece!

    But Walter, in being this persistent beaaatchhhh AND KEEPING ME IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS what you have done is confirm to all Barbados Underground, including your friend, the Honourable Blogmaster, the type of wicked, spiteful, little man that you are.

    A spiteful scorned woman IN A PRETEND MAN BODY!!!

    I DUN WID YOU AND DAT WALTER, GET OVAH IT, de choice of the DLP, was clearly a bad choice AND YOU REGALING HOW YOU STABBED SANDIFORD IN THE BACK, here on BU, was enough to seal your political fate forever!

  44. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here for Walter PPK where de ole man definitively clarifies my position for him to BU readers

  45. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    There is a simple rationale behind Mugabe Mottley not having a choice in pursuing criminal charges against DLP MINISTERS WHO STOLE $1.5 BILLION during their 10 years in office.

    Many comment on the fact that she cant do it because she is a criminal herself or because she is godmother to Stinkliar children or that they colluded on the Four Seasons fiasco.

    But while many can say that, if she locks up these ministers, she would be building her own gallows, THERE IS NO SIMILAR REASON FOR VERLA TO PROTECT THESE CRIMINALS.

    In fact, IF VERLA DOES NOT PUBLICLY DECLARE HER POSITION on how she will sanction, denunciate, deter, or punish THESE AND OTHER ENEMIES OF BARBADIANS what she will have done is shown bajans how she has sanctioned their behaviour.

    and by so doing, by so effecting this protection of these national thieves she will be unable to instill any public confidence in her version of the DLP.

    These state criminals have to be officially and publicly punished to the extent, and in such as manner, Barbadians can feel that there has been retribution AND SHE HAS NOT ENDORSED THEIR THEFT.

    The Third Party Movement will also need to present a well thought out mechanism that will make bajans know that they are going to be serious guardians of the public purse and will not compromise the trust placed in them.

  46. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here about de ole man’s predicted Third Party Movement rise to assist Barbados

  47. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    “We have a govt who lanquished in the wilderness for ten years as opposition. Having enough time to develop strategies which would have been beneficial in a period if or when elected. However spent most of the ten years being critical. Now that the rubber hits the road they seem confused and out of touch with reality…”

    Hmmmmmm…….

    During your 10 years and 4 months of defending the DLP in this forum, I remember “telling” you something similar to your above comments.

    During that time “we had a government that languished in the wilderness for 14 years as Opposition. Having enough time to develop strategies which would have been beneficial in a period if or when elected. However, spent most of the 14 years being critical. When the rubber hit the road, they seemed confused and out of touch with reality”……… (e.g. the island remained in “limbo” during the time Thompson announced his illness on May 14, 2010….. until his burial on November 3, 2010)………

    ………….to the extent that, after 10 years and 4 months “in office”………the electorate resoundingly voted for change……..with you losing 30-0 as a result.

    Anything criticism you level at the BLP is equally applicable to the DLP……. vice versa.

    And this is what William Skinner has been “saying” on a daily basis about the “B/DLP duopoly.”

    As I have mentioned previously, there aren’t any fundamental political, ideological or philosophical differences between the BLP and DLP.

    Here we have former Senator Verla, who failed to impress the people of Christ Church West on 3 occasions and under whose watch Barbados recorded an unprecedented 24 consecutive credit rating down grades……… giving the present administration a failing grade.

    So, as it relates to the question “does the DLP have a credible voice?”………. I’ll say, “NO!!!!”

    Verla is supposed to be a trained criminologist, having achieved a Merit in the Master of Laws degree specialising in Criminology and Criminal Justice, from the Queen Mary College of the University of London. Perhaps she should concentrate on “shadowing” the Office of the Attorney General and focusing on the criminal justice system.

  48. Caleb M. Pilgrim Avatar
    Caleb M. Pilgrim

    Dear Sir:

    Some time ago, one of your contributors decried the fact that a local newspaper failed or refused to publish his article on curtailing submissions on the embattled Former International Business Minister. I deeply empathize with that writer.

    But, whoever knows the particulars involved in the exercise of editorial discretion? Such discretion and the ability to censor is probably as long or as short as the the Editor’s foot.

    Enclosed below is an unpublished article I submitted to “Barbados Today” several months ago. I include this article now for the sole purpose of furthering discussion on your recurring water problem and determining whether other governments such as Israel might somehow help find a solution to Barbados’s water problem. Many in the international community have recognized Israeli expertise in the area of water resources management and reclamation. Despite inevitable conflicts, there has even been limited co-operation between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. Thus,

    “May 25, 2019

    The Editor
    Barbados Today
    F3, Bldg 3
    Manor Lodge Complex
    Lodge Hill
    St. Michael
    Barbados

    Dear Editor:

    I refer to your article “BLP weighs in on DLP clash”, of May 10, 2019. Your focus seemed limited to some apparent dissension between Mr. Robert Morris, Attorney (Stephen) Lashley, Attorney Depeiza (DLP), and Dr. Walcott (BLP), concerning the former Prime Minister’s speech scheduled for May 19, 2019, at the St.James’ South DLP Constituency Branch.

    As a Latin scholar and political practitioner, the Former Prime Minister knows well the expression “vox populi vox dei “. In this context, his speech, arguably, may have been irrelevant insofar as it changed or changes nothing since his Party’s 30 to 0 defeat last May 24, 2018.

    However, your responsibility as journalist with an inquiring mind should have mandated that you follow up the matter and inform and advise your Readers since your article of May 10.

    So far as we can determine, your silence here has been deafening.
    Thus, you never told us readers whether the speech was made; its content – what did the former P.M say; going forward, was there anything to be learned here?

    Hosea teaches us that “where there is no vision the people perish”. We have some idea of what Mr. Barrow’s vision was, as well as the ideas of previous Prime Ministers. But, what, if any, was former P.M Stuart’s vision? In view of the DLP’s annihilation a year ago, and the possible existential threat posed by the BLP total electoral victory, how was his vision, if any, communicated to the Barbadian electorate? Why the wholesale repudiation by said electorate?

    Beyond cheap, customary excuses, how did he explain the economic stagnation and the several downgrades in Barbados’ credit rating? (Cf some African and other states, many of which countries are not alleged to “punch above their weight”).

    How did he explain the fact that Barbados appeared more corrupt over the past decade according to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of Transparency International (TI)? How did he rebut allegations of corruption leveled against his government? The current A.G has reportedly said that “the end of corruption is in sight”. Stuart’s analysis might have gone some distance to dispel any allegation by the previous Opposition, now BLP Administration, that he was just another “Prime-Moneyster”, primus inter pares in a kleptocracy, wherein corruptocrats fleeced and killed “the fatted calf”.

    As to the “sewage crisis”, the subject of travel advisories by the U.S, the U.K, Canada, Germany, and much ink, what did the former P.M say? The Israeli Government recycles anywhere from 70% to 90% of its waste water. Some consider Israel the #1 country in terms of water recycling, waste water recovery, desalination and the like. There has even been cooperation between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan In this area.

    Time was when the B’dos PRUN’s Office and the Israeli PRUN Office were neighbors on Second Avenue in Manhattan? Beyond the cocktail circuit, and official Barbados/Israel diplomatic and consular relations, common sense, uncommon as it is, might have dictated some sort of rapprochement with the Israeli Government and their Ministry of Energy and Water Resources. Was the B’dos PRUN MIA? What, if any attempts, were made to enlist Israel’s technical assistance in remedying the sewage crisis?

    How also did the former P.M explain away an unkept promise in the very first page(s) of a previous DLP manifesto that his Government would lower food prices? What about a functioning law review commission as promised in another previous manifesto? Need I go on?

    History is replete with great speeches. The former P.M is known for his oratorical skills. As the embattled Former International Business Minister might have said “The Future is Now”. Therefore, sweet nothings and empty blandishments (perhaps less charitably known as asinine drivel) no longer suffice.

    Alas, you, Editor, have told your readers nothing about what he said, not even the merest mea culpa, if any. He already appears to have already done so. You have neither informed or advised your Readers. We are, sadly, in this regard, no wiser.

    Caleb M. Pilgrim
    Atlanta, GA

    Cpilgrimesq@aol.com”

    Sent from my iPhone

  49. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Caleb Pilgrim

    Glad you have raised this matter. I have done on numerous occasions, which has annoyed some simple-minded people. The most important tool in a news editor’s armoury is his/her diary. It is the tool for what is called following up stories. It is basic journalistic competence. Poor reporting undermines democracy.
    However, following up stories is not a common practice in Barbados, which I put down to poor training. It leads to poor journalism which deprives readers of information.
    We can go over any number of stories that have been half reported; what the news executives do not seem to understand is that readers want to know the outcome of stories ie Natalie Crichlow, Officer Gittens who shot his neighbour, the prison officer charged with some strange offence, fraudulent lawyers,
    Hope they listen to you.

  50. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Caleb
    A well written post.
    You highlighted one of the weaknesses in our e-publication – a lack of follow-up on some stories.

    It would appear that like the readers, the editors have a short attention span.

    A next weakness that I find very frustrating is that some stories are written without naming names. The main character in a story can often be nameless. A malicious neighbor would be more informative.

    It will be interesting to see how some perceive your post and if they attempt to assign you to one of two camps.

    Great job.

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