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COVID 19 Action Plan Coming Soon – All for One, One for ALL

On the 11 April 2020 Prime Minister Mia Mottley addressed the nation to update on COVID 19. One of the decisions made was to establish a Jobs and Investment Council that includes former ministers of Finance Arthur and Sinckler. She also promised to address Barbadians soon on what an economic plan for the country will…

On the 11 April 2020 Prime Minister Mia Mottley addressed the nation to update on COVID 19. One of the decisions made was to establish a Jobs and Investment Council that includes former ministers of Finance Arthur and Sinckler. She also promised to address Barbadians soon on what an economic plan for the country will look like.

COVID 19 is a pandemic which continues to stymie ALL the economies of the world.  Sensible individuals have to admit that it will take a herculean effort by ALL well being Barbadians to push start the economy.

The past is the past.

We are here now.

We have to dust off our backsides and look the future in the eye with conviction.

Let us join hands and show we care about Barbados.

“What need in the country now …“- Mia Mottley

 

380 responses to “COVID 19 Action Plan Coming Soon – All for One, One for ALL”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    https://youtu.be/Rhcrbcg8HBw

    Thanks Bentley.

  2. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Miller…first time in my life i ever heard that ya treat a cancerous, MAGGOTS infected wound aka the judiciary…, without treating it, without cauterizing the DISEASED AREAS and expect it to get better/heal..

  3. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David April 27, 2020 6:32 AM

    An excellent presentation of the stark economic realities facing mankind today.

    We have reached the outer band of the Pareto optimality zone of economic growth.

    Mother Nature has started to fight back.

    The future is not one for the present breed of economists but of thinkers with the minds of entrepreneurs geared not to exploit Mother Nature for maximum material profit but to nurture her denizens.

    The good lady reminds one of the New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern; a person of strong political leadership worthy of emulation by those closer to home especially in this time of crisis management.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Agree and the message is consistent with what some of us have been preaching on BU for over a decade. Focusing on the symptoms makes for good copy and sound bites. Hopefully Covid 19 the great disruptor will hurry the mindset change that is urgently required in our people.

    Should we be optimistic? Will we see the emergence of a new WI politician prepared to suppress an inherent desire to be popular for sake of country? For the sake of a supporting a sustainable standard of living?

  5. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @David April 27, 2020 6:32 AM
    I am hoping that all of our three Ministers of Finance are reading Kate Raworth’s book.

  6. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ PLT

    Are you a Kate Raworth fan?

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @Peter

    The challenge for our politicians is the will to detach from established ways of doing things. All politicians have a single objective, to maintain popularity with constituents. The days of old when politicians were driven by a burning desire to serve people has faded. Today’s politician is doing a job, to be paid.

  8. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    You could start a new post to discuss Reforming the Barbados Justice system.

  9. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Thanks for the suggestion. As you know it is an issue we have discussed many times on BU pages.

  10. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The challenge for our politicians is the will to detach from established ways of doing things. All politicians have a single objective, to maintain popularity with constituents. The days of old when politicians were driven by a burning desire to serve people has faded. Today’s politician is doing a job, to be paid.(Quote)

    Discuss

  11. David Avatar
    David

    Is it time to discuss reopening of businesses in Barbados?

    Building firms gear up to reopen tomorrow under alert level 3

    German shops reopen but have little to celebrate

    The Irish Times-9 hours ago
    Berliners celebrated the reopening of their shops last week after a five-week … the big European countries hit by coronavirus, Germany was the first to reopen its …

    Iran plans to reopen mosques in areas free of coronavirus …

    Reuters-11 hours ago
    (Reuters) – Iran plans to reopen mosques in parts of the country that have been … and mosques could be reopened and Friday prayers resumed, Rouhani said.

    Bangladesh garment factories reopen, defying virus lockdown

    RTE.ie-13 hours ago
    Hundreds of Bangladesh garment factories defied a nationwide coronavirus lockdown to reopen, raising fears the industry’s vulnerable and largely female …

    Parks in Sofia to reopen on April 27

    Novinite.com-14 hours ago
    Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova added that parks in the capital Sofia will reopen on April 27. Parents with young children will be able to go for a walk from 9.30 …

    Coronavirus: Cowley BMW Mini plant moves toward May …

    Oxford Mail-24 Apr 2020
    Following the easing of lockdown measures in Germany, there have been tentative steps to reopen plants in Europe by carmakers and now in the UK. Vauxhall …

    UAE combats coronavirus: Dubai Metro, Gold Souk reopen …

    Traders relieved as shops may reopen

    Times of India-25 Apr 2020
    However, there needs to be a better coordination between the government and the executing agencies,” he added. Download. The Times of India News App for …

    Some nations inch toward reopening as virus deaths rise

    Asahi Shimbun-17 hours ago
    South Korea, which recently relaxed some of its social distancing rules, saw a ninth straight day with fewer than 20 new cases. In Europe, Spain has joined Italy …

    Saudi Arabia to reopen eateries, coffee shops in Ramadan

    Gulf News-25 Apr 2020
    Saudi Arabia to reopen eateries, coffee shops in Ramadan. Municipalities to specify worker number at reopened sites to curb COVID-19 …
    Khaleej Times-22 hours ago
    The iconic Deira Gold Souk will also reopen today, according to a circular issued by the Dubai Gold and Jewellery Group. Your health matters. Here are some ..

    Suvarnabhumi ready to reopen

    Bangkok Post-25 Apr 2020
    Suvarnabhumi ready to reopen. Flagship airport repaired, renovated as domestic flights resume on May 1. published : 26 Apr 2020 at 05:00. newspaper section: …

    Shops in Belgium can reopen from 11 May

    The Brussels Times-25 Apr 2020
    Shops will be able to reopen from 11 May, Belgium’s Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès announced on Friday. The federal and regional governments thus chose to …

    Cuomo says focus is on gradual reopening of state economy

    Newsday-54 minutes ago
    Alexander said even a possible reopening timeline would be valuable to business owners. “I think folks just want clarity of when” they can reopen, he said. A note …

    Italy to Reopen Factories in Staged End to Coronavirus …

    The New York Times-13 hours ago
    MILAN — Italy will allow factories and building sites to reopen from May 4 and permit limited family visits as it prepares a staged end to

    Reopening of America accelerates as states prepare to relax coronavirus restrictions

    After shutting down much of American life in March and keeping people home throughout April, governors are preparing to lift restrictions as the calendar turns to May — and crossing their fingers that the novel coronavirus doesn’t come roaring back.
    Daily Mail-6 hours ago
    Greggs is set to reopen a some of its branches to test if it can operate all 2,050 of its stores across the country without breaking social distancing …
  12. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    CANADA

    Residents of Canada’s two largest provinces are expected to learn this week what the path to a new normal might look like when the governments of Ontario and Quebec unveil their initial plans for reopening their locked-down economies.

  13. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    PLT,

    I prefer Ayn Rand to make the lazy slackers run. Barbados is a socialist nightmare.

    Tron

  14. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    “I DID NOT EVEN READ THE ARTICLE”

    Well you’ve just confirmed what I posted. You didn’t read the article, you haven’t read the amendment and you haven’t read the original Act. So how are you making an informed comment? You must be a parrot. Hence my advice: read more! The long delays in trials did not start with the curfew, there can therefore be no correlation.🦜🦜🤣🤣

  15. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Fowl Enuff….it does not matter…no amount of amendments, original acts or precedents will CHANGE THE FACT….that the judiciary is CORRUPT…with the same MAGGOTS in control and polluting everything, as they have for DECADES …nothing will change unless the CORRUPTION IS EXCISED…

    which part of that is so hard for the FOWL TO UNDERSTAND…

    you are going NOWHERE with amendments and acts or any new policies …AS LONG AS CORRUPTION AND THE CORRUPT STILL RULES the court system..

    ..no wonder many believe that Black people can learn nothing, you are the original EXAMPLE…

  16. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Told ya already, we are not the ones to convince of anything, it’s the same lawyers who are NOT PLEASED who must now be appeased because they saw a nasty move coming from the wannabe dicktatorship of sweeping powers…..none of that impacts me, cause ya done know if it did yall would be all over FB…

  17. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Miller
    Since the current administration came to office, more judges, public prosecutors and legal staff in the office of DPP have been hired; more courts have been created; and, additional ways to swear affidavits established. You and others can should search for more. Of the 140 or so bills laid in the house since May 2018, about 10 (or 7%) are related to justice and the courts. This works out at about one new justice-related bill every 2.3 months. Now keep in mind that 2018 and 2019 were dominated with debt restructuring, offshore sector compliance and other economic related matters. Don’t forget there are also many other ministries and they too would need bills drafted, laid and debated. Now you and BU can decide if it is just hot air. Your capitulation is evident for all to see.

  18. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ Enuff April 27, 2020 10:54 AM

    Enuff,

    It is quite true that you have achieved a lot. More than Wrathbaite, anyway.

    The problem is that many lawyers are not equal to efficiency. What is still missing, is a slave driver who is after everyone with a whip and relentlessly drives them to work from 7 AM to 6 PM.

  19. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    At least they can’t say they are not getting any help with the hardest part..

    “The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through its #Caribbean Regional Office in Kingston, Jamaica, is providing US$3 million to Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the CARPHA Caribbean Public Health Agency to boost its capacity to support countries of the Eastern Caribbean.

    The nearly US$1 million for CARPHA and the Eastern Caribbean, including $400,000 for Barbados, will fund infection prevention, laboratory systems and supplies including testing kits and swabs, and staffing and data management at quarantine and isolation facilities. The CDC will work with the individual Ministries of Health as well as regional partners including CARPHA and PAHO for the immediate implementation of this critical support.

  20. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Enuff April 27, 2020 10:54 AM

    You have painted a picture representing just another classic case of GIGO!

    The passing of more laws is going to do not even diddly squat; just create a heavier backlog of cases in the current system which cannot even deal with the present workload.

    Do you really feel that throwing more money / resources is going to solve the problem plaguing the judicial system in Bim?

    Man, you have a management problem on your hands.

    The mindset of the players have to be refocused to perform at the professional level.

    Why not ask your ex-Bermuda Judge mate what really is the fundamental problem?

    Let’s see if the reference to education can be of some assistance in getting you to understand the gravamen of the problem facing the current administration:

    It’s akin to trying to mitigate the poor performance of secondary school students at the CXC level by giving the University more money while ignoring the quality of teaching and learning at the Primary schools.

    Stop trying to build a wooden structure on land infested with termites which the builder refuses to treat.

  21. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Miller,

    It is obvious that Barbadian schoolchildren are not among the top performers in the region. They are too lazy and too unwilling. This problem continues later in professional life.

    Exceptions confirm the rule. There once was this magistrate who became a judge in Bahamas/Bermuda(?). He would never have become Chief Justice in Barbados, because he works too efficiently.

    As I said before, in Barbados in the public service, the only thing that helps is the whip in the form of a roaring boss in public, bastinadoes, running the gauntlet and dismissing subordinates without notice.

  22. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Tron
    Barbadian school children are not among the top performers in CARICOM. Every year the CXC announces a top school. Why don’t our newspapers publish the award winners?
    Every year they send the exam results of individual schools to the ministry, why doesn’t the ministry of education publish the figures? Is it because they will show that some of our so-called top schools are not as good as we think they are? In the 1960s they used to publish them, even of individual students.
    Instead of improving standards we want to ban the 11+. Dumbing down.

  23. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Miller
    “Do you really feel that throwing more money / resources is going to solve the problem plaguing the judicial system in Bim?”

    You are clearly grasping and frankly engaging in sophistry. Your initial argument was that the government was merely making promises. Now you’re shifting the argument again. So instead of wasting my time with a slitherer, I will end by saying that when seeking to improve efficiency, people, process/governance and technology are the focus. I agree resources and law reform etc alone will not solve the issues; but equally the issues can’t be solved without adequate resources, technology and processes either. You can’t clear a backlog of over 1,000 cases with 2 High Court judges, even if they deliver their written judgements in 2 months.

  24. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    In addition to Enuff, I would like to point out that the government has made a sincere effort to recruit distinguished individuals with a good track record as new judges. Under AG Wrathbate only the blue party membership counted, so that today the positions of some justices, the DPP and the registry are filled with figures who are unsuitable for these positions (well, Enuff would NEVER say or write that so directly, but he may THINK so, LOL).

    We would therefore be doing our leader Mia Mottley a great injustice if we were to accuse her of inaction or failure. The government is making every effort here. However, gov obviously has to fight against great structural resistance from personnel from the time of OSA and Frundel “Jerry”.

    Apart from that, the Supreme Court lacks a slave driver at the top, who now and then screams through the corridors, sets up a strict work schedule and runs through the courthouse with his stopwatch. If the Supreme Court acted as Amazon’s management does, each file would take only three hours to process, not three years.

  25. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Miller…once again…Black face government nastiness in majority black socities REARS it’s evil, ugly, backward head and is being EXPOSED….

    first…the uneducated fowls want to keep construction company owning minority PARASITES, FRAUDS and THIEVES as WELFARE RECIPIENTS living off the backs of the black majority, their tax dollars and pensions…..PERMANENTLY..as parasites are well known to do….and the ignorant support it.

    second….the same uneducated, commonsense lacking fowls…thinks it’s a great idea of genieass proportions to implement more policies, laws, this and that…in THE SAME CORRUPT JUDICIARY…and all to be implemented by the SAME CORRUPT JUDICIAL OFFICERS..,and other crooks…without FIRST RIDDING the taxpayer funded court system…OF ALL OF THEM because there is NO CURE for selfish, self-absorbed CORRUPT MINDS…dumb asses abound.

    now this:

    All of them already sold out to privately owned clinics and mini hospitals FOR THEIR SHARE/CUT…ask Jerome and Donville….in Donville’s case, it is said he even had the balls to use taxpayer’s money in the Sparman and the one now in the parliament known as Dr. Death’s privately run entities.. it is said Jerome sold out QEH and all it’s future development to the Harris family for either 3% or 5% share in Diagnostic Clinic in Beckles Rd.. that is what, it is said, contributed to its now horrible state….and Donville finished it off…the black face traitors, except for Donville, he still got a date….. will soon be coming around your houses again begging for votes…they will not be so FAKE honorable and UPPITY then because they are merely VOTE BEGGARS………MAKE THEM CRAWL…KICK THEM OUT.

    “Healthcare biased against blacks – doctor – by Marlon Madden April 28, 2020
    Barbados and other Caribbean countries are being urged to come up with solutions to adequately tackle issues that predominantly affect blacks during a health pandemic.

    In addition, Dr Kenneth Connell, Clinical Pharmacology lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, said academics will need to play a greater role and residents should hold governments more accountable.”

  26. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Dude is 4 months late to this party, scientists have EXPRESSED CONCERNS about asymptomatic persons spreading the plague, in super spreader style…since back in January, he needs to catch up fast….it’s nothing new in the wider world and was addressed months ago…hence the need for wider testing,

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/04/28/asymptomatic-individuals-concerns-czar/

  27. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/245231/nab-staff-family-quarantine

    let’s hope it did not get into the nursing homes.

    “Following the identification of the cluster of cases at the National Assistance Board, the Ministry of Health & Wellness has, through contact tracing, identified 110 persons including the entire staff at the Country Road Office and their families who will go into mandatory quarantine at designated hotels. The period of quarantine will be 14 days from last exposure to a positive case – which for this group was 23 April, 2020.”

  28. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Well i remember we got CUSSED for saying this Miller…then the RETARDS turned around and cussed us for saying ya left the ports open for any and every plague infected tourists etc to walk in and infect everyone, but closed the supermarkets THAT SOLD FOOD….there was hell to force them to be reopened, then like true new negros got the nerve to be looking for hero worship and false praise too….lol

    and from what someone just told me, still actively trolling the world to get attention and primetime spots so they can BE SEEN WORLDWIDE …AFTER making a total ass of themselves INTERNATIONALLY….

    we just can’t make any of this idiocy up…

    “As Barbados continues to grapple with trying to halt the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus, the Assistant Dean of an emerging offshore medical school here has slammed the Government for “failing to protect” the island’s borders immediately after the first cases were identified in mid-March.

    Patricia Inniss, a biochemist and former head of the Barbados Water Authority’s (BWA) Wastewater Division today accused the Government of dropping the ball when it kept allowing people to enter the country, particularly non-residents.

    Inniss, who preferred not to name her employer at this stage, is adamant that while the borders needed to be kept open for trade, only persons who live here should have been allowed in and all of them should have been quarantined.”

  29. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Yea because a disgruntled former political opponent of the PM is a good source for an unbiased opinion, written by Emmanuel Joseph. Her expertise is not epidemiology or public health; but I wonder what she knows about ball dropping and sewage on the south coast few years ago.🤣🤣

  30. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Enuff April 29, 2020 7:04 AM

    Good defence there, Enuff!

    Keep it up.
    You are on good solid ground even if you are ‘wasting’ your time on a past pot of incompetents who are calling the current kettle ‘black’ (except the muted Stinkliar).

    That recent DLP administration was facing a bogus endemic enemy created by them and which they could see but refused to stop it from getting out of hand.

    The present administration has no such luxury of seeing what the country, and indeed the world, is up against.

    At least the current administration has been smart enough to get its ministers to don their masks instead of their TinTin looking swimsuits to dive into floating jobby.

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