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The following note was received from the civic minded Peter Lawrence Thompson with the link to a 122 page Barbados Development Plan pitched to potential investors to transform and modernize Barbados while maintaining those things that make it special. Given the robust discussion about Hyatt Hotel, Blue Horizon and other development initiatives across, the document serves as a good resource.

Many have asked to see the official development plan that provides the context for the proposed Hyatt branded development on Bay Street. The linked document is from Barbados Tourism Investment Inc., not from the planning office, but it clearly has the PM’s endorsement so I believe we can treat it as an official plan for Bridgetown development.

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222 responses to “Open for Business – Barbados Development Plan”

  1. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Mariposa are you saying that Kenya will be right at home in Barbados..lol

  2. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    What has me is that these ALWAYS…pretended they were so above Africans…and here they are…identical twins…yep…DNA cannot hide..

  3. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Waru waruDecember 13, 2019 10:22 PM

    Mariposa are you saying that Kenya will be right at home in Barbados..lol

    Sounds real close for comfort and plenty similarities too

  4. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    You see Mia when in opposition run around with all kinds of paper to say past govt was shady
    Now look where she has taken her shades..window curtains blinds and all to Africa a place where nothing is done outside the shady walls of corrupt govts
    She signs agreements left and right without an inkling of transparency
    However having the backbone of a toothless opposition and media Mia can do as she darn pleases
    Watch in the next few months Africa going to sending all theit rift raft to barbados
    Remeber how Mia Comissiong and some other rubber neck PM’s talk big about letting Haitians enter the country without proper vetting
    Well this shi.t agreement going end up the same way
    Cause Kenya going used Barbados to get rid of their rift raft and not a god dam thing Mia can do to stop it
    All this talk about going back home will end in nothingness for barbados

  5. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    “Kenya has the joint third-largest HIV epidemic in the world (alongside Tanzania) with 1.6 million people living with HIV in 2018. In the same year, 25,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses…”

    and the fool just took the country back 200 years by legalizing polygamy…they are now in backward motion…just like Barbados, cause the people who thought they were divorced in Barbados for the last how many years, went and remarried and everything, only just found out that they are not only still married, but never divorced…easy way to set up a polygamous and backward society.

  6. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Will not go down the AIDS/HIV alley as it is not necessary.

    The corruption alley contains enough food for fodder.

  7. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Guess what, it will only get worse, no matter how many lies the government and that fake professor tells…don’t care how they twist their mouths with lies….they can’t hide…..their GREAT ROBBERY of the people will follow them for YEARS TO COME…

    YOU don’t ROB a small vulnerable island of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS..over many decades…AND EXPECT RECOVERY..

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/12/13/lacklustre-performance-in-barbados-and-other-caribbean-economies-eclac/?fbclid=IwAR1Jz4_tVT11wJNpjI-JeWzUjkFq4fweqnaorYQvX-zPNXXQzAcUTol4i80

    “The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is predicting that Barbados will record the lowest growth in the Caribbean of zero per cent this year before rising to 1.3 per cent next year.

    In its preliminary overview of the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean for 2019, the UN agency said the region’s economies were experiencing a slowdown topping off six consecutive years of “low growth”.

    It said the slowdown in domestic demand was being accompanied by low external aggregate demand and more fragile international financial markets.

    “This context is compounded by growing social demands and pressure to reduce inequality and increase social inclusion,” the commission said.”

  8. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Usn’t this the same 4 Seasons scam with the same fake professor and the same minority thieves…lol..wuh the famous and notorious Enuff..

    let’s see how many more investors they can poach after this clear DAYLIGHT ROBBERY by minority crooks…she was up in UK bigging up the same thieves for everyone to hear..lol..see now Africa is the last resort…no investor who is not a crook would touch these with a thousand foot pole…in the western hemisphere….they have been blacklisted long time. But if they think they are robbing Africa…me thinks they got a real problem now..

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7789143/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-wife-Madeleine-lost-6-5million-two-luxury-Caribbean-Barbados-villas.html?ito=facebook_share_article-facebook_preferred-bottom&fbclid=IwAR1V-Iyk46Dcr2-XzVmLpqDT7USHj7Oz_nhNw-uN-CYLl1xYU4mNYeJsJvg

    “Andrew Lloyd-Webber and his wife lost £6million after spending £20million on two luxury holiday homes in the Caribbean that were never built, a court heard today.

    Baron Lloyd-Webber, 71, and his wife Madeleine, 57, paid £8.4million up front for the two properties in Clearwater Bay on the west coast of Barbados in 2007.

    They boasted stunning panoramic views and would have had ample space for the whole family, their children and nannies.

    But after flying out to choose the plots and forking out as much as £20million for them, the developers were hit by the 2008 financial crash and they were never completed. They now ‘stand derelict’, the court was told.

    After a tax ruling today, when a judge ruled the couple will be allowed to off set their losses against future tax liabilities, the Lloyd-Webbers declared they had lost £6million as a result of their failed investment.

    Judge John Brooks told the tax tribunal in London the couple should be credited for the ‘real loss’ they suffered.

    Lloyd Webber, who is worth an estimated £820million, said they have never been able to recover any of the money they paid out for the homes.”

  9. David Avatar
    David

    The developed countries of the world – China, US, UK – do business with African countries but the Caribbean where there is a justification because of our lineage/heritage should not.

    The attached link is a document prepared by Deloitte that shows a more realistic view of Kenya’s doing business face.

    https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/za/Documents/africa/DeloitteAfrica_Kenya_Country_Report_Africa_Nov2016.pdf

  10. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Not a fella said that Caribbean should not start the long awaited, OVERDUE bridge to Africa….what we are saying is…everyone should have their eyes WIDE OPEN…..remember it’s the Black majority…and the Black majority ONLY and generations of their offspring….WHO ARE ALWAYS ROBBED…

    you have black leaders…WHO ARE KNOWN THIEVES…

    you have a gaggle of minorities…WHO ARE KNOWN THIEVES…who have always lived off the backs of black people instead of finding the UK who Barbadoesed their ancestors…….AND LIVE OFF OF THEM…

    so what’s there not to be CAREFUL and CONCERNED ABOUT…..

  11. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Why is govt being allowed to sign deals without transparency and the opposition is silent
    Innotech and govt signs deal and Abrahams say the public would be told details when he is good and ready to tell
    Who the hell does this govt belive they are
    Dont this govt realized that this country is ruled by a process called democracy
    Seems as if this govt have made a decision to take the country on a path of dictatorship rather people like it or not

  12. David Avatar
    David

    Here is what the Minister stated, note the highlighted part of the extract:

    I will likely issue a statement on the full details next week because I believe in transparency but I am very glad to put this all behind us. It now allows us to use all of the resources we have to address the issues we have before us,” said Abrahams.

    He explained that the deal will now enable the BWA to better serve its customers, as it gives the water company a clear idea of where it needs to invest in equipment.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/12/14/row-over-utilitys-agreement-on-tanks-tankers-hq/

  13. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Understanding the economic cost of corruption in Kenya
    Odongo Kodongo, University of the Witwatersrand
    June 19, 2018 3.56pm SAST
    Kenya is perceived as one of the world’s most corrupt countries. It ranked 143 out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s 2017 corruption perception index. The only African countries that scored worse – among them Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, Eritrea, Burundi, and Zimbabwe – were either politically unstable or in conflict.

    This poor showing shouldn’t come as a surprise. Kenya has been plagued by a long list of corruption scandals. One of the more infamous was the Goldenberg heist which occurred in the 1990s during then President Daniel Moi’s tenure. The government was found to have subsidised exports of gold far beyond standard arrangements by paying a company called Goldenberg International 35% more in Kenyan shillings than their foreign currency earnings.

    More recently, in 2014 millions of dollars were misappropriated from funds that were secured by the government through a Eurobond, which is an international loan that was secured from foreign investors. A second Eurobond was secured in 2018 and questions have been raised here as well.

    Yet, the looting of public coffers is more commonly reported in recent times and the amounts involved are growing. During May and June 2018, reports about grand corruption have dominated Kenyan news. This haemorrhaging of public funds will do enormous damage to the country’s already struggling economy.

    The scourge of corruption in Kenya must be urgently addressed otherwise it could be bring the economy to its knees. As things stand, Kenya is already struggling to pay its debts

  14. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ WARU

    You said and I quote

    “…Not a fella said that Caribbean should not start the long awaited, OVERDUE bridge to Africa….what we are saying is…everyone should have their eyes WIDE OPEN…..remember it’s the Black majority…and the Black majority ONLY and generations of their offspring….WHO ARE ALWAYS ROBBED…”

    Commander Theophillus Gazerts observed, with his usual kindness, that going down the road de ole man was taking was not best.

    I, being a black man, 5ft 2 ins, understand the inherent health issue prototyping that I have introduced here into this mass importation of people that Mugabe Mottley is promoting!

    All de ole man is saying is this.

    De Chief Medical officer cant even close down Purity for a rat infestation!

    De Fire Department, Water Works nor Chief Labour officer cant administer Miss Ram Rat infested, mosquito breeding health risk buildings.

    Yet Mugabe importing 800 nurses from Ghana into Barbados and we are expected to believe that ALL OF THE PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCH A PROPOSAL will be rigorously observed BY THESE INCOMPETENTS?

    I TESPECTFULLY SUGGEST THAT THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN!

    Furthermore I am suggesting that IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY TRANSPARENCY accountability is going to be one of the two casualties

    The other one is our health!

    Our political system needs to mature to the point where the government of Barbados actively includes the opposition and shadow ministers into the governance matrix

    But that would be a mature government WHICH BARBADOS IS NOT!!!

  15. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Listen when last has govt been transparent about anything having to do with the public
    What u David need to do is cast your mind back to May when govt default on the debt and public was only told after the deal was done also the sale of lands at Coverly
    Also the recent movement of dead bones
    Also the potential sale of barbados shares in Liat
    Also the early negotiations on the external debt
    Abrhams made a double speech ge first said the details would be released at another time
    Then as if having being corrected he later said next week
    This govt has engaged the people in a dangerous game of political smoke and mirrors this constant game one day would blow up.in their faces

    Here is Abrahams first response to the Innotech agreement

    This afternoon, Minister of Energy and Water Resources Wilfred Abrahams told Barbados TODAY that a deal was finalized yesterday between the state-owned water company and the Anthony Da Silva-run Innotech.

    Abrahams revealed that the full details of the deal will be disclosed to the public at a later date. He further explained that the new look agreement included, water trucks, the community tanks and the lease arrangement for the building currently used as the BWA headquarters

  16. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @Mariposa

    One of the experiences of living in a cosmopolitan city like London, the most multi-cultural city in the world, is that it give you an opportunity to live in close proximity with other peoples.
    The interaction of Caribbean and African people is a very interesting one. Instead of living on some little island and making it up as they go along, maybe Barbadians may think it a good idea to speak to some of the returnees, especially those who have married Africans.

  17. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    David shame on you for trying to prop up a corrupt govt and inviting barbados to lay in bed with them
    Is that the mirror image u want fir this 166sqmile
    Shame on you

  18. David Avatar
    David

    Who wants to read or listen to your xenophobic flawed and muddied thinking?

    This article paints a more realistic picture of the challenges and history to Caribbean and African relationship/coexistence in the Britain.

    Ironically enough, the Windrush scandal has brought the British African and Caribbean communities together for the first time

  19. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ Hal,

    Too late!!! Mia is in overdrive on her trip to Kenya. Her loose lips may provoke a surge of Kenyans wanting to take her words literally.

    “The Carribean is your second home Barbados Prime minister Mia Mottley tells Kenyans”

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30Y8KkGCctY

  20. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Hal come visit and live with are two worlds apart
    Mia signing agreements left and right with known corrupt govts.,
    Under barbados democratic process of good governance agreements must be given the full process of transparency in and by parlimentary debate before signed
    Now all the people arebeing told is Mia signing agreements left and right somewhere in Africa but very little is being said on what these agreements entails outside feel good snippets to appease and fool the people
    My mind cast back to when under OSA their was an agreement with Nigeria to buy Solar panels and none never made it to the island
    These African agreements would make Cahill look like a sunday school class

  21. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Wikipedia

    Barbadians have short memories

    Barbados–Nigeria relations
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    Barbadian–Nigerian relations are foreign relations between Barbados and Nigeria. Barbados and Nigeria formally established diplomatic relations on 24 April 1970.[1] Nigeria is accredited to Barbados from its embassy in Port of Spain, (Trinidad and Tobago). Currently the Barbadian Government does not have foreign accreditation for Nigeria, however the Nigerian Government has said that it was highly desirous of Barbados establishing an embassy directly to Nigeria.[2]

    Barbadian–Nigerian relations
    Map indicating locations of Barbados and Nigeria

    Barbados

    Nigeria
    In 2006 the Governor Otunba Gbenga Daniel of the Nigerian state of Ogun announced that Barbadians would be given free land if they wished to move to Nigeria.[3] Nigeria has pushed for more investment from Barbadian companies and investors and in 2008 for the establishment of direct flights between both nations.[4][5]

    In 2006 Barbadian solar company Aqua Sol Components Ltd. formed a 50-50 joint venture partnership with the Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom.[6] The partnership makes use of Barbados’ experience with solar energy given its high usage of solar hot water heaters across the island.[7] Through the venture, Akwa Ibom hopes to raise the level of solar usage in Nigeria. The deal was facilitated through Commission for Pan-African Affairs within the Barbados Prime Minister’s office

  22. David Avatar
    David

    The following video has been bouncing about social media for several day. The ceremonial burial of soil/remains from Barbados.

    Spot on Mia!

    https://barbadosunderground.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/kenya_ceremonial_burial.mp4

  23. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Spot on David for defending the indefensidble
    Wuh loss muh belly
    Mia has launched a new way of trading
    Teach me your corruption in exchange for duppyy bones
    David you are one shamless rat like the ones running around bridgetown

  24. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @TLNS

    For decades, British Caribbeans and British Africans have consistently looked down on one another for various reasons, which frankly, are unfounded.

    The Windrush scandal has cut through the heart of the British Caribbean community. It’s thrown up questions about racism, identity and history. Ironically, however, the Windrush scandal could be the very medicine the black British community needs to heal the divisions it has.
    Despite being a minority, there is an unspoken separation within the black community in the UK. Those of a Caribbean background and those of an African background. This separation could be seen lightheartedly, for example, in the evergreen debate of how do you say “plantain”. (Africans: “plan-tain”. Caribbeans: “plan-tin”.) But more seriously, it can be seen in the lasting effects of colonialism on the black diaspora and the desire for status among the two groups……..(Quote)

  25. TheoGAzerts Avatar
    TheoGAzerts

    @vidionary
    It is amazing how everything is connected.

    One can only hope that in our quest for 1M population there are screens in place so that the island benefits from the newcomers.

    Without proper screening we may end up with a large segment that cannot pull their weight.

    However, I do not think we are trying to reach 1M. After enough loot is obtained from our ‘CBI’, the door will be closed on others.

    This new group is more creative in obtaining funds than the old group.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    Even in school, many black Britons from an African background could tell you the never-ending teasing they endured by their Caribbean classmates about their traditional names. They, after all, fitted in among our Caucasian counterparts because they had English first and surnames. It was bad enough with our brown skin sticking out like a sore thumb without having, to them, an unpronounceable surname.

    For decades, whether in school, university, work or in neighbourhoods, British Caribbeans and British Africans have consistently looked down on one another for various reasons, which frankly, are unfounded.

  27. TheoGAzerts Avatar
    TheoGAzerts

    No matter where the place is, there is always a slight rift between the ‘descendants of slaves’ and their African brothers .

    In the US it is even worse as we now have the African-American in the mix; some from each of the three groups often believe that they are better than the others.

    Agreements, by themselves will not remove these rifts

  28. David Avatar
    David

    Let the journey begin.

    Ghana reaches out to descendants of slaves in ‘Year of Return’ campaign
    In the year that marks 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were forcibly taken abroad, Ghana – one of their key departure hubs on the continent – is calling their descendants home to visit, live, and invest.

    #wegatherin

  29. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ Theo,

    I hear your point on CBI. There are so many high valued Africans living in Africa who possess worthless passports.

    https://infoanyday.com/the-richest-people-in-kenya/

    It is not difficult to see the attraction of CBI for wealthy Africans.

    The President of Kenya is one of the wealthiest men in Kenya. He has a diverse range of businessess. The list below shows Kenyans wealthiest citizens. It also, partly, explains why Mia is looking towards Africa to boost Barbados failed economy.

    This hotel/tourist corridor is merely an extension of our real estate industry. Which as we know has nothing to do with our local economy. We in the UK have seen a number of these developments. Their occupancy rates are low. They are purchased for a variety of reasons.

    https://infoanyday.com/the-richest-people-in-kenya/

  30. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ Commander Theophillus Gazerts

    You know something?

    After all this time pun dis planet de ole man jes realise what “small island experience” means!!!

    What you said triggered it

    “…No matter where the place is, there is always a slight rift between the ‘descendants of slaves’ and their African brothers …”

    De Mugabe regime poochlickers CANNOT EVER UNDERSTAND THIS NUANCE!!!

    Never!!!

    Mugabe herself, as she jet sets all over the continent SEEKING TO ENTRAP SILLY PEOPLE with the sale of the Diaspora Dream á la Mugabe WHICH IS LET ME RELIEVE YOU OF YOUR MILLIONS, she does not understand that deep rooted “self effacing” disease that was planted in us negroes.

    It is more effective than any rumour of Mugabe Mottley searching for HIV AIDS infected nurses to bring to Bim and place them in our hospital WITHOUT THOROUGH MEDICAL CLEARANCES!

    Hate, particularly SELF HATE OF THE TYPE DISPLAYED BETWEEN Afro Americans against Afro Caribbean people and Africans IS THE TROJAN HORSE OF TROJAN HORSES!

    And no hand flailing speech of Mugabe WILL CHANGE THIS INTERNECINE HATRED but she is not a thinker.

    and those who follow licking her pooch, well it’s obvious what their quantum of intellect is!

    Before any unity can come that ” Z FACTOR” MUST BE REMOVED!

  31. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here for the Commander

  32. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Too late!!! Mia is in overdrive on her trip to Kenya. Her loose lips may provoke a surge of Kenyans wanting to take her words literally.

    “The Carribean is your second home Barbados Prime minister Mia Mottley tells Kenyans”

    lol…..I would be the first to admit that with the DNA nightmare the brits created on the island….where EVERYONE IS COUSIN to everyone else….the Bajan bloodline could do with a little thinning out before the real genetic problems start…they think they got health problems now.

    ……but there she is speaking for the whole Caribbean…did she even get permission..to invite the whole state of Kenya over.

  33. TheoGAzerts Avatar
    TheoGAzerts

    @Wura
    I must commend you on the constancy of your message.

    The same message but with new examples so that it is never stale.

    I have seen them emerge from the woodworks to challenge you, and watched them disappear in the middle of the fight. The last one scurried away like the rats he was defending.

    Keep up the good work.

  34. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @TLNS

    Your heart is in the right place. Do you think Bajans, especially with law degrees from Cave Hill, will listen to you? When Douglas was chief justice he once remarked that he does not like former bus conductors coming before him as lawyers.
    This perverted Canadian disliked the idea of young men (they were mainly men) who went to London to work on London Transport and in the process advanced their education should have the audacity to ret urn home as lawyers. He was bitter and twisted. He was not the only one. There are many Douglases about.
    Take the Transport Board: Barbados exported thousands of people to work on London Transport, many of whom moved in to middle management, and some in senior management. Many of those have retired back to Barbados. Would the authorities in Barbados even ask these people for an opinion on running a public transport system? Would they heck!
    We have the same thing with nurses. I know a returnee who volunteered to work part-time as a nursing tutor and the idiots contemptuously laughed at her. Now they are importing nurses from Ghana and Kenya.

  35. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Theo…we told them 2 years ago that many will be left behind because they waste too much time with the unimportant, petty and trifling nonsense….by the time they catch up, they will probably have to learn Swahili…..they are so far behind..but they like it so..

  36. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    ‘This perverted Canadian disliked the idea of young men (they were mainly men) who went to London to work on London Transport and in the process advanced their education should have the audacity to ret urn home as lawyers. He was bitter and twisted. He was not the only one. There are many Douglases about.”

    That’s how lowminded most of the little negros with law degrees are, they believe they are something special and if another black person from humble beginnings JUST LIKE THEMSELVES manage to get a degree too….the backward negro takes offense….that is why black bajans are continously discriminated against in that corrupt supreme court, the new negros with degrees are the culprits…they still don’t get it and never will..

    ,,….i see someone is trying to TRAIN THEM….because they have none, no training nor respect for the people who pay their salaries….teaching them how to stop using their shite positions to discriminate against the people using the bench….and they still claim to be educated..but have to be trained in BASICS..

    I have met all types of lawyers….and none i know act like them..

  37. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I believe we can opine that is how the people and island got robbed by all these lawyers/ministers and their bribers for so many decades..in their ignorance self delusion and inexplicable uppitness….THEY ALL BELIEVE THEMSELVES ENTITLED like the are the first and last lawyers that ever existed……..and still do.

    What some are now coming to grips with is that most of them are nothing but common class thieves with paper degrees…had we not spent years exposing them…they will still feel entitled to carry on the fraud and scam againt everyone…and from the minute you stop exposing them, they will start up again..

    Too many lawyers in Barbados are repulsive.

  38. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    And just to prove my point. Being shared across whatsapp. This is all the scummiest lawyers in Barbados are good for. It is said BU already carried this story.

    “Sir. Richard Johnny Cheltenham, Barbados’ top lawyer and President of the Senate is still respond to a law suit brought by Everyon Cumberbatch against him, Leroy Parris and Larry Tatem, former chairman of the Port in 2008. This is a law suit filed by Everton Cumberbatch back in 2008 when they ousted him from his own company with a land holding of 32 beachfront acres, intended for a luxury hotel and resort. No defence was ever filed but procedural strategies are constantly engaged to frustrate the judicial process. This matter has been addressed by several judges over the years but none of their orders for a filing in response. You will never see this in the Advocate or the Nation. Barbados Underground had carried the story some years ago.”

  39. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    We must take these allegations outside Barbados. Send me the details and I will make sure they get in the UK press.

  40. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “Douglas was born in Barbados but his parents emigrated to Canada when he was four years old. He was educated in Quebec at Bannatyne School, Verdun high school and McGill University in Montreal. He read law at the London School of Economics.
    Following his call to the bar he returned to Barbados in 1948. In 1959 he became Jamaica’s assistant attorney-general and was appointed solicitor-general four years later. Then came the appointment as chief justice of Barbados in 1965, a year before independence.”[Quote]

    Any chance you get to turn a jab into a hook when it comes to Canada? It makes one wonder if you could ever report anything accurately.

  41. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Northern Observer

    It is amazing that you read my post and the only thing you can comment on is my ‘jab’ at Canada. Plse read it again. Don’t you find his alleged attitude to poor guys who became lawyers worthy of comment. Or do you refer to defend your newly adopted homeland?
    We can all Google Wikipedia, but Douglas himself described himself as Canadian, even after holding high office in Barbados. He did when he was in London.

  42. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    As you told Piece elsewhere, it would be much better without the vulgarity.
    Does the term used, add anything to the intended focus of your comment? Other than your admitted dislike for Canadians.
    BTW it was an obit, not Wikipedia.

  43. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Very ambitious Development of Solar Energy plan.

    “To that end, we have formed a renewable arm of the company and one of the signature moves of that renewable arm is to commit to putting 30 000 photovoltaic systems on the homes of the average Bajan. That’s roughly about 3 000 homes per year for the next ten years.”

    https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/243107/bnocl-launching-photovoltaic-pilot-project-staff

  44. TheoGAzerts Avatar
    TheoGAzerts

    With an average household size of E
    3.1, we have 930,000 in 10 years. A better statement would be ‘one in every home by the end of ten years’

    I dun
    Have a good one

  45. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Photovoltaic_system

  46. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Googlededucation.

    http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/consumer/solar_electricity/basics/how_pv_system_works.htm

  47. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @Northern Observer

    You claim I used a vulgarity. Plse point it out. You claim my admitted dislike of Canada or Canadians, plse restate it. Think about it and you would realise how stupid th statement. How can you dislike an entire people?
    You surprise me. Is suggesting that Douglas was a pervert a vulgarity? Where have I ever said I did not like Canadians. I am used to BU commenters fabricating nonsense.
    Admittedly, I have said the Canadian appointed to be governor of the Bank of England was not the best person for the job. He was not. I have said that Canada punches above its weight because it is a majority white country. Why is Canada a member of the G7?

  48. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “Is suggesting that Douglas was a pervert a vulgarity?”
    I think referring to someone as a “perverted [anything]” is a) more than a suggestion b) offensive and coarse (vulgar)?
    I have no idea why Canada is a member of the G7, it should not be, IMO. Nor should Italy. China and Russia should be.
    As I noted to in an earlier post, you have got rid of the GovBoE.
    Because I don’t keep a permanent record, I will need time to review your many comments, to produce factual clarity.

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    WURA-WAR-on-U

    NO…the reality is Douglass was known island wide as a very dangerous pervert, a REAL threat and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to little boys, all of which were covered up by the scum like himself in the judiciary and parliament who were also thus bent, a life still still unaccounted for in the form of Mark Stokes over all of that…so, Hal is on point..the nasty cover uup of raping children must STOP.

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    WURA-WAR-on-U

    This is neither the day nor age to be still covering up for child rapists..

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